Day: 1 April 2024

£11.5m bioinnovation boost set to transform UK manufacturing

Stuart Mitchell

UKRI is backing 21 cross-sector collaborations designed to spark innovation, commercialisation and growth in UK sustainable biomanufacturing. When it comes to manufacturing, the UK is one of the biggest players on the world stage. Spanning a wide variety of sub-sectors, the almost three million strong manufacturing workforce generates a staggering 16.68% of the UK’s gross domestic product. Needless to say, the manufacturing sector is critical to economy and society alike. But it comes at a cost. An environmental cost. Because this mammoth sector produces 14% of all UK carbon emissions,…

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Asda updates on Gender Pay

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has recently published its 2023 Gender Pay figures, in line with the requirement for all large companies to report annually. In a report submitted to the Government’s Gender Pay website, the supermarket confirmed the following: The mean pay difference between all male and female colleagues is 6.6% (2022: 7.6%) The median pay difference between all male and female colleagues is 5.0% (2022: 4.7%) A 0% median pay gap for hourly paid retail store colleagues who make up 84% of Asda’s total workforce. Asda’s gender pay figures remain significantly lower…

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Octopus Energy and Salzgitter Group partner to slash steel emissions with the power of the sun

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy’s generation arm and Salzgitter Group, one of Germany’s leading steel and technology groups, are joining forces to radically decarbonise steel production in Germany using the power of the sun. The agreement will see Octopus – which manages a €7bn portfolio of green energy projects – supply Salzgitter with 126,000 MWh of clean electricity per year from the Schiebsdorf solar farm in Brandenburg. The deal between the two companies supports Salzgitter’s pioneering low CO2 steelmaking programme. This aims to reduce carbon emissions of Germany’s steelmaking sector, currently responsible for…

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L’Oréal CDMO takes top prize at Global Marketer of the Year

Stuart Mitchell

Asmita Dubey, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer (CDMO) at L’Oréal, has been named as the 2023 WFA Global Marketer of the Year. She was one of five shortlisted candidates and topped the combined public and expert jury vote. Asmita has been at the company since 2013, originally joining as CMO for L’Oréal China before taking on the same role for the whole of APAC in 2016. She returned to the company’s Paris headquarters in 2017 and became CDMO in April 2021. L’Oréal has a strong track record of using the…

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Ceres welcomes new roadmap from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to help state achieve ambitious climate goals

Stuart Mitchell

Alli Gold Roberts, senior director, state policy, at Ceres, welcomed the release of the Colorado Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap 2.0. Gov. Jared Polis rolled out the updated plan, which lays out an all-of-government approach to meet the state’s climate goals.   “Colorado’s updated Pollution Reduction Roadmap capitalizes on the nationwide boom in clean energy investment and will help the state maximize the opportunities of historic federal climate investments. We support the state in continuing to build on this roadmap to deliver on the state’s climate promises with strong, bold policy…

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