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Materials Benchmark Insights and Trends 2025

Discover some of the key insights and trends from Textile Exchange’s Materials Benchmark.

The Materials Benchmark is the largest peer-to-peer comparison initiative in the fashion, textile, and apparel industry. Every year, it tracks the uptake of fibers and raw materials from recognized programs, as well as how companies are addressing areas like circularity, biodiversity, land, freshwater, and forests.

To explore aggregated data and trends from participating brands and retailers, we have compiled a factsheet that provides key insights into the state of the sector.

The Materials Benchmark is open to all companies that want to measure and report their fiber and raw material-related progress. However, it is important to note that the data in this factsheet refer to companies that report into the Materials Benchmark only, which far outperform the industry as a whole in terms of their sustainability progress.

Explore the insights 

Dive deeper into how companies that reported into the 2025 Materials Benchmark cycle are addressing climate and nature through their raw material sourcing. 

The key takeaways

The number of reporting brands and retailers (including subsidiaries) increased from 57 in 2015 to a record 423 in 2025. Among the subsets of brands that reported data on specific fibers and materials for both 2023 and 2024: 

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