Corporate Social Responsibility

At Hanesbrands Inc., we strive to be an ethical and responsible organization in every country throughout the world in which we operate. Our Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives involve five key tenets:

1. A Culture of Integrity - We have a well-developed ethics and business practices program with specific guidelines contained in our Global Business Standards. These Standards detail the responsibilities we have to all of our stakeholders, including consumers, shareholders, business partners and local communities. We have a world-wide network of Business Practices (ethics) Officers and have conducted live training of all 50,000 of our employees on a number of occasions.
2. Workplace Quality - All our products are manufactured in safe and responsible facilities. We have recently joined the Fair Labor Association ("FLA") and embrace their standards and those of the Worldwide Responsible Accreditation Program ("WRAP"). We work to ensure our facilities meet our high expectations by WRAP certifying our owned facilities and major contractors. We continuously demand adherence to our Global Standards for Suppliers and have implemented vigorous auditing and monitoring programs.
3. Product Safety - We strive to offer the consumers of our products the highest quality and safest products possible. We have vigorous chemical management programs in place that we are continuing to enhance and have had a childrenswear product safety program embedded in our design and production processes for years.
4. Sustaining the Environment - We are proud of our apparel industry leadership in energy and environmental stewardship - from conservation, energy efficiency and green energy to eco-friendly building designs and state-of-the-art water treatment facilities. We continuously strive to find more ways to reduce our carbon footprint. Over 25% of our energy comes from clean, renewable sources, saving 1 trillion BTUs… enough energy to power 12,500 homes for a year!
   
   As an EPA Energy Star Partner, Hanesbrands has implemented a corporate energy management program to aggressively pursue reducing energy use and emissions to the environment. Since 2007 we have reduced energy use intensity by 8%, equivalent to the energy consumed by 5,000 US homes.
   
   Our textile production facility in Bonao, Dominican Republic, has implemented a state-of-the-art biological water treatment process. This process is so effective that the effluent waste from the facility is more than 50% below the regulatory limit for biochemical oxygen demand.
   
   In Nanjing, China, the energy-intensive textile plant we are building will be located close to existing electrical generation facilities. A by-product of the generation of electricity at these facilities is steam and hot water that is often wasted. HBI will acquire the normally wasted steam for manufacturing purposes, thus reducing fuel consumption and the resultant greenhouse gas emissions.
5. Philanthropy - We support the communities in which we live and work. Our communities are the heart of our existence. Our corporate giving and community development efforts focus on serving the "fundamental needs" of these communities. Along with the millions of dollars HBI and its employees have donated over the years to the United Way and the Arts Council at our Winston-Salem, N.C., headquarters, here are two recent examples of the dozens of programs and projects we engage in every year around the globe both proactively and in response to specific needs:
   • In January and February 2009, more than 200 Hanesbrands employees representing El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the United States volunteered their time to renovate the San Juan Opico Health Clinic in El Salvador.
     • The renovation project began in January with structural improvements, including a new roof, new wiring, cabinets and plumbing. The project was completed on Feb. 20-21, when more than 75 HBI volunteers painted, cleaned, landscaped and dedicated the facility.
     • The clinic operates 24 hours a day and serves more than 2,500 patients each week, including expectant mothers and newborns. Many HBI employees and their families use the clinic for their medical care.
   • In December 2007, more than 200 HBI employees converged on Hogar San Rafael, a home and school for orphan children in the mountains of Villaneuva, Honduras. We identified the home, which urgently needed new amenities and furnishings, as a place where we could make a tremendous difference. After many months of planning, HBI employees arrived to construct a new kitchen, renovate the common areas, paint the campus, furnish the dorms, donate laptop computers, deliver new mattresses, clean the grounds, and give each child clothing and a pair of shoes. Finally, we gave the children a new boxer puppy named "Hanes."
     

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   • In October 2007, tropical storm Noel hit the Dominican Republic, causing devastating damage for the local community near our Dos Rios textile facility. During the height of the storm, HBI provided more than 3,000 hot meals and more than 11,500 bottles of water to residents staying in the shelters in the community of Bonao. More than 175 of our local employees experienced significant losses due to the storm and the subsequent flooding. To help these employees, we donated new mattresses, pillows, sheet sets and corrugated metal roofing tiles to repair their homes.
     

     View a video about our relief efforts.    

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We welcome your comments and questions about our CSR initiatives. If you'd like to learn more, please contact us at hbi_service@hanesbrands.com.