In the run-up to International Women’s Day and throughout March I am featuring women in retail and women who have influenced the fashion industry, which is a large chunk of all retail activity. Orsola de Castro is the subject of my first profile. She has just written...
Scalability, according to the Cambridge dictionary, is: the ability of a business or system to grow larger. This may be obvious but scalability is often used to describe a business that gets bigger in order to export its goods or services. It is also used a lot in the...
Transparency is defined as “the characteristic of being easy to see through” by the Cambridge dictionary. This simple definition also serves for transparency in business too. It is sometimes linked to ethics, whistleblowing or financial disclosure. Often it’s...
“No one is too small to make a difference” – Greta Thunberg. On Earth Day last April, I wrote about how collaborations were happening to deal with the dire effects of Coronavirus. There has since been an “unprecedented” level of cooperation to research, test and...
Spring has officially sprung but the lifting of lockdown restrictions seems to be moving further away rather than closer. You could be forgiven for feeling a bit down. However if you look closely, as I’ve noticed on my walks recently, there are reasons for optimism....
Since I started to write this update, news has come out that the lockdown has been extended in Ireland to 5th March. This is another harsh blow for the economy, retailers and, well, all of us really. My previous newsletter had some useful information on supports and...
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