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House of Baukjen named highest-scoring SME fashion B Corp globally

House of Baukjen, the purpose-driven London-based fashion company featuring womenswear maternity wear brands Baukjen and Isabella Oliver, has been recognised as the highest-scoring fashion small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) B Corp in the world. The British fashion company received a B Corp score of 153.6, which propels the sustainable and...

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House of Baukjen to donate to charities this Black Friday

Sustainable womenswear brand Baukjen and maternity label Isabella Oliver, collectively known as the House of Baukjen, is boycotting Black Friday to donate profits to charity. For the four-day cyber shopping weekend, from November 26 to 29, House of Baukjen will step away from the aggressive discounting of Black Friday to instead donate 100...

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House of Baukjen win 2021 UN Global Climate Action Award

Sustainably and ethically conscious online womenswear and maternity brands Baukjen and Isabella Oliver, collectively known as House of Baukjen, have been announced as a winner of a 2021 UN Global Climate Action Award. The annual awards by United Nations Climate Change shine a light on innovative, scalable, and replicable examples of how people...

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Womenswear brand Baukjen launches sustainability index

Sustainable and socially conscious womenswear brand Baukjen is launching a Sustainability Index, sharing environmental and social impact scores for each product in its collections to help customers make better-informed purchasing choices. The B Corp certified company wants to offer its customers a higher level of transparency to help them better...

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House of Baukjen named “highest scoring” fashion B Corp in the UK

Sustainable and socially conscious womenswear and maternity wear brands Baukjen and Isabella Oliver, collectively known as the House of Baukjen, have been certified as the “highest scoring” fashion B Corp in the UK and the second highest in Europe, with a rating of “outstanding”. The British fashion company has been recognised by B Corp as an “...

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Baukjen teams up with manufacturer to launch #Masks4all

Womenswear brand Baukjen and maternity label Isabella Oliver have partnered with one of their Portuguese manufacturers to make non-medical masks for personal use during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sustainably conscious online womenswear and maternity wear brands are working with Vermis, one of their long-standing manufacturers in Portugal, to...

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Baukjen and Isabella Oliver sign G7 Fashion Pact

London-based House of Baukjen, which includes contemporary womenswear brand Baukjen and maternity wear label Isabella Oliver have announced that they are taking “further action towards a more sustainable future” by signing Emmanuel Macron’s G7 Fashion Pact in a bid to combat climate change. The ethically and sustainably conscious womenswear and...

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UK-based Isabella Oliver launches maternity clothing donation scheme

London - Premium maternity brand Isabella Oliver has launched a ‘Pre-Loved’ programme, aimed at encouraging former customers to donate their pre-owned maternity wear to either be repurposed, re-loved or recycled, in a bid to make maternity fashion circular. Maternity wear is often considered ‘fast fashion’, as pieces have a short life span, as...

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Isabella Oliver pledges to plant a tree

Premium maternity brand Isabella Oliver has pledged to plant a tree to celebrate new life as part of its ‘Circle of life’ initiative. The scheme marks the 15th anniversary for Isabella Oliver, which was founded by husband and wife duo Geoff van Sonsbeeck and Baukjen de Swaan Arons after spotting a gap in the market for stylish maternity wear....

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Baukjen on taking America and opening pop-ups

British retailer The Baukjen Group is at a major crossroads, it has two very successful fashion labels, Isabella Oliver offering premium maternitywear, and Baukjen, a contemporary fashion label offering capsule wardrobes for busy modern women, and they are looking to their customers to help put Baukjen on America’s radar in a “big way” with...

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The Baukjen Group crowdfund for US expansion

British retailer The Baukjen Group, which owns contemporary womenswear brand Baukjen and premium maternity label Isabella Oliver, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the retailer’s expansion into America. The group is looking to raise 400,000 pounds by the end of December via a Crowdcube campaign in return for 3.02 percent equity, so...

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The global maternity wear market is expected to grow 2.01 percent per year

Fashion for mothers to be is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.01 percent over the period comprehended between 2015 and 2019. The competition among the players is on the basis of comfort, quality, variety, design and colours. According to recently released study "Global Maternity Wear Market 2015-2019" conducted by...