Day: 19 March 2021

bp supplying free fuel for emergency services vehicles and free meals ‎for frontline health workers

Stuart Mitchell

bp is launching two initiatives to support essential services and frontline workers as they ‎continue to contend with the coronavirus pandemic, working closely with our partners and ‎suppliers.‎‎ ‎ First, bp is reintroducing its programme supplying fuel free of charge to UK emergency ‎services vehicles. bp ran a similar programme last year in which it supplied more than 10 ‎million litres of fuel free to emergency service vehicles across the UK. ‎ Under the programme, emergency services vehicles issued with either a bp Plus or Allstar ‎fuel card will be…

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Total Has Successfully Issued Hybrid Bonds To Finance Its Development Strategy in Renewables

Stuart Mitchell

Total SE has successfully issued perpetual subordinated bonds in the amount of €3 billion: €1.5 billion at 1.625% coupon for the tranche with a 7 year first call date €1.5 billion at 2.125% coupon for the tranche with a 12 year first call date The proceeds from the bonds will be used to finance its development strategy, mainly acquisitions, in renewables, in particular €1.7 billion for the acquisition of a 20% interest in Adani Green Energy Limited. With a weighted average coupon of 1.875%, this issuance that was very well…

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Sting in Down’s Syndrome Charity Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

To celebrate World Down Syndrome Day (Sunday 21 March 2021) CoorDown launches their global awareness campaign “The Hiring Chain”. Their message to employers all over the world is that hiring a person with Down syndrome not only changes the life of the person concerned, but can trigger a virtuous circle of new opportunities for everyone. Sting, the award-winning artist, performs the original song “The Hiring Chain”, which is the focus of the campaign video. The punchy, joyful lyrics come to life on screen and bear witness to the “virtuous” chain…

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Love Home Swap Launches #distrAKTion Challenge To Raise Money For Albert Kennedy Trust

Stuart Mitchell

In celebration of the UK’s LGBTQ+ History Month, a month that aims to excite, inform, and celebrate everything about the diverse LGBTQ+ community, employees at the global home-swapping platform Love Home Swap are raising money for the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) by encouraging others to take part in the #distrAKTion challenge. The #distrAKTion challenge is split into 3 simple steps – participate, nominate and donate! Simply share a photo of yourself doing your hobby, nominate 5 friends to share their hobby, then donate £5 to akt via the charity fundraising page.   From bird-spotting to learning a new language or playing an instrument…

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New AI and machine learning training to close industry skills gap

Stuart Mitchell

The Institute of Data & Marketing (IDM) can announce a new partnership with the Southampton Data Science Academy (SDSA) to offer a new AI and Machine Learning for Marketers course delivered online. The data-driven marketing industry has been on a path to unlock the value of data to improve the customer experience and to better understand, attract, and retain customers. In the next two decades, AI presents an opportunity to accelerate and enhance the ways organisations harness data, spot trends more effectively, and shift towards predictive rather than historical data…

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