Patagonia Clothing Company

BUSN 119Fundamentals of BusinessFall 2010 Instructor Drew 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 Company Watch this video http//www. youtube. com/watch? v=O3TwULu-Wjw Answer these questions 1. What series of events caused Yvon Chouinard, the CEO of Patagonia, to switch to using organic cotton in their manufacturing facilities? 2.Patagonia stresses the importance of hiring employees with passion a passion for anything, not just sports. Why do they place such importance upon passion? Yvon Chouinard believes that there are twain kind of thinking approach of people, these are as under - 1)Western Approach - People used to bye every stuff. 2)Eastern Approach- People believe in oneself and create a new thing. So, they are giving so much intension to passion 3. What eff ect do you think that Patagonias practice of donating to environmental groups has upon employee productivity and retention? . Name 4 ways Patagonia is reducing environmental impingement and demonstrating social responsibility.Patagonia has a great technique of reducing environmental impact and demonstrating social responsibility. These ways are as below- 1) Reduce To get by with fewer clothes they have to be an excellent quality so workers can get paid, customer can satisfies and cost may be maintained. 2) Repair all garment facility of repairs are provided. 3) Reuse - By re use of garments like donation etc. , ) Recycle cloth can be recycle. 5. Describe Patagonias One % for the Planet program. Ans It is the proportion to the nongovernmental organization from the company. One type of social responsibility. The company has already donated 30 million to such organizations. It is a one type of environment program. It is a business bail who believes that profit and loss are direct ly linked to the health of our environment. Apart of this, this business also related with social & environmental effect of the industry.