Goals

Short Term
  • Continue focusing on our top-volume vendors and facilitate communications with vendors and their factories
  • Continue monitoring high-risk vendors (of toys, Olympic apparel and kidswear) and achieve continuous ethical improvement
  • Focus on environmental activities (how factories operate from an environmental perspective)
  • Revise policy and processes
  • Facilitate relationships with other stakeholders – i.e., NGOs, customers, CBSR, etc.

Long Term
  • Have comprehensive training/remediation program in place by 2010
  • Continue to educate all internal and external stakeholders on policies and processes
  • Create vendor scorecard system to enable Hbc to source efficiently and ethically with little or no risk
  • Continue research on health issues affecting factory workers