Focus area
Focus area 3: Increasing the earning capacity of service providers
Strengthening the business case for resale, repair and other circular services by providing companies and service providers with the insights and tools needed to scale.
Challenge, vision and goal
Service providers for resale, repair and upcycling scale to a limited extent.
Consequence: the sector does not get beyond pilots.
Vision: efficient service providers support brands and retailers in applying higher R-strategies.
Goal: insight into the economic potential of the higher R-strategies.
Approach and recent activities
- Supported various consortia of brands using circular service providers (resale, maintenance, logistics systems) with financial analysis to inform decision-making and effectiveness
Upcoming activities
- Make the knowledge and insights gained more widely accessible
- Develop a blueprint for a quantitative decision-making platform, fed with existing knowledge from the resale and repair projects
- Integration into the offering of trade associations or consultants who help companies apply higher R-strategies using this decision-support software
- Support service providers and their partners in scaling up