Year: 2026

Tesco’s Murray Bisschop to Chair IPA CPD Gold Judges

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA has named Murray Bisschop, UK Marketing Director at Tesco as the Chair of Judges for 2025 IPA CPD Gold Accreditation. Now in its eighteenth year, IPA CPD Gold Accreditation rewards agencies for their exceptional professional development programmes and outstanding investment in the development and wellbeing of their employees. Bisschop and the judging panel will examine CPD Gold submissions and honour those that demonstrate an embedded, effective and innovative culture of learning throughout 2025, bettering the professionalism, development and reputation of the industry and ultimately adding value to both…

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Amcor collaborates with industry leaders for Danish food packaging recycling project

Stuart Mitchell

Amcor a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, announced the support of an ambitious three-year plastic recycling project led by Danish Technological Institute. The co-funded innovation partnership Circular Recycling Innovation for Sustainable Packaging (CRISP) aims to establish the full-scale circular recycling of food packaging in polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) rigid plastics from household collections. Besides Amcor, the project will involve major food manufacturers and waste management specialists. Amcor will bring recycling and technical expertise from its state-of-the-art CleanStream® facility in Leamington Spa, UK, and their packaging…

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Europe’s first ‘wind power-built’ car park inaugurated

Stuart Mitchell

The new Niels Bohr car park in Lund was recently inaugurated, a building partly constructed from disused rotor blades from wind turbines. The building is the first of its kind in Europe and has a façade made from rotor blades from Vattenfall’s now decommissioned Nørre Økse Sø wind farm. “It’s a very smart idea and a really nice building,” says Anne Mette Traberg, Vattenfall’s Country Manager for Denmark. The car park is owned by Lunds kommunala parkeringsbolag (LKP) and is located in the new Brunnshög district on the outskirts of…

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Birtenshaw launches £3m crowdfunding with Triodos Bank UK to support young people with SEN in Bolton

Stuart Mitchell

Award-winning special educational needs and disability charity Birtenshaw is seeking to raise £3 million of crowdfunding with a new bond offer, launching today on Triodos Bank UK’s crowdfunding platform (triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk). Founded nearly 70 years ago in Bolton, Birtenshaw supports young people with significant physical impairment, complex health needs, learning disability and/or Autistic Spectrum Conditions to lead independent and fulfilling lives through highly acclaimed services.  The group operates special schools in Bolton and Liverpool, a specialist college in Bolton, several children’s homes, Adult Supported Tenancies and further services including a community café, a horticultural project and a sports and activity centre.  The…

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ASA – Putting vulnerable audiences first in a changing advertising landscape

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Tread carefully: Putting vulnerable audiences first in a changing advertising landscape, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. As an organisation, we’re committed to protecting vulnerable audiences. That means engaging with people who may be vulnerable in the right way and recognising that ads seen or heard by these groups may need extra care and consideration. We want to make sure we’re doing everything we…

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