What we can prove
This page contains no promises. It contains figures, drawn from our own catalogue and recalculated every time it loads. When the catalogue changes, they change with it.
Our catalogue holds 337 products. What you see here is not a flattering selection: it is all of them, with what they can back up and what they cannot.
99 %
of our products show their country of manufacture.
334 products out of 337: we flag the other 3 further down. Almost all of them are made outside Europe (329 out of 334).
There is no European equivalent for what we sell, at the volumes and prices of promotional textiles. Writing “reshoring” would be a promise we would not keep. What we can do is demand the evidence: 234 products come from a BSCI or SMETA audited site.
Breakdown as declared by suppliers
- China227
- Bangladesh74
- India8
- Philippines7
- Other countries18
What makes it into the catalogue
A product does not get in because it looks green. Each product page shows what a third party has verified (material, factory) or what the supplier publishes (origin, footprint), and, failing that, its brand’s documented concept, stated as such. Today, 229 of our 337 products carry at least one material certification, and 46 carry at least two.
20 products carry neither a material certification nor a social audit: their page relies on their brand’s documented concept.
Browse the catalogueThe catalogue, measured
Out of 337 published products, computed at render from the same data that feeds the product pages.
GRS, RCS, GOTS, OCS, FSC, RDS or OEKO-TEX. AWARE is not counted here: it is a material tracer, not a certification.
They come from a BSCI or SMETA audited site. The audit covers working conditions, not the material.
They show their country of manufacture. An origin is attested, never guessed.
Their carbon footprint is published by their supplier. Elsewhere the line is simply absent.
253 of 337 products display a measured carbon footprint, published by their supplier, or 75 %.
Among the 169 products whose supplier also publishes their category average, 167 sit below that average, or 99 %. The product page shows the gap both ways, below as well as above.
What each proof attests, and what it does not
No label says “this product is ecological”. Each one says one precise thing, over a precise scope. Here is what our products carry, by nature of evidence.
Recycled material
GRS and RCS trace the share of recycled material, from source to finished product. RCS stops there. GRS adds social and environmental requirements on processing sites, and bans hazardous chemicals there.
Organic cotton
GOTS and OCS attest the organic growing of the fibre. GOTS adds social criteria, OCS does not.
Wood, paper, cork
FSC attests a sustainably managed forest. It measures no carbon footprint.
Harmful substances in the finished product
OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 attests the absence of harmful substances in the finished product. It is neither an organic label nor a social one, and it says nothing about the chemicals used during manufacturing.
Social audit
BSCI and SMETA audit the factory, not the product. They say nothing about the material.
Material traceability
AWARE is a physical tracer added to the fibre: it verifies that a declared material is genuinely there. It is not an environmental certification, and we do not count it as one.
What our brands stand for
10 brands in the catalogue prove it differently: through a company certification, through an attestation recorded product by product, or through a commitment they publish themselves. Each one is named, and we separate what is verified from what is merely stated.
Concept brandsWhat we do not know
84 products show no carbon footprint.
Their supplier publishes no life-cycle assessment. We do not compute one in their place: a footprint inferred from a weight and a material would be an invented number, not a measurement.
3 products do not show their country of manufacture.
Their supplier does not publish it.
Check for yourself
Every product page shows its evidence, and the absence of it where there is none. It is the same data as this page.