Month: October 2024

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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UNESCO Fosters Dialogue on Gender Equality in Sports, Arts, and Culture at World Women’s Forum

Stuart Mitchell

The UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia organized a thematic session on Gender Equality in Sports, Arts, and Culture within the framework of the World Women’s Forum, held on 22-23 August 2024 in Mongolia. With over 100 participants, the session brought together a diverse array of voices to address the persistent challenges and emerging opportunities for gender equality across these sectors. The session featured opening remarks by Ms. Munkhsoyol Baatarjav, Member of Parliament from Mongolia, and a video message from Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of UNESCO Regional Office for East…

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Daniel Craig gives birthday gift to the RNLI

Stuart Mitchell

Actor Daniel Craig has donated his personal limited edition 007 x Triumph motorcycles to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for their 200th anniversary year of lifesaving. Daniel has been a lifelong supporter of the RNLI, with his previous involvement including supporting a station campaign at Hoylake near where he grew up, and going afloat with the lifeboat crew at Ramsgate. The charity, which provides a lifeboat and lifeguard search and rescue service around the UK and Ireland, mainly made up of volunteers, has been saving lives…

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