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On World Chocolate Day, Remember – Our Choices Can Change the Lives of Cocoa Farmers
3 weeks ago - A new campaign around World Chocolate Day aims to help consumers understand the exploitation that too often accompanies the farming, trade and production of chocolate treats — while highlighting the positive impacts of choosing fair and ethically sourced cocoa.
Leading Brands Share Mix of Success Stories, Cautionary Tales at SB’21 Madrid
1 month ago - While showcasing brands leading the charge toward sustainability — including Interface and Tony’s Chocolonely — SB’21 Madrid gave equal weight to just how much work we have left to do: Only 13% of companies can accurately deem themselves “sustainable.”
4 Ways Smaller, Sustainable Brands Are Adapting to COVID-19
1 year ago - These four Fairtrade-certified brands show that during times of crisis, brands can support their communities — near or far — with some creativity and hard work, regardless of size.
Candy Giants Rated on Commitments to Create Better Chocolate
1 year ago - International advocacy groups publish joint consumer purchasing guide to more ethical chocolate choices, just in time for Easter.
Give More, and Better, This Season: The 2019 SB Holiday Gift Guide
1 year ago - What better way to celebrate and participate in the season of giving than with gifts that truly keep on giving? Here are just a few of our favorite discoveries this year of products we'd be thrilled to give and receive.
SB’19 Detroit: Brands Influencing Better Behaviors, Legislation, Supply Chains
2 years ago - On the fourth and final day of SB’19 Detroit, a host of brands shared lessons learned from efforts to engage consumers on everything from more sustainable food choices and healthier masculinity to much-needed changes in policy.
SB’19 Paris, Day 2: Virtuous Value Chains, Next-Gen CSR and Redesigning the #GoodLife
2 years ago - Our second day in Paris was chock-full of rich panel discussions with brands trading stories of the evolution of ideas and lessons learned — and still to be learned — on the long, windy road to creating a sustainable consumer economy.
SB Nordic: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
2 years ago - So, what do a slave-free chocolate brand, an activist bank and a blindfolded panel of diversity experts have in common?
To Market Sustainability, Focus on What Consumers Love, Not What They Hate
2 years ago - Early marketing for products promising sustainability was all about what they “weren’t.” Tofurky wasn’t meat. Soy milk wasn’t dairy. Solar wasn’t coal. Positioning against the negative helped companies attract consumers who were revolting against the polluting impacts of standard manufacturing practices and products. But doing so ignored what potential customers still wanted, whether a product was sustainable or not: delicious taste, high performance, reliable quality and comfort, and overall satisfaction. Consider the ominous ads for the first Prius, which started running in 2001. The only virtue they extolled was fuel efficiency, and portrayed oil drills as monsters.