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Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear is an apparel company mostly engaged in designing, developing, marketing and distributing outdoor clothing, sportswear and footwear. Founded in 1938 and based in the United States, the company operates in 90 countries with most products manufactured in Asia, including Vietnam, China, Bangladesh and Indonesia. In 2022, its revenue was USD 3.6 billion and it employed 9,450 people.

Summary

Columbia Sportswear ranks 91st overall and 44th in the Apparel sector. It has fallen 21 ranking places in its sector since 2019. It has a particular opportunity to improve on embedding respect and human rights due diligence, where it scores zero.

The company has an opportunity to strengthen its policy commitments to respect human and labour rights, and to embed these policies into company operations by assigning responsibility for the day-to-day management of human rights and establishing a global system to identify, assess and mitigate its salient human rights risks.

The company could also 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 and reviews its business model for human rights risks. It has a further opportunity to demonstrate how it engages with rightsholders on human rights issues.

Ranking position: #91 /110
Total score: 6.9 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 1.3 /10	#79
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 0.0 /25	#101
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 1.5 /20	#91
Performance: Practices	#1 2.8 /25	#66
Performance: Responses	#1 1.4 /20	#84

Sector
Apparel	#44

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