Day: 23 February 2025

The One Show 2025 Adds AI Discipline to Encourage Exploration

Stuart Mitchell

In anticipation of the continued rising impact of AI in marketing, The One Club for Creativity has added a new Creative Use of Artificial Intelligence discipline to The One Show 2025. The new discipline celebrates the partnership between human creativity and this emerging technology in the evolution of creative work and process.  The new AI discipline will recognize and encourage exploration, with categories falling into three major themes: Branded Campaigns and Experiences, Craft, and Innovation. In comparison to other One Show disciplines, these categories are more loosely defined and eligibility…

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Carbon Clean named UK’s 7th fastest-growing private hardware company in Sunday Times 100 Tech

Stuart Mitchell

Carbon Clean’s commitment to “developing its technology so it can be mass produced and deployed globally” is highlighted, reinforcing the company’s focus on commercialising its modular, columnless CycloneCC solution. The inaugural Sunday Times 100 Tech ranks Britain’s private technology companies on the sustained growth in their annual revenues, measured over a three-year period. Carbon Clean’s annual sales growth over three years is 124.89%, significantly higher than the impressive average of 87% for companies in the hardware and non-software category.  The Sunday Times 100 Tech highlights the UK’s strong, highly innovative…

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CISL’s 2024 Annual Review published

Stuart Mitchell

2024 was a challenging and pivotal year for CISL and the wider sustainability movement. Action taken across the world is not keeping up with the challenges that are being thrown at it. Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing, despite renewable energy hitting new heights. The biodiversity crisis continues apace, global temperatures are rising and climate negotiations are not achieving what is needed. ‘Sustainability as usual’ has not worked and has no realistic prospect of doing so.   In a year when CISL appointed Lindsay Hooper as its permanent CEO, the…

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Innovative water partnership launched with Welsh farmers

Stuart Mitchell

Dairy co-operative First Milk and Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages UK have announced a joint project in Pembrokeshire that will work with up to 30 dairy farmers to reduce soil compaction and improve water infiltration on their land, with the aim of capturing up to an additional 250 million litres of groundwater per year. The four-year partnership will focus predominantly on the use of regenerative farming practices including rotational grazing of dairy herds, increasing sward grassland diversity and rooting depth, which combine to improve soil structure allowing for more water…

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Sodexo collaborates with The Purpose Coalition to expand employment opportunities for prison-leavers

Stuart Mitchell

Last week, Carolyn Harris MP, Member of Parliament for Neath and Swansea East, hosted a parliamentary reception at the House of Commons. Organised together with Sodexo UK & Ireland and The Purpose Coalition, the event highlighted the transformative potential of hiring ex-offenders and how businesses can drive greater employment opportunities for this untapped talent pool.  During the reception, Mark Goodyer, HR Director, Sodexo UK & Ireland welcomed Rt Hon Justine Greening, Chair of The Purpose Coalition, who announced a new collaboration between The Purpose Coalition and Sodexo’s Starting Fresh programme.  …

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