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Neil Everett

Senior Partner
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Neil is a strong believer in collaboration to achieve long-term sustainability. Clients span fashion, food, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and the technology sector. He leads much of our supply chain work, looking at the conditions under which products are made through to the impacts of the materials they’re made of. Recent work includes: the development of a technology platform and app to support human rights training in the field, setting a CR strategy for a large food retailer, and supporting the development of a community partnership in the fashion supply chain. Before Carnstone, Neil worked in the shipping industry, first in London and then Japan and Hong Kong. He has a BA from Leeds University and an MA the School Of Oriental & African Studies.

Neil is responsible for Carnstone Asia Ltd. He is also a Trustee of Migrant Help.

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  • Media
  • Retail
  • Fashion
  • Forestry
  • Publishing
  • Supermarkets
  • Wholesale & Distribution
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Neil's Insights…

The Book Chain Project: Impact Report 2006-2020 Report

The Book Chain Project: Impact Report 2006-2020

This report summarises the impact achieved by the Book Chain Project over the past 15 years. It traces the history of the Book Chain Project, from three separate tools to one collaborative project building better book supply chains; looks at our reach; outlines our work and impact across the three workstreams; describes our collaborations; and ends with a look at the future.

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The Future of the Printed Book Report

The Future of the Printed Book

In the face of rapidly changing reading habits what does the future hold for printed books? Will they still be around in ten years? And if so, how might they be made?

Our publishing initiative, the Book Chain Project, helps publishers to better understand how, where and from what their books are made. It’s been ten years since the first part of the Project began by gathering data on the tree species used in paper. We wrote this report to reflect on that past decade, to better understand our current reading habits, and finally to gaze into the crystal ball to see what books of the future might look like, and how and where they might be made.

Based on current trends we’ve identified four underlying stories of the book:

  • Digital print: New printing technology is significantly affecting how books are made. It’s allowing print-on-demand, local production, and personalised content, and allowing publishers to revive their archived titles, and take opportunities to trial new authors.
  • Digital conversion: In some cases digital clearly offers benefits over print when we look at connectivity and interactivity. Where the changes are happening, they’re happening quickly.
  • Digital interaction: Print and digital can complement one another in blended approaches where digital interactivity can help to bring print to life.
  • Digital distraction: In our desire to avoid digital overload from the ever-present screens and devices in our lives, are books one of our last remaining bastions of escapism?

We go on to predict three possible futures for the book and ultimately what this means for our future work on the Book Chain Project.

The report’s findings are informed by our desk research, in-depth interviews with the Project’s publishers, and guest presentations from our 2016 seminars in London and New York.

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Still Feeling Stumped? Report

Still Feeling Stumped?

Since March 2013 businesses across Europe have been responding to the EU Timber Regulation; a law prohibiting illegal timber from appearing on the European market. We wanted to gauge the feeling across the retail and manufacturing sectors so, eight months on from the law’s introduction, we conducted a short survey to understand how companies were facing the new requirements. We presented the findings to the Chatham House Illegal Logging Update in February 2014. The results are summarised in our report Still Feeling Stumped?

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Neil's Pro Bono Work…

Migrant Help

Migrant Help

Neil is a trustee of Migrant Help, a charity that provides advice and support for migrant communities across the UK, including specific support for victims of human trafficking in to the workplace. As well as sitting on the board, Neil is also helping the organisation to develop support services for companies that employ migrant workers.

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Neil in our news section…

This bulletin was published on 25 October 2022
ACT has published their 2021 Accountability & Monitoring Report

ACT has published their 2021 Accountability & Monitoring Report

This report is focussed on accountability. For the first time, brands are reporting on the implementation of purchasing practices and then having that implementation be measured against performance indicators.

The report outlines the results of the ACT Commitment Reporting Questionnaire, analysing how well member brands are meeting each of the five ACT Global Purchasing Practices Commitments. The report then compares these results with responses from staff within each ACT member brand and with the perception of manufacturers supplying ACT member brands.

Currently, there is no comparable industry accountability measure.

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  • Neil Everett
  • Alejandro Fiocco
  • Hattie Godber
    • ACT on Living Wages
      • Responsible Supply Chains
      • Performance Management
        • Retail
        • Fashion
This bulletin was published on 25 November 2021
Report on the largest survey on purchasing practices published by ACT

Report on the largest survey on purchasing practices published by ACT

ACT has just published a report on the largest survey ever carried out with suppliers and brand employees on purchasing practices, and we are so proud to have been involved.

With over 1,300 suppliers and 1,800 brand employees taking part, the anonymous survey covers all key garment manufacturing countries and is a hugely important piece of research, marking a significant contribution to understanding the state of play for purchasing practices in the global garment, textile and footwear industry.

The report offers an assessment of the purchasing practices of some of the world’s biggest fashion and retail brands and shows how the brands involved are making good progress against the ACT Commitments. It also shows the need for much greater education and awareness building, within both brand employees and suppliers, to support continued improvement, and highlights the conditions needed to ensure a living wage is paid to workers in the global garment and footwear supply chain.

Carnstone developed the survey platform and analysed and reported on the data gathered, these are the largest surveys into the purchasing practices of major international brands and retailers carried out to date.

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  • Neil Everett
  • Alejandro Fiocco
  • Hattie Godber
  • Alexandra Kunde
    • Responsible Supply Chains
    • Human Rights
      • Fashion
This bulletin was published on 3 August 2021
John Lewis Partnership Better Jobs

John Lewis Partnership Better Jobs

The John Lewis Partnership Better Jobs Programme was designed to support JLP suppliers to build better jobs for the people that make their products.

The Better Jobs Programme consists of two parts: a framework that helps suppliers think about the ways they support, engage and reward their employees, and the World of Work Survey that captures the views of the employees themselves.

2020 was the second year of the programme and 45 suppliers took part, with over 1,800 responses to the World of Work Survey. This means that since inception, 52 suppliers have taken part in the framework and over 2,600 survey responses have been collected.

The programme was also piloted with 15 suppliers in China this year. Those 15 suppliers had an excellent response rate to the survey, with almost 3,000 employees taking part.

We are extremely proud to have supported the John Lewis Partnership with the Better Jobs Programme since the beginning.

To find out some of the key findings from the Better Jobs Programme in both the UK and China this year, please click here.

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