The Sustainable Recovery of the Fashion Industry from COVID

我们是英国第一的男士正装租赁专家，已经成功地为高街零售商和独立零售商提供了超过20年的租赁服务。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。我们试图利用这段休整期，将自己从传统的男装供应商重塑为全球可持续时尚专业知识中心。我们认为自己是可持续时尚达人，我们有强烈的愿望来解决时尚行业的可持续发展问题。我们的行业，以目前的形式，是不可持续的。它是第二大污染行业——预计到2050年，它将使用世界碳预算的25%。我们正在与服装零售商联系，帮助他们减少因covid-19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%的零售商认为他们的未来非常不确定。我们也希望帮助零售商减少退货的成本。英国零售商每年在退回的衣服上损失200亿英镑，其中超过50%的衣服被丢弃。我们的计划将发展租用服务模式，为零售商提供全面管理的服装租用服务，包括为定制和实施提供咨询支持。它还包括一个退货服务模型，可以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，并创造了一个卓越的运营模式，使我们成为可持续服装租赁的全球专业中心。我们还寻求建立人才管道模型，以招募和培养本地弱势求职者，为我们的扩张提供资源。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用于在公司内部和整个社会实现有利于环境的可持续变化。我们将确保现有的ACS员工的工作，并从弱势背景中招募更多的员工。我们将改善员工及其家人的健康和福祉。我们打算与其他组织分享我们的专业知识。最后，我们将为零售商提供新的收入来源，减少关闭商店的需要，并确保就业机会，同时通过翻新退回的服装为他们节省资金。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，通过显著发展模型的社会和环境维度，使它们对所有利益相关者（而不仅仅是股东）更有价值。新增的四项内容中有两项是：-计划到2021年成为b型企业-计划到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，最新的开发计划表明，2021年的需求将增加4倍。因此，制定和实施容量计划以配置最优系统以满足明年的需求被提议添加到范围内。对范围的最终建议修订是研究开发可持续发展时钟，以向客户宣传租赁衣服的好处-实时可持续发展平衡计分卡，每次客户从ACS租用衣服时，都会更新我们地球的节省。

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.