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AT COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY, WE INVEST IN INITIATIVES THAT HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE WE REACH, THE PLACES WE TOUCH, AND THE PRODUCTS WE MAKE.

“All of us want to have an impact. Every day, we make choices as to whether that impact is good or bad. At Columbia Sportswear Company, one of our core values is doing the right thing.​ Every day, we choose to do the right thing so that our impact on our people and the planet​ is positive.

My mother, Gert Boyle, the former Chair of our Board, used to say, 'It’s perfect. Now make it​ better.' That kind of thinking undergirds our approach to environmental, social and governance​ challenges and the impact that we have on the world. There is always room to make something better. And we are constantly evolving in our use of technologies, practices and policies to ensure that we continue to get better.”

– Tim Boyle, Chairman, President, & CEO

"Our Corporate Responsibility team works to ensure we’re doing our part to make the outdoors accessible to all. From working with community partners to supporting programs and initiatives in the places that our products are made, we’re committed to responsible practices throughout our business."

– Abel Navarrete, VP, Sustainability and Community Impact

IMPACT REPORTS & DISCLOSURES

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OUR BRAND'S INITIATIVES

COLUMBIA

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MOUNTAIN HARDWEAR

SOREL

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RISE + COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR

Since 2008, we have partnered with BSR’s HERproject to empower women and men in our supply chain through workplace training programs. In 2023, HERproject joined RISE: Reimagining Industry to Support Equality, an initiative to support collaborative industry action at scale to advance gender equality in global garment, footwear, and home textiles supply chains. HERproject programs are now carried forward under RISE.​

In 2019, we made a public commitment through the United Nations Foundation to scale women’s health and wellbeing programs in our supply chain to impact the lives of 150,000 workers by the end of 2025. Our partnership with RISE helps to scale health and wellbeing programs to positively impact people across our supply chain.​

To learn more about our partnership with RISE, please click here.

PLANET WATER FOUNDATION

A healthy planet needs clean water. That’s why we partner with Planet Water Foundation, a U.S. non-profit organization that helps combat the global water crisis by providing access to clean water. Over the course of our partnership, we have provided access to clean water to an estimated 46,000 people in communities across our supply chain. Additionally, in 2022, we proudly exceeded our goal to support 25 AquaTower water filtration systems by 2022. Since 2016, we have supported the deployment of 26 AquaTowers. Through our ongoing partnership with Planet Water Foundation, we have set a new goal to provide access to clean drinking water to 100,000 people by 2028.

LEATHER WORKING GROUP

The Leather Working Group (LWG) is committed to driving improvement across the global leather supply chain, minimizing the environmental impact of leather production, as well as inspiring, educating, and challenging its member companies. CSC has been a member of the LWG since 2021. As an LWG member, CSC prioritizes the selection of LWG certified partners when selecting new manufacturing partners in an effort to advance chemical management best practices in leather processing facilities.

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Empowering People

EMPOWERING PEOPLE IN OUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Empowering employees in our supply chain by supporting vendors' commitments to worker well-being programs, community programs, and advanced worker communication channels.

INSPIRING EMPLOYEES AND HAVING A POSITIVE IMPACT ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Supporting local communities by providing opportunities that enable employees and business partners to give back to their communities through paid volunteer time and donation match program.

SUPPORTING OUTDOOR PARTICIPATION, ACCESS AND STEWARDSHIP

Investing in outdoor education, protection and restoration to inspire the next generation and activating a healthy community of outdoor consumers to protect the spaces we love.

Featured Initiatives

Collegiate Outdoor Recrecation Program

Columbia Sportswear Company’s Collegiate Outdoor Recreation Program supports outdoor participation among university students by providing gear and equipment to selected schools. This gear includes tents, sleeping bags, packs along with critical pieces of individual gear like waterproof boots, rain shells and insulating layers. These donations allow students new to the outdoors to have confidence that the weather doesn’t have to keep them inside. We provide the product to keep them warm, dry and protected so that they have an incredible outdoor experience."

Thanks to HER

Women represent around 75% of Columbia Sportswear Company's global supply chain workforce. We are proud to help support and empower them through HERproject workplace training and enrichment programs. Since starting the program in 2008, we have positively impacted the lives of over 37,000 workers in seven countries through the HERhealth, HERfinance and HERrespect programs.

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Global Employee Volunteer Projects

Every employee of Columbia Sportswear Company is awarded paid volunteer hours per year for volunteer activities. Employees can choose the organization(s) they want to support individually, as well as participate in annual volunteer days organized by each office around the world.

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MAKING RESOURCES LAST LONGER THROUGH RECYCLING & CLOSED LOOP PRACTICES

Recapturing and reusing our finite resources to contribute to a circular system that sustains our planet.

ADOPTION OF GREEN CHEMISTRY

Increasing our adoption of sustainable chemistry to reduce risk that hazardous chemicals pose to our workers, consumers and the environment.

IMPROVING WATER SUSTAINABILITY

Reducing our water footprint by buying materials that are dyed without water, following strict usage regulations in our mills, and investing in clean water for communities where we manufacture.

POWERING OUR BUSINESS AND PRODUCTS WITH CLEAN ENERGY

Reducing our carbon footprint by reducing energy use and increasing the use of renewable energy, both in our owned and operated facilities and in our supply chain.

MAKING RESOURCES LAST LONGER THROUGH RECYCLING & CLOSED LOOP PRACTICES

Recapturing and reusing our finite resources to contribute to a circular system that sustains our planet.

ADOPTION OF GREEN CHEMISTRY

Increasing our adoption of sustainable chemistry to reduce risk that hazardous chemicals pose to our workers, consumers and the environment.

IMPROVING WATER SUSTAINABILITY

Reducing our water footprint by buying materials that are dyed without water, following strict usage regulations in our mills, and investing in clean water for communities where we manufacture.

POWERING OUR BUSINESS AND PRODUCTS WITH CLEAN ENERGY

Reducing our carbon footprint by reducing energy use and increasing the use of renewable energy, both in our owned and operated facilities and in our supply chain.

MAKING RESOURCES LAST LONGER THROUGH RECYCLING & CLOSED LOOP PRACTICES

Recapturing and reusing our finite resources to contribute to a circular system that sustains our planet.

ADOPTION OF GREEN CHEMISTRY

Increasing our adoption of sustainable chemistry to reduce risk that hazardous chemicals pose to our workers, consumers and the environment.

IMPROVING WATER SUSTAINABILITY

Reducing our water footprint by buying materials that are dyed without water, following strict usage regulations in our mills, and investing in clean water for communities where we manufacture.

Featured Initiatives

Planet Water

Access to clean water is a pressing global issue. We're proud to partner with the Planet Water Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit that helps combat our global water crisis by bringing clean water to the world's most disadvantaged communities.

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ReThreads

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we are committed to taking a holistic, life cycle approach to managing the environmental impacts of the products we make. This includes extending the life of our products and keeping these products out of landfills once they have reached the end of their wearable life.

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Leather Working Group

Columbia Sportswear Company is committed to supporting responsible leather manufacturing across the globe, and that is why we are proud members of the Leather Working Group (LWG). The LWG aims to improve the leather manufacturing industry by creating alignment on environmental priorities, bringing visibility to best practices and providing suggested guidelines for continual improvement. In 2021, 100% of our footwear leather manufacturing partners were LWG rated and our team continues to prioritize leather sourcing from LWG tanneries.

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Responsible Practices

Supply Chain Transparency Map

Our transparency map provides visibility to where products made by Columbia Sportswear Company brands are produced. We utilize the OSH tool to enable us to be transparent to stakeholders.

Leveraging Innovation & Design to Create Social & Environmental Value

Driving our core competencies of innovation and design across our portfolio of brands to create social and environmental value. In doing this, we aim to increase consumer loyalty and develop a strong connection to our brands.

Elevating Responsibility, Integrity and Compliance

Promoting responsible manufacturing by selecting vendors that have demonstrated commitments to continuously improve their Social Responsibility, Environmental and Product Compliance metrics.

Collaboration and Engagement

We recognize that we are a single player in a large, complex, global supply chain. To impact meaningful change, we need to work with brand, industry, and multi-stakeholder partners to:

  • Align on common industry standards for evaluating our business and our supply chain. Standardization will enable greater understanding of social and environmental impacts as well as increased efficiency in evaluation methods and broader comparability of results. Industry standards allow us to get on the same page about possible impacts and support our collaborative work towards shared goals around social responsibility, environmental sustainability and product compliance.
  • Develop shared tools to reduce costs and improve implementation of social, environmental, and compliance programs
  • Share resources with industry partners on specific projects to increase collective impact.

We select organizations for investment and engagement based on their ability to influence systemic change and their relevance to our business and supply chain. We also seek to work directly with other brands and retailers who share our values and whose products are made in the same factories as ours. Click on the organization below to learn more.

Photo Credit: Outdoor Industry Association

Position Statements

We value ethical practices at every step in the supply chain and work with industry groups, civil society organizations and government organizations to keep educated on ethical standards and practices across the supply chain. Read more about Columbia’s specific positions on:
  • Climate Change

  • Animal-Derived Materials Policy

  • Natural Down & Feather

  • Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Cotton

  • Per- and Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances

  • Conflict Minerals Policy

  • Transparency in Supply Chain Statement

Product Compliance Standards, Policies, and Manuals

  • CSC Restricted Substances List – English

  • CSC Restricted Substances List – Chinese

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  • CSC Restricted Substances List – Korean

  • CSC Restricted Substances List – Vietnamese

  • Chemical Management Policy – English

  • Chemical Management Policy – Chinese

  • Chemical Management Policy – Korean

  • Chemical Management Policy – Vietnamese

Social Responsibility Standards, Policies, and Manuals

Our Standards of Manufacturing Practices (SMP), a.k.a. Supplier Code of Conduct, is at the center of our Social Responsibility Program in our supply chain.

  • SMP Poster – English

  • SMP Poster – Arabic

  • SMP Poster – Bengali

  • SMP Poster – Burmese

  • SMP Poster – Hebrew

  • SMP Poster – Hindi

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  • SMP Poster – Italian

  • SMP Poster – Japanese

  • SMP Poster – Kannada

  • SMP Poster – Khmer

  • SMP Poster – Korean

  • SMP Poster – Malay

  • SMP Poster – Portuguese (Brazil)

  • SMP Poster – Simplified Chinese

  • SMP Poster – Singhalese

  • SMP Poster – Spanish (LatAm)

  • SMP Poster – Tagalog

  • SMP Poster – Tamil

  • SMP Poster – Thai

  • SMP Poster – Traditional Chiense

  • SMP Poster – Turkish

  • SMP Poster – Urdu

  • SMP Poster – Vietnamese

  • CSC Vendor Social Responsibility Manual

  • CSC Foreign Migrant Worker Policy

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