S. Oliver

How sustainable is s.Oliver?

This scree­ning has been done by Fai­ri­fy on July 14^th 2020

S.Oliver Group is a Ger­man fashion com­pa­ny. It holds a num­ber of brands of which S.Oliver is the big­gest. The group has some initia­ti­ves to redu­ce its car­bon foot­print, like off­set­ting some of its ship­ping impact and using bet­ter finis­hing tech­ni­ques for its den­im pro­duc­tion, but doesn’t track and publish its car­bon foot­print and doesn’t offer enough trans­pa­ren­cy into its sup­p­ly chain.

The com­pa­ny is main­ly focu­sing on impro­ving its mate­ri­al sourcing. It wants to achie­ve 100% more sus­tainable cot­ton by 2030 and aims to increase that per­cen­ta­ge through its part­ner­ships with the Bet­ter Cot­ton Initia­ti­ve and Cot­ton Made in Afri­ca. The last known per­cen­ta­ge of more sus­tainable cot­ton was only 5%, and the tar­get for 2020 is set at 15%. The com­pa­ny is mohair-free sin­ce 2020, but still uses ani­mal-deri­ved mate­ri­als, like wool and lea­ther, from uncer­ti­fied sources.

S.Oliver Group has a Code of Con­duct and is a mem­ber of the Fair Labor Asso­cia­ti­on, which con­ducts inde­pen­dent audits, but doesn’t report on the audit fre­quen­cy or results and doesn’t pro­vi­de enough trans­pa­ren­cy con­cer­ning labor rights.

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