Sustainability
Sustainability at C&A
The Company is committed to contributing to the transformation of the fashion industry and works to offer customers more sustainable products so they can make better choices. The Company understands that its activities have an impact and, therefore, aims to encourage, promote, and engage stakeholders in initiatives that ensure the sustainable development of the business while striving every day to create fashion with a positive impact.
The Company’s sustainability strategy is structured around four pillars — combating climate change, expand circularity in our business model, promoting diversity and inclusion in all our relationships, and enabling the sustainable development of the supply chain through ethical relationships. The Company continues to advance its sustainable commitment by investing in technology, developing its supply chain and employees and leading the industry’s evolution towards truly sustainable fashion, based on our pioneering use of more sustainable raw materials, innovation in circular economy, and our people.
As part of its sustainability strategy, the Company has the following goals to be achieved by 2030:
I. Lead the fashion retail sector in the use of SUSTAINABLE RAW MATERIALS – 80% of the main raw materials must be from more sustainable sources (cotton, viscose, and polyester).
II. Promote CIRCULARITY – Integrate circularity principles into 50% of products whether in their design, production, or reuse.
III. Reduce PLASTIC pollution – Replace 50% of single-use plastic with more sustainable alternatives.
IV. Promote DIVERSITY AND EQUITY – Maintain at least 60% women and achieve 30% Black and Indigenous people in managerial positions.
Click here to go to our sustainability website and learn more about our practices.
The Company has been preparing annual sustainability reports since 2010 (base year 2009) and was the first in the fashion retail sector to publish them in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines. Check out the latest editions of this report below:
Click here to acess the 2023 sustainability report
Click here to acess the 2022 sustainability report.
Click here to acess the 2021 sustainability report.
Click here to acess the 2020 sustainability report.
Click here to access the 2019 sustainability report.
Click here to access the 2018 sustainability report.
Click here to access the C&A CoC for Supply of Merchandise.
Click here to access the Supporting Guidelines to the C&A CoC for Supply or Merchandise.
Instituto C&A
In 2020, Instituto C&A transfers its global transformational legacy to the Laudes Foundation and focuses on regional operations in Brazil. The volunteering program is now focused on fashion organizations, and a new entrepreneurship program is created to focus on developing initiatives led by vulnerable communities in Brazil.
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