The Timberland Company has joined the Facility Reporting Project (FRP), a new initiative of the Boston-based Ceres coalition aimed at improving sustainability reporting and environmental performance at individual facilities across the USA.

Timberland is among two New Hampshire companies and eight nationwide that have agreed to be pilot test participants in the FRP.

Timberland will develop a sustainability report for its Dominican Republic manufacturing facility, using draft reporting guidance developed by FRP over the past two years.

Timberland’s affiliation with FRP comes on the heels of full disclosure of its vendor factory list in its recently released 2004 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. Timberland partners with vendor factories in more than 200 facilities in Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
Ceres, with technical assistance from the Tellus Institute, launched the FRP in 2002 to help companies improve facility-specific reporting and performance on sustainability challenges, such as workplace conditions, energy usage or global climate change. The project builds on Ceres’ launch of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the late 1990s.