Odlo achieves “Leader” Status in Fair Wear’s Brand Performance Check

Our partnership with Fair Wear is a critical part of our “Make it Fair” sustainability commitment. At the heart of this commitment is a belief that every person working in our facilities and within our supply chain has the right to fair working conditions, a healthy lifestyle and overall well-being in the workplace.

Fair Wear Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation that works to improve conditions for workers in garment factories. The Brand Performance Check (BPC) is Fair Wear’s annual audit of its member brands. Conducted by independent Fair Wear employees, it evaluates how companies implement human rights due diligence across their supply chains.

The assessment is structured around four categories of indicators and results in a benchmark score. Based on this score, brands are classified as:

• Leader

• Good

• Needs Improvement

This ensures a transparent, impartial comparison of performance across the industry.

Reaching “Leader” status didn’t happen overnight. It took us three years of cross-functional work from our teams across Product, Sourcing, Sustainability, Finance and Marketing. It meant looking at our processes, assessing what we do well (and where we had gaps) and implementing measures that are meaningful and can be sustained in the long run. It also meant making mistakes and learning from it.

Achieving “Leader” status – the highest possible recognition from Fair Wear – is acknowledgement of that hard work. It also demonstrates our commitment to responsible working conditions in our supply chain and ensuring the people who make our products are treated fairly.

Over the past year, we have strengthened many parts of our approach:

Clear and transparent partnerships  We onboard new suppliers carefully and share all of our production facilities with Fair Wear, so our supply chain is fully transparent.

Improved cross functional collaboration  Our sustainability, sourcing and product teams now work more closely together. With our Supplier Scorecard, everyone uses the same information to make responsible sourcing decisions.

Stronger understanding of workers’ realities  We look beyond traditional audits. We also use training feedback, grievance mechanisms, and direct conversations to identify where workers may face risks – and act on them quickly.

Listening to suppliers  By asking suppliers for honest feedback about our purchasing practices, we have identified where we can improve and where our collaboration supports better working conditions.

Pushing fair wages forward  Through the STS2030 “United for Fair Wages” project, we developed our Living Wage Roadmap, a plan to help ensure workers in our supply chain earn a wage they can live on.

Achieving “Leader” status is an important milestone for us, which we achieved two years earlier than planned. However, we know we can do more.

Johanna Heimlicher, Sustainability Director at Odlo, commented on the need to remain proactive:

“Achieving Leader status is an important milestone and recognition of the due‑diligence system we are implementing at Odlo. We will continue to work hard to deepen our efforts across the supply chain, with a clear focus on protecting vulnerable groups and addressing root causes proactively.”

We want to strengthen the systems behind our work so that every team at Odlo can meaningfully support suppliers and improve workers’ lives. This means:

• Addressing root causes, not just fixing issues when they appear

• Empowering workers, especially women and migrant workers, so their voices are heard and respected

• Expanding access to grievance mechanisms, ensuring every worker has a safe way to speak up

• Advancing living wages, so more workers in our supply chain can earn enough for a decent standard of living

We can do more, and this is just the start. Find out more about our sustainability commitments here.