Compliance you can put your name on.
We hold every employee and factory we partner with to high social-responsibility standards — with announced and unannounced audits of our partners, verified by independent third-party auditors under our vendor compliance program.
Verification and accountability
2253 Apparel Inc. ("2253") strives to ensure that its products are produced in a legally and socially responsible manner and to prevent complicity in abusive employment practices such as human trafficking and slavery. Our vendor compliance program covers verification, audits, supplier requirements, accountability, and training.
- Verification of Supply Chain — We have developed a vendor compliance program that requires vendors to comply with applicable employment and human rights laws, as well as adhere to 2253's own standards intended to eliminate abusive employment practices, including forced labor, human trafficking and slave labor. Vendors must also certify their compliance with such laws and 2253's own standards. We verify compliance using internal and third-party auditors.
- Supplier Audits — We conduct audits of suppliers' facilities using independent third parties to determine whether these facilities are in compliance with laws and our standards. We also use internal personnel to periodically verify compliance. Verification of the product supply chain to determine whether facilities are in compliance with laws and our standards includes both announced and unannounced audits of vendor facilities.
- Supplier Certifications — We require our direct suppliers to certify that they comply with all appropriate laws and our standards prior to the placement of an order by us. This certification of compliance includes materials incorporated by our direct suppliers in products they produce for us.
- Standards — We maintain internal accountability standards and procedures for employees or contractors failing to meet company standards. Failure of our employees to abide by 2253's Code of Business Conduct can result in corrective action up to and including termination of employment. Failure of vendors to abide by our standards can result in corrective action plans and other disciplinary measures for vendors who are found to violate applicable laws or our standards up to and including termination of our business relationship with the vendor.
- Employee Training — 2253 conducts internal training with respect to our vendor compliance program and our standards to ensure that personnel involved in supply chain management are made aware of how to identify potentially abusive situations.
Our own people, at the source.
2253 maintains dedicated quality-assurance offices in our core sourcing countries — China, Bangladesh, and Pakistan — and works through vetted agents in Vietnam, Cambodia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Our HQ team is regularly on-site to manage production and development directly.