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TRAVEL RETAIL SUSTAINABILITY FORUM (TRSF)


First Travel Retail Sustainability Forum goes digital at TRMarketplace


The inaugural Travel Retail Sustainability Forum (TRSF) will take place on Thursday 1 October at TRMarketplace – travel retail’s first digital networking forum. Luke Barras-Hill provides a sneak preview.


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managed and sustainable forests and is FSC certified, which means that anyone can trace where the paper has come from and see that new trees have been planted. Having originally been scheduled


aunched last year, the Travel Retail Sustainability Forum (TRSF) and Plastic Pledge


in partnership with Duty Free Innovation (DFI) represented a watershed moment for DF&TR. TRSF is the first industry-wide


sustainability platform to galvanise more affirmative action to mitigate against the industry’s impacts on the environment, with a particular focus on reducing single-use plastic waste. Beginning as a vehicle for


promoting ideas and knowledge exchange via social media, TRSF has grown into something much larger; a long-overdue green movement committing to achieving real industry change. The TRSF was sparked by


an increase in consumer-led environmental activism and has generated a huge response since it launched in July 2019. All DF&TR stakeholders


have a responsibility to make a difference. Notably, embracing the significant challenge to curb single- use plastic pollution. According to the Plastic Pollution


Coalition, by 2050 the world’s oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight. This is something partner DFI is


playing a big part to address with its objective to save one billion plastic bottles from landfill by 2025. For its part, TRBusiness has


replaced the magazine’s plastic postage bag with a new 100% oxo- biodegradable sleeve. In addition, the paper originates from responsibly


OCTOBER 2020


to take place at the Duty Free & Travel Retail Summit of the Americas earlier this year (cancelled due to the coronavirus), the first TRSF in partnership with DFI will now take place on Thursday 1 October (15:00 – 16:30 UK time) at the industry’s first digital forum – TRMarketplace (28 September – 02 October). Forming part of TRMarketplace’s


rich Knowledge and Insights programme, the 90-minute TRSF webinar will draw together leading executives to hear how their respective companies are striving to achieve more environmentally conscious retail footprints. Hosted by TRBusiness, the session


will unbox sustainable initiatives – pre- and post-Covid – investments and consumer-facing practices from industry stakeholders; analyse sustainable and purpose-driven shopping behaviours; and discuss strategies aimed at reducing overall carbon footprints. In addition, the TRSF will


feature exclusive insight from TRMarketplace partner m1nd- set, who will present a specially commissioned study focusing on what consumers are saying about their shopping behaviours and attitudes towards sustainability. Attendees to the webinar will


hear from Simon Best, Senior Vice President, Innovation and New Business, DFI; Duncan Craig, Global Project Director, Concourse Display Management; Ambroise Fondeur, Chief Business Officer, Lagardère Travel Retail; Maud Geerbex,


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TRSF will explore sustainable initiatives – pre- and post-Covid – investments and consumer- facing practices from industry stakeholders; analyse sustainable and purpose-driven shopping behaviours; and discuss strategies aimed at reducing overall carbon footprints.


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Corporate Affairs Director Global Travel Retail, Mars Wrigley ITR; Rachel Hawes, Head of Marketing - Global Travel Retail, Distell; James Prescott, Managing Director, Harding Retail; and Clara Susset, Travel Retail Research Director, m1nd-set. «


The inaugural Travel Retail Sustainability Forum webinar will be held on Thursday 1 October (15:00 – 16:30 UK time) during the TRMarketplace digital forum (28 September – 02 October).Retailers, airports, cruise lines, border shops and airlines can access TRMarketplace free of charge as visitors.


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