CG: How ESG Investing Has Changed The Consumer Goods Landscape

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Motley Fool analyst Maria Gallagher joins Emily Flippen to talk about some of the most pervasive trends in consumer goods, including how millennials have shifted their consumption patterns to better align with "Environmental, Social, and Governance" practices.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:11.0	I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphle. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today
0:16.0	we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods.
0:19.0	Wild-C-C-C-Chert Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in.
0:27.2	This podcast is airing on Tuesday March 3rd and I'm your host Emily Flippin.
0:31.6	Today is going to be a fun one in the consumer good space,
0:35.0	not just because we're covering a really interesting topic,
0:38.0	but also because I'm joined in studio
0:40.0	by a mutleyful analyst Maria Gallagher,
0:42.0	who is going to talk to us about one of the biggest trends that we've seen
0:46.0	in consumer goods.
0:47.0	ESG.
0:48.0	Maria, thanks for joining.
0:50.0	Thanks for having me.
0:51.0	Yeah, ESG. I know you spent a lot of your time looking at it and it's wonderful because I think it's an area
0:56.4	that a lot of fools here don't really cover and it should be covered more, but it's been in the spotlight
1:02.4	a lot for consumers, for what feels like a really
1:06.4	long time now.
1:07.9	It still makes many people confused though because there really is no good definition for what ESG means.
1:14.0	When I think about why it's kind of topical right now, I get brought back to the Davos
1:18.4	2020 summit when it seemed like the idea of businesses, quote,
1:23.0	maximizing profits was starting to give way
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