All Fair Wear Foundation articles – Page 2

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    Fair Wear and GoodWeave collaborate to fight child and forced labor

    29 August 2023

    GoodWeave International, a global, non-profit initiative working to eliminate child labor in the carpet industry, and Fair Wear Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization working to improve conditions for garment factory workers, have joined forces to combat child and forced labor in hidden and informal parts of garment and textile supply ...

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    Vaude reduces CO2 emissions by 5% while growing revenue by 13% in 2022

    2 August 2023

    Responsible business practices and successful economics can be directly linked, as Vaude shows in its latest Sustainability Report. For years, the German outdoor company has been vigorously pursuing the goal of continuously reducing its ecological footprint and significantly cutting CO2 emissions as quickly as possible. To achieve this, the company ...

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    100 years of Lowa: Another record year and the search for new target groups

    12 July 2023

    With the company now being in its 100th year, we talk to Lowa CEO Alexander Nicolai about expanding capacity, new segments and sustainability strategies.

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    Lowa joins Fair Wear Foundation

    17 May 2023

    As the first footwear-only manufacturer with production in Europe, Lowa has become a member of the Fair Wear Foundation at the beginning of 2023. The German outdoor footwear specialist, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, is thereby committed to fair and responsible production processes along the entire supply chain and ...

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    Julien Durant: “The biggest challenge is the fight against greenwashing”

    5 May 2023

    Picture Organic Clothing CEO Julien Durant has a clear mission: To solve the problems his company – and our industry – makes. Find out how.

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    New record sales in 2022 for Haglöfs

    15 March 2023

    Despite a challenging market, Swedish outdoor supplier Haglöfs saw sales increase 11 percent – an all-time high, driven by new products such as the new L.I.M Series Z|T collection – and profitability increased 25 percent in 2022. CEO Fredrik Ohlsson predicts that the structural trend for the outdoor industry ...

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    Latest major update of Higg Brand & Retail module released

    2 March 2023

    Assessment tools and reporting standards are evolving quickly: At the same time that the Global Reporting Initiative announced the planned creation of a whole new sector for textiles and apparel, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has released a major update to its Higg Brand & Retail Module (BRM). With this ...

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    Deuter achieves Fair Wear Leader status again

    20 January 2023

    German brand Deuter has confirmed its leader status with the multi-stakeholder initiative Fair Wear Foundation for the tenth time in a row, reaching 94 of the maximum of 100 points possible. The yearly check-up validates the implementation of fair working conditions in a company’s supply chain. Besides the measures taken ...

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    Jack Wolfskin launches social report 2021

    20 January 2023

    Jack Wolfskin has summarized its CSR efforts and achievements for fiscal 2021 in a new social report that has just been published. The company notes the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced it to develop new methods for effective collaboration with its 49 suppliers without being able to visit ...

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    Opinion: A Rab solution for the non-perfect world of CSR impact ratings?

    15 November 2022

    Rab (the U.K. outdoor brand owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies) has announced it is introducing an agnostic rating system on its product in the hope that it will persuade others to use something similar so that the public image of the industry is more consistent with what the public wants ...

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    Equip gains Fair Wear leader status after two years of membership

    12 September 2022

    The Fair Wear brand performance check published in August 2022 sees Equip Outdoor Technologies with its brands Rab and Lowe Alpine progressing in Fair Wear’s performance requirements regarding social responsibility along their supply chains. The U.K. company that has been a member of Fair Wear since 2020 has achieved the ...

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    BKMEA and Stitch sign MoU to ensure gender sensitive workplace and fair price

    26 August 2022

    With a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) and Stitch, the associations express their aim to ensure gender-sensitive workplace and fair prices from apparel and footwear buyers. Part of the new project is the implementation of the Fair Price App, a ...

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    Mammut releases ESG report, covering 2021 achievements and future goals

    9 August 2022

    In the company’s first sustainability report, Mammut provides an update on the social and ecological efforts along its supply chain in 2021. Mammut has been an EOCA member since 2006 and a founding member of the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. Since 2008, the brand has been audited ...

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    Haglöfs celebrates ten years of membership with Fair Wear

    27 June 2022

    Swedish brand Haglöfs has maintained its Fair Wear “Leader” status in the nonprofit’s 2021 annual brand performance check. The brand performance check system is designed to accommodate the range of structures and strengths of different companies and reflects how brands can support better working conditions. The brand has worked with ...

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    Schöffel publishes sustainability report 2021

    3 June 2022

    Source: Schöffel Sustainability Report 21 In its comprehensive sustainability report just published, Schöffel looks back on the efforts made to improve on transparency of the supply chain, product longevity and a reduction of CO2 emissions. Firstly, Schöffel collaborated for the first time with the University of Augsburg ...

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    Ortovox launches mountain lab educational platform Protact Lab

    25 May 2022

    The German brand Ortovox has launched a new multi-media information platform called Protact Lab. It offers multimedia guidance in German and English to motivate people to change their own behavior and mobilize the sports community for conscious consumption, care and repair, mobility choices and sustainable use of nature’s resources. The ...

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    Schöffel marks all products with the new Echo label, indicating sustainable aspects

    20 May 2022

    German brand Schöffel has introduced a new signet called “Echo’” to mark its products with sustainable aspects. The new sustainability label is an acronym for the words “environment,” “community,” “humanity,” and “opportunity” and will be added to every qualifying product as a hangtag and in communication. For ...

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    Oberalp group publishes sustainability report 2021 and holds Virtual Convention

    13 May 2022

    The Italian Oberalp Group, the owner of the Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Pomoca, Evolv and LaMunt brands, has published its comprehensive sustainability report ”Contribute 2021”. Oberalp has identified ten of the 17 UN goals for sustainable development, from decent work and education to responsible consumption and an increased share of ...

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    New coalition of Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Fair Wear and the Ethical Trading Initiative

    27 April 2022

    Following the launch of the The Industry We Want (TIWW) project geared towards ensuring ethical pay for workers, thriving businesses along the supply chain and a positive impact on the planet, the three organizations Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), Fair Wear Foundation and the Ethical Trading Initiative have joined forces to ...

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    Deuter launches social media campaign with factory workers on Fashion Revolution Day

    22 April 2022

    April 24 is Fashion Revolution Day, a commemorative date to remind us of the disaster at the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh in 2013, in which more than 1,000 people died in agony. Every year on this day people worldwide are called upon to make a statement and wear ...