Day: 6 September 2021

Kingfisher Announces New Planet and Community Responsible Business Commitments

Stuart Mitchell

Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement retailer which includes B&Q and Screwfix, has  announced a set of key new responsible business commitments and milestones. These are designed to help customers create greener, healthier homes, to fight to fix bad housing and to work to address climate change and inequality. The details are reported in Kingfisher’s latest Responsible Business Report, ‘Our Home, Our World’, which was published on the 15 June and shows that the business has made significant progress with its responsible business priorities during the 2020/21 year. Key highlights…

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Edison International Launches 2020 Sustainability Report, Publishes Sustainable Financing Framework in Alignment With Clean Energy Strategy

Stuart Mitchell

Edison International has published its Sustainability Report for 2020, detailing progress toward meeting long-term sustainability goals, successes and challenges faced in executing its clean energy strategy, its commitment and approach to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion and other disclosures and metrics of interest to investors, regulators, customers and other stakeholders. The company has also published its Sustainable Financing Framework, outlining its commitment to sustainability and its intention to continue aligning capital-raising activities with sustainability principles. “Our framework underscores the strong link between our strategy and financing activities,” said Pedro J. Pizarro, president…

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Tesco customers help provide more than three million meals through Buy One to Help a Child campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco customers taking part in a new campaign to provide meals to children living in food insecurity have enabled thousands of meals to be donated. Over the last three weeks, Tesco has given a donation for every piece of fruit and vegetable purchased across all its stores, to provide food that its partner FareShare will redistribute to children’s charities. Sales of stacks of strawberries, a bounty of bananas and container-loads of cucumbers purchased by Tesco customers mean that over 5000 charities across the country will now be given food to…

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Amazon Continues “Right Now Needs Fund” with Additional $1 Million Donation to Help Close the Gap in Basic-Needs Support for Students and Families in Northern Virginia

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced it will continue its commitment to the Right Now Needs Fund in Northern Virginia for the upcoming academic year with an additional $1 million investment to support students attending Arlington Public Schools, Alexandria City Public Schools, and Fairfax County Public Schools. The Fund, in partnership with Communities In Schools NOVA, helps remove barriers to learning and works to meet the basic needs of thousands of schoolchildren from underserved communities. Launched in October 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Amazon Right Now Needs Fund in Northern Virginia was…

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Asda invests in digital first food-for-now start up Lean Kitchen Network

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it has made an equity investment in Lean Kitchen Network (LKN) ‒ one of the UK’s most innovative digital brand creation and food service businesses, marking a new step in the grocer’s partnership strategy and further broadening its food service offer for customers. The supermarket has invested in LKN alongside hospitality expert investor Edition Capital, preceding a larger Series A round of funding in the digital food specialist later this year. LKN – whose portfolio includes viral virtual burger chain, Twisted London – has secured Asda’s backing…

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