Rob Armour, CEO and Founder of Kingly among other winners with the Minister of labour and social policy Lazar Lazarov during the award ceremony.
Kingly received the Socially Responsible Strategic Management Award 2022 at a ceremony organized by the Ministry of labour and social policy in Bulgaria on December 22, 2022. The company was nominated in the “Ecology” category and won 1st Prize in the contest for their continuous work towards implementing sustainable projects within the merchandise manufacturing industry.
Recently Kingly’s upcycled cotton socks and GOTS organic cotton socks were shortlisted in the “Sustainable Product of the Year” Category for BPMA’s Product Awards 2023. The company has been working on shifting the perspective of textile products for quite some time. At the beginning of 2019, the company introduced their upcycled cotton socks in compostable bags to the promotional merchandise market. Kingly even received the Promotional Gift Award 2020 as upcycled cotton provides significant savings in resources and compostable bags can break down within 8 weeks once disposed of. With a single order of 1000 upcycled cotton socks you save 2652 kW/h of energy, 1088 kg of C02, 710 530 litres of water, and 120 m2 of landfill.
Following the success of their upcycled socks, the company launched eco-sustainable knitted sweaters that became an instant hit. The environmental savings when it comes to the creation of upcycled sweaters are even more substantial. Every customer can calculate the amount of preserved resources with our sustainability calculator and get a certificate from Kingly. The product statements have been calculated through LCA work and verified by Universidad de Valencia and UNESCO. Learn more here: https://wearekingly.com/sustainability/
Kingly’s upcycled socks are supported by BCome’s Cradle to Grave sustainability platform. It empowers textile and apparel businesses to build responsible supply chains, guarantee transparency and bring it to the final customer The company’s upcycled socks have earned “Advanced Score” when it comes to planet care and transparency, and “High Score” when it comes to circularity.
BCome also embraces Kingly’s GOTS organic cotton socks. This product has achieved “Honours score” – the highest rank given by Cradle to Grave sustainability platform. For a sock to call itself an organic cotton sock, it must not have used any chemical pesticides, genetically modified seeds, or artificial fertilizers. Its production is supposed to promote and enhance biodiversity and biological cycles. Spun with care and comfort, it is softer, kind to your skin, and gentler on the planet. Moreover, if not recycled it’s biodegradable, so it creates less waste going to landfill. The qualities of the GOTS organic cotton socks created by Kingly have already been acknowledged and awarded the Promotional Gift Award 2022.
In 2022, Kingly launched the Upcycling Project to explore using sock-knitting offcuts in new products. In line with their ISO 14001 Environmental Policy, the leftover fibers find a new life as stuffing for printed pillowcases and furniture.
Read the 2022 Kingly Upcycling Project announcement
Dive into a world of sustainability. Explore more about upcycled socks and GOTS organic cotton socks: www.wearekingly.com
