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M&S makes progress on ‘Plan A’

Well Studio on June 21, 2013

Publication fromsupplymanagement.com June 2013

Marks and Spencer has forged ahead with plans to educate 500,000 of its supply chain workers in areas such as employee rights, as well as boosting the amount of sustainable cotton used in its products, according to its latest “Plan A’ report.

So far, 244,000 workers largely in India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bangladesh and China have been trained up in topics such as nutritional education and family planning, financial literacy, employee rights and employment contracts, putting the retailer on course to meet its target of educating 500,000 by 2015.

Other areas of progress include the sustainable sourcing of cotton – M&S hopes to buy 25 per cent of cotton in this way by 2015. Currently, 11 per cent of the cotton used to make M&S products is either Fairtrade, Organic, Recycled or grown to Better Cotton Initiativestandards, up from 3.8 per cent in 2011/12.

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The Adidas Group’s commitment to Better Cotton

Well Studio on June 17, 2013

Publication from the Adidas Group Blog. June 2013.

As a pioneer member, the Adidas Group have been involved with the Better Cotton Initiative from the very beginning.The Adidas Group is also one of the funding private partners of BCI.To achieve their target of 100% sustainable cotton by 2018, Adidas have set incremental annual targets for the quantity of “Better Cotton’ that will be used: 5% by 2012; 40% by 2015; 100% Sustainable Cotton by 2018.

With all the hard work and excitement, together with their supplier base, Adidas hit their target of 5% in 2012. This will be a strong foundation going forward.

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H&M keen on working with Asian suppliers

Well Studio on April 30, 2013

Publication from rappler.com March 2013

Through the Better Cotton Initiative, a partnership between the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and major brands like H&M and Ikea, H&M Global Sustainability Manager Fredrik Rosenholm says they were able to reach cotton farmers and teach them to farm cotton with less pesticides and water.

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