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Stat: Significant cocoa price drop offers relief to chocolate manufacturers
Cocoa prices have plummeted by 30% in just a few weeks, marking a significant reversal from their recent record high levels.
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Daily Signals
Resale platform Vestiaire Collective bans fast fashion
Paris-based Vestiaire Collective has issued a list of banned fast fashion brands that it believes jar with its certified B Corp status.
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Fanta’s tongue-in-cheek take on fitness ads
Fanta has released an ad entitled Idiots Are Amazing that subverts motivational fitness advertising.
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Cannes Lions 2019: The representation of women is in flux
During the five-day creative festival, the forthcoming Female Future was a celebrated topic of conversation.
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Eco-shoecare for conscious sneakerheads
Shoecare brand Sneaker Lab is tapping into the growth of sustainable footwear with a range of environmentally friendly cleaning products.
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Thought-starter: Is fashion negatively impacting mental health?
Georgina Johnson, founder of The Laundry, discusses the industry’s damaging culture of overwork and why fashion education needs to be reformed.
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Thought-starter: Is social capitalism idealistic?
At third Me Convention, a collaboration between the ideas festival and Mercedes-Benz, held in Stockholm ruminated on our relationship with technol...
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Tourist trap
Asia – As leisure travel increases the world over, tour operators are having to limit the number of people that can use their services.
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Asian shoppers spending more in London
Asian shoppers spending more in London
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3D television set to entertain home viewers
3D television set to entertain home viewers
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Blood test: Fuseproject targets developing world
San Francisco – Fuseproject, the studio of noted designer Yves Béhar, has created a concept for a product that could revolutionise the treatment of...
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Cheap smartphones set to be widespread by 2017
Cheap smartphones set to be widespread by 2017
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Stat: The most liveable US city is not in North America
In its annual report on the world's most liveable cities, released in June 2023, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reveals that Honolulu (Hawai...
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Dove tracks the impact of beauty standards on health
Commissioned by Dove, The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals report reveals the societal and economic impacts of harmful beauty standards.
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The future’s mobile
Global – Mobile internet is set to overtake newspapers as the third-largest advertising medium.
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Global retailers need to mind the confidence gap
Global retailers need to mind the confidence gap
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Eastern Europe shapes the future of luxury
Eastern Europe shapes the future of luxury
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Stat: Wealth inequality in India surpasses British colonial era levels amid billionaire boom
A March 2024 study from the World Inequality Lab has unveiled a worrying reality behind India's billionaire surge.
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Futures 100 Innovators Awards 2022 announced
NASA Harvest’s Dr Catherine Nakalembe is the winner of The Future Laboratory’s first ever Futures 100 Innovators Awards, which took place on Thursd...
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Net-a-Porter localises luxury for the Middle East
The luxury e-tailer is expanding its global reach with a localised platform targeting Middle Eastern consumers.
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Daily Signals
The Big Idea: Imagination Travel
The clunky headsets associated with virtual tourism were swapped for the power of human imagination in 2020.
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Daily Signals
The Green Vic aims to be the world’s most ethical pub
Everything bought and used at the new London pub has a positive environmental and social impact.
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Good economics
London – A new report from Unilever shows that a third of consumers now buy from brands they believe are involved in social or environmental good.
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Global recession concerns persist among consumers
Global recession concerns persist among consumers
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Dr Venkatesh Bala
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New social network set to be a world-beater
New social network set to be a world-beater
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Chris Hughes
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