ergobag in figures

In 2010 the four friends Flo, Juliaan, Oliver and Sven founded ergobag. In the first year the enterprise won first place in the NUK Business Plan competition and secured a new home for 4200ergobag school backpacks. 5 wonderful and exciting years have passed since then and a lot has happened. Our school backpacks now find homes in about 20 different countries.

Sustainability in figures

 Approximately 47.2 million used 0.5-liter PET bottles have been upcycled to make backpack textiles until now, thereby decreasing the unnecessary environmental burden caused by production. Compared to conventional production methods, waste water is reduced by 20%, energy use by 50%, and harmful emissions by 60%. As a consequence, 36,247.52 cubic meters of water have been saved which would otherwise have been necessary for the manufacturing process. 14 PET bottles are processed to make one ergolino, 51 are required for an ergobag set, and a total of 29 recycled 0.5-liter bottles are needed for a satch.

Some Details in figures

Up to 9 of our lovely colleagues are at your service daily on our customer hotline and processing emails or post – 45 hours a week, 180 a month – an important job because in one week/month we get around 2600 written inquiries and numerous calls which we are happy to answer.

A school bag weighs an average of 6 kilograms. The ergobag shifts up to 50% of the weight from the shoulders to the more stable pelvic area – that's a whole 3 kilograms less on the back!

To make your school backpacks and accessories even prettier and unique we provided you with Klettie sets in more than 20 different designs. Also we attendet more than 1200 selling events until now where kids could try on our bags.

Our mission in figures

We are on a mission to have 3 million of our ergonomic school backpacks in the world by 2020 in a bid to take 6,000 tonnes of weight off the shoulders of schoolchildren. This will add up to a total of 70 million recycled 0.5-liter PET bottles.

It is still infinite fun to work in our little world of big backpacks.
Thanks a million for your support!

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