The basis for this is the annual review, the “Brand Performance Check”, in which Vaude has again reached the highest category, the company announced. “We are very proud that despite the complex challenges in the supply chain and the world’s difficult economic and political framework conditions, we have continued to progress and have been able to implement concrete improvements for local people,” said Vaude Managing Director Antje von Dewitz.
With the LEADER status, the Fair Wear Foundation distinguishes companies that are strongly committed to compliance with social standards in the supply chain and have an exemplary system.
Vaude has been working with over 40 production facilities worldwide – with 80 percent of producers for more than five years, with 40 percent of production companies for more than ten years.
Since 2010, Vaude has been a member of the Fair Wear, which carries out the “Brand Performance Check”, controls the working conditions on site, provides and supervises anonymous complaints systems in most production companies. Together with Fair Wear, the outdoor supplier is committed to improvements in the global textile industry.
For the implementation of social standards in the supply chains, a team of three at the Tettnang location works closely with the three CSR employees in Asia. “The Leader Status is a great confirmation for our work together! Above all, it is also an incentive to continue to use all my strength for good working conditions and human rights, ”says Anika Mauz, Vendor Management Vaude.
Vaude is checked by Fair Wear every year. In the “Brand Performance Check”, the company has to prove that it fulfills the duties of care for responsible working conditions in its producers. For example, it is checked and evaluated whether Vaude fulfills his responsibility in the field of human rights.
“We do all of this voluntarily and also want to show that it is feasible to take responsibility in the supply chain. In order to achieve major changes, however, a supply chain law is needed that takes on all companies, ”says Antje von Dewitz and warns of massive dilution of the responsibility of companies for humans and nature:“ This is a fatal signal: for the protection of people and the environment in our supply chains. For all the companies that take sustainability seriously and already invest in order to live up to their own responsibility and for the credibility of Europe as a pioneer of a sustainable, fair economy. In view of the global backlash, Europe misses Europe courageous and an independent value -oriented path to the future with regard to democratic and human values. ”
