Levi's and M&S have launched a shared renewable electricity programme for their suppliers. The useful read for a smaller brand is not that factories need persuading, many were doing this years ago. It is that asking how a factory runs belongs in your normal due diligence.

In 2026, 37 UK recalls hit children's craft sand and sand art kits over asbestos, from Hobbycraft to Asda. Nobody added it on purpose: it is a natural contaminant that routine toy testing never screened for. Here is why it happened, and the practical supply-chain steps that keep it out of your products.