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...releasing factory locations to the public, Gear departed from its original strategy of disclosure...
...Gear made available information about its factories on Jan. 10 via a new Web site--gearnosweat.com--that allows users to search a database by country name or garment style. With the hits, activists could call, even fax, the factories in China...
...release of Gear and Champion's factory locations marks the fulfillment of a promise both companies made in November, when they announced that they would do so by January...
...November, John D. Joerger, Gear's director of global human rights compliance, said Gear would only disclose factory locations to the universities themselves, not to the world via the Internet. Joerger could not be reached for comment yesterday...
McKean said Gear may have been prompted to go completely public because companies such as Nike have done likewise in the past few months. He said he did not know why Champion chose to release the information only to universities...