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Burberry

Burberry is a global luxury goods manufacturer, retailer and wholesaler, founded by Thomas Burberry in 1856. Its four product divisions are accessories, women's, men's and children's clothes, beauty and other. It also licenses third parties to manufacture and distribute products using the ‘Burberry’ trademarks. The company has its headquarters in London, UK and operates across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. It makes around USD 3 billion in revenue annually and employs over 9,000 people.

Summary

Burberry ranks 34th overall and 14th in the Apparel sector. Its best performance is on governance and policy commitments. It has an opportunity to improve its disclosure on human rights practice.

Burberry is one of the nine companies that publicly commit to international standards on health and safety and working hours and also expect their suppliers to make these commitments. It is one of the five apparel companies that publicly commit to work with suppliers to provide remedy for any adverse human rights impacts that its activities have caused or contributed.

The company has an opportunity to disclose its actual approach to providing remedy for adverse human rights impacts linked to its activities, as well as changes to systems, processes and practices to prevent similar impacts in the future. Likewise, the company has an opportunity to disclose its actual approach to working with suppliers on issues of health and safety and working hours, and data on the scope of these issues in its supply chain.

Ranking position: #34 /110
Total score: 29.6 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 4.8 /10	#10
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 11.6 /25	#19
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 4.0 /20	#51
Performance: Practices	#1 3.2 /25	#61
Performance: Responses	#1 5.9 /20	#16

Sector
Apparel	#14

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