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On this page you will find exciting insights into our work, as well as reports on current innovation projects and successes in our production network and in cooperation with our trading partners.

We report directly from our organic farming businesses and the cooperation with organic cotton farmers in India and Tanzania.

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100% of our organic cotton is of a transparent origin!

19. December 2024

my-trace by Remei is nominated for the Fair Fashion Award 2024

26. September 2024

Pop Up Store at P&C Conscious Store in Berlin

25. September 2024

Organic Cotton Buying Season is open in India.

24. September 2024

We will soon present the SS25 collection to our B2B customers!

Direct cooperation with Tanzanian organic cotton farmers over one generation. Since 1994.

We have build long term commitment to organic cotton farmers. Since 1991.

The traceability of our ready-made textiles is given. Since 2013.

T-Shirts, Sweaters & Hoodies: Full transparency in the supply chain of Remei for Bergfreunde

13. October 2023

In Tanzania, we had a good organic cotton harvesting season and completed the buy-up

28. August 2023

A philosophical discourse: In conversation with founder Patrick Hohmann on the 40th anniversary of Remei

21. August 2023

From 10 to 12 August, Remei customer BUSKERS enchants Bern’s old town for the 20th time with great acts

07. August 2023

Remei client partner WE ARE ZRCL starts new cooperation with changemaker

Our annual report 2022/23 is here! Despite the challenging business environment, Remei concluded the financial year in a stable and successful manner

waldstock open air spektakel: The summer event in the canton of Zug with organic cotton t-shirts from Remei

Our activities in the bioRe Foundation: We promote agroforestry in Tanzania

Summer vibes at Coop City: with naturaline

Organic cotton purchase from our contract farmers in Tanzania

With the sowing of cotton begins a new cycle

Congratulations to the slow fashion brand naturaline for its refreshing new presence in Coop City department stores!

40 years of Remei – 40 years of pioneering work: We have long since found our purpose

40 years of Remei – 40 years of pioneering work: Discover newly published motifs from our campaign!

40 years of Remei – 40 years of pioneering work: Discover part 4 of our campaign!

Organic Textile Forum 2023: Marion Röttges on traceable organic cotton textile collections

40 years of Remei – 40 years of pioneering work: the third part of our campaign is here!

New form of learning: snakes and ladders game makes agricultural workshops fun

40 years of Remei – 40 years of pioneering work. Discover new motifs from our campaign!

40 years of Remei – 40 years of pioneering work

Switzerland ticks differently than the rest of the world”, Remei co-CEO Simon Hohmann in an interview with Schweizer Monat

Marion Röttges from Remei in the 202030 PODCAST about “Meaningful Relationships & Regenerative Fashion Culture”

Vivek Rawal, CEO of Remei India, at the Organic Cotton & Textiles Conference 2023 on empowering supply chains and ensuring availability of non-GM seeds

Charles Mabuga, Co-CEO of Remei Tanzania, at the inaugural event of the Swiss-Tanzanian Chamber of Commerce

Remei client Kilian Wiget talks about the green heart of WE ARE ZRCL and informs about newly published content on the brand’s sustainability

23. February 2023

What happens when staff at Remei India Ltd. get their hands on the QR code of Remei’s digital traceability tool?

16. February 2023

Slow fashion at naturaline: The current children’s collection does not differentiate between the genders, all styles are unisex and easy to combine

13. February 2023

Marion Röttges on ROTCAST – the podcast with movers and shakers from the Swiss textile industry

03. February 2023

Remei and bioRe Foundation from Switzerland jointly visit the organic cotton growing area in Tanzania and the local organisations

31. January 2023

The organic cotton farmers control pests with natural methods: molasses traps prove to be particularly effective

26. January 2023

On the importance of partnerships and the Remei solution for traceable organic cotton textiles

19. January 2023

Playful learning about good farming practices for organic cotton with the Snakes and Ladders game at Remei India

12. January 2023

Polyster vs. cotton: “Tagesanzeiger” and “Finanz und Wirtschaft” about Remei and the solution that lies in switching to organic cotton

03. January 2023

The slow fashion brand naturaline, the production network manager for organic cotton textiles Remei and the non-profit bioRe Foundation tell the story of a strong partnership

16. December 2022

Organic cotton purchase at Remei India: Simon Hohmann from Switzerland is on site

01. December 2022

At the moment, the harvest of organic cotton and the Diwali festival fill our contract farmers in India with joy

24. October 2022

With its”Faces of Organic Cotton” series, FiBL portrays people who have been participatory in the SysCom long-term trials in India for many years, including Remei India contract women farmers

18. October 2022

WE ARE ZRCL: The latest Y MAGAZINE N°42 tells the story of the sustainable streetwear label and Remei partner

07. October 2022

We are delighted with WÖHRL about the opening of the expanded and modernised flagship department store in Nuremberg with new space for THE GOOD FASHION!

03. October 2022

Remei x Maria&Josef: We are happy about a new partnership with GOOD VIBES and a very special story!

15. September 2022

Karibu from Remei Tanzania! From fibre to fashion. From farmer to consumer. Get to know our story. Here is our latest film!

08. September 2022

Partners for more than 22 years: Swiss Remei x Panoco Trading from Tokyo meet in Tanzania

25. August 2022

Water Blessing in Tanzania – our long-standing trading partner Coop has already been able to make 97 wells and 34 water tanks possible in the organic cotton growing area of naturaline textiles

18. August 2022

The latest annual report is out! Remei concluded the year 2021/22 as a stable and successful financial year

09. August 2022

Rainy season at Remei India: Cotton grows beautifully in an organic cotton-based farming system

Relationships with production partners in the Remei supply chain extend far beyond the functional level

Remei Tanzania Ltd. expands its advisory services on organic farming topics in the African continent

The brand new Green Knowledge magazine on Remei: “In traceability we trust”

Organic cotton harvest and buying-up in Tanzania: Marion Röttges Co-CEO of Remei on the spot

Remei India Ltd. further expands its advisory services on organic farming topics

Interested in uniquely sustainable organic cotton solutions? Check out our latest clip!

The Dive: A journey into a regenerative future

Business development at Remei India: Team and cooperating farmers expand their knowledge

On site by Remei Tanzania and cooperating farmers

Marion Röttges speaks at the Supply Chain Summit 2022 about Remei’s innovative economic system with a transparent supply chain for traceable organic cotton textiles

Remei CEO’s Simon Hohmann and Marion Röttges visit Remei India and cooperating organic cotton farmers

“I grow your cotton” – Remei campaign with focus on organic cotton producers at the very start of transparent supply chains of Remei

We are pleased about the new cooperation with Waschbär: Since February, the first Remei textiles made of organic cotton are available online at Waschbär

We thank GERRY WEBER for the great initiative for International Women’s Day 2022!

A T-shirt with an origin and a future: developed by Remei and The Slow Label

“The organic cotton T-shirt may not be as organic as you think” – says the NYT. Unfortunately, in general, probably a very true statement! But not true for us!

24. February 2022

A designer outfit with a clean cut: originated in a cooperation between Remei, Coop naturaline and STF

22. February 2022

Remei’s strategy to reduce the carbon footprint in the organic cotton textile supply chain is delivering results

10. February 2022

Remei Tanzania Ltd. informs its stakeholders about the completed name change

07. February 2022

On launches traceable On-T with Remei as partner

03. February 2022

Trace your textile via QR code back to its origin; The new clip about my-trace by Remei is out!

17. January 2022

The year-end issue TW100 presents 100 minds from the field of sustainability. We are very pleased to be included with Remei & Co-CEO Marion Röttges

03. January 2022

Corporate Supply Chain Responsibility: Greenpeace Detox Report published

16. December 2021

Remei India samples individually harvested cotton plants to ensure GMO-free cultivation through professional seed multiplication

13. December 2021

Remei Co-CEO Simon Hohmann visits Remei Tanzania and cooperating organic cotton farmers

07. December 2021

my-trace by Remei – traceable back to the origin, Remei Press Release

01. December 2021

Invited to the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin: Remei Co-CEO Marion Röttges

18. November 2021

Remei welcomes Bergfreunde as new customer

18. November 2021

Remei India CEO, Vivek Rawal, shares his experience of the world’s longest running organic cotton project with over 3,000 farmers at the Organic Cotton Summit

04. November 2021

Smart & Sustainable Film Festival China: The programme includes the Swiss film Fair Traders with Remei founder and protagonist Patrick Hohmann

18. October 2021

Close of a good cotton season in Tanzania – and an increased demand for organic cotton

07. October 2021

Generation change and change of name: From bioRe India Ltd. to Remei India Ltd.

05. October 2021

Great climate? A task for the future! Stefanie Hütz on fashion companies on the way to climate neutrality and Remei’s insetting approach, Textile Review 09/21

23. September 2021

Remei India supports organic cotton farmers in the current situation of an imminent pink bollworm infestation with environmentally sound protection measures

17. September 2021

Remei supports cotton farmers in Tanzania already in the critical conversion phase to organic farming

19. August 2021

Modern technologies for a sustainable sortiment: Together with COOP Switzerland, Remei uses 3D visualization technology for the product- and product range development of naturaline

Taking responsibility for the climate through carbon insetting, Remei press information

Remei thanks its trading partners for their generous support of the cotton farming communities in India during the COVID crisis in spring 2021

The purchase of organic cotton from the Tanzanian subsidiary of Remei has begun

In challenging times and as India’s first organic seed producer, bioRe India supplies its own seeds to its farmers

In the midst of the COVID crisis in India and at the beginning of a good organic cotton harvest in Tanzania.

The digital DUE-DILLIGENCE-PARCOUR, Textilwirtschaft Issue No.15

Marco Paul, Co-CEO bioRe Tanzania Ltd. as speaker at Textile Exchange’s OCRT E-Learning/ Webinar

Remei is nominated for the Green Business Award 2021

Under the motto TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW, WÖHRL introduces a sustainable private label for the whole family.

The Cotton Dilemma, Textilwirtschaft Issue No.15

“More and more retailers are interested in organic cotton”, Textilwirtschaft, Issue No.15

Taking responsibility – from Switzerland to India and Tanzania, Remei press release

Promising signs of a good cotton harvest in Tanzania

Vivek Rawal at the International Cotton Conference Bremen

Now or never: transparent business models have a future

25. February 2021

The difficult path to “clothes without secrets”

29. January 2021

Japan-Switzerland-Tanzania: Live Streaming Event enables a direct dialogue between bioRe® cotton farmers and end customers

30. November 2020

Update on the situation in the supply chain

12. November 2020

Remei produces for Greenpeace Media a limited edition shirt designed by fair-fashion blogger Bina Nöhr

12. November 2020

Clean clothes? A question of the supply chain

12. November 2020

Current information on the situation of our production partners in India

27. August 2020

Maloja x Remei take on social and ecological responsibility jointly

27. August 2020

Cotton with human warmth: genuine relations between farmers and fashion

Mammut celebrates the one millionth CO2-neutral T-shirt made from bioRe® organic cotton

Softening of Covid-19 measures in India and restart of production for bioRe® Sustainable Textiles

Update on the situation in the Remei supply chain

Fashion Revolution. Strong partners: greenpeacemagazin x Remei

On the occasion of the Fashion Revolution Week 2020 Grüne Erde gives insights into the long lasting cooperation with bioRe®

How does the outbreak of Covid-19 affect workers and companies in the Remei textile production chain in India?

The Corona Crisis from a Fibre to Fashion perspective

New T-shirts are made from bioRe® organic cotton residues: Remei produces for Mammut from leftover fabrics

25 years of Naturaline. Congratulations to Coop!

Namaskar Gold rediscovered

27. February 2020

Clean clothes: Detox Fashion

13. January 2020