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4imprint tumbled after it reported the pandemic had wiped out its profits for the latest year.
Pre-tax profits at the group, which makes things like branded bags and water bottles, dropped 93pc to just $3.84m (£2.76m), with Covid-19 having a âdevastatingâ impact on trading.
It said weekly order counts hit a low of 20pc of pre-pandemic levels last April, but gradually recovered to a run-rate of about 70pc by the final quarter. They fell back again to 65pc of pre-virus levels in January and February this year, a drop which the group attributed to weakness after the busy festive period.
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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.
More talk, more walk – DiverCity Podcast returns
Julia Streets, Founder and Host of the DiverCity Podcast
Now more than ever, businesses like to tell us what they care about. Most company websites have a full section extolling the corporate values they claim sets them apart. Think: a culture of flexibility, low environmental impact or strong workforce diversity.
Unfortunately, the walk does not always match this talk.
Even though diversity and inclusion has become an increasingly important subject within the corporate world, much still needs to be done to champion representation across all aspects of the spectrum including gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, disability and more.