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IPA welcomes launch of multinational advertising regulations platform

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA has welcomed the launch of Wikiregs, a free multinational database of European advertising regulations. The launch of comprehensive new website Wikiregs provides agencies and clients with a free, one-stop-shop for all statutory and self-regulatory marketing communications’ regulations on Alcohol, Cars, and Food and Soft Drinks across nine European countries. Additionally, the rules that affect all product categories – the general rules – are on the website. This is the first time there has been a single, central source of multinational rules in multiple sectors. Being able to understand…

Walmart Hires More Than 206,000 U.S. Military Veterans and Promotes More Than 30,000 Since the Launch of the Veterans Welcome Home Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart announced that the company has hired more than 206,000 veterans and promoted more than 30,000 to roles with higher pay and greater responsibility since launching its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment in May 2013. The commitment guarantees a job offer to any eligible, honorably discharged U.S. veteran who has separated from service since the commitment was announced on Memorial Day 2013. Walmart is now more than 80 percent of the way to reaching its goal to hire 250,000 veterans by 2020.* Approximately 1,300 veterans and their families return to civilian…

‘Businesses expected to speak up on societal issues’ – CIPR welcomes CBI report

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations has welcomed new research from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) tracking public attitudes towards business.  Everyone’s business tracker: Public attitudes report  (PDF) reveals 92% of the public want businesses to speak out on key issues impacting society. The report argues an increased focus on gender pay reporting, GDPR and Brexit has encouraged businesses to speak more openly about the challenges they face.  However the research warns the impact of high profile failures has tarnished the broader reputation of business, with 56% of the public believing the…

ASA welcomes sentencing of Richard Howard, the man behind misleading passport renewal websites

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA have reported on the oucome of a case that they investigated showcasing how advertising was abused, there is more on their website but I have copied the text below, please clook at their website for more info and useful information. We are pleased with the outcome of a case at Leeds Crown Court in which the defendant, Richard Howard, has been found guilty of breaking consumer protection law following an investigation by National Trading Standards. He has been handed a one year suspended prison sentence and ordered to…

New Government proposal on future funding of supported housing welcomed by housing associations and homelessness charities

Stuart Mitchell

Providers responsible for more than a quarter all of ‘short-term’ supported housing in the UK, supporting thousands of people with experience of homelessness every year, have today welcomed the government’s plans for the sector’s future funding, which will see housing benefit retained for all forms of supported housing. The Salvation Army, Riverside, St Mungo’s and YMCA have campaigned to ensure funding for supported housing did not move to a local grant funding model, which had been the government’s intention last October. In a joint statement, the organisations said: “We are…