Patrice Louvet believes business dragging their feet on sustainability will end up in hot water—in more ways than one. “We have a responsibility to leave the world a better place,” the Ralph Lauren Corporation CEO told attendees at the National Retail Federation Big Show Monday. The nearly two years since the coronavirus pandemic first gripped the economy have unequivocally answered a question Louvet recalled debating with NRF president Matt Shay in the outbreak's earliest days: will the crisis speed up or sideline the industry's momentum toward sustainability and good corporate citizenship.
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