Progress on Our Goals
CREATE WITH INTENT
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- INTEGRATED CIRCULARITY
- Enable our past and future products to live on responsibly by 2030. At the end of 2025, progress was made across the following targets:
- Five or our iconic products will be Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified® by the end of 2025
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Surpassed our goal and introduced eight Cradle to Cradle Certified® iconic products - Offer high-quality products made with 100% recycled cotton by the end of 2025
- Achieved our target by offering Polo denim styles made from 100% recycled cotton
- Set and implement Circular Design Principles into our design and development process by the end of 2025
- Developed Circular Design Principles for teams to implement across processes
- Invest in scaling innovative technologies and regenerative practices to advance a circular economy by 2025
- Continued to test and develop innovative materials and introduced Polo denim made with regenerative fibers
- Connect consumers with options to rent, repair and recirculate our products in select key cities by the end of 2025
- Launched a denim recycling program in North America, piloted a repair service and expanded our Ralph Lauren Vintage offering
- SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
- Achieve 100% sustainably-sourced key materials by the end of 2025
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99% of units produced met at least one of our sustainable material criteria - 100% of our key wood suppliers for new Ralph Lauren store interiors will use sustainably-sourced wood substrates by the end of 2025
- Achieved our goal with 100% of our key wood suppliers using sustainably sourced wood substrates in all new Ralph Lauren store interiors
- VALUE CHAIN FOR IMPACT
- 80% of our business will be with suppliers that meet our strategic and key supplier criteria, which include business, quality, citizenship and sustainability performance, by the end of 2025
- 72% of our business was with strategic and key suppliers that met our business, quality, citizenship and sustainability performance criteria
Protect the Environment
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- CLIMATE
- Reduce absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% by 2030 (Science Based Targets initiative approved) from a FY20 base year
- Decreased absolute emissions by 34% in FY25 from our FY20 baseline
- Power our owned and operated offices, distribution centers and stores with 100% renewable electricity by the end of 2025
- Achieved our target by continuing to invest in renewable energy attribute certificates, accounting for 100% of our global electricity use in our owned and operated facilities
- WATER STEWARDSHIP
- Achieve at least a 20% reduction in total water use across our operations and value chain, compared to a FY20 baseline, by the end of 2025
- Decreased total water use across our operations and value chain by 32% in 2025
- WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Achieve 100% recyclable, reusable or sustainably-sourced packaging materials by the end of 2025
- 93% of our total packaging volume met at least one of our sustainable packaging criteria in 2025
- CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT
- Use safer and more sustainable chemicals throughout our business to address their human and environmental impact
- Gained 95% visibility of chemical use in manufacturing (by spend); achieved 88% conformance with the ZDHC Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (MRSL) across reported chemicals
- BIODIVERSITY
- Develop a biodiversity strategy and set goals aligned with the science-based targets for nature by 2024
- Finalized our biodiversity strategy and goals in adherence to Step 3 of the open-source guidelines for setting science-based targets for nature
Champion Better Lives
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- BELONGING & EQUITY
- Reach 87% total Company favorability on employee survey responses to questions about Belonging & Equity
- Achieved 87% favorable responses in the most recent employee survey
- Reach 80% favorability on employee survey responses to questions about managers supporting Belonging & Equity
- Achieved 85% favorable responses in the most recent employee survey
- Include diverse candidates at the VP level and above throughout our interview process
- Achieved broad and balanced candidate representation during interview processes for U.S.-based VP leadership positions and above
- Include minority business enterprise and women suppliers in open request for proposals
- Achieved balanced supplier or business enterprise representation across our open requests for proposals
- COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & PHILANTHROPY
- Increase Company employee volunteer hours by 25% compared to a FY22 baseline by the end of 2025
- Exceeded baseline goal and increased volunteer hours each year
- RIGHTS & EMPOWERMENT IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
- Make empowerment and life skills programs available to 250,000 workers across our supply chain by 2030
- Reached over 144,000 supply chain workers through our empowerment and life skills programs to date
- Ensure all strategic and key suppliers will have the capabilities and systems in place to deliver fair and timely compensation by 2030
- Deployed our Human Resource Management Playbook across select suppliers in four countries to test impact and inform wider rollout