Before placing any orders, suppliers
must sign our Code of Conduct and
undergo an initial screening process.
If they pass, our auditors conduct
an in-depth head audit to assess
if the factory lives up to our minimum
requirements and shows good
potential to further improve their
sustainability performance. Only
then can orders be placed. This is
the case whether a factory is owned
directly by one of our suppliers or if
it is subcontracted. By 2014, 96% of
our supplier factories were audited
before an order was placed (2013:
96%). The remaining 4% were low
risk factories, for example, in terms
of product type as well as their location
in countries such as Sweden
and Portugal.