Marianne Voss, senior manager of human rights programs at Reebok International, has assumed the role of Executive Director of the Fair Factories Clearinghouse (FFC), effective January 2008. She succeeds Kiku Loomis, who served in the position since 2005.


The FFC, based in New York City, provides participating members with tools to cost-effectively manage and share compliance information about factory workplace conditions to assist them in making informed sourcing decisions that help improve factory workplace conditions around the world.


 
“I am delighted to be joining the FFC at this point in its development,” said Voss. “For three years the FFC has been providing its members with a scalable technology to manage their internal compliance programs. The FFC will soon launch the next release of its technology, allowing members to share non-competitive factory compliance information, such as audits, and to coordinate remediation efforts. Much more can be accomplished in improving factory conditions through large-scale collaboration, and I hope in the coming years that I can help the FFC deepen and expand its impact in this area and significantly enhance member companies' capabilities to make responsible sourcing decisions.”


Voss comes to the FFC with a wealth of experience working with Reebok and then the Adidas Group in their implementation of global compliance programs. Prior to her work in corporate responsibility, she worked for One-to-One Interactive, a digital marketing firm, where she developed and implemented technology strategic planning and marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies. Her background as a lawyer for both small defendants and large corporate cases also governs her direction and decisions under an umbrella for improving working conditions around the world.

“We are extraordinarily pleased that Marianne Voss has agreed to join the FFC in this leadership role,” commented Doug Cahn, Chairman of the Board and Principal of the Cahn Group. “She understands corporate social responsibility in all its complexity and has the demonstrated capacity to lead the FFC into its next critical phase.”

The FCC's current member roster includes Abercrombie & Fitch, adidas Group, ASICS America, Hudson’s Bay Company, Levi Strauss & Co, L.L. Bean, Macy’s Merchandising Group, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Nike Inc., Nordstrom, Patagonia, the Starbucks Coffee Company, the Timberland Company, VF Corporation, the National Retail Federation and the Retail Council of Canada. The FFC's rapidly growing database currently contains over 13,000 factories records and over 26,000 audit reports.

FFC is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York in 2004 and founded by the National Retail Federation, the Retail Council of Canada, Reebok International Ltd. and World Monitors Inc.