Sustainable Luxury, Beauty & Sport

La Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie supports The Atelier of Sustainable Excellence, an exclusive workshop which aims to provide a learning & sharing platform – for CSR/Sustainability professionals from luxury, prestige and beauty companies, academia and NGO.

The event will take place in Lausanne/Switzerland on September 28, 2010

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Learn from GUCCI, JAEGER-LECOULTRE, ROSY BLUE DIAMONDS, WWF, UNCTAD, HEC Lausanne University and many more luxury brands, NGO and Corporate Responsibility experts. 

     Join the leaders of the Sustainable Luxury community for a one day highly interactive workshop on September 28, 2010 in Lausanne/Switzerland, to learn, share, network and experiment among CR peers, NGO, Academia and experts.  

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Unique workshop. 

Early Bird price until August 25, 2010.  

Information and registration

Lausanne, Switzerland

The debate surrounding sustainable luxury is not new, but very prevailing as luxury consumers’ expectations and behaviors evolve rapidly. The traditional definition of luxury as ‘anything unneeded’ is neither helpful nor relevant in today’s markets. Luxury has become both a commendable and widely obtainable need and necessity.  

When it comes to corporate responsibility, luxury companies don’t become model citizens overnight. But merely complying with public demands for responsible practices won’t protect them very long or even contribute to solve social or environmental problems.

But, how to be good and do well ?                           

What do the terms such as ethical consumerism or discerning luxury consumption really tell us about future luxury spending habits? How to go beyond mere compliance to gain a competitive advantage? How best in class luxury companies succeed in their endeavor of changing their stakeholders’ behaviors? How to make a real difference to society in reinventing a new business model? How to future-proof its company and ensure sustained value for all stakeholders ?

The Atelier of Sustainable Excellence™ aims to provide a learning & sharing platform for engaged CSR/Sustainability professionals from the luxury/prestige sectors, academia and non-governemental/not for profit organisations to :

• Anticipate the trends shaping the luxury industry
• Share business initiatives addressing social and environmental challenges.
• Experiment sustainable excellence during a highly interactive “GameShop”.

Provisional program and confirmed speakers.

• Mr Burak Cakmak, GUCCI, CSR Director, Keynote speaker
• Prof. Sandor Czellar, PhD, Marketing Professor, HEC Lausanne University
• Mrs Iris Maria Alexis Van der Veken, Rosy Blue Diamonds, Manager Corporate Affairs. Chair, United Nation Global Compact Network Belgium
• Mrs Corinne Paget-Blanc, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Communication Director
• Mr Christopher H. Cordey, Wholebeauty, Chief Catalyst Officer
• Mrs Veerle Vrolijk-van Wauwe – Transparence SA, CEO
• Powered by LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, participants will build a common vision of the luxury goods industry in 2030. They will test how their  informed understandings of this industry and its interactions with key stakeholders –be they investors, consumers, retailers, environmental activists, or members of supply chains –  shape their future business models. The expected output will be a glimpse into the core values that the luxury goods industry will need to promote, as a whole, to future-proof itself and ensure sustained value for all its stakeholders. This session will be facilitated by Mrs Joyce Miller, PhD and Mr Eli de Friend, Caprese

Program may subject to change. Number of participants will be limited. Registration and inquiries

In crisis time, it is important for any community to face difficulties and address solutions. In France, a recent SOFRES poll indicated that 58% of employees do not trust their employer. Many workers of the luxury industry, especially within watch factories and companies, struggle to keep their job and are evolving in a harassing stressed environment.

Former employees of KPMG in the UK decided to set up a specific tool for companies that want to improve their performance and establish responsible and ethical practices. GoodCorporation was born. It is a responsible business auditing company founded in 2000 by a group of former partners and directors of KPMG Consulting who wanted to create a straight-forward and transparent system which would enable companies to assess their ethical business practices in a credible way. Its aim is to drive up standards in business life by assessing companies against the GoodCorporation Standard. Developed in association with the Institute of Business Ethics, the GoodCorporation Standard assesses all areas of business management and is independently verified by the Accreditation Council. Many worldwide companies have already been assessed, such as Total, DHL and GDF-Suez, and new tools for Small and Medium Enterprises have also been developed.

The company now offers its services in Switzerland. It is a real added value for any organization (international or smaller ones, but also profit and non-profit ones) as it helps managers to point out the malfunctions and implement adapted solutions. www.goodcorporation.com