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Higg Launches Traceability Partner Program for Supply Chain Sustainability

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Thursday, September 23, 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Higg, a technology platform that enables consumer goods companies to measure, manage, and share the social and environmental impacts of their full value chain, today announced a new program enabling comprehensive traceability across the global supply chain.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Higg, a technology platform that enables consumer goods companies to measure, manage, and share the social and environmental impacts of their full value chain, today announced a new program enabling comprehensive traceability across the global supply chain.
  • The Higg traceability program is designed to enable consumer brands to identify and share the supply chain provenance of billions of items with their upstream value chain partners and highlight and disclose sustainability information on their own and other ecommerce platforms to the public and other stakeholders.
  • "Consumer goods businesses face a tremendous urgency to accelerate sustainability improvements and need comprehensive tools and contextualized data that can illuminate untracked areas of the supply chain," said Higg CEO Jason Kibbey.
  • Higg is the sustainability insights platform for consumer goods businesses delivering software and services for measuring, managing, and sharing supply chain performance data.

Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg launch new program for publicly sharing data on a product's environmental impact: Amazon, H&M, Norrona among first to participate

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Thursday, May 27, 2021
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A primary component of the program is the Higg Index Sustainability Profile, which is a new scorecard for sharing data on a product's environmental impact.

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  • A primary component of the program is the Higg Index Sustainability Profile, which is a new scorecard for sharing data on a product's environmental impact.
  • Participation in the program supports H&M's longstanding transparency ambition to help consumers make more informed choices.
  • C&A, Salomon, Tommy Hilfiger, and Zalando plan to implement Sustainability Profiles on their platforms in the coming months.
  • Higg is the sustainability insights platform for consumer goods industries, delivering software and services for measuring, managing, and sharing supply chain performance data.

Higgs Government continues to leave critical eldercare workers “out in the cold,” says UFCW

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
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The province received this money from Ottawa to better support frontline heroes who are providing critical services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key Points: 
  • The province received this money from Ottawa to better support frontline heroes who are providing critical services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The program was established precisely for this purpose, so it is strange that the Higgs government insists on excluding these essential workers.
  • UFCW represents approximately 80 members impacted by the exclusion, who work as cooks, cleaners, and laundry attendants in the provinces third-party eldercare facilities.
  • *** Interview with frontline worker impacted by the Higgs exclusion available through UFCW contact below.

Higgs Government continues to leave critical eldercare workers “out in the cold,” says UFCW

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Monday, December 28, 2020
Labor, Trade unions, Employment, AFL–CIO, Canadian Labour Congress, UNI Global Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, Key worker

The province received this money from Ottawa to better support frontline heroes who are providing critical services throughout the pandemic.

Key Points: 
  • The province received this money from Ottawa to better support frontline heroes who are providing critical services throughout the pandemic.
  • The program was established precisely for this purpose, so it is strange that the Higgs government insists on excluding these essential workers.
  • UFCW represents approximately 80 members impacted by the exclusion, who work as cooks, cleaners, and laundry attendants in the provinces third-party eldercare facilities.
  • *** Interview with frontline worker impacted by the Higgs exclusion available through UFCW contact below.