Who We Are
We are a global family with generations of excellence and innovations in apparel and workwear production.

01

Factory-Direct Production

Motives core production facilities are based in Vietnam, China, Cambodia and now Ethiopia. We have more than 10,000 factory operators dedicated to our customers’ production on a monthly basis. By utilizing this capacity in our factories, we can maximize cost efficiencies, and ensure that full compliance is upheld throughout our supply chain.

While we understand that speed is vital, our global team is passionate about the work they do, providing meticulous attention to detail and a near obsessional dedication to excellence. With a core competency in men’s, women’s tailored clothing and workwear, we have mastered the complex production needs of these sophisticated garments and have applied that knowledge to all other garment categories currently in our manufacturing spectrum.

02

Quality Control

We understand that our success is hinged on the success of our clients. And their success is dependent on product arriving exactly as designed, on time, on budget and as specified. In short, beautifully done. These requirements are not mere suggestions, they are a way of life and one that we take very seriously.

To ensure we are able to deliver on this promise we have over 120 quality control experts on staff to ensure a consistent, disciplined product of the highest standards. Independent quality control teams are continuously monitoring all of our factories, in order to ensure that all criteria are maintained. This includes a review of laboratory testing, tolerance measurements, seam slippage, full in-line and end line-in inspections.

Throughout our entire operation, maximizing speed is another important priority, from sourcing to final delivery. Our teams are fully synchronized to maximize efficiency even under extremely tight schedules, in order to meet our customer’s deadlines. We have QA leaders who are Italian and Portuguese based in our factories.

03

Transparency & Compliance

If trust is built on one thing, it is transparency – an ethical imperative at Motives since our inception. Embracing transparency has been a key to our success and continues to be a cornerstone of our ideology. We have always encouraged our customers to become directly engaged in our process, from sampling to factory production, from sourcing to compliance, we give them a clear window into everything that’s happening. This gives our customers control over how things are done in each step of the production process. This philosophy has helped Motives forge the many long-standing relationships built on trust – which is the hallmark of our offering and the reason our customers generally stay for life.

Compliance isn’t an inconvenience that we have to get through; it is something that we believe defines, in part, who we are. It is the functional result of our philosophy of transparency and the substantiation of our ethical practices. Further, a strict adherence to the highest compliance standards has a significant impact on our performance and reflects the honorable character of our business.

Our factories meet full compliance for all US and European customers. This includes WRAP, SMETA, BSCI and many other certifications. Our trim and fabric suppliers are OEKO-TEX certificated.