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Cascale welcomes new members in Q1 including GSCS International Ltd, Just Brands, Gokaldas Exports, Minerva Sustainability, Retraced, schuh, among others.
As we reflect on the momentum from the first quarter of 2025, Cascale is proud to welcome a diverse group of new members to our global network.
Spanning manufacturers, brands, retailers, and service providers, these organizations represent the wide range of voices and expertise needed to scale sustainability solutions across the value chain. Their decision to join Cascale reflects a shared commitment to impact — an approach that turns ambition into measurable progress.
Meet the Newest Members of Our Global Network
We’re excited to introduce our Q1 2025 members, who bring a wealth of experience, innovation, and drive to the Cascale community. Each of these organizations is now part of a growing global movement to align on shared standards, leverage powerful tools like the Higg Index, and co-create solutions rooted in lived realities.
These new members strengthen Cascale’s global network and reinforce our belief that no organization can drive industry transformation alone. Through aligned tools, shared goals, and actionable data, we move forward — together.
Many of our new members are already beginning to explore Cascale’s tools, collaborative projects, and peer learning opportunities. While each is at a different point in their sustainability journey, they share a common intent: to make credible, lasting improvements and to contribute to a more responsible consumer goods industry.
GSCS International Ltd, a global certification and verification body operating in over 16 countries, sees Cascale as a strategic partner in elevating the role of service providers.
Cascale has always been instrumental in the growth of fellow service providers, by supporting us in elevating our role in a positive direction. Joining hands with Cascale shall uplift GSCS’s commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.
— Fairooz Shahana, chief sustainability officer, GSCS International Ltd.
For Just Brands, joining Cascale marks a deepening of their environmental and social accountability across the supply chain.
We’re working towards comprehensive monitoring up to Tier 2 and beyond, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other key impacts—such as wastewater, production waste, and chemical use. The Higg Index tools are instrumental in tracking our progress and driving credible, data-backed improvements.
– Suzanne Wolfert, corporate responsibility coordinator, Just Brands
Gokaldas Exports, one of India’s largest apparel manufacturers, is beginning to integrate Higg Index tools across its 31 facilities to reinforce its commitment to measurable sustainability.
This membership will enable us to enhance transparency, drive accountability, and collaborate on industry-wide efforts for a more sustainable future.
– Pranjal Goswami, chief sustainability officer, Gokaldas Exports
As a verification and training leader in Turkey, Minerva Sustainability brings regional expertise to the global stage through its membership.
We joined Cascale to support global collaboration and contribute our expertise in verification and training for a more sustainable textile industry. Through the network, we aim to help facilities and brands improve their environmental and social performance with credible assessments and actionable insights.
– Alaaddin Okur, sustainability director, Minerva Sustainability
For Retraced, a traceability platform helping brands bring transparency to their supply chains, membership offers a space to drive digital innovation through industry-wide cooperation.
We joined Cascale because we believe collective action is the key to driving real, scalable change in the fashion industry. We’re excited to connect with and learn from like-minded organizations within the Cascale network, and we look forward to working together to help brands and suppliers accelerate their sustainability efforts and create a positive, lasting impact.
— Lukas Puender, Co-Founder and CEO, Retraced
UK and Ireland-based footwear retailer schuh sees its membership as an opportunity to expand collaboration and strengthen environmental efforts across its operations and supplier base.
We hope that joining Cascale will further our ambition to make schuh a leader in fashion footwear, in its journey working towards a more sustainable and ethical world. It offers us real possibilities for additional collaboration with our many brand partners and the chance to improve the environmental health of our company and that of our suppliers, in the process.
— Colin Temple, president, schuh
These early perspectives show that while each member brings something unique to the community, their values are aligned: credible data, responsible progress, and meaningful collaboration.
Cascale is more than a network — it’s a platform for collective action. We bring together stakeholders across the value chain and provide tools, partnerships, and guidance to help members make real progress on today’s most urgent sustainability challenges.
Whether you’re a manufacturer aiming to reduce audit fatigue or a brand preparing for incoming regulation, Cascale provides the infrastructure, expertise, and global network to support your journey — every step of the way.
Together, we’re building a stronger, more sustainable industry. And this is just the beginning.
Our Q1 2025 new members reflect the growing momentum we’ve seen across the first part of the year while setting the tone for the months ahead. While their paths vary, they share a vision of transparency, improvement, and collaboration that strengthens the entire Cascale community.
We are honored to support their journey and look forward to the impact we’ll achieve together.
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