Day: 23 June 2021

SSE announces £2bn boost for net zero

Stuart Mitchell

SSE plans to invest around £2bn largely in low carbon power projects this year and is weighing up further investments as the UK prepares to host COP26. The company has created more than 1,000 jobs during the pandemic and expects to build on this number in 2021-22. This investment is part of a £7.5bn investment plan to 2025 including building the world’s biggest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank, Scotland’s largest at Seagreen and up to £2.8bn to be invested (by 2026) in connecting up huge swathes of new renewable…

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COVID-19 boosts startups in the PR industry with more than 50 agency launches: Wadds Inc. Report

Stuart Mitchell

More than fifty new PR agencies have been founded in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic according to a report published today by Wadds Inc. It provides insights into the market and clear direction and inspiration for anyone thinking of starting their own agency.  The COVID-19 PR Agency Startup report explores why such a large number of agencies have been started in such a relatively short period of time. It includes a list of startup agencies and characterises them by proposition location, funding and the date they were founded.  The lockdown created…

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Vattenfall’s Annual and Sustainability Report 2020: “Climate progress. It’s happening.”

Stuart Mitchell

Vattenfall’s Annual and Sustainability Report 2020 has been published. The report describes a year marked by a faster pace in the energy transition despite a tough and exceptional market situation. For Vattenfall the trend has been clear. That we talk about climate progress is no coincidence. “I feel secure that Vattenfall’s strategic direction – to enable fossil-free living within one generation – is right. This is not our sustainability strategy, it is our business strategy. And it is sustainable,” says Vattenfall’s CEO and President Anna Borg in her statement. The…

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Industry bodies call to protect employee mental wellbeing and creativity

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA is one of a coalition of industry bodies including Crown Commercial Service, NABS, the Alliance of Independent Agencies, the Advertising Association, ISBA and Social & Local CIC who are calling on the industry to pledge commitment to mental wellbeing and creativity by signing up to the Brilliant Creative Minds Code of Conduct. The Brilliant Creative Minds Code of Conduct has been launched to stamp out behaviours that impact employee wellbeing and diminish creativity in the advertising and communications industry. The Code was developed by the industry coalition through…

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New Order and Warner Music release new ‘World in Motion’ merchandise to mark the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, raising money for FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

Warner Music and New Order are releasing new ‘World in Motion’ merchandise marking the delayed 2020 European Football Championship to raise money for FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste. For every limited edition T-Shirt sold £5 will be donated to Fareshare. The funds raised will help the charity take good quality food that would otherwise have been wasted and redistribute it to charities and community groups supporting people at risk of going hungry across the UK. “Love’s got the World in Motion is the perfect lyric…

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