TOMS Shoes LLC Information

At TOMS®, we believe we can improve people's lives through business. Founded in 2006, we understand the imperative for our company to operate responsibly and know that you want to buy from a company that works hard to integrate sustainable and responsible practices into all that they do. Our efforts are focused on making sure that we operate in a manner that's consistent with our brand values. We'll continue to travel this path and communicate with you along the journey. Corporate Responsibility at TOMS® provides focus on the environmental and social impacts of our products and operations, responsible giving and employee life. We know that our customers will look to us for our accomplishments, which currently include:We offer shoes with sustainable and vegan materials and are working to expand these offerings. These shoes include natural hemp, organic cotton, and/or recycled polyester and these materials are used on the upper, liner and/or the insole cover (instead of our standard suede insole). All of our shoe boxes are made from 80% recycled post-consumer waste and are printed with soy ink. As we've disclosed previously in our Giving Report, our shoes are made in China, Ethiopia and Argentina. We are aware of the challenges associated with overseeing a global supply chain and our global staff actively manages and oversees our suppliers and vendors to ensure that our corporate responsibility standards are upheld. On an annual basis, we require our direct suppliers to certify that the materials incorporated into our products are procured in accordance with all applicable laws in the countries they do business in, including laws regarding slavery and human trafficking. We also clearly define appropriate business practices for our employees and hold them accountable for complying with our policies, including the prevention of slavery and human trafficking within our supply chain. As we're developing our flagship store in Southern California (stay tuned for more details), our team is working hard to integrate environmentally friendly practices into both the built environment and its day-to-day operation. Giving back to the community is an important part of any Corporate Responsibility program. Our Giving story is well documented on our website as well as in our founder, Blake Mycoskie's book, Start Something That Matters. If you are not already familiar with the One for One™ Movement, we invite you to explore how your purchase of our shoes, eyewear and apparel provides shoes or helps to restore or improve sight for someone in need. At TOMS®, giving is our DNA and has been from the start! As perhaps the only company with a Chief Giving Officer, giving will always be core to our work as a responsible company. At TOMS® we invest in our employees in many ways. We provide training for our employees on a number of business and leadership topics, including training for our supply chain employees by a respected third party expert on the important topic of human trafficking and slavery prevention. We provide a variety of benefits to them, including Medical, Vision, Dental, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance and AD&D, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Family Leave, and 401(k). We also offer Paid Time Off and a variety of fitness and wellness classes at our headquarters building outside of Los Angeles, California. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."