If food waste were a country, only China and the US would emit more CO2. In Norway, supermarket chain Meny has saved 18 percent of food waste costs on fresh meat by using smart barcodes.
When Lasse Skjønning Andersen opened a small porridge restaurant at street level just over 10 years ago, he never imagined what a resounding success he was launching. Today, he has created a new vision of what porridge can be and has opened several restaurants. Now he's heading into retail with big visions, but also a need for help.
A bioanalyst in the biochemistry department at Aalborg University Hospital got so tired of his job one night that he decided to revolutionise it. Eight years later, hands have been replaced by robotic arms - a new invention that saves man-hours, increases job satisfaction and improves working conditions.
The New Loop is on a roll. A vision of a new deposit system for takeaway packaging has generated so much attention that it's almost hard to keep up. The future will bring coffee cups, pizza boxes and all sorts of other takeaway packaging ready to be recycled. And barcodes will be essential on that journey.
Over the past five years, Danish skincare company Australian Bodycare has grown by more than 50% per year. This success is largely due to a digital initiative that has today secured export breakthroughs in several markets.
In the textile industry, the tentative steps are taken towards increased digitization in the form of RFID marking, and at the Danish clothing brand Samsøe Samsøe, the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) throughout the business has clearly lead to savings in the long run.
It doesn't have to be difficult to push your products into the digital marketplaces, but it's the alpha and omega that you focus on proper labeling of your products and ultimately the user experience.
When the covid-19 vaccines became available, the Irish health authorities focused on ensuring that the roll-out was a safe, efficient and traceable process - from receipt of the vaccines to the actual vaccination.
Entrepreneur Katrine Lee Larsen has in just a few years created a sustainable success. She transforms fishnets into swimwear and expands the constant concept. Copenhagen Cartel has gone from being a small personal project to a growing company that is going global. And this despite the many critics who turned up their noses at the idea a few years ago.
