Walk Free+MSA Business Performance Indicators+Gap inc.+2018+Discussion

'After we documented more red-rated factories in the 2013-2014 time period

than in 2011-2012 (red is our lowest rating and signals that immediate action is required at a factory to address one or more serious issues) weinvestigatedfurther and took steps to reverse this trend. By 2016, we decreased our share of red rated factories from 18.47%to 16%' - page 7

This shows that GAP soon realised that they were not benefiting modern slavery levels, as a result they made a conscious effort to 'reverse this trend'.