Day: 27 July 2025

ELC Celebrates 17 Years of Partnership With HOPE Latina

Stuart Mitchell

At The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), supporting and advancing women leaders is part of our DNA—an enduring legacy inspired by our founder, Mrs. Estée Lauder. For the past 17 years, ELC has proudly partnered with Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE)—a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to advancing political and economic equity for Latinas through leadership, advocacy, and education—as co-title sponsor of its flagship event, Latina History Day in Los Angeles. In recent years, ELC has also supported HOPE’s national growth, serving as co-title sponsor of its Latina History Day programming…

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“The Price Isn’t Right”: New IPA report urges agencies to rethink commercial models

Stuart Mitchell

Agencies must ensure that the prices they charge accurately reflect the value they deliver. This is the central message of the IPA’s latest report, The Price Isn’t Right, to be unveiled at the flagship IPA Business Growth Conference recently that calls for a fundamental reassessment of, and proposes a roadmap for, how agencies structure their commercial models and client partnerships. Published five years after the IPA’s seminal study The Price of Success, this new report, produced in partnership with Creative Salon and based on 63 qualitative interviews with creative and…

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Mars delivers another 1.9% absolute reduction of greenhouse gases

Stuart Mitchell

Mars, Incorporated recently released the 2024 Mars Sustainable in a Generation Report, announcing continued progress towards its goal of reducing its carbon footprint. By the end of 2024, Mars achieved another 1.9% reduction in absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to its 2015 baseline, while growing the business over 69% to approximately $55 billion in annual sales during the same period.   Poul Weihrauch, Mars CEO said: “I’m pleased to see our continued ability to decouple our business growth from our carbon footprint while simultaneously investing in innovation and getting…

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Children In Latin America Challenged To Turn Off Their Screens For One Day For Digital Well-Being

Stuart Mitchell

Children across Latin American and the Caribbean are being encouraged to turn off their mobile phones, game consoles and laptops for a day and think about their digital wellbeing in a challenge led by Save the Children and Chicos.net Association. At a time when more children are online than ever before, the ‘Zoom Into Your Rights’ contest, supported by civil society organizations throughout the region, is open to children up to 18 years of age from now until 31 July. It challenges children to take a break from their devices…

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ActionAid UK Cuts Ties With HSBC After £128bn Climate Damage Link

Stuart Mitchell

ActionAid UK Moves Away from HSBC After Report Finds Over £128bn Climate Damage Link.  “My children are always coughing. They struggle to breathe. A strange new allergy has appeared on their skin, and we don’t even know what it is. The doctors can’t give us a proper answer.”  A damning new report from ActionAid UK and research group Profundo reveals that HSBC’s financing of fossil fuels and industrial agriculture between 2021 and 2023 is linked to an estimated £128 billion in climate-related damage — nearly three times the bank’s net…

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