Day: 5 May 2023

Clear Channel announces the winners of Clear Channel Compass 2023

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel UK, in collaboration with Jamii, have announced the winners of the second instalment of Clear Channel Compass. The partnership is a long-term initiative designed to empower and support independent Black-owned businesses in the UK through Out of Home advertising. Since its inception in 2021, the success of Clear Channel Compass continues to build with more than 350 applications submitted to the scheme this year. The ten winners include Aaron Wallace, Capital Waste, Elliot Footwear, Impression Beverage/Jamaica Rum Vibes, Little OMO, Pat & Pinky’s, Raise Snacks, Treasure Tress, Slinger…

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Leading Family-Owned Leisure Group joins Zero Carbon Forum to support its net zero journey

Stuart Mitchell

One of the UK’s leading family-owned private Hospitality Companies, Glendola Leisure, is the latest member to join the Zero Carbon Forum as the private hospitality group strives to meet net zero across its UK wide portfolio of hotels, pubs, coffee roasteries, restaurants and a brewery. Founded in 1973 by Peter Salussolia OBE, the Group has 17 venues including several in London such as the award-winning Irish pub, Waxy O’Connor’s, in the West End and the renowned World’s End Pub and Underworld Live Music venue in Camden. The Group’s Scottish portfolio is split between Edinburgh…

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Cerealto Siro Foods Publishes Detailed Policy To Source 100% Cage-Free Eggs Globally By 2025

Stuart Mitchell

The Open Wing Alliance (OWA) announces that Cerealto Siro Foods, a Madrid-based global manufacturer of cookies, cereals, and pasta products, has recommitted to sourcing 100% eggs from cage-free hens worldwide and has publicly shared its implementation plans, including sourcing 10% cage-free eggs by 2023, 50% by 2024, and 100% by 2025. The move comes after a global campaign by OWA, an international coalition working to end the abuse of chickens worldwide. “We applaud Cerealto Siro Foods for upholding its ESG priorities of animal welfare and ethical supply chains and sharing…

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Newcastle-based cultural not-for-profit receives £45K in funding from Big Issue Invest

Stuart Mitchell

Cobalt Too CIC, has received £45K in funding from Big Issue Invest to help refurbish its current premises and expand its offering to local artists by providing further studio space.  The not-for-profit, community interest company was created in 1999, and works to bring people together through creativity and arts by programming high quality culture which is both affordable and accessible, and through offering learning opportunities to the local community. Cobalt aims to support all creative production and champion new and underrepresented culture, ensuring inclusivity is at the heart of the…

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Investment Needs of USD 35 trillion by 2030 for Successful Energy Transition

Stuart Mitchell

The global energy transition is off-track, aggravated by the effects of global crises. Introduced by IRENA’s Director-General Francesco La Camera at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (BETD) today, the World Energy Transitions Outlook 2023 Preview calls for a fundamental course correction in the energy transition. A successful energy transition demands bold, transformative measures reflecting the urgency of the present situation. Investment and comprehensive policies across the globe and all sectors must grow renewables and instigate the structural changes required for the predominantly renewables-based energy transition. The Preview shows that the scale…

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