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BrandWatch – December 2013
Google aims to open web accessA new product seeded by Google Ideas, the internet giant’s “see-do tank”, enables friends to offer each other unfettered access to the internet, providing a much needed...
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Sustainability news roundup – February 2014
Clothing loopSwedish fashion retailer H&M has launched a line of recycled denim clothing made from discarded garments dropped off at its stores. The collection programme was started in February...
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H&M Sustainability Report 2013 – Conscious conundrum
H&M is one of those juggernaut corporations right now, economically unstoppable and mostly a media darling. Established in Sweden in 1947 as a women’s retail store called Hennes (meaning “hers” in...
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Employee engagement briefing: People, planet, profits - Making employees part...
Companies used to schedule their annual community service days more out of a sense of obligation than social responsibility, letting their employees put in a day or half a day to volunteer at soup...
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BrandWatch – May 2015
Retailers unveil clothes recycling technologyFashion retailer H&M, luxury goods group Kering and UK-based innovation start-up Worn Again have teamed up to create pioneering textile recycling...
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BrandWatch – September 2016
Oil firms ‘fail to report on climate change risks’ Two major UK oil companies, SOCO International and Cairn Energy, are failing to disclose details of climate change risks to stakeholders, according...
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Weekly Watch: 13 April 2017
Ford goes electric in China FORD WILL launch a plug-in hybrid car in China in 2018 and a fully electric sport-utility vehicle in the next five years, as it aims to electrify most of its line-up by...
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Who's moving the dial in circular economy?
The world's first standard for the circular economy will be launched next month by the British Standards Institution, a development that reflects the model’s growing relevance for business. BS8001 is...
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Weekly Watch: 16 June 2017
Apple launches $1bn green bondFollowing Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Apple has launched its second green bond underlining its commitment to climate action.The US company is launching a...
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‘World's largest viscose supplier ABG still in denial over rampant water...
Last June, Changing Market’s Dirty Fashion report revealed that, despite its potential to be a sustainable fibre, most viscose is still being produced using heavily polluting processes reminiscent of...
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Apparel brands join forces to clean up their act in Bangladesh
The textile industry is one of the world’s biggest consumers of water, with the washing, dyeing and finishing processes all using copious amounts – not to mention the high water requirements of cotton,...
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Beyond recycling: Putting the brakes on fast fashion
UK consumers buy more clothing per person than any other country in Europe – more than one million tonnes every year. Around 300,000 tonnes goes to landfill or is burnt, and less than 1% of fibres used...
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Why women workers in global garment supply chains are saying #MeToo
“On September 27, 2017, at 12:30 pm, my batch supervisor came up behind me as I was working on the sewing machine, yelling ‘You are not meeting your target production’,” said Radhika, a woman worker at...
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Investing in people: how brands are stepping up to the refugee crisis
On World Refugee Day in June, the Tent Partnership for Refugees released a study showing that 44% of consumers in Italy, France and Germany were more likely to buy products and services from companies...
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The companies taking energy use from the boiler room to the boardroom
Efficiency is often the ugly duckling of the clean energy sector, but it is also one of the areas with the biggest potential to cut emissions and tackle climate change.One of the problems has been how...
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'We went way too far', says Gucci as pandemic forces fashion industry to take...
As with many other sectors of the economy, the question now being asked of the fashion industry is whether Covid-19 will provide the shock to the system so desperately needed to force a rethink of...
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Fashion 'slow to act on ocean plastic pollution from microfibres'
While images of plastic bottles littering beaches, and marine wildlife caught up in abandoned fishing nets, have dramatically raised the profile of ocean pollution, this visible plastic junk may...
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‘It’s time for fashion to turn its focus from the catwalk to cutting water...
Fashion capitals London and New York recently held their biannual fashion week, albeit in a virtual format due to Covid-19. Along with the latest designs and haute couture, the industry’s environmental...
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Brand Watch: Xinjiang forced labour allegations put brands and investors in...
While companies have been polishing their green credentials ahead of the Biden climate summit, less welcome has been media attention on their performance over human rights issues. The biggest focus has...
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Nicole Rycroft: ‘We can’t protect 30% of nature if we’re chopping down...
It looks like cotton, it feels like cotton, but cotton it most certainly is not. Viscose is the fashion industry’s little-understood, but ubiquitous fabric. Smooth, breathable and low-cost, this...
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Brand Watch 1: One step forward, three back in fashion industry’s...
Fashion thrives not only on how we look but also how our clothes make us feel. Hence, the surge in eco-branded products in recent years. Consumers crave animal-friendly products on their feet and...
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