As a business we do not own or directly operate factories, but our commitment to working with our Supply Chain Factories continues, and we further build and improve our Social and Ethical Compliance and Education programs whilst expanding and consolidating our sourcing footprint. We can report that the factories listed below represent our core long term partners and as our business moves forward any changes to this list will be updated at regular intervals.

The ongoing partnership between our Supply Chain Factories, ourselves, and SEDEX has strengthened our knowledge and abilities to ensure that the workers in these factories have the range of benefits including working conditions, fair and equal treatment and the full range of rights set out in the ETI Base Code, which has been previously communicated in this website and which contributes to their personal and family life wellbeing. Our latest information feedback set out below is used to develop improvement programs with our Supply Chain Factories:

• The most prevalent non-conformance findings reported in the above audits are Excessive Overtime hours worked and variations in payments of workers social insurances by factories and we have ongoing projects operating that are focused on gaining responsible improvements across these including closing of non-conformances within timelines set out in each audit.

• The factories listed below produce Apparel and associated products for our Brand and National Retail customers including New Zealand and our International customers.

• A commitment to payment of a LIVING WAGE to workers by factories is a mandatory requirement as set out in our ETI agreement with each factory and each formal audit includes verification that Auditors have found payments of wage levels are in line with the Nationally set minimum wage across all regions that they operate in within China. We continue to work with our Audit Service Companies to make ongoing improvements to their Audit methodologies to ensure all workers across our Supply Chain are paid Living Wage Levels as calculated by ANKER Methodology by the end of 2025.

• Currently our sourcing base is mainly based in China and the use of forced or prison labour is banned and monitored by our ongoing audit and factory inspection programs.

• The majority of the workforce are female in the 40 plus age group.

• Worker elected committees or their equivalent operate in the factories, and we are progressing with joint projects to share worker grievance reports.

• These factories operate worker training programs covering Rights, Health and Safety and legally mandated working conditions including freedom of association and movement and the rights to report abuse and grievances within the workplace.

• All factories are audited on an annual basis or when identified risks to workers require immediate audit reviews and actions. Audits follow strict guidelines endorsed by the ETI and are carried out by Internationally recognised organisations such as SGS and Intertek, where our preferred Audit program is SMETA 4 pillar covering Workers rights, Health and Safety and Environmental performances Audit non-conformances are supported by agreed Corrective Action plans and our Supply Chain partner factories work with our local based team to remedy non compliances within set timelines.

  Below are the Tier 1 Factory Lists                                                                                                                        

   Last Updated: Dec 2023

SUPPLY CHAIN GENDER DATA REPORT

Our SEDEX Gender Data report shown below sets out the total number of workers across our Supply Chain Factories by Gender and provides us with data with respect to Gender participation and representation.

Last Updated: Dec 2023

OUR ONGOING WORK IN TRACING SUPPLIERS DOWN OUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Our Tier 1 Supplier list comprising Garment factories has been set out as above and we are progressing with ongoing improvement and development programs which include Annual Formal Audits carried out by external agencies plus intensive work with SEDEX with respect to RISK ASSESSMENTS and GENDER programs etc . We have been working over extensively with our Tier 1 Suppliers over the last year to extend our tracing of suppliers who supply our factories with Fabrics ( Tier 2 ) and Dyehouses and Printers and Embroiderers ( Tier 3 ) and Yarns ( Tier 4 ) and at this time we have published details of these as below ; however we will continue our Tracing work over the next year and aim to publish an extended list that will include Fibre suppliers in mid 2024. Whilst our Tier 1 Suppliers have full Compliance programs in place we have yet to establish the extend of what programs are in place and their effectiveness with respect to Workers Rights and protection across Tiers 2 to 4 and we will be working with these suppliers during 2023 and 2024 to establish the status of these and to set in place programs that will focus on providing workers with the same levels as seen in our Tier 1 Suppliers.

Below are the Tier 2 to 4 Factory Lists

Last Updated: Dec 2023

Risk assessment matrix

THE ABOVE SEDEX RISK ASSEMENT MATRIX GIVES US THE ABILITY TO ESTABLISH RISK RATINGS FOR EACH OF OUR FACTORIES WHERE RISKS SUCH AS FORCED LABOUR, GENDER-INEQUALITY, EXCESS OVERTIME AND A WIDE RANGE OF OH & S NEGATIVE FINDINGS CAN BE IDENITFIED AND APPROPRIATE CORRECTIVE ACTION AND ON-GOING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS CAN BE INITIATIED.

Last updated: Sep 2023

TO BE UPDATED ANNUALLY