Ben Sherman Australia
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Clothing
Ben Sherman is managed in Australia by True Alliance.
Company Ownership
Ben Sherman Australia | AUS | website | ||||
Ben Sherman Group Ltd ![]() owns 100% of Ben Sherman Australia |
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Clothing manufacturer Bought by Oxford Industries in 2004, who sold the company to Marquee Brands in 2015. | ||||||
Marquee Brands LLC ![]() owns 100% of Ben Sherman Group Ltd |
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Brand management Brand acquisition, licensing and development company. Sponsored by US-based investment managers Neuberger Berman. | ||||||
» Neuberger Berman Group LLC ![]() owns 100% of Marquee Brands LLC |
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Investment management firm 100% employee-owned, with assets under management worth US$250 billion. |
Company Assessment
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Ben Sherman Australia | ||||
D+ grade in the Baptist World Aid Australia's 'Ethical Fashion Report 2019', which grades companies, from A to F, on the strength of their systems to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation in their supply chains, as well as protect the environment from the harmful impacts of the fashion industry. Assessment criteria fall into five main categories: policies, transparency and traceability, auditing and supplier relationships, worker empowerment and environmental management.
Source: Baptist World Aid Australia (2019)
In 2020 Baptist World Aid Australia released The COVID Fashion Report, a special edition of their Ethical Fashion Report. The report is framed around six COVID Fashion Commitments that ask companies to demonstrate the steps and measures they are taking to protect and support the most vulnerable workers in their supply chains. This company showed no evidence of actions that it covered any of the COVID Fashion Commitments.
Source: Baptist World Aid Australia (2020) |
This company has a Supplier Code of Conduct on its website, plus other corporate responsibility claims.
Source: company website (2017) |
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Ben Sherman Group Ltd | ||||
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Marquee Brands LLC | ||||
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Neuberger Berman Group LLC | ||||
This company is listed as having best practice on a report card on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in corporate America.
Source: Human Rights Campaign (2021) |
Forest 500 identifies the 350 companies and 150 financial institutions with the greatest exposure to tropical deforestation risk, and annually assesses them on the strength and implementation of their deforestation and human rights commitments. This financial institution received a score of 1%.
Source: Forest 500 (2022)
The 2018 update of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons' (ICAN) global report, "Don't Bank on the Bomb" showed that 329 financial institutions from around the world invested into 20 companies involved in the production, maintenance and modernization of nuclear weapons. Since 2014 this financial institution invested over US$323 million into 1 of the 20 nuclear weapons producers named in the report.
Source: ICAN (2018) |
Company Details
Type | Wholly-owned subsidiary |
Contact Details
Address | Australia |
Freecall | 1800 Ben Sherman |
enquiries@bensherman.com.au | |
Website | www.bensherman.com.au |
Products / Brands
Ben Sherman Australia
Ben Sherman Mens Business Shirts Ben Sherman Menswear (casual) Ben Sherman Menswear (formal) |