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Bizcommunity launches new dedicated sectors, newsletters

Bizcommunity.com - South Africa's largest online B2B publisher - is set to grow even more with the introduction of 16 new content channels, with weekly newsletters, as from last week Tuesday, 20 September 2011. 20 Sep 2011 15:45

Electric cars for short hops in new scheme

LONDON, UK: Electric cars becoming an economically rational choice for short hop journeys and now 100% electric vehicles to be made available in pioneering pilot scheme for PwC. 26 Apr 2011 06:00

Green fraud - crime's new frontier

LONDON, UK: A new frontier for fraud and market abuse has opened up as the scale of sustainable business activity and 'green' projects grows while the controls and systems that protect them remain relatively weak, says a PwC report. 28 Feb 2011 07:48

[2011 trends] A year of hard work for brands

[Janice Spark] If 2010 could be summed up as soccer, vuvuzelas and national pride, 2011 will be all about the hard work of restoring the economy to sustainable growth, paying attention to environmental concerns and mastering the technologies that are changing the world. Here are a few trends to watch in 2011. 17 Jan 2011 15:27

Lynx: Fitch to chair inaugural Design Jury

DUBAI: To further enhance and complement the creative advertising and communications awards of the 4th Dubai International Advertising Festival, a new Design category will be added in 2011, chaired by designer Rodney Fitch CBE, founder of Fitch and Professor of Retail Design at TUDelft University, Holland. 7 Jan 2011 09:17

TH!NK climate blogging competition COP16 winners announced

MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS: The European Journalism Centre has announced the winners of its TH!NK 4: Climate Change blogging competition. More than 173 bloggers and journalists participated in the competition from around the world, reporting on both global and local climate change issues. 29 Nov 2010 09:10

Unilever to halve CO2 impact

Unilever has announced plans to halve the environmental footprint of its products by 2020, to help 1 billion people improve their health and well-being and to source all of its agricultural raw materials sustainably. 16 Nov 2010 13:17

Consumer packaged goods trends for 2011

LONDON, UK: Mintel, the global leader in market and consumer intelligence, has predicted the worldwide consumer packaged goods (CPG) trends set to make an impact in 2011. 8 Nov 2010 07:47

VAT change eliminates carousel fraud threat from carbon markets

Carousel fraud, estimated to have cost the EU €5bn in lost tax revenues, will be eliminated from UK trading after changes to VAT regulations came into force this week. 3 Nov 2010 11:06

Sustainable packaging: UK's HDPE milk bottle recycling rate increases to 72%

LONDON, UK: A new HDPE plastic milk bottle recycling study from Recoup1 (RECycling Of Used Plastics Limited) identifies that 72% of HDPE milk bottles consumed and collected in the UK during 2009 were recycled - a significant increase on the previous year's figure of 57%. 18 Oct 2010 09:02

WWF and IMD introduce One Planet Leaders (OPL)

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: In terms of population, the world is growing, yet in terms of resources it simply remains planet earth. The most recent data shows that the earth's bio-capacity is being exceeded by 50 %. Hence the WWF and IMD joint executive education One Planet Leaders (OPL) program. 13 Oct 2010 12:23

FEPE feedback

BEIRUT, LEBANON: 170 delegates from 29 countries, who operate in the out of home (OOH) space, converged in Lebanon for the 51st FEPE Conference, which has been described as the most successful to date. Delegates were able to hear the insights of the industry's most knowledgeable thought leaders from around the world. The conference identified and shared information on future trends, and also discussed new ways to becoming a more engaging as a medium. 27 Jul 2010 12:42