Sodexo launches industry-leading initiative – Smart Choice – to promote healthier snacking

Sodexo UK & Ireland is proud to introduce Smart Choice, an industry-first initiative developed to make healthier on-the-go snacking easier, more accessible, and smarter.   Responding to rising demand for healthier options, Smart Choice helps customers navigate the often-confusing world of healthy snacks. While many snacks appear to be healthier, they can still contain high levels of salt, fat, or sugar. Smart Choice removes the guesswork by highlighting genuinely healthy options. Developed by Sodexo’s nutrition and dietetics team, Smart Choice brings greater transparency to food choices by following the government’s ‘traffic…

The Crown Estate and Grosvenor call for improved accessibility and inclusivity standard across UK real estate

The joint report, Inclusive Spaces and Places: A collaborative approach to inclusive design, highlights the urgent need for inclusive design in the built environment, emphasising the barriers that prevent millions from fully engaging with public and commercial spaces as well as the potential societal and economic losses this results in.  Limited accessibility impacts a staggering portion of the population, with one in four of the UK’s 67 million people living with a disability, and thousands more facing temporary mobility challenges each year. When combined with an aging population, the scale…

JAGGAER 2023 ESG Impact Report Highlights External Validation, Progress on Emissions Reduction and Employee Engagement

JAGGAER, a global leader in enterprise procurement and supplier collaboration, today released its third Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Impact Report for 2023. JAGGAER helps its customers to manage and automate complex processes while enabling their highly resilient, accountable, and integrated supplier base. By simplifying and streamlining procurement, JAGGAER helps these customers and other stakeholders to achieve their ESG objectives by embedding ESG in its software and solutions. The Company also recognizes that in addition, it must take a lead in pursuing its own ESG best practices internally. Introducing…

CAP – Cheers to good health! Ensure your alcohol advertising is in good shape by avoiding these regulatory pitfalls

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Cheers to good health! Ensure your alcohol advertising is in good shape by avoiding these regulatory pitfalls. I have enclosed the text of the link below, 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. With an increased focus on health and wellbeing, new products may appear on the market claiming to help us stay healthy or lose weight, but can these claims be made about alcoholic…

Pets Revealed as the UK’s Hidden Support Network

A poll of 2,000 adults who have a cat or dog found their four-legged friends regularly help them out when they’re feeling down. They claim pets have helped improve their mood when they’ve been ill (47 per cent), after a bad day at work (39 per cent) and following an argument (22 per cent). Actions that give humans the boost they need are their cat or dog snuggling into them (65 per cent) or greeting them when arriving home (58 per cent). More than half (54 per cent) believe spending…