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HanesBrands Recognized by Corporate Responsibility Magazine and Ethical Corporation
HanesBrands Recognized by Corporate Responsibility Magazine and Ethical Corporation
October 26, 2016 at 8:00 AM EDT
Hanes, which is Ranked No. 172 on Newsweek Magazine’s 2016 U.S. Green
Rankings, Wins CEO of the Year Award from
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Hanes also has won a 2016 Responsible Business Award for best employee
engagement from
Noll accepted the
“Hanes and its 70,000 worldwide employees should be extremely proud of the great things accomplished during the past decade,” Noll said. “Corporate responsibility is good for business, but it is not easy. At Hanes, we make a commitment, live our values and set metrics to measure our success."
Announcing Noll’s award,
Under Noll’s leadership, Hanes – unique in the apparel industry because
it owns the significant majority of its manufacturing operations –
quickly became an international business leader in ethics, disclosure,
social compliance and environmental protection. Since 2007, the company
has:
- Reduced energy consumption by 25 percent, carbon emissions by 21 percent, and water use by 31 percent, and established renewable energy sources for 25 percent of its worldwide energy needs.
- Set more ambitious goals for 2020, calling for a 40 percent reduction in energy use and carbon emissions, 50 percent reduction in water use and sourcing renewable energy for 40 percent of the company’s needs.
- Won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star partner of the year/sustained excellence award for seven consecutive years.
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Voluntarily begun disclosing environmental data to the
Carbon Disclosure Project . -
Earned accreditation of the
Fair Labor Association , working with the independent workers’ rights group based inWashington, D.C. on factory evaluation worldwide. -
Earned a superior grade of A for supply chain and labor practices from
Free2Work, an independent assessment of 300 apparel and shoe
manufacturers. Only three brands earned an A based on policies,
traceability, transparency, monitoring, training and worker rights.
Hanes earned an A- for its practice of purchasing nearly all of its
cotton for worldwide apparel production from the southeastern
United States where advanced farming practices and low- to no-irrigation practices make the cotton grown there some of the most responsible and sustainable in the world. - Earned a grade of A from As You Sow, an environmental and social corporate responsibility advocacy group. Hanes is ranked as one of the best for social and ethical supply chain compliance programs, with high marks for its code of conduct, auditing, remediation and transparency.
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Placed No. 172 on the Newsweek magazine’s 2016 U.S. Green Rankings
list of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in
the United States .
Hanes employees play an important role in both environmental
sustainability and corporate responsibility programs.
Viviendo Verde, which operates in
Since 2010, more than 11,000 Hanes employees have donated 400,000 hours
to complete 67 projects supported by
For more information about Hanes’ corporate social responsibility achievements, including environmental sustainability, visit www.HanesForGood.com.
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HanesBrands
News Media:
Matt Hall, 336-519-3386
Carole
Crosslin, 336-519-3201
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