Day: 1 October 2019

McDonald’s UK and Ireland to trial ‘swapping out’ Happy Meal toy to reduce plastic

Stuart Mitchell

McDonald’s UK and Ireland has announced it will be offering more choice on the Happy Meal, giving customers the option to ‘swap out’ the Happy Meal toy. Next month, in selected restaurants, the business will provide customers with the option to swap the toy for a fruit bag, and in early 2020 will also run a trial of always offering customers a choice between a book and a toy. The tests come as a the business continues on its journey to reduce plastic – following the recent roll-out of paper…

Read More

PRCA and Women in PR join BBC’s 50:50 Project

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA and Women in PR have together joined the BBC’s 50:50 Project, with a commitment to improving the balance of representation for genders in content, while providing improved representation to minority groups. The PRCA and Women in PR have launched their own challenge to the PR industry to follow suit. Launched by the BBC, the 50:50 Project is the biggest collective action on increasing women’s representation in BBC content that there’s ever been. More than 500 teams including several thousand journalists and content-makers at the BBC are involved across…

Read More

UNESCO launches Futures of Education global initiative at United Nations General Assembly

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO, launched the Futures of Education initiative to reimagine how knowledge and learning can shape the futures of humanity in a context of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precarity during a high level event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 25 September. The initiative aims to reconsider how knowledge and learning can contribute to the common good of humanity, said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. Speaking of UNESCO’s leadership role in education, Ms Azoulay said “Our deeply humanist DNA cannot let us reduce education to a technical or…

Read More

Hormel Foods Announces the Creation and Launch of Plant-forward Meat Alternative HAPPY LITTLE PLANTS™ Brand at Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference

Stuart Mitchell

During its annual presentation at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston, Hormel Foods Corporation, a global branded food company, announced the launch of the Happy Little Plants™ brand, a new plant-forward, protein portfolio created as part of the company’s first project under its Cultivated Foods umbrella. “Hormel Foods has one of the most admired brand portfolios in the industry, led by our legacy of industry-leading innovation,” said Jim Splinter, group vice president of corporate strategy at Hormel Foods. ”We are continuing to build an organization that has the…

Read More

Feed Our Kids. Fuel Our Future. Albertsons Companies and Albertsons Companies Foundation Begin Sixth-Annual Hunger Is Campaign to Raise Money for Breakfast Programs for Kids.

Stuart Mitchell

After raising $30.2 million since 2014 to transform the lives of 200,000 children in need, Albertsons Companies and Albertsons Companies Foundation are once again teaming up with their customers across the country to help make sure every kid starts the day with a healthy breakfast. Through the end of September, Albertsons Cos. stores will raise money through Hunger Is to battle childhood hunger. Shoppers at Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Star Market, Tom Thumb, Randalls, ACME, and other Albertsons Cos. stores can donate at checkout to this important cause. All…

Read More