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Steadfast Collective becomes a Certified B Corporation in B Corp month

Stuart Mitchell

March is B Corp month, so what better time for Hampshire-based business, Steadfast Collective, to announce its certification as a B Corporation (or B Corp), joining a growing movement of companies that are reinventing business for the benefit of both people and planet.  Steadfast Collective, Romsey-based development agency in their tenth year as a company, have always set out to ‘leave the internet in a better place than they found it’. Their company values are centered around people, creating value, and giving back more than they take. Verified by B…

Berry’s Reusable Cups Support Returnable Cup Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Berry Global’s range of reusable plastic cups has been selected for the pioneering Borrow Cup ’collaborative returnable cup initiative’, which was launched in Glasgow, UK, at the end of January. Borrow Cup – developed by award-winning environmental charity Hubbub and Glasgow-based reusable packaging systems provider Reposit – provides a shared system that enables consumers to avoid disposable cups, by borrowing a returnable cup from any participating location. The 12-week fact finding and data gathering project involves over 40 businesses, including local cafés alongside major brands such as Costa Coffee, Caffè Nero…

Triodos Bank reports resilient financial and impact performance

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank, a frontrunner in sustainable banking since 1980, today announced its performance for 2024. Triodos Bank’s 2024 Annual Report was also published today and is available here: www.annual-report-triodos.com. Delivering positive impact Triodos Bank has delivered positive impact to society through EUR 24.1 billion (2023: EUR 23.2 billion) of total assets under management directed towards its five transition themes (energy, food, resources, society and wellbeing), with a growth of EUR 905 million. Triodos Bank announced its commitment to provide EUR 500 million in investments, loans and contributions to the Nature-based Solutions…

Industry coalition rallies advertisers for Know Your Customer consultation

Stuart Mitchell

UKSAFC (The UK Stop Ad Funded Crime Group) is calling for advertising industry cooperation as it announces the launch of a consultation on a forthcoming initiative to tackle ad-funded crime and fraud. Ad fraud is a major problem for advertisers. Estimates put the cost of ad fraud at up to $100 billion and suggest that almost half of ad spend drives no results. While there is no single measure to combat ad fraud, UKSAFC believes the scale of the problem could be significantly reduced if advertisers and their agencies took…

Political leadership roles in 2025: Men continue to dominate

Stuart Mitchell

New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveal limited progress in achieving gender equality in political leadership at the start of 2025, the year which marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the landmark UN framework which set out the roadmap for gender equality and women’s rights. According to the 2025 edition of the IPU–UN Women “Women in politics” map, men outnumber women by more than three times in executive and legislative positions. The map presents the latest rankings of women in…