Chief Sustainability Officers Aren’t Marketers, They’re Multi-Hyphenates
by Adweek
Adweek— Between 2011 and 2019, 414 global companies appointed chief sustainability officers (CSOs), per PwC data. Now a second wave of CSO appointments is making headlines. Since the start of 2023, Lego, Caterpillar, PepsiCo, Autodesk and Delta have all enlisted CSOs to steer them through increasingly tight greenwashing regulations in a world where people expect brands to be both environmentally responsible and honest. CSOs are fast becoming the Swiss army knife of the C-suite as their remit...
The Independent—Croissants aren’t French and pizza sauce isn’t Italian – the national dishes that aren’t from where you think. A food historian has kicked up controversy after claiming that there is ‘no such thing’ as Italian cuisine, sparking debate over the origins and ownership of food. But perhaps we should reconsider our ideas about so-called ‘national dishes’, suggests Hannah Twiggs
Digiday—While Biden signs the TikTok bill, marketers still aren’t panicking. No one seems convinced (yet) that an outright ban will happen anytime soon.
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield’s Edmund House to be turned into flats as offices aren’t viable. Sheffield City Council’s planning officers have granted permission to a development that will see the old Edmund House on Edmund Road being converted into 11 new homes. This project at Edmund House – an L-shaped building that was built in the latter part of the 20th century – would be happening on the building’s 760sqm floor area. The owner of the building bought it in 2021 and while initially the plan was to renovate the building for office use and some works took place, they have since decided...