Nike publishes list of factories
In an attempt to create greater industry transparency and collaboration, Nike, Inc. has voluntarily disclosed, in conjunction with the release of its new corporate responsibility report, the names and locations of the more than 700 active contract factories currently making Nike-branded products worldwide.
Nike is the first major company in the global footwear and apparel industries to publicly disclose its contract supplier base, something trade unions and non-governmental organisations have been seeking to bring greater visibility to industry-wide conditions in support of their efforts to halt labour, health and safety challenges.
"We hope that full disclosure, if also followed by other companies, will lead to more sharing of industry monitoring and resources for factory monitoring and remediation, where legal," said Hannah Jones, Nike's vice president of corporate responsibility. "The current system has to evolve fundamentally to create broad, sustainable change for factory workers. The goal is for greater transparency and collaboration to help everyone devote more time to promoting the remediation of compliance issues by factories rather than just uncovering them."
Both the contract factory list and the report are publicly available on the company's website.
