Brands and Retailers
The Trust Protocol provides the necessary framework for brands and retailers to navigate the evolving landscape of responsible sourcing, providing robust supply chain traceability and transparency along with access to verifiable environmental data.
Supply Chain Traceability
Strengthen your supply chain and build stakeholder confidence with our comprehensive, scaled traceability system. Gain unparalleled visibility into your cotton's journey to finished product, enabling precise inventory management by tracking the movements of two distinct fibers throughout the supply chain. Confidently verify the origin and amount of U.S. Cotton or Protocol Cotton in your products, assuring authenticity and compliance.
Verified Environmental Data
Access to Member Data Report in addition to the program’s Annual Report providing quantifiable, verifiable field-level data against science-based goals for responsibly grown cotton. This data supports corporate reporting and responsible brand and product marketing by allowing you to measure your progress, set ambitious goals, and demonstrate your commitment to continuous improvement.
Membership Benefits
Traceability
- Comprehensive Technology Access: Gain full access to our technology platforms, empowering you to track and verify your responsible cotton sourcing throughout the supply chain.
Environmental Data
- Support Transparency & Corporate Reporting: Meet increasing demands for transparency and sustainability reporting with ease. The Trust Protocol empowers informed decision making with data-driven insights to measure progress, set ambitious goals, support corporate reporting, and facilitate responsible brand and product marketing.
- Collective Impact & Continuous Improvement: Be part of a collaborative effort to transform the cotton industry, working alongside like-minded organizations committed to sustainability. Benefit from our continuous improvement model, ensuring you stay at the forefront of sustainable sourcing practices and adapt to evolving industry standards.
Communications
- Transparent & Streamlined Pricing: Brand and retailer members pay an annual membership fee based on their total cotton consumption. A variable Volume Based Fee is also included based on claimed PCCUs.
- Communicate Effectively: Leverage a comprehensive toolkit, brand visibility on our platforms, expert insights, strategic communications opportunities, and exclusive data to effectively communicate your commitment to sourcing responsible cotton.
Shared Goals, Shared Progress
Jeffrey Hogue
Chief Sustainability Officer,
Levi Strauss & Co.
Become a Member Today
Demonstrate your commitment to transparency and responsible sourcing .
Membership Fees
Less than
$10 Million
Company Annual Revenues
$10 to
< $50 Million
Company Annual Revenues
$50 to
< $100 Million
Company Annual Revenues
$100 Million
& Greater
Company Annual Revenues
Sourcing Requirements
Upon joining, brands and retailers must take measures to ensure they meet mandatory sourcing requirements, via the Trust Protocol system;
The Trust Protocol offers a suite of tools and resources to help brands and retailers achieve these sourcing requirements.
