Important news from our founder

From: Vivobarefoot - Friday Jul 28,2023 08:15 pm

To our valued community,

We live in extraordinary times and I’m writing to share some less exciting news.

From August, we’re going to increase prices on about half of our footwear lines.

The cost of pretty much everything we rely on to make and deliver footwear is going up, and I’m afraid, as a fiercely independent and self-funded family business, we are going to have to share some of these increases with you (at 7% significantly less than the industry average).

I’m proud of the fact that we don’t cut corners, we’re a top scoring B Corp and genuinely pursuing regeneration in everything we do for people and planet. But unfortunately, being unconventional wisdom, this comes at a cost (and we’ve got a long way to go!).

I'm proud that we're independent and able to do things differently but that comes at a cost

We publish an in-depth impact report twice per year called ‘Unfinished Business’ and this year's version along with all previous years will be on our website – sharing our full financial and non-financial impacts (and you can see that even a year ago, our profit margins were already tight).

We have an exciting and ambitious agenda of regenerative innovation - like recently launched made-to-order scan-to-print VivoBiome, a host of circular solutions through ReVivo and a full suite of natural health educational content through VivoHealth and we look forward to sharing and growing that with you for many years to come!

We have a long-term view on Vivobarefoot and being a meaningful part of the growing solutions for humanity to reconnect with nature…

Thanks for your understanding,
Feel the earth (she’s worth it!)

With love and respect,
Galahad