Day: 25 October 2024

Green and pleasant land – Tesco partners with Forestry England to transform woodland landscape in Somerset

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and Forestry England have launched an exciting new partnership which will see the retailer contribute towards restoring nature across a beautiful landscape in Neroche, Somerset. The partnership will aim to increase the diversity and abundance of wildlife across the area, which is made up of a mixture of woodland, pasture and heathland.  Tesco will support Forestry England to transform the landscape, helping it to become a sanctuary for wildlife to thrive and expand. Neroche and the wider Blackdown Hills region plays host to a number of Tesco’s beef, dairy…

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HRC Foundation Announces Record Participation in Upcoming 2025 Corporate Equality Index, Docks Scores of Seven Companies in Current Ranking Following Their Pullback From Workplace Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced that seven companies – Ford, Molson Coors, Tractor Supply Co., John Deere, Lowe’s, Harley-Davidson and Brown-Forman – will face significant deductions on their current Corporate Equality Index scores in response to their reflexive, anti-consumer and anti-employee decision to abandon previously-stated commitments to the values of inclusion and responsible corporate citizenship. These handful of rollbacks come as the HRC Foundation is seeing record participation of more than 1,400 companies in the 2025 Corporate Equality Index, due to be released in early 2025. HRC President Kelley…

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IFC issues 2.6 billion Swedish krona green bond to promote blue finance in emerging markets

Stuart Mitchell

IFC issued a green bond designed to promote ocean-friendly projects and improve access to clean water and sanitation in emerging markets. The five-year, 2.6 billion Swedish krona bond—equivalent to $243 million—is the second green bond that IFC has issued promoting IFC’s blue finance investments, following a 2 billion Norwegian krone green bond, issued in March this year in conjunction with World Water Day. The bond offers investors the opportunity to join in financing IFC investments that support the blue economy and protect clean water resources. It was underwritten by SEB.…

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New IPA TouchPoints report reveals core changes to commercial media landscape

Stuart Mitchell

While the patterns by which the Great British public are consuming commercial media have remained relatively unchanged over time, the methods and channels by which this content is being consumed have changed drastically in line with evolving technology. This is according to the latest (2024) in the series of the IPA Making Sense – The commercial media landscape report. The report draws on IPA TouchPoints 2024 data to lift the lid on how commercial media consumption has shifted over the last nine years, including through lockdowns, by analysing time spent, share…

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Charity Retail Association launches its next year 3 year strategic plan

Stuart Mitchell

The Charity Retail Association (CRA), the UK’s trade association for charity shops, has launched its new strategic plan describing its planned activities over the next three years. CRA’s new statement of purpose is: “To lead and support the sector, inspiring everyone to be involved in charity retail and to understand its social, environmental and economic value in a changing world.” Against a complex and challenging background for retail as a whole, and charity retail in particular, and after extensive consultation with both internal and external stakeholders, the following items have…

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