The Estée Lauder Companies
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The Estée Lauder Companies Announces Fiscal Year 2023 Social Impact and Sustainability Report and Climate Transition Plan
Today, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (ELC) released its Fiscal Year 2023 Social Impact and Sustainability Report (SI&S Report). The report outlines efforts and progress made toward the company’s social impact and sustainability goals and com... View More
4 Keys to Accurately Accounting for Your Company’s Impacts on Nature
This week at SB’23 San Diego, Context Nature shared guiding principles with which business can bridge nature and finance strategies; and three companies shared lessons learned from enacting their own biodiversity commitments. ... View More
Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Accelerator Backing Seaweed to Replace Oil-Based Films
Convened by Lonely Whale, the program aims to accelerate scaling and market adoption of seaweed-based alternatives to thin-film plastics made from fossil fuels. ... View More
ELC Initiates Responsible Store Design Program
ELC has long recognized that our retail footprint creates a unique opportunity to advance progress toward our environmental targets while engaging our consumers in the journey. In support of these environmental commitments, ELC is proud to launch the... View More
Estée Lauder Companies Advances Financial Literacy for Women in Shea Supply Chain
The ELC Charitable Foundation’s work supports programs at the intersection of environmental sustainability and social impact, including investments in communities around the ELC supply chain. ... View More
Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Winners Offer Viable, Marine-Safe Solutions to Thin-Film Waste
The three winners are sourcing and scaling biobased and degradable alternatives to traditional, thin-film plastic made from fossil fuels. ... View More
Making the Dream Work: Equipping Suppliers for the Climate Action Journey
A collaborative, network approach is helping global companies meet their suppliers where they are and ensure they have the resources and know-how to rise to growing imperatives to reduce climate impacts. ... View More
ISS National Lab, Estée Lauder Choose 2 Potential Plastic Pollution Solutions to Launch into Space
The Beyond Plastics Challenge aims to address the plastics dilemma on Earth through the design and production of solutions aided by access to space. The two winning concepts will be able to conduct research in the International Space Station’s uni... View More
Brands Walk Their Talk in Support of Women’s Rights
Setbacks such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade offer brands the opportunity to demonstrate their true commitment to supporting a healthy, equitable future for all. ... View More
ELC Expands Renewable Energy Portfolio with Canadian Solar Array
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has expanded its global renewable energy portfolio with an on-site solar installation at its new, state-of-the-art fill and assembly manufacturing facility, Hillmount, in Markham, Ontario. ... View More
Estée Lauder Companies, Plastics for Change Partner to Support Community-Based Plastic Waste Solutions
In an effort to combat climate change and reduce plastic waste, Estée Lauder Companies’ charitable wing, the ELC Charitable Foundation, has partnered with Plastics for Change to improve the livelihoods of waste collectors in India while diverting ... View More
Curbing Ocean Plastic Waste: Is Your Brand Missing the Boat?
Reducing plastic waste is a winning issue for consumers. With so many examples of early success and ROI, there’s no better time to join the movement by committing to reduce plastic pollution and limiting the need for virgin plastic. ... View More
The Sustainable Brands Network, Ukraine & the Power of Community
SB amplifies the actions of its global community and governments in support of Ukraine and reflects on the conflict’s potential impacts on long-term sustainability efforts. ... View More
The Estée Lauder Companies Joins Pulpex Partner Consortium to Develop Prestige Beauty’s First Widely Recyclable Paper Bottle
The Estée Lauder Companies today announced that it has joined the Pulpex partner consortium, becoming the consortium’s first prestige beauty company to support the development of a recyclable paper bottle made from responsibly sourced pulp. ... View More
Bottling the Secret Sauce: Brands Share Insights on Closing the Intention-Action Gap
At SB’21 San Diego, leaders in food, retail, finance, healthcare, pet care and more shared lessons learned from a variety of initiatives aimed at moving the needle on consumer behavior change. ... View More
Trending: Beauty Brands Building Biodiversity, Better Packaging Solutions
Aveda and L’Occitane Group continue to raise the bar for beauty industry sustainability ambitions with new packaging innovations and a ‘nature-positive’ biodiversity strategy. ... View More
RE100 Leadership Awards’ winners announced: Businesses driving the clean power revolution
3M, The Estée Lauder Companies, Google and Novo Nordisk have been announced as winners of the RE100 Leadership Awards 2021, at a special ceremony at Climate Week NYC. ... View More
The Luxury Consumer, Sustainability and Social Responsibility: It’s Complicated
Whether environmental or social, luxury brands will have to contend with issues related to corporate social responsibility — it’s in the zeitgeist. “Being your best self” is the essence of luxury. Values and purpose are thus luxury essentia... View More
The Estée Lauder Companies and Eastman sign global memorandum of understanding to further sustainable packaging
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and specialty materials provider Eastman today announce a global memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will enable ELC to take significant strides towards its 2025 sustainable packaging goals. ... View More
The Estée Lauder Companies Announces Sustainability Goals for Travel Retail
As part of The Estée Lauder Companies’ (ELC) commitment to embed citizenship and sustainability within every aspect of its business, the company is proud to announce sustainability goals specific to ELC’s Travel Retail unit. ... View More
