At a Glance
Location: Romania
Impact Areas: Sustainable Income, Circular Economy
People Supported:
Youth, Mothers, People with Disabilities
Joined NESsT Portfolio:
2021
Overview
Atelierul de pânză (ADP) produces and sells upcycled textile products made from 100% recycled cotton. The Romanian enterprise also supports other impact-first businesses by promoting their products in holiday gift packages sold to corporate customers. The social organizations that ADP supports include bakeries that provide jobs to youth and mothers from disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as recycling and cosmetic businesses that hire people with HIV or/and physical and mental disabilities, among others.
To raise awareness about responsible consumption in the local community, ADP developed its own impact-tracking and rating model that evaluates the sustainability of the supply chain, raw materials, production, packaging, and delivery of each product sold on its website. By providing information on the social and environmental benefits generated from its products, ADP supports its customers to make conscious and informed purchasing decisions.
Results & Impact
150
vulnerable individuals impacted by 2024
80%
employees are women
40
social organizations supported by 2025
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We would like to build and further consolidate our sales platform in order to raise awareness for impact-oriented businesses with a meaningful purpose.”
NESsT Investment
NESsT and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship will help ADP to launch and amplify the reach of its online platform, increasing the number of impact-first enterprises it supports while growing its corporate customer base. NESsT and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship will also help ADP to diversify its products and improve its impact-measuring process through tailored business mentoring in strategy, marketing, communication, and governance. Profits from ADP are reinvested into other social projects run by ADP’s founding organization such as afforestation projects that have planted 1,122,000 m^2 of forest in 14 communities in Romania; and recycling services and education programs that have trained more than 3,000 high school students.