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‘Bee Positive’: Building a spirits brand on a mission to save the bees

Provenance

But when Tim Etheridge-Judge and Stephanie Jordan, the founders of Avallen, first started talking to us earlier this year about a new Calvados (apple brandy from the Normandy region of France), it was easy to get excited as they wanted to take an entirely new approach. . They wanted to put sustainability at the heart of their brand.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 30 – November 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

But before I head out, grab your reading glasses and check out the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain. Shippo raises $20 million to be the Stripe for shipping (Venture Beat). Convargo grabs $19 million to improve road freight (TechCrunch).

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. Despite a highly educated workforce, unemployment in Belgium runs at just over seven percent. leaving the EU.

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

From reducing the quantity of on hand foodstuffs to JIT inventory control – or less food delivered more frequently – optimising inventory control assists businesses to better manage food waste and reduce it at the source. Valorisation processes use chemical and biological methods to produce biofuels, and other sources of energy.

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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

Source: Bloomberg.com. France saw its unemployment rate reach 7.3% Sourcing staff with the skills needed for a digitally-transformed economy also proves difficult–particularly when data analytics are essential to unlocking business growth. Check out 4 Concrete Tactics to Combat Employee Turnover and Source Staff →.

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Integrated Business Planning – A Chaucer Story

DynaSys

They provide ingredients, products, and solutions of the very highest quality, sustainably sourced, with first-class support for innovation and exceptional customer service. They had education workshops been supported by Delos, where they brought the regional heads of all of our countries.

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The good, the bad and the greenwash: 7 brands who hit the headlines for impact transparency in 2020

Provenance

What could be better: Their commitment to sourcing 20% of key ingredients through regenerative agricultural methods by 2025 is hopeful, though we’d like some clarity on what that means in terms of actual hectares so we can better compare with what others are doing. In the spotlight: Everlane. Don’t know where to start?