Year: 2024

Blackbaud Announces Impact Awards Finalists

Stuart Mitchell

Blackbaud are thrilled to announce the finalists for the first annual Blackbaud Impact Awards, which celebrate organizations and people achieving incredible results with Blackbaud software. For over 40 years, Blackbaud has partnered with changemakers, organizations, and companies across the globe to fuel impact through essential software solutions. In honor of our customers’ unmatched drive to innovate and unlock more potential from their technology and their teams that use it, the Blackbaud Impact Awards recognize their accomplishments, achievements and impact. “We’re thrilled with the responses from customers around the world who…

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The Estée Lauder Companies Named Number One Company For Multicultural Women By Seramount

Stuart Mitchell

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has been named the number one company for multicultural women by Seramount. Seramount’s Best Companies for Multicultural Women is the premier list of organizations in corporate America dedicated to using best practices in hiring, retaining, and promoting multicultural women in the United States. ELC has earned the number one spot on the 2024 list out of 80 organizations in total. For more than 20 years, Seramount’s Best Companies for Multicultural Women has tracked corporations’ progress in creating cultures that encourage multicultural women to join and…

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Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging and Starbucks Team Up to Launch an Elevated EV Charging Experience Across America

Stuart Mitchell

Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging and Starbucks announced a strategic collaboration to electrify over 100 Starbucks stores across the country. The vision for the first phase of the program will be to co-locate industry-leading 400 kW electric vehicle (EV) chargers at Starbucks stores located along Interstate 5 (I-5) – a critical west coast travel corridor spanning from Canada to Mexico. The two companies share an ambition to identify additional opportunities in key markets, including core urban areas, charging deserts, and other critical travel corridors. “The collaboration between two leading brands like Mercedes-Benz…

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IFC Investment to Promote Green Construction and Job Creation in the Middle East and Africa

Stuart Mitchell

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $15 million loan to MAN Enterprise Group, an engineering, procurement, and construction Group headquartered in Luxembourg and operating in MENA and Europe, through its subsidiaries MAN Holding Limited and MAN Holding sal. The loan will help the group grow its operations across the Middle East and Africa, supporting private sector development and job creation. It will also help the group undertake new projects to establish its presence in different countries, build its internal capacity for climate-friendly technologies, and improve…

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UK marketing budget growth hits decade high as economic conditions improve

Stuart Mitchell

UK companies upwardly revised their marketing budgets at the strongest rate in over a decade, and to the second highest level in almost a quarter of a century, according to the Q2 2024 IPA Bellwether Report. Rising from +9.4% in Q1 to +15.9% in Q2, the net balance of UK businesses that expanded their total marketing budgets was at its highest level since the first quarter of 2014 (when it measured +20.4%), This also marks the second highest upward revision in the survey’s almost 25-year history. Additionally, the net balance…

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