All Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) articles – Page 12
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Analysis and Features
How LGBTQ-friendly is fmcg?
Stonewall’s list of the top 100 LGBTQ-inclusive employers only includes two food and drink companies. How can it be sorted…
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News
Diageo tops fresh FTSE 100 ranking for most female directors
The Smirnoff owner’s board is 44.4% female, with four female directors and one female executive director
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Analysis and Features
Making a career in wholesale more attractive to women
The Women in Wholesale conference heard last week how leading players in the industry are tackling the gender divide
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News
Greggs signs Time to Change mental health workplace pledge
Greggs launched its Balanced You health and wellbeing initiative ealier this year…
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News
Motor Fuel Group rolls out disabled driver refuelling app
Sainsbury’s became the first supermarket to adopt the technology at its 300 filling stations last week…
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News
FWD hits bursary target to fund more women in wholesale
The Fellowship Fund provides part-funding for external career development, training and studying
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Comment and Opinion
Take mental health seriously: employee care goes beyond HR
World Mental Health Day occurs annually on 10 October. This year the pledge was centred on mental health in the workplace
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Comment and Opinion
Diversity doesn’t stop with gender… but it’s a good start
The BRC’s new gender diversity initiative is a timely reminder for the grocery industry to not go the same way as the IT crowd
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Comment and Opinion
Grocery suppliers must take urgent action on diversity
When launching my brand, I wanted to stand out from the crowd and bought a wide-brim fedora, says The Black Farmer founder Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones. I needn’t have bothered - my skin colour alone made me stand out.
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News
Age, race, gender? Irrelevant questions of a retrograde era
It will be a great day when diversity is freed from its stubborn association with those that possess differing physical traits, says Jonathan Fitchew of Pareto Law
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News
Co-op faces union action over dismissal of disabled drivers
More than 300 Unite members are voting on whether to take action over Christmas
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News
What Kraft Heinz’s super young new CFO tells us about age-blind recruitment
David Knopf has become chief financial officer of Kraft Heinz aged just 29 - and prompted a slew of coverage focusing on his age
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News
Asda to appeal against tribunal gender equal pay ruling
Supermarket says pay rates in stores differ from pay rates in distribution centres for legitimate reasons
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Comment and Opinion
Wholesale empowerment of women
Women are reluctant to put themselves forward. In my experience, they often wait to be asked for promotions and pay rises
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News
Julie Dunn becomes first female SWA president
Dunn succeeds Booker’s Eddie Lynagh as president…
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News
East of England Co-op marks women business leaders with photo
The portrait celebrated women who were helping to lead the future of food and drink production..
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News
Lineup of leading women to speak at wholesale conference
Positive female role models will be highlighted at the Women in Wholesale event at the British Library on 19 October
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News
Women in Wholesale report calls for gender diversity action
Research conducted by Him! found a lack of flexible working was the main challenge for women
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Comment and Opinion
Time for a new approach to recruiting young grocery talent
An Vermeulen of CCEP explains why her company increasingly uses apprenticeships to recruit new starters
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Comment and Opinion
Women in fmcg must be bold for change
Propercorn’s Cassandra Stavrou reflects on International Women’s Day and how fmcg can encourage more women to be ‘bold for change’