Build a credible sustainability strategy across your portfolio

The apparel, footwear and textile industry is under mounting pressure to substantiate sustainability claims, reduce environmental impacts, and transition to more responsible practices.

Companies also need reliable environmental performance data to stay competitive, drive future-proof product development, and keep pace with rapidly evolving legislation.

PRé helps apparel, footwear and textile brands understand the environmental impacts of their products and value chains, so they can make better business decisions, manage risks, and communicate their sustainability efforts with confidence, grounded in fact-based sustainability.

Industry challenges

Sustainability in apparel, footwear and textiles is complex and evolving fast. Companies face challenges such as:

• Limited visibility into supply chain impacts, particularly in upstream tiers
• Growing scrutiny of environmental claims and the reputational risks that come with them
• Pressure to reduce carbon, water, nature and material impacts across entire product lines and transparently report on progress
• Difficulty scaling product footprinting across large, diverse and changing portfolios
• A rapidly shifting regulatory and reporting landscape

How we support apparel, footwear and textile brands

PRé brings together deep LCA expertise, industry-leading tooling through SimaPro, and a thorough understanding of legislation and voluntary standards affecting brands in the apparel, footwear and textile industry.

We support you with:

• LCA tool development and integration to scale up and conduct portfolio-level analysis
  Building scalable LCA systems that embed sustainability insights across your teams, integrating into your existing tools, workflows, and data infrastructure. Comparing products and material choices, identifying environmental hotspots, and moving away from one-off studies towards scalable internal LCA capability.
• Regulatory intelligence and strategic foresight
  Deciphering legislative and voluntary standard requirements applying to your business, understanding how they affect you and your supply chain partners, and turning that knowledge into a competitive advantage.
• Product environmental footprinting according to existing or upcoming regulations
  Building your team’s internal LCA capabilities or having PRé calculate your products’ environmental impact and generate structured footprint data ready to feed into your internal systems, including for the DPP required under the ESPR. For the French Environmental Cost, we can support you in self-declaring your scores, submitting on your behalf, or using the Ecobalyse API for a higher volume of submissions.
• Methodology alignment and development
  Aligning with relevant standards and methods such as the Apparel and Footwear PEFCR, developing internal environmental footprinting guidelines, and contributing to sector methodologies. We combine technical expertise and stakeholder engagement to support harmonisation and comparability.

Why PRé

• Over 30 years of experience in LCA
• Trusted by global apparel brands and sustainability leaders
• Combination of consulting expertise and leading LCA software (SimaPro)
• Deep understanding of product-level sustainability in complex supply chains