FASHION BUSINESS COLLECTIVE LTD

What FASHION BUSINESS COLLECTIVE LTD does

Fashion Business Collective Ltd (operating as fashion.business) is a London-based private limited company that provides research, tools, and events for fashion industry operations, compliance, and supply chain decision-making. Its core products are SureTariff, a deterministic HTS classification platform for UK and US importers that returns tariff codes alongside confidence scores and reasoning, and id.codes, a GS1-compliant QR code and hosted Digital Product Passport page service built for the EU DPP regulation timeline and the GS1 Sunrise 2027 deadline. The company also publishes long-form intelligence reports on tariff exposure, DPP readiness, supplier qualification, and technology selection, and runs the FBO series of small-group operational events in London for senior operators, product leads, and compliance officers at growth-stage fashion and lifestyle brands. Technology is developed in collaboration with its.fashion and is built on open GS1 Digital Link standards to avoid vendor lock-in.

The company operates a freemium membership model: free access to the biweekly Spotlight newsletter, reports on publication day, and event invitations, with paid subscriptions for premium content and platform services. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is handled via Stripe with 30-day notice of price changes. Distribution combines self-serve platform access (SureTariff Wave 2 beta and id.codes), enterprise direct sales through events and dedicated contact channels for brands/retailers, trade associations, technology providers, and media, and a 150+ curated Industry Resources Library. The founder, Ben Muis, brings 35+ years of fashion industry experience spanning master tailoring, Nike, Alfred Dunhill, Perry Ellis, and Lee Cooper, followed by 15 years of consulting work with 100+ fashion clients; its.fashion adds a further 35+ years of fashion technology consulting across 100+ brands. Named customers from a February 2026 showcase include ME+EM, Liverpool FC, Curvy Kate, Perfect Moment, Nudge, and Margaret Howell, with an average event recommendation score of 9.5/10. The company is privately held, appears bootstrapped with no disclosed external funding, has 1-10 employees, and is registered in England and Wales (company number 07181035).

Name

FASHION BUSINESS COLLECTIVE LTD

Legal name

Fashion Business Collective Ltd

Website

https://fashion.business

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fashion Business Collective Ltd provides compliance tools, intelligence reports, and small-group events for fashion operations directors, product leads, and compliance officers at growth-stage fashion and lifestyle brands, anchored by its SureTariff and id.codes platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fashion Compliance Software

akta.pro primary industry

Apparel Sourcing, Buying Houses & Trading Companies (CRAAAAAN)

Keywords

• Fashion compliance software
• Tariff classification platform
• Digital product passport
• Supply chain traceability
• Fashion operations intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Free Membership: Free membership providing access to Spotlight newsletter (every other Friday), reports on publication day, and event invitations. No marketing email or drip sequences.
2. Paid Membership/Subscription: Subscription access to premium content and services. Fees published on website, payable in advance with automatic renewal. Secure third-party payment processors (Stripe) handle transactions. Price changes communicated 30 days in advance.
3. Platform Services (SureTariff & id.codes): Access to tariff classification and product identification platforms. SureTariff Wave 2 beta open; id.codes live and onboarding brands.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fashion Business Collective provides research, intelligence reports, and compliance software platforms for fashion industry operations professionals. Its core products are SureTariff, a deterministic HTS tariff-classification platform for UK and US importers, and id.codes, which generates GS1-compliant QR codes and hosted Digital Product Passport pages for the EU regulation timeline and GS1 Sunrise 2027 deadline. These platforms are paired with long-form industry reports and small-group FBO events for operations directors, product leads, and compliance officers at growth-stage fashion and lifestyle brands.

Product overview

Fashion Business Collective operates a platform-plus-services model with two core compliance tools—SureTariff for tariff classification and id.codes for product identification and Digital Product Passports—complemented by a suite of intelligence reports on fashion operations topics and small-group events (FBO series). The company is also developing open traceability infrastructure. All initiatives are built in collaboration with its.fashion as the technology partner and are designed on open standards to avoid vendor lock-in.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SureTariff (suretariff.com): Tariff classification platform providing deterministic HTS classification for UK and US importers with confidence scores and reasoning.
• id.codes

Products and services

• SureTariff Deterministic HTS classification platform for UK and US fashion importers. Each result returns a tariff code, a confidence score, and the reasoning behind the classification, supporting accurate customs classification and margin protection for fashion and lifestyle brands.
• id.codes GS1-compliant QR code generation and hosted Digital Product Passport pages for fashion brands. Provides production-ready QR codes at batch and SKU level with PLM connectivity and consumer-facing verification, built for the EU DPP regulation timeline and GS1 Sunrise 2027 deadline.
• Intelligence Reports and Articles Long-form practitioner-authored intelligence reports and articles on the operational topics that move fashion businesses, including tariff exposure, DPP readiness, supplier qualification, sourcing shifts, and technology selection. Distributed to fashion.business members on publication day and available in the public Intelligence archive.
• FBO Small-Group Events Deliberately small-group operational events (FBO series) for fashion and lifestyle brand professionals covering compliance, supply chain visibility, costing, product data, Digital Product Passports, and technology selection. Each event features live working-tool demonstrations on screen and parallel sessions to maintain intimacy at scale.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average event recommendation score of 9.5 out of 10 from February 2026 event attendees
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• its.fashioncoreTechnology or IntegrationLondon-based fashion technology consultancy serving as FBC's chosen industry technology partner. Brings over 35 years of fashion technology consulting experience, having worked with more than 100 brands, retailers, and licensees worldwide. Provides technical development and implementation expertise for FBC initiatives including SureTariff and id.codes.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Inspectorio: Inspectorio offers supply chain compliance, quality, and sustainability SaaS for fashion and lifestyle brands, directly overlapping with FBC's supplier-qualification and compliance-readiness value proposition for operations leaders.
• Arianee: Arianee provides digital product passport infrastructure using open blockchain and GS1-aligned standards for luxury and fashion brands, directly competing with FBC's id.codes platform on DPP hosting and consumer-facing verification.
• Edited: Edited provides retail analytics and market intelligence to fashion brands via a SaaS platform with premium subscriptions, mirroring FBC's intelligence-and-tools operating model and shared customer base of operations and merchandising leaders.
• Circulor: Circulor delivers supply chain traceability and DPP solutions with a focus on battery and apparel industries, overlapping with FBC's planned traceability infrastructure and id.codes offering for fashion regulatory readiness.
• TrusTrace: TrusTrace is a supply chain traceability and compliance platform purpose-built for fashion and apparel brands, directly competing with FBC's planned traceability infrastructure and overlapping on DPP/regulatory-readiness tooling.
• TextileGenesis: TextileGenesis is a fiber-level traceability platform for fashion and textile supply chains, serving the same growth-stage apparel brand customer and overlapping on DPP and forced-labour compliance use cases.

Others

• Business of Fashion: Business of Fashion is an independent fashion industry intelligence and research subscription, directly comparable to FBC's intelligence reports and Spotlight newsletter in audience, format, and monetization model.

Emerging players

• Carbonfact: Carbonfact provides product-level emissions and sustainability intelligence for fashion brands, partially overlapping with FBC's compliance and supply-chain intelligence remit but with a narrower carbon focus.
• Glossy: Glossy is a fashion industry media and events brand covering digital and operational strategy for retail and fashion, partially overlapping with FBC's practitioner-focused intelligence and small-group event formats.

Broad incumbents

• Avery Dennison (atma.io): Avery Dennison's atma.io is a large-incumbent DPP and item-level traceability platform serving apparel and retail, competing with FBC's id.codes and traceability infrastructure from a much broader corporate base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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