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… Read moreabout:Merch That’s On Trend For 2023
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
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