Our General Manger, Anita Lo, shared insights on building ethical and sustainable  supply chains with business leaders at TÜV Rheinland's 2024 Eco-Innovate  Forum.

The partnership will support the licensing industry in achieving its ESG objectives.

London, UK, March 13 2024: Today, Parliament approved its position on revamped EU rules on toy safety with 603 votes in favour, 5 against and 15 abstentions. The text responds to a number of new challenges, mainly stemming from digital toys and online shopping, and converts the existing directive into a directly applicable regulation.

Hong Kong SAR, February 29, 2024: Today, the Ethical Supply Chain Program releases the first impact report for the Family-Friendly Factory program.

The global non-profit is recognized as a leading expert in social compliance and labor standards, widely known for its robust Supplier Certification Program, alongside its Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment, supplier capability building and worker wellbeing initiatives.

Hong Kong SAR, December 20, 2023: Today, the ICTI Ethical Toy Program releases the first impact report for the Gender Equality program. The Gender Equality program was developed in response to the needs of manufacturing workers. Initial program development was funded by program member, Mattel. In 2022, the program was piloted at 12 factories in mainland China.

Hong Kong SAR, October 31, 2023: Today, the ICTI Ethical Toy Program releases the impact report for its 2023 Family-Friendly Spaces Program, the multi-beneficial social initiative designed to improve the lives of manufacturing workers while producing measurable business benefits for manufacturing businesses and their partners. The report outlines the impacts and achievements created by the program, in its eighth year of operation.

October 2023

In order to allow time for Chinese New Year 2024 celebrations, the Ethical Toy Program will instruct our accredited firms to not conduct audits and Progress Visits from 29th Jan to 25th Feb 2024. (2 weeks prior to and 2 weeks after Chinese New Year).

25 September 2023, London

Ethical Supply Chain Program 高兴宣布，我们现已启用微信公众号，以加强与中国工厂的沟通及其参与度。微信是中国最受欢迎的社交媒体，于全球拥有超过 9.38 亿活跃用户。

This article is taken from a larger piece written by the Responsible Investor, read the full article here.

Blog, 23rd May 2023, Hong Kong & London

We are delighted to announce that this summer we are operating more FFS than ever before at 18 factories which will accommodate 691 children, allowing 788 parents to be reunited with their children for the summer.

This paper shares the findings of a joint worker survey conducted from October 2021 – March 2023 in labor-intensive manufacturing facilities in exporting countries. The project was a collaboration of six nonprofit social compliance organizations. Workers surveyed worked primarily in Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Italy, and Turkey. The industries represented include electronics, apparel, toys, textiles, and food & beverages

On Friday the 24th of February, UNICEF Representative to China Ms. Amakobe Sande visited IETP Certified factory, Golden Cup Printing Company in Dongguan, China.We thank Ms. Sande and UNICEF for their support and for their work on Family-Friendly Policy, which has enabled us to develop this ground-breaking IETP Family-Friendly Factory Program.

We are proud to have Schleich as a member of the ICTI Ethical Toy Program (IETP) and will highlight their achievements and sustainability goals in this article.  The iconic brand has been a member of our program since 2019, and include “The Human being in focus” as one of its core sustainability pillars.

(Training will be conducted in Vietnamese)

【香港及伦敦】今天（2023年5月4日），ICTI玩具业责任规范（IETP）很自豪地首次公布了通过把其家庭友好工厂项目（FFF）扩展至中国以外的地方来帮助30,000名孩子的计划。凭借着从主要的合作伙伴中获得项目的资金，我们准备在今年下半年于越南开始运营FFF项目，并于2024年开始在墨西哥运营FFF项目。IETP现邀请更多品牌建立提供资金或知识共享的伙伴关系。