Month: August 2024

XPO Logistics launches Female Driver Academy to encourage more women to join the industry

Stuart Mitchell

XPO, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, has created a new Female Driver Academy to help attract more women into the industry. The female drivers who join the Academy will undertake a 12 to 16-week programme using the XPO Logistics internal driver training team to develop and sharpen their skills. The goal is to create a corps of highly skilled and professional female drivers who are intimately familiar with the company’s customers and products. The first candidate assessment days were held at the beginning…

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The Ad Council Announces Google’s Tara Walpert Levy as Board Chair

Stuart Mitchell

Tara Walpert Levy, VP of YouTube across the Americas, has been named Chair of the Ad Council’s Board of Directors. She succeeds Diego Scotti, EVP & General Manager of Consumer Group and Global Marketing & Communications at PayPal. Rita Ferro, President Global Advertising of The Walt Disney Company and Kirk McDonald, CEO of Sundial Media Group currently serve as Vice Chairs of the Ad Council’s Board of Directors. For over 80 years, the Ad Council has led the communications industry’s efforts to drive meaningful positive change. Its Board of Directors…

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Sky Media launches ‘Footprint Fund’ spin-off to support sustainable SMEs

Stuart Mitchell

Sky Media, the advertising arm of Sky, has announced that its award-winning Sky Zero Footprint Fund is launching an additional initiative dedicated to SME and local businesses called ‘Local Heroes’. Launched in 2021, The Sky Zero Footprint Fund initiative was created to inspire positive behaviour change and help start-ups and established brands accelerate their sustainable initiatives nationally, using the power of TV. The new fund brings the same promise to local and regional businesses. The ‘Sky Zero Footprint Fund Local Heroes’ will be awarding nine businesses from different regions of…

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Regenerative flour could save over three million tonnes of carbon by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

3.6 million tonnes of carbon could be saved by 2030 if every operator across the UK hospitality and brewing sector switched to regenerative flour and barley, according to new data from not-for-profit Zero Carbon Forum and the UK’s leading regenerative farming and food business, Wildfarmed. That’s the same as cancelling more than 5.5 million one-way flights between London and New York. What’s the problem?  35% of the UK’s emissions come from the food and drink sector. Zero Carbon Forum’s benchmark data found that within that, flour and barley production is…

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Ecobat Releases 2nd Annual Sustainability Report To Lead Responsible Business Practices within the Global Energy Storage Industry

Stuart Mitchell

Strengthening its position as the world leader in battery recycling and lead production, Ecobat has released its second annual Sustainability Report, which tracks its commitment to integrate sustainability throughout the company, its processes and the products it produces. The report arrives as the energy storage industry works to embrace greater responsibility and reduce the environmental impacts from lead, polypropylene, and lithium-ion batteries, the global demand for which is estimated to increase by approximately 30% annually through 2030. The report, covering the period of January through December 2023, demonstrates Ecobat’s efforts…

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