McGregor Fashion Group BV (Winkel)

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McGregor Fashion Group BV joined FWF in 2007. Main brands of this company are McGregor and Gaastra.

Brand Performance Check 2011
Brand Performance Check 2012
McGregor Fashion Group (MFG) is a member of FWF since 2007. MFG is in process of implementing FWFs management system requirements. When sourcing, staff considers social compliance. The product managers have received a guideline to first check if there were prior audits conducted, promote completion of questionnaire and in the event of a constructive relationship plan for an a FWF audit. An effort has been made the past year the reduce the number of suppliers. The company sources in several countries and had 187 suppliers in their supplier register. In several cases these suppliers had other production units. Not all production units were included in the register.

MFG has given priority in the year 2011 to providing follow up on earlier audits, instead of doing new audits. In 2011 and the first half of 2012 9 audits have been carried out with FWF teams. In total 40% of the production volume has been audited with FWF teams. Furthermore MFG sources 8% in low risk countries, and has given follow up on 16% other third party audits. This brings the total percentage that is actively included in the monitoring system at 64%. This is below the required 90% by FWF.

Product managers have the responsibility to monitor the suppliers and follow up on CAPs. To keep the product managers updated on developments related to the FWF membership, twice a year meetings are organised to specifically discuss implementation of the Code of Labour Practices. Suppliers are visited and pending issues of CAPs are discussed. Product managers are the designated persons in the company to document the actual status of the issues to be improved mentioned in the corrective action plan in the extra columns in the excel sheet.

Two verification audits were done by FWF at suppliers in China in the past year. Some improvements were seen, but also repeated issues. The audits showed no non-compliances found on discrimination, child labour and forced labour. It was found that workers were not well aware of their rights and the FWF local complaints handler. Improvements were needed on freedom of association, wages and reducing overtime.


Emergo Sportswear B.V.

Postbus 260
Hoofdstraat 23-25
3970 AG Driebergen-Rijsenburg
www.mcgregor-fashion.com

Phone: +31 343 530101
Fax: +31 343 530102