Gap CEO Richard Dickson talks the company's sustainability strategy, including teamwork, cotton and clean water.
Richard Dickson, Gap Inc.'s president and chief executive officer, in his conversation with Daniel Fibiger, Gap Inc.'s head of global sustainability and president of Gap Foundation.For a $15 billion company with four big brands, and a complexity of supply chain and omnichannel operations, the teams atThat was a main message from Richard Dickson, Gap Inc.’s president and chief executive officer, in his conversation with Daniel Fibiger, Gap Inc.
The Global Water Innovation Centre for Action, with supplier Arvind Ltd., to improve water quality and access. On the supply chain front, Dickson said cotton — the largest raw material sourced by Gap Inc. — is a “huge conversation….We have a goal to reach 100 percent more sustainable cotton by 2025, which includes better cotton, organic cotton and regenerative cotton. We’ve nearly reached that goal, and as a result, we have better visibility into where our cotton comes from. And we can more effectively mitigate certain risks that come from sourcing conventional cotton.
The water innovation hub in India, for example, “can be shared across the entire apparel supply chain,” Dickson said, including outside of Gap. “That effort was spearheaded by our sustainability team, working in tandem with our sourcing teams hand-in-hand, and also a key manufacturing partner.
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