Nike Purpose: Making Product Responsibly

Making Product Responsibly

We believe world-class manufacturing begins with respect for people and the environment. We work with suppliers who share our commitment to making products responsibly and sustainably. Nike and the Feng Tay Group have worked together for more than forty years. Mary Li is the GM of a Feng Tay facility in Putian, China and her story demonstrates the value of building strong relationships with suppliers and working together toward a better future.

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Our Focus

Enabling Compliance

We believe world-class manufacturing is grounded in standards that respect the environment, the people who work in factories and the principles of a healthy and safe workplace.

Advancing Worker Wellbeing

We’re focused on developing scaling programs that enhance worker engagement, increase compensation and improve social dialogue.

Progressive Environmental Protections

We work with suppliers who share our commitment to zero compromise for athletes* and the environment and focusing on reducing our collective impact in energy and emissions, waste, water, and chemistry.

Accelerating Industry Change

We collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to solve systemic issues and improve outcomes for workers and their communities.

The Power of Teamwork Forms the Foundation for how we do Business

Teamwork is at the foundation of our approach to business. We build long-term relationships with suppliers who who share our commitment to making products responsibly and sustainably.

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Enabling Compliance

We believe world-class manufacturing is grounded in standards that respect the environment, the people who work in factories and the principles of a healthy and safe workplace.

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Sourcing Standards

When it comes to business and sport, we value fair play. We believe world-class manufacturing is grounded in standards that respect the environment, the people who work in factories and the principles of a healthy and safe workplace.

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Human Rights and Labor Compliance Standards

We work to elevate human potential through our products, partnerships, and operations, which is built on a fundamental respect for human rights throughout Nike’s operations and our extended value chain.

Learn about our how we’re protecting human rights

Advancing Labor Conditions

We have been working to improve labor conditions in our supply chains for more than 20 years. Our purpose includes driving positive change for workers in Nike contract factories and across the industry.

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Fair Labor Association Reaccreditation

Nike’s social compliance program has been FLA-accredited since 1999. This year’s reaccreditation, highlights Nike’s continuous review and improvement of its social compliance tools and programs.

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Goals & Impact

We’ve set ambitious targets and measure our progress as we go.

Learn more about our progress in our FY18 Impact Report

Of Nike-branded footwear and apparel is made by factory groups that we have worked with for more than 15 years.

Increase of contract factories participating in a trade finance program with the International Finance Corporation.

The number of supplier facilities factories rated bronze or better based on our definition of sustainable.

Zero

The number of findings of child labor in contract factories in FY18.

Advancing Worker Wellbeing

We’re moving beyond compliance to help suppliers advance capabilities. We’re focused on scaling programs that enhance worker engagement, increase compensation and improve social dialogue.

Learn about how we’re engaging workers

Piloting a New Compensation Model

We worked with Dara O’Rourke and Niklas Lollo from the University of California, Berkeley from FY15-18 to explore new methods to increase the value created in factories and share that with workers.

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Supplier Capabilities

We work with suppliers that understand that sustainable and empowered workplaces are more productive, profitable and successful.

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Protecting the Environment

Sustainability must be our top priority in order to protect the environment where athletes* live and play. We work with suppliers who share our commitment to zero compromise for athletes* and the environment and focusing on reducing our collective impact in energy and emissions, waste, water, and chemistry.

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Supplier Best Practices

Whether accelerating low carbon manufacturing, leading the way to zero waste or best-in-class wastewater management, we work with suppliers who are committed to minimizing their environmental impact.

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Working With Suppliers to Achieve Our 2020 Targets

We’ve set ambitious targets in our manufacturing supply chain to reduce our environmental impact. For example, Nike works with suppliers to identify, design and execute strategies for unlocking competitive renewable energy opportunities in strategic manufacturing markets globally.

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Accelerating Industry Change

We believe that as an industry we must work together to improve standards and monitor working conditions. Many of the challenges we want to address are too complex for one brand or company to solve. We collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to solve systemic issues and improve outcomes for workers and their communities.

Industry Partnerships for Supply Chain

We believe collaboration is key to raising the bar on industry standards and working conditions. As an industry, we must come together to improve standards.

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Industry Tools for Supply Chain

We continue to advocate for a system-wide approach to tackling sustainability challenges within the apparel and footwear industry—because no single company or organization can solve today’s toughest sustainability challenges alone.

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“In some instances, these relationships run really deep, 30 and 40 years deep, and that's unique. This approach helps elevate capabilities across environment, health, safety, and labor.”

Jaycee Pribulsky, VP Sustainable Manufacturing & Sourcing