Day: 28 April 2023

Henley Business School Team Wins Global Marketing Competition To Be Named ‘Marketers Of The Future’

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced 007 Girls, the student team from Henley Business School, are the winners of its international student marketing competition, The Pitch. This year’s competition was sponsored by WeAre8, a social media app that aims to make a positive impact on people and the planet every day by sharing ad revenue with citizens, creators, and charity and impact partners. Entrants were challenged to explore ways WeAre8 can scale up and show that social media can be a kinder, better place – looking at growing…

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WFW advises Navigator on ‘women in leadership’ linked loan

Stuart Mitchell

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Navigator Holdings (“Navigator”) on a US$200m loan agreed with a syndicate of lenders, led by ABN AMRO Bank and Nordea and including SEB and BNPP, for the financing of ten vessels. Highlighting the ever-increasing importance of the sector’s focus on achieving its ESG goals, the loan agreement notably included a sustainability-linked margin adjustment with not only a KPI linked to fleet environmental criteria, but a second KPI linked to the number of women in leadership roles at Navigator, one of the first KPIs…

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17 Innovators Highlight Investment to Solve Global Water Challenges

Stuart Mitchell

Seventeen organizations have joined forces to support the United Nations (UN) Water Action Agenda, pledging to invest $11 billion in water innovation over the next five years. The collective commitment was announced at an event organized by water technology company Xylem and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, convened during the UN 2023 Water Conference. The pledges will be included in the Water Action Agenda, a collection of all water-related commitments to accelerate progress on UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 targeting Water and Sanitation. Executives from Xylem, Veolia, XPV, Hydraloop International,…

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CarbonCapture Inc. to Supply Microsoft Carbon Removal Credits Based on Direct Air Capture Technology

Stuart Mitchell

CarbonCapture Inc. (CarbonCapture), a U.S. climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) systems based on a groundbreaking modular open systems architecture, today announced an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) (Microsoft) to provide engineered carbon removal credits. “We’re thrilled to help Microsoft move toward its commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove all of its historic CO2 emissions by 2050,” said Adrian Corless, CEO and CTO, CarbonCapture, Inc. “Validation of CarbonCapture’s scalable approach to DAC from a forward-thinking company like Microsoft is an important signal…

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Study reveals more than half of Brits don’t want to go back to the office as UK marks three years since lockdown

Stuart Mitchell

More than half of UK workers have rejected the idea of working in an office again, research conducted to mark the third anniversary of the UK entering Covid-19 lockdown has revealed.  The statistic emerged from a UK-wide national survey commissioned by global asynchronous video interview platform Willo to gauge how working habits in the UK have changed since the first lockdown was introduced to combat the spread of Covid-19 on March 23, 2020.   Some 56% of people in the UK said lockdown had made them unlikely to consider working from…

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