Year in Review: ESG Initiatives
For people and the planet (III)
Fashion ‘for a reason not a season’ with Pangaia
“We are a company at the start of our journey. Being in airport retail, and at Dubai International Airport, will help us tell our story and to spread our message far and wide.”
That’s how Founder of Pangaia Mira Duma described the significance of the eco-brand’s first stand-alone store at DXB Concourse B, Terminal 3, which was inaugurated in June.
The responsible materials science brand, which is just four years old, revealed a 182sq m store in the concourse in partnership with Lagardère Travel Retail. The store entrance features a striking digital fascia that offers a peek into Pangaia’s ethos. A custom-built terrarium is a central feature that draws the eye while natural soundscapes and an invigorating scent in the fitting rooms emulate the experience of being immersed in a forest. The store has been mindfully designed around locally sourced finishes, natural materials and energy-efficient LED lighting throughout, showing how sustainable retail design and product can go hand-in-hand to offer a more holistic eco-conscious shopping experience.
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L’OCCITANE Group achieves B Corp milestone
L’OCCITANE Group recently achieved B Corp Certification, marking a milestone in the company’s sustainability journey. It builds on a commitment to create positive change by empowering communities, protecting biodiversity, reducing waste and mitigating climate change.
B Corp Certification (Benefit Certification) measures and verifies a company’s entire social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. During its two-year journey towards B Corp, L’OCCITANE Group evaluated the impact of all its stakeholders, employees and global supply chain.
With certification, the Group said that it joins a global community of like-minded businesses that share a collective vision of creating an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy to be a force for good in the world.
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Morpho Travel Retail commits to prot0ecting the oceans
Morpho has a particular focus on investing a share of revenues from certain items to preserving the world’s oceans – a theme that one sees played out across the Costa Rican tourism market with its marketing of sustainable tourism solutions. This is in line with its own sustainability strategy, which is based around three key pillars: For the People, For the World and For the Oceans.
A recent new character to its plush favourites on-shelf is Shelly, a turtle made from plastic bottles that have been taken from the oceans. For every one of the Shelly ‘ambassadors’ sold, the company gives a proportion to a campaign to protect the oceans through NGO The Ocean Clean Up. Not only that, but it promotes that story via QR codes and video in the stores, explaining the work of the organisation and how customers can lend their support to recycling drives and ocean-cleaning initiatives too.
In addition, the company’s Bring it Back initiative seeks to recover plastic bottles in its shops and send them to recycling chains, while Morpho rewards customers and avoids plastic from reaching the oceans.
The company’s mission to offer ‘world-class destination-led retail’ is the subject of a recent Moodie Davitt Spotlight Series eZine. Click here for access.
#TimeToEndBreastCancer: The Estée Lauder Companies launches 2023 Breast Cancer Campaign
The Estée Lauder Breast Cancer Campaign is the cornerstone of the company’s social investments in women’s advancement and health. It supports more than 60 organisations around the world to facilitate lasting positive change and address the diverse needs of different communities.
Since its launch, The Campaign and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation have funded more than US$118 million of life-saving research, education and medical services with over US$93 million funding medical research through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).
In addition, ELC Travel Retail is funding a grant that focuses on emerging breast cancer disparities among Asian-American communities.
Every year The Campaign follows a different unifying theme. This year’s theme – ‘Beautifully United to Help End Breast Cancer’ – saw ELC open the next chapter of The Campaign, driving the message that the fight against breast cancer can only be won together.
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The Moodie Davitt eZine
Issue 330 | 22 December 2023
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