Equip Achieves Fair Wear Leader Status For Fourth Consecutive Year

Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd. (owner of British outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine) has achieved Fair Wear Leader status for the fourth consecutive year. In their recent Brand Performance Check, Fair Wear has acknowledged Equip’s exceptional progress in protecting workers’ rights along their global supply chain with enhanced Human Rights Due Diligence

As Fair Wear states in the brand performance check: “Equip has shown advanced results on performance indicators and has made exceptional progress. With a total benchmarking score of 81, the member is placed in the Leader category.” This is a significant improvement on Equip’s previous result, earning 5 more percentage points than the 2024 score.

Placing themselves firmly in the top tier of Fair Wear brands, Equip’s improved result demonstrates that they are continuously driving improvements identified in their brand action plans. Recent investment in newly created roles dedicated to Social Compliance supports this work.

Richard Leedham, Equip’s CEO, explains: “Maintaining our position of Leader status, alongside achieving our highest score yet, reinforces the importance we place on building strong supplier relationships. Our decision to invest in a dedicated Social Compliance role in the past year has continued to drive two-way communication with our factories. By collaborating across the business, we have strengthened partnerships with established suppliers, supporting positive social change throughout our supply chain.”

Working with 18 manufacturing partners operating across 21 sites globally, Equip is proud to still run a manufacturing site in the UK, hand-filling all of their down sleeping bags, manufacturing their expedition suits, and washing and repairing products for customers from the facility.

For the future, Equip has expressed its ongoing commitment to expand the scope of its Human Rights Due Diligence. In 2026, Equip will commission further Fair Wear worker training covering employment rights, anti-harassment and social dialogue based upon their HRDD risk assessment. In 2025/26, Equip intends to develop strategies and allocate resources toward promoting gender equality within the supply chain.

The Fair Wear Brand Performance Check (BPC) is a tool to verify how a Fair Wear member’s business practices help improve labour conditions across their supply chain. It contributes to more transparent and responsible relations with its manufacturing partners. Every year, Fair Wear reviews the brands’ efforts by measuring how well they have identified, assessed and prevented, mitigated or remediated (potential) risks with their suppliers. Making the results of the BPC open to the public ensures transparency and keeps member brands accountable.

The Leader status is awarded to member companies who are doing exceptionally well and are operating at an advanced level. Leaders show best practices in complex areas such as monitoring, remediation and training to empower workers to raise issues in their factories.

Alongside their work with Fair Wear, Equip continues to drive improvements in all other areas of its sustainability agenda. Their 2025 Sustainability Report provides a comprehensive overview of progress.

Equip’s 2025 Brand Performance Check Report can be found HERE, HERE and HERE.

Equip’s 2024-25 Social Report and Equip’s 2025 Sustainability Report alongside other policies can be found HERE.