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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

The first company, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company and an Enterra Solutions ® client, announced last December it plans to invest $3.6 billion over the next five years as part of its long-term goal to cut in half its emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.”[5] ”[4]. What are companies doing?

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. z International, which owns Cadbury.

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Emerging Supply Chain Trends – A Look at Evolving Finished Vehicle Logistics Amid Market Shifts and Trends

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

million in 2022 to 39 million by 2030. The main destinations of vehicle exports were Europe, Middle East and Africa and South America. MORE FROM THIS EDITION h6 Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis? According to IHS, electric vehicle production is expected to climb exponentially in this decade from 7.7

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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Locus

predicted that the retail industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is on the verge of a pivotal shift. “E-commerce A recent report predicts that by 2030 , the share of smartphone connections in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions will reach 92 percent from 76 percent in 2022. In 2019, Bain & Co.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Dirty Dozen, in alphabetical order, are: Amazon, Atlantic Coast Utilities/Laurence Moloney, Daikin America, Dollar General, Ernst Nursery and Farms, Foundation Food Group/Gold Creek Foods, Hilton Hotels, Kingspan Light and Air, Liox Cleaners/Wash Supply Laundromat, Mayfield Consumer Products, Refresco, and Starbucks.

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Sustainability pays off, but it’s not always traceable

Supply Chain Movement

The global middle class is growing even more rapidly: KPMG has calculated that by 2030 there will be three billion more middle-class consumers than in 2010. On top of that, it’s simply not considered cool to be a cocoa farmer in West Africa,” says Franka Seijbel from Amtrada.

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Clinging to Optimism in Difficult Times

Enterra Insights

The world has this report card called the Sustainable Development Goals, which is where we should be by 2030. With the war on top of the pandemic, and now with interest rates going up, with high levels of debt everywhere, but including in Africa, the next five years are going to be challenging just to maintain the world’s attention.”