Retailers and restaurants will take time to unwind Covid pandemic precautions, as they navigate different state and local rules and try to keep workers safe.
27 Apr 2021
A new report has brought attention to NBC News failing to disclose that its Chairman Cesar Conde serves on the boards of multinational corporations Pepsi and Walmart when reporting on those companies.
The
Wall Street Journal, in a profile of Conde published Monday, noted the fact that the NBC executive who took on his role in May 2020 is also a board member for the publicly traded companies PepsiCo Inc. and Walmart Inc. He joined the former board in 2016 and the latter in 2019.
When the
Journal raised the question of potential conflicts of interest, an NBCUniversal spokesman responded, “Mr. Conde would recuse himself from weighing in on stories involving Walmart and Pepsi.”
In 1931 Winston Churchill was asked by The Strand Magazine to imagine the world 50 years hence. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately,” he wrote. Churchill might have got his timing wrong, but a future where the meat on our plates has been cultured rather than butchered is finally coming into view.
A new wave of alternative meat start-ups in California, Europe and Israel is intent on disrupting the $1trn global meat industry. Today 77% of farmland worldwide is dedicated to raising and feeding livestock. Mike Selden of Finless Foods, a fishmeat-replacement start-up, envisions the day when meat production moves off the farm and into gigantic “1,000-litre bioreactors” that churn out new batches of cell-cultured products. It would be, as Jessica Glenza in The Guardian puts it, “like a brewery for meat”.
In an interview with CNBC, Fiverr chief marketing officer Gali Arnon said the ad comes after a landmark year for the company. All over the world, freelancers [are] joining our platform, because of the situation, because of the pandemic and because of the high rate of unemployment all over the world, she said.
Watch an extended version here:
Guaranteed Rate s Believe You Will
Mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate s ad, Believe You Will, is slated to run in the fourth quarter of the game. The company says the ad is meant to promote the message that Whatever your goals, from climbing Mt. Everest to getting a new home with a big yard or a better view, you can accomplish them if you believe you will.
In an interview with CNBC, Fiverr chief marketing officer Gali Arnon said the ad comes after a landmark year for the company. All over the world, freelancers [are] joining our platform, because of the situation, because of the pandemic and because of the high rate of unemployment all over the world, she said.
Watch an extended version here:
Guaranteed Rate s Believe You Will
Mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate s ad, Believe You Will, is slated to run in the fourth quarter of the game. The company says the ad is meant to promote the message that Whatever your goals, from climbing Mt. Everest to getting a new home with a big yard or a better view, you can accomplish them if you believe you will.