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Sustainability Scores and Small
Business
By
Kelly Spors June 21,
2010
Small companies looking to break
into major retailers these days have to contend
with something other than just coveted shelf
space: Their sustainability
"score."
Increasingly, big-name
corporations are assessing and selecting their
suppliers based on environmental benchmarks. The
concept gained traction when Wal-Mart a few
years ago unveiled ambitious plans to assess
suppliers using its "Sustainability Index,"
which considers everything from packaging
materials and waste disposal to energy
efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. In
2009, the retailer began sending 15-question
assessment forms to 100,000 U.S. suppliers and
plans to eventually start labeling products in
the store based on their overall environmental
friendliness - similar to a nutritional label on
food.
In recent weeks, Procter &
Gamble and Kaiser Permanente launched similar
types of programs. (Some companies, such as
Patagonia, have utilized such sustainability
assessments of suppliers for a long
time.)
Major corporations figure they
have the leverage to push environmentally
friendlier practices onto their suppliers, and
such initiatives, of course, bolster their own
reputations as a eco-conscious
companies.
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7 reasons to
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If
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NRF CEO backs 2010 U.S. retail
sales view
Martinne
Geller
NEW YORK
Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:48pm
BST
 Matt
Shay, President and Chief Executive of the
National Retail Federation, appears at the 2010
Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit in New York
June 21, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Shannon
Stapleton
NEW
YORK(Reuters) - U.S. retail sales are on track
to rise 2.5 percent this year despite lingering
unemployment and economic uncertainty, the head
of the nation's premier retail trade group said
on Monday.
In January, the National Retail
Federation had forecast a 2.5 percent rise for
2010, as the industry comes out of its worst
slump in decades. Speaking at the Reuters
Consumer and Retail Summit in New York, NRF
Chief Executive Matthew Shay affirmed that
forecast.
"Based
on what we saw in the first four or five months
of the year, I think we're right on track," said
Shay, who has been in the job for five months.
"We feel confident that 2.5
percent is the right number."
"That
reflects a market in which there's a high degree
of uncertainty and we're going to see things
going a little bit sideways from now for the
rest of the year," Shay
said.
He
added that the trade group would have more data
to support its forecast following the upcoming
back-to-school shopping
season.
Retailers'
bets on future consumption can often be measured
by how much merchandise they order
upfront.
In
general, Shay said retailers remained "very
sensitive" about how much inventory they were
willing to take on, in order to avoid a repeat
performance from late 2008 and early 2009, when
they were forced to offer steep, profit-sapping
discounts to move unsold
merchandise.
"The
big issue for us is what's going on economically
with jobs, with housing, with access to credit
-- and that obviously impacts consumer
confidence levels and consumer spending," Shay
said. And to the extent that the European debt
crisis affects U.S. equity markets, he said it
also impacts U.S. consumer
spending.
"I
think that it does have a psychological effect,
at some level," he said.
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