ECR Community News Update
June 2022
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It was great to be back to having meetings in person, meeting old & new friends, in Barcelona last month. We had updates from the following Nationals:
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Germany presented on the downward consumer trend due to inflation,
war, and pandemic however they continue to purchase sustainable products and health related products.
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Colombia presented their OSA study, Bike Logistics Project,
and Recycling and Food Waste projects.
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Ireland presented their ECR Heros programme which presents awards
to members to celebrate those that go above and beyond in Irish retail stories.
Click here to read more.
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Greece presented their projects on digital retail modes of the
future, category management, circular economy (deposit returns scheme), future physical store and food waste.
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Czech & Slovak presented their workgroup groups and how they
are translating & adapting the ECR Global Packaging Guide to their market.
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Italy presented their latest logistics research on the extension
of receiving time slots. Watch
this video to find out more, or you can access the information via
The Tree of Business Continuity Solutions.
On day 2, we had an interactive session to help decide the focus areas for the Sustainability working group. The top 3 areas that Nationals & Partners want to learn
about are Responsible Sourcing, Circular Economy and Waste.
The slides, recordings, and minutes have been shared via email. As always, please get in touch if you are interested in giving an update the next quarterly meeting.
A big thank-you to Jordi Mur and AECOC for hosting us.
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Q3 Meeting in Bogota, Colombia
We are currently planning for our next quarterly meeting, which will be taking place on the
7th and 8th of September in Bogotá, Colombia. Please let us know if you are planning on traveling.
In addition to our usual updates, this meeting will focus on trying to increase our membership in Latin America.
We will have updates from members both in-person and online, so if you are interested in giving an update please get in touch using link below.
Watch the following
video
link if you are on the fence as to whether you'll travel to Bogotá.
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The steering group was established following the publication of "Best Practices" in 2020 and hosting several webinars in 2021. It is group of global retailers,
manufacturers, service providers and category management experts.
It debates the current "Hot Topics" for category managers throughout the world and represents these trends through relevant presentations in the webinars. Participating
in the Steering Group allows for high-level peer-to-peer networking which in turn promotes discussion, debate and learning!
#ECRCatManNetwork Webinars
The second #ECRCatManNetwork webinar took place on Wednesday 15th June and focused on the impact and implications of omni-channel & e-commerce. We were joined by
Red Bull, Amazon, Mars Petcare, and GfK.
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September 20th will focus on tools and technology to advance
category management
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December 5th will focus on
new organizational capabilities and designs for effective category management
The recordings and slides for webinar 2 and also the registration links for webinar 3 & 4 can be found at the link below.
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Circular Economy Focus Area
We held our
second circular economy webinar in May, focusing on three case studies from the waste management and food waste sections of the Review. We were joined by Jeronimo Martins from Portugal, AB Vassilopoulos from Greece, and FoodCloud from Ireland. We had
a good discussion on how retailers, brands and service providers are innovating on waste and the solutions they are providing to make it easier for consumers to reduce, reuse and recycle. There was some good discussion and interesting examples on how to collaborate
within your value chain, consumer engagement campaigns and how to keep up with the incoming regulation. You can re-watch the webinar and download the slides from the ECR Community website. They were also circulated to all participants after the webinar.
Our
third and final circular economy webinar for 2022 is scheduled for Tuesday September 13th at 4.30pm CET. It will focus on the supporting tools and platforms that companies need to integrate into their business to support the circular transition. We'll
be joined by Francesca Poggiali from GS1 Europe to discuss how the GS1 standards can support the transition, ECR Italy and one of the case studies from the Review. You can register for it now at the link below.
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Sustainability Focus Area
Thank you to all members who completed our Sustainability Focus Area Survey back in May. The results identified that our members most wanted to here about the topics
of Responsible Sourcing, Circular Economy and Waste Management. At the ECR Community Q2 meeting, we held an interactive session to get ideas from you about what information we could share on these topics and how best to do so. The results can be found in the
'Day 2' slides shared after the meeting.
Since the meeting we have done some further work on analysing the results and creating the 'ECR Sustainability Framework' to help guide how we engage on
these topics and share information with members over the coming years. We will be organising meetings with our partners and members over the next quarter to decide how best to collaborate on these topics.
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Packaging Design for Recycling Guidelines
The working group, coordinated by ECR Austria and the
FH Campus University of Applied Sciences, have been busy progressing this project to disseminate
the guide around the world. They would greatly appreciate the support from ECR Nationals and partners to disseminate these materials to their members.
The World Packaging Organisation has added
Waste Stream Mapping country guides for over 20 countries to their website. There are guides here for many of the ECR National countries. These country guides should be used alongside the Global Recycling Guide and the simple 'How to Use Guide' PDF document
that can also be downloaded on this WPO webpage.
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Düsseldorf 6/7th December
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Get in touch if you have any feedback or ideas for collaboration
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