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Case Studies
Impactt has a wide variety of experiences in ethical trade and labour standards. These case studies demonstrate the typical approach we have developed. Our approach tends to focus on:
- Developing innovative practical solutions.
- Understanding and tackling the root causes of issues.
- Ensuring changes make business sense.
- Facilitating cooperation between different parties.
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Network Clothing is one of the leading manufacturers of handmade crochet and knitwear garments.
New Look has been working with Impactt on a series of projects developing innovative solutions for sustainably improving working conditions in the supply chain.
Whilst conducting an ethical assessment on a clothing factory in Turkey in 2006, Impactt found 6 children working.
Tesco operates 3,263 stores in 12 markets employing an estimated 318,283 full time employees and had sales of £42,000M in 2006.
The Temporary Labour Working Group, a consortium of major UK food retailers, growers, suppliers, labour providers and trade unions, was set up in September 2002, convened by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), with co-operation from the UK government.
Convening a group of companies to develop an IT solution for managing ethical trading data In 2002, Impactt convened a group of retailers and suppliers to create a data sharing system aiming to allow participants to access information about labour standards at shared suppliers in order to: Build efficiency Build cost-effectiveness Concentrate effort on improving [.
Reducing excessive overtime hours in factories in China The Impactt Overtime Project ran from 2001 to 2004 – developed in association with 11 purchasing companies, 9 factories in China and a range of local project partners in Hong Kong and mainland China – has demonstrated that in certain circumstances it is possible to reduce [.
Ethical trading workshops for internal commercial teams for US Garment brand Nautica and VF Sportswear, leading US garment brands, commissioned Impactt to design and deliver internal training for sourcing, QA, licensees and production managers in both New York City and Hong Kong.
Driving improvements on the ground for migrant workers in Malaysia.
Working with a group of companies to remove children from hazardous work and support them to return to school In February 2006, Impactt first visited a factory on behalf of a UK client to verify whether the factory had addressed the issue of child labour, which had been spotted by an agent.
