Month: May 2021

Tesco makes ambitious new commitments to support healthy, sustainable diets

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has set out new plans to help customers eat more healthily, and to make Tesco the easiest place for customers to shop for affordable, healthy, sustainable food. The supermarket’s plans between now and 2025 will include a major new programme of reformulation to improve the health profile of products; changes to promotions and pricing to remove barriers to buying healthy food; and a further expansion of Tesco’s market-leading plant-based ranges, with new products that will make plant protein even more accessible to families. Progress against these plans will be…

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Hey Girls Releases Film That Is Scientifically Proven To Have You #Seeingred Over Period Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

As part of its ongoing ambition to tackle period poverty in the UK, social enterprise Hey Girls is calling on Brits across the country to SEE RED about the inequality people experience on a monthly basis – and take action. With 1 in 10 young people in Britain currently unable to afford their period (and as many as half of these people turning to newspaper or other means as alternatives), increasing access to period products continues to be extremely important. Further, period poverty surged in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, with a survey by the charity Plan…

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AB InBev 100+ Accelerator partners with The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever for Sustainable Startup Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company and Unilever have joined the Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) 100+ Accelerator to fund and pilot sustainable innovation in supply chains. Launched in 2018, the 100+ Accelerator is a global incubator program that works to solve supply chain challenges across water stewardship, circular economy, sustainable agriculture and climate action. Over the last two years, the program has accelerated 36 companies in 16 countries. The 100+ Accelerator offers size and scale to passionate entrepreneurs to help bring their solutions to market faster. These startups have raised more…

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State of Massachusetts sues Multinational Marketing Firm Publicis Health for Alleged Role in Fueling the Opioid Crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has filed a lawsuit against Publicis Health, LLC, a significant player in the American drug marketing industry, alleging it designed and deployed unfair and deceptive marketing schemes to help Purdue Pharma sell more OxyContin, including in Massachusetts.  In a complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court on the 6 May, AG Healey alleges that from 2010 to 2019, Publicis – a subsidiary of global advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe – partnered with Purdue on dozens of contracts, collecting more than $50 million in exchange for marketing schemes…

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Adoptionplus to create digital tool thanks to Barnardo’s Foundation’s first award

Stuart Mitchell

Adoptionplus has been awarded a grant of £228,690 for an innovative programme working with families with adopted children – the first award from the Barnardo’s Foundation.  Many adopted children in the UK have a history of trauma and loss and supporting their therapeutic needs is vital to their emotional health and wellbeing, and wider future outcomes.   The Department of Education, via the Adoption Support Fund has invested over £175 million in therapeutic provisions since 2015. However, there is currently no national system for measuring which therapeutic interventions are most effective.   Adoptionplus, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnardo’s, will create a new digital data collection and analysis tool called STEP (Supporting Tracking & Evaluating Progress) that will…

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