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actually doing good and making a difference in our crucially eco-conscious world. We’ve got over 60 categories to judge, from best carbon footprint initiative, to best supply chain initiative, to best sustainable packaging and many more. It’s going to be tough, but luckily, we’ve lined up a panel of sustainability pros, eco-warriors and advisors to help award the brands that, in short, are the best in the business. So, without further ado, meet our stellar line up of judges – we’ve go...

What they’re reading By DIANA NGILA Managing Partner, Kenya-Ogilvy Africa The first quarter of the year is almost over, have you achieved your reading goals? How many books have you read so far? As an executive who works from home and with two young children, I felt that having a target was setting up myself for failure. So at the beginning of the year, I set to read more than I did last year. So far, I have read seven books. ‘Brands on a Mission’ by Dr Myriam Sidibe is on how brands can ...

  When the phone stopped ringing last spring, Mark Dickson, president of Simple Power Solar in Reno, dimmed his sales expectations for 2020. “We got afraid like everybody else, and thought, what’s going to happen?” said Dickson, noting the company laid off most of its 20-person staff when COVID business impacts took hold nearly a year ago. “We were kind of preparing for the worst.” So was the solar industry nationwide. The pandemic was initially disruptive as door-to-door marketing b...