What is EMAS? The EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a management tool for companies and other organisations to evaluate, report and improve their environmental performance. The scheme has been available for participation by companies since 1995 and was originally restricted to companies in industrial sectors. Since 2001 EMAS has been open to all […]
Read moreThe following ten key tips are taken from an article that appeared in Ethical Corporation (www.ethicalcorp.com), which I thought we interesting and worth commenting on. In a survey for the report, 93% of companies recognize the value of embedding CR into business processes yet only 49% of companies confirm that CR is a clear component of overall […]
Read moreI was looking at a customers website today to find out some contact details. The customer makes bespoke children’s play areas. What really caught my attention was the analysis on the materials used. Concrete and Steel were generally seen as poor environmentally and were large energy users and carbon emitters. This was the comment on […]
Read moreMore and more business professionals are using LinkedIn as a method of keeping in touch with key business contacts. However, how do you integrate this information into your contacts list or your CRM system. Exporting contacts is relatively simple if you want to create a CSV file. If you go to ‘Contacts’ tab and choose […]
Read moreHere is the scenario: An advertiser agrees to take out an advert (either online or offline) at a cost of several hundred pounds. Having spent this money, and not wanting to spend any more, they decide to put together their own advert in a software application they have access to. They spend many hours creating […]
Read moreGreenTex is a brand new exhibition and event wall covering products from greenhouse graphics. The product is PVC free, in line with the company’s strong sustainability printing policy, and offers a number of tangible benefits for businesses and organisations that wish to develop a strong brand message. These benefits are: GreenTex is easy to apply and doesn’t […]
Read moreFor many the world of marketing is about producing an advert, a website, a brochure or an email blast. The reality is that although these are tactics delivered by marketers, the real skill of marketing, and the huge success that this can deliver to an organisation, lies in developing a clear marketing strategy. With pressures on those […]
Read moreThe print industry is very used to ‘change’. In the last twenty years technology has had a huge image on commercial print production to such an extent that a modern print operation is a very high tech environment – a world away from the print production techniques employed as little as twenty years ago. And […]
Read moreThe real cost of claiming sustainability 27% of Utility companies are making unsubstantiated claims with regard to switching to paperless billing to save the environment (www.twosides.info). The reality of these claims are that these organisations are using emotive language to persuade customers to turn off paper based billing so that they can reduce their own […]
Read moreIn the age of the internet and austerity the fashion of today for many organisations is to buy cheaper. Buy it cheap buy it twice. Cutting costs and improving efficiency are laudable business aims, but organisations need to be careful to understand the difference between buying cheaper and attaining the best value. Dissipating your brand […]
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