Making Real Change

We are a member of the GRI Community and support the mission of GRI to empower decision-makers everywhere, through GRI
Sustainability Reporting Standards and its multi-stakeholder network, to take action toward a more sustainable economy and world.

GUESS is a member of the SASB sector advisory group on consumer goods and actively engaged in our industry disclosures.

Since 2015, GUESS has been a member of Cascale (formerly the SAC), 19% of our suppliers (representing over 80% of our suppliers by volume) completed the Higg Index Facility Environmental Module (FEM) self-assessments. As a company, GUESS also completes the Higg Brand and Retail Module (BRM) to assess the impacts of its operations. This tool includes environmental topics such as packaging, logistics, and chemicals management.

In 2019, GUESS joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign Project to design and make jeans fit for a circular economy, today. The Project uses the principles of a circular economy to ensure positive impacts for the environment, society, and the health of those people working in the fashion industry. GUESS launched products that met the Project’s Guidelines in fall 2021 and for all 2022 seasons.

GUESS submitted its first CDP climate change report in 2018 and achieved leadership status for the first time in 2019. We continue to respond to CDP annually. In 2022, GUESS was recognized by the CDP to be among the top 8% for supplier engagement on climate change.

In 2023 GUESS continued to achieve the CDP leadership level with an A- score for its environmental transparency and actions on climate change.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) champions science based target setting in the transition to a low-carbon economy. GUESS has set and received approval of its ambitious science based targets for our corporate and supply chain greenhouse gas emissions for 2030.

Since 2020, GUESS has been a member of Textile Exchange, a non-profit organization positively impacting climate through accelerating the use of environmentally preferred materials across the global textile industry.

In 2019, GUESS became a signatory of the UNFCCC Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. GUESS has since joined working groups to further contribute and learn how to implement the charter’s principles and limit global warming to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels.

In partnership with Good360, a global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving, Guess US donated goods to its communities, such as activewear, outerwear, and knitwear, as well as blankets and coloring books.

Since 2016, GUESS has sponsored sustainability and fashion classes at the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, educating hundreds of students and associates on material efficiency, circularity, sustainable denim, sustainable life cycle, and other topics.

In China, we partnered with Inno Community Development Organization, a non-profit committed to improving workplace transparency, equality, and public health. We provided a confidential Handshake Workers’ Hotline that enables 1,000+ workers to report any concerns anonymously.

GUESS continues to work together with Homeboy Industries an organization that provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated individuals.