Sustainability
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Our Products
COLOUR TO MAKE YOURS
Fruit of the Loom has always been famous for beautiful colour. Whether it’s colour chosen to match a corporate identity, for promotions, sports teams, or as the blank canvas for decoration in the retail, music or tourism sectors, Fruit colour is renowned for its consistency and for coordinating perfectly across Men’s, Ladies and Kids styles.
All of our Moroccan-made styles are dyed in-house using only the very best eco-friendly dyes. We never overdye, and we vigorously test batch after batch to ensure your colour is consistent order after order. Whether you’re looking for vibrant solid colours, classic neutral and muted tones or sophisticated eye-catching fashion-led Marls… we’ve colour for everyone. Look out for our stunning new Heather Marls and brand new Iconic Cobalt Blue and Flame – exciting new colours to make yours.
ALL OUR GARMENTS ARE DESIGNED FOR DECORATION
Fruit of the Loom is committed to the garment decoration industry and bringing you the very best designs for every kind of embellishment.Thanks to our in-house manufacturing we’re able to innovate techniques and develop fabrics to bring you decorating surfaces you can count on time and time again. Fruit delivers consistent quality that garment decorators know they can trust. For enhanced printability, we make T’s with a fine knit gauge. All our Sweats have a 100% cotton face that gives you a great print canvas and offers excellent pilling performance. And our easy-care 65/35 Polos can be washed at 60°C.
Our certificates
WRAP CERTIFICATION
As further proof of our commitment to having the highest ethical standards, we adhere to the WRAP principles. WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production) is the world’s largest facility certification programme and whilst it is supported by the global apparel industry, it is totally independent.
WRAP is dedicated to ensuring lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing throughout the world. In order to receive certification for all our facilities and those of our suppliers we are regularly audited and must comply with the 12 WRAP principles.
These relate to areas such as workplace regulations, child labour, hours of work, health and safety, discrimination and security. Our certification shows that once again you can trust Fruit of the Loom to operate within the highest ethical and environmental standards.
OEKO-TEX ACCREDITATION
All our garments, whether made in-house or sourced, are approved to Oeko-Tex Standard 100. This certifies that they contain no substances harmful to people or the environment. Oeko-Tex is an internationally renowned testing certification system for textiles.
Test criteria are standardised across the world and include tests for pH-value, pesticides and heavy metals. Only when a garment is proved to contain no harmful substances is it granted Oeko-Tex approval.
MEMBER OF AMFORI
Member of amfori, the leading global business association for open and sustainable trade. We improve the social performance of our supply chain via amfori BSCI. For more information visit www.amfori.org
Our cotton
QUALITY GARMENTS START WITH QUALITY COTTON
We pride ourselves on using the best fabrics to make all of our quality garments. This starts with the use of the finest raw cotton. As a company committed to the respect for human rights, we only use ethically produced yarn to manufacture our garments. We do not use Uzbekistan cotton. We also require that all our suppliers and business partners refrain from purchasing cotton directly from Uzbekistan or knowingly source yarn or textiles from suppliers that source cotton from Uzbekistan, when manufacturing any of our sourced products.
The majority of our raw cotton is from the USA. Using the best quality raw materials, our manufacturing techniques also ensure that our fabrics meet market requirements. For example, our 100% cotton T-shirts are manufactured with a fine knit gauge for unbeatable printing performance and a revolutionary knitting technique means all of our Sweats are manufactured with 100% cotton face, keeping the polyester at the back of the Sweat fabric and the cotton at the front. This technique gives each Sweat greater durability and unbeatable pilling performance.
Our production
MAKE IT ETHICAL – THE ONLY WAY IT SHOULD BE
Fruit of the Loom doesn’t just make clothes; we make them the right way. For us, this means protecting the rights of everyone we work with and doing the right thing for the environment.
We have set our high standards in our own charter that we call The Fruit Code. And this doesn’t just apply to us – every supplier we work with has to meet the criteria and we carry out independent audits to ensure compliance.
All Fruit facilities are fully certified by the WRAP (an independent global organisation that guarantees legal, humane and ethical manufacturing) and our own Moroccan plant has been awarded a Gold Certificate of Compliance.
We only use ethically produced yarn and all our garments are approved by Oeko-Tex Standard 100. This approval certifies that they contain absolutely no substances that are harmful to humans or the environment. Our Moroccan plant includes its own water treatment facility that recycles up to 60% of the water we use, returning it to the river cleaner than when it arrived. As a result, the river bed has completely regenerated and is once again alive with fish and wildlife.
Our ethical and environmental credentials are leaders in the industry. If ethical manufacturing is important to your business – and it should be – do the right thing and choose Fruit of the Loom.
Complete control from the start to the end
Control is of vital importance to Fruit of the Loom and our huge custom manufacturing plant in Morocco gives us the control we need to bring you the garments you have.
Situated on a site the size of some 73 football pitches, our main building is the second largest in all of Africa and we are completely self-sufficient with our own substation and water treatment and recycling facilities.
Here we produce all our own garments – over 2 million each week – and the quality of the product and the ethical certainty of each garment can be assured by us. Delivery to more than 75 countries!
Our Code of Conduct
Fruit of the Loom is committed to carrying out its activities in accordance with the highest standards of business ethics and respect for human rights and in compliance with all applicable laws. We also require that our suppliers, licensees, distributors and other business partners comply with these standards. While the Company recognizes that there are different cultural, legal and ethical systems in the countries where different products are manufactured, our Code of Conduct sets forth certain basic requirements that must be met by all plants, both domestic and foreign, whether owned by the Company or by our contractors, licensees or other business partners. All of our business partners must have the Code of Conduct posted in their plants in both English and the local language.
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SUPPLY CHAIN CODE OF CONDUCT
Our company has been committed for many years to conducting its business ethically, guaranteeing respect for human rights and the law. We choose business partners who share this commitment. As stated in the Fruit of the Loom Code of Conduct, we strive to maintain consistent standards at all sites involved in the manufacture and distribution of our products.
FRUIT OF THE LOOM SIGNS AGREEMENT ON BUILDING AND FIRE SAFETY IN BANGLADESH
Fruit of the Loom is committed to ensuring the safety of the workers who manufacture our products in Bangladesh and throughout our supply chain. As part of that commitment, on 16 December 2013 we signed the Bangladesh Agreement on Building and Fire Safety, a separate agreement designed to make all textile factories in Bangladesh safe workplaces.
At the same time, Fruit of the Loom intends to remain an active member of the Bangladesh Workers’ Safety Alliance. We believe that our participation in both the Agreement and the Alliance enables us to best ensure the safety of Bangladeshi textile workers.
Corporate Resposibility
In addition to producing our own garments, we also take care of our workers. A staff of almost 4,300 locally employed people work in shifts at our manufacturing and sewing plants and we ensure the respect and well-being of our employees with benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, training and transportation.
Safety in the factory is a priority: we have a dedicated fire brigade and each employee is always within three metres of a fire exit in this state-of-the-art facility.
In Morocco, we are committed to adopting manufacturing processes that generate less waste, which is why we research techniques that result in the best quality garments for decoration manufactured in the best possible way.
And as well as quality you can trust, total control of production means we can provide a service you can also rely on; with a permanent stock of over fifty million garments always in stock, we can provide you with exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
Human Trafficking And Modern Slavery Disclosure Statement
In compliance with the regulations of the California Supply Chain Transparency Act (SB 657) (“CTSCA”) and the Modern Slavery Act of 2015 (“MSA”) the following statement discloses and updates the policies and actions of Fruit of the Loom and its affiliated companies, including Fruit of the Loom, Inc. ; Union Underwear Company, Inc. d/b/a Fruit of the Loom; Fruit of the Loom, Ltd.; and Russell Brands, LLC (collectively, “Fruit of the Loom” or “Company”) relating to human trafficking or modern-day slavery in our supply chain during 2017.
Fruit of the Loom defines trafficking in persons as an act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person through the use of force, coercion or other means for the purpose of exploitation. Fruit of the Loom defines modern-day slavery as including any form of servitude, forced or compulsory labor, and human trafficking.
We are committed to continually monitoring and improving the effectiveness of prevention efforts and will incorporate key learnings into the improvement of our policy and practices to eliminate any form of human trafficking or modern-day slavery in the factories that produce our family of brands.