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Hanesbrands
HanesBrands is a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel under some of the world's strongest apparel brands in the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as in Australia and South Africa.
About Us
Our iconic innerwear and activewear apparel brands found in the United States and elsewhere include Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, Maidenform, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra and Gear for Sports. Outside the United States, we also have dominant national and regional brands, including DIM, Nur Die/Nur Der, Lovable, Abanderado, Shock Absorber, Zorba, Sol y Oro, Rinbros, Track N Field and Ritmo.
We are the world’s largest marketer of basic apparel. We sell bras, panties, shapewear, sheer hosiery, men's underwear, children's underwear, socks, T-shirts, sweatshirts, fleece and other activewear. In the United States, we sell more units of intimate apparel, male underwear, socks, shapewear, hosiery and T-shirts than any other company.
Our Sell More, Spend Less and Make Acquisitions strategies are driving growth and creating value for our shareholders, consumers, retailers, employees and communities. Hanes has made more than a half dozen acquisitions, including Maidenform Brands, Gear for Sports and Knights Apparel in the United States and DBApparel in Europe.
Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., Hanes is a member of the S&P 500 and is ranked No. 490 on the Fortune 500 list. The company has approximately 65,300 employees in more than 40 countries.
Unlike most apparel companies, Hanes primarily operates its own manufacturing facilities. More than 90 percent of the apparel units that we sell worldwide and in the United States are manufactured in our own plants or those of dedicated contractors.
We take great pride in our strong reputation for ethical business practices and the success of our Hanes for Good corporate responsibility program for workplace practices and community and environmental improvement. The company is the only apparel producer to ever be honored by the Great Place to Work Institute for its workplace practices in Central America and the Caribbean. In the United States, the company has earned the Forbes magazine Best Place to Work honor. Hanes has won U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star sustained excellence recognition for seven consecutive years. Hanes has significant goals for reducing energy use, carbon emissions and water use and publicly reports its progress each year. More information about our Hanes for Good corporate responsibility initiatives may be found at
About Procurement
HanesBrands believes in doing business with those vendors who embrace and demonstrate high standards of ethical business behavior. We are proud of the trusted partnerships that we have in place with our vendors and look forward to establishing beneficial business relationships with new ones.
Our Mission
It is the mission of the Global Procurement Department to support Hanes in achieving its corporate goals by maintaining collaborative relationships with all aspects of the business, ensuring we are creating the most value for our partners. We deliver value by ensuring that we maintain a world class supply base, driven by the highest ethical, social and regulatory standards, focused on continuous improvement and total cost optimization.
Our Vision
To provide Hanes a competitive advantage by:
- Adhering to a rigorous set of ethics and standards.
- Continually seeking and developing world class talent.
- Partnering with the front end of the business to ensure priorities are in alignment.
- Conducting intense business engagement with vendors.
- Performing at a high level relative to Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost,
- Innovation and Regulatory (AQSCIR).
- Providing ongoing world class training.
- Striving for global consistency in Procurement methods and processes.
- Aggressively managing raw material cost curves.
- Applying cost model analytics to understand primary drivers of overall price.
- Increasing business acumen for creating strategies with an
Environmental statement
Hanes has quietly become a leader in energy management and aspires to be an international apparel industry leader in overall environmental responsibility and stewardship. The effort is more that a commitment; it is a major business strategy for our success. Using sustainable practices and conserving natural resources to mitigate our environmental footprint and reduce costs is one of Hanes’ core efforts to create value for our company, our investors, our consumers, our employees, and our communities.
Social Responsibility
Our approach to corporate social responsibility is based on our firm belief - continuously expressed by all Hanes employees - that doing the right thing is the basis for a successful business. We honor this commitment by:
- Ensuring high standards for employees in the areas of conduct, compliance, and business ethics. We have a formal training program and ongoing communications that require documented participation from all employees.
- Providing clean, safe, secure and rewarding workplaces for more than 51,500 employees that operate consistently with internationally recognized standards. We hold ourselves, and our contractors, to the same high standards through an extensive facility compliance auditing program.
- Offering consumers the safest, highest quality products. Our strict protocols for safety allow us to meet or exceed all regulations governing the apparel industry.
Social Compliance & Labor Standards
Hanes is proud to have implemented a rigorous set of standards for its company-owned facilities and its vendors for well over a decade. Our Global Standards for Suppliers (GSS) are primarily based on international labor and human rights standards.
We are also a fully accredited member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an internationally recognized non-governmental organization (NGO), whose goal is to advance labor rights globally and to help industry appropriately address a range of complex issues – including the eradication of forced and slave labor across the supply chain. Our work with the FLA, and other global NGOs and organizations, has proven valuable in our efforts to ensure that all of our vendors are compliant with our own Global Standards for Suppliers (GSS) and relevant international norms.
Hanes realizes that forced labor and human trafficking can occur in many forms – such as child labor, workplace harassment, workplace abuse, and workplace discrimination. Therefore, our processes were created in an effort to eradicate such unethical practices in all its variants.
Hanes is committed to this code of conduct. We hold our vendors to these same high standards.
Dyes & Chemical Vendors
Hanes requires chemical information for dyes and chemicals to be provided to the company through the Voluntary Product Evironmental Profile (VPEP) Reporting website. Hanes uses this information in product development evaluation and manufacturing to ensure that its products are in compliance with all global applicable regulations and more importantly, that its products are the safest and most sustainable products available on the market.
Voluntary Product Environmental Profile (VPEP)
VPEP is an initiative founded by the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA). VPEP provides a web-based platform for confidential electronic reporting of technical chemical information needed to ensure consumer, employee, and environmental safety. If you are already a Dye and Chemical vendor with Hanes or wish to be, you need to join VPEP.
