Before starting her first shop in 1995, designer Cora Kemperman had already earned her stripes designing for Mac&Maggie, a well known Dutch fashion house these days. Together with Gloria Kok, she started the Cora Kemperman shops and ever since the first day, it has been a huge success. Nowadays, Cora Kemperman owns nine shops in Holland and Belgium, where she sells her designs. (article courtesy of www.holland.com)
Ethical issues addressed:
We (Cora Kemperman and Gloria Kok) wanted to do it differently and better with, for both of us, 30 years of accumulated experience and professional know-how. Not only in the field of C.S.R. but also with regard to business, commercially, qualitatively and socially.
For both of us it was obvious that Corporate Social Responsibility must be an important part of the quality of our product, and in our mission statement of 1994 it was stated that we would earmark a part of our profit to try to improve the living conditions of the people who are making our products in poor countries as much as possible.
In the third year of the existence of our company we were at a point where we could start with the charity foundation "Amma" and went in search of ways to realise our ideas. We received the Eerlijk Handels Handvest (Fair Trade Charter) from the Schone Kleren Campagne (Clean Clothes Campaign), which had just been set up at that time in 1998.
This was a guiding principle for us in order to educate our manufacturers in India and Romania and to encourage them to comply with the social policy required by us.
Certifications/standards:
SA 8000 Our supplier Esvee in Tirupur is certified SA 8000 Our supplier Kooky's in Mumbai is SA 8000 implemented.
