Month: July 2018

Pizza Express and Macmillan Cancer Team Up to Raise Money

Stuart Mitchell

What could be better than a delicious pizza on a long summer’s evening? How about a pizza that helps improve the lives of people living with cancer too? It might sound too good to be true but now you can change lives with every slice. PizzaExpress is donating a discretionary 25p from the sale of every Padana pizza to Macmillan Cancer Support. The vegetarian Padana is a perfect combination of goat’s cheese, mozzarella, tomato, caramelised onions, spinach, red onions and garlic oil. Light and delicious, it’s the ideal choice for…

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PepsiCo Expands Safe Water Access to nearly 16 Million People, Achieving More than 60 Percent of Company’s Performance with Purpose 2025 Goal

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo today announced it has expanded access to safe water to nearly 16 million people in some of the world’s most water-stressed areas, including 10 million people in India, since it launched its Performance with Purpose vision in 2006. The company has invested more than $40 million in safe water access solutions with strategic partners as part of its goal to support a total of 25 million people with safe water access by 2025. “At PepsiCo, we believe water is a fundamental human right and that access to safe water…

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£20 million investment to help tackle loneliness

Stuart Mitchell

Charities and community groups will get £20 million of new funding to help isolated people and those suffering from loneliness, Prime Minister Theresa May has said. The funding will go to support and expand programmes that bring people together and are proving to benefit communities. This includes a new £11 million ‘Building Connections Fund’ that will be distributed to successful applicants that can help bring communities together. This will help make the most of local spaces, opening them up for community use, as well as help businesses and local services…

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Costa Sunglasses® Partners With Bureo To Recycle Discarded Fishing Nets Into High-Performance Sunglass Frames

Stuart Mitchell

Costa Sunglasses, the leader in world-class performance sunglasses and the initiator of the growing Kick Plastic campaign, is helping to bring positive solutions to the growing issue of ocean plastic pollution through its new Untangled Collection—a collection of frames made entirely from recycled fishing nets. The brand is partnering with Bureo, the pioneer in recycled fishnet products, to turn discarded fishing nets into quality sunglass frames. Identified as the most harmful form of ocean plastic, discarded fishing nets and gear account for ten percent of ocean plastic pollution, which grows…

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Compassion’s Awards Celebrate Continual Drive in Farm Animal Welfare Across the Globe

Stuart Mitchell

The winds of change continue to blow across the world’s most influential food companies as more and more recognise the need to take farm animal welfare seriously.  Over the last couple of years, driven by consumer demand, investor considerations and market forces, commitments on cage-free eggs have spread from the US, to Europe and the UK, crossing all sectors and laying the foundations for the end of the cage age, while progress has also been made on the living conditions of broiler chickens.  Compassion in World Farming celebrated those companies…

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