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Burberry

This report documents what Burberry publishes about its ownership and supply chain — see the sourcing and transparency sections below. Burberry’s supply-chain transparency is rated 3 out of 5.

Burberry’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 Burberry is being added.

About Burberry

Documented facts: Burberry ended the use of real fur and stopped destroying/burning unsold goods in 2018 following public criticism (a practice it had previously confirmed and then publicly abandoned); it uses organic cotton in its trench gabardine, RDS-certified down, and has a science-based emissions target.
Burberry manufactures across multiple countries rather than in one place. Burberry weaves its trench-coat gabardine at its own mill in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, and makes its Heritage Trench Coats at its factory in Castleford, England; cashmere scarves are made in Scotland. Burberry produces the majority of its leather goods and much ready-to-wear in Italy, including a wholly owned leather-goods “centre of excellence” in Scandicci, near Florence. Other Burberry products are also made in additional countries (reporting cites locations such as Poland, China and elsewhere for parts of the range), so “Made in England” applies mainly to its heritage outerwear, not the whole catalogue.
Burberry is a British luxury fashion house founded in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, a 21-year-old former draper’s apprentice, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Burberry is not a small independent label and has no single parent company: it trades as Burberry Group plc, a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange (ticker BRBY) and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, owned by a mix of institutional and retail shareholders with no controlling stake. Burberry was family-controlled until 1955, when Great Universal Stores (GUS) acquired it; Burberry floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2001/2002 and GUS divested its remaining stake in December 2005. Burberry is headquartered at Horseferry House, Westminster, London; its CEO is Joshua Schulman (appointed July 2024) and its Chief Creative Officer is Daniel Lee, with William Jackson appointed Chair-designate from 1 July 2026 (succeeding Gerry Murphy).
Burberry is a real, currently-trading, legitimate business, not defunct. Burberry Group plc reported FY2025/26 (year ended 28 March 2026) revenue of about £2.42 billion, returned to adjusted operating profit of roughly £160 million, employs around 9,300 people, and operates roughly 400-plus stores worldwide; it remains an actively traded FTSE 100 company under its “Burberry Forward” turnaround plan.
Burberry is a luxury heritage fashion house, not fast fashion, but it is also not a small-batch or artisanal micro-brand. Burberry designs seasonal luxury collections sold at premium prices through a large global retail network, so it sits in the high-end luxury segment rather than the high-volume, low-cost fast-fashion model or the slow/limited-run maker category.
Burberry 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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