2023 Gender Benchmark - World Benchmarking Alliance

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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 USD 6,660 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 performs well overall and ranks 19th in the apparel sector with a score of 29.9 out of 100. Its best performance is in the health and well-being, violence and harassment, and marketplace and community measurement areas, where it performs strongly. It has an opportunity to improve in the governance and strategy measurement area, where it performs moderately.

Next has publicly available policies in place regarding violence and harassment in the workplace, like many other companies in the benchmark. However, it has an opportunity to improve in various areas like making a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, disclosing its global primary carer leave policy, and aligning it to ILO standards of at least 14 weeks and disclosing its global secondary carer leave policy, and aligning it with the ILO standards of at least 2 weeks. It also has an opportunity to disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace.

Ranking position: #29 /112
Total score: 29.9 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 3.6 /20	#63
Representation	#1 4.2 /17.5	#46
Compensation and benefits	#1 3.1 /17.5	#37
Health and well-being	#1 8.8 /17.5	#13
Violence and harassment	#1 6.6 /17.5	#15
Marketplace and community	#1 3.8 /10	#20
Total score	29.9 /100	#29

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	7.5 /35
Supply chain	15.1 /35

Segment
Apparel	#19

More about the company

Headquarters: Enderby, United Kingdom
Number of employees: 44626
Percentage of female employees: 69%
Group revenue: USD 6,660 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.nextplc.co.uk/