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Investment Week unveils shortlist for Investment Marketing and Innovation Awards 2021
Winners announced on 16 July
Several new categories are up for grabs in this year s awards
We received a record number of submissions this year so well done to all those shortlisted.
Following a year of unprecedented challenges for marketing and distribution, these awards are intended to honour the marketing and content campaigns, as well as the individuals and teams that have successfully persevered and delivered excellence in terms of creativity, innovation, and customer engagement.
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With several new categories in 2021, the awards this year cover both marketing and proposition development, content marketing and thought leadership, direct and digital marketing.
Ivan Menezes, CEO, Diageo
Since becoming the CEO of Diageo (DGE.L) in 2013, Ivan has been passionate about driving inclusion and diversity at the company.
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In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’.
The plan laid out goals including increasing the representation of ethnic minorities in leadership positions to 45% by 2030, as well as increasing the percentage of Diageo suppliers from female and minority-owned businesses year-on-year.
2020 also saw the roll-out of a new learning intervention ‘Confronting Racial Bias Learning’, and the opening of Diageo’s fourth global ‘INC’ week; an employee-led, grassroots movement encouraging employees around the world to celebrate diversity.
State Street executives back BAME initiative to spotlight ethnic minority experience in the workplace
Custodian says “being silent is not an option anymore” and adds weight behind initiative to support positive dialogue on race in the workplace across industries.
A new initiative aimed at
spotlighting the journeys of successful ethnic minority professionals has been set up by one of State Street’s managing directors and backed by a number of C-level executives from across the custodian’s business.
Reboot. comprises a team of ethnic minority ally cross-industry communications and marketing professionals who are aiming to use the power of storytelling to support positive dialogue on race in the workplace and engage senior leadership across large organisations to help tackle conscious and unconscious biases.