Today in Global Small Business: Top of the Morning To You on St. Patrick's Day 2025!

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Happy St. Patrick's Day 2025! 🍀💚
• Could the global shift cause car insurance prices to rise?
• Quote of the week:  “You make your own luck🍀.” – Ernest Hemingway
• Students on Embassy Day learn about global opportunities.
• Global trade set for growth despite U.S. policy shifts, reveals DHL Trade Atlas 2025.
• Readying your company’s supply chain in a time of tariff wars.

Fabletics Is Transforming Supply Chain to Support Global Expansion

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Activewear fashion brand Fabletics operates more than 100 stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe, with expansion expected into Mexico in 2025.  They are in the process of transforming supply chain to support global expansion.

Fabletics is deploying the Blue Yonder SaaS-based supply chain planning suite, including solutions for demand planning, allocation & replenishmen, merchandise financial planning, and size scaling, to help support expansion of its global footprint. 

Read more to learn how Fabletics is transforming supply chain to support global expansion.

How to Build a Successful Global Business Around Sustainable Fashion Principles (wegginar® 9/18/24)

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Here's what you can expect to learn from the upcoming wegginar®, 9/18/24, with presenter Alina Lundin, CEO and Founder of Miharo, on "How to Build a Successful Global Business Around Sustainable Fashion Principles:"

• Understanding Sustainable Fashion Principles
• Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
• Navigating Challenges in Ethical Manufacturing
• Marketing and Selling Sustainable Products Globally
• Impact of Sustainable Practices on Brand Reputation and Growth

About Alina

Alina Lundin serves as the CEO and founder of Miharo, a sustainable premium swimwear brand established in 2022. Holding a Commercial Business Diploma, she brings a wealth of strategic business acumen to the company. Her expertise in business organization and project management, coupled with her start-up experience, has been vital to her ventures.

Nui Swim, Alina’s first adventure as an entrepreneur, was created from her ambition to encourage individuals to celebrate their unique identities, offering products that quickly found a market niche.

Now, Alina’s proven insights, passion for fashion, and dedicated leadership are instrumental to the growth and success of Miharo.

Date:           Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Time:          11 AM CT

Location:   Virtual – you must register to attend:  

                       https://bit.ly/3AdsyRB  

Cost:           Free of charge (thanks to wegg's sponsors as noted on the graphic).

Register:     https://bit.ly/3AdsyRB

How to Make the Biggest Impact Based on Cultural Norms

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Adeola Adewusi credits his “cultural dexterity” to living and working on five continents. 

The senior HR director, Americas at Stanley Black & Decker told HR Brew it has served him well as a people professional because he “can understand the dynamic of a particular culture and what’s important to them.” 

With Stanley Black & Decker, Adewusi oversees about 2,500 employees along the supply chain in nearly a dozen countries. All of Adewusi’s work on HR policies and programs and how he leads is informed by his cultural competencies, and it’s important to him that HR professionals don’t forget the human connections that make the function so special.

Today in Global Small Business: Indiana, the New Startup Capital

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Indiana, the land of startups.  Yes, you read that right.
• Tech workers want to stay home, especially in San Francisco.
• Governments of the United States of America and the 17 partner economies on the occasion of the Supply Chain Ministerial Forum says, "The shocks to global supply chains from pandemics, wars and conflicts, extreme climate impacts, and natural disasters have put in stark relief the urgent need to further strengthen supply chains, to work to reduce and end near-term disruptions, and to build long-term resilience.  This is a global challenge we intend to approach resolutely and cooperatively."
• Quote of the week:  "My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all." – Abraham Lincoln
• A world that needs trade and aid.
• How SMEs can implement sustainability measures.

Can't Stop Talking About It: Global Supply Chain Woes

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Global small business owners and chief executive officers of big companies can’t stop talking about supply chain, and for good reason — logistical challenges are threatening the very existence of some smaller companies that just got past the worst effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The soaring price of ocean freight has put pressure on most shippers of cargo, but especially on the smaller players that don’t have the cash on hand or scale to combat rapidly rising costs, counter delays or avoid transportation snafus.

Trouble lies ahead.  Make or break time for many.

Not Many Are Left Unscathed From Global Supply Chain Snags, Especially Global Small Businesses

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With much of the world’s supply chain still tied in knots due to lingering effects from the global pandemic, many small business owners are finding they can’t buy the products and supplies they need, period. For smaller retailers in particular, many of which rely on the holiday season for the bulk of their sales, months of worry could result in a bleak November and December.

According to the U.S. Census, last month 45 percent of all small businesses reported some level of supplier delays, a steady increase from just under 40 percent of what they had reported earlier this summer. Such disruptions are widespread, including almost two-thirds of manufacturers and more than half of companies in the food service and hospitality sectors. 

Not many are left unscathed from global supply chain snags, especially global small businesses.