Positive Luxury

Movers, shakers and trailblazers in #SustainableBeauty! You can now apply for the Positive Luxury Beauty Business of the Year Award 2025. Learn more below. Part of the Positive Luxury Awards, luxury’s leading sustainability awards, the Beauty Business of the Year Award is now accepting applications until January 31st 2025. The Beauty Business of the Year Award will be awarded to a business which has, in the last 12 months… ✅ Transformed to more sustainable business practices ✅ Trailblazed new standards in the beauty industry ✅ Considered environmental and social impacts, as well as innovation Our 2024 winners were Medik8. Alexander Johnston, General Manager at John Bell & Croyden, the brand’s creator, shared this regarding the award… “Medik8 demonstrated their commitment to sustainable luxury through a huge number of initiatives within their organisation. They continue to innovate in the beauty space, and their products are both sustainably produced and have efficacy and customer experience at their core. A very worthy winner.” 🔗 Click the link below to submit your brand’s application: https://lnkd.in/d3PB5WnF

Last chance to register for our virtual roundtable on Sustainable Packaging Solutions for Luxury Beauty for #BritishBeautyWeek! Taking place today, 4.30pm BST. 🔗 Tap link below to register your complimentary place now: https://lnkd.in/ddzjq_2T The discussion will highlight best practices shaping the future of luxury beauty and fragrance packaging, touching on topics such as sustainable sourcing and materials, innovative product design and consumer expectations. The roundtable will be led by our CEO Amy Nelson-Bennett and our panel will include… Samuel JOACHIM Director of Innovation and New Products Development - VERESCENCE Lauren Boylan Head of Product Development - Miller Harris Robin Tan Co-Founder and Managing Partner - Zenpack Leo Chao Co-Founder and Creative Director - Zenpack . . . British Beauty Council

For #BritishBeautyWeek, we’re celebrating our British beauty Real Changemakers | Plus, a reminder of our webinar tomorrow on Sustainable Packaging For Luxury Beauty 🔗 Tap the link below to register for the webinar, featuring Amy Nelson-Bennett, Zenpack, Miller Harris and VERESCENCE: https://lnkd.in/ddzjq_2T Our British beauty Real Changemakers include… 111SKIN | ALBIVA | ARgENTUM | Bamford | Dr.Lipp Ltd. | Inlight Beauty | Irene Forte Skincare | Lola's Apothecary | Miller Harris | Romilly Wilde | Skincycles | Rhug Wild Beauty Each has taken bold, innovative leaps forward to reduce its impact on people and planet, and achieved Butterfly Mark certification🦋 Discover the achievements of each of these British trailblazers – including innovations in sustainable sourcing, reusable or recyclable packaging, support to their local communities and more. 🔗 Tap link below to meet each brand and learn more about their work: https://lnkd.in/d3eFXree . . . British Beauty Council

Plus Two Ventures has joined the Positive Luxury Impact Network. Welcome! Learn more... Plus Two Ventures was co-founded by James H Stuart and Louai Alama who describe them as the ‘key to capitalising on the creator economy’. Specialising in helping businesses establish long-term partnerships with social media stars, the Plus Two Ventures team supports brands to work with talent on stages from product idealisation through to go-to-market and DTC. Plus Two Ventures are now part of our unique organisation of global luxury organisations dedicated to transforming the luxury industry. 🔗 Learn more about Plus Two Ventures here: https://lnkd.in/gXHxzEsk

Luxury’s leading sustainability awards are back! 🎉 The Positive Luxury Awards 2025 are now open for applications. Find out more and enter ⬇️ The world’s biggest issues – from climate to inequality – intensify and change every year. More than ever, we need huge ambition and inspirational action to tackle these most pressing challenges. Positive Luxury believe luxury should lead the way. The Positive Luxury Awards celebrate innovation, real change and higher standards across the supply chain – the brands, retailers or suppliers at the forefront of innovation taking serious, positive action. By celebrating those raising the bar, we inspire others to meet higher standards. ✅ All luxury brands, suppliers, and retailers working in our Awards Categories are eligible to apply 🏆 The Award Categories Fashion Business of the Year Beauty Business of the Year Jewellery Business of the Year Premium Drinks Business of the Year Interiors Business of the Year Travel Business of the Year Responsible Business of the Year 🗓 The Dates Applications open: 21st October 2024 Applications close: 31st December 2024 Winners to be announced: April 2025 👥 The Judges The Awards will be judged by an independent panel that represents a cross-section of experts including academics, thought-leaders and industry executives. Full details of our judging panel will be announced soon. 🔗 How to Enter To submit your application, visit: https://lnkd.in/d3PB5WnF Our 2024 winners included: Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas | BAV TAiLOR | Medik8 | Monica Vinader Ltd | Canned Wine Co. | Allect Design Group And were judged by: Christian Bachler | Rebecca Butler | MARY FELLOWES | Lucy Harris | Eloise Hanson | Alexander Johnston | Millie Kendall O.B.E. | Mickey ALAM KHAN | Julien Lonneux | Glenn Mandziuk MEDes. MCIP FRSA | Rosalie Mann | Lisa Oxenham | Penny Sainsbury | Angel Tan | Ure Utah | Iris Maria Alexis Van der Veken | Chrystal Webster | Sue Williams MI FIH

Below – just a few of the highlights from our Autumn Open House yesterday, held at Home House (🦋). Our thanks to everyone who joined us! A very special thank you also to our panellists, who joined our CEO Amy Nelson-Bennett to share their insights on the business case for sustainability: Corinna Brabazon - Collections Director, ERDEM (🦋) Deb Caldow (Ralls) - Global Marketing Sustainability Director, Diageo Mark Johnson - Global President, Molton Brown

Skincycles is now Butterfly Mark Certified 🦋   Skincycles is a prime example of how luxury and sustainability can coexist, producing high-performance skincare whilst reducing its impact on people and nature.   The brand excelled across the three key pillars of our ESG 2.0 assessment, discover below how Skincycles scored and the areas in which they particularly excelled:   🌍 Environment | 77% (+133%) Skincycles' PETA-certified, cruelty-free products contain no animal ingredients, hazardous materials, or microbeads, following a robust Restricted Substances List.   👥 Social | 82% Skincycles ensures strict adherence to ethical labour practices, with zero tolerance for forced labour, child labour, and unsafe working conditions across their supply chain.   📊 Governance | 92% Skincycles saw a 24% improvement in sustainable procurement practices, with suppliers complying with REACH, ISO standards, and prioritising more sustainable sourcing.    Learn more about Skincycles: https://lnkd.in/ef-YARZy . . Alice Henshaw #ButterflyMark #PositiveLuxury #SustainableBeauty #CleanBeauty #EthicalPractices #Skincycles

We’re delighted to announce that an incredible FOUR Positive Luxury Real Changemakers were acclaimed at the Marie Claire UK Sustainability Awards 2024! Congratulations to… Koraru, Swimwear Winner Oushaba, Jewellery Winner Monica Vinader Ltd, Highly Commended for Jewellery …and Anya Hindmarch, Luxury Brand Winner With each brand already claiming Real Changemaker status thanks to their work to reduce impact on people and planet, we’re enormously proud to see them further acclaimed for their trailblazing sustainability work. 🔗 Learn why each brand was chosen by Marie Claire’s judges: https://lnkd.in/eKwEQTtv . . #RealChangemakers #Sustainability #luxury #ButterflyMark

Real Changemakers🦋 Real innovation These three trailblazers are breaking the mould 👇 Zenpack An award-winning manufacturer and supplier of more sustainable packaging, Zenpack conceptualise, design, and develop bottles, boxes and containers with more sustainable materials. Zone Creations Ltd Hi-tech manufacturing meets core craft skills at Zone Creations’ South London studio - where more sustainable packaging, furniture and artwork solutions are designed and developed with innovative materials. DAUMET A materials science company aiming to ‘grow the future of gold’, Daumet offers more sustainable gold which helps reduce the negative environmental impact of traditional mining techniques. ➡️ Each of these brands was supported to meet their goals by our dedicated team of luxury sustainability experts. Discover how they could support your organisation: https://lnkd.in/e4JfSbKB

FINN Luxe is the dedicated luxury offering of FINN Partners - and now joins our Impact Network as the newest member 👇 FINN Partners is a fast-growing, global, independent communications agency, which embraces the ‘global boutique’ model. Offering integrated communications solutions across lifestyle sectors from travel and hospitality to F&B, beauty, fashion, jewellery, watches, auto and art, they are now contributors to and beneficiaries of our unique coalition of like-minded organisations dedicated to transforming the luxury industry. 🔗 Learn more about FINN Luxe here: https://lnkd.in/dQPWY44t Gregory Cole