Worker Well-Being

Work only with factories that support a worker well-being or community development program by 2025.

Worker well-being programs must support a multi-dimension commitment by suppliers, covering at least two of our seven defined dimensions: Physical, Intellectual, Emotional/Mental, Social, Environmental, Financial Literacy, and/or Inclusion and Belonging.

Factories are considered in-scope if it meets the following two requirements: (1) Forms part of the top 90% of Kontoor’s annual transaction value with factories and (2) have an existing business relationship with Kontoor of more than two years.

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Chemistry

Achieve and maintain a minimum of 90% ZDHC MRSL compliant chemicals.

“Preferred Chemistry” is defined as chemicals that are compliant against the ZDHC MRSL.

Suppliers are required to upload their chemical inventory to a chemical management platform to verify compliance.

Any non-conformant chemicals must be replaced with ZDHC MRSL-compliant chemicals.

This objective encompasses all Tier 1 vendors and owned facilities involved in wet processing (laundries, printing, finishing, etc.) and Tier 2 fabric mills, excluding licensee products.

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Materials

Source 100% Preferred Materials, including cotton by 2025 and synthetics by 2030.

Preferred Materials can be found on our Product page.

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Emissions

Reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions 46.2% by 2030 from 2019 base year.

In September 2023, the Science Based Targets initiative validated our science-based targets for greenhouse gas emissions. Our near-term science-based targets are:

• Kontoor Brands, Inc. commits to reducing absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 46.2% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline.
• Kontoor Brands, Inc. also commits to reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions from purchased goods and services, fuel and energy-related activities, upstream transportation and distribution, and downstream transportation and distribution by 46.2% within the same timeframe.

We have absorbed our Renewable Energy goal – Power 100 percent of owned and operated facilities with renewable energy – into our Climate Goal. “Renewable Energy” is defined as electricity generated from solar, wind, geothermal, small-scale hydro or tidal energy. In addition to global facilities that are owned and operated, leased locations are also included.  Facilities associated with licensed products and open-air retail or “shop-in-shops” are out of scope for this goal.

Please view our Consolidated Performance Report for our GHG footprints from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

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Water

Save a combined 8 billion liters of freshwater from key suppliers in water-stressed regions and through internal manufacturing processes between 2023 and 2030, compared to a 2018-2019 baseline.

Key suppliers is defined as Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers that supply combined 80% or higher volume to Kontoor Brands, located in water risk areas.

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Emissions

Established science-based targets for scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

In December 2022, Kontoor submitted two science-based targets for greenhouse gas emissions to the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi):

• Kontoor Brands, Inc. commits to reducing absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 46.2% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline.
• Kontoor Brands, Inc. also commits to reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions from purchased goods and services, fuel and energy-related activities, upstream transportation and distribution, and downstream transportation and distribution by 46.2% within the same timeframe.

SBTi approved these goals in September 2023.

Water

Saved 10 billion liters of water throughout our supply chain from 2008 to 2023.

The scope of this goal included water consumption across Kontoor’s global supply chain. The goal was primarily achieved through water recycling and efficiencies at our internal manufacturing facilities with 9.3 billion liters saved from 2008 through 2022. An additional 725 million liters were saved through the Indigood™ program.

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