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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) 001-31463 16- (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 345 Court Street Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) Chris Bereznay (724) 273- (Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report)
Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies: þ Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2020.
Section 1- Conflict Minerals Disclosure
ITEM 1.01. Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
This Form SD (the “Report”) of Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (the "Company") has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Item 1.01 of Form SD promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (collectively, the “Rule”), for the reporting period January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020 (the “Reporting Year”).
The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products and the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals, which we collectively refer to in this Report as the "3TG Minerals", are gold, columbite- tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten. The "Covered Countries" for the purposes of the Rules and this Report are the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola. "Conflict Minerals" are 3TG Minerals that originate from a conflict zone in one or more of the Covered Countries.
The Company is a retailer of high-quality authentic athletic equipment, apparel and footwear, intended to enhance our customers' performance and enjoyment of athletic pursuits. The Company purchases merchandise from approximately 1,200 third-party vendors, under brand names that we do not own or control. The Company also offers products under brands that it owns or licenses. The Company contracts with third parties for the manufacturing of products that meet the specifications required by the Company for sale under the brand names that are owned or licensed by the Company. The Company does not directly manufacture any products.
The Company's supply chain with respect to “Covered Products”, products that meet the specifications required by the Company marketed for sale under the brand names that are owned or licensed by the Company, is complex. There are many third parties in the supply chain between the ultimate manufacturer of the Covered Products and the original source of 3TG Minerals. The Company does not directly manufacture any products. Instead, the Company contracts with third party suppliers for the manufacturing of products that meet the specifications required by the Company. Those suppliers may manufacture the products or may, in turn, contract with other third parties for the manufacturing of the products. The Company purchases finished products from those suppliers. Therefore, the Company does not directly purchase components or other supplies for its products nor does it directly purchase 3TG Minerals from mines, smelters or refiners. The Company is dependent on its suppliers to provide information regarding the origin of 3TG Minerals contained in the Covered Products.
dependent on its suppliers to provide information regarding the origin of 3TG Minerals contained in the Covered Products. As a result, the Company's RCOI focused on a supplier survey process that sought information about the sources of 3TG Minerals contained in the Covered Products. Suppliers who received the survey are referred to as “Covered Suppliers” in this Report.
The Company utilized the Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the "Survey") developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative in order to obtain information from its Covered Suppliers.
- The Company notified each Covered Supplier of its Conflicts Minerals Policy, including the Company’s policy that any supplier that did not timely and accurately complete the Survey would be subject to sanctions.
- Each Covered Supplier was asked to complete the Survey. The Company reasonably relied on the representations and certifications provided by the Covered Supplier in the survey.
- To assist Covered Suppliers in completing the survey, the Company provided web-based training to the Covered Suppliers through the Company's online vendor portal, with training materials provided in English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. Training materials were developed internally and by the Retail Industry Leaders Association ("RILA").
- Covered Suppliers were required to acknowledge their receipt of the Survey and the training materials.
- Covered Suppliers who provided survey responses that raised red flags, due to incompleteness or assertions that were not independently verifiable (for example, inconsistent assertions over product composition, or claims that the 3TG Mineral was sourced from a country with limited known reserves of the mineral in question) were re-engaged for additional information.
- If smelter information was provided by the Covered Supplier, the Company reviewed named smelters with listed smelters that had been certified as "Conflict Free" through the Conflict-Free Smelter Program.
- The Company reviewed the results of the Surveys and other inquiries to reasonably determine the country of origin of 3TG, whether the 3TG came from, or the Company could reasonably believe it came from, recycled or scrap sources or whether the Company had any reason to believe that any of the 3TG may have come from a Covered Country and did not come from a recycled or scrap source.
The information obtained by the Company as part of the RCOI (1) was sufficient to permit the Company to determine whether the 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of the Covered Products originated at a location outside of the Covered Countries; (2) was sufficient to permit the Company to determine whether the 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of the Covered Products came from recycled or scrap sources; or (3) gave the Company no reason to believe that any of the 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of the Covered Products originated in a Covered Country. The Company has reason to believe the representations and certifications from the Covered Suppliers were true and the Company did not perceive any warning signs that 3TG may have originated from a Covered Country.
Therefore, (1) the Company determined that the 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of the Covered Products either: (a) originated in a location other than in a Covered Country; or (b) came from Recycled or Scrap Sources; or (2) the Company has no reason to believe that any of the 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of the Covered Products may have originated in a Covered Country.
The Report is publicly available on the Company's Investor Relations site available through investors.DICKS.com.
