Reports
These reports provide in-depth information about our progress against our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programme, business performance, and our stakeholder engagement.
Environmental, Social and Governance reporting
Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report
In our annual Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report we report on our progress against the sustainability commitments, in addition to other areas such as ethical trade and colleague engagement.
2023/2024
Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report 23/24
The Basis of Reporting
This document outlines the scope, methodology and controls used for calculating the data forming the basis for preparing select internally developed metrics included in the Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report 2023/24.
2022/2023
Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report 22/23
Find our 22/23 highlights here
The Basis of Reporting
This document outlines the scope, methodology and controls used for calculating the data forming the basis for preparing select internally developed metrics included in the Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report 2022/23.
ABF Responsibility Report
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As a division of Associated British Foods plc (ABF), we contribute to the ABF Annual Report and ABF Responsibility Report. The Responsibility Report includes updates on our progress across our ESG programme.
Visit ABF’s website to access the ABF Corporate Responsibility Reports.
Primark Environmental Sustainability Performance Report
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Since 2022/23 we have integrated our environmental performance reporting into our Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report, which can be accessed at the top of this page. This section includes an archive of our previous Environmental Sustainability Performance reports.
In 2021/22, we published the supporting fact sheets on Carbon, Chemistry, and Water
Gender Pay Gap Report
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We know our people are key to our success and we want to ensure everyone achieves their full potential. We are committed to supporting all of our people regardless of gender. We believe sharing the results of our UK Gender Pay Report is an important step in helping us have more open and meaningful conversations.
In line with the UK Government’s New Regulations, we reviewed a number of different statistics to measure Gender Pay. Our Gender Pay Report includes those statistics and aims to provide you with a simple and clear explanation of Primark’s Gender Pay Results.
Modern Slavery
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In line with the UK Modern Slavery Act, we publish a Modern Slavery Statement annually. This sets out the measures we have taken during the past year to mitigate against the risks of modern-day slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain or within our operations.
Social Audit Performance Statement
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Every year key data from our Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability Programme is independently assured. The work is carried out by an independent third party and incorporates information such as how many audits we carried out in factories that year and what ethical rating factories were given in their latest audit.
You can view the latest report on our performance below:
Stakeholder Reports and Responses
Engaging and partnering with relevant stakeholders helps us to increase our leverage and build further understanding of the risks in our business and supply chain, in addition to how to address them. This includes engaging with policymakers, worker rights organisations and civil society groups. We also actively participate in multi-stakeholder and industry initiatives at both a national and international level. As part of this we respond to requests from NGOs and other stakeholders to demonstrate how we are meeting our commitments and addressing specific issues.
Click on the list below, to see some of our stakeholder responses.
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is an independent, international human rights NGO that promotes corporate accountability and transparency by highlighting the social and environmental impacts of over 7,000 companies worldwide. It is the largest online repository of cases and information about corporate human rights issues.
Know the Chain
Every two years, Know The Chain assesses the efforts of leading apparel and footwear companies to address forced labour in their supply chains.
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Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
We have been members of Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) since 2006, and we have committed to upholding their Principles of Implementation. These principles set out how member companies should approach ethical trade. The Principles include: demonstrating a clear commitment to ethical trade; integrating ethical trade into core business practices; driving year-on-year improvements to working conditions; and supporting suppliers to improve working conditions.
Annually, we submit a report to the ETI outlining the steps we are taking to implement their Principles across our supply chain. We also provide a Strategic Plan that outlines the objectives of our ethical trade work over the next 3-5 years. The ETI assesses these submissions, identifies areas of progress, and provides guidance on where further action is needed. We have been recognized as a leader by the ETI since 2011 due to our commitment, implementation, and ongoing progress, and we remain dedicated to working with the ETI to drive continuous improvements.
The German Partnerships for Sustainable Textiles
The German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles is a multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together companies, associations, non-governmental organizations, trade unions, standard organizations and the German Government. Members pool their expertise and make a commitment to achieve social, ecological and economical improvements in the textile supply chain.
Read here for the reports:
Road map:
Progress Report:
UK Environmental Audit Committee
We have provided responses to the Environmental Audit Committee's 2018 Fixing Fashion inquiry, and we have updated the Committee on our ongoing efforts again in 2020.
You can read our response here:
Impact and Insight Reports
Sudokkho – Factory works insights, 60 Decibels
Sudokkho programme helps factories create effective technical training for sewing operators, most of whom are women. Given our commitment and investment to the Sudokkho programme we wanted to better understand its impact, enabling us to learn and drive continuous improvement. We partnered with 60 Decibels to carry out an impact assessment of our Sudokkho programme in 2023. 60 Decibels surveyed over 600 workers involved in the programme to understand how the training had impacted their careers and lives. Find out more and read the full report.
Exploring Male Management Attitudes toward Gender Equity in Garment Factories - ICRW for Primark
To support our commitment to promote equal opportunities for women in our supply chain we continuously deepen and evolve our understanding of challenges women face in terms of progression and promotion in the workplace. To support this learning, we partnered with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) to document attitudes held by male factory management towards gender equity in four factories in India. The research explored workplace norms, such as gender segregation of roles within the factory and limited women in supervisory and managerial positions, alongside views of women in the wider societal context. Social norms are pervasive, pass through generations and set expectations on different genders. The findings from this research have been developed into a research report and a supporting Conversation Guide to support future engagement and capacity building of male management, across any sector, on gender equity themes.
We welcome ICRW’s research to help build our internal knowledge and inform our approach towards addressing these pervasive negative attitudes. By engaging with management on these issues more effectively, we aim to increase the ownership and participation in our gender focused programming across the supply chain.
Read report and supporting Conversation Guide
Ten years of the Primark Cotton Project
In 2023, we celebrated a decade of supporting farmers in our cotton supply chains across India, Bangladesh and Pakistan through the Primark Cotton Project (formerly the Primark Sustainable Cotton Programme). We wanted to understand the impact on farmers who have been engaged with the Primark Cotton Project since the beginning and learn what difference the programme has made to their lives a decade on. In 2023, Primark engaged an independent social impact and evaluation organisation, Enabling Outcomes, to carry out an assessment of participants from the original batch of 1,251 smallholder women farmers who were the first trained under the pilot in the western state of Gujarat in India.
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