Better Health for All
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The company demonstrates significant positive health externalities through its environmental initiatives, having achieved CarbonNeutral® certification in 2021
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and renewed it in 2024.
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Its solar array was expanded to 4,148 panels in August 2024
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, generating 1,412,570 kilowatt hours in 2024
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, with 83% consumed on-site
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, contributing to healthier communities. The company also provides excellent mental health programs for its employees, including on-site clinic support, virtual options, a Teladoc health provider system, and manager training launched in 2024
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to recognize and support mental health stress in the workplace. The company's principal goods and services, promotional products, have no significant positive or negative health impact. The company does not offer health-related products or services requiring price accessibility or risk transparency considerations, nor does it collect or manage health-related data. It is not a pharmaceutical, food, or research company, and its products do not have addiction potential.
Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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4imprint Group plc is a direct marketer of promotional products and does not directly engage in financial services, lending, or deposit activities.
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The company's core business model falls outside the scope of financial institutions that lend, insure, move, or store money. Consequently, all KPIs related to financial products, services, and their associated metrics (such as APRs, fee structures, loan books, customer finance data, and financial literacy programs) are not applicable. While the company provides in-kind promotional product grants to nonprofit organizations and sponsors local communities, these activities do not constitute community finance reinvestment or direct financial inclusion initiatives as defined by the rubric for financial institutions.
Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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No specific quantitative data was provided across the articles for any of the KPIs related to Fair Pay & Worker Respect.
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While the company outlines policies and commitments regarding fair compensation, non-discrimination, collective bargaining rights, workplace safety, and employee benefits, no concrete percentages, ratios, or incident counts were available to assess performance against the rubric's thresholds.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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4imprint requires all its Tier 1 suppliers to sign an annual vendor agreement that includes a Supply Chain Code of Conduct, which is based on widely recognised International Labour Organization and Fair Labor Association standards.
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The company conducts annual on-site audits for its Tier 1 suppliers, with all audits in 2024 being executed in full and in-person.
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The "Better Choices® initiative" highlights promotional products with sustainable attributes and supplier standards.
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The company maintains close relationships with key suppliers, including a detailed shared knowledge of the supply end of the value chain, and expects Tier 1 suppliers to cascade ethical sourcing expectations down to Tier 2 and Tier 3 partners.
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When circumstances compromising the ability to mitigate against the risk of slavery or human trafficking come to their attention, they will take prompt and decisive action.
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Honest & Fair Business
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The company has a robust confidential reporting hotline, ‘Speak Up’, which is promoted throughout facilities and to remote employees to encourage reporting of compliance or ethical concerns.
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The Board is comprised of a majority of independent directors, and its Audit, Nomination, and Remuneration Committees are comprised solely of independent Non-Executive Directors.
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The company maintains an 'Anti-bribery, financial crime and sanctions policy' that applies to all employees across the Group, setting high standards of ethics and compliance with detailed guidance on facilitation payments, gifts, hospitality, third-party relationships, money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, and sanctions regimes.
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For third-party verification, the company uses Oeko-tex® Standard 100 certification for its apparel decoration facilities, conducts social audits for all its Wisconsin facilities, and utilizes Green-e® certified renewable energy.
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Its carbon neutral shipping program is verified by SGS & Climate Impact Partners, and 64% of its suppliers have externally validated calculations.
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Kind to Animals
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No specific, quantifiable evidence was found in the provided articles to assess 4imprint Group plc against any of the 'Kind to Animals' KPIs. While the company's associates participate in animal shelter fundraisers
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and its charitable giving program provides grants to organizations like San Antonio Pets Alive,
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these activities do not directly map to the defined KPIs which focus on operational impacts such as cruelty-free certification, animal testing, humane certifications, wildlife conservation metrics, ethical input substitution, supplier welfare audits, or animal agriculture ethics.
No War, No Weapons
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4imprint Group plc operates as a direct marketer of promotional products. Historically, the company received minor purchase orders from the U.S. Department of Defense between 2001
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and 2003,
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totaling approximately $17,615 for items such as signs, displays, and identification plates.
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These contracts represented a minimal portion of revenue, and no recent significant military engagements have been recorded.
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For procurement, the company demonstrates adherence to high humanitarian standards. Its Supply Chain Code of Conduct aligns with International Labour Organization principles and the Fair Labor Association’s Code of Conduct.
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Policies prohibit child labor (under 15 or legal minimum),
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limit regular work weeks to 48 hours (max 60),
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and ensure workers have the right to unionize.
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Compliance is verified through regular audits and site visits, with audit failures addressed as a priority.
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Product safety is reviewed against US, Canadian, and industry standards.
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Planet-Friendly Business
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The company sourced 89% of its operational electricity from renewables in 2024, comprising 20% from solar generation and 69% from Renewable Energy Certificates.
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It is compliant with ten of the eleven Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations.
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For paper and wood-based products, the company ensures they are certified as responsibly sourced by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), or Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).
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The company has received Scope 1 and 2 emissions data from suppliers representing 80% of its product spend for 2023.
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However, it does not have a formally articulated net-zero commitment and is only planning to understand potential science-aligned target setting in 2025.
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Carbon offsets are purchased via Climate Impact Partners and verified by SGS, covering approximately 7.6% of total GHG emissions in 2024 as part of its CarbonNeutral® certification.
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Biodiversity efforts are limited to local clean-ups of roadways, waterways, and a nature reserve.
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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Approximately 1,600 of the company's 1,650 permanent staff are based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, representing 96.97% of its total workforce as of December 2024.
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes are not applicable to the company's operations.
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Safe & Smart Tech
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The company allocates approximately $1.5 million annually towards enhancing cybersecurity protocols.
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It has not reported any documented incidents of unauthorized data use. Users have comprehensive control over personal data, including rights to opt-out, opt-in, rectify, restrict, know, correct, update, or remove, and the company's privacy policy is intended to satisfy requirements under applicable state privacy laws.
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Multi-factor authentication is employed across its major systems, corporate devices, and business processes.
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The company provides company-wide security awareness training, including regular phishing simulations.
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Vulnerability management includes regular monitoring, system audits, and experienced IT staff focused on identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities.
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Credit card information is collected and stored via encrypted means.
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The company uses AI tools and discusses potential risks and opportunities from AI.
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Data minimization efforts include significantly reducing shared data and relying on first-party data, with retention based on legal requirements or legitimate business purposes.
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The company is subject to and complies with extensive data privacy regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, CDPA, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut's Act, and Utah Consumer Privacy Act, with dedicated staff and external experts.
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Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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The company is guided by the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" principles, describing how materials like scrap metal and plastic are re-processed into new products, and promotes ways for products at end-of-life to be repurposed or returned into the product stream
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. It has implemented multiple waste reduction initiatives through its SMART Committee, including an electronics recycling event that recycled 640kg of metals
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, a "Take the Pledge" program to reduce single-use products
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, and "Item of the Month" recycling events
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. The company emphasizes designing products to be lasting, with lifecycles often extending over 15 years
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. It partners with suppliers on 'Green' initiatives
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, works to increase 'Eco-Friendly' options
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, and engages with Tier 1 suppliers to understand their environmental objectives
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. The company educates customers by emphasizing products designed for long lifetimes
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, uses its Better Choices® framework to highlight sustainable product options
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, and provides information on what and how to recycle products
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