GHCL Now A Fair Trade Certified Organisation

GHCL, A $700 million multi product transnational company, operating under the domain of retail, home textiles and soda ash, has received the Fair Trade certification from Flo Cert - Germany Agency.

Fair Trade certification is a product certification system which is designed to allow people to identify products that meet agreed environmental, labour and developmental standards. This certificate guarantees Social Compliance at the highest possible level in the business practices that GHCL follow.

The system certifies that the company dose not indulge into Child Labour, discrimination between employees and adhere to all legal compliances as per International Labour Organisation standards. GHCL certificate ID is 19338.

Mr. Nikhil Sen, head international business & strategy said; “We consider this as an important milestone for the company. This certification reinforces our commitment to the best practices to produce and market high quality products. We are hopeful that this will open new doors for GHCL for better business opportunity from customers who seek Fair Trade certified products only”.

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About GHCL:
GHCL is $700 million multi product transnational company based out of India. The company broadly operates under the domain of home textiles & soda ash with a strategic interest in ITES business.

Over the last few years the company has grown inorganically through substantial overseas acquisitions in the arena of home textiles and soda ash businesses.

GHCL at present employs more than 7000 people across various locations in USA, UK and Eastern Europe.

GHCL’s US operations are carried out under focused vertical of institutional
& hospitality businesses (supplies to hotel chains, Restaurants, Laundries, hospitals) and is in the process of expanding the same to the Retail Chains in USA.

In UK, GHCL owns the largest home textiles retail chain called Rosebys which has more than 300 stores under its umbrella.

The Home Textiles Holding Entity of GHCL, known as Fabient is focusing upon under-retailed markets of Eastern Europe and will also play a role in sourcing for GHCL’s Retail Foray into India. The company would build upon the combination of its strong sourcing teams and existing vendor base in India, Pakistan and China along with the manufacturing competence in India / Cambodia and Mexico.

The Indian operations of company’s home textiles business include large spinning capacity which makes it the only vertically integrated (spinning to retail) home textiles player in the world.

In the soda ash business, GHCL is one of the top three players in India It acquired a majority stake in S.C. Bega Upsom S.A.- a leading soda ash manufacturer in Romania. The company now is one of the leading soda ash players globally.

This release was published on openPR.