Worldly Welcomes GoBlu, Connecting Fragmented Industry Data and Powering More Sustainable Supply Chains

Article key points: 

• Worldly has acquired GoBlu, creators of The BHive®, the industry’s most widely used chemical management reporting platform.
• This milestone moves the industry closer to centralized, comprehensive sustainability data across the global supply chain.
• The acquisition brings GoBlu’s technology, team, and expertise into the Worldly platform, creating the foundation for the first unified system that connects chemical compliance data with verified environmental performance.
• Suppliers will benefit from simplified chemical reporting across multiple frameworks, including ZDHC andOeko-Tex.
• Brands and retailers will gain access to verified chemical usage data integrated with Worldly’s broader environmental and social impact insights.

Fragmented data is slowing industry progress

We often talk about how the future of sustainable supply chains depends on data that’s comprehensive, actionable, and trusted across the industry. Worldly is the leading platform for collecting, measuring, and analyzing that supply chain data—yet we still hear from customers every day about the challenges they face in making progress. The greatest of these challenges is fragmented industry data. 

Why integrated chemical and risk management data is the next frontier in sustainable supply chains

In addition to the overall challenge of fragmented industry data, one specific theme that has come up again and again is the need for better chemical and risk management data. In fact, it’s the number one request we receive from brands, retailers, and suppliers around the world. 

Across the apparel and consumer goods industry, critical sustainability data—including chemical compliance data—exists in separate systems. This siloed data makes it difficult for brands and suppliers to see the full picture that their data pants, or act on it effectively. 

As a result of the fragmentation between data systems, brands, retailers, and suppliers experience reporting burdens and inefficiencies, while also missing opportunities to make the most impactful decisions. All of this comes at a time when new regulations like the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and ZDHC Gateway reporting requirements demand traceable, auditable data.

Today, we’re proud to share a major step toward centralizing and unifying environmental risk data across the entire consumer goods industry. Worldly has officially acquired GoBlu, the team behind The BHive®, the industry’s most widely adopted platform for chemical management reporting.

Introducing GoBlu and The BHive®: the leading platform for chemical reporting

Chemical reporting is a time-consuming and complex task for factories and wet processing mills, largely because of a lack of consistency in reporting frameworks. Each brand customer may require something different, like complying with ZDHC and Oeko-Tex leaving suppliers to perform duplicate data collection to meet every requirement. 

The BHive®, created by GoBlu, solves this challenge by simplifying reporting into one application, making it easier for suppliers to reduce risk, save time, and meet the leading chemical management standards.

Worldly’s acquisition of GoBlu means The BHive® will now become part of the Worldly platform, which spans a network of more than 40,000 brands, retailers, and manufacturers. Together, we’ll deliver the most comprehensive set of supply chain insights available anywhere, now extending deep into chemical and risk management.

Worldly’s long-term vision: Unified intelligence across the sustainability data landscape

Worldly’s acquisition of GoBlu is about more than just adding new capabilities: It’s about uniting two organizations with the shared belief that data is the foundation for a more sustainable, resilient, and transparent future.

This marks another step in Worldly’s mission to bring together key dimensions of social and environmental performance across consumer goods supply chains to help businesses build a more holistic view of risk and opportunity.

What brands, retailers, and suppliers gain from integrated chemical data

By combining GoBlu’s The BHive® with Worldly’s environmental data infrastructure, the industry will, for the first time, be positioned to connect what chemicals are used with how they affect environmental performance.

This integration will enable:

• A unified view of compliance and impact at both facility and brand levels
• Streamlined data collection that reduces reporting burdens for suppliers
• Advanced analytics and AI-driven insights that help customers spend less time reconciling data and more time driving measurable progress

Thanks to this integration, each Worldly customer that deals with chemical reporting requirements will have the opportunity to benefit from the integration of The BHive® into the Worldly platform. 

For brands and retailers: You’ll gain access to verified chemical usage data—including trusted ZDHC conformance—alongside the environmental and social insights you already rely on from Worldly.

For suppliers: The BHive makes reporting simpler and faster and can help you demonstrate compliance across multiple frameworks from a single platform.

This marks another step in Worldly’s mission to bring together key dimensions of social and environmental performance across consumer goods supply chains to help businesses so that they can act on risks and opportunities.

To learn more about the Worldly-GoBlu acquisition, read our press release or contact us at hello@worldly.io.