Carhartt is an American fashion retailer founded in 1889 in Detroit, Michigan, by businessman Hamilton Carhartt. The multinational clothing-retail company creates quality workwear, outdoor apparel, and gear for men, women, and children.

Carhartt makes heavy-duty working clothes, accessories, shoes, and eyewear. The biggest fashion group in the world, the Inditex Group, owns Carhartt along with other brands Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, and more.

Carhartt is the largest company in the Inditex group. It has more than 5,500 employees in stores, factories, logistics, brands, and subsidiaries worldwide.

Carhartt is taking action to build a better world. It's aware of the environmental and human rights challenges of global sourcing and establishes expectations for environmental protection, responsible working conditions, and fundamental human rights.

Carhartt is a fashion brand and clothing retailer based in Dearborn, Michigan. It makes apparel, footwear, and accessories and offers a collection of basics, underwear, loungewear, activewear, outerwear, and workwear.

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Sustainability Rating: 3/10

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Category: Clothing, accessories, shoes, bags

For: Women, men, children

Type: Basics, denim, workwear, activewear, knitwear, underwear, loungewear, outerwear, boots, sneakers

Style: Casual

Quality: Medium

Price: $$

Sizes: XS-4XL, 2-26 (US), 4-24 (UK), 34-52 (EU), 4-24 (AU), plus

Fabrics: Cotton, lyocell, modal, viscose, aramid, acetate, polyester, nylon, spandex, polyethylene, polypropylene, acrylic, neoprene, polyurethane, rubber, leather, wool, down

100% Organic: No

100% Vegan: No

Ethical & Fair: No

Recycling: No

Producing countries: Bangladesh, Canada, Cambodia, Colombia, China, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, India, Indonesia, Italy, Israel, Pakistan, Taiwan, United States, Vietnam

Certifications: WRAP


Sustainability Practices

Carhartt doesn't use any organic materials and very little recycled fabrics such as recycled polyester. Most of the fabrics it uses are either natural without relevant certifications, such as regular cotton, or synthetic petroleum-based fibers such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, and more.

Carhartt also uses a little amount of semi-synthetic fibers or regenerated cellulosic fabrics such as lyocell, modal, acetate, and viscose.

Carhartt publishes a list of all its manufacturers and many of its processing facilities on its corporate website. It aims to serve and protect the hardworking people who make its products.

The 2022 Fashion Transparency Index gave Carhartt a score of only 9% based on how much the group discloses about its social and environmental policies, practices, and impacts.

Carhartt manufactures its clothes in many East Asian countries where human rights and labor law violations still happen every day.

The clothing retailer doesn't show any labor certification standard that would ensure good working conditions, decent living wages, health, safety, and other important rights for workers in its supply chain.

Carhartt has a code of conduct that applies to all its suppliers and subcontractors and is committed to conducting business in a fair and ethical manner.

Carhartt assesses compliance with its Code of Conduct by informal visits or third-party audits, announced, semi-announced, or unannounced.

Carhartt doesn't use any exotic animal skin, hair, fur, or angora. But it uses leather, wool, and down feathers to manufacture many of its clothing pieces.

These animal-derived materials are cruel and unethical. They also harm the environment by producing greenhouse gases and waste. More sustainable alternatives exist.


Sustainability Goals

Carhartt doesn't measure its greenhouse gas emissions, water, land, energy use, pollution, and waste across the supply chain. It doesn't have any clear sustainability goals, science-based targets, or timelines to improve in the future.



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