10:00-12:40, November 25
Fashion & Textiles, Food & Beverage, Beauty & Personal Care — One Shared Question: How Is the Circular Economy Rewriting the Growth Logic of Consumer Brands?
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The consumer goods industry is reaching a pivotal turning point. From textiles to food & beverage, beauty & personal care, and household essentials, consumer-goods circularity is moving toward solutions that are deliverable, profitable, and scalable. This conference will explore how product innovation can put sustainability into practice, strengthen consumer trust, and address other critical issues.
Agenda
10:00-10:20 2026TrendSights: The driving force of sustainability in the consumer goods industry
• How consumer environmental awareness is evolving, and how consumers choose and use sustainable consumer goods
• The relevance of ESG to the food, beverage, personal care, home care, packaging, and foodservice industries
* Speaker: Elyn Gao, Business Development Director, GlobalData
10:20–10:40 Yuyue Home Textile: Build Cross-Scenario Solution for Textile Circularity
Yuyue Home Textile will share how it builds user-centric, cross-scenario circular textile application solutions that add value to recycled textiles, build lasting brand equity, and create wins for all stakeholders.
* Speaker: Kevin Liu, Vice President, Yuyue Home Textile
10:40-11:10 Panel | Closing the Loop: Global Perspectives on Textile Circularity — From Source Design to Second Life
Across the textile value chain, each link has grown its own answer to circularity in its own market — from circular-by-design products, to brands rebuilt around reuse, to collection networks that keep garments in motion. Bringing together frontline voices from diverse markets, this panel explores what comes next for textile circularity.
* Panelists:
Manal Fathy Saleh, CEO, Egyptian Clothing Bank
Sidikat Folami, Founder and Executive Director, Mateen Lander (Nigeria); Convener, Fashion and Textile Recycling & Upcycling Alliance (FTRUA), Nigeria
11:10-11:30 Turning Circular Design into a Brand Asset
Vitasoy ties packaging innovation to consumer touchpoints, turning circular practices into long-term brand value.
*Speaker: Tao Gu, Sustainability Director, Vitasoy
11:30–11:50 How Can Packaging Capabilities Power the Sustainable Upgrade of Beauty & Personal Care Products?
Behind every consumer brand's circularity pledge lies packaging reduction and optimization. Henkel has built packaging innovation into its brands, breaking circularity targets down to SKU-level packaging specifications and making sustainability a real attribute of the products on the shelf.
*Speaker: Sophia Su, Packaging CoE APAC, Henkal (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
11:50-12:10 How Can Seasoning Packaging Be Made Recyclable?
Seasoning packaging has long relied on aluminum-foil laminates and dark plastics — a widely recognized challenge for the recycling industry. Totole makes “easy to recycle” an upstream standard, turning circularity from an end-of-pipe action into a product specification at the source.
*Speaker: Totole
12:10-12:40 Panel | Brands, Platforms, and Recycling Systems: Who Catches a Product's Second Life?
• From the consumer's perspective, what untapped market opportunities remain in the circular economy?
• A three-way dialogue among brands, platforms, and recycling systems on how circularity can evolve from a one-off campaign into a long-running mechanism.
*Panelists:
Fang Ying, Deputy General Manager of Cooperation & Development and ESG Program Lead, Alibaba Local Services
Kao
Shiseido
ATRenew (Aihuishou)