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IPA announces 2020 New Year Honours list

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA is celebrating five adland luminaries in recognition of their outstanding services to advertising in its second annual New Year’s Honours. Each individual has raised the reputation of the industry at large throughout their stellar careers and will be honoured with FIPA (Fellow of the IPA) status and celebrated at the IPA’s President’s Reception. The 2020 IPA New Year’s Honours List Jenny Biggam, Owner, the7stars Helen Calcraft, Founding Partner, Lucky Generals Johnny Hornby, Chairman & CEO, The&Partnership Carl Johnson, CEO, Anomaly Charles Vallance, Founder & Chairman, VCCP Says Paul…

Pernod Ricard is taking 4 major steps towards achieving 100% renewable electricity

Stuart Mitchell

Pernod Ricard, the world’s second largest Wines and Spirits Group, is taking 4 additional steps in its drive to protect the earth and develop renewable electricity, a few days after COP25 in Madrid offered a stark reminder of the climate emergency.  RE 100The Group has today officially become a member of RE100, a global initiative led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP which brings together 221 international companies committed to 100% renewable electricity. This announcement comes within the framework of the Group’s new Sustainability & Responsibility roadmap Good…

Riders raise an amazing £11.5 million for charity in 2019

Stuart Mitchell

Participants in the 2019 Prudential RideLondon events raised an amazing £11.5 million for charity, bringing the total raised for good causes to more than £77 million in the first seven years of the world’s greatest festival of cycling. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “My congratulations go to everyone who helped raise this fantastic sum for charity at the 2019 edition of Prudential RideLondon. Their efforts will help some great causes make a real difference to people’s lives.” Denise Turner-Stewart, Surrey County Council’s Cabinet Member for Community Safety, Fire…

Winner of 2019 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards announced

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership announced that Emmanuel Emodek, founder of digital platform ChapChap, has been chosen from eight winning entrepreneurs as the recipient of this year’s HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneurs Prize. ChapChap is a digital platform that helps small businesses balance the books and keep track of transactions all from their very own smartphone. Half of all small and medium businesses in Africa fail because of poor book-keeping, a lack of inventory management, and bad business practices. With SMEs accounting…

CIPR PRide Awards celebrate Wales’ thriving Public Relations industry

Stuart Mitchell

More than 220 PR professionals gathered at The Exchange Hotel in Cardiff last month for the 2019 CIPR Cymru Wales PRide Awards ceremony – the nation’s annual public relations showpiece. BrandContent and Golley Slater were the big winners of the night, taking home three Gold Awards each, with the former scoring a hat-trick for their digital campaign work with Admiral. Golley Slater took home the Gold Awards in both the Healthcare Campaign and Integrated Campaign categories for their #TalkAboutOrganDonation campaign which successfully educated people and stimulated conversation on the topic…