Brands may need to consider ethical values, ingredient transparency or more unique benefits to differentiate from competitors and command a price premium. Gender is at the heart of the category right now, with men expecting more sophisticated messaging and women balancing femininity with feminism.
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Announced this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the partnership will see the two organisations work together to bring innovative, cradle-to-cradle products and services to market. Specifically, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will offer its best practice advice to SC Johnson and connect the company to its nine other Global Partner corporates, including Nike, Unilever, Google and H&M, while SC Johnson will invest in research, development and trials of new products and materials.
The overarching aim of the Foundation’s Global Partner scheme is to drive a culture-wide shift to a truly circular economy, in which no resources are sent to landfill or left to pollute nature. As the owner of brands such as Mr Muscle, Glade and Windex, SC Johnson’s specific focus will be on single-use plastic packaging – a topic it has been discussing with industry experts for “several years”, according to chairman and chief executive Fisk Johnson. “Plastic pollution is an enormous problem, and it is going to take businesses, governments, consumers and civil society working together to solve it,” Johnson said. “We’re all going to have to come together, and Ellen and the Foundation have done an excellent job creating an opportunity for partnership and progress.”
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Today, manufacturing and energy companies face new, intricately intertwined challenges, such as decarbonization, international regulations, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in addition to the challenges of digital transformation (DX) efforts. AVEVA, which has promoted DX from the perspective of business operations and plant lifecycle management, integrated OSIsoft, a data management infrastructure company, in 2021. Under the new system, AVEVA organizes issues to be tackled in the future and proposes efforts to solve the issues for Japan’s process, energy, and infrastructure-related companies that have many users of OSIsoft’s PI system.