Sustainability Summary
- Good On You - Not found
- Ethical Consumer - Locked
- B Corp - No
- Trustpilot - 1.6/5 (45 reviews)
- This is an unclaimed profile. Accent Group has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.
Accent Group is a large Australian footwear and apparel retailer with many store brands and online shops. Its public sustainability picture is mixed. Independent sources show some stronger signs, like a low ESG risk score from Sustainalytics and a leading packaging result in APCO’s annual report. But other third-party checks raise concerns, especially around supply chain and labour issues. Baptist World Aid gave it a low score in its 2024 Ethical Fashion Report, and modern slavery disclosure quality was only graded C. Public review data is limited and mixed, so the overall picture is not strong, but it is not entirely negative either. Positive Sentiment Found Public third-party sentiment is limited, but there are a few positive signals. Trustpilot shows a 2.9 out of 5 rating for Accent Group’s main website page, based on 2 reviews, which is too small to be a strong measure but does not point to severe public backlash on that page. More importantly, independent assessors give some favourable sustainability signals: Sustainalytics rates the company at 16, which it classifies as low ESG risk, and APCO gave it a 4 out of 5 packaging performance level in 2026. These are not consumer reviews, but they do suggest that some outside reviewers see the company as managing certain sustainability issues better than average. Common Criticisms: The strongest third-party criticism is about labour and supply chain performance. Baptist World Aid Australia’s 2024 Ethical Fashion Report gave Accent Group 12 out of 100, which is a weak result in a report that checks how fashion companies deal with forced labour, child labour, worker exploitation, and environmental harm in their supply chains. Monash University also graded its modern slavery disclosure quality as C in 2021, which suggests only moderate reporting on a serious issue. Public review data is thin, but one Trustpilot page for the company’s older domain shows a very low 1.6 out of 5 from 45 reviews, which points to unhappy customers on that page. Overall, the available evidence suggests gaps in transparency and weak independent performance on worker-related issues.
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Accent Group Sustainability Actions
Accent Group Sustainability Commitments
2025
Start biodiversity net gain
Accent says it has committed to a 10% biodiversity net gain in new developments from 2025. Biodiversity net gain means leaving nature in a better state than before building work started, for example by creating more habitat for plants and wildlife. The commitment is tied to future development work and gives a clear year for when the target begins.
2028
Use Warm Homes funding
The company secured £3.6 million from the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund to improve energy efficiency between 2025 and 2028. This is a future programme aimed at making homes easier and cheaper to heat. The funding suggests more retrofit and upgrade work is planned over that period, although the material does not give a full breakdown of the exact measures.
2030
Reach EPC C across homes
Accent says it is on track for all homes to reach at least EPC C by 2030. EPC C is a mid-range energy rating that means a building is more efficient than lower-rated homes. This target is one of the clearest long-term climate and energy commitments in the material, because it sets a specific year and a measurable outcome.
