Monday 23: Lego, Adidas, BASF and HIP Investor: sustainability as a business driver

The mid-morning sessions at the Sustainable Brands Conference at IESE saw speakers from Lego, Adidas, BASF and HIP INVESTOR. One thing they all had in common was that they currently all are using tools to understand and manage their businesses impact on the world and on their consumers. Tim Brooks, VP of Environmental Sustainability at Lego, focused…

Sustainable Sunday – the sustainability kindergarten

The Sustainable Sunday 2016 hits its target by promoting a friendly environment to foster the understanding of sustainability concepts, across generations. In a Barcelona sunny Sunday, families have been to Cosmo Caixa to play and have fun while learning about sustainable fishing, the challenges of physical disabilities and about urban gardens – besides many other…

Featured Workshops – Sustainable Brands Barcelona 2016

In addition to the conferences of May 23rd and 24th, the programme includes afternoon workshops providing hands-on experience, instruction, discussion and feedback to help your company become sustainable, now. See exactly where these workshops fall in the SBB2016 program. Monday Workshops How to Develop a Strategic Scorecard for Sustainability Now: Learn to translate sustainability initiatives…

an opportunity to lead

Sustainability: An Opportunity to Lead

Sustainable Brands Barcelona will host Anna Maria Rugarli, VF Corporation Director of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility EMEA, as one of the event’s key speakers. She found some time to explain how they approach sustainability at VF Corporation, a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories, with more than 30 brands (including The…

sustainable innovation

Sustainable Innovation: Creating Sustainable Products Is A Must

Innovation has always been the cornerstone of businesses. As the old business model paradigm is changing, businesses are increasingly developing products adding sustainability to the mix, linking corporate social responsibility and innovation: sustainable innovation is born. And they are doing it while focusing services and marketing to a profitable market, tapping into niches and also…

Soft Sustainability. Communicating for the future

What do you think when you hear the word sustainability? Do you think about a company’s charitable, or altruistic, behaviour? Shouldn’t sustainability be something more concrete than charity or altruism, shouldn’t it be the responsibility of a modern business? Shouldn’t it be expected? Whatever images the word «Sustainability» conjures up in your mind, unanimously we…

Taking on the challenge. The modern landscape for sustainable brands

Consumers are paying closer and closer attention to companies’ environmental and social impact. This phenomenon is particularly prominent in the millennial generation who are quickly making up the majority of the consumer market. Faced with a growing catalogue of evidence towards this point, an ever greater number of companies are taking up the challenge to…

Sustainability, Bottom Line and Investment. Paul R. Herman, CEO, HIP Investor

Sustainability, Bottom Line and Investment: Solving this Decade’s Equation

Sustainable Brands Barcelona. March 2016. The million-dollar question for many companies thinking about embracing sustainability is what impact it will have on their bottom line and in their capacity to attract fresh investment. Sustainable Brands Barcelona’s speaker  R. Paul Herman, Ceo + Founder at HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Ratings (@HIPinvestor), starts to clear the…