National Voluntary Guidelines on Social, Environmental and Economic Responsibilities of Business

EcoVadis Recognizes Redwood Logistics for Sustainability Excellence

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023

CHICAGO, April 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Redwood Logistics (Redwood), one of the fastest-growing supply chain and logistics companies in North America and innovators of Logistics Platform as a Service (LPaaS), announced today that the company has been awarded a Bronze EcoVadis Medal in recognition of 2022 sustainability achievements and progress toward ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) objectives, including development of its proprietary Redwood Hyperion sustainability and carbon tracking tool. Redwood completed the assessment within the transportation support category and placed in the 62nd percentile of all companies surveyed by EcoVadis.

Key Points: 
  • CHICAGO, April 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Redwood Logistics (Redwood), one of the fastest-growing supply chain and logistics companies in North America and innovators of Logistics Platform as a Service (LPaaS), announced today that the company has been awarded a Bronze EcoVadis Medal in recognition of 2022 sustainability achievements and progress toward ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) objectives, including development of its proprietary Redwood Hyperion sustainability and carbon tracking tool.
  • Redwood completed the assessment within the transportation support category and placed in the 62nd percentile of all companies surveyed by EcoVadis.
  • “Implementing and creating tools that help the flow of sustainability data and improve decision making allows for us to hold true to our sustainability values.
  • To check out a demo of Redwood Hyperion and learn more about how Redwood can help shippers meet their sustainability and carbon accounting goals, visit https://www.redwoodlogistics.com/service/innovate/redwood-hyperion/ .

ValuesCo Empowers Brands To Reward Purpose-Driven Customer Action Using Web3: $2.7M Raise, Working With Advertising Giants

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ValuesCo (www.values.co), a Web3 startup powering community-driven rewards ecosystems for good, has closed a $2.7 Million seed round. With the climate crisis, rising inequity, and hyperpolarization, 83% of Millennials & Gen Zs desire brands to align with their values (5WPR's 2020 Consumer Culture Report). ValuesCo is enabling a collaborative future for brands, creators and nonprofits to co-create social & environmental impact with their audiences. The platform transforms marketing and community engagement into participatory experiences driving quantifiable impact. "I started ValuesCo to empower young people to feel more agency and understand that grassroots solutions to the world's biggest challenges are possible," says Co-founder & CEO Andrew Berkowitz.

Key Points: 
  • ValuesCo is enabling a collaborative future for brands, creators and nonprofits to co-create social & environmental impact with their audiences.
  • The startup has begun working with global advertising holding companies Publicis Groupe and dentsu on client concepts and projects.
  • 43 of the top 100 brands ( Interbrand Best Global Brands 2022 ) have entered Web3 – including Nike & Reddit – with loyalty being the most common use case.
  • With Missions, brands fund a reward pool and invite collaborators, including nonprofits & creators on ValuesCo, while unlocking the storytelling potential of the metaverse.

Sensiba San Filippo and Impakt IQ Partner to Launch ESG Assessment Tool

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensiba San Filippo LLP (SSF), a West Coast accounting and business-consulting firm, and Impakt IQ (IIQ), a leading environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment, reporting and intelligence tool, are excited to announce an exclusive deployment partnership to connect the dots between ESG opportunities and risk, and their impacts to an organization's bottom-line performance.

Key Points: 
  • The Impakt IQ approach is a systems-based process that stands on the shoulders of 15+ years of experience, knowledge, and demonstrated profitable results.
  • The Impakt IQ tool addresses a company's ESG blind spots and provides insight into ESG impacts, allowing executives to leverage this intelligence to make informed business decisions.
  • The Impakt IQ report and toolkit is to ESG what a Financial Report is to finance.
  • "All the pieces of the puzzle now exist, and we are excited to be scaling the Impakt IQ ESG Intelligence tool 3.0 with SSF.

Lorestry Announces Maternal-Child Health - Mapping for Two

Retrieved on: 
Friday, August 5, 2022

Lorestry, the world's first app to collect and map the social & environmental health drivers for the mother-baby dyad.

Key Points: 
  • Lorestry, the world's first app to collect and map the social & environmental health drivers for the mother-baby dyad.
  • With Lorestry, it is parents not health systems, payers, or providers, who determine who has access to their private information.
  • Lorestry provides a way to capture social determinants of health (SDoH) and environmental determinants of health (EDoH) variables which can be shared with health systems, community health, and early education providers.
  • The free Lorestry app creates a private health data asset that is meaningful, useful, and readable (by humans and computers).

Adore Me Releases Inaugural ESG Report and Provides Blueprint for Sustainability Transformation

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, July 28, 2022

NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adore Me, known for being the first lingerie brand to bring extended sizing to the market, today published its first ESG (environmental social and governance) report, highlighting how the brand is integrating sustainability into every element of its business and taking a compliance-first approach to critical ESG initiatives. The full report can be found here. 

Key Points: 
  • In this ESG report, Adore Me has outlined goals for 2022, 2023, 2025, 2030, and 2050covering all sectors of its business, including product design, raw materials, manufacturing, transport, warehouse logistics, and retail.
  • In establishing these goals, Adore Me pledges to further their sustainability efforts and to hold every stakeholder at the organization accountable to these standards.
  • This report was prepared using the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, used by 10,000 companies worldwide, as a reference.
  • As an innovation-driven team, Adore Me is revolutionizing affordable sustainability through cutting-edge technologies and advanced innovations at affordable price points.

Evio Beauty Announces New Members to Board of Advisors

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evio Beauty, the good-for-you, kind and conscious beauty brand that prides itself on its inclusive, vegan product offerings and impact driven marketing, has established a board of advisors with three inaugural members.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evio Beauty, the good-for-you, kind and conscious beauty brand that prides itself on its inclusive, vegan product offerings and impact driven marketing, has established a board of advisors with three inaugural members.
  • With a goal to scale and elevate Evio Beauty in 2022, the brand has officially welcomed three prominent advisory members with extensive backgrounds in global retail, marketing and product development.
  • With a degree in civil engineering and the founding of Cargo Cosmetics an innovative global enterprise that took the world by storm in 1996, Hana Zalzal looks forward to joining the Evio board of advisors.
  • "When I met Brandi 5 years ago I was inspired by her vision for Evio Beauty.

Events Industry to Reach $1.55 Bn, Globally, by 2028 at 11.2% CAGR: Allied Market Research

Retrieved on: 
Friday, January 14, 2022

According to the report, the global events industry was estimated at $1.13 billion in 2019, and is anticipated to hit $1.55 billion by 2028, registering a CAGR of 11.2% from 2021 to 2028.

Key Points: 
  • According to the report, the global events industry was estimated at $1.13 billion in 2019, and is anticipated to hit $1.55 billion by 2028, registering a CAGR of 11.2% from 2021 to 2028.
  • Increase in sponsorship for events, surgein interest among youth in entrepreneurship& business seminars, rise in disposable income of individuals drive the growth of the global events industry.
  • Based on organizer, the entertainment segment accounted for nearly one-third of the global events market share in 2019, and is anticipated to rule the roost by 2028.
  • Based on region, Europe, followed by North America, held the major share in 2019, generating more than one-third of the global events market.

Events Industry to Reach $1.55 Bn, Globally, by 2028 at 11.2% CAGR: Allied Market Research

Retrieved on: 
Friday, January 14, 2022

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Events Industry by Type (Music Concert, Festivals, Sports, Exhibitions & Conferences, Corporate Events & Seminars, and Others), Revenue Source (Ticket Sale, Sponsorship, and Others), Organizer (Corporate, Sports, Education, Entertainment, and Others), and Age Group (Below 20 years, 21–40 years, and Above 41): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021–2028." According to the report, the global events industry was estimated at $1.13 billion in 2019, and is anticipated to hit $1.55 billion by 2028, registering a CAGR of 11.2% from 2021 to 2028.

Key Points: 
  • According to the report, the global events industry was estimated at $1.13 billion in 2019, and is anticipated to hit $1.55 billion by 2028, registering a CAGR of 11.2% from 2021 to 2028.
  • Increase in sponsorship for events, surgein interest among youth in entrepreneurship& business seminars, rise in disposable income of individuals drive the growth of the global events industry.
  • Based on organizer, the entertainment segment accounted for nearly one-third of the global events market share in 2019, and is anticipated to rule the roost by 2028.
  • Based on region, Europe, followed by North America, held the major share in 2019, generating more than one-third of the global events market.

Talem Therapeutics Announces Multi-Target Antibody Discovery Research Collaboration With Pierre Fabre

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, October 7, 2021

IMMUNOPRECISE ANTIBODIES LTD. (the Company or IPA) (NASDAQ: IPA) (TSX VENTURE: IPA) and the Pierre Fabre pharmaceutical group announced today that IPAs subsidiary, Talem Therapeutics LLC (Talem), and Pierre Fabre have entered a multi-year, multi-target research collaboration with the goal to discover and develop therapeutics antibodies for up to nine targets.

Key Points: 
  • IMMUNOPRECISE ANTIBODIES LTD. (the Company or IPA) (NASDAQ: IPA) (TSX VENTURE: IPA) and the Pierre Fabre pharmaceutical group announced today that IPAs subsidiary, Talem Therapeutics LLC (Talem), and Pierre Fabre have entered a multi-year, multi-target research collaboration with the goal to discover and develop therapeutics antibodies for up to nine targets.
  • Its portfolio ranges across several medical franchises and international brands, including Pierre Fabre Oncology, Pierre Fabre Dermatology, Eau Thermale Avne, Klorane, Ducray, Ren Furterer, A-Derma, Naturactive and Pierre Fabre Oral Care.
  • Pierre Fabre is 86%-owned by the Pierre Fabre Foundation, a government-recognized public-interest foundation, and secondarily by its own employees through an international employee stock ownership plan.
  • Forward-looking information contained in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the potential of the research collaboration with Pierre Fabre and our expectations with respect to that research collaboration and, any license that may be entered into with Pierre Fabre as a result of that research collaboration, and the potential of our other programs or services.