SAN
FRANCISCO - Several of the
world’s major apparel brands and retailers have described how changing their
purchasing practices resulted in improved working conditions and cost
reductions.
The details can be found in a new report, Best Current Practices in Purchasing: The Apparel Industry, which outlines how after years of turning to suppliers to reduce factory compliance violations, companies such as Gap, Inc., Timberland, Nike, Levi Strauss & Co., Nordstrom, Jones Apparel, and Phillips-Van Heusen, are now looking inward to learn how their corporate practices have a negative impact on suppliers.
