Question: Does the company’s statement name the suppliers in their supply chain and/or the geographic regions where their supply chain operates?
Answer:
Geographical
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Walk Free
Swarovski AG
2016
Unverified - Added by Steward
updated almost 7 years ago by Anne Bernier

"Generally, we classify suppliers that produce in low or middle-income countries as more at risk to forced labor and other bad labor practices. Further, we then monitor the selected suppliers’ approach to improving labour conditions by means of a third party audit (such as the Responsible Jewellery Council (‘RJC’), Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (‘SMETA’) and Social Accountability International’s SA8000 standards), or our own internal labour assessment (based on the SMETA standard), which our Corporate Social Responsibility (‘CSR’) team conducts. We conduct follow-up audits in dependence of the result between 6 to 18 months after of the initial audit."

Anne Bernier.....2017-04-23 23:39:24 UTC

"low or middle income countries"

Judy Yang.....2017-04-26 22:27:05 UTC

 

It is important to note that the only geographic details provided about their supply chain is referring to their OWN factories:

"All our owned factories in Austria, Serbia, Thailand, India and Vietnam, which produce the majority of our products, (...)"

Laureen van Breen.....2017-06-07 09:31:28 UTC

Laureen van Breen.....2017-06-07 09:50:46 UTC