Month: April 2022

Accelerating growth for global green finance

Stuart Mitchell

In the first report of its kind taking stock of green finance over the last decade, TheCityUK, with the support of BNP Paribas, has charted the growth of global green finance as the market has multiplied over a hundredfold from $5.2bn in 2012 to $540.6bn in 2021. The report ‘Green finance: a quantitative assessment of market trends’ used data provided by Refinitiv, an LSEG business, and found that although green finance remains a relatively small part of global financial markets, there has been consistent growth with signs of acceleration in…

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Celebrity Cruises Launches All-Inclusive Campaign Featuring Work By World-Renowned Photographer Annie Leibovitz And Others To Change The Faces In Travel Marketing

Stuart Mitchell

Celebrity Cruises® is launching a bold new initiative to change the meaning of “all-inclusive” in the travel industry.  Recognizing the need to improve the representation of all people who travel in marketing materials, the new-luxury cruise line has created both a new campaign and the world’s first free to use, ‘open source’ travel image library. The campaign and collection – ‘The All-Inclusive Photo Project’ (AIPP) – aims to start a movement, calling on travel companies to help address the lack of diversity in travel marketing imagery. The stunning new images were…

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Ocean Outdoor announces official partnership with Special Olympics GB

Stuart Mitchell

Premium digital out of home (DOOH) media owner Ocean Outdoor has announced a new official partnership with Special Olympics GB. Under the agreement, Ocean Outdoor becomes the only UK media owner to have long term partnerships with all three organisations recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Becoming a unified partner for Team GB, ParalympicsGB and now Special Olympics GB, underlines Ocean’s commitment to upholding the objectives of the Olympic movement and allows for new opportunities to reinforce and highlight the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in particular.…

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Businesses must take a holistic view of diversity to truly embed real change, the McKenzie-Delis Review warns

Stuart Mitchell

While some of the UK’s biggest companies are increasing their focus on workforce diversity and inclusion, many have barely begun to embed real change on areas such as sexual orientation, race and disability, the McKenzie-Delis Review finds. The annual review – conducted in partnership with IPSOS and supported through strategic partner KPMG – is the largest of its kind in the UK with 89 companies participating this year. It measures 10 facets of workplace diversity and inclusion (D&I) beyond gender and ethnicity, helping companies assess sexual orientation, disability, age, religion,…

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Stress Awareness Month prompts Media & Marketing businesses to review their existing polices, as the cost of living increase threatens to compound work-related stress

Stuart Mitchell

As Stress Awareness Month approaches, the latest statistics once again demonstrate how important it is for employers to familiarise themselves with the signs and symptoms of stress, especially as an increase in the cost of living threatens to compound the issues faced by many. With 79% of employed British adults commonly experiencing workplace stress (20% higher than last year), it is an issue that impacts workers across all sectors and occupations, as the latest data shows. According to a recent study, 85% of those working in Media & Marketing confirmed…

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