Worldly, a supply chain intelligence platform for consumer goods, has reported significant growth in 2026. The company signed 58 new brand customers, a 45% increase year-on-year, including Pepco, The White Company, and MUJI. The platform now connects over 45,000 factories across 97 countries. Supply chain partners exchanged more than 100,000 verified assessments on the platform last year. Worldly launched several AI-powered solutions, including Worldly Axion for risk intelligence and Supplier Compliance Management. The company completed two strategic acquisitions: Bendi for supply chain traceability and GoBlu for chemicals management. Growth is driven by increasing regulatory pressures, including the EU's CSRD and CSDDD directives, alongside rising tariffs and freight costs. The company was named a representative vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications.

POC and Worldly join forces to streamline supply chain data for the brand and licensing industry. The partnership gives the brand and licensing industry a more connected and efficient way to manage supply chain reporting - powered by Worldly's platform, home to Cascale's Higg Index. Products of Change is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with supply chain intelligence platform, Worldly, marking an important step forward in aligning sustainability data and accelerating impact across the global brand and licensing industry. As regulatory requirements increase and expectations on transparency continue to grow, the need for connected, efficient systems has never been more critical. Through its new partnership, Products of Change will work alongside Worldly - home to global non-profit alliance Cascale's Higg Index, including the Higg Facility Environmental Module, already used by tens of thousands of manufacturers, retailers, and brands globally - to help simplify and scale solutions across the industry. To mark the partnership, Products of Change and Worldly will co-host a webinar on Wednesday 13 May, exploring how more connected supply chain data systems can reduce reporting duplication for brand and licensing teams. Register for your place here. By bringing together Worldly's established supply chain data and intelligence infrastructure with POC's cross-industry network, this collaboration aims to reduce duplication, streamline reporting, and create a more connected ecosystem for sustainability, social compliance, and primary data collection. "Brand and licensing teams are being asked to report more, disclose more, and act faster, often across systems that weren't built to talk to each other," Drew Hillman, senior manager, partnerships at Worldly, said. "Partnering with Products of Change lets us bring credible, comparable supply chain data and intelligence to a community that's ready to use it. That's how the industry moves forward together." As requirements continue to evolve across legislation, retail expectations, and brand standards, Products Of Change Media Ltd has a collective opportunity and responsibility to move towards a more aligned approach. Together, Worldly and POC will convene category-specific and community-wide programmes that align the licensing industry around consistent environmental and social data standards. These programmes will have participation and perspective spanning the full value chain, bringing together manufacturers, brands, retailers, and licensees to discuss data collection standardisation, benchmarking facility-level impacts, improving supplier communication, and create clear, interoperable pathways for exchanging supply chain information across product categories. "This partnership reflects a shared ambition: to move our industry from fragmented approaches toward a much more aligned system with standardised measurement - one that enables the businesses of all shapes and sizes across our community to track progress, meet requirements, and accelerate their impact. POC is so proud to work together with Worldly to continue to support the industry on its sustainability transition and action real, meaningful and measurable progress at scale," commented Helena Mansell-Stopher, founder and CEO, Products of Change. Products of Change will be hosting its first webinar with Worldly on Wednesday 13 May at 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT, to explore how greater alignment across data systems can unlock efficiencies, reduce duplication, and enable more consistent, actionable insights across supply chains. As compliance and impact reporting requirements continue to increase, businesses across the brand and licensing industry are facing growing pressure to report, disclose, and act, often across multiple platforms and frameworks. This conversation will focus on how Products Of Change Media Ltd connect the dots, bringing industry together to build a more streamlined, interoperable approach to sustainability data. * 5 May 2026 * by Kathryn Brand

Worldly acquires Bendi Software Ltd., bringing ai-powered supply chain mapping and risk intelligence to the consumer goods industry. 3 minutes read Acquisition expands deep-tier visibility and supplier mapping, multi-category risk scoring, and AI-powered assessment automation across Worldly's network of 40,000+ companies in 97 countries, closing the blind spots where supply chain risk is highest. SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON-(BUSINESS WIRE)-#ai - Worldly, the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry, today announced the acquisition of Bendi Software Ltd., a UK-based supply chain mapping and supplier risk intelligence company. For brands navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape globally, seeing and managing risk beyond Tier 1 suppliers has never been more critical or more difficult. This acquisition expands Worldly's ability to deliver that supply chain visibility. Bendi's technology will be integrated across the Worldly platform over the coming months, expanding capabilities within Worldly Axion, Supplier Compliance Management, and adjacent products. Customers will gain access to deep-tier supplier visibility, continuously updated supplier risk scoring, and AI-powered assessment automation - capabilities that until now have required brands to assemble multiple vendors. "For years, our customers have told us the same thing: visibility is much more challenging beyond Tier 1 suppliers - and that blind spot is exactly where the greatest labor, environmental, and compliance risk lives," said Scott Raskin, CEO of Worldly. "Regulators and stakeholders are now demanding answers in that gap, and the consequences - legal exposure, reputational harm, and supply chain disruption - are escalating fast. Worldly is building the largest network of primary supplier data in the consumer goods industry; Bendi adds AI-powered discovery and risk intelligence for suppliers that brands haven't yet engaged with directly. Together, we'll give companies the visibility to manage risk proactively, not just react after the fact." "We started Bendi because fewer than half of companies have full visibility into their supply chain, and visibility falls off fastest exactly where the risk is highest, deep in the tiers where labor and environmental harm are most likely to occur. That's the problem we've spent years solving," said Mandeep Soor, Co-founder & CEO, Bendi. "Joining Worldly means we can bring that capability to the brands and manufacturers that need it urgently, and at a scale that simply wasn't possible independently." What the acquisition adds to Worldly Bendi's technology consists of three integrated solutions: * Pathfinder - an automated supply chain mapping engine that traces a brand's suppliers through Tier 2, Tier 3, and beyond. Pathfinder builds multi-tier supply chain maps without requiring supplier participation, surfacing suppliers that brands did not previously know existed in their value chains. * Prism - a supplier risk rating framework that combines public data sources, including regulatory filings, court records, and NGO publications, with a proprietary methodology that scores suppliers on more than 100 environmental, labor, human rights, and governance indicators across more than 35 languages. * VendorPilot - an AI-powered assessment automation tool that reduces the time factories spend completing sustainability assessments, including the Higg Index, which is stewarded and governed by the global non-profit alliance Cascale and available through Worldly. Reducing assessment burden improves data quality and accelerates completion rates across the Worldly ecosystem. Aligned with an accelerating regulatory environment The acquisition coincides with a wave of regulation requiring large companies to conduct due diligence across their value chains. The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), updated under the Omnibus I package and now scheduled to take effect in July 2029, requires the largest companies operating in the EU to identify and address human rights and environmental impacts across their chains of activity. Forced labor legislation in the United States, Germany, and other jurisdictions is already in force. These regulations are creating urgent demand for the capabilities Bendi has built: visibility beyond Tier 1, supplier-level risk assessment, and systematic documentation of due diligence. With Bendi integrated into Worldly's Supplier Compliance Management solution and across the platform, Worldly is positioned to serve this compliance-driven demand at scale, and to take another step toward its vision of eliminating the blind spots where supply chain risk is highest. About Worldly Worldly is the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry. The company empowers brands, retailers, and manufacturers to turn verified primary data into insight and action across complex global supply chains. Trusted by a network of more than 40,000 companies across apparel, footwear, home furnishings, and sporting goods, Worldly provides visibility into environmental and social performance, including carbon, water, chemicals, and labor, at the product, facility, and value-chain levels. Built on industry-recognized standards, including Cascale's Higg Index, Worldly translates raw data into actionable intelligence that helps organizations reduce risk, meet evolving regulatory requirements, and drive measurable progress over time. www.worldly.io About Bendi Bendi Software is a London-based AI-driven platform founded by CEO Mandeep Soor, CRO Benjamin Norsworthy, and CTO Olivier Bacs. Bendi specializes in helping businesses manage and mitigate ESG risks in complex global supply chains. Bendi automates the mapping of supply chains, uncovers hidden risks, and provides real-time insights to ensure regulatory compliance and enhance sustainability through three integrated products: Pathfinder (N-tier mapping), Prism (ESG risk screening) and VendorPilot (automated data exchange). Founded in 2020, Bendi was established to enable sophisticated supply chain due diligence and ESG analysis for global companies. bendi.ai 8 minutes ago 25 minutes ago 1 hour ago