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News: January 2012

New on-line tool – ‘Secret Weapon’ against rising energy bills

January 17, 2012

Whitbread among first to sign up for new Carbon Trust tool targeting £500m savings on energy and waste. Employees could save UK businesses and public bodies £500m and two million tonnes of C02 – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of all the households in Birmingham – thanks to a new, online office tool called Carbon Trust EmpowerTM launched today by the Carbon Trust. By engaging employees in cutting energy use, paper …

New on-line tool – ‘Secret Weapon’ against rising energy bills

Foodservice sector is set to toughen in 2012

January 17, 2012

Foodservice sector must continue to innovate as trading is set to toughen in 2012 The UK foodservice sector faces its biggest challenge yet as 2012 brings a fourth year of retrenchment, with consumer confidence worsening and unemployment set to rise. With a year of austerity in prospect, the country’s 260,000 eating out establishments, which generate around £42bn-worth of sales per year, will have to work even harder than last year to tempt …

Foodservice sector is set to toughen in 2012