Retail & CPG
Sustainable Apparel
Sustainable Apparel, Footwear + Textiles through Strategy, Transparency & Integration
Sustainability in the Apparel, Textiles, Footwear and Homeware Industries
Brands and retailers are facing increasing pressure from the media, consumers, NGOs, investors, and governments to deliver on sustainability goals. To thrive in the industry requires innovation and transparency across the value chain, careful consideration of all stakeholder perspectives, and the integration of a solid, sustainable business model to address company and sector-wide issues and, ultimately, drive sustainable performance.
Our team is trusted advisors to some of the most well-known clothing companies – including in the world. Expertise and experience along the whole value chain combined with a genuine passion for the sector, both people and product, allows us to put our clients on a strategic pathway to sustainability and success.
Our Framework for Sustainable Apparel
Apparel, Textiles, Footwear & Homeware Sustainability Consulting
Building productive, long-lasting relationships with clients is at the heart of the Anthesis approach to deliver sustainability agendas that result in long-term, positive impacts. With extensive experience in the sector, we support a wide range of apparel, textiles, footwear, and homeware clients from fast-growing online retailers to luxury players and independent brands. Our experts are proud members of the SBT Apparel & Footwear Expert Advisory Group and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), as well as the Textile Exchange.
We have proven experience in delivering sustainable solutions for fashion, textiles, footwear and homeware clients in a range of areas, including:
- Strategy Development and Target Setting
- Responsible Chemical Management and Sustainable Chemistry
- Sustainable Products and Fibres
- Environmental and Social Issues within supply chains
- Circular Economy and Waste Solutions
The Anthesis Way
The Fashion and Textiles industry creates enormous impacts across the value chain. With that comes enormous responsibilities and enormous opportunities for positive, systemic change and innovative, collaborative solutions.
With misinformation rife, it is hard to know who to trust to support you to understand your impacts and the opportunities your business and brand have to make a difference. Anthesis supports brands, retailers, and other sectors players to take practical, measurable action on sustainability issues in their business and value chain.
We work collaboratively and flexibly with our clients to support them to grow their knowledge and understanding and make real, lasting change. With a full suite of services to support our clients from baselining through to communications and reporting to internal implementation support, Anthesis is here to help as a trusted advisor and critical friend, lightening the load, shortening your to-do lists, and finding a path through.
The HIGG Brand & Retail Module (BRM)
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition, representing more than one-third of the global apparel and footwear industries, was formed by sustainability leaders and leading organizations to address current social and environmental challenges. Recognizing that improved supply chain practices are both a business imperative and an opportunity, the Coalition seeks to lead a shared vision of industry supply chain sustainability through the creation and use of the Higg Index.
Tools to Support the Apparel Sector
We build custom tools and leverage leading technology solutions to support our apparel, fashion, textiles and footwear clients. While we are software agnostic, we are experts in deploying, using and training clients on the following software tools:
Footprinter – Footprinter supports clients in a number of ways; from sustainable product design assessments to operational level footprints. Our clients using the software include Reckitt Benckiser, Target and Pepsico.
Clean CO2 – Clean CO2 is a carbon management tool that allows companies to offset and reduce their carbon footprint. It accompanies users throughout the process of neutralising their company’s activities and greenhouse gas emissions, helping them to achieve carbon neutrality by investing in projects to reduce emissions, such as energy efficiency, renewable energies and carbon sinks.
ACDC – Anthesis Compliance Data Collection is a free spreadsheet-based tool designed to alleviate the common barriers to efficient data exchange and promote reuse of declarations across the supply chain.
Supply Shift – This is a leading software tool for collecting data from supply chains, helping drive action on sustainability and ESG performance specifically.
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Apparel, Textiles, Footwear and Homeware Sustainability Services
Building productive, long-lasting relationships with clients is at the heart of the Anthesis approach to delivering sustainability agendas that result in long-term, positive impact. With extensive experience in the sector, we support a large range of apparel and homeware clients from fast-growing online retailers to luxury players and independent brands. Our experts are proud members of the SBT Apparel & Footwear Expert Advisory Group and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC).
Apparel Sustainability Services
We have proven experience in delivering sustainable solutions for fashion and homeware clients in a range of areas, including:
Strategy Development and Target Setting – with a wealth of experience in developing strategy and targets for the retail sector and brands, we will help you to prioritise action, set targets and develop a robust strategy to create the foundation of your sustainability programme. We can also support on materiality assessments, impact assessments, sustainability reporting, ESG programme recommendations, brand pathways and positioning, and the internal development and sign off of sustainability and GHG targets.
Responsible Chemical Management and Sustainable Chemistry – To avoid supply disruption and reputational risk, it is essential to understand what chemicals are present in products, the level of risk they may pose to the human health and environment, and also to monitor whether they are targeted by any regulatory actions.
With world-leading expertise in sustainable chemistry and responsible sourcing, we are well-placed to help organisations develop and implement leading chemical management programmes and RSLs, identify substances to phase out and develop substitution strategies for hazardous chemicals.
Sustainable Products and Fibres – We have a wealth of knowledge and strong track record in realistic, easy-to-use solutions that help companies baseline and footprint different fibres, benchmark fibres and products, and implement sustainable resource design. Our team has world-leading expertise in training and resource development, product assessment (i.e. LCA) and can provide certification guidelines and support to become certified to standards like GOTS or GRS.
Environmental and Social Issues within supply chains – We understand the need for data to drive business decisions and can support capturing your scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as well as the support needed to tackle those emissions across your business and supply chain.
Circular Economy and Waste Solutions – We have world-leading expertise in waste and resources, including lifecycle assessments and footprinting, benchmarking, baseline assessments, and data collection, combined with cutting-edge capabilities in the new and growing field of circular economy, circular business models, and recycling.
Our recent work in the apparel and homeware sectors
