Green is the true chic.

Conscious that we are part of an industry that is not inherently social and green, our objective is to take steps towards a more responsible version of ourselves.

For many years, we have been committed to multiplying our activities in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in order to reduce our carbon footprint and fight social inequalities.

Hence, in 2012 we launched our CARES© program (Cosfibel Actions for Responsible and Ethical Sustainability) and we are willing to keep pioneering our industry to build a better future.

Our 4 pillars for
sustainable development

INTEGRITY

Honesty, transparency and ethics are the fundamental values that we have always been sharing with our collaborators, suppliers, partners and clients. Subsequently fostering loyalty, respect and the quality of human relationships.

EDUCATION

We are continuously involved in the training of our suppliers and manufacturing partners to improve their environmental and social impacts. Additionally, we always guide our clients to better understand and measure the impact of their purchases in terms of CSR & sustainability.

DARING

We are convinced that change will be stimulated by our creativity, our ability to think out-of-the-box, our continuous R&D investments & our holistic test & learn approach.

DURABILITY

CSR is not a trend for Cosfibel, it has been a long-term investment for our teams and partners. Further, we are convinced that the choice of quality materials together with smart design make our products re-usable and last longer : this is our key for sustainable development.

People are at the core
of our CSR policy

Overtime, we have bred forceful social and ethics standards as a guide for our employees, contractors & business partners to endorse.

Health, Safety
& Human rights

Committed to safeguard the health, security and freedom of our employees and of the people manufacturing our products, we are actively fighting slavery, non-regulatory work conditions and any forms of discrimination.

Business integrity
& ethics

Our compliance with regulatory requirements, integrity & ethics conducts our teams towards making decisions aligned with the mission, vision and values of our organization. We have a zero-tolerance policy against bribery, corruption or any type of fraud.

Social
inclusion

We firmly believe in the power of diversity and we favor social inclusion of underprivileged people. Our favorites partners employ handicapped workers, ex-migrants and fragile or low-income communities. We also favor women-owned companies.

Our future will rely
on sustainability

Above all, we put design, innovation and quality at the center of our sustainable approach. We strongly believe that our priority is to fight waste by designing products that consumers will be able to keep and reuse for a very long time. In addition, our ambition is to continuously optimize and monitor the use of resources along our entire supply chain to reduce our creations’ environmental footprint.

Ecodesign

Our R&D engineers actively cooperate with our designers to reduce the size & number of components used in our products and favor mono-material options to optimize our creations’ environmental impact. Our ambition is to always promote packs & gifts with optimized lifecycles.

Innovative materials

Our goal is to continue increasing the eco-material purchases by 20% every year and always recommend the use of recycled, recyclable, renewable and / or certified materials to our clients.

Manufacturing

We monitor the environmental and social compliance of our manufacturers by missioning our teams of experts and third-party accredited bodies to roll out audits on-site. Furthermore, we continuously upskill our partners on energy saving & waste programs while co-developing alternative durable production processes with them.

Logistics

We have increased our level of requirements regarding the selection of our transportation partners to favor the most environmentally-friendly solutions. At comparable size, we have reduced our CO2 emissions by 10% each of the past years, reduced air shipments by 25% and doubled up rail transportation.
Take a look at our logistics.

Impact analysis

We have been working on improving our products’ environmental impact estimation and lifecycle analysis in collaboration with Bureau Veritas and third-party softwares. By tracking and monitoring the results and improvements of our CSR actions, we intensify transparency with our clients and the end user of their products.

Our actions to bring sustainability to life

Additionally to our investments to make our supply chain more sustainable, our design teams continuously create eco-collections across all our product range, from boxes to bags and accessories. We also partner with our clients to co-design tailored CSR plans that will empower their pack & gift strategy by supporting the causes they stand for.

Carbon
neutrality

We provide carbon-efficient manufacturing and transportation solutions to our clients and propose a wide range of programs to compensate for the CO2 emissions of the purchased items. Furthermore, we repeatedly support our production partners in their energy saving initiatives.

Women
empowerment

Cosfibel is signatory of the UN Global Compact (2012) and Women's Empowerment Principles (2019) and has been partnering with factories owned or managed by women, certified by WeConnect International, a NGO supporting women entrepreneur. Gender balance starts in our own teams where not only 2/3 of our employees are women but also 2/3 of our leadership committee.

Integration of
handicapped employees

We believe in the power of diversity within our teams and partner with organizations that help disabled people back into work such as ESATs in France, whose standards ensure them an international social support and safe environment.

Protection of
migrant workers

Since 2016, Cosfibel has been sponsoring factories located in inner China regions and employing ex-migrants. These rural factories help support local employment and enable their workers to be closer to their families. As such, they have the ability to go back home on a regular basis, which is not the case of most of Chinese factory workers.

Cosfibel Certification and commitments

The traceability of our materials and the whole supply chain are audited and certified by eco-labels. Our designers carry out the best efforts to create products that can comply with their requirements.
Thereupon, your brand can highlight sustainability certifications by displaying the labels’ logos right on your products and reassure your consumers.

FAIRTRADE INTERNATIONAL

Since 2019, we are licensee of Max Havelaar for our made-in-Fairtrade ® cotton items. Their supply chain ensures fair income for the cotton pickers and stands against abusive chemical use.

ECOVADIS

In 2022 we were honored to upscale from the Ecovadis Gold to Platinum award. Our continuous efforts were recognized by Ecovadis who granted our teams with the highest score, positioning Cosfibel in the top 1% of companies rated by the label in the industry.

GOTS

Since 2021, we have been GOTS certified and are developing GOTS supply chain and promoting GOTS products.

GLOBAL COMPACT

Since 2012, we have renewed our vows on a yearly basis towards the United Nations program and its sustainable development goals.

FSC ^®-certified*

FSC^®* helps to preserve forests and the people and wildlife they support. Every year, Cosfibel sells more than a million FSC^®-certified* items.

GLOBAL RECYCLED STANDARD

We are certified to the GRS, which certifies recycled material from the source to final product.

CARBON DISCLOSURE PROJECT