Patagonia Clothing Company

BUSN 119Fundamentals of BusinessFall 2010 Instructor dis blank space Smylie emailprotected centennialcollege. ca Assignment worth 5% Type your answers onto this document. Drop into digital Dropbox before class on Monday, Nov 29/10 ____________________________________________________________ ___________________ Patagonia Clothing phoner Watch this video http//www. youtube. com/watch? v=O3TwULu-Wjw Answer these questions 1. What series of events caused Yvon Chouinard, the chief executive officer of Patagonia, to switch to using organic cotton in their manufacturing facilities? 2.Patagonia stresses the importance of hiring employees with mania a passion for anything, not just sports. Why do they place such importance upon passion? Yvon Chouinard believes that there are two charitable of thinking approach of people, these are as under - 1)Western Approach - quite a little used to bye every stuff. 2)Eastern Approach- People believe in oneself and create a new thing. So, they are gi ving so overmuch intension to passion 3. What effect do you think that Patagonias physical exertion of donating to environmental groups has upon employee productivity and retention? . Name 4 ways Patagonia is minify environmental impact and demonstrating social responsibility.Patagonia has a great technique of cut back environmental impact and demonstrating social responsibility. These ways are as infra- 1) Reduce To get by with fewer clothes they have to be an excellent quality so workers end get paid, customer can satisfies and cost may be maintained. 2) Repair all garment knack of repairs are provided. 3) Reuse - By re use of garments like gift etc. , ) Recycle cloth can be recycle. 5. Describe Patagonias One % for the Planet program. Ans It is the proportion to the NGO from the company. One grammatical case of social responsibility. The company has already donated 30 million to such organizations. It is a one type of environment program. It is a melodic line allian ce who believes that profit and loss are directly linked to the health of our environment. Apart of this, this business also related with social & environmental effect of the industry.