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GOOD LORD
CAMPAIGNS
been confirmed to provide
SCOTMID SHARES CELEB SMILES DURING LOCKDOWN
a keynote address at ACS’s
SCOTTISH CELEBS HAVE COME TOGETHER TO HELP SCOTMID
Rural Shop Report launch on
LAUNCH AN INITIATIVE TO KEEP COMMUNITIES SMILING
23 February. He will reflect on
THROUGHOUT THE CURRENT LOCKDOWN.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Minister for Rural Affairs, has
the findings of the report and detail the Government’s plans to support rural shops. To book your free place, email steve. dowling@acs.org.uk.
GREEN GONG Spar Scotland wholesaler and retail CJ Lang has won a Scottish Green Apple Environment Award for Environmental Best Practice in 2021. Since 2019 CJ Lang has saved almost 67 tonnes of food from going to waste, reduced carbon emissions by the equivalent of 244 tonnes
Scottish celebs including comedian Janey Godley, Still Game’s Mark Cox (pictured) and Homes under the Hammer presenter Martel Maxwell are supporting Scotmid’s #sharingsmiles campaign. The initiative follows Scotmid’s first lockdown #sharingsmiles campaign, which ran last year. This time, Scotmid is asking people of all ages to share their favourite jokes and help raise a smile by showing those who remain shielding or who are finding the continued lockdown restrictions a struggle, that their communities care. Scotmid is also raising awareness of its 2021 charity partnership with
Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS). Those looking to participate can send their jokes to lynneogg@scotmid. co.uk. And if you’re wondering, the sloth said: “No, I don’t think so, it all happened so fast.”
of CO2 and given out the equivalent of 37,000 meals.
MÜLLER APPOINTMENT Müller Milk & Ingredients has appointed Mars, Aldi and Associated British Foods veteran Liam McNamara as Commercial Director as the business works towards realising its vision to become Britain’s private label dairy leader. He joins in May 2021.
POST OFFICE EXPANDS DIGITAL ID SERVICES WITH YOTI In a move that secures new, additional revenue for Postmasters, the Post Office has rolled out a suite of online and inbranch products in a new partnership with digital identity company Yoti. The rollout includes a free app that combines customers’ personal data and biometrics to create a secure, reusable ID on their phone, and in-branch services for those customers who do not have access to a smartphone or
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who prefer face-to-face contact when confirm their identity. The partnership also connects Post Office customers with online businesses, by enabling companies to use Post Office and Yoti identity verification services for fraud detection, e-signatures and customer authentication services, using secure biometric face matching and liveness detection.
