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GOTS certified children garments at dm-drogerie markt awarded

16. August 2013
  Another award for GOTS certified products, this time for dm's brand “Alana”: The "Green Brand Germany 2013/2014”. The award was created in 2011 by the international Green Brands Organization and is supported by other independent institutions. The yearly winner is selected by a high-rank...

Göttin des Glücks first to publish a Common Good Balance Sheet

16. August 2013
Recently the GOTS certified Austrian Company Göttin des Glücks published their second Common Goods Balance Sheet. Based on their own information, they were the first global company to introduce this type of analysis in 2012. The idea of the economy for the common good depends on an alternative ...

Outdoor-Award for GOTS certified products

16. August 2013
The running shirt of the first GOTS certified athletic wear of the German company Engel was awarded the "Outdoor industry Award Best New Products" at Outdoor Friedrichshafen 11 July in the Sustainable Products category. This GOTS certified functional sports underwear - made from superfine non-m...

IVN rejects H&M’s call for new ecolabel for textiles

16. August 2013
In Germany more and more calls for an overall sustainability textile standard can be heard.  Whereas the International Association of Natural Textile Industry (IVN), one of the four founding members of the GOTS international working group, considers this unnecessary. "The Fashion Industry ...

Memorandum of Understanding with CNTAC - German Company Dibella sponsors gifts for the conference

16. August 2013
  In July 2013, GOTS and China National Textile and Apparel Council  signed a Memorandum of Understanding as an official milestone to mark collaboration between two organizations. CNTAC is composed of enterprises, companies, buyers, retailers and other interested parties within the ent...

EU organic regulation – European Commission review concludes that organic textiles will remain out of scope

16. August 2013
The EU Commission (DG Agriculture) is in the final stages of a comprehensive review of the EU organic regulation looking at four key issues: ∗    Simplifying the legal framework, whilst ensuring standards are not watered down;∗    Co-existence of GM crops with orga...

GOTS Revision Process Update

16. August 2013
The 1st Stakeholder Input Period (16 May-30 July) in the formal revision process to develop GOTS Version 4.0 was very productive. 200 individual contributions plus some comments on these contributions have been received by 14 organisations representing all relevant aspects of GOTS including org...

7th. Asian Textile Conference

14. August 2013
GOTS representative in India Mr. Sumit Gupta spoke at 7th Asian Textile Conference, Coimbatore, India, 14th August, 2013 in Panel Discussion on ‘International Trade’. His topic was ‘Importance of Ecology and Compliance in International Trade’. His presentation was appreciated by the organisers ...