Month: July 2025

Channel 4 Sales reveals winners of B Corp competition for advertising airtime

Stuart Mitchell

Last month Channel 4 Sales revealed the five B Corps who have won free advertising airtime, as part of its competition with B Lab UK — the non-profit behind the UK B Corp movement — spotlighting sustainable businesses and showcasing the transformative power of TV advertising. Narrowed down from over 200 applicants, nine businesses pitched to a panel of expert judges, presenting their creative vision for their advert and explaining the significance of being a B Corp to them. The five winners will win airtime worth £120,000 each and, as…

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Actor and Director, Maisie Richardson-Sellers becomes Amnesty International UK Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International UK is delighted to announce actor-director Maisie Richardson-Sellers as its newest Ambassador.   The actor is a long-standing supporter of Amnesty UK and an outspoken advocate for gender and racial justice. She has worked closely with Amnesty supporting a number of campaigns, particularly highlighting gender justice and the plight of refugees in the UK.   Maisie uses her platform to advocate for marginalised communities, and is a passionate advocate for the power of interlacing art and activism. She is the founder of ‘Barefaced Productions’, a production company that seeks to…

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Multinational marketing budgets coming under greater scrutiny

Stuart Mitchell

Marketing is under increased scrutiny from CEOs, boards and other internal stakeholders as global brand owners seek to avoid risk in an increasingly unpredictable world. New research, conducted by WFA in partnership with transformation consultancy The Intangibles, found that 82% of global marketers and senior policy leads agree (strongly agree, agree or somewhat agree) that budgets and campaigns are under heavier scrutiny than a year ago. In particular, half (50%) feel under greater pressure from the board and 52% say the CEO is paying closer attention to marketing campaigns than…

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Asda invests £1.3m to expand electric home delivery fleet

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it will more than double its electric grocery home shopping fleet, taking its fleet to 194 vehicles as the retailer continues to invest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its business. Rolling out this month, Asda will invest £1.3m into launching an additional 112 home delivery vans and charging points for its vans at stores across the UK. By September, 21 Asda stores across the UK will operate a fully electric home delivery van fleet. Across these 21 stores, the electric vehicles are expected to make over…

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Proposed repeals of power plant carbon pollution and hazardous air pollutant standards threaten public health and the climate

Stuart Mitchell

Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to repeal two regulations that it finalized last year: the carbon pollution standards existing coal-fired and new gas-fired power plants and the strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired power plants.   “These regressive proposals are bad for public health and bad for climate, all to prop up some of the highest polluting power plants in the nation,” said Shaun Goho, legal director at Clean Air Task Force (CATF). “These standards were put in place for a reason – to fulfill…

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