Month: June 2024

Benevity’s 2024 Corporate Goodness Awards Celebrate Groundbreakers in Social Impact

Stuart Mitchell

Benevity Inc., the leading global provider of social impact software, recently announced the winners of its Corporate Goodness Awards, also known as “The Goodies,” acknowledging leading-edge brands for their innovative and inspirational approaches to social impact, employee engagement and corporate philanthropy. The 2024 Goodie Awards were presented to the winners on April 25 in Palm Springs, CA at Benevity Live!, the company’s flagship conference, which brings together more than 700 purpose-driven professionals to share insights and strategies about the future of corporate impact.  This year saw a record-breaking 197 nominations…

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Deloitte’s Women @ Work report shows stagnating progress in and outside the workplace for women

Stuart Mitchell

Now in its fourth year, Deloitte’s Women @ Work: A Global Outlook, a survey of 5,000 women in workplaces across 10 countries, explores some of the critical workplace and societal factors impacting women’s careers. Rising stress levels and poor mental health persist. And fewer women report feeling supported by their employers to balance work responsibilities with their commitments outside of work—a trend that is leading some women to switch employers. Although women working in a hybrid model are reporting better experiences this year than last, many have recently been asked…

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Octopus Energy backs tech disruptor to turbocharge floating offshore wind farms globally

Stuart Mitchell

Floating offshore wind farms across the world are to get cheaper and faster to build following an investment by Octopus Energy’s generation arm into Ocergy. Ocergy is disrupting the floating offshore wind market with an innovative approach to designing and manufacturing floating foundations, drastically reducing the time and cost of building them. Ocergy, which is headquartered in the US and has operations in France, is pioneering a hyper-local supply chain approach, working with local manufacturers and creating green jobs in the areas where the turbines are installed. Further efficiencies are…

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CAP – ‘Free’ claims – Are you free to say what you like?

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: ‘Free’ claims – Are you free to say what you like?  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. Who doesn’t love a freebie? Consumers are always on the lookout for a good deal or two, and there’s no better deal than not having to pay a single penny! But advertisers must be wary of making claims…

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M&S calls on the nation to give their pre-loved clothing a second life with trial of free postal donation service

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer, the UK’s largest clothing retailer is – for the first time – asking the public to donate their unwearable clothing, alongside their wearable clothing, through the trial of a free postal donation service, in partnership with Oxfam. It is estimated that UK homes contain 1.6 billion items of unworn clothing which have the potential to be used, re-used or recycled*. However new research conducted on behalf of M&S**, found that one third of the UK doesn’t know what to do with clothes that cannot be re-worn –…

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