LS&Co. Unzipped
Aug 16 2011
For Women, An Investment With a Positive Return
It’s a safe bet all of the clothes you’re wearing right now were made by women. In factories around the world, it’s largely women who cut the patterns, sew the seams and make the buttonholes.So it makes sense that giving these women the information they need to live better, healthier lives would be in the best interest of the factories that hire them.That’s the idea behind HERproject.We first told you about it in March. Now, we have some new information to share.
Posted By: Aron Cramer, President & CEO, BSR |
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Aug 10 2011
RIP, Radical Industrialist
When Ray Anderson died this week, Planet Earth lost an advocate.Ray was the founder of Interface Inc., the company that makes Flor carpeting, among other floor coverings. It's one of the largest and most successful companies of its kind. He was also a person who, in the mid-1990s, influenced a shift in the company’s environmental strategy.When you consider the role of petrochemicals in making carpet, you understand what a huge shift this was.
Posted By: Colleen Kohlsaat, LS&Co. Social & Environmental Sustainability |
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Aug 04 2011
Handmade Hope in Guatemala...and at Levi's®
The people – that’s what inspired me most when I first lived in Guatemala as a college student.The strength, determination, and spirit of Guatemala’s indigenous people, despite the unspeakable hardships they had endured and the battles they are still fighting today: poverty, discrimination, illiteracy, and malnutrition.The indigenous people of Guatemala completely captured my heart. I felt an obligation to partner with them and to be part of a solution: to connect them to the resources and markets they needed to build a better future.
Posted By: Ruth DeGolia, Executive Director, Mercado Global |
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Jul 28 2011
Dressing Smart – On the Job and on the Town.
My love for fashion and design started at a young age when my mom taught me how to sew. Growing up, and even throughout college while I studied neuroscience, I knew I needed an outlet to express my creativity. At the time, I didn’t have a TV, so the sewing machine and stereo became the faithful companions to my design and clothes-making. I created my own tube tops and stretch cropped pants using fabric from the store across the street, and even once made a cocktail dress out of cocktail napkins!
Posted By: Jill Guenza, Director, Levi's® Women's Design |
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Jul 22 2011
Music to My Ears
For the past 25 years, I've been taking my kids and grandkids to the Stern Grove Festival. To me, it’s the best concert series in the San Francisco Bay Area, and even better, it’s free to all.Stern Grove is a recreation park in San Francisco that also serves as a venue for the performing arts. It’s dazzling to experience the power of a gospel choir, the rhythms of a salsa band or the ethereal movement of a corps de ballet while picnicking amongst the giant redwood trees.
Posted By: Merle Lawrence, Senior Manager, U.S., Levi Strauss Foundation |
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Jul 13 2011
Social Pioneers? We Think So, Too.
When you’re in this line of work, pushing for equality for all, you know a pioneer when you see one.The Levi Strauss Foundation started its Pioneers in Justice initiative last year, setting out to support five of the most dynamic, next-generation leaders in the social justice field -- a field advocating for equal rights and opportunities for women, immigrants and other marginalized groups in the United States.
Posted By: Daniel Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation |
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Jun 27 2011
HIV/AIDS Care -- No Matter Where
There are 1.3 million people in the United States alone living with HIV. 20% of them don’t know they have the virus. That’s one in five people who have HIV, but don’t even know it. Even now, 30 years after the epidemic began.As a result, they’re not receiving life-saving treatment. And, they may be unknowingly contributing to the spread of HIV.
Posted By: Mark Ishaug, President & CEO, AIDS United |
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Jun 25 2011
Progress. But More to Do.
If you pass by the Levi’s® store in New York’s Meatpacking District (pictured above) or Soho neighborhood, you might see something that catches your eye. I’m not talking about our amazing Water<Less™ or Curve ID jeans, but window displays that support a fight for equality. In this case, marriage equality.Now that the State of New York has made same-sex marriage legal, the windows take on new significance, particularly at this time of the year. June is when people across the U.S. and around the world celebrate gay rights.
Posted By: Enrique "Quique" Atienza, VP, Retail & Operations, Levi's® Brand |
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Jun 20 2011
For Firefighters, a Little Help
My first thought when I heard about the wildfire now burning in Eastern Arizona was how much I wanted to help fight the blaze. Fighting a huge wildfire like the Wallow fire used to be my “day job.” Now, I work in the legal department at Levi Strauss & Co., but I still feel a strong connection to those firefighters on the front lines.That connection is why I was heartened to hear that my company is donating 200 pairs of Levi’s® jeans and Dockers® pants to firefighters as part of a larger product donation to wildfire victims.
Posted By: Eric Mueller, Director, LS&Co. Global Anti-Counterfeiting |
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Jun 16 2011
A Look Back...and Ahead
I’m a lucky guy.When I joined the Levi’s® brand back in 1979, I had no idea of the adventure ahead. I started as a product manager in my native Australia, and I write now as the president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.It’s been quite a ride, one on which I look back with tremendous pride.
Posted By: John Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Levi Strauss & Co. |
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