Sustainable fashion: Recycling is not a magic bullet

Welcome to the latest column within our broader sustainability section, which focuses on what fashion retailing is doing to address the issues in its industry. This month’s column asks if recycling textiles will ever be the magic bullet people think it is. Brought to you by Retail Insider with Clipper and Give Back Box. Whenever there is a…

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Grow Your Own is a growth industry

A recent visit to The Greyhound Pub & Dining Room in Beaconsfield was notable not only for the great quality and value of the set lunch I enjoyed, but also the enthusiasm of the pub’s owner for his burgeoning kitchen garden.  Daniel Crump led me out the back of the grade-II listed 17th century former…

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Innovative Retailer: Lick

The Name: Lick The Place: Currently an online business that is riding the wave of Covid DIY-ers butmight yet dip its toe into buying bricks and mortar. The Story: Cast your mind back to the carefree days before Covid. Can’t remember them: Try – there was a time before masks. If you say so: Back…

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The curse of reservations…

Some years ago the organisation of a birthday drink at The Lamb pub on Lamb’s Conduit Street in London for a group of around 10 friends was a carefree process simply involving me telling them to turn up at the allotted time. I’ve a feeling that replicating the event today would be less easygoing and…

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Making an Inkpact

Who doesn’t like to feel special and significant and remembered? No-one, that’s who. And this is very much the premise of the innovative marketing company Inkpact, which was set up in 2015 by Charlotte Pearce who had a moment of epiphany at a conference when she discovered someone bemoaning the lack of progress they were…

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