All Podcast Episodes
The Interview: C&A Europe – Director Global Sustainability, Aleix Gonzalez
The Interview: C&A Europe: In this episode, we’re talking Sustainability. More specifically, how retailers can build a sustainability action plan that delivers meaningful action and traction within the business. Host Karl McKeever is joined by Aleix Gonzalez, Director Global Sustainability at C&A Europe – one of the leading fashion retail businesses in Europe with 1,575 stores in 21 countries, as well as a presence in Brazil, Mexico, and China.
For C&A, sustainability means rethinking how it designs its products for their next life. In his role, Gonzalez is responsible for overseeing the implementation of C&A’s global sustainability strategy. He explains what sustainability means to him; his experience of building momentum behind sustainability initiatives within multiple global retail businesses; his thoughts on the burning issues affecting fashion retailers’ ability to drive change; and the secrets to success for other retailers who are embarking on the journey to cut waste, improve circularity, and achieve Net Zero goals.
Recorded at World Retail Congress 2022
The Interview: UGG, VP of Global Marketing Carole Diarra
The Interview: UGG: In this episode, host Karl McKeever is joined in conversation by Vice President of Global Marketing for global lifestyle brand UGG, Carole Diarra.
Diarra reflects on how a brand can stay relevant in today’s uncertain times, and the enduring principles that make great brands stand out. She also shares the story of her own personal career journey that saw her spend 15 years in New York honing her skills at L’Oreal, before eventually settling in her current role (and into a new life) in Paris.
Recorded at Shoptalk Europe 2022.
The Interview: Frugi, Chief Executive Officer Sarah Clark
The Interview: Frugi: In this episode, host Mark Faithfull is joined by Sarah Clark, CEO of UK organic clothing brand, Frugi. We to explore how sustainable fashion has changed; the brand’s plan for growth; what a sustained approach to business growth looks like; how to better influence and empower customers to live more sustainably; and how can it replace the pursuit of profit, and to reflect on her first year in post.
Recorded at Retail Week Live 2022.
In Focus: Ethics Work
In Focus - Ethics Work: In this latest episode of The Retail Exchange podcast, host Karl McKeever talks to three companies about how to design and source more sustainably, and explores how creating sustainable products has been integral to their own journey from seed to full bloom. Recorded at Spring Fair 2022 and in support of its ‘The Power of One’ campaign, that aims to energise retailers and consumers to take small steps to change the world.
The Interview: Green & Black’s, co-founder Jo Fairley
In this episode of The Interview series, recorded at Spring Fair 2022, host Karl McKeever is joined by Green & Black’s co-founder Jo Fairley as she shares her experience of founding a business during a recession and discusses the importance of staying true to her core belief that doing good for your people and the planet simply makes good business sense.
The Interview: Falabella, director of sustainability Pamela Lagos
The Interview - Falabella: In our latest episode, we travel to Santiago to meet Pamela Lagos, director of sustainability of Chilean department store chain Falabella Retail. She shares the inside story of how one of the country’s most famous retail names is investing in a responsible plan for future success, and the steps it is taking to show people and profitability can co-exist in greater harmony.
The Interview: HEMA
The Interview - HEMA: In this latest episode of The Interview Series, we talk exclusively to Tjeerd Jegen, CEO of HEMA to explore how a ‘return on value and values’ is helping drive new growth, and to shine a spotlight on his own storied retail career.
The Interview: House of Fraser
The Interview: House of Fraser: In this first of The Interview Series, broadcaster and business journalist Declan Curry meets House of Fraser’s Dr Dorothy Maxwell, who reflects on the retailer’s new department store and efforts to make retailers and stores more sustainable.