By encouraging a global marketplace where artisanal designs from all over the world are featured in sustainable collections, Accompany’s primary mission is to enhance the lives of individuals in working communities through economic support. The U.S.-based company creates jewelry and accessories, home decor pieces, and soft handwoven toys for children. As a B Corporation and World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) brand, Accompany enforces Fair Trade practices by supporting indigenous groups and aims to eliminate fast fashion practices that solidify modern slavery practices. Accompany uses artisanal crafts from all over the world including Kenya and other more impoverished parts of Africa.
Using Fashion as a Force for Good Accompany is revolutionizing the fashion world with a simple and complex question: "Who made your clothes? Thus raising awareness about the working conditions in the textile industry. In an increasingly commercialized world, traditional crafts are becoming a thing of the past. These pieces are usually handmade and are woven with meticulous care and technique. Accompany supports these small villages so that they can continue to support their skills and traditions, and therefore enables them to stay economically independent and turn, these communities continue to thrive. Accompany’s future goals are to continue to support these indigenous people, provide a safer alternative to low-paying, potentially harmful working environments, protect traditionally handweaving practices, and to help the local industry to thrive without disrupting the community’s habitual way of live Being a B Corp brand means that Accompany meets rigorous standards of environmental, social, and transparency performance analyzed by B Corp, a movement that brings together companies that seek to generate a positive impact on their employees, the communities where they are based, and the environment. The companies that are part of this initiative aspire to use their power as a company to solve social and environmental problems.
Enabling a New Kind of Economy Accompany has established humanitarian collections to benefit its cause-focused programs. By optimizing its supply chain, the brand is reversing the injustices that are otherwise caused in a profit-driven supply chain. They provide support in the form of training programs so that more people in the community can learn the craft, and these people thrive accordingly. The brand’s standards are to provide safe, clean, and comfortable working conditions, and in doing so, invest in the quality of life for its employee. Accompany even goes so far as to provide above-average wages and benefits like healthcare and childcare. By incentivizing through output-based payments, Accompany’s employees in these third-world communities can benefit from result-based works, and ensuring that these profits return to the community rather than being usurped by a small group of owners.