CIPR Integrated Report 2018 celebrates ‘game-changing’ year

2018 was a ‘game-changing’ year for the CIPR according Vice President Sarah Hall Chart.PR, FCIPR. The CIPR’s overarching ambition for 2018 was to assert the value of public relations as a strategic management discipline to the business community. This was achieved by striking partnerships with organisations including the CBI and FSB, as well as by educating business leaders on the benefits of PR through the PRPays campaign. The Integrated Report (PDF) reflects on a year of special celebrations honouring the Institute’s seventieth anniversary. Highlights included the launch of Platinum, a 45 chapter book celebrating excellence in modern PR, and the…

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ASA/CAP – Report reveals exposure of children to age-restricted TV ads is falling

The ASA/CAP have released a post which talks called Report reveals exposure of children to age-restricted TV ads is falling.  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. We have published a new report that shows that, in recent years, children’s exposure to TV ads for alcohol, gambling and food and soft drink products high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS products) is declining.…

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FDF members report reduction in CO2 emissions and water consumption

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has today published its annual sustainability progress report, outlining the steps taken by members to deliver its Ambition 2025, a set of commitments to help deliver a more sustainable food system. The 2018 report illustrates the work done by FDF and its members towards FDF’s environmental ambitions set out in 2016. This includes a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, down 53% since 1990, and a reduction in water consumption, down 39% since 2008. Over the course of the last year, FDF supported several sustainability…

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Poor worse off as billionaire fortunes rise $2.5 billion a day

The 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw their wealth decline by 11 per cent last year while billionaires’ fortunes rose 12 per cent – or $2.5 billion a day, an Oxfam report published reveals. Public Good or Private Wealth? describes how decades of progress in reducing global poverty has slowed and is being undermined by the growing gap between rich and poor. The report, published as political and business leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum, finds that 26 people now…

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New Campbell report looks at reducing serious injuries and fatalities on the job.

A new report from the Campbell Institute released during the 2018 National Safety Council Congress and Expo, the world’s largest annual gathering of safety professionals, takes an in-depth look at serious injuries and fatalities in the workplace and illustrates a new prevention model suggested by safety experts in recent years. Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen enormous gains in workplace safety, according to the report, titled Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention: Perspectives and Practices. The gains in safety are illustrated by the total recordable incident rate, which…

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