We have been a member of Fair Wear since January 2021. As an internationally recognised multi-stakeholder initiative, Fair Wear audits textile companies and the working conditions in production facilities according to the Fair Wear Code of Conduct. By joining Fair Wear, we have now taken the essential next step and are committed to the highest social standards - a stringent further development of our previous measures for fair and safe working conditions in the factories of our production partners. As a multi-stakeholder initiative, Fair Wear offers us unique support through its broad expertise on social standards in the textile sector, not least through its wide network of different stakeholders and actors. As part of our Fair Wear membership, we formulate an annual work plan with the measures for the coming year. In an annual Brand Performance Check, we are reviewed with regard to our supplier management, our sustainability management, our supply chain monitoring and the measures derived from this to ensure social justice in production as well as in our purchasing behaviour. We successfully completed our first Brand Performance Check at the beginning of April 2022. We achieved "Good" status straight away, which makes us very happy. With 60 points, our performance is far above the required score for membership in the first year. In total, we audited 73% of our production volume, which also exceeds the threshold for first year membership. Due to the pandemic, we had to postpone the auditing of our production partners in Laos until 2022. "In the first year, HAKRO has performed well and laid a strong foundation. We are pleased to see HAKRO working so closely with Olymp, another Fair Wear member, and maintaining strong partnerships with its production partners. We are excited to see the progress and developments towards living wages," says Wilco van Bokhorst, our Fair Wear Foundation Brand Performance Checker. "For two days, Wilco van Bokhorst, our Perfomance Checker/Auditor, examined us from top to bottom", says Anna Rüchardt, responsible in the area of Quality, Values & Sustainability for the Fair Wear membership, "The two days were exciting, instructive, intensive and challenging, especially as the entire audit took place in English. But we did it with flying colours - big thanks to everyone who supported us in the preparations and answered Wilco's questions."

Find the link to our first Social Report here.