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How retailers are tackling gender inequality this IWD

Inside Retail

Mimco has been working with Our Watch since 2016 and to date it has raised over $1.6 Ikea hits gender balance in global top leadership Other retailers focused on the work they need to do internally to make their workplace more inclusive for women. million for the not-for-profit.

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How teen Sofia Sacoor started an athleisure brand to support kids with diabetes

Inside Retail

The story so far Sacoor was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as an eight-year-old in 2016. From a practical perspective, she said that she is lucky to have people around her who advise and guide her on how to succeed with the business since she is still attending school in the UAE.

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How to solve Malaysia’s retail labour shortage: Tips from industry experts

Inside Retail

To put this in perspective, in 2016, Malaysia’s central bank estimated a living wage to be RM2,700 (US$594) for a single person. Likewise, he has observed that employees want to work for employers who provide high salaries and good work-life balance that do not really exist in the retail industry.

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Product design’s gender crisis: “If businesses don’t adapt they’ll become obsolete”

Design Week

XXEquals Hall, who led a management buy-out of the Bristol design engineering firm in 2016, has set up an initiative in an attempt to change this. This particular sector is full of challenges that would likely only seem obvious to a gender-balanced team. “That’s quite a disheartening scenario to find yourself in.”

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Arise Dr Robert Esser: Havaianas’ Apac boss and his surprise next role

Inside Retail

Since Covid, Rothy’s has traded at a loss and its valuation has also plunged, which has tainted Alpartagas’ balance sheet, despite the strength of its 125-year-old core flip-flop business. The program teaches you to take a look at a business problem from a different perspective. Alpartagas lost $4.2 The number is now up to about 250.

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Offices redesigned as lab to process 10,000 Covid tests a day

Design Week

Benam says that this area was one of the project’s biggest challenges and required a “number of tests” throughout the build, finding a balance between the pressurisation needed and the existing space. “From a conversion perspective, it’s ready for future expansion.”

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Changes to IR35 are approaching (again) – here’s what designers need to know

Design Week

In 2018, it was announced that changes to the legislation would be rolled out to the private sector – having already been successfully introduced to the public sector in 2016. million; Its annual balance sheet total doesn’t exceed £5.1 What are the changes? million; It doesn’t employ more than 50 people.