Simon Mainwaring

We First provides consulting and training to help companies tell the story of their good work in ways that build their business

Simon Mainwaring

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By the time of its US IPO in 2021, brothers Rickard and Bjorn Öste’s Oatly Group AB had already accrued a significant international fanbase for more than a quarter of a century since its founding in Malmo, Sweden. Food scientist Rickard Öste had invented at Lund University a now patented process of making liquid oats as a […]

By the time of its US IPO in 2021, brothers Rickard and Bjorn Öste’s Oatly Group AB had already accrued a significant international fanbase for more than a quarter of a century since its founding in Malmo, Sweden. Food scientist Rickard Öste had invented at Lund University a now patented process of making liquid oats as a …

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Outside of Dallas-Fort Worth, a privately-held next-generation indoor agriculture company is changing the way we farm our produce and feed our communities. Texas may be big, but Eden Green Technology aims to increase accessibility, affordability, and nutrition, globally. The company offers cities and retailers, “turnkey solutions that can help them establish food safety and food independence”—in short, sustainable, …

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People make changes all the time. That’s the nature of humanity. But a lot of those changes happen only on the surface, according to fads and our unrelenting quest to fit in. But to positively transform people from within, argues GT’s Living Foods’ founder and CEO, GT Dave, you need functional, living nutrition—and enlightenment. “We begin within.” Raised in …

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“Our business depends on the health of our oceans.” Thai Union Group (TUG)’s mantra perfectly sums up the emerging form of capitalism – “We First Capitalism” – necessary to sustain all the shareholders in our collective future even as we grow our businesses. That means that wherever we sit, we can lead through increasing collaboration, always aiming …

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According to the Vegan Society, it’s more likely for a person to go to – and win at – a casino, than to be vegan. But if you ask Yonatan Golan, CEO and co-founder (with his two brothers) of Brevel, a six-year-old Israeli food tech company, that’s not for lack of interest in veganism. “Many more people are …

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In 2020 and 2021, as the twin crisis of COVID-19 and the recession overtook the world, some experts predicted that up to one out of three nonprofits were at risk of folding. But not because of donor apathy. In fact, the pandemic dramatically increased people’s consciousness of major challenges. With that awareness developed a new mandate: We must all do …

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