All Corporate social responsibility articles – Page 4
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News
ProCook becomes first listed retailer to gain B Corp certification
ProCook has become the first retailer listed on the London Stock Exchange to achieve B Corp status.
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Analysis
Make, take and waste: How can fashion retailers tackle their old clothes pile-up?
Unwanted clothing is gathering up in toxic waste sites, clogging waterways and smouldering in burn piles across the global south. What are fashion retailers doing about it?
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Analysis
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it – expectations of a modern retail leader
The role of the modern retail chief executive is changing – fast – and it is contributing to a shift at the top of leading companies, in some cases prompting the departure of leaders whose commercial prowess and acumen could barely be faulted.
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Analysis
Cost-of-living tracker: How retailers are acting to ease the squeeze on consumers and staff
Cost-of-living tracker: How retailers are acting to ease the squeeze on consumers
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Opinion
‘In this environment it’s not just profitability that’s at stake, but survival’
Retailers should take encouragement from how they have transformed themselves in recent years as they adopt tactics to confront today’s difficult environment, says Alvarez & Marsal’s European head of retail and consumer practice Erin Brookes
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News
Sainsbury’s launches £1m incubator for Black-led food and drink start-ups
Grocery giant Sainsbury’s has launched a first-of-its-kind, £1m incubator programme to help nine Black-led food and drink start-ups “scale up to supermarket-level distribution”.
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Retail Voice
How to create a sustainable and socially conscious business
With ESG rising up retailers’ agendas, Browne Jacobson partner Suki Tonks looks at how businesses can make actionable strategies to firmly embed ESG in workplace culture
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News
Asda says children can eat for £1 at cafes in response to cost-of-living crisis
Asda has announced that children can eat a hot meal at one of its cafes for £1 as the cost-of-living crisis deepens.
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Opinion
‘Cost-of-living tsar appointment smacks more of spin than substance’
As the punishing weight of inflation dominates daily life – and looks as if it will continue to for a long time yet – the government’s latest attempt to address the issue is the appointment of a cost-of-living tsar.
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News
M&S strikes healthy eating sponsorship deal with national football associations
Marks & Spencer has joined forces with the four UK home nations’ football associations to promote healthier eating.
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Interview
How the Co-op’s Jo Whitfield is shaping a safer, more diverse sector
As Whitfield is named Retail Activist at the Retail Week Awards 2022, we take a look at her work to change the law around shopworkers’ safety and champion underrepresented voices
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Opinion
‘A new kind of leadership can help retailers thrive through the challenges ahead’
In the face of mounting challenges, retail leaders can succeed by hiring and developing the right people, adopting a constructive approach to all stakeholders and fostering a culture of innovation, writes Sally Elliott.
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News
Primark massively scales up sustainable cotton programme
Primark is to hugely expand its sustainable cotton programme, which is designed to bring environmental benefits and support farmers’ livelihoods.
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Retail Voice
Why fighting food waste is everybody's business
As consumers pay more and more attention to sustainability, responsibility and health, they are placing considerable focus on retailer and supplier accountability as well as their own. RELEX Solutions’ Svante Göthe discusses how food waste, and its associated environmental impacts, become a higher priority every year and why the effort to combat waste needs everyone’s active engagement
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Opinion
‘Recruitment crisis calls for new employee value proposition’
The changed world of work means in a tight labour market retailers need to engage or re-engage with their people before someone else does, believes retail search specialist Clarity’s managing partner Fran Minogue
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Opinion
Helen Dickinson: ‘As war and cost of living dominate headlines, doing the right thing has never been more important’
Supporting colleagues through difficult times and protecting customers from the full shock of rising costs is vital to building and retaining loyalty, says BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson.
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News
M&S and Asos back employment pledge for Ukrainian refugees
A consortium of British businesses is in talks with the government to offer employment and accommodation to refugees fleeing Ukraine.
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Video
Watch: Former Nestlé CEO Dame Fiona Kendrick talks to Retail Trust
Retail Trust chief executive Chris Brook-Carter interviews Dame Fiona Kendrick, former chair and chief executive of Nestlé UK and Ireland, and advisor to consultancy firm Newton, about retaining female talent, investing in people and rethinking flexible working.
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News
John Lewis chair Dame Sharon White: ‘Making a profit is a passport to doing good’
John Lewis Partnership boss Dame Sharon White has doubled down on comments that businesses should not let social and environmental goals distract them from making profits.
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News
Asos suspends business with Russia following Ukraine invasion
Online fashion giant Asos has suspended sales to Russia in the wake of outrage over the invasion of Ukraine.