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Responsibility Social
Supporting each other, growing together
Responsibility must be both lived and also shared. Especially in challenging times, community strengthens both individuals and the company. That is why we see ourselves as the OLYMP family. Our success is the result of collaborative partnerships: as an internationally operating family business and a member of the Fair Wear Foundation, we are committed to improving the working conditions in our supply chain. For our employees, we take responsibility through individual development opportunities, collectively agreed pay, and a wide range of ways to have a say.
„Taking responsibility for people means treating them with respect. Where individuals come together - within the company and beyond - what matters most, beyond skills and expertise, is how we treat each other. That’s what fair rekationships are built on, and ultimately, so is any shared success.“
Elke Feuerbacher, Head of Human Resources
OLYMP as an attractive employer
Achieving a common goal requires social responsibility and reliable frameworks. For OLYMP, the top priority is ensuring that our workforce in Bietigheim-Bissingen operates under safe and healthy conditions backed by workplace safety standards and regular health protection measures. Compensation, based on collective agreements, targeted opportunities for development and career growth, participation through the works council, and a culture of appreciation, where the achievements of our team members are recognized and celebrated, define the OLYMP family. This creates a work environment in which employees feel valued and want to stay for the long term. These conditions also serve as a unifying element in our company culture, even in challenging times.
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Social milestones and highlights from 2025:
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Since 2023
all our factories in risk countries have been audited through iMPACT or Fair Wear. -
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7 members
of our sustainability team maintain constant, direct communication with our production partners to ensure environmental and social standards. -
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36 years
of collaboration with our longest-standing manufacturing partner. -
33
garment factories work for OLYMP globally. -
Since 5 years
a member of the Fair Wear Foundation. -
100%
of our shirt manufacturers are OEKO-TEX® STeP certified. -
Supply chain responsibility: from person to person
Mutual respect, transparency, and fairness are the foundations of our supplier relationships. These anchored by the OLYMP Code of Conduct and the Fair Wear Code of Labour Practices, which all partners are required to uphold as part of our thorough onboarding process.
Country-level and production-site risk analyses guide our selection of suppliers in sourcing countries. Our approach to human rights due diligence follows the OECD Guidelines and is externally verified by the Fair Wear Foundation. To gain further insights into production conditions and to support supplier development, we launched the iMPACT Program in 2021 in collaboration with the workwear provider HAKRO and the service provider LRQA (formerly ELEVATE Ltd.). This program combines social auditing with development initiatives.
We recognise, however, that we are not perfect. Any individual or organisation can submit a complaint regarding a potential violation of the OECD Guidelines through the following channels:
OLYMP: responsibility@olymp.com
Fair Wear: complaints@fairwear.org
Through the relevant National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises:
Complaints can be submitted to the National Contact Point at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy using the complaint form on the NCP website, by email at germanncp@bmwe.bund.de or alternatively by post to the following address:
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie
Nationale Kontaktstelle OECD-Leitsätze (NKS)
Scharnhorststr. 34-37
10115 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 18 615 – 7651
E-Mail: germanncp@bmwe.bund.de
For Bangladesh: RSC Complaint Hotline Number: 01769-969000 or RSC Complaint Email Account: complaints@rsc-bd.org
OLYMP is committed to ensuring that no retaliatory measures are taken in the event of a complaint. Our Non-Retaliation Policy can be found here:
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"The well-being of the people who make our products is at the heart of my work. We face challenges with determination and togetherness, actively nurturing partnerships, taking memberships seriously, and engaging collaboratively with our partners."
Helen Zitzelsberger, Expert Corporate Sustainability at OLYMP Bezner KG
Our initiatives:
FAIR WEAR FOUNDATION
OLYMP has been a member of the Fair Wear Foundation since 2021. Fair Wear Foundation is a multi-stakeholder initiative that supports garment companies in implementing human rights due diligence in their supply chains. Membership facilitates identifying, and mitigating, remediating human-rights risks and harms, promoting access to remedy for workers, and tracking and communicating progress. Membership is not a product or factory certification and does not guarantee a risk or harm-free supply chain. Under the following links, you will find the results of the latest Brand Performance Check (BPC) as well as details of the Code of Labour Practices (CoLP).
iMPACT PROGRAM
The iMPACT Program is OLYMP’s social audit and development initiative, launched in 2021 in collaboration with the workwear provider HAKRO and the service provider LRQA (formerly ELEVATE Ltd.). iMPACT stands for Insight & Motivation, Partnership & Action, Capacity Building & Transparency. Our goal is to gain independently audited insights into production conditions and to encourage our partners to act collaboratively, strengthen their capabilities, and achieve higher levels of transparency – documented in publicly available audit results.
INTERNATIONAL ACCORD
As a signatory of the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry and also the Bangladesh Country Specific Safety Program, we protect the workforce in our value chain through international agreements. The International Accord keeps us informed about health and safety conditions in the relevant production facilities and enables us to actively improve them. It also provides a complaints mechanism in the countries where it is active.
EIS
The Employment Injury Scheme (EIS) is a pilot project in the Bangladeshi textile and garment industry. It serves as a foundation for the long-term establishment of a sustainable, nationwide system for employment injury insurance. The program is led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and is implemented in cooperation with the German Association for International Cooperation (GIZ) as well as the Bangladeshi Government. The aim is to provide workers and their families with financial compensation and medical benefits in the event of a workplace accident, work-related illness and commuting accidents. We at OLYMP are also supporting the pilot product. Through our involvement with the EIS in Bangladesh, we gain valuable insights into workplace and commuting accidents and support the country on its journey to establishing a national statutory scheme.
Social responsibility
Our understanding of responsibility also extends to people in challenging life situations. To be specific, the OLYMP Bezner Foundation supports children and young people around the world in education, health, and upbringing – contributing €104,000 in 2025 to projects in Germany, Brazil, Haiti, Indonesia, Madagascar, Myanmar and Ukraine. Our efforts are channelled through the OLYMP-Bezner Foundation, established in 2008 by Eberhard Bezner together with his son Mark Bezner and daughter Birgit Bezner-Fischer.
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