Month: May 2021

PRCA launches its first Financial Services & Fintech Group to address challenging comms environment

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has appointed Edelman’s fintech and crypto expert, Martyna Borys CMPRCA, as the Chair of its new Financial Services & Fintech Group. The new Group will provide a platform for experts from across the spectrum of the financial services discipline to come together, share hands-on advice and discover best practice. The Group aims to build on financial services’ traditional corporate heritage while leveraging the growing influence of new market entrants who are quickly reshaping the industry. The launch of the Group coincides with the…

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CECP and Gallup Collaborate to Help Companies Mine How Employees Perceive Corporate Sustainability Efforts

Stuart Mitchell

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) and Gallup, the global advice and analytics firm, announced a strategic collaboration to help companies benchmark and make progress on important metrics related to corporate purpose and sustainability. Through this partnership, Gallup will offer five scientifically validated question items that map to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting standards–the Gallup Sustainability 5 (GS5). Companies can use these items to benchmark internally, track progress through the eyes of their employees, and, if desired, measure themselves against a select set from Gallup’s global database. Gallup Sustainability…

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New Zero Waste Standard Helps Companies Demonstrate Progress in Sustainability Journey

Stuart Mitchell

SCS Global Services (SCS), a global leader in third-party environmental and sustainability certification, auditing, testing, and standards development, today announced the launch of its new Zero Waste Standard. This new global certification standard enables companies to demonstrate the degree to which their waste streams are prevented, reused, or diverted from the landfill. It is robust yet flexible to allow companies to demonstrate incremental improvements, and to stimulate participation based on regional supply chain differences. As companies look to improve their ESG ratings and strengthen their corporate messages and investment profiles,…

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Alliance Develops Shared Diversity and Inclusion Goals

Stuart Mitchell

Intel, Snap Inc., Nasdaq, Dell Technologies and NTT DATA announced a new industry coalition , Alliance for Global Inclusion, and have developed shared diversity and inclusion metrics. These metrics are based on a global survey launched by Intel in 2020 to determine the status of diversity and inclusion progress at 13 major companies. The survey data is available on a new website and forms the coalition’s inclusion index. The index serves as a benchmark to track diversity and inclusion improvements, shares current best practices and highlights opportunities to improve outcomes…

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Product packaging less recyclable in the UK than other countries, Which? reveals

Stuart Mitchell

The packaging of popular branded products is less recyclable in the UK compared with other countries, Which? has found, as research from international consumer groups reveals consumers around the world face barriers to recycling.  Which?, along with eight international consumer groups representing 1.8 billion people, analysed the packaging of 11 global household products, such as Coca-Cola, Nutella hazelnut spread and Whiskas cat food, to reveal if the packaging was recyclable in practice – which means there is an existing collection, sorting and recycling system to allow consumers to actually recycle…

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