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Overview of TS Designs sustainable journey
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Our MISSION is to build a sustainable company that simultaneously looks
after PEOPLE, the PLANET and PROFITS.
Eric Henry, T.S.Designs, Inc.
Sustainability, a journey not a destination • 1977
• NAFTA 1994
• Development of our REHANCE technology
• Changed our company mission to a triple bottom line
• Launch of Clothing Facts with American Apparel
• Manufacturing t-shirts in North Carolina
• Cotton of the Carolinas
Today, over 90% of our t-shirts are domestically made and over 70% are made in North Carolina
Got a design?
We’ll print it for you!
Why we can’t return………..
• Large single bottom line corporations
• 9 billion people on the planet
• The oil party is over
• Create an environment that every participates
Case for Cotton of the Carolinas
• More and more of our organic cotton yarn is coming from oversea sources like Pakistan, India and Turkey
• 32,000 Jobs Lost in North Carolina since NAFTA
• North Carolina is the 4th largest grower of cotton in US most of which is exported
• Today a t-shirt can travel 17,000 miles
We go “Dirt to Shirt” in less than 750 miles!
Objectives of Cotton of the Carolinas
Low Transportation Footprint
Support of Local Economies
Complete Product Transparency
Ronnie(farmer)
Wes(ginner)
Mark(spinner)
Kenny(finisher)
Brian(knitter/cutter/sewer)
Eric & Tom(printer/dyer)
Farm KnitGin Spin CutFinish Sew Print
The Industry’s Transparency
Our Transparency
Track your t-shirt, Harvest 09
www.cottonofthecarolinas.com
Organic Cotton in North Carolina?• Lots of stakeholders• Work within the system• Create the demand
