At The Expense Of Nobody
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The second point of Peak Design's six-point mission statement, nestled right behind "make the best things," is "succeed at the expense of nobody." The recent certification of Peak Design's soft goods manufacturing facilities as Fair Trade Certified is a massive achievement in following through on that mission point.
Come along with the Peak Design team to Vietnam and the Philippines to meet the incredible folks who make these bags, and learn what Fair Trade certification means for these highly-skilled workers.
Learn more about the work Peak Design is doing at impact.peakdesi...
Proud to be a Peak Design user. Always on top of their game.
As a Filipino person and San Francisco native myself this is amazing you're giving a insider view of the factories. This is another reason why I support Peak Designs and advocate for your brand. Quality products built to last a lifetime. I look forward to buying more bags in the future.
Great products, Great Customer Service, Great Business ethics.
The gold standard
Keep up the great work guys
As a Seattle retailer of Peak Design, these types of products with Fair Trade certification make us feel good about the products we are selling to our customers. It's an important factor in the selling process and knowing that we are part of a bigger community and helping with that overall mission! Go Peak Design!
Peak Design makes some of the best products, but it’s their thoughtful approach to how they do business that makes me a customer for life.
I am still using the very first Everyday backpack from kickstarter! This backpack will last forever!
This is so good to know! Thank you for being great humans treating others with dignity and respect! I love all my peak design gear and to know that the folks who make them are getting treated fair and able to live better makes me very happy. One thing I thought was so true is when Adriaan Kwon said that if the workers are happy making the product, the product will have a happy soul. That is good such good Ju Ju!! ❤❤❤
I've been a proud Peak Design customer since 2018 and I easily own and regularly use over a dozen PD products. This video made me feel even prouder to be a PD customer -- it is really amazing to see the intentionality and joy that goes into something that brings so much joy into my daily life. Thank you to everyone who has touched by bags and accessories, I'm going to think of all of you each time I use them going forward!!
great job, and you are right. it is your responsibility to make sure the humans making your amazing products are being taking care of. another reason why as a peak design customer I will continue to buy your products and share them with all my traveling friends. I support this! thank you for showing us the video. hugs!
I’ve always loved PD. Now, I love it even more.
“A tide that’s lifting all boats”. ❤
You guys make great products and your customer service is the best!
Love this video! After I purchased my first PD 3L camera backpack I was on a plane to Africa and I noticed another guy who had a very well used PD backpack. I asked what he thought of his and he said he has lots of PD bags, has traveled all over the world, and will never buy anything else. I am feeling the same way! Thank you.
Literally one of my favorite brands!
I want to work for Peak Design now!
Top of the line products from a top of the line company! Very proud to support Peak Design!!
Always believed Peak Design is a special company, even more so now! great to see you guys investing in the wellbeing of people making these amazing products we all enjoy using and also a great film 👏👏👏👏
We love Peak Design and thank you Peak Design, thanks Fair trade.
Seeing this type of commitment to fair and equitable labor in other countries makes me want to buy more of your products. Well done and I commend your mission! I love the charging solutions that I own!
Thank you! I laughed a lot and cried a little. Usually I feel very bad, living in the west, economically exploiting people in India or Asia. I don't feel like a hero now, but I see, that it really makes a difference where I buy goods and you are true heros to go the extra mile (veeery long mile). My favorite quote is from the AJ-CEO “If the worker produces another product with happiness, the product will have a good happy soul”. I am not a “good customer”-I backed one of the first messanger bags and as it is still holding up good, there were only minor purchases since. I can agree 100 %, that you can feel the energy and happiness that people put into a product. So again, thank you :-)
fair trade is all around good vibes! Good on the workers to get better wages, good on peak design for getting their factory workers to care about the product, good on peak design’s marketing department to improve brand image, and good on customer to feel good about their purchase and the story behind the product. Literally nobody loses!
Great job guys, I proudly own six PD products. Very happy!
Peak Design, what a great company thinking about their workers like this. Their bags are pretty good too.
Great work. I'm very familiar with fairtrade commodities - tea, coffee etc, but this was a great insight into fair trade manufacturing. Makes me even more pleased with my 10l every day sling, delivered to me today! Kudos to the whole team - whether at US HQ, in Vietnam or the Phillipines!
I love PeakDesign products!
Thank you all for making sure that your goods are produced ethically. I'll buy from you based on this alone.
Great to see and hopefully others will follow this lead; keep the good work going and let the world become a fairer place for all.
wow. such a great movie - and a fantastic message - good job Peak Design. That's what Design ist all about! I hope that a lot of bigger brands can take you guys as an example and improve the factorys arround the globe
Hey - big fan of Peak design. My first product I bought is your 30L travel bag. Love it. Took it to Vietnam and the Philippines.
Peter, can you please hurry up and launch more backpacks? I'd love to buy them.
People often complain about your prices being on the higher-end but it's necessary for the worker to be treated right on the other side.
Fantastic movie. And a fantastic IDEA to produce goods in this way. Proud to have a couple of bags and other stuff from PD.😍😍
I really like PD products! I would absolutely love them if they were made in the USA!!
Amazing job guys ❤
So proud to be a user of peak design 🎉
Bravo PD. Customer for life. Have owned just about every bag 😊. Just one thing missing - wheeled roller….
great products And looking forward to the 45L coyote tan collab business trip bag i would pre order it even 😂🎉🎉
The QC editor missed "Quailty" at 8:07. Nevertheless, love my Peak Design goods!
When you guys going to release more camera related gears?
Please open a store in Vietnam.
I'm not saying it's the only metric that matters but I like numbers above nice words and hence I'd love to know how much more a fair trade factory worker makes compared to a similar worker in a non fair trade factory?
Great company. Great designs, Great products. I have been a PD fan boy since I got my first tri-pod from them years ago. I have gone all in across the whole ecosystem and have indoctrinated my family as well. The design goes beyond the product itself, but extends to the packaging and thoughtfulness on reducing waist. I love the seeing you make such great products, building a great company, yet still been socially responsible. I will be a customer for life.
I would love to work here 😢.
I like this, but at the same time I notice the one thing that's conspicuously missing is any mention of what the "Fair wages" for the lowest paid employees actually are.
Wow, that’s a cool approach, guys! Thumbs up!
I love you guys!
All good bags are expensive. I can understand the price better with PDs stuff. How many bags do I own so far? Yes.
Amazing!
love PD, I'm addicted
Thank you for supporting the channel Climate Town!!
Absolutely! We love Rollie and his team!
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Fair Trade Certified is a good thing but you need to move out of CA before I'll buy your product
this is one of the many reasons i love PD. just need to close the loop on recycling end of life products.
Without question the BEST MOUNT system in the world. NO CONTEST. I've tried just about every mount system you can imagine; too awkward to put on/take off, too bulky, NOT SECURE (bye bye phone), NOT strong enough (plastic breaks), ugly design etc. You name it. Peak Mount is CRAZY GOOD.
The quality of products produced in Vietnam is not as good as that produced in China. The gap is too big.
So I understand fair trade. Is it that expensive to help people in America to do what this is being done. So now most of my peak design is outside the USA. No get me wrong. I love all of my bags. I have lots of but when we need help in building things in the USA. Is it that expensive to make a plant here and train them to make them.
It’s a great idea and obviously I support a concept to pay more better place to work and better food and time off to be with family.. buuuuut
They go there because it’s cheap. If they were actually paying people a fair wage for their product then why not do it in America then all of a sudden you get the idea of well now you’re taking away from American jobs because you’re honestly paying $20 an hour which they are not doing it’s a very good way for your company to look good but still make your stuff pretty cheap, if it was true, fair trade, it would be made in the United States supporting people that need the jobs here not being a nitpicker or a little Nancy I’m just saying that it would be better if it was US made always
Except for the animals skin you use. Hypocrites.
? which product, ? which animal
Hi Karl, we definitely understand where you're coming from here. As such, we asked our Head of Environmental and Social Impact to provide some context around why we use leather in a few products:
The use of leather is a topic we have discussed in depth over the last several years. We see two primary considerations in our decision: (1) our customer's feelings around leather and (2) the environmental impact of leather.
Addressing the first, while there are customers, like yourself, who disagree with our use of leather, many of our customers love leather and we want to provide for both groups. We do feel we need a better balance of products with leather accents versus without and are transitioning to more no-leather options. While we haven’t found high-quality faux leather alternatives, we continue researching our options. We also use leather that is a byproduct of meat manufacturing.
Additionally, our sustainability philosophy is based on designing products that not only last a long time but are actually used for a long time. Products using materials that look better with age (like leather) will stay in use longer than materials that deteriorate with age. People are emotionally attached to and proud of their aged leather products which can’t always be said for synthetic materials. The longer we keep our products in play, the less of an impact we have.
Our second consideration is the environmental impact of leather. Leather processing can and often does have an outsized environmental impact than other materials specifically in regard to water use and treatment, chemical use, and carbon footprint. Because of this, a group called the Leather Working Group was formed to develop a way to audit and score leather suppliers on their environmental impact.
The original Environmental Audit Protocol was developed by brands and leather manufacturers, with input from NGO’s such as WWF and Greenpeace. Suppliers are scored on a large array of factors from material traceability, water and waste management, and energy use (the full protocol can be found here). Peak Design only sources from Gold-rated facilities which means our suppliers meet the highest standards possible. We also intentionally use only a very small amount of leather in our products.
While we know this is unlikely to change your opinion about the use of leather, we hope it provides some insight into our decision-making. This is certainly an issue we will continue researching and discussing and we greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts.
so just throw away the animal skins? that's great...
@@peakdesignvideo super interesting thought process, expect nothing less from you guys regarding details like this. I also admire that you guys choose to engage rather than ignore comments like the person above. Just a thought which maybe doesn't make sense from a business standpoint... I'm personally someone who does use some leather products in general, but I do have most of my products from you guys in black, which I believe tends to be the 'vegan' option of your bags? Could you guys offer more non-leather options, perhaps a natural lighter color way in addition to black that comes without leather? Maybe they wouldn't be as popular but it might be well received that 50% of the product's color options are leather free, rather than just one option.
@@peakdesignvideo I appreciate this detailed response, but it doesn’t address the biggest issue of there being a victim in the leather industry: the animal that skin once belonged to and everything that animal was put through just so someone can have some false sense of pride over a 2cm2 branded patch on your product. It is not wholly accurate to call the leather industry a waste byproduct of the slaughter industry, as explained in the documentary ‘Dominion’. It isn’t necessary to use leather, especially in Peak Design’s products where the leather is only on designated trimming/tags.
There is no justification for supporting the mass torture and murder of any sentient beings, let alone for such a small aesthetic choice.
You guys doing a great work. I use PD in my car and while driving e-scooter. Moto and bike mounts - must have! Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦🫡
But the hot question now is does Peak Design support Israel?