The Weird Fish brand was born in 1993. We are a British company based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
All of the original Weird Fish designs, logos and graphics are produced by our in-house design studio.
In the early 1990’s it was still possible to manufacture our clothing in the U.K. but all of our production is now sourced in the Middle East or the Far East.
From an initial idea to produce tee-shirts and sweat-shirts with quirky prints, we have grown the range into around one hundred and fifty styles to include men’s, ladies and children’s clothing, accessories and footwear, but we always retain our unique Weird Fish style.
We think we are an ethical company. we concentrate our ethical approach on the factories where our clothing is made.
We insist the all production of Weird Fish is based in the "home" and that all of the factories that we deal with are clean, modern and safe.
In Turkey our production is mainly in 100% cotton fabrics. Cotton is a "natural crop" product and Turkey is one of the largest growers of cotton in the world.
Any factory in Turkey that employs more than 30 people must by law provide them with a hot meal each day as well as transport to and from work.
Weird Fish employs a full-time agent and three full-time quality controllers in Turkey. We are working with our suppilers daily and we are confident of their ethical behaviour.
In China and India we do not have full-time representation but we have a full-time very experienced quality control manager based in our UK offices who spends much of her time travelling to and working with the factories in these countries.
We use the same factories as some of the best known clothing brands and we make certain that all of our production is based in the "home" factory. We do not allow any manufacturer to sub-contract our work without our permission.
We would like to think that all of our garments are produced from "green" organic sources, but this is very difficult to verify and we are not in this position yet.
What we can say is that the companies manufacturing Weird Fish clothing all employ adult workers in clean, modern conditions and pay a fair wage to their employees and this is the most important thing to us. |