Day: 1 April 2022

Just Eat launches ‘Waste less’ chip portion trial to reduce food waste

Stuart Mitchell

A new study, the Food Waste Race, undertaken by Just Eat and environmental charity Hubbub and published ahead of Food Waste Action Week, has found that chips are the most wasted takeaway food. With 72% of the study’s participants saying they had leftover chips after eating their takeaway meals, Just Eat is launching a trial with a group of restaurant partners on its platform to give customers the option of a smaller chip portion size. From March, customers buying from a select number of Just Eat restaurants will be able…

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Human Rights Campaign Refuses Money from Disney Until Meaningful Action is Taken to Combat Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” Bill

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer civil rights organization — responded to a statement by Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, at Disney’s quarterly shareholder meeting. His statement was the company’s first public statement of opposition to Florida’s House Bill 1557 or the Don’t Say Gay or Trans bill. This legislation would censor teachers from talking about LGBTQ+ issues or people, preventing all students from experiencing inclusive classrooms. After remaining silent as the bill made its way through the…

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IFC, WEF Strengthen Global Partnership to Address Challenges Facing Private Sector Development

Stuart Mitchell

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have announced an enhanced global partnership to tackle the most pressing challenges facing private sector development. The pandemic demonstrated the power of global coordination and multi-stakeholder action to unlock solutions to global challenges such as climate change, fragility and inequality. Working closely together, IFC and the WEF will maximize public and private sector collaboration to achieve the goals of sustainable development and shared prosperity. This partnership builds on a unified vision of collaboration across government, civil society and the private sector…

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Unilever to set new benchmark for Healthy Nutrition

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has announced that it will be the first global Foods company to publicly report the performance of its product portfolio against at least six different government-endorsed Nutrient Profile Models (NPM) as well as its own Highest Nutritional Standards (HNS). Unilever will publish the assessment on an annual basis both globally and for 16 key strategic markets and will report its performance both by volume of product and by sales revenue. Its first report will be published by October 2022. The move comes following extensive, constructive engagement with ShareAction and…

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CAP – Make sure you ‘Crypto’ the line with your ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Make sure you ‘Crypto’ the line with your ads. 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. Cryptoassets are increasing in popularity and so we are seeing lots more advertising in this area. If you are advertising these types of products, it is important to be familiar with the Code rules. The ASA has recently issued a statement…

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