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Sustainability






           Our missions




           Carbon neutrality                                                                             Living wage
           by 2030                                                                                       by 2025

           We are committed to becoming climate neutral                                                 With guidance from FairWear Foundation,
           by 2030 to contribute to global net-zero goals.                                              we are working to close the gap between
           To achieve this, in 2022 we will start measuring                                             the legal minimum wage and a living wage
           the entire carbon footprint of our value chain,                                              in our partner factories, and we invest part
           activate an action plan to reduce those emis-                                                of our operational profit in projects aimed
           sions, and compensate for unavoidable emis-                                                  at improving the living standards of factory
           sions through reforestation, insetting initiatives                                           workers and their families.
           and offsetting projects.






           Our actions




           Taking cotton traceability                      The grocery shop                             The Stanley/Stella
           back to the field                               project                                      Foundation


           We want to go beyond the world of certification   We work with our partner factories to set up   Since 2020, we have reserved part of our ope-
           in order to have more traceability and transpa-  Fair-priced Grocery Shops (FGS) on-site for   rating profits to finance projects related to our
           rency across our supply chain. To achieve this   their workers. Through these initiatives, we   sustainability initiatives. In the first year, we
           end-to-end visibility, we are planning to build   help factories provide essential goods like rice,   contributed €62,000 to grocery shop projects
           a selective network of farmers, ginners and     oil and lentils at heavily subsidised prices. This   in Bangladesh and reserved a further €475,000.
           spinners. Through this strong network, we will   increases workers’ buying power, and improves   In 2021, we expect to add a total of €1.07 million
           be able to better understand and support the    the overall standard of living in their families and   to our reserve. Going forward, the Stanley/Stella
           workers in order to drive positive impacts across   communities. In 2020, we contributed €62,000   Foundation, established in late 2020, will allow
           our entire value chain.                         to FGS projects in Bangladesh and have plans   us to manage these funds in a way that maxi-
                                                           to support another FGS project before the end   mises the impact we can achieve.
                                                           of 2021.





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