Month: May 2023

B Lab Global welcomes standards expert Janine Guillot to Board of Directors

Stuart Mitchell

The B Lab Global Board of Directors is pleased to announce Janine Guillot as its newest member, effective April 2023.   Guillot’s appointment comes at a pivotal moment for B Lab Global as it works to scale and mobilize the B Corp movement and its more than 6,000 Certified B Corporations, 10,000 benefit corporations, and 200,000 impact management tool users. Janine’s notable career in financial services and leadership at major standards-setters the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Value Reporting Foundation (VRF), and most recently the IFRS Foundation will be critical in…

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WFA names first-ever co-chairs for Planet Pledge

Stuart Mitchell

Asahi and Mars leaders will lead efforts to boost action and knowledge of sustainability within marketing organisations around the world. AB InBev, Nissan and Schneider Electric join signatories. Dale Green, Global Director, Purpose Marketing at Mars, and Preeti Srivastav, Group Sustainability Director at Asahi Europe & International, have been named as the first ever co-chairs of the WFA’s Planet Pledge. Their brief will be to drive uptake for the CMO-led framework and encourage marketers around the world to push sustainable growth strategies and behaviour change both internally and externally. Since…

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Innovation and sustainability vital for hospitality despite cost-of-living crisis – say industry leaders in the latest podcast

Stuart Mitchell

Industry leaders from wholesale, foodservice, catering and hospitality came together to discuss the cost-of-living crisis and its impact on the hospitality industry at the ‘Talking at the Sustainability Bites: Cost of Living Crisis – Foodservice & Hospitality in association with Nestlé Professional’ podcast released today. The podcast hosted by Amy Fetzer, Footprint Head of Research & Analysis, welcomed Katya Simmons, Managing Director for Nestlé Professional UK&I, Morag Freathy, Managing Director of B&I at Compass, Naz Haq, Head of Corporate Procurement at Bidfood UK, and Nick Attfield, Director of Hospitality &…

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ICO Sandbox publishes its exit report following work with ‘Good With’ – a startup aiming to give young adults fairer access to financial products and services

Stuart Mitchell

The ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox aims to support organisations who are creating products and services which utilise personal data in innovative and safe ways. Good With, a fintech and edtech start-up, entered the Sandbox as part of its work to develop mobile applications which will help educate young adults on personal finance. It plans to develop a Financial Virtual Assistant (FVA) app which will combine various personal data sources to produce a ‘financial readiness score’. Good With hopes this readiness score will help to provide the FVA’s users (18-24-year-olds), who might…

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OAAA & Geopath Announce 2023 OOH Local Case Study Award Winners

Stuart Mitchell

The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) and Geopath announced the winners of the 8th Annual Local Case Study Awards at the 2023 OAAA/Geopath OOH Media Conference in Nashville, TN, this week. Since 2016, OAAA and Geopath have honored OOH campaigns that inspire consumers to make a quantifiable impact on local businesses. The Local Case Study Awards are proof that OOH is consistently being used as a strategic media element, and this year’s highly competitive contest generated over 90 entries. The 2023 contest winners, representing a broad array…

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