Elvis & Kresse Wesling CBE, founders of Elvis & Kresse, on the power of circular businesses

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Elvis & Kresse is a superb example of a circular business, making luxury accessories from recycled materials (mainly fire hoses). Since 2005, they’ve saved 300 tonnes of decommissioned ones from landfill and donated 50% of profits. Discover how this incredible company puts the environment, ethics and community first — to great effect.

WHY YOU WILL ENJOY THIS EPISODE

You’ll learn more about why many believe circular businesses like this one are the future
Discover Elvis and Kresse’s passion for breaking the rules, leading with ethics and seeing just how far this can take you
Hear how leading with generosity, kindness and purpose can be a winning formula for success

Please take a moment to protect little ears, this episode contains adult language.

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0:00.0	Elvis and Cressy do you know this dynamic duo because you should and you're about to meet them
0:07.7	They're the couple behind their namesake the company Elvis and Cressy. Now not only are they, oh my goodness,
0:16.8	breathing new life into reuse materials by turning them into luxury accessories, but they're championing the environmental
0:26.3	responsibilities that we all should have. Sustainable manufacturing and leading the way and building community and speaking to them both I just I
0:37.2	literally just stopped in my tracks why don't more of us think in their way?
0:45.2	And we actually dissect that and understand
0:50.0	why we're all herded into certain corners and we become cookie cutters of each other.
0:55.8	You know, and their journey started when they rescued London's discarded fire hoses
1:02.3	and saw beauty and saw opportunity and saw a way of
1:07.6	absolutely slightly changing the world with them and it has evoked so many feelings in me and it's going to do exactly
1:16.7	the same with you. It makes you want to lead the charge. It allows you to glimpse into the future, this way that they think.
1:26.3	And it's certainly not an easy path.
1:29.3	But actually listening to this couple, they give you the confidence to understand what
1:36.2	doing good means and it will blow your socks off and I promise you that this is going to this going to be a conversation that gets
1:45.2	the cogs turning and it will ignite ideas and it will encourage new approaches to all the issues and problems that you maybe have.
1:56.2	So on that note, enjoy.
1:59.7	Bow your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going, you won't. Let your eye. I'll go in.
2:04.0	You won't need to bring your frown.
2:07.0	Hi, I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast,
2:11.0	Conversations of Inspiration.
2:13.4	I founded my first business, not on the high street, at 28,
2:17.6	with a newborn strap to my chest.
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