Kellwood Factory Requirements
 

Beginning in January 2005, Kellwood will begin to grade the security efforts of our contractor factories as part of our regular compliance audits. The third party monitors will be specifically looking at how a factory addresses the items to be covered in the rest of this announcement.

 

We would expect that Kellwood suppliers would be able to present to the monitors a written document of security procedures that will explain how the factory meets the minimum standards criteria. Between now and January 2005, we are asking each Kellwood supplier to develop, document and implement a plan to address the below-mentioned issues.

 

 

U.S. Customs C-TPAT Requirements
 

As part of our C-TPAT requirements, we must be certain our supplier factories have in place a security program that addresses the following 10 points (the bullet point items come directly from the U.S. Customs website: www.customs.gov):

 

·          The facility will have written security policies and practices to guard against insertion of illegal or unauthorized material into shipments.