“I feel incredibly honoured to be included in a really impressive group of women,” she said.
SUPPLIED The initiative also offered training and support from experts for areas chosen by the women. Percasky said the financial training and advice from experts who had her best interests at heart had been a huge benefit. “When you’re growing as quickly as we are, you don’t feel you have time to work on the fundamentals of the business. It’s really invaluable to have someone on your side. “Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know.”
SUPPLIED The company was growing 20 per cent month on month at the moment, she said.
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 12:31 pm
Hundreds of people have participated in the
Velocity Innovation Challenge as entrants, advocates,
mentors and volunteers with the united purpose of bringing
new ideas into the world.
Innovation
Challenge is a key event for the University of Auckland’s
entrepreneurship development programme Velocity.
Students and staff are invited to share a venture idea that
will solve a problem, big or small. Each 1,000 word entry is
assessed and considered for a $1,000 prize with 12 prizes up
for grabs. Entrants can submit ideas for a commercial or
social venture, and this year additional prizes were added
for ideas that tackled an aspect of the United Nations
Home Compostable Bags for Zero-Waste Beauty Brand
As part of its holistic strategy to ‘stir up a clean + conscious change,’ D2C superfood beauty company LOLI uses less than 0.5% plastic in its packaging, opting instead for glass jars, paperboard, and compostable courier bags.
Dec 30th, 2020 Marketing itself as being “waste-free, water-free, toxin-free, trash-free, and slavery-free,” LOLI Beauty, or Living Organic Loving Ingredients, has left no stone unturned when it comes to building a sustainable brand. New York City-based LOLI describes itself as the world’s first zero-waste superfood skincare brand and was launched in 2018 with a mission to “stir up a clean + conscious change.” From ingredient sourcing to production to packaging and shipping, LOLI has diligently selected those strategies that will result in the least impact to people and the planet.