DESIGNING FOR INCLUSIVENESS
DICK’S Sporting Goods is committed to supporting all athletes, from the first timer to the semi pro. We strive to provide a welcoming environment that is inclusive of all members of our communities. That’s why the apparel we sell comes in a variety of sizes and styles to help everyone perform with confidence and achieve peak performance. In stores, we’ve put our commitment to inclusivity on display, as our mannequins now represent the same variety of body types as the clothes they model.
ENSURING PRODUCT SAFETY AND QUALITY
Our athletes know that they can feel safe and confident when buying from DICK’S Sporting Goods. We are committed to a robust set of quality and safety requirements that we enforce with our own vertical label brands and those from our suppliers and vendors. Our Product Safety and Regulatory Compliance Program enables us to identify, investigate, and if needed, eliminate any unsafe products, with preventative measures in place to ensure continuous improvement of our offerings.
SOURCING RESPONSIBLY
Ethical labor practices are critical to how we do business. Product safety and quality, responsible manufacturing practices, producing safe products and respect for human rights are vital at every stage of our business. We have laid out our guidelines for responsible sourcing in our Human Rights Policy (Opens in new a window), Vendor Code of Conduct (Opens in new a window), Restricted Substances List (Opens in new a window) and Global Sourcing Compliance Guidelines from the sourcing of raw materials by our vendors to the final sales in our stores. We want our athletes to feel safe and confident when buying from us, so we set and enforce requirements with our suppliers and vendors to ensure we are delivering products that meet our athletes’ expectations.
In 2020, we are increasing transparency and accountability in our supply chain with several short- and long-term efforts: goals to drive our efforts to continuously improve our responsible sourcing practices. These include commitments to:
We are have signing on to the American Apparel & Footwear Association/Fair Labor Association Apparel & Footwear Industry Commitment to Responsible Recruitment (Opens in new a window) in 2020.
Assessing 100% percent of our private brand suppliers utilizing the Higg Facility Environmental (Opens in new a window) Module audit by 2025.
We are signatories of the Joining the Human Rights Watch Transparency Pledge (Opens in new a window) to advance consistent, comparable disclosure practices across the apparel industry. It is our goal to achieve 100% percent transparency of our private brand factories by 2020 and meet the full minimum disclosure standards by 2025.