Selina Butterfield-Mashoofi is CFO at Central Co-Op. She speaks to World Retail Insights about the company’s business model, and how the retailer is finding opportunities amid challenging economic times. Tell …
France is to introduce a scheme that will subsidize repairs to clothing and shoes in order to cut waste and planet-heating pollution from the textile industry. Under the scheme, which …
When you navigate to Serve Robotics’ website, it poses an interesting question: “Why deliver two-pound burritos in two-ton cars?” After briefly wondering if burritos are actually that heavy, you may …
Starting this month, Ikea is introducing deliveries by boat via the Seine for its Parisian customers. In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions in its operations while improving delivery times …
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and IKEA are among commercial users of container shipping that will opt for zero-carbon marine fuels by 2040 in a new initiative aimed at speeding up decarbonisation …
This year, there’s been an avalanche of retailers getting into resale (Madewell, Harvey Nichols, Fabletics). The avalanche of clothes in our closets might be one reason why. Anotha one: H&M …
Dive Brief: With refurbishment programs growing in popularity, Timberland has partnered with ReCircled, a company focused on upcycling and take-back programs, to launch its own re-commerce program, according to a …
Fast fashion giant H&M has just debuted a new garment-to-garment recycling system called “Looop”, which enables the transformation of unwanted clothing into new textiles. It’s the latest move in a series of …
Michel Edouard Leclerc, president of the eponymous French grocer E.Leclerc claimed recently that “le Bio” is growing 20-25% a year currently and perhaps for this reason alone, since its 2018 …
Lidl is to become the first UK supermarket to launch new packaging that makes use of ocean-bound plastic. Collected from beaches and coastline around South East Asia, the plastic used …