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| shareholder | country | % | source |
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year | business source |
| 2006 | Gap subcontracts the manufacture of its clothing to 3000 subcontractors in the world. | Livre |
| 2006 | Gap is the largest U.S. clothing chain. | Bloomberg |
| 2006 | Gap is the world's largest-clothing distributor. | L'Expansion |
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| country | address & contact : production type incentive source |
 Bermuda | GPS (Bermuda) Insurance Services Ltd : |
 China | 464 factories : Reuters |
 El Salvador | The Mandarin International factory, San Marcos FTZ :  National Labor Committee |
 Honduras | Gap International Sourcing (Honduras) S.A. de C.V : |
 Jordan | Western Factory : Sous-traitance, Campaign for Labor Rights |
| Jordan | Irbid QIZ : Apparel Middle East Economic Digest |
 Mexico | Gap International Sourcing (Mexico) S.A. de C.V : |
 Singapore | Gap International Sourcing Pte. Ltd : |
 Thailand | Gap International Sourcing (Thailand) Ltd : |
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| year name | photo position; compensation source |
| 2007Pressler, Paul |  Chief Executive Officer; allowances: 14 million US$; Les Echos |
| 2003Ming, Jenny | Chairman; salary: 2,25 million US$; stock-options: 0,22 million US$;
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| 1999Drexler, Millard | Chief Executive Officer; salary: 172 million US$; National Labor Committee |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
| 2007 | | ILO violation 138 : The clothing sold by the American group Gap is manufactured by children in a workshop in India. The children, some only 10 years old, work for a Gap's subcontractor in the district of Shahpur Jat in New Delhi. They evoked long working hours not paid, threats and blows. The children manufactured Gap Kid shirts which were to be sold for Christmas.: India | AFP |
| 2007 | | ILO violation 87,98 : Social violations at subsidiary's Fibres and Fabrics International Pvt. Ltd and its subsidiary Jeans Knit Pvt. Ltd. (JKPL) plants in Bangalore including harassment of workers; physical abuse; arbitrary termination of services without following due legal process; lack of letter of employment; lack of rest rooms and canteen facilities; non-provision of identity cards; absence of proper safety measures and non-payment of overtime wages.: India | Clean Clothes Campaign |
| 2006 | | ILO violation 1,131, 87,98 : Four young women, including a 16 year-old girl, were raped by managers at the Western Factory.Some 14 and 15 year-old child workers;Mandatory 16 to 20-hour shifts from 8:00 a.m. to
12:00 midnight or 4:00 a.m.;Forced to work seven days a week, with just four days off in ten months; At the factory 114 hours a week;Despite working 109 hours a week, the workers were
not paid for six months;Even when the workers were lucky enough to be
paid, they were still cheated of 65 percent of the
wages legally due them, earning just $25.38—or 23
cents an hour, for 109 hours of work;: Jordan | Campaign for Labor Rights |
| 2005 | | minimum wage/day: 6 US$; China | |
| 2005 | | minimum wage/day: 5 US$; IndiaLivre | |
| 2002 | | minimum wage/day: 3 US$; ILO violation 1 : pys poverty wages: Lesotho | UNITE |
| 2002 | | ILO violation 87 98 : physical harassment and abuse in factories; poor health and safety;
suppression of worker rights; and, cheating of wages: Lesotho | UNITE |
| 2002 | | | Fair Labor Association |
| 2002 | | ILO violation 87, 98 : union busting practices at subcontractor: Tainan closes factory where workers just succeeded in unionizing: El Salvador | Campaign for Labor Rights |
| 2002 | | ILO violation 1 : 16 heures de travail par jour; en 48 heures, deux ouvrières meurent, l'une d'une pneumonie, l'autre d'une congestion cérébrale; racket des agents recruteurs: Mauritius | Capital |
| 2002 | | ILO violation 26, 105, 131,138 : Forced overtime. Child laborers, as young as twelve years old, were being employed for 21 cents an hour.: Cambodia | UIC Today |
| 1999 | | minimum wage/day: 4 US$; ILO violation 1, 26, 29, 100, 105, 111, 131 : forced pregnancy tests, forced overtime, exceedingly high production goals, locked bathrooms, and wages of $4/day, which only meet 1/3 of their basic needs.: Honduras | National Labor Committee |
| 1999 | | ILO violation 26, 131 : salary: 0,11 US $ / hour: Russia | National Labor Committee |
| 1998 | | ILO violation 87 98 : "shadow contracts" waiving basic human rights, including the freedom to join unions, attend religious services, quit or marry, blocked exits, movements strictly supervised by guards, workers subject to lockdowns or curfews.: Northern Mariana Islands | Sweatshop Watch |
| 1998 | | ILO violation 87 98 : The workers said that if they tried to organize a union or even become more informed of their rights, they would be fired.: Honduras | National Labor Committee |
| 1997 | | ILO violation 87 98 : 700 workers went on strike in July, 1997 protesting miserable wages and the factory management's refusal to recognize their independent union.: Indonesia | National Labor Committee |
| 1996 | | ILO violation 29, 105 : Forced overtime, The Mandarin factory: El Salvador | National Labor Committee |
| 1996 | | ILO violation 87, 98 : No Union: When workers attempted to organize themselves , they were met with firing and intimidation by the factory. Workers even rumored to be organizing or seen talking to union organizers are illegally fired immediately.: El Salvador | National Labor Committee |
| 1996 | | New workers are forced to take pregnancy tests and are immediately fired if they are pregnant.: El Salvador | National Labor Committee |
| 1996 | | minimum wage/day: 4,8 US$; ILO violation 1 : 85-93 hrs/week: El Salvador | National Labor Committee |
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| year | employees <> | social impact : country source |
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| year | | sales | income | | buyback | source |
| 2007 |
| 15,94 | 0,78 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2006 |
| 16,02 | 1,11 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2004 |
| 16,27 | 1,1 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2003 |
| 14,45 | 0,48 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
| 13,67 | 0,88 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2000 |
| 11,64 | 1,13 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1998 |
| | | | 30 | million shares | SmartMoney |
| 1998 |
| 9,05 | 0,82 | | | billion US$ | |
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| year | financial misdemeanor | sales | income | assets | buyback | source |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
| 2001 | Access to foreign market (through MAI, WTO, GATS), prevent binding environmental regulations : USCIB (US Council For International Business) : : US Government  translate | USCIB |
| 1998 | Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 18 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate | Center for Responsive Politics |
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| year | purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source |
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| year | dubious practice : image source |
| 2002 | slogan: Keep it loose, for every generation; | |
| 1999 | slogan: Tout le monde en velours côtelé.; | |
| 1999 | slogan: Tout le monde en cuir.; | |
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