Our greatest responsibility as a global company is to play a role in bringing about positive systemic change for workers within our own supply chain, and in the industry. When we look at our overall footprint in the world, the needs of nearly 800,000 workers in our contract supply chain overshadow any other group.

We've run the course - from establishing codes of conduct and pulling together an internal team to enforce it, to working external bodies to monitor factories and engaging with stakeholders.

What we've learned, after nearly a decade, is that monitoring alone hasn't solved the problems. And many of the problems are recurring in the industry.

Our focus now is getting to the root of the problems. We're looking end-to-end from the first phase of our product creation process to the outcome in the lives of workers in the factory that bring our product to life.


Audit Tools
For the first time, Nike is sharing select contract factory auditing tools.

These tools help provide further transparency and insight into the manner in which Nike contract factories are evaluated for compliance with company standards. For more information, see the Workers in Contract Factories chapter in the FY05-06 CR Report.

MAV (Management Audit Verification Tool)

MAV is audit and verification built into one tool. It includes root cause and impact analysis of non-compliance issues focusing on work hours, wages and benefits, freedom of association, and grievance systems followed by post-verification of action plans to remediate non-compliances according to local law and Nike's Code Leadership Standards.

SHAPE (Safety, Health, Attitude of Management, People and Environment) Tool

SHAPE is an audit tool used by the contract factory to determine its compliance with Nike's Code Leadership Standards.

ESH (Environment, Safety and Health)

The ESH Audit is an in-depth audit tool used by Nike Compliance teams to determine compliance with Nike's Code Leadership Standards.

The following tools are the exclusive property of Nike, Inc. and are provided for information purposes only.

Please contact nikeresponsibility@nike.com for requests to use the tools for any other purpose.


Code of Conduct

Drafted in 1991 and distributed to contract factories in 1992, Nike's Code of Conduct was a first step in our effort to improve working conditions in our contract factories. It has been reviewed and updated over the years, and is a straightforward statement of values, intentions and expectations meant to guide decisions in product facilities. Nike directs contract factories to post the Code of Conduct visibly and in the appropriate local languages.

Download Code of Conduct


Active Factories
In 2005, Nike was the first company in its industry to disclose its factory list.

Nike is committed to supply chain transparency by updating public disclosure of the more than 700 contract factories worldwide producing Nike branded product. Disclosing our factory base encourages transparency and collaboration. Read the list of Nike's active factories producing Nike branded product.

Download Active Factories List


Collegiate Licensed Apparel
Factories List

In 2000, we were the first company to respond to college requests to disclose publicly online the names and locations of the active contracted factories that produced collegiate licensed products. In any given apparel contract factory, multiple brands are produced.

With multiple brands, and many universities represented, contract factories must decide which Code(s) of Conduct to follow. Standards can be disparate, even contradictory. This is why our own Code of Conduct aligns with that of the Fair Labor Association, and why we continue to work within multi-stakeholder partnerships to bring greater consistency to our industry.

This website contains a list of factories that Nike uses to produce collegiate product, but not all factories listed manufacture product for all schools. This website contains information that is accurate on the factory list date posted to the best of NIKE, Inc.'s knowledge. The information will be updated on a semi-annual basis to reflect additions, deletions and corrections necessary to maintain accuracy.