Maggie's Organics
Maggie's Organics

About us

Maggie's Organics
Maggie's Organics:

Maggie's Organics believes that there is no environmental sustainability without social responsibility: By sharing the stories behind our products, we hope to foster a closer community among our producers, our consumers, and ourselves.

Our certificates & labels

Fair Trade
GOTS
Green America
Certified Fair Labor™

Our products and/or services

Maggie's socks, tights and legwear come in a wide range of styles for adults, children and infants. Our line of apparel includes scarves, knit pants, camisoles, tank tops, wrap tops, dresses, hoodies, t-shirts, and more.

Each Maggie's item combines comfort and versatility for a classic, effortless style.

How we practice sustainability

All of Maggie's products are made with Certified Organic Cotton or Certified Organic Wool and are produced according to fair trade and fair labor standards. Our full line of socks for the whole family have been knit, dyed, and packaged in the USA for over twenty years.

The original mission of Maggie's Organics was to convert as many acres of cotton from conventional to organic production as possible. Soon after, we began to adopt fair labor practices as our founder Bená Burda helped to form a number of 100% worker-owned cooperatives in Nicaragua and the US.

We strongly believe that being a fair trade company goes far beyond the presence of a certification hangtag, and we hope that our integrity and transparency clearly show that Maggie’s products embody the welfare and satisfaction of every worker in our chain.

Our vision for contributing even more to a fair and sustainable world

Since Maggie's began in 1992, we have helped to establish three 100% worker-owned cooperatives around the world: independent production houses that sell to a variety of clients (including Maggie's) and share all the profits among the workers. The first co-op (called the Fair Trade Zone) was formed in an economically ravaged area of Nicaragua, and it has since given over 50 hurricane refugees in the area a chance to earn an independent income in order to determine their own futures. Boasting tremendous success as the world's first worker-owned "free trade zone", the Fair Trade Zone now runs completely autonomously with a customer base stretching across several continents.

After also establishing cotton gin cooperatives and farmer cooperatives in Nicaragua, we helped bring the idea of worker-owned co-ops to the U.S. in 2008 by forming Opportunity Threads in Morganton, NC. Like the Fair Trade Zone, this is another 100% worker-owned business that is busy creating all sorts of products for Maggie's (and other customers), most notably our Tie Dye Chickens, which are handmade from irregular Maggie's socks.

Our latest project is to start a worker-owned sewing cooperative in Southwest Detroit. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), Detroit Community Cooperative, and Urban Neighborhood Initiative are already involved, and though this will no doubt be a challenging project, we are very optimistic about its prospects.

How we envision the future - what a fair new world could look like

Maggie's vision for a "fair new world" is characterized by harmony: In the world market, producers and consumers will be connected by knowledge and understanding. Supply chains marked by fair wages and safe working conditions will be the rule, rather than the exception. Overall, relationships across different cultures and continents will be mutually respectful and environmentally sustainable.

Only after we achieve this level of equity and balance will the world truly become "fair".

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Contact info

Maggie's Organics
306 W. Cross St.
48197 Ypsilanti
Michigan
United States
T: 1-734-482-4000
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Email:maggies(at)organicclothes.com

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