Florence and Samuel are the founders of the eco-designed water bottle brand [ GOBI ]
Year founded: 2020
Location of design and office: France 🇫🇷
Location of raw material sourcing: France 🇫🇷
Location of manufacturing and production: France 🇫🇷
Meet the Founders
Florence and Samuel were as perplexed as they were concerned about the influx of single-use plastic bottles and cups. They felt the problem was major and that changing habits would be no small challenge.
In 2010, a long time ago when water bottles weren't fashionable! Gobi was originally created by 3 partners to eliminate single-use items in offices, The brand became the leading eco-design brand made in France.
About the Brand
The brand has a clear ambition: to make a difference. It promotes a positive approach to ecology, rooted in everyday life, far from moralizing rhetoric and superficial commitments.
Its products are designed as an invitation to progress, an obvious choice that people adopt with pleasure and pride. No demands, no superficiality, no compromises – just concrete solutions for more responsible consumption. Less talk, more drinking.
And because this journey cannot be undertaken alone, it is together that we are shaping a more sustainable world.
The Gobi range is 100% eco-designed and made in France: 4 water bottle models in 50 cl and 1 L; a cutlery set; a lunch box; a cup. The products are assembled and personalized in Val-de-Marne by solidarity partners: the ESAT in Mandres-les-Roses, by workers with disabilities.
Eco-responsible Impact
Gobi is a purpose-driven company whose social and environmental commitments are enshrined in its bylaws.
State-certified ESUS, the brand guarantees genuine social utility and an equitable distribution of value. Its manufacturing is 100% French, carried out with 12 industrial partners located in Val-de-Marne, Rhône, and Auvergne, ensuring an authentic made-in-France product, without compromise.
It also promotes inclusive employment by entrusting the preparation of its orders to the ESAT in Rosebrie and Atelier Sans Frontières. Obsessed with eco-design, Gobi ensures that a water bottle is never more polluting to produce than the single-use item it replaces, proving its commitment with concrete impact figures. They also look after the health of its users by selecting laboratory-tested materials, guaranteed free of Bisphenols, PFAS, or other harmful substances. As transparent as its products, the brand donates part of its turnover to associations committed to protecting living things and advancing legislation as a member of 1% for the Planet.
Brand Values
♻️Recycling
All Gobi products are repurposed.
👤Expertise
Creating products with a designer rather than sourcing existing products and adding the brand
🇫🇷 Made in France
All Gobi products are custom-made in France
🐨Vegan
No animal products are used.
👐 Social and solidarity impact
Gobi currently creates, directly and indirectly, more than 70 jobs, including 30 solidarity jobs at the ESAT in Rosebrie in Mandres-les-Roses.
⚖️Fair Trade
Gobi is a member of 1% for the Planet and donates 1% of its turnover to associations working to preserve the environment
🏠Made Locally
The industrial partners are located in Val-de-Marne, Rhône, and Auvergne. Between 10 and 20% of greenhouse gas emissions are avoided compared to products manufactured very far away
[ Eco-designed range, 100% made in France. ]
