Reflo interview: Harry Kane deal can make our brand a behemoth January 31, 2024 Harry Kane can help sustainable sportswear brand Reflo become a business behemoth, according to the firm’s co-founder, after the England captain became the third largest shareholder in the company. The Bayern Munich striker is one of a number of sporting names, including golfers Tiger Woods and Jason Day, to split with Nike in the past [...]
‘Radical change’ needed as mental health sickness costs UK £118bn annually January 31, 2024 Business leaders have been pressed to prioritise providing more support to employees to combat a surge in mental ill health in the workplace.
Shell hopes to reassure shareholders of green gains amid expected profit hit January 31, 2024 Of the two UK oil majors, Shell has been the quieter of late. Market discussions in recent weeks have largely revolved around BP’s former finance boss-turned chief executive Murray Auchincloss. Specifically, what his tenure could mean for a company that seems stuck between a rock and a hard place balancing shareholder returns with a demanding [...]
The business case for corporate social impact January 30, 2024 | Sponsored What it takes to sustain a business over time has radically changed. No longer is it enough to deliver value to customers and turn a profit. Now, companies need to ensure their impact on people and the planet is positive if they want to attract talent, be a top consumer choice, and access funds from [...]
Diversified Energy rises on opening but concerns over well clean-up bill grow January 30, 2024 Diversified energy shares continue slide as oil assets clean-up bill grows
Mark Carney backed climate tech company raises £11m in series A January 30, 2024 Climate tech company Cultivo has raised $14m (£11m) in a series A funding round co-led by Massmutual Ventures and Octopus Energy Generation.
Data: The lifejacket that keeps ESG afloat January 29, 2024 | Sponsored If the year is 1983 and you find yourself in Fiji looking at a notice asking you to reuse your hotel towels for the sake of the environment, then your name is probably Jay Westerveld and you’re about to come up with the term “greenwashing”. Mr. Westerveld was lodging in a beach resort undergoing large, [...]
BP faces City pressure to ditch £24bn clean energy investments for shareholders January 29, 2024 BP has been told to cut $28bn in clean energy funding by a leading activist investor
Number of SMEs ‘going green’ has doubled – but it hasn’t been easy January 29, 2024 The number of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have “gone green” doubled last year, research shared exclusively with City A.M. has found, but it wasn’t an easy feat. Some 489,000 UK businesses have formally committed to reaching “sustainability” by the government’s net zero 2050 deadlines, up from 220,000 at the beginning of 2023, [...]
Electric dreams to pricing nightmares for lithium? January 29, 2024 The electrification era is still very young, busts like lithium are commonplace