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How to Partner with a Rival for a Win-Win

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Blue Moon Fair Trade partners with three other fair-trade retailers to combine trans-Pacific shipments, saving all of them up to 40% in shipping and paperwork expenses. Results: As of 2018, there were 11 retailers within Minnehaha Mile proper. In 2013, I opened my retail store in a blighted commercial corridor.

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

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Burned out from a career in retail, Lisa Harper sought refuge in sleepy coastal towns on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. She also serves on the board of Hot Topic, a retail brand targeting pop culture-enthused teens through merchandise and apparel. “I That was in the mid-1990s. Before that, she was a Levi Strauss & Co.

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Great Workplaces Share Their Top Examples of Workplace Flexibility

Great Place to Work

The new program seeks to reduce reliance on expensive third-party vendors who supply traveling nurses to cover staff shortfalls, while also offering nurses within the WellStar system flexible work opportunities. For PCL Construction , No. Target , No. 26 on the 100 Best list for 2023 and No.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Impact: Seed’s combination of scientific rigor, social impact work and award-winning product design, plus a subscription model that eliminates the overhead of brick-and-mortar retail, make it a standout in an otherwise overcrowded and underregulated supplements industry. Most Innovative Travel Company 5.

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How Caring Leaders Create High Performance Workplaces

Great Place to Work

PCL Construction offers rotating weekend project schedules to allow workers to flex their time and participate in important family activities. At Sephora , digging into the results of its “Racial Bias in Retail” study revealed the need for broader action. Instead, the data highlights the value employees put on flexibility.

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Landlords and occupiers don’t see eye to eye on the decarbonisation of European real estate

Workplace Insight

With many occupiers often more focused on emissions from other aspects of their businesses, such as manufacturing or supply chains, the contribution that buildings make to the aggregate 37 percent global emissions from real estate can be underestimated.

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Ultrafabrics celebrates 25th anniversary with new and improved bio-based Volar Bio collection

Workplace Insight

Volar Bio’s evolution in backcloth construction not only includes certified REPREVE recycled polyester and ECOVERO viscose in the backcloth, but introduces Susterra propanediol bio-based resin. As an ingredient supplier, it is investing in traceable and certified raw materials to ensure supply chain transparency.