L’OCCITANE Travel Retail has hailed its participation at the recently-concluded TRBusiness Travel Retail Sustainability Week 2022. The annual event, held on 19-22 April, is an industry-wide initiative to promote environmentally and socially responsible business practices. It concluded on Earth Day (22 April).
Travel Retail Sustainability Week shone the light on environmental conservation, health & wellbeing, diversity & inclusion and social responsibility projects from across the industry.
L’OCCITANE Group Biodiversity and Sustainable Ingredients Director Jean-Charles Lhommet and General Manager for Research and Development Marie Videau highlighted the company’s ‘nature positive’ mission at the event.
Lhommet spoke during the Green Influencers webinar where he stressed the importance of a responsible and sustainable supply chain. Raw material traceability is a key pillar for L’OCCITANE Group. The French beauty and wellness company is constantly working with suppliers to discover more sustainable farming methods that regenerate the environment and protect biodiversity. He also highlighted the brand’s eco-friendly packaging, which is made with recycled and reusable materials.
Lhommet outlined L’OCCITANE Group’s many ethical partnerships. The company has a long-standing fair-trade collaboration with a women-run cooperative in Burkina Faso. Through the partnership, L’OCCITANE has been helping the women learn and implement best ecological practices for Shea Butter production.
Videau was a speaker in the Health and Wellbeing webinar, where she underlined her team’s important role in developing and producing innovative sustainable products.
She also discussed the company’s Clean Charter, which outlines its commitment to biodegradable and naturally-derived ingredients. One of Videau’s suggestions to enhance overall wellbeing in the travel retail environment is to add wellbeing-dedicated spaces in airports.
L’OCCITANE en Provence was recently recognised in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2021 progress report as one of the most committed brands in the fight against plastics. By 2025, L’OCCITANE Group has pledged to manufacture 100% of its plastic bottles from recycled waste.
L’OCCITANE Group is committed to promoting sustainable business practices through open-source sharing and its nature-first approach to packaging, reducing waste, minimising its carbon footprint and regenerating biodiversity.
As reported, L’OCCITANE Group recently partnered with Lotte Duty Free to raise KRW34.5 million (US$30,000) for the Seoul Green Trust in celebration of Earth Day. The donation was the result of a customer-participation campaign hosted through March at the brand’s boutique in the Lotte Duty Free Myeong-dong store.
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