We work with academic institutions, retailers, and factories. In emerging economies where demand for fast, inexpensive fashion production is highest, the pressure on factories to produce more for less is historically unprecedented. Despite billions invested in compliance and audit schemes over the past decade, workers still die in horrific fire accidents and factory owners still get away with false documents, underage labour and worker discrimination. This reality is unsustainable from multiple perspectives, but when a retailer is identified by pressure groups as the enabler of these working conditions, network campaigns and negative headlines can do serious damage to their brand. GreenGrade has in-depth understanding of the business pressures on brands, suppliers, factories and workers and thus engages collaboratively and confidentially with each level to improve the bottom-line for all stakeholders. About UpSkill:
Following the 2013 factory disaster in Bangladesh and under pressure from media and regulators, global brands and retailers have accepted a “new value equation” with much importance credited to ethical product sourcing and increased supplier transparency. GreenGrade has developed sophisticated software that helps achieving this – a remote learning and certification app called UpSkill that sharply cuts training and oversight costs. The app administers exams off-line while not connected to any network, utilising different techniques to identify the user and to safeguard the integrity of the exam process.
