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Octopus EV and Mastercard team up to supercharge UK businesses’ transition to EVs

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Electric Vehicles (‘Octopus EV’), the UK’s leading 100% electric vehicle (‘EV’) leasing company, is teaming up with Mastercard to enable small businesses to benefit from its salary sacrifice scheme, which helps businesses and employees switch to electric vehicles.   Through the Mastercard Business Bonus programme, small business cardholders can sign up to Octopus EV’s innovative salary sacrifice scheme and offer their employees an additional £100 charging credit when ordering an electric car.  Salary sacrifice allows employees to lease new or nearly new EVs by sacrificing part of their pre-tax salary, unlocking savings of…

Lost memories: Brits urged to donate unwanted phones as 11 billion photos are trapped on old devices

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 and environmental charity, Hubbub, are urging Brits to back up and donate old phones as new research reveals 46% are holding onto devices due to sentimentality, with nearly 27.7 billion memories stuck in drawers across the country.   An estimated 123 million unused devices* are gathering dust in drawers across the UK – largely because of the memories they hold, with almost half of Brits (46%) feeling emotionally attached to them. These forgotten devices collectively store around 11 billion photos, 8.7 billion messages, and nearly 8 billion videos**…

Northern Endurance Partnership Awards Halliburton Contract For Carbon Capture And Storage Monitoring

Stuart Mitchell

Halliburton has announced a contract award to provide completions and downhole monitoring services for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) carbon capture and storage (CCS) system in northeast England’s East Coast Cluster (ECC). Halliburton will manufacture and deliver the majority of the equipment required for this project from its U.K. completion manufacturing facility in Arbroath. For more than 50 years, the center has supported North Sea operations and provides on-site product development and testing resources alongside advanced manufacturing capabilities to support efficient production and the delivery of equipment. Halliburton is pleased…

Pulse Clean Energy secures £220 million to accelerate UK battery storage infrastructure development

Stuart Mitchell

Pulse Clean Energy announced it has secured a £220 million green finance deal from a consortium of six international banks, marking one of the largest financings in the UK for battery storage infrastructure. The green debt raise was structured in alignment with the Green Loan Principles of the Loan Market Association. Santander CIB served as Green Loan Coordinator, bringing together a diverse banking consortium, including Santander, NatWest, ABN AMRO, NORD/LB, Investec, and CIBC. This green financing will facilitate the construction of six ready-to-build battery energy storage system (BESS) sites, including…

The Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Marketers Association of Zimbabwe Form Alliance

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Marketers Association of Zimbabwe (MAZ) have announced a new partnership to collectively advance the marketing profession, for the benefit of the sector, business and society in Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. As part of the agreement, which commenced in May, CIM and MAZ have developed an aligned pathway for professional marketers in the two regions to obtain membership of both organisations, whilst also promoting a framework to align qualifications. The two organisations will also design programmes to support the development and mobility of the…