- Strategic focus on worker empowerment, environmental preservation, and community engagement and impact
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PVH today released its 10th annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report, highlighting achievements in three strategic focus areas: worker empowerment, environmental preservation and community engagement and impact. (Businesss Wire)
The report is available at https://www.pvh.com/responsibility.
This year’s report focuses on PVH’s reinforcement of its longstanding human rights commitment and expansion of its environmental program.
“The fashion industry is changing and PVH has a role to play in driving
fashion forward – for good. We believe that what happens behind every
design we make is more important than ever and we have an ambitious
vision for the future. Our latest CR Report is a celebration of our
achievements over the past year, making positive impacts where we work
and live,” said Chairman and CEO
“As one of the world’s largest apparel companies, we recognize our responsibility to address our industry’s social and environmental impacts, and we are doing our part to leverage our scale, to help create a new pattern of positive change for the industry,” he continued.
PVH’s comprehensive CR program is a key factor in driving the company’s growth, performance, creativity and success. Corporate responsibility is embraced and enforced throughout the entire value chain – from “source to store,” touching close to one million lives around the world.
PVH is pleased and proud to share accomplishments in each of the company’s three strategic focus areas in 2017, including:
WORKFORCE
-PVH embarked on a more advisory approach to its human rights assessment
program through an expanded partnership with
-The company made the Tell PVH global reporting hotline available to every worker in its supply chain to empower and give a voice to the entire workforce.
-The company’s
ENVIRONMENT:
-PVH implemented the SAC Higg FEM environmental assessment tool throughout its supply chain and has so far rolled out to 530 facilities.
-A global multi-year partnership was announced with WWF that aims to protect key water basins in key strategic sourcing destinations.
-PVH joined the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) that aims to make the production of more sustainable “Better Cotton” a standard practice.
-PVH also launched a global Animal Welfare Policy, which focuses on seven key materials: angora, fur, exotic skins, leather, wool, non-down feathers and down.
COMMUNITY:
- PVH launched an
-PVH contributed nearly
“Our
The new CR report provides information and performance data on its operations during its 2017 fiscal year. It also explores the importance of addressing social and environmental issues, challenges and achievements and highlights next steps for future progress. PVH’s CR strategy incorporates the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and seeks to achieve sustainable development over the next 15 years.
PVH’s 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report was developed in accordance
with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Guidelines, Standards
under the “Core” option and in line with the ten principles of the UN
Global Compact (“UNGC”). As a company, we continue to engage with the
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With a history going back over 135 years, PVH has excelled at growing
brands and businesses with rich American heritages, becoming one of the
largest apparel companies in the world. We have over 36,000 associates
operating in over 40 countries and nearly
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