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Company Response

4 Feb 2016

Author:
H&M

H&M's response

Since the previous report October, 2015, we have continued to take a very active role within the Accord and are following the remediation plan progress closely. We see good progress, which is also reflected in Accord data. To further speed up the remediation, we are currently working closely together with IndustriALL to ensure the most efficient remediation in H&M supply chain and to use our combined leverage where needed. We will continue our long-term investment by fully supporting our business partners in improving and upgrading their production facilities to safer and higher international standards as well as their management capabilities, allowing them to become competitive in a sustainable way...Fire exits are one of the most fundamental requirements for a supplier in order to be allowed to produce for H&M...after the fire in Matrix Sweater Ltd., Accord and Alliance have done investigations and both recommends not to continue production until further investigations, assessments, and remediation have been done."

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