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VF Corporation

VF Corporation is one of the world's largest apparel, footwear, and accessories companies. The company controls several big brands including: JanSport, Timberland, North Face, Vans, and Kipling, among others. It was founded in 1899 and is based in Denver, Colorado (USA). It owns around 1,300 retail stores and its products are sold in more than 125 countries. In 2022, VF Corporation had 35,000 employees and earned USD 11,800 billion in revenue.

Summary

VF Corporation maintains its rank as the best performing company in this year’s Gender Benchmark with an overall score of 55 out of 100. It is the highest scoring company in the supply chain indicators. It demonstrates leadership in almost all measurement areas across the whole benchmark, and can further improve its performance in the marketplace and community area.

VF Corporation is one of the only company that requires its suppliers to collect sex-disaggregated data on the remediation of violence and harassment grievances reported by their workers. It is also one of the few companies in the benchmarkthat assesses and prioritises gender-related human rights impacts as being salient as well as one of the six companies that engages with women as part of its risk identification and assessment process. Moreover, it is one of the 11 companies that require its suppliers to provide training on violence and harassment to their managers and workers.

The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that its primary carer leave policy aligns to ILO standards of at least 14 weeks and its secondary carer policy to at least 2 weeks, as well as to disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace.

Ranking position: #1 /112
Total score: 55.0 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 14.3 /20	#2
Representation	#1 8.4 /17.5	#3
Compensation and benefits	#1 5.7 /17.5	#12
Health and well-being	#1 10.9 /17.5	#4
Violence and harassment	#1 12.0 /17.5	#1
Marketplace and community	#1 3.8 /10	#20
Total score	55.0 /100	#1

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	12.2 /35
Supply chain	24.8 /35

Segment
Apparel	#1

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More about the company

Headquarters: Denver, CO, USA
Number of employees: 35000
Percentage of female employees: 53%
Group revenue: USD 11,800 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.vfc.com/