Target
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers.
Minneapolis-based Target serves guests at nearly 2,000 stores and at Target.com, with the purpose of helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. Building on our heritage as a responsible business, we’re continuing to leverage our size and scale to benefit people, the planet and our business. Our work to bring solutions that better serve our communities and our environment can be seen across our business – from our inclusive and sustainable product assortments and the increasing renewable energy footprint in our operations, to our social justice commitments and philanthropic support of underserved communities at home and around the world. Target Forward builds on this foundation and places sustainability at the center of our broader business strategy and growth.
New Cross-Industry Consortium Takes Aim at Small-Format Plastic Waste
Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy calls on brands to join critical work to increase recovery of valuable small-format plastic packaging typically lost to landfills. ... View More
Fashion Giants Join Forces to Scale Circular Apparel, Footwear
Two new initiatives from Fashion for Good are enlisting industry heavyweights to ‘create a blueprint for systemic change,’ by scaling circular solutions and infrastructure for footwear and textiles. ... View More
Transforming fashion through materials innovation in garment and accessory design
Explore the innovative and transformative use of reclaimed and recycled fibers and materials, biomaterials, plant-based alternatives, and novel recycling approaches to create fashion and accessories that are sustainable and circular. Expert panelists... View More
Brands Are Shaping a Better Future by Designing for How People Live
SB Brand-Led Culture Change featured a host of insights into how brands are engaging customers and changing behaviors through circular design and making energy-efficient choices “normal;” and two new guides aim to equip businesses to meaningfully... View More
Love, Loyalty & Lifestyle: Making Circularity Irresistible
To unleash the power of circular design at scale, brands require an understanding of the cultural conditions at play. Here are five design principles that we’ve learned from our work with brands helping lead the way. ... View More
Gifts That Keep on Giving: SB’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
Here’s this year’s list of some of the many companies, platforms and products aligned with a more intentional approach to production and consumption that we’d be happy to support anytime. ... View More
Local, Holistic Solutions to Getting Decarb Done
At the end of the day, companies need to develop decarbonization solutions that make sense on a local level. This stands true for large organizations and local farmers. In this session, we will hear from different stakeholders on the benefits and cha... View More
New Climate Action Program Gives Apparel Brands Step-by-Step Guide to Decarbonization
New program from the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Nike and Target aims to enable manufacturers on their decarbonization journey. ... View More
Fashion for Good, adidas, Inditex, Target, Zalando Launch Circular Footwear Pilot
Fashion for Good and its four brand partners have joined forces with footwear-recycling innovator FastFeetGrinded to support the scaling of recycled content in footwear. ... View More
Regeneration, Reinvention and Revamping Retail: Finding the Sweet Spots to Drive Culture Change
Opening keynotes at Brand-Led Culture Change featured insights from unconventional brand partnerships and keys to helping people and brands alike move beyond fear and embrace the changes we need to create a flourishing future for all. ... View More
Designing For Zero Waste: Unlocking solutions through collaboration
Learn how Target and its partners’ collaborative work on Target Zero, a curated collection of products designed to reduce waste and make it easier to shop sustainably, has been implemented through product innovation and purchasing, store experience... View More
New Guide Details Tangible Solutions for Retailers to Move ‘Beyond the Bag’
Playbook highlights solutions from the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag that drive near-term, positive environmental impact and cost savings from eliminating single-use plastic bags. ... View More
These Are a Few of Our Favorite Innovators Creating Healthier Products, Lifestyles, Communities, Supply Chains
This week at SB’22 San Diego, over 1K sustainability practitioners have converged to share insights, tools, inspiration and opportunities for collaboration with the goal of building a regenerative future for all. Here, we hear highlights from our d... View More
CVS Health, Target, Walmart Share Insights from Piloting Ideas to Move ‘Beyond the Plastic Bag’
New report shares insights to guide retailers on effective reusable bag models — a key solution as regulations to reduce reliance on single-use plastic bags grow across the US. ... View More
Talk Is Cheap: How Brands Can Move from Table Stakes to Putting a Stake in the Ground for Racial Justice
Two years after George Floyd’s murder galvanized the nation to address systemic racism, corporate progress on advancing racial equity in the workplace and community remains a mixed picture. Smoketown’s Ryan Pintado-Vertner lays out three approach... View More
Brand-Led Culture Change: A Primer on the Holy Grail of Today’s Purpose-Driven Brands
On day one of Brand-Led Culture Change, brands, retailers, trend watchers and behavioral and cultural design experts examined the role and power of consumer-facing companies to create the socially and environmentally prosperous world we want to live ... View More
It’s 2022: Are Companies Walking Their Talk on Racial Equity?
JUST Capital’s 2022 Corporate Racial Equity Tracker reveals progress in key areas; but companies have a long way to go toward implementing meaningful actions that help fundamentally advance racial equity. ... View More
Target Tests First Net-Zero-Energy Store
Retailer announces most sustainable store yet, which will test innovations that generate renewable energy and reduce emissions. ... View More
New Target Collection Answers Increased Consumer Demand for Products That Reduce Waste
The ‘Target Zero’ collection features products and packaging designed to be refillable, reusable or compostable; made from recycled content; or made from materials that reduce the use of plastic. ... View More
