Responsible Practices

Supply Chain Transparency Map

Our transparency map provides visibility to where products made by Columbia Sportswear Company brands are produced. We utilize the OSH tool to enable us to be transparent to stakeholders.

Leveraging Innovation & Design to Create Social & Environmental Value

Driving our core competencies of innovation and design across our portfolio of brands to create social and environmental value. In doing this, we aim to increase consumer loyalty and develop a strong connection to our brands.

Elevating Responsibility, Integrity and Compliance

Promoting responsible manufacturing by selecting vendors that have demonstrated commitments to continuously improve their Social Responsibility, Environmental and Product Compliance metrics.

COLLABORATION AND ENGAGEMENT

We recognize that we are a single player in a large, complex, global supply chain. To impact meaningful change, we need to work with brand, industry, and multi-stakeholder partners to:

  • Align on common industry standards for evaluating our business and our supply chain. Standardization will enable greater understanding of social and environmental impacts as well as increased efficiency in evaluation methods and broader comparability of results. Industry standards allow us to get on the same page about possible impacts and support our collaborative work towards shared goals around social responsibility, environmental sustainability and product compliance.
  • Develop shared tools to reduce costs and improve implementation of social, environmental, and compliance programs
  • Share resources with industry partners on specific projects to increase collective impact.

We select organizations for investment and engagement based on their ability to influence systemic change and their relevance to our business and supply chain. We also seek to work directly with other brands and retailers who share our values and whose products are made in the same factories as ours. Click on the organization below to learn more.

Photo Credit: Outdoor Industry Association

POSITION STATEMENTS

We value ethical practices at every step in the supply chain and work with industry groups, civil society organizations and government organizations to keep educated on ethical standards and practices across the supply chain. Read more about Columbia’s specific positions on: