When Interloop rolled out its Vision 2025 strategy in 2021, it set many targets for growth across its apparel manufacturing business. But the core to this five-year plan is its investment in people.

By 2025, the Pakistan-based apparel and hosiery manufacturer aims to increase workforce diversity by 30 percent by employing thousands of women in executive and non-executive teams. Additionally, the company has a goal to upskill 80 percent of workers on future competencies across all operations, product development, supply chain management and general management.

During a fireside chat with Sourcing Journal's founder Edward Hertzman, Faryal Sadiq, vice president, sales and marketing at Interloop, highlighted Interloop’s focus on creating conditions and culture that promote equity by driving change to ingrained systems of inequality.

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