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1.28.2008 - 11:00am ET
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Fair Factories Clearinghouse Has New Executive Director
(CSRwire) NEW YORK, NY - January 28, 2008 - The Fair Factories Clearinghouse (FFC) is
pleased to announce a new leader, Marianne Voss.
Retailers, consumer brands, trading agents and other buyers face the
challenge of ensuring that factory workplace standards are properly
integrated into their supply chain and sourcing operations. Today - more
than ever - where goods come from and the rights of workers who make those
goods is pivotal to a brand's success, as does complying with
international standards. The FFC provides participating members with
tools to cost-effectively manage and share compliance information about
factory workplace conditions to assist them in making informed sourcing
decisions that help improve factory workplace conditions around the
world.
The FFC is proud to announce that Marianne Voss assumed the role of
Executive Director of the FFC, effective January 2008. She succeeds Kiku
Loomis, who served in the position since 2005.
"I am delighted to be joining the FFC at this point in its development,"
said Voss. "For three years the FFC has been providing its members with a
scalable technology to manage their internal compliance programs. The FFC
will soon launch the next release of its technology, allowing members to
share non-competitive factory compliance information, such as audits, and
to coordinate remediation efforts. Much more can be accomplished in
improving factory conditions through large-scale collaboration, and I hope
in the coming years that I can help the FFC deepen and expand its impact in
this area and significantly enhance member companies' capabilities to make
responsible sourcing decisions."
Marianne comes to the FFC with a wealth of experience working with Reebok
and then the Adidas Group in their implementation of global compliance
programs. Prior to her work in corporate responsibility, she worked for
One-to-One Interactive, a digital marketing firm, where she developed and
implemented technology strategic planning and marketing programs for
Fortune 500 companies. Her background as a lawyer for both small
defendants and large corporate cases also governs her direction and
decisions under an umbrella for improving working conditions around the
world.
"We are extraordinarily pleased that Marianne Voss has agreed to join the
FFC in this leadership role," commented Doug Cahn, Chairman of the Board
and Principal of the Cahn Group. "She understands corporate social
responsibility in all its complexity and has the demonstrated capacity to
lead the FFC into its next critical phase."
The FCC's current member roster includes Abercrombie & Fitch, adidas
Group, ASICS America, Hudson’s Bay Company, Levi Strauss & Co, L.L.
Bean, Macy’s Merchandising Group, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Nike Inc.,
Nordstrom, Patagonia, the Starbucks Coffee Company, the Timberland
Company, VF Corporation, the National Retail Federation and the Retail
Council of Canada. The FFC's rapidly growing database currently contains
over 13,000 factories records and over 26,000 audit reports.
FFC is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York in
2004 and founded by the National Retail Federation, the Retail Council of
Canada, Reebok International Ltd. and World Monitors Inc. Founding
members include Hudson's Bay Company, Macy's Merchandising Group, and
Mark's Work Wearhouse Ltd. The FFC is supported through contributions from
retail associations and participating companies and through grants,
including funding provided by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. It is also supported by in kind
contributions from its members and from Microsoft. For more information,
see: www.fairfactories.org.
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