Looking after your employees sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Ensuring, as a company, that their work allows them to stay healthy, live on their salary, put food on the table and keep their children in school? Unfortunately, this isn’t always a given.

But we can do it, because we have our own employees in our own factories. And at the same time we can optimise our processes to benefit the planet as much as possible. Owning our own production has both made us more humble and given us a greater understanding of the long-term approach required. Sustainability is a complex area where it takes patience, commitment and perseverance to do things well from the bottom up. We’re not done yet, but having full ownership means we decide things for ourselves and don’t have to rely on someone else to do the job for us.

When our factory in Bangladesh reaches full capacity in 2026, ninety-eight percent of our clothing and footwear will be made in our own production. We have factories in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

In total, we have eight factories and close to 8,000 employees – pattern makers, design technicians, buyers, salespeople, logisticians, IT specialists, team leaders, seamstresses, quality controllers, cutters, forklift drivers, warehouse workers, cleaners, mechanics, HR specialists and many more who contribute to a more sustainable textile industry every day. As an employer, it is our responsibility to give them the best possible conditions to do so.