Costco Wholesale Corporation Updates on Children’s Sleepers
October 09 2019 - 2:46PM
Costco Wholesale is committed to protecting workers in its supply
chains. In furtherance of this commitment, the Company
confirms that it has acted appropriately relative to children’s
sleepers that have been referenced in the media.
The sleepers that had been on sale at Costco
until very recently were sourced from factories outside the
Xinjiang region and without connection to the entity that was
recently named as the subject of a detention order by the Customs
and Border Patrol. Those factories were the subject of
favorable audits for labor practices and have not been accused of
wrongdoing.
Costco’s supplier also sourced sleepers from a
factory in Xinjiang, but Costco has not received any of those
sleepers. That factory, too, was the subject of favorable
audits that showed the absence of forced labor and other favorable
results.
Although Costco has no reason to believe that
any sleeper in its inventory was inappropriately sourced, out of an
abundance of caution it has suspended sales pending further
investigation and developments.
CONTACTS: |
Costco
Wholesale Corporation |
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John Sullivan 425/427-7577 |
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Sheri Flies 425/427-3965 |
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Preston Witt 425/427-7899 |
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