Newly launched pan-industry group RetailersUnited sort of sounds like a high-five among superheroes — and that’s precisely what it is.
The group said retail businesses and fashion industry-related firms have joined forces to save lives and save jobs by creating a centralized platform to source and distribute PPE to those on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis.
Companies Coresight Research, Gerber Technology, Li & Fung, MMG Advisors and Microsoft, as well as advisers from the health-care industry, created RetailersUnited, a new “ecosystem” called Bashi COVID Care, to connect manufacturers, retailers, consumers, health-care organizations and others looking to donate services, materials, goods, time or funds in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The group said it has already received support from MSQ Ventures, CGS, Xcel Brands, Soles4Souls and Kohl’s, among many others, that are helping develop the initiative.
Bashi is a start-up within the Fung Group, which encompasses Li & Fung, Global Brands Group and others, according to RetailersUnited.
Kyle Markley, founder of Bashi, told WWD, “At Bashi, we felt deeply that we needed to help in any way possible to combat this global pandemic. In early March, we launched a design campaign for woven masks, but as COVID-19 continued to impact everyone’s lives, we knew
The group said retail businesses and fashion industry-related firms have joined forces to save lives and save jobs by creating a centralized platform to source and distribute PPE to those on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis.
Companies Coresight Research, Gerber Technology, Li & Fung, MMG Advisors and Microsoft, as well as advisers from the health-care industry, created RetailersUnited, a new “ecosystem” called Bashi COVID Care, to connect manufacturers, retailers, consumers, health-care organizations and others looking to donate services, materials, goods, time or funds in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The group said it has already received support from MSQ Ventures, CGS, Xcel Brands, Soles4Souls and Kohl’s, among many others, that are helping develop the initiative.
Bashi is a start-up within the Fung Group, which encompasses Li & Fung, Global Brands Group and others, according to RetailersUnited.
Kyle Markley, founder of Bashi, told WWD, “At Bashi, we felt deeply that we needed to help in any way possible to combat this global pandemic. In early March, we launched a design campaign for woven masks, but as COVID-19 continued to impact everyone’s lives, we knew
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