Sustainability data and analytics solutions provider Worldly announced today the acquisition of textile and apparel sector-focused environmental data platform GoBlu, in a move aimed at advancing the unification of systems for tracking social and environmental performance across consumer goods supply chains.
Founded in 2015, GoBlu provides digital sustainability-focused tools including brand-level, supply chain-level, and communications services for the textile and apparel industry. The company’s flagship platform, The BHive, allows factories and brands to digitize all steps in the chemical management process from chemical product entry to analysis, performance management and reporting, enabling chemical inventory management, traceability, and compliance.
California-based Worldly was launched in 2019 to host the Higg Index, a suite of environmental and social sustainability performance tools for the apparel industry, and has since expanded to also provide analytics, reporting, and performance tracking tools to users across the hard goods, outdoor equipment, home furnishings, and toys sectors.
According to Worldly, the acquisition comes as brands and retailers currently rely on multiple data platforms to manage different parts of their sustainability and risk programs, with the new transaction aimed at advancing the company’s vision to create a more unified and efficient system to track social and environmental performance across consumer goods supply chains.
Scott Raskin, CEO of Worldly, said:
“There’s extraordinary innovation happening across the consumer goods industry, but too often in isolation. At Worldly, we see an opportunity — and have a responsibility — to connect these efforts and create a unified and centralized ecosystem that brings transparency and helps brands and manufacturers act faster and more effectively. Acquiring GoBlu and bringing The BHive into our platform is an important step toward that vision.”
Worldly said that the acquisition will combine its environmental data infrastructure with GoBlu’s The BHive platform, enabling industry users to connect information on which chemicals are used with how they affect environmental performance, allowing a unified view of compliance and impact at facility and brand levels, streamlined data collection to reduce reporting burdens and advanced analytics and AI-driven insights.
Lars Doemer, Founder and Managing Director of GoBlu, said:
“Joining Worldly enables GoBlu to scale our mission faster and further. Together, we’ll provide the industry with the transparency, usability, and intelligence it needs to make real progress.”
