Overview

Our Vision of Social Responsibility

The world is getting smaller every day. Thanks to the Internet, email and cell phones, real-time conversations can now span continents. Ecological disasters and social crises rarely remain isolated to one country or region anymore. Infectious diseases and climate change know no political boundaries.

Gap Inc. plays a role in this new global reality. In the apparel industry, like many others, it's the norm for a product to be made in one country with materials from another, and then shipped to yet another for sale. The impacts that this product has — whether on the people who cooperated to make it or the planet's natural resources — have ramifications beyond national borders.

We believe that business has the potential not only to mitigate its negative impacts but also to serve as a catalyst for progress.

Our 2005-2006 Report explains how we're working to embed social responsibility practices into our business operations. From experimenting with sustainable fibers to examining the impact that our purchasing practices have on garment factories, we know that social responsibility presents us with the opportunity to innovate and create ways to do business better.

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ABOUT THIS REPORT

This report provides an overview of the social, environmental, and economic impacts of Gap Inc.'s U.S. and international operations. It illustrates our social responsibility commitments to ethical sourcing, our employees, environmental protection and the communities in which we operate. We also discuss emerging social responsibility trends in the marketplace.

The online version provides highlights from the report, but we encourage you to download a PDF of the sections that interest you most — or the whole report.