Better Buying’s President and Co-Founder Dr. Marsha Dickson has been announced as a key speaker at the Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference on April 23-24, 2024. Dr. Dickson will be addressing how purchasing practices must evolve to to improve social standards, and deliver resilient apparel supply chains. The two-day business conference is returning […]

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Better Buying Commercial Compliance TrackerTM provides benchmark for future scores, and is published as part of BBI’s participation in Sustainable Terms of Trade Initiative Research from Better Buying Institute published today finds that measures of commercial compliance on the part of global brands and retailers are significantly and positively correlated. The first annual Better Buying […]

Katie’s background is in product management and strategic leadership. Prior to joining Better Buying Institute, she worked with a number of tech startups, shaping innovative products and driving growth strategies.  “My passion lies in leveraging technology to create meaningful impact,” explains Katie. “ I was drawn to Better BuyingTM because of the organization’s resolute commitment […]

Better BuyingTM has produced a short video-toolkit for companies, demonstrating how our tools and resources can support brands and retailers to carry out due diligence in their supply chains, and comply with some of the mandatory human rights due diligence requirements coming onstream as part of existing and forthcoming legislation. Our fully integrated set of […]

The Better Buying Institute (BBI) is inviting non-apparel companies to subscribe to its Better Buying Partnership IndexTM (BBPI) to take the lead in relation to mandatory human rights due diligence reporting requirements.  In particular, subscribers will be able to conform with the requirements of Germany’s new Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains Act, and forthcoming EU […]

Buyers urged to focus on communication with suppliers amid decline in business stability  READ FULL REPORT READ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The quality of buyer-supplier partnerships in global supply chains has only slightly improved since last year, indicating that suppliers are still feeling the impact of disruption more than two years on from the onset of the […]

Better Buying Institute is proud to join Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference in Amsterdam (April 25-26). This two-day business conference will address how brands must align and adapt practices to deliver on growing stakeholder expectations. We’ll equip delegates with the best-practice and guidance to develop net-zero strategies, transform supply chains, engage consumers, scale […]