Day: 6 October 2026

WRAP warns fashion brands to make longer lasting clothes as durability is the top purchase decision for shoppers worldwide.

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP’s Durability Accelerator Initiative unites leading brands and retailers to define durability standards, prepare for regulation, and meet growing consumer demand for quality and value. Environmental action NGO, WRAP, highlights the urgent need for clearer, evidence‑based approaches to garment durability, as more than a decade of their research shows that consumers and many industry experts cannot reliably identify durable clothing. Durability is consistently ranked among the top three drivers of consumer purchasing decisions. New insights from WRAP show that more than half of consumers would be much more likely to buy…

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Felix kickstarts a revolution

Stuart Mitchell

Felix has launched its first campaign as a merged charity.  The Redistribution Revolution campaign leads with the messaging that every year over a billion meals’ worth of good quality surplus food goes to waste in our supply chain. That’s enough to feed every child in the UK for a month or laid out enough to fill 17,000 football pitches.  This food could easily be rescued but currently not enough of it is, Felix wants to change that. The campaign is aiming to raise more awareness of the issues, raise more funds and…

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Boosting Brits’ connectivity confidence could give us back more than three weeks and add £115.5bn to the economy yearly

Stuart Mitchell

Brits could unlock more than three weeks* of unproductive time a year by running their lives more effectively from their mobiles on-the-go, according to new research by VodafoneThree. Productivity potential: UK could compete with European counterparts such as Germany, France, Spain and Hungary and tackle a £115.5bn productivity gap each year by getting more things done on the move. Win back the summer: Across work, admin, travel and healthcare tasks, Brits could gain back an average of 22 days a year when compared to their European counterparts if mobile connectivity…

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Tesco doubles electric home delivery van fleet in less than a year, with its 2,000th van hitting the road in West Yorkshire

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has strengthened its position as the leading supermarket in the roll-out of electric home delivery vans, with its 2,000th electric van arriving this week at Tesco Hemsworth Superstore in West Yorkshire, where the store runs six home delivery vans. Tesco has doubled the number of electric home delivery vans over the last year, with more than 30% of the fleet now powered by electricity. The milestone marks significant progress in Tesco’s transition to a fully electric home delivery fleet in the UK by the end of 2030, and builds…

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Government and Innovate UK back creative technology growth

Stuart Mitchell

Innovate UK investment and new government-industry collaboration will help UK createch businesses scale, attract investment and expand globally. Innovate UK is investing in the UK’s next generation of createch innovators through Next Wave, a new growth programme for ambitious micro businesses and small to medium enterprises (SME) working at the intersection of creative and technology frontiers. The programme will support businesses to develop and commercialise innovative products and services, while connecting them to the expertise, markets and investment needed to scale from the UK. Innovation within the creative industry The…

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