Day: 6 November 2022

Hubbub and Starbucks® unveil winners of over £1m fund to trial solutions to reduce single-use food and beverage packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub and Starbucks have announced the winners of the Bring It Back Fund, created to fund innovative new solutions and systems for sustainable packaging in the food and beverage industry. Following a competitive application process which launched in May, the Bring It Back Fund has increased to £1.4 million to ensure six innovative reuse solutions can be piloted across the UK with the first project launching in the next few months. Each pilot project will tackle a different way to test and learn how to shift people’s habits…

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Misalignment of sales and marketing reduces revenue according to new report

Stuart Mitchell

Sales enablement platform, Highspot, launches its new report titled European State of Sales and Marketing Alignment 2022. The whitepaper identifies trends and issues that impact alignment between sales and marketing teams, by looking at key confidence indicators and barriers to success.  The report, which surveyed those in sales and marketing roles in the UK, France and Germany, finds alignment, communication and collaboration between sales and marketing teams are crucial to sales success and bottom line ROI. In fact, according to the research, the vast majority (71%) of sales and marketing…

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Givaudan and LanzaTech announce their collaboration on developing new sustainable fragrance ingredients from renewable carbon

Stuart Mitchell

Givaudan, a global industry leader in the world of scent and beauty, and LanzaTech NZ, Inc., an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company have announced a collaboration for the development of sustainable fragrance ingredients from renewable carbon. Renewable carbon is carbon that avoids or substitutes the use of additional fossil carbon. Examples include carbon from CO2 and carbon recycling. Multiple commercial facilities are already licensing LanzaTech’s technology, converting various waste carbon sources to ethanol, including the conversion of industrial emissions in China, thanks to the power of industrial biology…

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Barclaycard Payments and Sky Media Partnership Celebrates Small Businesses Transforming Local Communities and Events 

Stuart Mitchell

On Saturday 1st October, a bespoke TV campaign, created in partnership between Sky Media and credit card and payment services provider, Barclaycard Payments, aired for the first time during Saturday’s Premier League coverage. The greatly anticipated West Ham v Wolves game saw 954k viewers at its peak at 6pm as West Ham scored the first goal of the game.  The bespoke campaign features UK-based small business Piglet’s Pantry. The advertisement is the second installment in a three-part series celebrating the transformational journeys of small businesses – and often the unsung heroes – behind some…

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World’s biggest letter writing marathon will help 10 victims of human rights abuses get justice

Stuart Mitchell

Millions of letters, emails and texts will be sent to support people who have been jailed and attacked during Amnesty’s annual Write for Rights campaign People across the UK can join to help 10 individuals facing abuses, including: An artist from Russia, arrested for protesting the invasion of Ukraine A hairdresser and single mother from Cameroon, imprisoned for attending her first peaceful protest A human rights lawyer from Hong Kong, jailed for commemorating the Tiananmen Square anniversary on social media Amnesty International has launched its flagship annual letter-writing campaign, Write for Rights…

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