Tag: sustainability

Orion Engineered Carbons Publishes Its First Sustainability Report

Stuart Mitchell

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. has announced the inclusion of Sustainability to the charter of the Board of Directors’ Nominating, Sustainability, and Governance Committee. This is to establish the governance structure that embeds sustainability into the Company’s core management framework. Orion also announced the publication of its 2018 Sustainability Report, which outlines the Company’s commitment to environmental, social, and governance (the “ESG”) initiatives. These significant actions reflect our commitment to sustainability while maintaining our focus on underlying financial and operational performance. The report provides specific emissions reduction targets and embraces many…

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Pablo Isla sets out Inditex’s global sustainability commitments

Stuart Mitchell

At this years Annual General Meeting at its headquarters in Arteixo (La Coruña), Inditex’s executive chairman, Pablo Isla, shared with Inditex’s shareholders some of the key targets set out by the company for and the period up until 2025. “Our digital transformation and determined progress towards the most demanding sustainability standards are complementary and underpinned by the efficiency of our long-standing business model, which is based on offering our customers the best in quality fashion”, said Pablo Isla. He also highlighted that “sustainability is a never-ending task in which everyone…

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Xylem Advances Commitment to Sustainability, Announcing Ambitious Slate of 2025 Signature Goals

Stuart Mitchell

Xylem, a global water technology provider, announced an ambitious set of goals that advances the Company’s sustainability commitment across three fronts: serving its customers, building a sustainable company, and empowering communities through social impact initiatives. The new goals were published in Xylem’s 2018 Sustainability Report: “Creating a Water-Secure World,” also released today. “Sustainability is core to everything we do at Xylem,” said Patrick Decker, President and CEO of Xylem. “We have a unique opportunity and responsibility to advance sustainability through our commercial and humanitarian efforts to solve water for communities around…

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Ralph Lauren Announces Comprehensive New Global Citizenship & Sustainability Strategy and Goals

Stuart Mitchell

Ralph Lauren Corporation unveiled its renewed strategy on Global Citizenship & Sustainability as part of its fiscal year 2019 (FY19) report, published today. The strategy, Design the Change, is both a commitment and a journey to accelerate the Company’s work across citizenship and sustainability and includes a new set of goals that bring clarity and focus to how Ralph Lauren will deliver the change required to create a better future. As part of its commitment, the Company also announced it has signed onto the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), joining…

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Fashion retailers leading sustainability trend by trialling new business models

Stuart Mitchell

The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) and QSA Partners have announced that they are working with a number of fashion retailers to develop and pilot a range of new circular economy business models such as clothes hire, product resale, repair and rental services. The retailers – including Ted Baker, Farfetch and FW – will be exploring more sustainable ways of operating through the Circular Fashion Fast Forward project. Each retailer will explore its own bespoke approach to becoming a more circular business, developing new business models which will be…

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