Compliance
Our compliance department is fully dedicated to ensure Gerard Fres Ltd. Keeps on maintaining up to date general compliance standard.
Environmental resilience and sustainable materials
We are well versed in incorporating sustainable yarns and recycled fibers in producing knitwear and garments for our clients. Traceability and transparency is today a key element in the textile industry, being one of our strategy and main focus. Our design department is always looking for new “eco friendly” yarn such organic, recycle, BCI, Eco Vero, FSC, etc.… to encourage our customers to move toward that same environmental friendly direction. As of today, 50% of the yarn we are using is coming from a sustainable source. Our goal is to achieve 80% within 2025. There has been rising awareness of global environmental and social problems, that is why we are constantly evaluating and helping our yarn mill partner to meet stringent social and environmental norms in order to work with us.
Safe and fair workplaces
We constantly strive to improve the working conditions and safety of the workers. All our suppliers must accept the minimum standards outlined in our GFL CODE OF CONDUCT in order to make business with us. The document outlines requirements and guidelines on how to maintain safe workplaces, respect fundamental rights, enable environmental resilience and operate with a high standard of business transparency and ethics. In addition with our GFL CODE OF CONDUCT, we are working and helping our partners factory to strictly respect and adapt to each of our client special’s requirements. All our factories are BSCI / WRAP certified and following compliance requirement from RSC (Ready made Sustainable Council and/or ALLIANCE.
