Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Bans Fur From Retail Stores Following PETA Plea

For Immediate Release:
July 30, 2025

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Moira Colley 202-483-7382

After hearing from PETA that animals are electrocuted, suffocated, and even skinned alive in the fur industry, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts—which runs more than 70 luxury properties worldwide—has banned the sale of fur in Fairmont-managed retail stores. In thanks, PETA has sent the company a box of delicious vegan chocolates.

“Kind shoppers have no interest in wearing bits and pieces of fur that were stolen from suffering animals,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on the few retailers still selling fur to follow Fairmont’s compassionate example and pledge to go fur-free.”

Minks purr when they’re happy, and foxes are devoted parents who will share the responsibility of raising their pups. Animals used for fur are held in tiny, filthy cages, causing some to self-mutilate and cannibalize their cage mates, before they’re electrocuted, bludgeoned, gassed, or killed in other horrific ways.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts joins hundreds of top designers, brands, and retailers that have banned fur, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, and Versace.

PETA urges everyone to never buy or wear fur, and to sign PETA’s fur-free pledge to encourage other consumers and companies to go fur-free.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear or abuse in any other way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.