Our Actions
> EDUCATION We embed sustainability education/awareness in all supplier sales meetings. As of 2023, we ask all our suppliers who do formal sales training or product knowledge sessions with our team to address their sustainability and impact efforts. Suppliers are now provided with a pre-set agenda for sales meetings that includes having them share their responsible sourcing and sustainability efforts with our sales team. Increasingly (and refreshingly), our suppliers are bringing on full-time sustainability staff, and where we can, we’re getting them involved in our meetings. We also include a primer on Anti Bias in the workplace as part of our supplier sales meeting primer. > SUPPLIER ASSESSMENTS Our Code of Conduct, which has been in place since 2006, and our Supplier Assessment Questionnaire helps us assess our suppliers social and environmental practices. We assess our strategic suppliers against our Code of Conduct, and best practice. Recently, we updated our Responsible Sourcing Policy to clarify what we accept in lieu of a signed Supplier Assessment Questionnaire (for example, we now approve B Corp certified suppliers; Fair Labor Association Accredited and Participating Companies, and Silver EcoVadis or above suppliers). > IMPACT SUPPLIER TRACKING We track sales by supplier against our impact criteria and have done so for over a decade. In this report we’re sharing statistics from 2024 as well as 2022 as our benchmark data. The data isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison as the result of industry consolidation that has happened over the past four years. That said, it provides a great snapshot of our supply chain spend. We’ve seen improvements in our B Corp suppliers as the result of top industry supplier Gemline becoming a B Corp in 2024, and our ongoing dealer partnership with Patagonia.
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Responsible Sourcing
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