At Hasbro, we believe all people are entitled to fundamental rights and freedoms. We regard safety, well-being and dignity — of our employees, the workers in our supply chain and children everywhere — as deeply held obligations.

Working with partners and suppliers around the world on human rights and ethical sourcing issues is complex, but we remain vigilant in our commitment to ensure everyone in our supply chain is treated in accordance with the law and our rigorous ethical requirements. Specifically, we work with our third-party factories, licensees and stakeholders to address social compliance and help ensure our products are manufactured in working conditions that are fair, safe and legal for workers and that support local communities.

Ensuring social compliance in our supply chain around the world is a continuous process that requires careful monitoring. At Hasbro, our process for ensuring compliance within our factory base includes prequalification, monitoring, oversight, transparency, capacity building, and partnerships. Please see below for our annual Top 10 Critical Audit Findings and Corrective Action rate.

Our Ethical Sourcing program is designed to support our current and expanding sourcing model. We engage directly with Hasbro third-party vendors and licensees to drive social and environmental compliance and require them to do the same within their supply chains, including auditing and monitoring of subcontractors.

For a full list of Hasbro vendors and third-party factories, see our 2020 list.

Ethical sourcing includes efforts to ensure that specific minerals (tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, or “3TG”) come from conflict-free sources, as profits from mining these minerals in certain locations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in designated surrounding countries (the “Covered Countries”) are used to finance the ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in that region.

Each year, Hasbro files a conflict minerals disclosure form as required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We also conduct a Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI) to determine if necessary 3TG minerals were sourced from the Covered Countries. All contract manufacturers of products believed to contain 3TG were surveyed about the source of these minerals.

The results of our due diligence on the 3TG used in our in-scope products are noted here:
 

Hasbro Conflict Minerals 3TG Due Diligence Results

Hasbro received responses from 100% of the contract manufacturers identified as potentially incorporating 3TG into products supplied to Hasbro. Of the declared Smelters, 99% were designated as conformant or active under the Responsible Minerals Initiative’s (RMI’s) Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) for 2020. There were two tungsten smelters and one tin smelter that were non-conformant. These smelters are either now inactive or removed from Hasbro’s supply chain. As of the end of the reporting year all smelters identified as operational in our supply chain were RMAP conformant or active.”

See our full Conflict Minerals Report for 2020.

Read our latest Corporate Social Responsibility Report for more information about Hasbro’s commitment to human rights and ethical sourcing.