Sustainability and CSR is increasingly moving to the forefront of consumers minds. David Shultz, of Commonsku and PromoCares, leads a panel of suppliers and distributors to discuss the increase in demand for sustainable products and how you can incorporate them into conversations with your clients.
Featured Panelists:
- David Shultz – VP of Supplier Partnerships at Commonsku
- Denise Taschereau – Co-Founder of Fairware
- Meg Erber – Account Manager at S&S Activewear
- Rachel Newman – VP/GM American Casualwear at Hanesbrands Inc.
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Session Takeaways:
More corporations and schools are starting to ask for sustainability metrics on apparel.
Denise Taschereau , co-Founder of Fairware, says that she’s starting to see more conventional corporations ask for background data on apparel.
“We’ve seen, in the last two to three years…what we would call more conventional companies coming to us and asking us for some pretty deep sustainability, metrics or information.”
– Denise Taschereau , co-Founder of Fairware
Tech companies, universities and even those in the food industry are starting to map their carbon footprint as a company, all the way through their own operations, into their vendors operations and into the suppliers operations.
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