Author: Stuart Mitchell

The L’OCCITANE Group is now B Corp™ certified

Stuart Mitchell

The L’OCCITANE Group, a pioneer in premium sustainable beauty and wellness, is proud to announce that it is now a certified B Corporation™. This is an exciting milestone that builds on the Group’s ongoing commitment to creating positive change by empowering the communities it invests in, protecting biodiversity, reducing waste and mitigating climate change. With certification, the Group joins a global community of like-minded businesses that share a collective vision of creating an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy to be a force for good in the world. What sets B…

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Speedy Hire partners with British Heart Foundation to support ‘Spotlight On’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Speedy Hire, the UK’s leading provider of tools, equipment, and plant hire services, has donated £25,000 to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), forming a partnership for its ‘Spotlight On’ campaign, to raise awareness of hidden heart conditions. Colleagues across the Speedy Hire business have recently been sharing stories of their surprise and shock that they had personally experienced mistaking a heart attack diagnosis with less serious medical symptoms such as breathlessness and dizziness. These eye-opening stories prompted Speedy Hire to build on the work it already undertakes with the charity…

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Inpress Precision launches Sharpak Zero multi-use medical sharps solution

Stuart Mitchell

Inpress Precision, specialist manufacturer to the medical and healthcare sector, has launched ‘Sharpak Zero’, its groundbreaking new range of multi-use medical sharps containers, which is focussed on driving sustainability with no disruption to current processes within clinical environments. Each Sharpak Zero multi-use sharps container can be reused up to ten times, rather than being incinerated after a single-use, bringing a new level of sustainability to medical sharps disposal, which should prove to be revolutionary for the sector. The Sharpak Zero multi-use process means that the material for one container will…

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Brighter future for banana workers as Fairtrade launches ‘game changing’ new offer for traders and retailers

Stuart Mitchell

Fairtrade is excited to launch a major new initiative in the drive to deliver decent incomes for workers on Fairtrade certified banana plantations across the world. Fairtrade’s sustainable offer to achieve living wages, living incomes and resilient banana supply chains is being launched this week at the global Fruit Attraction expo in Madrid. It aims to ensure that banana workers earn as a minimum the living wage for their country, whilst helping retailers fulfil their commitments to a sustainable banana industry. More than 35,658 workers and farmers employed by 265…

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Social investment arm of the Big Issue Group powers up diverse social enterprises in London with £660K of investment

Stuart Mitchell

Big Issue Invest (BII), the investment arm of the Big Issue Group (BIG), has opened up applications for a new investment programme, aimed at new and early-stage social enterprises in London. Power Up London is an accelerator programme for London-based, diverse-led, early-stage socially impactful organisations addressing social and/or environmental issues and providing services to underrepresented communities. The programme is delivered by BII with funding by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda to invest in communities and support local businesses Successful…

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