about carter's
2025 progress highlights8
product
GOAL: Use 100% sustainable
cotton by 2030
86%
of our cotton
was sustainably sourced9
GOAL: Continue growth of Little Planet brand
over
$0M
in sales in 2025
GOAL: Become the U.S. market leader of sustainable children’s apparel
more than
0%
of our 2025 sales were either supported by responsible cotton sourcing (through BCI Cotton), or came from our Little Planet and PurelySoft collections, utilizing either certified organic cotton or viscose sourced from responsibly managed forests
planet
GOAL: Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions 50% from 2019 baseline by 2030 and achieve net zero in our direct operations by 2040
36%
reduction of Scopes 1 and 2 emissions since 2019
GOAL: Achieve 50% reduction in virgin plastic packaging from a 2022 baseline by 2030
90%
reduction in virgin plastic packaging from the 2022 baseline in 2025
GOAL: Divert 80% of waste from landfill
61%
of waste diverted
from landfill
GOAL: Require 77% of our purchased goods and services suppliers by spend to have science-based targets by 2027
69%
of these suppliers by spend and 65% by number have set science-based targets
people
GOAL: Improve the well-being of at least 1 million workers within our global value chain by 2030
~80%
>797,400 workers positively impacted since 2021
GOAL: Improve the well-being of at least 10 million lives by 2030
0M
lives improved in 2025
GOAL: Invest more than $50 million toward improving the lives of children by 2030
0M
in monetary and in-kind donations since 2021
GOAL: Volunteer over 200,000 hours in our communities by 2030
0
volunteer hours contributed since 2021