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Dangerfield

OVERALL

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AUS
Rating
Praises, some criticism

Male and female youth fashion

Dangerfield started in 1988 in a small shop in Greville St, Prahran, Melbourne. Brands are Black Friday, Princess Highway, Pulp Kitchen, Revival, St. Lenny as well as Dangerfield. Available in Dangerfield stores across Aust and through Myer.

Company Ownership

Dangerfield Pty Ltd   AUS     website         
  Factory X Pty Ltd   
   owns 100% of Dangerfield Pty Ltd  
AUS     website         

Clothing retail

Founded 1997. Designs and retails well known brands Alannah Hill, Dangerfield, Revival, Jack London, Gorman, Black Friday, Coo Ca Choo, Pulp Kitchen, Soup.

> About the Ratings

Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
Dangerfield Pty Ltd
Social Breaching advertising codes
This company has been criticised for offensive advertising. In 2011 the Advertising Standards Bureau upheld complaints about a poster by this company on the grounds that it breached advertising codes. The ad was subsequently discontinued or modified.
Source: Advertising Standards Bureau (2011)
Business Ethics Social and ethical claims
This company has a publicly available Social and Ethical Compliance Policy on its website.
Source: company website (2016)
Factory X Pty Ltd
Social Efforts to pay a living wage
Oxfam Australia's Company Tracker compares the big clothing brands on their efforts to pay a living wage to the women working in their factories. This company has released the names and addresses of all their supplier factories, has made a clear commitment towards paying a living wage within a set timeframe in the supply chain, and has implemented ringfencing wages in their supply chain.
Source: Oxfam Australia (2021)
Social COVID Fashion Commitments
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 evidence of actions that cover ALL areas of the COVID Fashion Commitments.
Source: Baptist World Aid Australia (2020)
Social Forced labour in China
The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including brands owned by this company.
Source: ITUC (2020)
Social Forced labour in China
In 2019 ABC's Four Corners revealed that ethnic minorities are being subject to forced labour in factories in Xinjiang, China. Four Corners identified several brands as sourcing cotton from Xinjiang, including Dangerfield, a brand owned by this company.
Source: ABC (2019)
Social Uzbek Cotton Pledge signatory
This company signed the Uzbek Cotton Pledge with the Responsible Sourcing Network, signifying a public commitment to not knowingly source Uzbek cotton for the manufacturing of any of their products until the Government of Uzbekistan ends the practice of forced labor in its cotton sector. However the Pledge was lifted in March 2022 after the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, who monitored the annual cotton harvest since 2010, found no state-imposed forced labor in the 2021 harvest.
Source: Cotton Campaign (2022)
Business Ethics Better Cotton Initiative member
This company is a member of the Better Cotton Initiative, a voluntary initiative which encourages the adoption of better management practices in cotton cultivation to achieve measurable reductions in key environmental impacts, while improving social and economic benefits for cotton farmers, small and large, worldwide.
Source: Better Cotton Initiative (2019)
Social B grade in 2021 Ethical Fashion Report
B grade in Baptist World Aid Australia's '2021 Ethical Fashion Report', 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: policy & governance, tracing & risk, auditing and supplier relationships, worker empowerment and environmental sustainability.
Source: Baptist World Aid Australia (2021)

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Company Details

Type Proprietary Company

Contact Details

Address 61 Church St, Abbotsford, VIC, 3067, Australia
Phone 03 9429 0000
Website www.dangerfield.com.au

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