ABout RIPL GOODS
RIPL Goods is a give-back brand with a simple yet profound mission:to provide the promo industry with an easy way to create massive social and environmental change.
It all centres around their 3 incredible impact programs: Ocean, Rainforest and Education. Every item from RIPL’s range of premium and sustainable products funds a measurable impact in one of those three areas – from employing people in remote coastal communities to collect plastic, to protecting rainforest and funding education. So when a brand buys a RIPL product, they’re not just getting an item that the end user will love, they’re getting a story to tell. It’s time that merch did more. It’s time it changed the world.
FOUNDER BIO
Leo Bellis-Jones started his career in the London advertising industry in 2012. But after moving to Australia and falling in love with surfing and freediving in 2018, he knew he wanted to use his storytelling skills to have a positive impact on the ocean that now played such a central part in his life. But it was only during a visit to Bali – where he saw the extent of the plastic problem first-hand – that an idea started to take shape.
Back in Australia, he launched RIPL Goods as a way to help people who love the ocean create positive change, simply by buying a product they’d use every day. Then after a friend and fellow entrepreneur asked to buy RIPL bottles for his team, the move to promo (and the US) eventually took shape.
Since then, RIPL Goods has expanded its range of impact programs and products, connecting people with causes through 'fashion-forward', sustainable products.
Leo’s rarely far from the ocean, so when he’s not working you’ll often find him underwater, freediving with a camera in hand, taking photos of whales, dolphins and the occasional shark.
