Community, a boutique in downtown Athens owned and founded by Sanni Baumgaertner, has introduced a special feature into her business techniques: sustainability, an element that she believes is rarely found elsewhere. “I think the mix of the focus on sustainability and the local economy and local supply chain seems to be unique to me,” Baumgaertner…
In 1936, in the small Spanish town of Busdongo de Arbás, a boy named Amancio Ortega was born into poverty. His father worked as a railway worker, and his mother was a housemaid. The family’s earnings were barely enough to survive, and from an early age, Amancio understood what it meant to struggle. At just…
A company boss in China set up 252 tables for his daughter’s grand wedding, then refused to pay the 520,000-yuan (US$72,000) bill. A pork vendor, surnamed Wang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province said the boss of a local company, surnamed Qian, commissioned him to prepare food for his daughter’s wedding banquet in April. Wang said…
A seafood vendor in eastern China has garnered widespread praise on mainland social media for draining the water from tanks of live marine products he was transporting to extinguish a car fire. As a result of his actions, he suffered a total loss of the seafood he intended to sell. The incident occurred on an…