More Aussies than ever working from home are enjoying sex breaks during their shifts, according to recent research. Wedding style lingerie sales online have also increased during Melbourne s lockdown.
Larki
Architect PropTech provider LARKI lands $1.4 million led by Nightingale Partners –
Melbourne-born digital twin start-up sets sights on expansion after winning a major pre-seed investment by Lindsay Phillips’ Nightingale Partners and Derek Sheen.
Australian PropTech firm LARKI, provider of 3D laser scans and city models for architects, has won a major cash boost from one of the country’s leading private equity firms and a recently exited e-commerce founder.
An AUD$1.4M investment, led by Nightingale Partners and including Derek Sheen of recently sold Yellow Octopus ecommerce platform, puts LARKI on a solid footing to expand its innovative platform and 3D data provision to architects and the wider property industry. Servicing major metros on the east coast of Australia, LARKI is laying the foundations for international expansion.
The industry is estimated to have produced around 2.1bn tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018 alone â the equivalent to the combined emissions of France, Germany and the UK
A cross-party group of MPs has continued to probe how the UK fashion industry is implementing initiatives to drive sustainability and improve its social impact – with executives from Primark and the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) the latest to take part in the Environmental Audit Committee s Fixing Fashion session.
An earlier investigation heard how the industry is estimated to have produced around 2.1bn tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018 alone; the equivalent to the combined emissions of France, Germany and the UK. Major contributors included fast fashion, with UK citizens believed to buy more new clothes than any other European country, and throwing away over a million tonnes of clothing every year.
Primark: ‘We can deliver sustainable clothing at value prices’
Primark is confident that it can produce sustainable clothing at value-led prices, the retailer told MPs at yesterday s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) session.
Speaking at the cross-party environmental audit committee s (EAC)
Fixing fashion: Follow up session on 28 April, Katharine Stewart, corporate responsibility lead at Primark, said: “We are adamant that we stand for offering value. For many of our customers it is how they can afford to clothe their families. If you think holistically about the whole [production] process, it is possible to deliver value products that are sustainable. Our cotton programme has been set up with that in mind.
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