Data

Today, we assess more than 700 items – potential issues that can affect working conditions – related to our Code of Vendor Conduct (COVC) that could range from whether a factory has clean bathrooms to its adherence to local laws. 

We organize all these items into four principles, rather than the eight we used to use. This approach helps simplify the data for reporting and collecting purposes. The four principles are: management system, environment, labor and working conditions. The below data highlights a representative group of items instead of all 700 in an effort to make our reporting more accessible and useful. From each main category, we’ve selected items that stakeholders have been most interested in and that, together, create an overall picture of performance. 

In addition to the below data, we have numerous articles on the site that detail our efforts to address existing and potential future COVC violations.  For example, you can read more about our efforts to remediate compliance issues, promote a safe and fair hand work environment, address child labor and human trafficking. Details on how our overall Monitoring and Vendor Development program has evolved can be found here.

We will continue to make the entire list of items in our COVC available on this site. You can access it here.

2010 COVC violations by region (chart I)

Note: The data set displays the percentage of factories by region that had a specific Code of Vendor Conduct violation outstanding (irrespective of when the violation was identified) within the fiscal year 2010. The data represents factories producing Gap Inc. branded product that are part of our monitoring program and that were active during either the full or partial year. Partial year factories include those that began or stopped working with Gap Inc. at some point during the fiscal year 2010.