FAIR WEAR BRAND PERFORMANCE CHECK 2022

We have been a member of Fair Wear since January 2021. As an internationally recognised multi-stakeholder initiative, Fair Wear audits textile companies and the working conditions in production facilities in accordance with the Fair Wear Code of Conduct. By joining Fair Wear, we have now taken the essential next step and are committed to the highest social standards - a stringent further development of our previous measures for fair and safe working conditions in the factories of our production partners. As a multi-stakeholder initiative, Fair Wear offers us unique support through its broad expertise on social standards in the textile sector, not least through its extensive network of different stakeholders and players. As part of our Fair Wear membership, we formulate an annual work plan with measures for the coming year. In an annual Brand Performance Check, we are reviewed with regard to our supplier management, our sustainability management, our supply chain monitoring and the measures derived from this to ensure social justice in production and our purchasing behaviour. We successfully completed our first Brand Performance Check at the beginning of April 2022. We achieved ‘Good’ status straight away, which makes us very happy. With 60 points, our performance is well above the score required for membership in the first year. In total, we audited 73% of our production volume - this also exceeds the threshold for first-year members. We had to postpone the auditing of our production partners in Laos until 2022 due to the pandemic. ‘HAKRO has performed well in its first year and laid a strong foundation. We are pleased to see that HAKRO works so closely with Olymp, another Fair Wear member, and maintains strong partnerships with its production partners. We are excited to see the progress and developments towards living wages,’ says Wilco van Bokhorst, our Fair Wear Foundation Brand Performance Checker. ‘For two days, Wilco van Bokhorst, our performance checker/auditor, scrutinised us from top to bottom,’ says Anna Rüchardt, responsible for Fair Wear membership in the Quality, Values & Sustainability department, ’The two days were exciting, instructive, intensive and exhausting, especially as the entire audit was conducted in English. But we came through with flying colours - big thanks to everyone who supported us with the preparations and answered Wilco's questions’.
You can find the link to our first social report here.