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NEWSLETTER / COTTON CONNECT

CottonConnect Celebrates Its First Anniversary

This month CottonConnect celebrates its first anniversary, having created in the year past a team of highly experienced textiles, fashion, brand, farm and cotton supply chain specialists, while developing an extensive network on the ground to connect farmers with markets around the world.

According to CottonConnect, the year has been spent in working closely with a number of major retailers to better understand their cotton needs. Looking forward, things look bright as well.

According to a CottonConnect newsletter, it is now working with over 15,000 cotton farmers in India – through specifically designed farmer training programmes and social development projects. CottonConnect is also working at every level of their customers’ supply chains to create greater transparency.

CottonConnect estimates that today it is already impacting the lives of approximately 75,000 men, women and children in their communities.

However, CottonConnect believes that the real challenge is to make sure these benefits can be sustained and made to impact greater numbers of people and the environment by encouraging economic engagement that benefits everyone – right from the farmer to the finished product.

CottonConnect's target is to touch and impact the lives of 500,000 people by 2015 as more and more clothing brands look toward creating sustainable cotton sources for their supply chain even as it looks at developing its work further in South Asia and China in 2011.

To read the full story: Celebrating success - One year on