Rankings · Clothing stores · United States
Target
Publicly traded companyMinneapolis, Minnesotatarget.com
2ndof 4 clothing stores
Near the top of the four largest US clothing stores on climate, lobbying and executive pay, weighted by Spendwell members’ average priorities.
Better choiceWorse choice
Better ranked: TJX (1st)
Why it ranks here
Climate
environmental impactCommitted to develop and verify science-based zero SBTi targets by 2024-01-31 through the Business Ambition for 1.5°C program, but did not follow through with this commitment and was removed from SBTi's commitments list. Its disclosed emissions rose 10.2% between 2022 and 2023.
Sources: EP100, RE100, Net Zero Tracker, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), Climate Data Utilityemissions through 2023
3/4
Lobbying
political impactSpent an average of $1.95 million a year lobbying the US federal government, 2018 to 2022.
Source: US Senate lobbying disclosuresthrough December 2022
2/4
Executive pay
economic impactPaid its Chair & CEO, Brian C. Cornell, $19.8 million in fiscal year 2021: around 904 times its lowest-paid earner, or the assumed equivalent.
Source: SEC filings (EDGAR)fiscal year 2021
1/4
How this is measured
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