The Footprint Chronicles
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We move supply chain info to our product pages for maximum transparency
Great King of the Americas Sewing Factory A Patagonia supplier since 2006
Kingwhale Industries Corp. Textile Mill A Patagonia supplier since 2005
Deer Creek Fabrics Textile Mill A Patagonia supplier since 1978
Would you like to know where that Synchilla® Snap-T® Pullover was made and where the fabric came from? You can find it on the product page of patagonia.com, along with its price, selection of colors and customer reviews. The same is true for every Patagonia product. We made this important change in the interest of maximum transparency, wanting our customers to know exactly what they’re buying and where and how it was made. Whereas before it could be difficult to find supply chain information in The Footprint Chronicles® section of our website, now it’s pretty much unavoidable. “We wanted to make each product’s supply chain more transparent by putting it directly in the path of the customer so it’s easy to learn about every supplier who touched that product,” said Patagonia’s Interactive Art Director John Goodwin. “We wanted to foster interest and awareness this way—and hopefully influence other companies to also examine and report on their supply chains.” Each product page also has a link to the greater Footprint Chronicles page, which features every factory that makes or contributes to Patagonia clothing and gear; profiles of the social and environmental practices of key suppliers and fabric mills, with accompanying essays, slide shows and videos; and profiles of key independent partners who vet social and environmental practices throughout our supply chain. In addition to textile mills and sewing factories, we’ve now also added a couple of farms to our interactive Footprint map and hope to add more. Because commodities such as cotton and down come from multiple sources, they can be tough to trace as they make their way through the supply chain. The farm is often the first place a commodity is born or consolidated. By better knowing our farms, we can better know and show the agricultural origins of the products we make. Visit any product page for footprint information at patagonia.com.
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