Day: 24 January 2023

Phoenix Group announces its Standard Life brand as the founding partner for the new Samaritans Training School

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, announces that its Standard Life brand is the founding partner for a new initiative by Samaritans to train more volunteers. The Samaritans Training School is designed to help recruit and train more Samaritans listening volunteers so the charity can be there for more people who need their support.  Standard Life is making a donation which will allow Samaritans, the charity that is there for anyone who is struggling to cope, day and night, 365 days a year, to train approximately…

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Clear Channel UK’s buzzworthy Bee Bus Stops are now in 100 locations across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

From Glasgow to Brighton, Bristol to Sunderland and in between, there are now 100 Living Roof bus shelters in cities across the nation. This notable achievement is just a steppingstone for Clear Channel UK in reaching its overall ambition of 1,000 Living Roofs or 1 in 30 bus shelters nationwide. With a decline in flower-rich grasslands and flying insects in the UK, Living Roofs – also known as ‘Bee Bus Stops’ – address the need for a healthy ecological network to exist across the country as opposed to proposed solutions…

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Arla Foods outlines roadmap to net-zero emissions

Stuart Mitchell

In a first for the UK dairy industry, Arla has launched its Climate Action Roadmap – Towards Carbon Net Zero British Dairy as the cooperative works to provide consumers and retailers with clear information around the future of sustainable dairy production.  The new climate roadmap lays out how Arla will deliver against its 2030 climate targets by taking action to reduce emissions across its entire value chain, encompassing its farms, production sites and logistics. Arla’s scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction target is consistent with changes needed to keep global warming…

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Zynga’s NaturalMotion Launches “Access All Areas” Virtual Studio Promoting Diversity in Games

Stuart Mitchell

Zynga Inc., a wholly-owned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.  and a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced the launch of Access All Areas, an immersive virtual studio offering educational tools and career resources to foster diversity and inclusion in gaming. Inspired by the studios of Zynga’s subsidiary NaturalMotion, the web-based platform that also supports mobile is designed to assist educators, parents, and children – especially those from underrepresented communities in the U.K. “We built Access All Areas in conjunction with partners and experts to increase awareness about…

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Poor internal communication rising at an alarming rate according to senior marketers

Stuart Mitchell

Poor internal communication’ is rising at an alarming rate across the data and marketing industry, with 33% of marketers now stating this is impacting them. It is the challenge with the most significant growth this year (+7%), according to a survey completed by over 300 senior marketing professionals across the UK who judged the DMA Awards 2022. “Poor internal communication continues to become of increasing concern to our industry since the pandemic began. Perhaps this is partly driven by remote working, with less face-to-face meetings and fewer opportunities to ask…

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