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Next is a multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer, founded in 1864 and based in Enderby, UK. It is the biggest clothing retailer in the UK, with over GBP 4.4 billion in revenue in 2022. Next has more than 44,000 employees globally and operates around 510 stores in UK and Ireland and almost 200 mainly franchised stores in 35 countries across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Summary

Next ranks 63rd overall and 27th in the Apparel sector. It has fallen 13 places in its sector ranking since 2019. It has a particular opportunity to improve its disclosure on topics related to remedies and grievance mechanisms.

The company discloses its process for identifying and mitigating human rights risks in its supply chain. It also maps and discloses its supply chain.

Next is one of just 10 companies in the benchmark that do not make public a grievance mechanism for its workers to raise human rights complaints. The company has an opportunity to establish this mechanism and disclose its approach to providing remedy when grievances are filed. It also has an opportunity to disclose how it assigns responsibility for managing human rights within its own operations.

Ranking position: #63 /110
Total score: 15.1 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 2.2 /10	#52
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 6.4 /25	#46
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 1.0 /20	#98
Performance: Practices	#1 3.0 /25	#65
Performance: Responses	#1 2.5 /20	#61

Sector
Apparel	#27

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