Through our Supplier Code of Conduct, vendor audits and product compliance
testing, we seek to hold our suppliers accountable for compliance with all
applicable local and national laws and regulations regarding product safety and
quality, environmental performance and human rights. Through monitoring, ongoing
engagement and, if necessary, termination, we seek to ensure that all suppliers
of Avon non-beauty products sold in the United States comply with our
Supplier
Code of Conduct. We have engaged several third-party auditing firms to monitor
our suppliers’ compliance with the Supplier Code of Conduct.
We are currently reviewing the effectiveness of our supplier monitoring program,
in particular as it applies to suppliers of products sold in countries outside
the United States. We know that we need to constantly improve the consistency of our
oversight and the overall effectiveness of our program; to that end, we have set
a goal to ensure consistent oversight of our entire global supply chain,
including monitoring of suppliers’ compliance with our Supplier Code of Conduct,
by December 2009.