Developing ISKO’s First Sustainability Impact Report

Objective

Develop ISKO’s inaugural sustainability report aligning with SDGs and industry standards.

Services

Engaged stakeholders, collected data, crafted narrative, and designed impactful reports.

Impact

Highlighted Responsible Innovation achievements, mapped to GRI, UN SDGs.

Objectives

One of the world’s leading denim producers ISKO was looking to develop its first sustainability report. As well as outlining the company’s ambitious targets, the company wanted to demonstrate its commitment to the UN’s Sustainble Development Goals (SDGs), International Labour Standards (ILO) and industry partners.

ISKO is part of SANKO TEKSTIL, the textile division of the SANKO Group. As the premium denim ingredient brand behind people’s most favorite jeans, ISKO has a strong global presence.

Through ISKO’s Responsible Innovation™ approach, which is founded on creativity, competence and citizenship, the company wanted to showcase its work to manage its environmental and social impact within this report. This has led to many achievements, including bluesign® Partnership, STeP by OEKO-TEX®, Textile Exchange, SAC, ZDHC, and EU Ecolabel, detailed in the report.

Outputs

Developed a coherent, engaging narrative covering ISKO’s achievements and plans in line with ISKO’s tone of voice and style.
Identified the pillars of Responsible Production, Responsible Process and People, and advised on additional content and supported target setting.
Completed ISKO’s first Sustainability report.The finished report was aligned to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and mapped to the UN SDGs.
The full and summary report were designed to ISKO’s brand guidelines to provide a striking, engaging report, with infographics and images to support the narrative content.

Our goal is to create fabrics that perform exceptionally and last longer whilst using fewer resources. We work hard every day to improve ourselves, to be better and do better–this is what Responsible Innovation means to us: never settle, but always strive for improvement.

Ebru Ozkucuk Guler Sustainability and CSR Executive, ISKO

We were pleased to work with the Anthesis team on this project and are very happy with the support they provided. The team’s expertise in SBTs in Private Equity, combined with their attentiveness to our needs, made us comfortable to commit to the SBTi. They also made the submission process to the SBTi very smooth by helping out with the application to fulfil all requirements.

Caroline Löfgren, Chief Sustainability Officer

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