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Your customer goes sustainable – and demands you do the same. Are you ready?
by Caroline Rennie Nestle Waters has told Plastics & Rubber Weekly that it expects its suppliers to be making demonstrable progress towards sustainability: “We are going to be pushing more on our suppliers to figure some of this stuff out” said Kim Jeffery, President Nestle Waters. Are you ready the day your customer tells you [...]
Sure fire labelling – that sways consumers
by Caroline Rennie As UK retailers outdo eachother in their efforts to build consumer and political good will, they have had to develop immediate and compelling ways to help consumers do the right thing. Among other techniques they have demonstrated that labelling can not only sway consumers, but change the company as well – in [...]
Is government really setting your environmental agenda?
by Caroline Rennie I don’t think so. Business is. Let’s take a look at Bisphenol A to see why.picture source: tree hugger(referring to Ontario’s ban on BPA in baby-bottles) Bisphenol A (BPA) is a monomer used in the production of polycarbonate plastic, among other applications. It is also an endocrine mimic – affecting our bodies [...]
Leveraging the Environment to save everyone money
by Caroline Rennie Superior Dairy (Canton, Ohio, United States) has developed a stackable plastic milk jug which reduces supply chain costs so much that it is being used by the worlds largest retailers despite consumer complaints. The milk jug that Sam’s Club (Wal-Mart’s discount arm) and CostCo are using has been flattened to virtually remove [...]
Why is Wal-Mart Offering Environmental Audits to Government?
by Caroline Rennie In May, the National Governors Association (NGA), announced that Wal-Mart would run energy audits of the capitol buildings of 20 U.S. states with a view to identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption. Why would Wal-Mart do this? Because in this way Wal-Mart can build good will with legislators and the public, honourably, [...]
Retailers & Fortune’s Accountable 100
by Caroline Rennie AccountAbility, which provides Fortune Magazine with the list of top 100 companies with respect to sustainability, has recently come out with its 2007 assessment. While the list is dominated by oil and energy companies – the companies that clearly have the greatest need to position themselves well – it also includes a [...]