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 341 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.
338 products out of 341: we flag the other 3 further down. Almost all of them are made outside Europe (333 out of 338).
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 say who claims what: for 192 products, the supplier declares a BSCI or SMETA social audit.
Breakdown as declared by suppliers
- China222
- Bangladesh84
- Philippines7
- India7
- 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, 214 of our 341 products carry at least one material certification, and 21 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 341 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.
Their supplier declares a BSCI or SMETA social audit. 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.
248 of 341 products display a measured carbon footprint, published by their supplier, or 73 %.
Among the 167 products whose supplier also publishes their category average, 165 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
19 products have neither third-party evidence nor a documented brand concept.
No material certification, no social audit, and its brand publishes no commitment we can attribute. Its page says so plainly and shows what does remain verifiable: the material itself.
93 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.