Day: 20 July 2019

Waitrose & Partners celebrates Organic September 2019

Stuart Mitchell

Celebrate Organic September with Waitrose Duchy Organic, the UK’s largest own label organic brand with a range of over 300 organic products including the oaten biscuit, preserves, golden ale and bacon.  As pioneers of organic food in supermarkets, Waitrose & Partners was entrusted with the Duchy Organic brand in 2009.  Since then, sales of the range have exceeded £1 billion generating a contribution to The Prince of Wales Charitable Fund for donation to good causes of over £23.5 million.  As well as helping good causes the brand is also pioneering…

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Triodos Bank UK aims to grow ethical banking with new agency roster

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank, the challenger bank supported by the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Bruce Parry, Sir Mark Rylance and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, has appointed a new roster of agencies to boost growth in the UK market. The Kite Factory will manage media planning and buying, joining creative agency Good Eggs, Greenhouse PR and market research agency Ragdoll Research. Triodos has launched a suite of fresh creative, which champions its core ‘Follow Your Heart, Use Your Head: Triodos Bank’ brand message. This is being rolled out across digital and other channels. It follows…

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PRCA launches Reginald Watts Prize for Insight

Stuart Mitchell

The award, which launched in 2016, recognises the legacy of Reginald Watts FPRCA, former PRCA Chairman, CIPR President, and UK CEO of Burson Marsteller. The annual prize commemorates his thought leadership, writing, and forethought. The competition will see young participants challenged to write thought-provoking essays on the PR and communications industry. This year’s question is:‘How is today the best or worst of times for public relations and communications?’ Anyone aged 25 or under may enter an essay on the chosen question, and each essay may be up to 1,000 words…

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Magnetic Tape Alert Project supported by IFAP

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Preservation launches an initiative to alert on the risk of losing access to audiovisual documents. Today’s knowledge of the linguistic and cultural diversity of humanity is widely based on magnetic tape recordings produced over the past 60 years. Magnetic audio and video tape formats are now obsolete, replay equipment in working condition is disappearing rapidly and the supply and service of spare parts is fading. As a result, the routine transfer of magnetic tape recordings is likely to cease around…

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The National CASA Association is increasing awareness about the nation’s most vulnerable children

Stuart Mitchell

The National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association announced the launch of a national brand awareness campaign. Though more than 260,000 children have a CASA volunteer advocating on their behalf in court, many more still need one. In conjunction with the launch of the new campaign, the organization will also now be known as the National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem (CASA/GAL) Association for Children. This change reflects terminology used to describe advocates in different parts of the country and will ensure that programs are recognized for their affiliation…

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