Trigema
A 1919 family firm on the Swabian Alb that sews in three named German plants — and prints “made in Germany” on the product page.
Trigema
- Origin
- Germany
- Founded
- 1919
- Group
- Independent
- Production
- Supplier list published
- Core materials
- Baumwolle
- Price level
- 2/4
How much this brand discloses, and how much of it we could verify. It is not a quality rating — a composition line cannot tell you how good a fabric is. How we calculate it
- Production disclosure 25/25
- Linked sources 16/20
- Own material check 15/15
- Fabric weight stated 0/12
- Country stated per product 10/10
- Construction detail stated 10/10
- Cost breakdown published 0/8
Evidence for the price Above what this price band usually documents
The field the big groups leave empty
Across the products we had read from the large groups, one field was blank every time: where the garment was made. Not on the Zara t-shirt, not on the Uniqlo Supima, not on the 110 € Lacoste polo.
On 27 July 2026 we read a Trigema t-shirt. Price 27.40 €, composition “100 % Baumwolle”, knit stated as single jersey — and, on the product page itself, “Hergestellt in Deutschland”.
The silence of the large groups is not a property of clothing labels. It is a choice.
Three plants, named
Trigema states that it manufactures at three sites: Burladingen, Altshausen and Rangendingen, all in Baden-Württemberg. Named towns are a considerably stronger claim than a country, because they can be checked, visited and contradicted — and no other brand in our sample names its sewing rooms at all.
The company was founded in 1919 and is run as a family business from Burladingen. Since 1 January 2024 it has traded as TRIGEMA W. Grupp KG, with Wolfgang Grupp Jr. as personally liable partner and managing director and Bonita Grupp in the management, after 54 years under Wolfgang Grupp senior.
Not the only one, and not the most forthcoming
Trigema is not alone in filling the origin field. No Label, a far smaller and much younger label, states “Portugal” per product — and goes further than Trigema in two respects we can measure: it publishes the fabric weight (230 g/m²) and a breakdown of what the garment costs to make. Trigema publishes neither.
The two companies have almost nothing in common: a Swabian manufacturer from 1919 and a transparency-first startup. That they arrive at the same place is the point. The gap in our data is not “nobody does this”. It is “the large groups do not”.
Two things this does not mean
It is not moral superiority. A company that owns its sewing rooms can name them without asking anyone. A brand buying from a thousand contract factories has a genuinely harder disclosure problem — though it is a problem of its own making. Different business models produce different amounts of paperwork, and we should not confuse the two with virtue.
It says where, not how good. The composition line here reads “100 % Baumwolle” — word for word what a 17.95 € t-shirt in our sample states. Origin is a new piece of information, not a quality verdict. The fabric weight, the one number that would let you compare two cotton jerseys, is missing here — and No Label prints it.
Why it matters for reading any other brand
The usefulness of Trigema on this site is comparative. Once companies of very different sizes print the manufacturing origin on the product page, “nobody does that” stops being an available explanation for the rest. What remains is a choice each brand makes, and that is a fairer thing to hold them to.
The products this brand is defined by. Not a ranking — we have not worn or washed any of them. Each entry says why it is here.
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The German-made t-shirt
A plain single-jersey shirt in 100 % cotton at 27.40 €. Its product page states “Hergestellt in Deutschland”, and the company names its three plants by town.
Checked by us at source
Why it is listed here
We read the statement on the product page ourselves and compared it against our other checks. That is the reason for the entry: not a verdict on quality, but a disclosure the large groups omit throughout.
Trigema 27 July 2026
What we can document
- Founded 1919, family business seated in Burladingen
- Three manufacturing sites named by the company: Burladingen, Altshausen, Rangendingen
- The only brand in our sample naming individual factories, not just a country
- “Hergestellt in Deutschland” read on the product page, 27 July 2026
- Composition read at source: 100 % cotton, 27.40 €, single jersey
What we cannot
- Fabric weight in g/m² — not published, while No Label states 230 g/m²
- A cost breakdown — not published, while No Label publishes one
- Where the cotton itself is grown and spun
- Whether the shirt outlasts a cheaper one — we did not wear or wash it
Sources
4 in total · archived internally- Unternehmensseite — Gründung 1919, drei Produktionsstandorte in Baden-Württemberg — Trigema Read 27 July 2026
- Produktseite T-Shirt — „100 % Baumwolle“, Single-Jersey, „Hergestellt in Deutschland“, 27,40 € — Trigema Read 27 July 2026
- Übergabe der Firma zum 1. Januar 2024 — TRIGEMA W. Grupp KG, Wolfgang Grupp jun. und Bonita Grupp — Trigema Read 27 July 2026
- Unabhängige Berichterstattung zur Nachfolge und zur Fertigung in Deutschland — FashionUnited Read 27 July 2026
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Questions readers ask
Does Trigema really produce in Germany?
The company states it manufactures at three sites in Baden-Württemberg — Burladingen, Altshausen and Rangendingen — and “Hergestellt in Deutschland” appears on the product page we read on 27 July 2026. We report the statement and its date; we have not visited the plants.
Is Trigema the only brand that says where it makes things?
No. No Label states “Portugal” per product and additionally publishes a fabric weight and a cost breakdown, which Trigema does not. What is unique to Trigema in our sample is naming the individual factories rather than only a country.
Who owns Trigema?
It is an independent family business, not part of a group. Since 1 January 2024 it trades as TRIGEMA W. Grupp KG, with Wolfgang Grupp Jr. as personally liable partner and managing director and Bonita Grupp in the management.
Is a Trigema shirt better than a cheap one?
We cannot tell you that. Its composition line is identical to a 17.95 € shirt in our sample, and it publishes no fabric weight. What it does state, and the large groups do not, is where it was sewn.