Month: November 2024

British Patient Capital makes €25m commitment to Blume Equity Fund to support companies tackling climate change

Stuart Mitchell

Growth climate-tech investor Blume Equity LLP (“Blume Equity”) announces additional Limited Partners, including British Patient Capital, the UK’s largest domestic investor in UK venture and venture growth capital, which has made a €25m commitment to Blume Equity’s Fund I. Blume Equity has also partnered with Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), an Australian asset manager with a dedicated climate focused strategy. These partnerships are an important step in supporting and accelerating the transition to a zero-carbon economy.  Blume Equity is led by Clare Murray, Michelle Capiod, and Eleanor Blagbrough. A growth stage…

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Superdrug teams up with Pennies to raise funds for Marie Curie

Stuart Mitchell

Market leading Health and Beauty Retailer, Superdrug has partnered with fintech charity, Pennies, to offer customers a chance to give to charity when paying by card for their beauty essentials. Superdrug customers shopping in store can now top-up on their purchases to support Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity. The charity provides expert hospice care at home, in their hospices and over the phone – ensuring people get the care and support they urgently need at the end of their lives. Just 2 minutes of micro-donations from…

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Clear Channel’s Adshel Live network hits 3,500 screens

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel UK, has announced the expansion of its Adshel Live network to 3,500 screens, further solidifying its position as the UK’s largest digital Out of Home (DOOH) network. Since its launch in 2015, the Adshel Live network has helped propel DOOH growth in the UK, offering unparalleled reach, impacts, and proximity to key retail locations across the UK—all while driving sustainability and social contribution.  As a percentage of the overall Out of Home (OOH) revenue, DOOH revenue has more than doubled from 32% in 2015 to 65% in 2023…

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Gap in Executive Awareness as Lone Workers Face Increased Aggression, EcoOnline Research Finds

Stuart Mitchell

EcoOnline, a leading technology provider for EHS, ESG, and Chemical Safety, has launched its Lone Worker Landscape Report 2024. Surveying over 1,200 executives and lone workers, the report explores the risks faced by lone workers and the perspectives of executives tasked with ensuring their safety. Key areas examined include communication, risk management, policies, and incident prevention and mitigation. Lone Working on the Rise—Is Safety Keeping Up? Lone workers—defined as anyone who works by themselves ‘without close or direct supervision’, are an often undercounted and underrepresented group in the UK workforce.…

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The Pitch 2025: Marketing students respond to creative challenge from Dogs Trust

Stuart Mitchell

CIM’s 2024/25 global student marketing competition, The Pitch, has launched to students around the world and is accepting entries until Monday 2 December 2024. The competition is open to university students based anywhere around the world, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where students are studying for a marketing degree, or a business degree containing a marketing module.   Now in its fourteenth year, the competition challenges aspiring marketers from across the globe to react to a real-life brief from a top organisation. Finalists will then go head-to-head in the hope…

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