Month: July 2025

Perfect pairing sets the table for community impact

Stuart Mitchell

COMMUNITY dining is being reimagined this October as leading hospitality venue and homelessness charity join forces for a powerful night that combines food, immersive storytelling and a mission to tackle homelessness head-on. Surgeons Quarter has partnered with the charity Cyrenians to host a flagship fundraising event, the Supper Soirée. The event is set to take place on Thursday, 30 October, at the Prince Philip Building- one of the four historic venues managed by Surgeons Quarter. With a shared passion for creating meaningful community experiences, the partnership marks the first time…

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Global ad market prospects further downgraded as retailers, automakers cut ad budgets and Chinese brands redirect spend due to US trade tariffs

Stuart Mitchell

A new study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is now on course to grow 6.2% this year to $1.16trn, a downgrade of half a percentage point (pp) from WARC’s March forecast due to growing market volatility. Key sectors such as retail (-6.1%) and automotive (-4.0%) are set to cut ad spend this year, while ad spend growth across technology and CPG brands is muted compared to previous rates. James McDonald, Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting, WARC, and author of the research,…

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Design Army’s Pum Lefebure Elected Chair Of The One Club Board of Directors

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity, the world’s foremost non-profit organization whose mission is to support and celebrate the global creative community, announced new leadership to its Board of Directors. Pum Lefebure, Co-Founder and CCO of Design Army in Washington DC, has been elected Board chairperson.  Previously Vice Chair, she replaced Glenn Cole, Founder and Chairman at 72andSunny, who completed his term this month and will remain involved with the club as Chair Emeritus. Board member Tiffany Rolfe, Chair and Global CCO at R/GA, moves up to the role of Board…

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TransitionZero to partner on the Carbon Trust’s Greenprint initiative – a systems level approach to decarbonising emerging and developing economies

Stuart Mitchell

The Carbon Trust and TransitionZero have announced today they will be partnering on Greenprint, a new initiative designed to help governments in developing economies and emerging markets deliver secure, affordable, and fully decarbonised power systems by 2050.   Drawing on the Carbon Trust’s expertise in global energy sector decarbonisation and TransitionZero’s energy system modelling software and data, the pilot phase of Greenprint will set out a plan for a country to transition to clean power, while realising the strong socioeconomic benefits that come with a renewables-led energy system. The learnings…

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IKEA launch new paper-based fitting bag which will reduce plastic consumption by 1,400 tons

Stuart Mitchell

During FY25, IKEA Components started replacing its plastic fitting bags with paper-based ones. This shift will reduce annual plastic consumption by approximately 1,400 tons. It is linked to the Plastics Out Agenda, which aims to phase out plastic consumer packaging by 2028 and is an important step towards the IKEA goal of only using renewable and recyclable materials. Have you ever bought IKEA furniture? If yes, then you’ve most likely ripped open one of the plastic-fitting bags containing the screws, bolts and Allen keys to assemble the product. Starting this…

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