Cacique

How sustainable is Cacique?

This screening has been done by Fairify on April 10^th 2020

Caci­que is part of Asce­na Retail Group, an Ame­ri­can com­pa­ny that owns seven dis­tinct brands for women. Alt­hough the com­pa­ny does publish a year­ly cor­po­ra­te res­pon­si­bi­li­ty report, it offers litt­le insights into what it’s cur­rent­ly doing in terms of cli­ma­te acti­on and impro­ve­ment of its sup­ply chain. In 2018, the fas­hi­on brand sta­ted that it is gathering data in order to set a base­li­ne in 2019, befo­re com­mit­ting to tar­gets. The same goes for a stra­te­gy on more sustai­na­ble mate­ri­als and pack­a­ging.

This means that the com­pa­ny is late to the par­ty when it comes to sustai­na­bi­li­ty prac­ti­ses. Whi­le lots of other fas­hi­on com­pa­nies are acti­ve­ly imple­men­ting poli­cies gea­red towards a sustai­na­ble futu­re, Asce­na Retail is still in the first sta­ge of acti­on: gathering data and set­ting tar­gets. It has adop­ted a simi­lar atti­tu­de towards wor­kers and ani­mal rights. The­re is sim­ply not enough proof that something’s being done.