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adidas Group
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2014 Annual Report
Group Management Report – Our Group
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2014
Sustainability
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Number of trainings
2014 131 1)
2013 148
2012 172
2011 170
2010 193
1) In 2014, we offered more group trainings instead of individual training sessions.
As a result, we have been able to achieve higher efficiencies.
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Number of factory visits
2014 1,299 1)
2013 1,489
2012 1,564
2011 1,591
2010 1,451
1) With more supplier factories qualifying for self-governance status (factories that have
reached 4C or 5C status), factory audits were slightly reduced at these factory facilities.
Encouraging self-governance and achieving sustainable compliance: We help our core business
partners in establishing management systems with internationally recognised standards such as
ISO 14001 for environmental management or OHSAS 18000 for health and safety management
systems. We believe that good management systems help factories improve their day-to-day
operations, support the process of self-governance and continuously enhance their social and
environmental performance. We help them build and strengthen human resources systems to
maintain proper working conditions, including factory grievance systems to routinely find and
fix non-compliance issues. Furthermore, by enforcing employment standards at the sites of our
manufacturing suppliers, we empower workers to protect their own rights and take an active role
in decision-making.
Training our suppliers to achieve sustainable compliance: As part of the adidas Group’s continuous
efforts to achieve more effective and sustainable practices within its supply chain, the Group has
initiated a system of multi-level and cross-functional training sessions together with its global
supplier network. Our SEA team not only offers specific training courses and workshops for factory
supervisors and managers to help them apply our Standards and implement best practices but
also promotes the establishment of structures that actively involve workers and management of
our suppliers as well as local employee associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
In order to strengthen personnel capacities throughout our company, our SEA team similarly
organises workshops for licensees, agents and adidas Group business entities. In this way, the
consideration of fair working conditions becomes a routine part of our business activities. In 2014,
the SEA team conducted 131 training sessions and workshops (2013: 148). We offered more group
trainings, i.e. training sessions for more than one supplier instead of individual training sessions.
That way, we have been able to achieve higher efficiencies and provide opportunities for cross-
learning and best-practice sharing among suppliers.
see Diagram 03