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Drew Pearson Marketing's Compliance Program in FLA Applicable Facilities

The Company's compliance program is called the Drew Pearson Marketing (DPM) Parallel Auditing Guarantee and the Company's code is the Drew Pearson Marketing Workplace Code of Conduct which is the same as the FLA Workplace Code of Conduct. Drew Pearson does not have a formalized compliance team or program. Different DPM partners do regular monitoring and provide DPM with reports from those monitoring visits. Product development teams have the most contact with the factories.


Drew Pearson Marketing's Approach to Compliance in 2003

Information provided in this section is based on reports submitted to the FLA by each Category B Licensee in January 2004. The points below briefly summarize Drew Pearson Marketing's efforts to uphold its FLA Obligations in accordance with the FLA Charter. Click here to access FLA Company Obligations.
  • All factories are visited yearly, though not on formalized monitoring visits.
  • Corporate Officers visit factories quarterly.
  • If remediation plans are not successful in a factory the company will stop using that facility.
  • Anonymous drop boxes are located in the factories to allow a means to report non-compliance.
  • Drew Pearson Marketing relies on its trading partner's audits and its employees who regularly visit factories to bring any unfair labor practices that they become aware of to the attention of their divisional manager upon their return.
Click here to see a summary of monitoring conducted in facilities producing university-licensed goods for Drew Pearson Marketing.
Copyright 2004 by the Fair Labor Association