Gap joins other global brands that publish their supply factory list
Gap Inc. is the latest clothing brand to disclose the list of factories that produce its clothes around the world, Human Rights Watch said today. Previously, Gap had said that it was withholding information about its supplier factories for “competition reasons.”
Earlier in 2016, C&A and Marks and Spencer also went public with their factory lists, joining other big brands that already disclose them. These include Adidas, Columbia,Disney, H&M, KMART Australia, Levis, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), New Balance, Nike, Patagonia, Puma, Target USA, and Target Australia...
...Human Rights Watch and other organizations are pressing for global apparel brands to publicly disclose the factories that produce for them, and for transparency about other human rights risks in supply chains. Dozens of major global apparel brands – including Forever 21, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), and Mango – still do not disclose supplier factories...