MANUFACTURING
We will continue to focus on improvement programs and close social dialogue.
Close engagements with our partners and long-term relationships lead to greater satisfaction.
Helly Hansen has a clear philosophy that close engagements with our partners and long-term relationships lead to greater job satisfaction and the feeling of empowerment amongst the people working within our supply chain. We will continue to work towards proper living wages, workplace safety, and protection against discrimination. Our focus is on social programs where dialogue and improvement plans are put into place.
SUPPLIERS
Long-standing relationships with suppliers ensure the highest quality.
The relationships in our supply chain will define a large part of the materials we use and how they are produced. All suppliers must sign our chemical compliance contract, including our restricted substance list (RSL). The RSL is based on bluesign®’s RSL and is REACH compliant. We have a long-standing relationship with a majority of our suppliers, having worked with many of them for 20–30 years. Through these partnerships we develop the most unique materials, the highest quality and optimal production methods.
All Helly Hansen’s suppliers have gone through risk assessment processes; both country risk assessment and geopolitical assessment. Valid factory inspections needs to be in place before the factory can be approved for further collaboration.
These inspections are based on our ethical and environmental criteria’s outline in our Code of Conduct that needs to be signed by all Helly Hansen suppliers.
Helly Hansen has made a commitment to follow the standards of the BSCI – Business Social Compliance Initiative, but we recognize that many of our existing suppliers/factories may already have an audit other than a BSCI audit and to avoid audit fatigue, we will also accept the following audits if they meet our criteria and results are favorable: WRAP, SMETA, SA8000, ICTI, RBA and Better Works.
If the factory does not have any of the before mentioned audits, Helly Hansen will schedule a BSCI audit as well as assist the vendor/factory prepare for the audit. Helly Hansen requires a “C”rating or better for a BSCI audit. In the event that the factory receives a “D” rating or below we will require a Corrective Action Plan and follow-up audit to be conducted within three months.
DUE DILIGENCE PROCESS
Nominated Suppliers
TIER 1: Garment Producers
The majority of the 2020 collection is made in China, 44%, with garment suppliers Helly Hansen has worked with for a long time, many of them for decades. The second-largest volume of products are made in Bangladesh and Vietnam. The list below contains all of our Tier 1 suppliers.
Garment Producers
Nominated Suppliers
Tier 2: Material Producers
Over 80% of all our fabrics, insulations, interlinings and other smaller trimming fabrics come from nominated Tier 2 suppliers, who Helly Hansen has a direct relationship with. We source around 50% of all fabrics from Taiwan and around 30% from China. Helly Hansen shares over 50% (by volume) of our Tier 2 facilities on the Open Apparel Registry platform.
Material Producers
TECH PARTNERS
We will always push the outdoor industry together with our partners.
With a history of over 140 years, Helly Hansen has pushed the boundaries of the outerwear industry. From the creation of the first supple, waterproof fabric in 1877 to the first technical base layer in 1970, we have proven our dedication to innovation and our commitment to making professional-grade gear to help people stay and feel alive.
In collaboration with a number of trusted technology partners, we have been able to inform and inspire new innovations that have pushed the industry further with gear that delivers on performance and sustainability.
SAFE WORKPLACES
We will continue to work towards proper living wages, workplace safety, and protection against discrimination.
Helly Hansen has a clear philosophy that close engagements with our partners and long-term relationships lead to greater job satisfaction and the feeling of empowerment amongst the people working within our supply chain.
NIRAPON
Across our entire supply chain, Helly Hansen is committed to ensuring the safety of our workers, from the factory to the store. Our parent company, Canadian Tire Corporation, was one of the founding members of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety in 2013, and together, we continue to collaborate with other brands and retailers through Nirapon to maintain the improvements that factories have implemented.
COMMITTED
Nirapon is a non-profit organization, that was established to advance the common business interests of North American brands who are passionate about the safety management in their RMG factories in Bangladesh.
NON-PROFIT
Helly Hansen is fully committed to monitoring safety conditions for the benefit of workers in the Bangladesh RMG, to ensure they are not only safe, but that measures implemented in the factories are sustainable. Nirapon facilitates collaboration with its members, Bangladeshi factory owners and workers, government, labour groups and other stakeholders to build on improvements made since 2013.
For more information on Nirapon, visit Nirapon.org.
SAFETY
