Sustainability
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Join us for the 2022 Velocity Institute Sustainability Summit, October 18-19, 2022 in Cincinnati Ohio. The Summit will bring the excitement of live in-person events back with a gathering in Cincinnati. Kroger, RiteAid, Misfits Market, Giant Eagle, United Dairy Farm will headline this years groundbreaking event. The Summit is a Private Brand/ Private Label event with a Sustainability theme focused on the issues that matter most to the industry: sustainable packaging, ethical/equitable sourcing, and authentic marketing. The two-day event is designed to help the industry find the answers that help you get closer to what “sustainable” means to you and
25 Days to the Velocity Sustainability Summit
Join us for the 2022 Velocity Institute Sustainability Summit, October 18-19, 2022 in Cincinnati Ohio. The Summit will bring the excitement of live in-person events back with a gathering in Cincinnati. Kroger, RiteAid, Misfits Market, Giant Eagle, United Dairy Farm will headline this years groundbreaking event. The Summit is a Private Brand/ Private Label event with a Sustainability theme focused on the issues that matter most to the industry: sustainable packaging, ethical/equitable sourcing, and authentic marketing. The two-day event is designed to help the industry find the answers that help you get closer to what “sustainable” means to you
Macy’s Announces Initiatives to Drive a Circular Future
Through its social purpose platform, Mission Every One, US department store retailer Macy’s is committed to creating a brighter future for all and creating a more equitable and sustainable future. This week Macy’s provided updated detail on its achievements towards its long-term Sustainability goals – including initiatives that promote circularity throughout its value chain. “As a leading, omnichannel retailer, we understand the role we play in creating a more equitable and sustainable future for all. We are committed to promoting a more circular economy across our value chain,” said Keelin Evans, vice president of sustainability at Macy’s, Inc. “Our efforts
Kroger, RiteAid, Misfits Market, Giant Eagle, United Dairy Farm to Headline Sustainability Summit
Join us for the 2022 Velocity Institute Sustainability Summit, October 18-19, 2022 in Cincinnati Ohio. The Summit will bring the excitement of live in-person events back with a gathering in Cincinnati. Kroger, RiteAid, Misfits Market, Giant Eagle, United Dairy Farm will headline this years groundbreaking event.The Summit is a Private Brand/ Private Label event with a Sustainability theme focused on the issues that matter most to the industry: sustainable packaging, ethical/equitable sourcing, and authentic marketing.The two-day event is designed to help the industry find the answers that help you get closer to what “sustainable” means to you and your customers.
Amazon Fresh Moves to 100% Cage-Free Eggs
Amazon Fresh, the grocery division of e-commerce giant Amazon, has announced that its entire selection of national and private brand eggs in the U.S. are now cage-free. Cage-free eggs indicate that hens are not kept in battery cages but allowed to move about the egg production barn, according to The Human League. “Amazon Fresh made the decision to roll out cage-free commitment nationally as a response to animal welfare becoming an increasing priority to our customers and the industry,” John Farrell, chief merchant for Amazon Fresh. Whole-shell and liquid eggs, both in-store and online, are now 100% cage-free, including
M&S Partners To Boost Pollinator Activity On British Farms
British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced a three-year collaboration with agri-tech start up AgriSound, designed to help farmers better manage pollinators and increase crop yields. The collaboration will see two M&S Select Farms, Plumford in Kent and G’s Growers in Cambridgeshire, install in-field sensors for three years, allowing them to track the number of pollinators visiting their farm in real-time and target specific interventions for improving numbers. AgriSound are biodiversity experts, based in York, that have developed specialist listening devices, which combine acoustic technology and environmental sensors to monitor the density of key pollinators, including bumblebees and honeybees,
Register Now & Save $200 on the Velocity Sustainability Summit
In this third edition of our Sustainability Summit, we laser focus on Private Brand/Own Brand and Sustainability. The Sustainability Summit is designed to bring the industry together to accelerate Sustainability, share best practices, and explore the future. Join us live and in-person to learn, network, and discuss at the Westin Cincinnati on October 18-19, 2022. Our goal is to ask questions and challenge existing answers – about sustainable packaging, equitable/ethical sourcing, and authentic marketing – and we are not the only curious ones. The third annual Sustainability Summit is two days to find the answers that help you get
Growing Seasonal and Sustainable Flowers at the Wegmans Organic Farm
At the Wegmans Organic Farm and Orchard in Canandaigua, New York, the grocer is committed to growing organically, and that extends beyond the fruit and vegetables they grow to include the more than 30 varieties of flowers that make up our farm floral program. Each year, the flowers grown at the Wegmans organic farm are used to create beautiful, sustainably grown private brand Grower’s Choice Bouquets. The Wegmans Organic Farm and Orchard is the only certified organic grower in their store floral program, making the Grower’s Choice Bouquet unique in a number of ways. While most of the flowers
Waitrose to remove Best Before dates on nearly 500 products
From September, British retailer Waitrose will remove best before dates on nearly 500 fresh products, including root vegetables, fruits such as grapes, citrus, apples, and indoor plants. The removal of best before dates is designed to reduce the volume of food waste occurring in UK households by inviting customers to use their own judgment. Marija Rompani, Director of Sustainability & Ethics, John Lewis Partnership comments “Food waste continues to be a major issue and in the UK alone 70% of all food wasted is by people in their own homes. UK households throw away 4.5 millions tonnes of edible
Marks & Spencer Launches Recyclable Tomato Packaging
British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is announcing a further move to make its grocery products more sustainable with the introduction of new widely recyclable packaging for its private brand British Collection vine tomatoes.The new packaging replaces a hard-to-recycle plastic sleeve with recyclable cardboard and a small amount of plastic film, just enough to preserve the freshness of the tomatoes and still enable the pack to be recycled as cardboard in a household recycling bin.Three on-the-vine tomato varieties, Piccolo, Pomodolci, and Capella will be available in the new packaging, available across all M&S stores and via Ocado as of now. Developed
