Fareshare Announces New CEO

The UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste, Fareshare, has announced that George Wright, Commercial Director, Food at Marks & Spencer, has been appointed as its new CEO. George will join the charity this summer, bringing over 30 years of retail and food experience, including commercial roles at Tesco, John Lewis, and Coles in Australia. Having worked at Marks & Spencer for almost four years, George has led the Food Trading, Supply Chain and Logistics teams through COVID, Brexit and a number of successful Christmases. George’s appointment follows CEO…

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Lloyds Banking Group redefines agency model with new creative and strategic parners

Lloyds Banking Group has appointed Ogilvy Experience as its new 121 and digital marketing creative partner, to build deeply personalised customer communications experiences and further support the Group’s purpose to help Britain Prosper.  Ogilvy Experience won the competitive pitch – managed by Ingenuity – with their talented team, who bring a wealth of knowledge and innovative capabilities. The agency will officially start working as Lloyds Banking Group’s dedicated creative experience partner in April, working across the portfolio of brands. Chris Davis-Coward, Head of Customer Engagement at Lloyds Banking Group, said:…

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Tesco completes most significant roll-out of environmental standards in UK with LEAF Marque certification for all fruit and veg growers

Tesco has announced the completion of its landmark roll-out of LEAF Marque certification, with all of its UK fruit and veg growers now certified to robust environmental standards, working towards whole-farm, continuous improvement in areas including climate resilience, biodiversity, soil health, greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation. LEAF Marque encourages growers to continuously improve upon key sustainability metrics on their farm. By benchmarking growers’ progress against practices related to nature, climate, society, and economy, the LEAF Marque Standard identifies target areas and helps producers drive further improvements. Tesco has now started…

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New Investor Collaboration Will Engage the Seafood Sector on Key Nature Risks and Impacts

A coalition of five conservation and biodiversity-focused organizations has launched an initiative that will leverage the power of investors to engage seafood companies on critical nature and biodiversity related impacts and risks. The group announced the effort during a discussion held at The Economist World Ocean Summit today. With the goal to eliminate overfishing, illegality and habitat conversion from seafood value chains, this new initiative will convene a group of like-minded investors to conduct targeted engagement with key seafood companies. WWF, the FAIRR Coller Initiative, UNEP FI’s Sustainable Blue Economy…

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Sainsbury’s first UK retailer to vacuum pack all beef mince saving 450 tonnes of plastic each year

Sainsbury’s has announced it is swapping traditional, plastic tray packaging for a new vacuum-packed alternative across its beef mince range, saving 450 tonnes of plastic annually. A supermarket-first, the new packaging will result in a minimum 55% reduction in plastic per product. The change will be across all Sainsbury’s beef mince products, currently retailing from as little as £1.99 for 500g. Customers will be able to purchase beef mince in the revamped packaging both in-store and online from today. The beef mince products will be vacuum-packed for freshness by removing…

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