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Gildan Activewear

Gildan Activewear is a clothing manufacturer founded in 1984 and based in Montreal, Canada. With more than 44,000 employees and 30 manufacturing factories globally and USD 3.2 billion in renenue in 2022, it is one of the world's largest manufacturers of basic apparel, including activewear, underwear and socks. Gildan Activewear holds a portfolio of brands sold in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. These include Gildan, American Apparel, Alstyle, Comfort Colors, Goldtoe, Secret, Peds and Silks.

Summary

Gildan Activewear ranks 42nd overall and 19th in the Apparel sector. Its best performance is on human rights practices.

Gildan Activewear is one of nine companies in the benchmark that commit to respect the health and safety of workers as well as ILO standards on working hours, and expect their suppliers to make the same commitments. It also discloses a list of its salient human rights risks and examples of actions taken to prevent/mitigate some of these risks.

The company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the implementation of its human rights policies as well as its corrective action process for non-compliance. It also has an opportunity to disclose how it works with suppliers on the issues of health and safety and working hours. The company could also disclose its process for mitigating its salient human rights risks and evaluating the effectiveness of actions taken.

Ranking position: #42 /110
Total score: 23.4 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 3.1 /10	#34
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 8.1 /25	#36
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 4.0 /20	#51
Performance: Practices	#1 6.9 /25	#32
Performance: Responses	#1 1.3 /20	#86

Sector
Apparel	#19

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