Five Below, Inc

Pennsylvania
Retailing

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Five Below, Inc. a speciality discount retailer, has not publicly terminated business relationships based on views or beliefs. Five Below, Inc. does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving. Five Below, Inc. does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination and implements ESG into its business practices. Five Below, Inc. has partnered with The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention network. For these reasons, Five Below, Inc. receives a Medium Risk rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
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Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Five Below has not publicly fired customers, suppliers, or vendors based on views or beliefs. Five Below embraces ESG principles in its business operations (1).

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Five Below, Inc. does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Five Below, Inc. does not provide its employees with protection against viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Five Below, Inc. launched a “summer pride collection” and promoted these items via social media posts (1)(2).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Five Below, Inc. has partnered with The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ organization working with youth (1).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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N/A
Rationale

Five Below, Inc. does not operate a PAC at this time (1).

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August 11, 2023

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