Rapanui is a company that was started out by two brothers, one a business graduate and the other a renewable energy engineer.
Profit was never a priority (they didnt think they'd make any) it was just a challenge to see if they could make a range that was the cutting-edge in sustainability; it also had to fit their lifestyle; comfy and stylish and green.
In the business you see today, that challenge is still the core. A small team each with an expertise but all sharing this same challenge; to develop the greenest products in the world, the cutting-edge in sustainability.
Aside from the design of fitted, fashionable clothing, the environmental ethos involves three areas of focus:
1- Response to Climate Change
2- Natural, Organic and Ethical Fabrics
3- Fair Trade and Manufacture
Each as important as each other, Rapanui endeavours to take a 'total' approach to sustainability.
Our current achievements have earned us quite a few logos and badges to display as accreditation, and some awards and nominations such as the HBCP Green Award.
But the joke phrase of the Rapanui workaholics says more about our mission than all those certificates;
'...still more can be done..." |