Nike publishes suppliers’ names to mixed response
29 August 2012
Sportswear giant Nike has taken the unusual step of publishing the names and addresses of its 700 first-tier global suppliers.
The details, posted on its website at www.nikebiz.com, are designed to answer criticism of conditions in suppliers’ factories.
The 50-country list stretches most of the globe and the alphabet with on supplier listed in Albania and 34 in Vietnam.
China is home to the greatest number of Nike factories, at 113. The list also includes 73 plants in Thailand,...