Month: January 2022

Haldor Topsoe signs €45 million funding deal with European Investment Bank to drive green energy transition

Stuart Mitchell

In line with its strategy to become the global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies by 2024, Danish technology provider Haldor Topsoe has signed a €45 million loan agreement with the EIB to support its R&D investments in that domain. The EIB financing is supported under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the main pillar of the European Commission’s Investment Plan for Europe. The European funding highlights the company’s commitment to developing new technologies to support a wide range of energy intensive industries in their transition towards a low-carbon…

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€47 million fund to protect intellectual property of EU SMEs in their COVID-19 recovery and green and digital transitions

Stuart Mitchell

The Commission and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has launched the new EU SME Fund, which offers vouchers for EU-based SMEs to help them protect their intellectual property (IP) rights. This is the second EU SME Fund aiming at supporting SMEs in the COVID-19 recovery and green and digital transitions for the next three years (2022-2024). Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: “Small is beautiful, but if SMEs want to grow or take the lead in new technologies, they need to protect their inventions…

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CAP – Stay up to data: four key tips on using personal data for marketing

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Stay up to data: four key tips on using personal data for marketing. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. On 26 April 2006 the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day to be celebrated each year on 28 January, the date on which the Council of Europe’s data protection convention, known as…

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Asda reveals only a quarter of adults eat their five-a-day

Stuart Mitchell

As more than a third of Brits vow to eat healthier this month, Asda reveals that almost three quarters (73 per cent) aren’t eating the recommended five-a-day. Around seven in 10 (67 per cent) claim healthy eating is a challenge – with one in 10 admitting they find it a constant struggle. The data highlights a number of reasons that Brits find it difficult to get their five-a-day. Some lack confidence around cooking from scratch, with 29 per cent admitting it’s because they don’t know how, a third (33 per…

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PepsiCo Beverages North America Announces $1.5 Million Partnership with Water Replenishment District of Southern California to Help Protect the State’s Most Used Basins

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA) announced today a $1.5 million grant to the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD), the largest groundwater agency in the state of California, to help manage and protect local groundwater resources to more than four million residents. “Partnering with the Water Replenishment District of Southern California will not only help enable long-term, sustainable water security for local communities who depend on an accessible and reliable supply of clean, safe water,” said Johannes Evenblij, President of West Division at PepsiCo Beverages North America, “but it…

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