Day: 16 February 2025

Benevity report predicts surge in CSR investment amid heightened public scrutiny

Stuart Mitchell

Benevity, Inc., the market-leading global provider of social impact software, today released The Executive CSR Report, detailing new research that shows increased executive commitments to corporate social responsibility in the year to come. The report from Benevity’s research hub, Benevity Impact Labs, shows that 76% of executives plan to increase investment, despite growing public scrutiny around CSR and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments. The data also highlights that CSR is evolving from a siloed function to business critical and integrated into operations, as executives increasingly see it as a…

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Cleantech Group launch The Global Cleantech 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Who are the leading companies in cleantech today? Meet the Cleantech Group’s list of innovators with the technologies and determination to take us from commitments to actions in the sprint to net-zero, and discover the market trends that give us hope of a sustainable future. The Global Cleantech 100 is a comprehensive showcase of the most promising private companies in the cleantech ecosystem.  The report  will introduce you to the innovators with outstanding technologies, original business models, and bold plans that can enable us to act on the ever-increasing climate…

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This Girl Can celebrates 10th birthday

Stuart Mitchell

This Girl Can, Sport England’s groundbreaking campaign to get women and girls active, marks its 10th birthday this month, having transformed millions of lives across England through National Lottery funding. After a decade of breaking down barriers and empowering women to move their bodies in their own way, over three million more women are active compared to when This Girl Can launched in January 2015.  Powered with £30 million funding from The National Lottery, our campaign’s bold approach has resonated deeply, with eight in 10 women reporting it boosted their…

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Avoca-don’t Miss This: Sainsbury’s Debuts Plastic-Free Packaging for Avocados

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s switches its own-brand twin pack avocado packaging from plastic to paper in a move which will eventually save 20.2 million pieces of plastic a year upon full rollout. Starting with a trial across 77 Sainsbury’s supermarkets1, customers can purchase by Sainsbury’s Ripe & Ready Avocados twin pack in paper packaging in selected superstores now. Following successful completion of the trial, a wider rollout is anticipated to start later this year in-store and online. The plastic-free avocado packaging consists of paper with bamboo netting, a solution that is fully recyclable…

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CAP – Mid-contract price increases in telecoms contracts

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Mid-contract price increases in telecoms contracts. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Alongside Ofcom’s prohibition on inflation-linked and percentage-based increases in telecoms contracts, CAP and BCAP’s amended guidance on the presentation of mid-contract price increases in advertising came into force on 17 January 2025. Amendments to Ofcom’s General Conditions, introduced in July 2024, require providers…

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