Targets 2008

Stakeholder engagement

To build strategic partnerships with international agencies, governments and civil society, with the objective of improving social and environmental conditions in the garment industry in China, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Mexico and Vietnam.
To enter into a dialogue with Hong Kong’s labour and human rights community and obtain NGO views on issues surrounding the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
To expand the outreach with North American universities and collegiate NGOs.
To steer and support the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) to influence environmental change in the international cotton industry.
To expand the participation in FLA 3.0 and include El Salvador, Honduras and Turkey.
To complete a feedback report, providing the adidas Group’s response to the views and suggestions given in the 2007 Suppliers Stakeholder Dialogue held in Hong Kong.

To mature and strengthen the efficiency of the external monitoring model for the indirect supply chain used by adidas Group licensees.
To review and enhance the integrity of the data output from the Fair Factories Clearinghouse database and strengthen the input processes.
To complete strategic compliance planning for an additional fourteen critical business entities comprising ten licensees, one agent, one brand and two business units.

To extend the safety officer registration and training to all directly sourced suppliers in Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil and Argentina.
To develop an e-Learning training platform to support the rollout of the revised and updated version of the HSE Guidelines.
To extend monitoring and reporting of volatile organic compounds at footwear factories in Brazil and Argentina.

To review, revise and prepare the launch of an updated SEA Employment Guideline.
To develop and launch a Human Resources Management System training programme in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand.
To review and continue to strengthen our network of confidential reporting channels for worker complaints in all three regions.

To further increase the number of style developments within the adidas Sports Performance Division consisting of organic and recycled material components; product styles will be launched in 2009.
To commission an internationally recognised NGO to review and verify internal tools for the selection of environmental materials used in our products.

To identify and engage with appropriate technical, brand and NGO partners to support the reduction of energy, waste and water in our core supply chain.
To enhance the internalisation of environmental metrics by core footwear suppliers to drive improvements in their reporting and defining reduction targets.
To run four energy-efficiency workshops for our suppliers in Asia and in the EMEA region to further drive the reduction in energy use.

To conduct a gap analysis of the environmental performance of adidas Group’s own production sites.
To conduct an in-depth environmental review of the adidas Group HQ facilities in Germany.
To evaluate the environmental performance of the adidas Group’s transport and logistics providers to support our communication on the overall environmental footprint of our business.