Month: February 2019

Scotiabank invests $15 million to help provide young people in the GTA a strong start

Stuart Mitchell

United Way Greater Toronto announced a $15-million investment from Scotiabank to help ensure that young people in the GTA have the opportunities and resources they need to have a bright future. The funds – the largest corporate commitment in United Way Greater Toronto’s history – will be invested in a network of agencies across Peel, Toronto and York that support more than 245,000 young people and their families, each year. Scotiabank’s $15-million investment over five years will focus on supporting young people in each of the critical stages of development:…

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UK Youth Parliament launch ‘Action Against Knife Crime’

Stuart Mitchell

UK Youth Parliament have launched their campaign, ‘Action Against Knife Crime’, which calls for a significant reduction in knife crime across the UK. 1.1 million young people declared knife crime a top concern in the UK Youth Parliament’s Make Your Mark ballot. The organisation will also reignite its long-standing campaign for a lower voting age of 16. The anti-knife crime campaign aims to highlight the prevalence of knife crime, which claimed the lives of 37 children and young people in England & Wales last year. ‘Action Against Knife Crime’, which…

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Major Consumer Brands Join Forces to Highlight Women’s Leadership Across Global Supply Chains for International Women’s Day

Stuart Mitchell

The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., Nordstrom, UGG®, and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. are proud to come together to raise the profile of women leaders across global supply chains through the “This Is A Leader” campaign. Launching today, this campaign celebrates exemplary female leadership from supplier factories to corporate offices, and invites employees, partners, consumers, and other stakeholders to join the conversation and share what leadership means to them. This celebration of women leaders is coordinated by Business for Social Responsibility’s (BSR) HERproject, a collaboration that empowers low-income women across global supply chains…

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Unilever acquires Graze

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever today announced it has acquired the holding company of graze, the UK’s leading healthy snacking brand. Founded in 2008, graze’s purpose is to put excitement into healthy snacking, providing a range of snacking nuts, seeds, trail mixes and snack bars, with no artificial ingredients. Having started with a snack box delivery service, graze is now a multichannel brand, with products available via retail stores, ecommerce and direct to consumer. With a broad portfolio of healthy snack products, graze accelerates Unilever’s presence in the fast-growing healthy snacking and out of…

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ASA/CAP – New online training on the rules for advertising health and medicines

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post which talks called New online training on the rules for advertising health and medicines.  I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Today we launched a new eLearning module: Health and Medicines Advertising. The course provides training on advertising medicines, medical devices and products, complimentary therapies and food supplements. The module also goes into detail on the evidence…

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