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Gildan Activewear

Gildan Activewear is a clothing manufacturer founded in 1984 and based in Montreal, Canada. With around 48,000 employees and 30 manufacturing factories globally and USD 2,922 billion in revenue 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 performs well overall and ranks 23rd in the apparel sector with a score of 28.9 out of 100. Its best performance is in the governance and strategy measurement area, where it displays strong performance. It has an opportunity to improve in the compensation and benefits measurement area, where it performs moderately.

Gildan Activewear is one of the 13 companies that assesses and prioritises gender-related human rights impacts as being salient.

Gildan Activewear has an opportunity to disclose its global primary carer leave policy, and to align it to ILO standards of at least 14 weeks and to disclose its global secondary carer leave policy, and to align it to ILO standards of at least 2 weeks. It has an opportunity to disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace and to disclose more information on whether it requires its suppliers to have an effective remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances of their workers.

Ranking position: #34 /112
Total score: 28.9 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 9.3 /20	#11
Representation	#1 5.7 /17.5	#18
Compensation and benefits	#1 1.6 /17.5	#54
Health and well-being	#1 6.6 /17.5	#34
Violence and harassment	#1 3.3 /17.5	#51
Marketplace and community	#1 2.5 /10	#38
Total score	28.9 /100	#34

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	12.2 /35
Supply chain	4.9 /35

Segment
Apparel	#23

More about the company

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada
Number of employees: 48000
Percentage of female employees: 45%
Group revenue: USD 2,922 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.gildanbrands.com/