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Fairphone

Logo: Fairphone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Dutch smartphone manufacturer

Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones and headphones. It aims to minimise the ethical and environmental impact of its devices by using recycled, fairtrade and conflict-free materials, maintaining fair labour conditions throughout its workforce and suppliers, and enabling users to easily repair their devices through modular design and by providing replacement parts, getting a repair score of 10/10 from iFixit on everything besides the Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds (1st Generation) and Fairphone 1.2 It was founded by Bas van Abel and Tessa Wernink.1 Its chief executive is Raymond van Eck (since 2024).1 Its products include Fairbuds XL, Fairbuds and Fairphone 2.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2013Founded1
  • Industryelectronics industry, mobile phone1
  • HeadquartersAmsterdam1
  • Founded inAmsterdam1
  • Websitewww.fairphone.com
  • Legal formbesloten vennootschap1
  • LEI724500CMLPSLXBZSUL673
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressVan Diemenstraat 200, 1013CP Amsterdam, Netherlands3
  • Registered withThe Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, 559019643

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Photo: Fairphone, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones and headphones. It aims to minimise the ethical and environmental impact of its devices by using recycled, fairtrade and conflict-free materials, maintaining fair labour conditions throughout its workforce and suppliers, and enabling users to easily repair their devices through modular design and by providing replacement parts, getting a repair score of 10/10 from iFixit on everything besides the Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds (1st Generation) and Fairphone 1. As of August 2026, the company's most recent smartphone is the Fairphone 6+, a highly modular and easily repairable device for which it plans to provide seven years of Android OS updates and eight years of security patches, as well as a five-year warranty.2

The story

Founded by Bas van Abel and Tessa Wernink in 2013, in Amsterdam.1

Fairphone was founded by Bas van Abel, Tessa Wernink and Miquel Ballester as a social enterprise company in January 2013, having existed as a campaign for two and a half years.

In April 2015, the company became a registered B Corporation.

Since version two, the Fairphone is produced in Suzhou, China, by Hi-P International Limited.

In November 2021, the Fairphone 4 was made available.

As of February 2022, Fairphone had sold around 400,000 devices.

In 2023, a consortium of impact investors led by new shareholders Invest-NL, the ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund, and existing shareholder Quadia, with its Regenero Impact Fund, invested €49 million in Fairphone.

In August 2026, Fairphone made its official debut in the United States with the release of the Fairphone 6+. The company released Fairbuds 2, wireless earbuds, in 2026.

From Wikipedia’s article on Fairphone, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led Fairphone, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Bas van Abel2011–2018
  2. Reinier Hendriks2024
  3. Raymond van Eck2024–now
201520202025
Board members and other officers (1)

Products and brands

  • Fairbuds
  • Fairbuds XL
  • Fairphone 1
  • Fairphone 2

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Aug 31, 2024New chief executive Raymond van Eck becomes CEO1
  2. Feb 2024New chief executive Reinier Hendriks becomes CEO1
  3. 2013Founded Founded in Amsterdam1
  4. Jun 2011New chief executive Bas van Abel becomes CEO1

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