Environment
At PVH, we recognize the fundamental need to address global environmental challenges. We acknowledge that we depend on the earth’s limited natural resources for our business and that we need to operate in a manner that supports conservation.
Although there have been effective initiatives put into practice by some PVH business units to confront environmental issues, these efforts have been decentralized and ad hoc. Only in the last year have we begun a company-wide effort to identify environmental issues and develop strategies to address them.
PVH is focusing on minimizing our impact on the environment. As a global company, we have organized our environmental efforts around three key areas: our facilities, products and packaging, and supply chain. In 2008, we began to establish systems to measure our environmental performance in the areas of energy and emissions, waste, water and chemicals. We will expand this effort throughout the company as we continue to collect and report on the environmental metrics. This data will help us to prioritize our efforts and set appropriate targets for reducing our environmental impact. PVH is actively engaging associates, suppliers, business partners, industry peers, environmental organizations and customers to create real, sustainable improvements. We see these steps as the beginning of a long term effort to achieve environmental leadership in our operations.
