FatFace drives 2025 sustainability plans with B Corp certification

British lifestyle brand FatFace has achieved B Corp certification, supporting its 2025 sustainability plans and joining a group of over 1,000 businesses in the UK with certification.

FatFace has been certified by B Lab, the not-for-profit behind the B Corp movement, who take each company through a rigorous process to ensure it meets the highest standards in accountability, transparency, and social and environmental performance needed to achieve certification.

Companies need to prove themselves in five key areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment and Customers.

FatFace’s core business strategy includes a focus on sustainability, under three key pillars – product, planet, and community. It is the progress across all three of these focus areas that led to FatFace being awarded B Corp certification, which is the culmination of long-term efforts to put sustainability at the core of the business.

The fashion brand is now part of a community of over 6,200 businesses globally who are certified as B Corps, such as Thrift+, Patagonia, Berghaus, TOMS and Allbirds.

FatFace’s journey to B Corp status has involved innovative collaboration with key partners. Most notable is the company’s 75-year partnership with the National Forest, a celebration of their long-term commitment to sustainability and being carbon neutral in the UK since 2021. Last year, FatFace also launched a partnership with Thrift+ to offer an easy way for customers to give unwanted clothes a new lease of life while supporting a charity of their choice.

Nick Stevenson, Director of Trading and Sustainability at FatFace, commented: “From our responsible sourcing practices, climate conscious initiatives and inspiring charity partnerships to the wonderful people who are driving change across our business and in our local communities, becoming a B Corp is a celebration of all that we stand for.

“Our sustainability journey began over ten years ago but fast forward to today – now an international multichannel business – and we are more focused and ambitious than ever on finding ways to reduce our impact on the planet, and positively support our colleagues and the communities we operate in. Going through the B Corp certification process has given us valuable insight to help shape our future sustainability agenda.”

Chris Turner, Executive Director of B Lab UK, added: “We are delighted to welcome FatFace to the B Corp community. This is a movement of companies who are committed to changing how business operates and believe business really can be a force for good. We know that FatFace are going to be a fantastic addition to the community and will continue driving the conversation forward. Their commitment to doing business differently will be an inspiration to others and really help spread the idea that we can redefine success in business to be as much about people and planet as it is about profit”.