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.