Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
This Form SD of Destination Maternity Corporation is filed in accordance with Rule
13p-1
under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule
13p-1”)
for the reporting period from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. Rule
13p-1
requires
disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which the minerals specified in Rule
13p-1
are necessary to the production or functionality of those
products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (“Conflict Minerals”). The “Covered Countries” for
the purposes of Rule
13p-1
are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Destination Maternity Corporation is the world’s largest designer and retailer of maternity apparel. As of November 3, 2018,
Destination Maternity operates 1,108 retail locations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, including 474 stores, predominantly under the trade names Motherhood Maternity
®
, A Pea in
the Pod
®
and Destination Maternity
®
, and 634 leased department locations. The Company also sells merchandise on the web primarily
through its motherhood.com, apeainthepod.com and destinationmaternity.com websites. Destination Maternity has international store franchise and product supply relationships in the Middle East, South Korea, Mexico, Israel and India. As of
November 3, 2018, Destination Maternity has 187 international franchised locations, including 10 standalone stores operated under one of the Company’s nameplates and 177
shop-in-shop
locations. Throughout this report, “Destination Maternity”, “DMC”, “we”, “us” or “our” means Destination
Maternity Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries and their predecessors.
We design and contract for the production of over 90% of
the products we sell using factories located throughout the world, predominantly outside of the United States. A majority of our products are purchased as finished product made to our design specifications (“Company Branded Products”). We
sometimes arrange for the purchase of certain components of Company Branded Products, which we refer to as “Trim,” which are then included on such final finished product. “Trim” includes, without limitation, the following types
of products: buttons, zippers, underwire for bras, hooks and eyes, snaps, rivets, buckles and flat hooks. We purchase such Trim from the inventory made available by our suppliers.
As part of our preparation of this report, we conducted a review of all Company Branded Products manufactured in 2018 to determine which, if
any, of those products may contain Conflict Minerals. We concluded that, as a retail apparel company, the only component of our products that could potentially contain Conflict Minerals would be Trim. As part of our Conflict Minerals Compliance
Program, we requested our Trim vendors provide information concerning Conflict Minerals contained in their products. The Company received responses from 95% of its vendors.
Item 1.02 Exhibit
Exhibit 1.01 is
hereby incorporated into this Item 1.02 by reference.
Section 2 – Exhibits
Item 2.01 – Exhibits