Sfera

May 19, 2022

Sfera is a Spanish fashion retailer based in Madrid committed to quality, novelty, and variety. The multinational clothing-retail company creates fast fashion for the whole family.

Sfera makes clothing, accessories, shoes, swimwear, sportswear, and lingerie. It also creates jewelry, homeware, fragrances, and beauty products.

Sfera follows the latest fashion trends for women, men, and kids. It offers curated clothing selections and guarantees innovation with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.

Sfera is working to make the planet more sustainable and forge a better future for everyone. It takes massive action to tighten its bond with society and the environment.

The Spanish clothing retailer fosters decent and responsible manufacturing conditions and rationalizes resource consumption and waste generation.

The Spanish clothing retailer offers a sustainable collection made from organic or recycled materials called "Responsablemente." Its ultimate goal is to reduce the consumption of resources, control greenhouse gas emissions, and prevent and recover waste.

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Sustainability Rating: 5/10

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Category: Clothing, accessories, shoes, bags, jewelry

For: Women, men, children

Type: Basics, denim, dresses, knitwear, underwear, loungewear, swimwear, activewear, outerwear, maternity, heels, flats, sandals, boots, sneakers

Style: Casual

Quality: Low

Prices: $

Sizes: XS-6XL, 2-26 (US), 4-28 (UK), 34-56 (EU), 4-28 (AU), plus size

Fabrics: Cotton, linen, hemp, ramie, jute, lyocell, modal, viscose, cupro, acetate, polyester, nylon, spandex, polyethylene, polypropylene, acrylic, neoprene, leather, wool, silk, down

100% Organic: No

100% Vegan: No

Ethical & Fair: No

Recycling: Yes

Producing countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Vietnam

Certifications: GOTS, OCS, GRS, RDS, RWS, FSC, BCI, Bluesign, Oeko-Tex, BSCI, SMETA, WRAP, SA8000

Sustainability Practices

Sfera takes measures to align with steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct. It wants to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalization, diversification, and sustainability.

Sfera wants to take the lead, set trends, foster change, and create new concepts. It adapts and innovates its business model to accelerate its transformation.

Sfera has an environmental policy to reduce the impact of materials used and intensify the use of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials. However, the majority of its business remains detrimental to the environment.

Sfera only uses a tiny proportion of organic materials such as organic cotton and hemp or recycled materials such as recycled cotton, recycled polyester, and regenerated nylon.

It dedicates very few of its collectionsto sustainable fashion. Most of the fabrics it uses are natural without relevant certifications, such as conventional cotton or linen, or synthetic petroleum-based fibers such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, and more.

Sfera also uses a small amount of semi-synthetic fibers or regenerated cellulosic fabrics such as Tencel lyocell, modal, acetate, viscose, and cupro.

Tencel is an eco-friendly fiber made with wood pulp from certified sustainable forests. But only a slim proportion of the materials used by Sfera are environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Sfera produced less than 10% of its garments in close neighborhood countries and more than 80% in Asia. It works with carefully selected manufacturers to ensure compliance with social responsibility commitments.

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

But the Spanish clothing retailer is making progress in its goal to verify the social, labor, and environmental conditions in its factories. It ensures the respect for good ethical, social, employment, and environmental standards.

Sfera shows certification standards to ensure international human rights, labor, social and environmental norms along the entire supply chain.

Sfera has a code of conduct that applies to all its suppliers and subcontractors based on the regulations set by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Sfera assesses compliance with its Code of Conduct by conducting audits for social, environmental, and good governance in its suppliers' manufacturing plants.

Sfera works with more than 1,780 manufacturing suppliers and conducted 2,647 audits in the 2020/2021 turnover year, with 75% corresponding to the Amfori BSCI system.

Sfera doesn't use any exotic animal skin. However, it uses animal hair, fur, angora, leather, wool, silk, 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

Sfera has committed to reducing the impact on the environment. All Sfera stores will have Zero Waste certification by 2025.

Sfera will achieve a 30% reduction in the supermarkets' plastic footprint by 2025. It also plans to increase the number of sustainable items by at least 5% a year.

Sfera aims to purchase 50% of cotton in its products based on BCI principles by 2023. It will use at least 25% of materials with a low climate-change impact (organic, recycled, regenerative, sustainable) by 2025.

Sfera has committed to 100% use of renewable energies in its operations and is incentivized in the supply chain by 2030. Its medium-term goal entails progressively reducing emissions to achieve carbon neutrality.

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