Apparel Online India Magazine April 2nd Issue 2018 | Page 18

SUSTAINABILITY
VF Corporation bags Corporate
Statesmanship Award
VF Corporation, which owns brands
such as Wrangler, The North
Face and Timberland, has been
honoured for its work to improve
the lives of millions of apparel and
footwear workers around the world,
during the Annual Statesmanship
Awards Dinner held recently in
Washington, DC. The honour has
come soon after VF Corporation
(only apparel company in the
world) got placed on the list of
World’s Most Ethical Company
for the year 2018. VF received the
Corporate Statesmanship Award
for starting Responsible Sourcing
programme in association with
NGOs, industry experts and
academia across 50 countries.
The programme aims to maintain
safe and healthy environment for
workers, manufacturing products
responsibly, and improving
workers’ lives. The Corporate
Statesmanship Award from
the US Association of Former
Members of Congress (FMC) is a
bipartisan, voluntary non-profit
alliance of former US Senators and
Representatives which recognises
the outstanding corporate
leadership and citizenship,
including companies that exemplify
service and commitment to
improving the lives of others. “The
recognition from FMC is a great
honour,” stated Steve Rendle, VF’s
Chairman, President and CEO
who is proud of what the work
associates have accomplished. The
American apparel company has set
a high standard for its owned and
operated manufacturing operations
and its sustainable sourcing
programme that promises more
than 1,000 contract suppliers and
sourcing partners of VF maintain
the same ethical and sustainable
production standard. Supply chain
partners of VF are apprised about
its manufacturing best practices
and know-how.
Renewable energy usage soars 7% at
HanesBrands: Sustainability Report
American innerwear brand,
HanesBrands, has released its
latest data on energy usage,
carbon dioxide emissions, water
usage, renewable energy and
landfill diversion in 2017. As per
the sustainability report released
by HanesBrands, it has witnessed
a 7 per cent increase in the use
of renewable energy, which puts
the brand on track to meet 2020
environmental sustainability
goals of generating at least 40
per cent of its energy from the
renewable sources. Further, the
brand reported a 15, 6 and 7 per
cent decline in carbon dioxide
emissions, energy use and water
use, respectively. HanesBrands,
a socially responsible and the
leading marketer of everyday
basic innerwear and activewear
apparel under world-class brands
in the Americas, Europe and
Asia-Pacific, also diverted 84 per
cent of its supply chain waste from
to fulfilling its promise of creating
more environment-friendly
procedures of manufacturing to
protect the planet earth. He added
that the 2017 Environmental
Performance Report clarifies
the targets the brand has set to
become an even more efficient and
energy-conscious organisation. It
is pertinent to mention here that
the brand is an eight-time winner
of US Environmental Protection
Agency Energy Star Partner of
the Year award for sustained
excellence in energy conservation,
carbon emissions reduction and
environmental sustainability.
landfills in the year 2017. The
company has already unleashed
its plans to reduce carbon
emissions and energy use by 40
per cent each and water use by 50
per cent under its ‘environmental
sustainability goals’ by 2020. It
also vows to achieve zero waste by
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diverting company-owned supply
chain waste from landfills.
Michael E. Faircloth, Group
President, Global Supply Chain,
Information Technology and
E-commerce for HanesBrands
stated that the brand is committed
With consumers’ growing
awareness of sustainability
aspects in apparels, it has become
all the more important for the
brands to follow best practices
in their production cycles. Hanes
certainly seems to be on the right
path to achieve the ‘sustainability’
requirement of today.