Boardroom ECO Apparel is an apparel design and manufacturing company located in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Founded by CEO Mark Trotzuk in 1996, Boardroom specializes in custom manufacturing and technical, fashionable and environmentally friendly clothing solutions.
Since 2001, Boardroom ECO Apparel has focused innovation and research into ECO materials and processes. With the launch of the bluesign® safety Collection, Boardroom is at the leading edge of ECO fabrics, processes, audits, supply chain transparency, accountability and knowledge within the clothing and textile field. All of the items in the current catalog offering are made from environmentally friendly fabrics; rayon from bamboo, organically grown cotton, recycled polyester, recycled cotton, Tencel (made from wood pulp) and Eco-charcoal (made from ground-up coconut shells). Boardroom ECO Apparel uses independant, third-party auditing agencies to certify its supply-chain start to finish, and donates 1% of net revenue back to environmental organizations in alliance with 1% For The Planet.
Boardroom sells it’s apparel primarily into the promotional products industry. The apparel is negotiated and sold by Boardroom to an advertising-specialty sales agent, who in turn sells the product to a company or corporation. Boardroom sells its apparel blank and then decorates the apparel with the end user’s logo or artwork. For more information about the advertising specialty/promotional products industry, please visit www.ppai.org & www.promocan.com.
Boardroom is unique because most of the apparel-all of the custom made, 48 unit orders-are manufactured in Canada. In a market where most clothing is made in overseas factories at large volumes, Boardroom still maintains a Canadian factory, and can offer low-minimum, quick-turnaround custom clothing manufacturing, where others cannot. The apparel is NAFTA-friendly; no difficulties or delays getting it across the border. Boardroom does sell more than 70% of its products into the USA.
To fulfill repeat orders, and to be competitive in an in-stock economy, Boardroom does have 22 apparel items in-stock, in three to four color-ways each. The in-stock items are manufactured in audited, socially compliant / fair-trade factories in Vietnam and China.
In addition to providing in-stock and custom apparel to the promotional products industry, Boardroom does manufacture apparel as private label to established brands and retailers. Private label manufacturing is a separate design and manufacturing division within Boardroom ECO Apparel.
Boardroom ECO Apparel’s primary goal is to manufacture clothing-and to be part of the solution - in respect to the impact of clothing and textiles on the environment, and worker health and safety. Boardroom has always been recognized as a leading provider of high quality, fashion-forward and technical clothing, and appreciated for providing friendly service, value-added sales and planning, and care.
