Day: 21 May 2020

PRCA Launches Global Ethics Council

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA has announced the launch of its Global Ethics Council (PRCA GEC), to uphold and elevate ethical standards in the public relations and communications industry. Its inaugural Chairman is David Gallagher, International President of Omnicom, former Chairman of the PRCA, and former President of ICCO. The PRCA GEC is composed of a small number of the world’s most respected practitioners, alongside two external expert members. Its launch reflects the PRCA’s status as the world’s largest PR professional body, and the organisation’s actions in raising ethical standards in the industry…

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Unilever in the UK publishes 2019 Gender Pay Report

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever in the UK has today published its gender pay gap results for the third year in line with the government’s Gender Pay Gap regulations introduced in April 2017*. As required by government regulation for gender pay reporting, in addition to reporting data for Unilever’s total UK workforce, more detailed figures from the company’s two main employing entities in the UK have also been published. These are Unilever UK Limited, representing its UK specific operations, including factories, and Unilever UK Central Resources Limited, representing its global functions based in the…

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Shell updates investors on plans to become net-zero by 2050

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) has updated investors on plans to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner (covering scope one, two and three emissions). The detailed steps, were outlined at Shell’s Responsible Investment Annual Briefing, included: An ambition to be net zero on all the emissions from the manufacture of all our products (scope one and two) by 2050 at the latest; Accelerating Shell’s Net Carbon Footprint ambition to be in step with society’s aim to limit the average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius in…

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Coca-Cola supports FareShare to get food and drinks to those in need during the Coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The Coca-Cola Company, its bottling partner Coca-Cola European Partners and The Coca-Cola Foundation is supporting FareShare to provide the equivalent of nearly 2 million healthy meals and one million drinks as part of their global commitment to donate $120million to support COVID-19 relief efforts around the world. The support will help FareShare distribute food and drinks to vulnerable people, via its network of more than 11,000 charities and community groups across the UK, as well as scale up the emergency response to safely deliver meals to people facing financial hardship,…

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The 2.6 Challenge sets new record for charities

Stuart Mitchell

A record total of 3,961 charities got behind The 2.6 Challenge, making the campaign to help save the UK’s charities the biggest collective fundraising effort ever in the UK – and it is believed in the world – and the total raised has now passed the £10 million mark. On Sunday 26 April, thousands of runners and spectators should have been turning the capital’s streets into a colourful carnival at the 40th edition of the London Marathon. Instead, across the UK, people of all ages were running, cycling, hopping, skipping,…

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