Compared to other sectors, hotel operators seem to come under little scrutiny from a sustainability perspective. Indeed, one might be forgiven for thinking that their part to play in building a sustainable future is...

Any excuse for me to go home to South Africa and as luck would have it, this year the Condé Nast International Luxury conference was held in Cape Town in a fabulous venue overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. What started...

Our very first assignment in the beauty sector was for the world’s biggest global consumer corporation in what was then called the Personal Care division. Now, the term personal care, whips up ideas of self-care,...

It’s perhaps difficult to remember a time before the now-ubiquitous whirring sound of Toyota Prius hybrids shuttling busy people around the world’s cities, but in reality Uber is just 10 years old. The company,...

In our first column on the rising influence of Asian consumers, we touched on the region’s growing affluence and whether brands are adapting fast enough. Despite some companies failing to connect with Asia’s middle...

Dyson’s recent announcement to relocate its UK headquarters to Singapore in a bid to be closer to their fastest-growing markets could well be a bold and savvy move. We spend a lot of time in the region, so we’re...

Private equity firms have more cash than ever before. The success of the asset class over the past five decades and the increasing difficulty of generating impressive returns in the conventional financial markets have...

In its most recent funding round, Uber was valued at $62bn. One of the many amazing things about the company is that its investors, who have so far put in $21.7bn, believe that its fundamental model is hurtling toward...

2018’s edition of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit on the 15th and 16th May capped off an extraordinary year for the movement to make fashion sustainable. As Vogue proclaimed, 2017 ‘was the year that sustainable...