Garmento Ltd is a fictional Australian fashion and homewares company. The company's new

CEO, Frederica Transvale has extensive experience in the Italian fashion industry.

Garmento designs its own range of women's clothing and homewares but outsources the

manufacture of products offshore. The company retails its products online and through a

distribution contract with a major Australian department store chain, BYERS.

The Board has asked Frederica to make strategy to improve profitability and ensure future

growth of the company. Frederica has chosen a small group of Garmento employees to work

with her to prepare the strategy. You are one of the employees chosen to be part of the

strategy team. Until the completed strategy is presented to the Board, the work of the team is

highly confidential.

Frederica wants the strategy team to research the improvements that should be made to

Garmento's business model to ensure the company has a sustainable supply chain.

Required:

research for and the rest of the strategy

team which explains the various issues that need to be considered for a fashion

company to have a sustainable supply chain.

review a report from the consultancy firm Accenture, Threads

That Bind: Transforming the fashion supply chain through transparency and traceability. She

provides you with the following link to this report: https://www.accenture.com/auen/insights/retail/threads-that-bind.

explains why it

is good corporate governance for a fashion company to have a sustainable supply

chain. develop persuasive arguments as part of

presentation to the Board.