Product With Purpose
4 Custom Merchandise Trends for 2023 Earlier this year, the Fairware crew spent a few days at the PPAI Expo, our industry’s largest tradeshow. It’s where we get to spend time with our top suppliers and check out the new…
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We’re big advocates of driving change by being the change. That’s why we are big fans of social enterprises. Specifically, we’d like to bring to light a wonderful organization that we’ve been fortunate to work with: Helping Hand Partners. Social…
Read moreabout:Social Enterprises: Helping Hand Partners – Giving Communities a Hand
UPDATE: October 23, 2013. Just heard from Gildan (Corporate Communications team) and have an update on this issue. Gildan is dropping 6 of the 8 sustainable styles from the line in 2014. The Youth, Long Sleeve, 490/498 Ringspun and the…
Read moreabout:Headlines and Hemlines: What Will the Gildan-Anvil Deal Mean for Anvil’s Sustainability Mandate?
The co-founders of Fairware – a growing BC company based in Vancouver – are being recognized as two of Canada’s most successful, creative and business-savvy women entrepreneurs. On October 1, Fairware’s Chief Executive Officer Denise Taschereau and Chief Operating Officer…
Read moreabout:Fairware Innovators Ranked Among Top Women Canadian Entrepreneurs
Flawsome. It’s a seemingly silly word that paints a bigger picture of the changing face of customer-business relationships—and it’s a concept we think is pretty downright awesome. Coined by Trendwatching.com as one of their 12 Crucial Customer Trends of 2012,…
Read moreabout:FLAWSOME: Humanizing Businesses
This month, we want to give a big shout-out to a charity that hits close to home—our cities. Evergreen Canada is a national charity that has been at the forefront of making our cities more liveable for almost 20 years!…
Read moreabout:FAIRWARE CRUSH: EVERGREEN A Mission Towards Urban Sustainability
Last week, we posted a piece on bioplastics and the problems that arise from improper disposal of bioplastic and plastic products. Primarily, we touched on the misconceptions regarding labelling. Labels are sometimes misleading and the terminology used is often confusing….
Read moreabout:EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES PART 2: DEGRADABLE VS. BIODEGRADABLE VS. COMPOSTABLE
We talk a lot about sustainable alternatives to commonly used products here at Fairware—from re-purposed and recycled items to organic textiles. It’s actually quite amazing how many options there are when making a conscious choice to buy better products. Take…
Read moreabout:EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES: A LOOK AT BIOPLASTICS (Pt. 1)
This month marks one year since we launched a unique project aimed at expanding the lifespan of lanyards. We sell a lot of lanyards at Fairware—those fabric necklaces that are handed out at conventions or conferences, usually bearing the…
Read moreabout:LENDING TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY: LANYARD LIBRARY
As we noted a few weeks ago in our post on Nature’s Path, there remains a fair bit of ambiguity around the word “organic” for the average consumer—particularly when talking about clothing. When we launched our new website this month,…
Read moreabout:ECO-SHOPPING: Organic Cotton vs. Conventional Cotton
In a culture of consumerism, the lifespan of a product tends to be short and linear. It is made, sold, bought and then very unceremoniously tossed in the trash when it has been determined unusable or simply unnecessary. That is…
Read moreabout:BRAND BUY-BACK: A Look at Eco-Cycology
Running an environmentally conscious business with a global supply chain, we at Fairware are faced with the reality that shipping has an impact on the environment. But not all shipments have the same impact. It is the general assumption that…
Read moreabout:Environmental Impacts of Shipping
