Supply Chains

Covestro Case Study: Value Creation Keynote

Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)

Fashion brands 'failing to heed warnings on viscose production'

Angeli Mehta, (Oct 23, 2017)

Leading firms have committed to source the garment fibre from sustainable forests, but are paying less attention to widespread environmental damage from toxic chemicals used in its production. We look at greener alternatives

The female micro-entrepreneurs disrupting India's garment trade

Rebecca Ley, (Oct 23, 2017)

IKEA Group is helping to tackle poverty and empower women by sourcing from a network of 30,000 artisans

Not so fast: Millennials press fashion brands for greater transparency

Rebecca Ley, (Oct 20, 2017)

Fashion Revolution and apps like Not My Style and Project Just are harnessing the power of socially aware consumers to press for better conditions for garment workers

New apps to keep tabs on the factory floor

Nadine Hawa, (Oct 20, 2017)

We look at the technology available to help fashion brands identify social and environmental risks deep in their supply chains

‘Four years after Rana Plaza, garment workers are still dying in unsafe factories’

Nadine Hawa, (Oct 20, 2017)

Fashion brands’ continuing failure to reveal their Bangladesh suppliers is impeding progress to prevent another tragedy, say human rights campaigners. But C&A Foundation aims to use crowdsourcing to digitally map the entire Bangladesh garment sector

The impact intrapraneurs: How eBay Korea broke down barriers for disabled customers

Terry Slavin, (Oct 19, 2017)

In this guest blog, Karen Deignan of Net-Works interviews Yun Hui Hong of eBay Korea to find out how she created CarePlus, a specialist store on its auction platform that gives users access to a world of useful and innovative products, including the first Braille watch

Opinion: FTSE 100 not doing enough to tackle modern slavery

Phil Bloomer, (Oct 16, 2017)

Leadership by the world’s richest companies is crucial to ending slave-like conditions in supply chains, argues Phil Bloomer of the Business and Human Rights Resources Centre. But as a report published today finds, progress by most FTSE 100 companies has been disappointing

To end modern slavery, we first need to see the whole picture

Jacqueline Joudo Larsen and Michaelle De Cock, (Oct 13, 2017)

Jacqueline Joudo Larsen of Walk Free Foundation and the ILO's Michaelle De Cock describe how they pulled together the first definitive data set on the 40 million people enslaved in the global economy

The impact intrapraneurs: How Danone is partnering to boost recycling and create jobs

Anonymous, (Oct 12, 2017)

In this guest blog, Karen Deignan of Net-Works interviews Frédérique Rathle to find out how Danone Water France worked with start-up Lemon Tri to create Lemonaide, which employs previously long-term unemployed to increase low recovery rates of PET bottles

Six steps to taking the sting out of criticism

Vicky Grinnell-Wright with Sarah Rozenthuler, (Oct 10, 2017)

Anxiety about giving colleagues negative feedback is one reason more than half of employees get no regular feedback at all. Vicky Grinnell-Wright of A Blueprint for Better Business and psychologist Sarah Rozenthuler offer tips for delivering constructive criticism

The Rainforest Alliance's little frog takes a great leap forward in merger with UTZ

Terry Slavin, (Sep 27, 2017)

Nigel Sizer of Rainforest Alliance tells Ethical Corporation editor Terry Slavin how the upcoming union with the Dutch certifier will boost the new organisation’s ability to protect biodiversity and farmers’ livelihoods

Opinion: ‘We can tackle modern slavery in the construction industry’

Dr Shamir Ghumra, (Sep 25, 2017)

A new model developed with Loughborough University gives companies eight pathways to achieving best practice in addressing slavery in their complex supply chains, says Dr Shamir Ghumra of BRE

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