Corporate Social Responsibility

Hanesbrands Inc. (“HBI”) strives to be an ethical and responsible organization in the many countries throughout the world in which we operate. Our corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) initiatives are managed in four overlapping categories:

1. Global Business Practices – We have a well-developed ethics and business practices program with specific guidelines contained in our Global Business Standards. These Standards detail the responsibilities we have to all of our stockholders, including consumers, shareholders, business partners and local communities. We have a world-wide network of Business Practices (ethics) Officers and have conducted live training of all 50,000 of our employees.
2. Facility Compliance – All our products are manufactured in safe and responsible facilities. We have recently joined the Fair Labor Association (“FLA”) and embrace their standards and those of the Worldwide Responsible Accreditation Program (“WRAP”). We work to ensure our facilities meet our high expectations by WRAP certifying our owned facilities and major contractors and independently auditing “short-term” suppliers using internationally recognized audit firms. In 2007, we conducted more than 450 audits, about 25% of which were unannounced.
3. Environmental Compliance – Our goal is to minimize the impact our business has on the environment. This policy is implemented everywhere we do business through our world-wide Global Environmental Management System (“GEMS”) program. This comprehensive program ensures that environmental awareness and best practices are fully integrated at all of our facilities. For example, as part of this program:
   • Our textile production facility in Bonao, Dominican Republic, has implemented a state-of-the-art biological water treatment process. This process is so effective that the effluent waste from the facility is more than 50% below the regulatory limit for biochemical oxygen demand.
   • In Nanjing, China, the energy-intensive textile plant we are building will be located close to existing electrical generation facilities. A by-product of the generation of electricity at these facilities is steam and hot water that is often wasted. HBI will acquire the normally wasted steam for manufacturing purposes, thus reducing fuel consumption and the resultant greenhouse gas emissions.
4. Community Engagement – Our corporate philanthropic mission is to focus on the “fundamental needs” of the communities in which we work and live. We provide flexibility for local management and employees to identify and serve the needs most prevalent in their local communities, recognizing that “fundamental needs” vary from culture to culture and place to place. Along with the millions of dollars HBI and its employees have donated over the years to the United Way and the Arts Council at our Winston-Salem, N.C., headquarters, here are two recent examples of the dozens of programs and projects we engage in every year around the globe both proactively and in response to specific needs:
   • In December 2007, more than 200 HBI employees converged on Hogar San Rafael, a home and school for orphan children in the mountains of Villaneuva, Honduras. We identified the home, which urgently needed new amenities and furnishings, as a place where we could make a tremendous difference.
     
     After many months of planning, HBI employees arrived to construct a new kitchen, renovate the common areas, paint the campus, furnish the dorms, donate laptop computers, deliver new mattresses, clean the grounds, and give each child clothing and a pair of shoes. Finally, we gave the children a new boxer puppy named “Hanes.”
     
     

     View a video about the event.

     
     
   • In October 2007, tropical storm Noel hit the Dominican Republic, causing devastating damage for the local community near our Dos Rios textile facility. During the height of the storm, HBI provided more than 3,000 hot meals and more than 11,500 bottles of water to residents staying in the shelters in the community of Bonao.
     
     More than 175 of our local employees experienced significant losses due to the storm and the subsequent flooding. To help these employees, we donated new mattresses, pillows, sheet sets and corrugated metal roofing tiles to repair their homes.
     
     

     View a video about our relief efforts.

     
     
     

We welcome your comments and questions about our CSR initiatives. If you’d like to learn more, please contact us at hbi_service@hanesbrands.com.