In this episode Deidre Guy talks about the Corporate and Supplier experience in the Supplier Diversity landscape with Lori Benson from EY, and Kathy Cheng from alfonsjuniorhouse.
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"We want to be a Voice for Makers Around the World."
Kathy Cheng leads Canadian apparel supplier alfonsjuniorhouse. In this Episode, Kathy lays out for Denise Taschereau and Karie Cowden the ways her journey in the family business takes marginalized communities into consideration and the how their approach to apparel manufacturing is meant to have far reaching impacts.
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alfonsjuniorhouse and Preloved have teamed up to turn something old into a brand new collection, using unexpected materials that had a very finite shelf life.After Toronto hosted the Pan Am Games in 2015, the city found itself with hundreds of leftover street pole banners. This isn’t a new problem for cities that host international sporting events; on average, these events create over 50 tonnes of plastic waste. While steps are being made to reduce environmental waste from sporting events, banners and other signage are still single-use items. When the opportunity arose to create something useful and beautiful out of the Pan Am banners, while celebrating the legacy of the Games for the city of Toronto, alfonsjuniorhouse and...
The alfonsjuniorhouse team joins the world in expressing our deep concern and compassion for the people of Ukraine. We ask you to join us in raising your voices and standing with Ukraine. If, like us, you have been searching for a way to help, today we are announcing that we will be crowd fundraising for the Red Cross Norway Ukraine Relief Fund. Until March 18, 10% from every online sale made at www.alfonsjuniorhouse.com will be donated to this fund, with the Government of Norway matching it dollar for dollar. Learn more about this program here: https://www.redcross.ca/about-us/media-news/news-releases/government-of-canada-pledges-to-match-donations-for-ukraine We are also launching an internal fundraising campaign in our Toronto factory, and we will match the total amount raised to make an additional donation to...
Our President & Founder, Kathy Cheng, was featured in the August, 2021 issue of the Promotional Products Business publication!
"All these companies invested in me. They invested in us as a diverse supplier, so then I can continue to give back." - Kathy Cheng
Read more here: https://www.supplypro.ca/digital-archive/february-2022/ (Pages 10-13)