Day: 19 June 2026

Warner Music Group And GZ Media Show Unsold Records Can Be Recycled Without Compromising Sound

Stuart Mitchell

Warner Music Group (NASDAQ: WMG) and GZ Media (GZ) have completed a landmark pilot demonstrating that unsold records can be reprocessed and incorporated into new vinyl pressings without compromising the sound quality artists and fans expect. The pilot processed approximately 10,000 unsold records sourced across artists, titles, and pressing plants, reflecting the mixed inventory typical across the industry. The records were shredded and multiple pressing variants of records were pressed using different recycled content ratios, ranging from 10–100%. Through rigorous blind listening evaluations coordinated with Abbey Road Studios, industry experts assessed…

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Children as young as 13 exposed to abuse being normalised by online misogynistic content

Stuart Mitchell

Online abuse and harassment are “constant, corrosive and deeply embedded” for young people across the country, according to a Barnardo’s-commissioned poll of 4,000 young people in the UK about their experiences of online misogyny. The results from thousands of 13- to 20-year-olds show how they experience misogyny online –   over a quarter (28%) of girls in Scotland saying they’d been called degrading names online and five in seven (72%[1] )  boys are saying they believed they are expected to “act tough and not show emotion”. The findings also highlight how…

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First Bus joins CIM’s Company Affiliate Partnership Programme

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) is delighted to announce a formal partnership with First Bus, which sees the transport operator join CIM’s Company Affiliate Partnership Programme. As part of the programme, designed to enhance marketing capability and connect organisations with the best of CIM, First Bus’s marketing team will gain access to CIM’s professional development resources and open courses. This forms part of a broader development journey focused on building consistent marketing practices and upskilling – allowing First Bus’s marketing team to grow and develop as the business does.…

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Sustainable debt market surpasses 7 trillion dollars in aligned issuance

Stuart Mitchell

The global sustainable debt market has reached a major new milestone, with cumulative aligned issuance surpassing 7 trillion dollars, according to the latest data from the Climate Bonds Initiative. Climate Bonds’ database of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds aligned with its methodologies has now crossed the USD7tn threshold, demonstrating the rapid growth of sustainable finance from a niche segment into a significant part of global capital markets. The milestone marks a sharp acceleration in market growth. It took the sustainable debt market 13 years, from 2006 to 2019, to…

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AgSphere partners with EIT Food to forge agrifood innovation pathway between Canada and Europe

Stuart Mitchell

AgSphere, the agrifood innovation hub dedicated to advancing the Canadian ecosystem, has announced a cross-border partnership with EIT Food to facilitate sector collaboration between Canada and Europe. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Based in Brussels, Belgium, EIT Food is the world’s largest food innovation community enabling the sector across Europe. Under the partnership, the two organizations will facilitate activities for the agri-innovation sector, such as startup immersion programs and exchanges, training and skills development and strategic collaboration between…

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