Corporate Social Responsibility: A global policy
Inditex selects the world’s best manufacturers to produce its collections. Inditex’s production chain is highly diversified, with approximately half of its manufacturing conducted in near-source areas and in Europe, which gives the company unmatched swiftness and flexibility to address changing trends. Inditex’s manufacturing needs every year, and thus one of the Group’s strategic priorities is to ensure the sustainability of its production chain, through compliance with both the Code of Conduct for Manufacturers and Suppliers, enacted in 2001, and with the most exacting standards for product quality, health and safety.
Inditex guarantees compliance with said Code throughout the production chain. The entire Group participates in this effort, which is led by the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Department. To achieve the aforementioned compliance, Inditex has permanent CSR offices in India, Bangladesh, Turkey, China, Morocco, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. From these offices, teams of both in-house and outside professionals work to offer and guarantee customers of any of the brands within the Inditex Group a product manufactured with maximum respect for fundamental labour standards and the most exacting requirements which have been steadily added to its regulations.