Sustainable Brand Platform

Sustainability Rating

Sustainability rating

Rated: 4 out of 6

Value Chain Outerwear

Value Chain Ready to wear

Company Sustainability

Community

Traceability
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Company Info
Brand Name	Esemplare
Country	Italy
Company size	independent brand
Category evaluated	Outerwear and Ready to Wear
Category	Outerwear and Ready to Wear
Established in:	2014
Website	https://www.esemplare.com/
Instagram	https://www.instagram.com/esemplare_official/
Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/esemplare

Next Sustainable Goals and SBP challenge

Recognized by the United Nations as a project to accelerate the implementation of sustainable actions in the fashion industry, Sustainable Brand Platform has committed to tracking future goals pursued by brand.

Total goals

31/12/23

Next check date

Goals achieved

Goals to achieve

Next Sustainable Goals

Here below the goals that the brand aims to achieve in the near future:

	Deadline	Status
Raw Materials Using only certified and sustainable raw materials.	31/12/2023	in progress
Production Localizing all the production sites in Italy.	31/12/2023	in progress
Logistics Limiting the transportations and using if possible only sustainable mobility services.	31/12/2023	in progress
Donation, charity and awareness campaign Becoming a B Corp. Certified company and using our profit to build a school to develop young fashion students' know-how.	31/12/2024	in progress
Employee satisfaction 1 Involving everyone in our project and share the achievements together.	31/12/2023	in progress
Renewable energy Using only certified renewable energy in every process and phase of our work.	31/12/2022	in progress
Circular economy Recycling all our fabrics and accessories waste.	31/12/2023	in progress
Others Setting up a reparations service for our customers to increase the durability of our sold items.	31/12/2023	in progress

Main Goal pursued based on SDGs

INNOVATION, TRACEABILITY & TRANSPARENCY

Sustainability info

Esemplare is an Italian outerwear and ready to wear brand which combines advanced technologies and respects the environment and every human being focusing on pure and essential design and its product's functionality.

Continuous research, development and experimentation with materials are the basis for its collections.

Value Chain

Esemplare sources its raw materials 100% in Italy. The production part, on the other hand, is mostly located in Bulgaria. A small part of it is in Romania and Italy. When it comes to the part of packaging and logistics of the value chain, the focus is almost completely in Italy.

Regarding the raw materials, the brand uses only natural, recycled and regenerated materials.

About the product development activity, Esemplare uses digital softwares to create prototypes with deadstock of old collections to avoid waste of materials.

In terms of packaging, it uses both recycled and compostable materials.

The logistic supplier uses 100% renewable energy.

Esemplare has visited its production and logistics suppliers in order to be aware of the working conditions of its suppliers' workers.

Company Sustainability

Esemplare has a certified electric system and a fire evacuation plan, as well as a Workplace Preparedness Emergency Plan in its company's building.

Furthermore, the brand also provides a verified paid social contribution to its employees.

Besides the company safety, Esemplare follows an ethical company code and provides general services for free.

The brand organizes webinars or meetings about sustainable issues, such as fair working conditions, to spread awareness among its employees.

The team consists of more than 25 people and more than 80% of the team are women, of whom more than 40% are on the top management board. Moreover, to raise social inclusion, more than 20% of workers are migrants.

The company makes not only energy from its own e-system, but also recycles more than 80% of its general waste.

Community

Since 1 year Esemplare has been making donations to the ActionAid foundation (https://actionaid.org/) during Christmas time.

The brand has recently planted 610 trees in Guatemala and 390 trees in Perù supporting 250 people with ZeroCO2 as project to become carbon neutral.

Esemplare organises an annual archive sale for its employees' families and friends to sell its stock items at a very low price.

Customer Care

Esemplare provides to its customers with all the information they need to preserve and to make the products last longer.

Customers can find these information on the brand's website in the "composition & care" section. Esemplare's customer care service team is also available for any questions about how to properly take care of the products.

Certifications

Raw Materials
Production
Packaging
Logistics

Blockchain

Last blockchain update

31 March 2022

Supply Chain Track

Referred to: Outerwear Category


Raw Materials¹	Production²	Packaging³	Logistics⁴
Made in Italy	Made in Bulgaria	Made in Italy	Made in Italy

¹ 100% of the collection Made in Italy.
² 70% of the collection Made in Bulgaria. 25% of the collection Made in Romania. 5% of the collection Made in Italy.
³ 80% of the collection Made in Italy. 20% of the collection Made in China.
⁴ 100% of the collection Made in Italy.

Questions & Answers

1	What does sustainability mean to you? - Durability - Adopting fair work practices - Minimal use of chemical elements - Using recycled materials - Fair worker conditions
2	What do you think your target audience's priorities are? - Quality/Design - Comfort - Sustainability
3	Is your communication properly inspired by your level of sustainability? What should you do to improve it? It is, but it can be better: we need to communicate a sustanability that can reach the emotional side of our customers.
4	What is your sustainable mission? We aim to create garments that are the result of the application of the principles of circular economy: garments that do not use harmful to human being and the environment chemicals; garments made of only certified raw materials; garments produced only in socially responsible laboratories.