Enhancing your brands’ factories with fair trade
Ready to begin your better business journey? Fair Trade Certified™ is your ticket! Here’s how becoming certified can help you.
Consolide la resiliencia de su cadena de suministro.
- Actively manage potential risk with rigorous fair trade standards ensuring safe working environments and improved conditions, wages, working hours, benefits, and the elimination of forced labor and poverty
- Improve operational efficiency and performance
- Get support and training in field to help ensure compliance to Fair Trade Certified Standards
- More sustainable income and better working conditions increase worker retention (less turnover and absenteeism) with more satisfied and engaged employees
- Improves workers’ lives and communities with Fair Trade Certified processes and Community Development Funds that contribute to long-term improvements in supplier communities, increasing resiliency
- Fair Trade Community Development Funds go directly to initiatives determined by workers for their benefit that support communities
- The Fair Trade Committee process engages worker voice and participation
Advance your Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals
- Accelerate your ESG/ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals
- With over 120 KPIs tracking to the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), your partnership with Fair Trade USA unlocks metrics that deliver on environmental, social, and economic sustainability commitments.
- Get visible, real outcomes
- Help reach B-Corp Certification
Fortalezca su marca.
- Mitigate potential reputational risk such as undetected labor violations in your supply chain
- Get peace of mind with rigorous, ISEAL-compliant third-party certification and auditing by Fair Trade USA ensures credibility of your commitments and demonstrates authenticity to your consumers
- Ensure traceability and transparency with data
- Evolve your brand compliance and cost (CSR) to value creation and innovation (ESG)
Build loyalty and meet your consumers’ demand
- 65% of consumers recognize the Fair Trade Certified seal
- 78% of consumers trust the Fair Trade Certified seal
- 1 in 3 consumers are more likely to purchase with the Fair Trade Certified seal
- 75% of consumers indicate a third-party certification provides trust that a product/company is taking sustainable action.
prAna: Unlocking Potential with Fair Trade Certified
By sourcing from a fair trade factory, businesses can invest in meaningful progress for garment workers. Rachel K. Lincoln, Director of Sustainability & Social Responsibility at prAna, shares how fair trade certification helps unlock the potential for change within the apparel industry.
Choosing Fair Trade Makes a Difference
85
Certified Organizations
Accelerate sourcing on Fair Trade Certified terms — Tap into over 85 Fair Trade Certified factories
$13 millones
Development Funds
En 2021, los socios de fábricas de comercio justo generaron 13 millones de dólares en fondos de desarrollo comunitario para promover comunidades prósperas y cadenas de suministro resistentes.
60+
Brand Partners
From babies’, kids’, women’s, and men’s clothing to shoes and furniture and blankets, we have certified a variety of factory-based businesses.
Fair Trade Certified Factories Map
We have partnered with Open Supply Hub and published an online list and map of Fair Trade Certified Factories for further supply chain transparency. This public list offers an easy-to-use interface for brands to explore factories currently sourcing on fair trade terms. Take a look at this interactive map to locate and learn more about Fair Trade Certified facilities.
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Vea por qué más de 1.500 empresas han elegido la certificación de comercio justo para cumplir con los objetivos de sostenibilidad, aumentar la confianza en la marca y llegar a más compradores.