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Renfro enters partnership with SaaS provider TrusTrace
The Stockholm-based software provider TrusTrace has won Renfro Brands as a new customer. Renfro is a socks and legwear specialist, working for Merrell, Dr. Scholl, Polo Ralph Lauren and Sperry, among others. Using the TrusTrace platform, Renfro Brands aims to centralize its current supply chain data for continued compliance with ...
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Investors file a shareholder resolution pressing Amazon for more information on its climate footprint
U.S. environmentally and socially responsible investor Green Century Funds together with Amalgamated Bank led the filing of a shareholder proposal on Dec. 15, 2022, pressing Amazon to fully quantify and disclose its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. This was followed up by the filing of a shareholder resolution with Amazon ...
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Bleckmann opens new distribution center in the Netherlands
Dutch logistics company and supply chain management expert Bleckmann is opening a new fulfillment center in Venlo to increase its capacity in Europe’s logistics hotspot. A lease agreement for around 30,000 sqm has been signed with Prologis. Operations for the first customers have already started, and further implementations are to ...
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WCO and UNCTAD strengthen cooperation to enhance supply chain digitalization
The World Customs Organization (WCO)’s secretary general, Kunio Mikuriya and his homolog at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Rebeca Grynspan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Oct. 4 that aims to improve supply chain digitalization and data sharing for global trade industries. The MoU, which ...
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Free WFSGI and McKinsey webinar on July 7: Industry challenges and potential solutions
On Thursday, July 7, 2022, McKinsey & Company and WFSGI will co-present a webinar that will explore the challenges that the sporting goods industry is currently facing. The free webinar follows McKinsey’s second annual sporting goods industry report, “Sporting Goods 2022 – The New Normal is here.” Inflation and the ...
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China’s worst Covid outbreak since Wuhan is the next threat to the supply chain
Even before the initial problems caused by the pandemic could be solved, the war in Ukraine created new ones. And now, despite all precautions, the Omicron BA mutant of Covid-19 is spreading rapidly in China. The epicenter of infection was the northeastern province of Jilin, on the border with North ...
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German retail supply bottlenecks worsen in February
According to a survey by the research institute Ifo, supply problems in German retail have worsened again in February. In February, 76.3 percent of overall retailers said they did not receive all the goods they ordered. A month earlier, the figure was 57.1 percent. Among retailers selling clothing, 52.6 percent ...
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