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Fila

This report documents what Fila publishes about its ownership and supply chain — see the sourcing and transparency sections below. Fila’s supply-chain transparency is rated 1 out of 5.

Fila’s product range has not been scanned product-by-product to the Throne Standard, so no whole-catalogue fibre percentage is shown here — a headline fibre figure is only published once 100% of a catalogue has been read.

2026-08-04

The full style-by-style breakdown for Fila is being added.

About Fila

DOCUMENTED FACTS: Fila is independently rated “Not Good Enough” by the Good On You directory, scoring low (about 2/5) on planet, people (labour) and animals, with the assessors noting Fila does not publish sufficient information on its most critical environmental and labour issues, lacks disclosed supply-chain transparency, and uses animal materials including leather, wool, cashmere and down (with only some recycled/certified alternatives). Fila was named in 2021 reporting as one of the brands caught in the Xinjiang cotton controversy: Fila China stated it would keep sourcing Xinjiang cotton and pull out of the Better Cotton Initiative, and Fila was described in coverage as having shifted/scrubbed public stances on forced-labour under commercial pressure (sources: Fortune, NBC News, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre).
Fila garments and footwear are made through globally outsourced, mostly Asian manufacturing rather than in-house Italian production; although the brand originated in Biella, Italy, Fila does not publish a comprehensive, verified public factory list. Secondary reporting places much production in China and Vietnam (with some in South Korea and India), but Fila itself does not publicly document a verified country-by-country breakdown, so precise sourcing is largely not publicly documented. One documented sourcing fact: in March 2021 Fila China publicly stated it continued to purchase and use cotton produced in China including from the Xinjiang region, and said it would withdraw from the Better Cotton Initiative (while Fila’s Taiwan agent stated its cotton came from South Asia and the Italian/Holdings level gave a more cautious statement).
Fila was founded in 1911 in Coggiola, near Biella, Italy, by brothers Ettore and Giansevero Fila, originally as a knitwear/textile business rooted in a local wool mill (it moved into sportswear in 1973 around a Björn Borg tennis endorsement). Fila is NOT independent: it passed from Italian owners (SNIA, then Fiat-controlled Gemina/Holding di Partecipazioni) to US hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management in 2003, and was acquired by South Korea’s Fila Korea in January 2007. It is now owned by a South Korean parent, Fila Holdings Corp., which shareholders renamed Misto Holdings in April 2025; the company is publicly traded on the Korea Exchange (KRX: 081660) and controlled by the Yoon family (chairman Gene Yoon / Yoon Yoon-su) via Piemonte Co., with the National Pension Service of Korea holding a significant stake. The same parent also owns golf company Acushnet (Titleist, FootJoy, Scotty Cameron).
Fila is a real, currently-trading, legitimate global sportswear and apparel business, not defunct. Its South Korean parent (Fila Holdings, renamed Misto Holdings in April 2025) is publicly listed on the Korea Exchange and reported consolidated 2025 revenue of about KRW 4.47 trillion (roughly €3.14 billion) with rising operating profit, and continues to publish quarterly earnings and operate the Fila brand worldwide.
Fila is a large-scale, mass-market mainstream sportswear and athleisure brand, not a slow-fashion or small-batch/artisanal maker. It produces high-volume athletic apparel, footwear and accessories for global retail through outsourced factories, placing it in the big-brand mass-production category rather than made-to-order or limited-run production.
Fila is a mixed-material brand.
How we scan. Every figure comes from the Throne Standard scan: we read the fibre composition off each live product, style by style, and count only single-fibre plant cloth (cotton, linen, hemp) as natural. Animal and plastic-based synthetic fibres sit outside the plant-fibre figure, and regenerated fibres such as viscose, rayon, modal and Tencel are counted as semi-synthetic.

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