A team comprising of members of our design, purchasing, technology and corporate responsibility department visit our suppliers on a regular basis. Martin, our CEO, is frequently joining these visits to get to know our suppliers personally and to strengthen our partnerships. We do not visit the showrooms on site, but rather the various factories: sewing, laundry, weaving, embroidery, etc. We have also visited our cotton production in India, where we helped with the harvest and got to know Bhimabhai. He is one of the farmers from whom we get our organic cotton. You can find the whole Travel Journal here. The focus of each visit varies, depending on who is visiting the production site. However, the person visiting also discusses the matters that other colleagues put on the agenda, so that a multitude of different topics is discussed on site. We always announce our visits and arrange the dates with the producers. Our suppliers are our partners and we treat them as such. This means above all that we build a business relationship based on trust and not on control.