Day: 5 October 2024

Sodexo and UCC raise £85k for Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation through Aspretto coffee sales

Stuart Mitchell

Sodexo, in partnership with coffee supplier UCC, has raised £85,000 for the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation. This substantial contribution has been generated through the sale of Sodexo’s Aspretto coffee brand across its sites. Since 2014, Sodexo and UCC have worked together to support the Foundation’s mission to tackle food security. For every kilogram of Aspretto coffee purchased by Sodexo from UCC, a donation of 0.13p is made to the Foundation.  These donations support national and local charities fighting food insecurity and its root causes, as well as empowering women, who…

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Open call for new members of GRI governance bodies

Stuart Mitchell

A global recruitment call is underway to appoint new members to three GRI governance bodies that underpin the continued success of GRI – the provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards.  With a total of eight vacancies, GRI is looking for experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds to apply to join the following governance bodies, from 1 January 2025:  Supervisory Board: the body responsible for overseeing GRI’s long-term priorities and strategy. Candidates to fill one vacancy are being sought, with applicants particularly encouraged from the ASEAN and Latin…

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Stewart Investors Highlights Global Companies at the Forefront of Developing Sustainable Food Systems

Stuart Mitchell

Food systems are among the largest contributors of global CO2 emissions and, accordingly, offer one of the greatest sources of potential abatement, according to Stewart Investors, an active, long-only equity specialist and global leader in sustainable investing. Stewart Investors, which holds numerous food systems-related companies across its worldwide, emerging markets and regional strategies, has identified five companies that it believes are innovators in food systems sustainability and have provided competitive long-term returns to investors. “Food systems represent nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the pressure on ecosystems…

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Global advertising spend to top $1trn for first time this year

Stuart Mitchell

A new study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is on course to grow 10.5% this year to a total of $1.07trn – the best performance in six years if the post-Covid recovery of 2021 (+27.9% year-on-year) is disregarded.  Ad spend growth is also anticipated next year (+7.2%) and in 2026 (+7.0%), culminating in a global ad market worth $1.23trn. Global ad investment has more than doubled over the last decade, and has grown 2.8x faster than global economic output since 2014. Just…

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Clive Myrie to headline CIPR’s 2024 Annual Conference

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has announced Clive Myrie, multi award-winning journalist, newsreader, and presenter, as the headline speaker for its Annual Conference on 21 November 2024 at London’s County Hall. The Institute has also announced Juergen Maier CBE, former Chief Executive of Siemens UK and newly appointed chair of Great British Energy, will address the conference. Myrie will bring his unique perspective on global politics and media to the line-up of speakers. With extensive experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, Washington D.C and Europe, and…

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