You’ve been warned. Businesses unprepared for upcoming regulations which will require products exported into the EU to have a Digital Product Passport (DPP) could cost them £1.5 million a year in lost revenues, according to supply systems provider GS1 UK. Archivo Set to be first introduced in 2027, the new regulation from the EU will…
Consumers want more sustainable products, but a big ‘say-do gap’ remains in terms of their actual buying behaviour. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the British Standards Institution (BSI). Photo: Pexels BSI’s 2025 Global Circularity study, The Tipping Point: Building Trust in the Circularity Economy, was developed in partnership with experts from the Cambridge Institute…
New European and US research from TikTok and AYTM shows how the luxury market is evolving to adapt to younger generations with 70% of the luxury buyers on TikTok having spent over £1,000 on a single fashion item. Reuters The social media company spoke to over 3,000 adults across the UK, US, France and Italy…
Translated by Nicola Mira Published June 16, 2025 For World Refill Day, on Monday June 16, French beauty industry association FEBEA has published a study on the perception that French female cosmetics consumers have of refillable cosmetics products*. The goal was to better understand the expectations of consumers and the obstacles they are facing with…
UK consumers prefer to shop in-store (45%) rather than online (30%) when buying fashion and beauty. That’s according to research commissioned by London mega-mall Battersea Power Station (BPS). It said the research shows “a significant shift back to the high street” with the love of physical retail “driven by the joy of trying different styles…
In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans. The result was the SARS pandemic, which spread to 33 countries and claimed 774 lives. A few months into it, scientists…
We all know that re-engaging customers after checkout is key to driving repeat purchase but a new study claims that the majority (63%) of UK retailers lack the capabilities to do so. Photo: Pexels That’s despite more than three-quarters (78%) identifying post-sale engagement as the beginning of the next purchasing cycle. At the same time,…
New research shows that semaglutide, the compound in the weight-loss drug Wegovy, could treat an increasingly common liver disease. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, included 800 adults with a severe form of liver disease known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH. People develop MASH after fat builds up in…
The happiness curve is collapsing. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest that young adults aren’t as happy as…
Federal health officials plan to cut funding to the Women’s Health Initiative, effectively shuttering one of the largest and longest studies of women’s health ever carried out. Its findings changed medical practice and helped shape clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. The study, which began in the…
