The guidelines you are about to read are of utmost importance to the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation and to the relationships we form with suppliers, contractors and business partners.
                        
    While we place tremendous importance on these relationships, many of which qualify as genuine friendships of long-standing, certain values and  standards have always been, and will always remain, paramount. Adherence to these values and standards by the people and companies we do business with is a prerequisite for continuing or establishing  relationships with our company.

    Indeed, we cannot do business with any company that fails to adhere to these ideals.

  We believe that by working together to see these standards enforced, our company and its suppliers, contractors and business partners can help achieve a genuine improvement in the lives of working people around the world.

  This mission has been a guiding principle of our company for more than a century, and it shall guide us in the future and take precedence over any economic or business concerns. 
 

                                Bruce J. Klatsky
                               Chairman and Chief Executive Officer