An increasing percentage of the customer's business is now FOB Asia, or Direct Import business. With no access of controlling and checking the goods before being sold to the retailers, an active monitoring and supplier training was required for a successful children wear trading company, selling to mainly large global retailers. In addition, the retailers' demands include strong social compliance.

Klako's experienced professionals performed a social compliance audit on all vendors, where an audit was conducted with regards to the manufacturer's social and environmental performance against the client's "Code of Ethics".

This audit assisted the client to assess the vendor factories' ability to fulfill requirements on social compliance issues like child labor, forced labor, wages and compensation, working hours, discrimination, fire protection, occupational health and safety, environmental protection, welfare.

The evaluation was conducted according to buyers' individual requirements as well as Code of Conduct specifications.