1. SUMMARY: GOALS & ACHIEVEMENTS 2014
“At Nudie Jeans we want to be fully transparent, from cotton field to ready made garment. This means we have to know
and trust all our suppliers. During 2014 we took the next step up the supply chain by starting to audit our fabric suppliers.
We are proud to share the results of this work with all our stakeholders. “ - Joakim Levin (CEO)
2014 was a year of consolidating the work we have been doing with our suppliers. Nudie Jeans has now audited all suppliers
accounting for more than one percent of our production, and during the year we started our second and third round of audits
to verify improvements. Nudie Jeans also started moving up the supply chain by commencing auditing of our fabric suppliers.
14 audits were made during 2014. Five were done in India (two audits by FWF, two FWF worker interview reports and
one audit be an external service provider), FWF also did one audit in Turkey and one in Tunisia), our own external auditors
also did five audits in Italy and two in Portugal.
To support our suppliers in implementing our code of conduct we continued to train suppliers during the year. In September
2014 we arranged a training session for our suppliers, auditors and agent in Portugal together with FWF. During the year we
also arranged training with FWF for the management and staff at our Romanian supplier.
In 2014 we worked on resolving complaints received though the FWF complaints mechanism at suppliers in Italy, Tunisia,
Turkey and India. Although some of these were resolved, a couple remains to be dealt with in 2015 at some of these suppliers.
Our engagement with stakeholders continued through our transparency work (the production guide), by initiating cooperation
with other brands regarding improvement plans at several suppliers and cooperating with researcher analysing our CSR
work. During 2014 we also started implementing a new restricted chemicals policy at supplier level.