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Retail Asia23/09/2019

Kathmandu on Tuesday announced it has become a certified B Corporation, making it the biggest B Corp in Australia and New Zealand. B Corps are for-profit businesses that meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability. Started in the US in 2006 as a way to raise awareness of […]

Retail Asia12/12/2018

French luxury goods giant Kering has received a prize for its high level of female representation on its board. The company has made gender equality one of its corporate priority and has, this week, been chosen to receive the “Most Feminine Board of Directors” award. Handed out by the European Women on Boards along with Ethics & Boards, Kering was […]

Retail Asia07/12/2018

Ahead of its pre-fall 2019 Métiers d’Art show in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chanel has said it will “no longer use exotic skins in [its] future creations”. The exotic skins in question include crocodile, lizard, snake, stingray and fur, of which Chanel uses very little. The decision is down to the fact it is becoming […]

Retail Asia27/11/2018

Starbucks Korea is stocking all 1,225 of its stores nationwide with paper straws in a bid to cut down on its plastic usage. Starting last Monday, Starbucks began stocking all of its stores with white paper straws, which it found during trials to be more popular than green ones. The paper straws will also be […]

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Kathmandu Australia joins B Corp movement

Kering leads the way to gender diversity

Chanel to stop using exotic skin in its collection

All Starbucks in Korea to get paper straws from yesterday