Code of Conduct for Production Partners

Fast Retailing values our relationships with our production partners. We share a common philosophy with our partners: to manufacture high-quality products through correct processes. We ask our production partners to comply with the Fast Retailing Code of Conduct for Production Partners to protect human rights and ensure safe and appropriate working conditions in the supply chain.

In 2004, we established the Code of Conduct for Production Partners to protect labor conditions and human rights at factories. We require every production partner to comply with this code of conduct and start doing business with them only after they sign the code of conduct. From 2023, we started to implement our Code of Conduct for Production Partners not only at garment factories and core fabric mills, but now also at core spinning mills, where we are also conducting regular audits of working environments and traceability. Through our workplace monitoring program, we regularly assess whether our production partners are compliant with the code. We also require our production partner signatories to our Code of Conduct for Production Partners to cascade its rules upstream to any of its own suppliers involved in a process within our supply chain.

We have revised our Code of Conduct to reflect international standards.

In September 2016, as one part of our efforts with the Fair Labor Association (FLA), we clarified requirements on wages and benefits in line with the core labor standards of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
In September 2023, we strengthened our policies to protect foreign migrant workers' rights following our continuous commitment to Responsible Recruitment as defined by FLA and the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), which was renewed in March 2023.

Training for Production Partners

We conduct regular training to ensure production partners understand the Fast Retailing Code of Conduct for Production Partners, and the latest in labor standards, etc. During fiscal 2023, we conducted training for a total of 466 factories across 22 different countries and regions, representing 90% of the total of 519 garment factories.

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