The BoF Sustainability Index 2022

BoF’s annual benchmark of fashion’s progress towards crucial sustainability goals — in-depth performance assessments of the industry’s 30 biggest companies and key insights for the year ahead.

The findings of The BoF Sustainability Index 2022 are stark. Fashion’s largest companies across luxury, high street and sportswear have yet to gain sufficient momentum with their sustainability policies and practices to transform the industry by 2030.

The 2022 assessment spans across six impact categories: Emissions, Transparency, Water & Chemicals, Materials, Workers’ Rights and Waste. Results encompass over 9,000 data points, gathered across ~200 proprietary metrics applied to the 30 companies, enabling a like-for-like benchmarking of brands’ sustainability efforts — the most extensive assessment of its kind and the outcome of 1,000+ hours of research.

The Index is an essential tool for executives looking to benchmark and catalyse their company’s sustainability journey  — and for investors and advisors looking to evaluate progress. Purchase your copy of the report to reveal the sustainability status of the fashion industry's largest players and to better understand the change the industry needs.

Length: 128 pages
File Format: PDF, Excel (add-on)

As an add-on to the report, BoF Insights is offering the Index’s underlying data as a downloadable excel file, comprising over 9,000 binary scores across the 30 companies. This add-on is for companies looking to benchmark their own sustainability journey and for anyone wanting a more detailed look at the performance of the 30 companies. Please select the “Report + Raw Data” purchase option to receive both the report and the underlying data.

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Table of Contents

Why Buy this Report

  • Presents BoF Insights’ outlook on the key changes required for the industry to achieve climate goals and implement responsible business practices by 2030
  • Analyses the sustainability efforts of 30 of fashion’s biggest players across six impact categories: Emissions, Transparency, Water & Chemicals, Materials, Workers’ Rights and Waste
  • Outlines gold-standard sustainability targets that every fashion brand should be working towards, established in consultation with an external sustainability council of 12 respected global experts
  • Provides the complete assessment criteria comprising ~200 metrics that allows brands to analyse their own sustainability performance 
  • Report + Raw Data Package: Offers the assessment’s underlying binary scores, comprising ~9,000 data points collected across the study’s ~200 metrics and 30 assessed companies, the outcome of 1,000+ hours of analysis of public disclosures and company validation. This is an essential tool for companies looking to benchmark and catalyse their own sustainability journey. 

Research Inputs

  • Public disclosure for the 30 largest publicly-traded companies by annual revenue in 2020 across three distinct fashion industry verticals — luxury, high street and sportswear
  • A proprietary methodology assessing company performance across six impact categories: Emissions, Transparency, Water & Chemicals, Materials, Workers’ Rights and Waste. In aggregate, the categories comprise 16 ambitious environmental and social targets established by The Business of Fashion in consultation with a group of respected global experts. Each of the targets contains a series of binary metrics (201 in total) that were scored “yes” or “no” based on publicly available information that was published on or before December 31, 2021
  • The companies assessed in The BoF Sustainability Index 2022 are: Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Adidas, American Eagle Outfitters, Anta Sports, Asics, Burberry Group, Capri Holdings, Fast Retailing, Fila Holdings Corp., Gap Inc., H&M Group, Hermès, HLA Group Corp., Inditex, Kering, Levi Strauss & Co., Lululemon Athletica, LVMH, Next PLC, Nike Inc., Prada Group, Puma, PVH Corp., Ralph Lauren Corp., Richemont, Skechers USA, Tapestry, Under Armour, Urban Outfitters Inc. and VF Corp.

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