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Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Pull Factor Project: Shifting Culture Towards Sustainable Living
BBMG
We unite deep human insight with breakthrough strategy and fearless creative to help organizations re-invent their categories, mobilize movements on issues that matter and commercialize brand purpose to fuel business success with humanity at the center.
We are strategic creatives and creative strategists, culture experts and design thinkers on a mission to build brands that are relevant to a new generation and resilient for the fast, transparent and volatile world we live in today.
We believe humans deserve better brands, purposeful organizations, deeper connections, more empathy, more wonder and loads of honesty. Because when you get right down to it, humans don’t really need brands – brands need humans.
Co-Creating Breakthrough Solutions for the Future We Want
1 day ago - To regenerate the system, we have to regenerate how we work together. What if we brought the experience of elders and the courage of the next generation together with the brand leaders tasked with shifting paradigms and making essential decisions?
Consumers Are Hungry for Regenerative Food Brands
3 months ago - With shifting food habits, supply chains and levels of access to new information, today’s consumers recognize the urgent need to change how they eat. In order to meet the urgency of this moment, the new BBMG/GlobeScan report, “Radically Better Food,” outlines four imperatives for regenerative food brands.
To Be an Anti-Racist Brand: Start by Being Aware, Additive and Alive
7 months ago - The next frontier of sustainability is regeneration — building brands that actively restore and renew a system. And that’s as true for our systems that continue to allow racial injustice as for our environmental ecosystems.
Survey: Gen Z Counting on Brands to Help Create a ‘Radically Better Future’
1 year ago - New BBMG-GlobeScan study finds the next generation of citizens is looking for transformative brand leadership, co-created solutions, and radical change for the future they want.
3 Ways We’ll Change the Game in 2020
1 year ago - Our global community of innovators is always abuzz with activity, but momentum generated from three initiatives this year have us particularly excited to follow them in the year to come.
#BrandsForGood, #Strawless Laying Groundwork for Sustainable Behavior Change
2 years ago - On Wednesday, day three of SB’19 Detroit, the focus was on collective brand efforts to create the significant shifts in consumer behavior necessary for The Good Life to become a reality.
Brands Large and Small on Driving the Change They Wish to See in the World
2 years ago - SB’19 Detroit was off to an engaging start this week, with powerhouses including Allbirds, Cisco, Eileen Fisher and Timberland comparing notes with rising craft brands and even Little Miss Flint on the most effective ways to continue to drive change toward a healthy, sustainable future.
#BrandsforGood on Mission to Bring ‘Good Life’ to Life for Consumers
2 years ago - When SB’s Corporate Member group agreed they hadn’t cracked the nut as to how to create that elusive “pull factor” toward more conscious consumer habits and purchasing behaviors, the Brands for Good collaboratory was born.
Sustainable Brands Convenes Global Brand Leaders at SB’19 Detroit
2 years ago - Sustainable Brands® kicks off SB’19 Detroit, its largest community gathering of global brand and sustainability leaders dedicated to advancing social and environmental innovation today at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit.
‘We Believe’: Communicators Weigh In on P&G’s Controversial New Ad
2 years ago - We reached out to communication leaders in the SB community for their take on P&G’s spotlight on toxic masculinity.
Technology at Its Tipping Point: A Design Manifesto for Humanity
3 years ago - Today, we are at a confluence of three global tipping points.
New Collaboratory Forming to Strengthen Sustainability ‘Pull Factor’
3 years ago - For more information or to engage in the collaboratory, contact Sustainable Brands. Sustainability can often feel like a selling point that we push onto consumers; only a small portion of brands are truly sought out for their sustainability attributes alone. Creating lust, craving or desire for sustainability requires a deep understanding of the core human emotions that drive action, and a knowledge of how to reliably elicit these emotions in a market setting.
2018 Promises to Further Raise the Sustainability Bar
3 years ago - As we approach the 2020 deadline for many corporate sustainability pledges, plus the commitments made in the New York Declaration on Forests, sustainable business practices are front and center in the minds of decision-makers. The next twelve months will be pivotal in achieving these goals.
Fight for Love: Five Ways to Mobilize Millennials Behind Your Cause
3 years ago - For decades, the ASPCA has been advocating for better breeding practices and adoption for dogs with campaigns that focused on educating the public on where pet store dogs come from. But over time, the influx of digital technology has completely transformed how people get dogs. And Millennials, the largest generation of dog lovers ever, are increasingly relying on online sources, which makes it difficult to track where our furry friends are coming from.
Sustainable Brands Announces Full Conference Program for SB’18 Vancouver
3 years ago - Target, P&G, REI, Danone and Google among companies confirmed to showcase how brands are redesigning products and services for The Good Life SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2018 – Sustainable Brands® recently announced full program details for SB’18 Vancouver, running June 4-7 at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. The conference will convene more than 3,000 senior executives, top brand strategists and leading sustainability practitioners to discover how brands can update their products and services to prepare for a changing economy.
The Key to Authentic Engagement: Purpose Metrics that Matter
3 years ago - This is the sixth in a series of articles examining how business leaders and companies can transform their corporate culture in order to succeed in the midst of the impending Purpose Revolution. Find links to the full series below.
Brand Purpose in Divided Times: 4 Strategies for Brand Leadership
3 years ago - Us vs Them. Me vs You. Old vs Young. Rich vs Poor. We are feeling more divided than ever. Yet the path to brand relevance and resilience is recognizing what we have in common. Recently we asked 16,000 people globally — across 16 countries, in many languages, in rural and urban areas — about their aspirations for their lives, families and communities.* While the dominant narrative in culture today is that we’re deeply divided — culturally, politically, economically — reading the answers from people across the globe we were reminded that we all share the same aspirations for health, wellbeing, financial security, meaningful relationships and a sense of purpose. So, what’s the problem?
SB'17 Detroit, Day 2: Consumer Preferences, Unintended Consequences and 'Leading with Delicious'
4 years ago - Day two of SB'17 Detroit picked up the momentum from day one and ran with it. ... Transforming Consumption Norms Around Food By Hope Freedman
Aspiration & Advocacy: How Can Lululemon Help Redefine the Good Life?
4 years ago - SB’17 Detroit is bringing thousands of sustainability professionals together this week to ask one question - what is the role of business in fostering and creating the Good Life? On Day 1 of the conference, BBMG and Lululemon explored this question with a group of curious, passionate sustainability professionals. Using BBMG’s methodology, we all became designers for a few short hours to develop programs and promotions that would authentically connect with the brand’s consumers and enable both to live their purpose.
Sustainable Brands Hosts Influential Brand Leaders at SB’17 Detroit
4 years ago - SAN FRANCISO, May 22, 2017 – Sustainable Brands® kicks off its largest community gathering today with Sustainable Brands’17 Detroit at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. Over 2,000 business executives along with their teams from 35+ countries across the globe are attending the conference and Activation Hub. In addition, there is anticipated record breaking livestream viewership in collaboration with Detroit Public Television (DPTV).