ESG
With a comprehensive experience of creativity and production, we deliver trims to some of the biggest fashion brands worldwide, covering everything from hang tags, and woven and printed labels to badges and patches, thanks to our expertise and local production facilities. We specialize in catering to, primarily but not only, apparel, footwear, and home textile industries, tailoring every solution to the brand identity and needs. Our dedicated teams of specialists within trims for fashion or other industries will help you find the best solution tailored to your brand’s needs. Whether you require trims for clothing or other items, such as paper tags and strings, or seals for hangtags, we are here to offer advice on sustainable materials. Sustainability and responsible sourcing are at the core of Trimco Group’s DNA. As an international company, we continuously strive to manage and ensure compliance with applicable environmental and ethical regulations and standards across our locations worldwide. Read more about Trimco Group’s ESG journey below.
Message from the Group CEO
It is with great pride and responsibility that I join Trimco Group as CEO at a time when sustainability continues to shape the future of our industry and our business. ESG at Trimco Group is not a side initiative—it is embedded in how we operate, how we grow, and how we create long-term value. As we move forward, I see ESG as a core driver of resilience, competitiveness, and responsible growth across all our markets.
As we reflect on 2025, I am encouraged by the progress Trimco Group has made in strengthening its Environmental, Social, and Governance commitments. At the same time, we recognize that ESG is an incremental and long-term journey. It is not achieved through isolated milestones, but through consistent, disciplined progress over time. It is a commitment for the long haul, requiring persistence, alignment, and continuous improvement.
Following the merger with Nexgen in early 2025, we focused during the year on integrating our transparency-related SOPs, policies, and processes across the combined organization. This integration was successfully completed in December 2025, marking an important milestone in the continued development and strengthening of Trimco Group.
Throughout the year, we reviewed and aligned best practices across the enlarged organization, with a particular focus on supplier onboarding procedures, our Code of Conduct, and key policies. These efforts support a more consistent approach across the Trimco Group family, helping to strengthen transparency, responsible business practices, and compliance throughout our operations and supply chain.
This year, we took an important step by aligning our ESG reporting with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), strengthening transparency and structure across our Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars. While Trimco Group is not yet in scope of the CSRD, many of our key customers are, and we are preparing accordingly to meet future expectations.
On the environmental side, 2025 marks our base year for climate reporting, with the collection of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and the signing of our Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) commitment letter. This reflects our long-term ambition to align with science-based decarbonization pathways. We also built the framework for Trimco Group’s global policy for Energy Attribute Certificate (EAC) schemes to support our climate accounting. This provides a consistent approach to managing renewable energy certificates and strengthens the transparency of our emissions reporting.
We continued to strengthen our environmental programs through the rollout of Trimco Group’s MRSL chemical management framework. Aligned with the ZDHC guidelines, we successfully completed Wave 1 implementation across our core product categories in 2025, supporting more responsible chemical management throughout our supply chain.
Social performance remains a key priority across our global workforce of more than 2,500 employees. In 2025, we strengthened our global HR organization and enhanced internal policies to support equal treatment and opportunities for all employees. All Trimco Group sites undergo third-party social compliance verification, with assessments conducted through recognized frameworks such as Sedex SMETA and Higg FSLM.
Across our value chain, we continue supplier due diligence through third-party verified frameworks of SEDEX and Higg FSLM, and strengthened onboarding requirements around human rights, anti-bribery, and compliance with our Code of Conduct. Our ProductDNA® system continues to play a central role in ensuring transparency and traceability.
In Governance, Trimco Group continues to strengthen its framework for accountability and transparency. In 2025, Brookfield Internal Audit reviewed our ESG reporting processes, supporting further improvements in data quality and control. Strong ESG governance remains essential to ensuring ethical conduct, protecting stakeholder interests, and mitigating long-term risk.
As Trimco Group continues to evolve, ESG remains an integral part of our growth journey. We view ESG as a continuous process of improvement that is embedded in how we operate and develop as a company. As a member of Cascale, we recognize that advancing ESG performance requires industry-wide collaboration. Accordingly, we align our ESG ambitions with established industry frameworks, including Higg FEM and Higg FSLM, to support consistent measure-ment and continuous improvement across our operations and supply chain.
I would like to sincerely thank our employees, partners, and stakeholders for their continued trust and collaboration. Together, we will continue building a more responsible and resilient Trimco Group.
Sincerely,
Ricardo Lobo
Group CEO, Trimco Group
August 2026
Our Supply Chain Compliance
Transparency across our own supply chain is just as important for us as it is for your brand. Have a look at our global social and material compliance, traced with our proprietary traceability solution - ProductDNA®.