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Adidas

Adidas is a multinational sportswear corporation founded in 1949 and based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. The company designs and manufactures sport shoes, clothing and accessories. With more than EUR 23 billion in revenue in 2022, and around 60,000 employees worldwide, Adidas is the second largest sportswear company in the world.

Summary

Adidas ranks 22nd overall and 8th in the Apparel sector. Its best performance is on remedies and grievance mechanisms. The company has an opportunity to improve on governance and policy commitments and embedding respect and due diligence.

Adidas is one of just two apparel companies that disclose the outcomes of their grievance mechanism as well as the changes made to their human rights management system as a result of grievances filed. It is one of 14 apparel companies that map and disclose their direct and indirect suppliers.

Adidas has an opportunity to improve on topics related to board level accountability, including disclosing how it assigns responsibility for human rights management and whether it has board level incentives for good human rights performance. It also has an opportunity to demonstrate how it involves rightsholders throughout its due diligence and grievance processes.

Ranking position: #22 /110
Total score: 34.3 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 3.1 /10	#34
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 8.2 /25	#32
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 9.0 /20	#10
Performance: Practices	#1 8.3 /25	#21
Performance: Responses	#1 5.6 /20	#17

Sector
Apparel	#8

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