Day: 31 August 2023

Consumers to cut back Christmas spending due to cost-of-living crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Almost two-thirds of UK adults will be cutting back their Christmas spending this year due to the cost-of-living crisis. This is according to a new survey of 2000 UK adults, commissioned by the IPA and carried out by Opinium. The IPA Insight report, Christmas amidst the Crunch 2, reveals that 64% of all UK adults will be cutting back their spending versus last year, due to the ongoing pressures of the cost of living. This figure is particularly pronounced for the younger generations aged 18-24 years old, with 82% planning…

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CAP – Pricing advice that is just the ticket!

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Pricing advice that is just the ticket! I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Whether you’re advertising tickets to your own events or acting as a secondary ticket provider, you’ll need to ensure that the price is accurate and that any additional fees are presented correctly and clearly. How do I do this, I hear you ask? …

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Indigenous Pacific leaders call on countries to support ban on deep sea mining

Stuart Mitchell

Video projections featuring civil society leaders from the Pacific region calling for a halt to deep sea mining were seen throughout the weekend in Mexico City, Mexico, Toronto, Canada, Dover, UK, and Kingston, Jamaica. Greenpeace organisations created these videos while working with these leaders at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston to share Indigenous perspectives about the impacts the industry would have on their region’s cultural heritage, food security and livelihoods. “The story of our creation begins in the ocean in the deep seas. Our role as humanity is to create…

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BT Group to launch Electric Vehicle charging pilots

Stuart Mitchell

BT Group has announced that its start-up and Digital incubation team, Etc., will, over the next two years, conduct technical and commercial pilots to convert or upgrade its street cabinets for electric vehicle charging units. The pilots will provide critical insight into the viability to scale EV charging to more locations across its estate.  The cabinets are currently used for providing copper-based broadband and phone services, and will be decommissioned as the ambitious nationwide upgrade to full fibre progresses. The first phase of the EV charging pilots, open to Openreach…

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Dove’s new reforestation project to restore nature’s real beauty

Stuart Mitchell

In partnership with the Rimba Collective, Dove will help protect and restore 123,000 acres of rainforest in Southeast Asia – an area 8x the size of Manhattan over five years. For years, Dove, one of the biggest brands in our business, has acted on consumer demands for transparency, sustainability and purpose, setting out to reduce its impact on the natural world. Dove moved to 100% recycled bottles in the US and Europe in 2019; it’s committed to a 50% reduction in virgin plastic by 2025;* has launched refillable and concentrated…

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