Author: Stuart Mitchell

edie and Brook Green launch new guide to sustainable energy procurement

Stuart Mitchell

Produced by edie in partnership with Brook Green Supply, the new ‘Business Guide to Energy Procurement on the Road to Net-Zero’ is a handy resource for businesses of all sizes and sectors. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS YOUR COPY OF THE GUIDE While the energy transition gathers pace in the UK, buoyed by supportive policy, many businesses are still grappling with volatile energy prices and high inflation. Many are also striving to decarbonise more rapidly than the wider economy, setting targets covering Scope 2 (power-related) emissions sources. Designing and implementing the…

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Five Cargill Innovations Win 2025 Edison Awards™ for Transforming the Future of Food and Agriculture

Stuart Mitchell

Cargill is honored to win five 2025 Edison Awards, recognizing the company’s bold innovations that are shaping the future of food and agriculture. From advancing climate-smart farming to driving breakthroughs in nutrition and water access, each award-winning solution showcases how Cargill is building a more secure and resilient food system.   The Edison Awards, named for inventor Thomas Edison, celebrate the best in innovation, recognizing products and teams that solve global challenges, shape markets and inspire change. This marks the third consecutive year Cargill’s innovations have been named among the winners.  …

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Effie Worldwide Announces Global Grand Contenders for Its 2024 Global Best of the Best Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Effie Worldwide, the global authority on marketing effectiveness, is proud to unveil the 58 Global Grand Contenders in the 2024 Global Best of the Best Effie Awards competition. The Global Best of the Best Effie Awards provide a unique opportunity to assess effectiveness across a truly global landscape, recognizing the most effective marketing efforts from around the world. Gold and Grand Effie winners from over 55 Effie Awards programs in 2023 were eligible to enter, competing for the Global Grand Effie in their respective categories, benchmarking success across diverse markets,…

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Advertising rule changes following review in response to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024

Stuart Mitchell

CAP and BCAP have published the outcome of their consultation on amendments to the advertising Codes following a review to align them with the Unfair Commercial Practices (UCP) provisions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The UCP provisions came into force on 6 April 2025. The CAP and BCAP Code rule changes come into force immediately. The UCP provisions update and replace the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (the CPRs). The key principles of misleading advertising underpinning the Codes remain much the same in the…

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Triodos Bank recognised as top-scoring Best Buy by Ethical Consumer

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank has been awarded ‘Best Buy’ status by Ethical Consumer magazine for its personal current account and savings accounts, with both scoring 96 out of a possible 100 points. Ethical Consumer magazine has rated 28 banks on their current accounts and 46 on their savings accounts, giving them an ethical score. As with its previous ethical banking guide in 2022 – which also saw Triodos awarded ‘Best Buy’ status – the scoring system continues to assess banks on their overall ethos, approach to tackling climate change, and tax conduct. In…

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