Company Profile
The Company Profile section asks general questions about your organization to get an overview of the company and its operations, establish the most relevant assessment path, and collect key information for comparative analytics in the benchmarking.
Examples of questions that can be found in this section include the size of the company, number of employees, company’s ownership, and the geography it operates in.
About this question
When filling in the BRM, your company has the option to use either calendar year data or fiscal year data aligned with your own reporting. This means that the data presented in the BRM may not necessarily align with the calendar year.
This information is useful for ensuring that the data presented in the BRM is consistent and accurate. Knowing the reporting period also helps to make meaningful comparisons between companies that may use different reporting periods, and/or help during the verification process.
Please note that you must however be consistent throughout the report after selecting the period for assessment.
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp.a, cp.a.1, cp.a.2
About this question
This question is used to determine which assessment path your company should complete and to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking. Your selection for this question leads to a number of additional questions specific to your company category to appear and should be done at the start of your BRM. Please, refer to the definitions below to determine which answer option to tick.
- Select Brand if you are a company that owns one or more apparel/footwear/textile brands, has brick and mortar stores and/or e-commerce websites, and may sell products from third-party brands, but these represent less than 20% of your revenues.
- Select Retailer if you are a company that primarily sells products from third-party brands through e-commerce websites and/or brick and mortar stores and may own apparel/footwear/textile private label brands, but these represent less than 20% of your revenue.
- Select Brand & Retailer if you are a company that owns apparel/footwear/textile brands and sells products from third-party brands; each of them representing separately 20% or more of your company’s revenue.
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp.b
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking. Please, refer to the definitions below to determine which answer option to tick.
- Select Public if you are a publicly listed companies
- Select Private if your company is privately held and not publicly listed
- Select Subsidiary if your company is part of a holding company or a group
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. c
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking. Select the country where your company is headquartered.
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. d
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking. Please, select the sectors in which your company operates.
- Select one or more sectors if your company operates in the textile, apparel and/or footwear sector.
- Select other f your company operates in another sector or does not fit with any of the listed sectors.
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. e
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking.
- Select Apparel (e.g., dresses, trousers, shirts, etc.)
- Select Footwear (e.g., sneakers, boots, etc.)
- Select Home Textiles (bed linen, towels, rugs/carpets)
- Select Accessories (e.g., belts, bags, backpacks, jewelry, etc.)
- Select Home Furnishings (e.g., furniture and home decoration)
- Select Hard Goods (e.g., equipment, tents & sleeping pads, technical backpacks, skis, snowboards & bindings, ski equipment gear, climbing gear, bicycles)
- Select Electronics
- Select Toys
- Select Other (any product category that has not been listed above)
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. f
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking.
- Select yes if your company has any number of physical stores
- Select no if your company operates solely online, or does not have any physical stores
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. g
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking.
Select each of the sales regions that are applicable to the sales of your product(s).
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. h
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking.
All revenue should be included, including through licensees. If your revenue is not calculated in USD you may make an exchange based on the rate of the last day of the reporting period.
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. j
About this question
This question is used to categorize your company for comparative analytics in the benchmarking. Note that only full-time employees should be included in this figure.
Applicability: Brand, Retailer, Brand and Retailer
Reference ID: cp. k