Every day, consumers around the world have the opportunity to vote with their dollars by choosing which products they buy and where they buy them from. At Kontoor Brands, we are committed to ensuring each product we make, whether through our owned manufacturing facilities or through our third-party partners, is safe for consumers. Our teams utilize industry best practices, processes and controls to monitor the safety and quality of our products and are continually refining and improving our protocols every day.
From dyes to finishes, chemicals often play an essential role in building quality apparel. However, if not properly managed, the use of chemistry can contribute to negative environmental impacts and jeopardize worker safety.
As a global lifestyle apparel company that produces and sources more than 170 million units each year, we are committed to working with our contract supplier factories so that the people who work in roles that support the production of our products are treated fairly and work in safe environments. We work with our contract supplier factories and look for opportunities to deploy programs designed to have positive impacts on the surrounding communities.
Impact in Action
As a company committed to transparently reporting our environmental impacts, by 2023 we will only source from suppliers who complete the HIGG Facility Environmental Module (FEM). Below, we report on our suppliers energy and water data during the 2019 calendar year.
The below supplier information is updated as of December 2019. Our suppliers list can fluctuate over time, as it reflects the seasonality of our business and production schedules.