Month: February 2024

“75 Years of Impact and Influence: People, Places and Moments in Public Relations History” Wins 2023 PR Daily Award

Stuart Mitchell

PRSA is honored to announce that its “75 Years of Impact and Influence: People, Places and Moments in Public Relations History” publication is the 2023 winner of the Ragan PR Daily Award in the Print Publication category. These awards recognize the top PR, marketing and social media campaigns and content worldwide. This marks the fourth award the publication has been recognized with this year, following a Platinum MarCom Award and Gold Excel and Trendy Awards. The 75th anniversary book, published in 2022, showcases the history of the communications profession through the…

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Sainsbury’s makes its greatest standalone plastics removal through mushroom punnets

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s is switching its own-brand mushroom punnets from plastic to cardboard in a move which will save over 775 tonnes of plastic, equivalent to over 52 million pieces of plastic a year. This is the retailer’s biggest ever single plastics removal in its history – equivalent to the weight of 43 full London double decker buses. The change will have rolled out to all 13 own-brand lines including top sellers such as whole baby button, closed cup, organic and chestnut mushrooms by the end of the month, helping customers to…

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PepsiCo announces agriculture accelerator projects to support farmer livelihoods, scale sustainable innovation and accelerate regenerative agriculture across the globe

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo recently announced the third year of its global agriculture program, the Positive Agriculture Outcomes (PAO) Accelerator, by backing eight new innovation projects across nine countries. PepsiCo’s continued investment aims to address some of the most urgent challenges facing agriculture today, while moving the company’s pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) agenda forward. PepsiCo’s PAO Accelerator offers local farming communities co-investment to accelerate diverse and results-driven Positive Agriculture projects, as well as funding for ag-tech start-ups that offer proven products or technology with the potential to scale. This year’s innovations will build resiliency through climate…

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ICAS releases 2022/2023 Global SRO Database and Factbook

Stuart Mitchell

The International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (ICAS) is proud to release the sixth edition of its Global SRO Database and Factbook. Since 2017, ICAS has been collecting  basic facts and figures on existing self-regulatory systems. By bringing more transparency on how SROs operate in the different markets represented in its network, ICAS hopes to contribute to a better understanding of advertising self-regulation by the industry, regulators, and the general public. What information is included? information about the governance of SROs and their funding model; links to the main advertising standards currently in force at…

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EAC urges UK Government to act with urgency to tackle global deforestation

Stuart Mitchell

UK consumption is unsustainable, with the nation’s appetite for commodities including soy, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather putting enormous pressure on forests – the lungs of the world – the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) warns. Forests host 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, support the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people and provide vital ecosystem services to support local and global economies. Deforestation threatens irreplaceable biodiverse habitats and contributes 11% of global carbon emissions. The intensity of UK consumption on the world’s forests – its footprint per tonne of product…

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