The Sustainable Recovery of the Fashion Industry from COVID

时装业从新冠疫情中可持续复苏

• 批准号: 58923
• 金额: $ 9.52万
• 依托单位: ACS CLOTHING LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=58923
• 关键词: Sustainable; Recovery; Fashion; Industry; COVID

We are the UK's No.1 men's formal-wear rental specialists and have been successfully providing rental services to High Street Retailers and Independent Stockists for over 20 years.It is our opinion that business has changed, perhaps forever, due to the corona-virus. We seek to capitalise on this lull during lock-down to reinvent ourselves from a Traditional Men's Hire-wear Provider to the Global Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Fashion.We consider ourselves Sustainability Fashionista and we have strong desire to address sustainability in the fashion industry. Our industry, in its current form, is unsustainable. It is the second biggest polluting industry - it is projected to use 25% of the world's carbon budget by 2050.We are reaching out to clothing retailers to help them reduce the losses in income they face due to covid-19. Clothing Retailers are expecting a 20% reduction in annual revenue with 80% considering their future highly uncertain.We also wish to help retailers reduce the costs from the return of clothing. UK Retailers loose £20B annually on returned clothing with more than 50% disposed of.Our project will develop a Hire Service Model to provide a fully managed Clothing Hire Service to Retailers including consultancy support for customisation and implementation. It also includes a Returns Service Model that refurbishes Retailer's returned clothes.The project provides us with a Circular Business Model that will minimise our impact on the environment and also create an Operational Excellence Model to make us the Global Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Clothing Hire.We also seek to develop a Talent Pipeline Model to recruit and develop local disadvantaged job seekers to help resource our expansion. This also includes tasks to improve the quality of working lives of all our staff.Lastly the project provides us with methods to compel our consumers to rent clothes.Our project positive impacts society, the economy and the environment. Our ideas and energy will be channeled into delivering pro-environmentally sustainable changes within our company and to Society as a whole. We will secure the jobs of our existing ACS staff employment and recruit many more from disadvantaged backgrounds. We will improve our staff and their family's health and well-being. We intend to share our expertise with other organisations. Finally we will provide new revenue streams for Retailers by reducing the need for shop closures and securing jobs whilst saving them money by refurbishing their returned garments.---ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HERE---Whilst researching the business models the project team has become more conscious of opportunities to further innovate the business models by significantly developing the social and environmental dimensions of the models to make them more valuable to all stakeholders not just shareholders. Two of the four additions to the scope are: - Planning for B-Corps Status by 2021- Planning the achievement of Zero Carbon Emissions by 2025. Early indications are that these two outcomes will increase significantly the demand for services from ACS towards a 10-fold increase over by 2025.In addition, the latest exploitation plan is intimating a 4-fold increase in demand during 2021. As a consequence the development, and implementation, of a capacity plan to configure the most optimal system to satisfy demand next year is proposed to be added to the scope.The final proposed amendment to the scope is the research into the development of a Sustainability Clock to promote the benefits of rental clothes to customers - real-time Sustainability Balanced Score Card that updates the savings to our planet every time a clothing item is rented by a customer from ACS.

我们是英国首屈一指的男士正装租赁专家，20多年来一直成功地为高街零售商和独立零售商提供租赁服务。我们认为，由于冠状病毒，业务已经发生了变化，也许是永远的变化。我们希望利用封锁期间的这段时间，将自己从一家传统的男装租赁供应商转变为可持续时尚的全球专业中心。我们认为自己是可持续时尚达人，我们强烈希望在时尚行业实现可持续发展。我们的产业，以目前的形式，是不可持续的。这是第二大污染行业-预计到2050年，它将使用全球25%的碳预算。我们正在与服装零售商接触，帮助他们减少因新冠肺炎而面临的收入损失。服装零售商预计年收入将减少20%，其中80%的人认为他们的未来非常不确定。我们也希望帮助零售商降低服装退货的成本。英国每年回收价值200亿英镑的服装，其中超过50%被处理掉。我们的项目将开发一个租赁服务模型，为回收商提供全面管理的服装租赁服务，包括定制和实施的咨询支持。它还包括一个退货服务模式，翻新零售商退回的衣服。该项目为我们提供了一个循环商业模式，将我们对环境的影响降到最低，并创造了一个卓越运营模式，使我们成为全球可持续服装租赁专业知识中心。我们还寻求开发一个人才管道模式，以招募和培养当地弱势求职者，帮助我们的扩张。这也包括提高我们所有员工的工作生活质量的任务。最后，该项目为我们提供了迫使消费者租用衣服的方法。我们的项目对社会，经济和环境产生了积极的影响。我们的想法和精力将被引导到我们公司内部和整个社会的环保可持续变革中。我们将确保我们现有的ACS工作人员的就业机会，并从弱势背景中招募更多的人。我们将改善员工及其家人的健康和福祉。我们希望与其他组织分享我们的专业知识。最后，我们将通过减少商店关闭的需要和确保工作，同时通过翻新他们的返回服装来节省他们的钱，为Restaurant提供新的收入来源。在研究商业模式的同时，项目团队更加意识到进一步创新商业模式的机会，通过显着发展模式的社会和环境维度，使其对所有利益相关者而不仅仅是股东更有价值。该范围的四个新增内容中有两个是：-规划到2021年实现B类公司地位-规划到2025年实现零碳排放。早期迹象表明，这两个结果将显著增加对ACS服务的需求，到2025年将增加10倍。此外，最新的开发计划预计2021年需求将增加4倍。因此，开发和实施，的能力计划，以配置最佳的系统，以满足明年的需求，建议被添加到范围。最后建议的修订范围是研究开发一个可持续发展的时钟，以促进客户租赁衣服的好处-真实的-时间可持续性平衡计分卡，更新节省我们的地球每次服装项目是由客户租用ACS。