Year: 2024

PepsiCo Juntos Crecemos Celebrates Year Three of Jefa-Owned Campaign, Launches National “Jefa Hour” Movement to Recognize the Economic and Cultural Contributions of Latina Entrepreneurs

Stuart Mitchell

Latina small business owners are the embodiment of the modern-day American dream, ambitious and entrepreneurial. In celebration of National Latina Day, PepsiCo Juntos Crecemos (Together We Grow) launched year three of its signature Jefa-Owned (owned by a Latina boss) campaign to recognize the economic, cultural, and community contributions of Jefa-Owned businesses – particularly restaurants, bodegas and carnicerías (meat markets). The campaign aims to provide business-building resources, enhance business visibility, and build community for Latina entrepreneurs. In partnership with actress and philanthropist Stephanie Beatriz and the United States Hispanic Chamber of…

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New artwork honours legacy of trailblazing women medics

Stuart Mitchell

An intricate and innovative tapestry honouring the first women allowed to matriculate at a university in Britain has been unveiled at its long-term home in the city. Inspired by the past, looking to the future The colourful three-part artwork by Dovecot Studios is on public display at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute – once the site of the city’s surgical hospital – in tribute to the women who enrolled to study medicine in 1869.  Dovecot Studios commissioned celebrated Scottish artist Christine Borland to design the tapestry, which took seven…

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SASC invests £1.415 million in Ara Recovery for All to fund properties to house vulnerable homeless people in Bristol

Stuart Mitchell

Ara Recovery for All (Addiction Recovery Agency), a UK charity working with people who are experiencing addiction and mental health issues in Bristol, the South West and Wales, has received a social investment loan of £1.415 million from Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) to buy properties to house single homeless people. Ara is Bristol City Council’s (BCC) key provider of specialist services for people with addiction issues. This transformative loan from SASC’s Community Investment fund, will enable them to purchase 15 one-bed properties around Bristol for vulnerable people experiencing homelessness,…

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Tesco launches innovative feed trial to cut dairy emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced it’s partnering with Grosvenor Farms, one of its key UK dairy farms, to trial a methane-reducing feed supplement for dairy cows. Identified as having one of the lowest carbon footprints of any UK milk producer, Grosvenor Farms, one of the original members of the Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group (TSDG), has added the methane-reducing feed supplement to the diet of 400 cows as part of the trial. Methane from cattle burps and manure is a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In digesting their high fibre diet, cows…

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Pampers Teams Up With U.S. Track & Field Legend Allyson Felix to Support NICU Families

Stuart Mitchell

This summer, Pampers is working to support preemie parents with the help of U.S. Track & Field legend, 11-time Olympic medalist, and mother Allyson Felix through a donation of up to one million preemie diapers to NICUs across the country. From July 2, 2024, through September 2, 2024, Pampers will donate one Pampers Preemie Swaddlers diaper to Children’s Miracle Network hospitals for every purchase of a Pampers Swaddlers Huge Pack at Walmart, up to one million diapers. Becoming a parent is one of the biggest and most exciting changes that…

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