Amanda Blanc succeeds Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia as Women in Finance Champion
over 70% of Women in Finance Charter signatories have met or are on track to meet targets
missed targets primarily due to Covid-related recruitment and promotion freezes
Amanda is CEO of Aviva, the UK’s leading insurer, and will play a crucial role in promoting HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter. Signatories to the charter commit to help women progress into senior roles, to set targets for gender diversity and report on their progress towards these.
After five years in the role, Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia will continue to support and promote the Charter as an Advisor. There are now over 400 signatories to the Charter covering 950,000 employees across the financial services sector.
The Farm Transition Grant has been restructured to better serve Connecticut farmers and farmer cooperatives.
The creation of five grant categories will address gaps in funding to support farmers in times of growth, change and emergency need.
Applications will be accepted starting April 8 and due no later than 4 p.m. on April 15.
âThe changes to our Farm Transition Grant are a direct result of listening to the producers we currently serve and creating attractive funding opportunities for new farmers in Connecticut,â said Agriculture Commissioner Bryan P. Hurlburt. âThe revised categories will level the playing field through a proactive approach, which fosters an environment of innovation and support, throughout the lifecycle of a farmer and their business enterprise.â
While the integral role of supply chain, which includes inventory decisions, has become more obvious to everyone, and college degrees in supply chain are increasing, many manufacturers still see it as a renamed purchasing department.
Effective procurement is an important profession, but it does not define nor integrate inventory strategies into the company mission, core values, and strategy. If anywhere at all, that is likely the responsibility of planning or scheduling, or supply chain.
But do any of them really do that for your business?
Setting up parameters in your ERP system is not strategic inventory management. Nor is negotiating for volume discounts with suppliers. Both of those may be worth doing, but neither adds value in a vacuum.
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator) to the premium docuseries
Apostate from filmmaker Kelly Sallaway, last year’s winner of the Propelle Content Accelerator program.
Further developed with Everywoman and Eva Orner together with Sallaway, the project takes a deep dive into what has been called America’s biggest, most powerful and fastest growing cult, the FLDS. Through unprecedented access gained by Sallaway, the story will be told through those that recently left the FLDS including the 65th wife of the polygamist sect’s leader, Warren Jeffs, who has dedicated her life to helping others escape.
Veteran TV and film producer Sallaway (pictured, left) is executive producing the project, with Orner boarding as director and EP.
Department of Defence
Workers whose employment has been impacted by COVID-19 will be provided with pathways into exciting and sustainable careers in the naval shipbuilding sector under a $5 million program to be delivered by the Morrison Government.
The new program is part of the Government’s $1 billion investment package to boost Australia’s defence industry workforce to 70,000 and support thousands of jobs across the country.
Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price said while the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted many Australians, the Morrison Government was growing the defence industry workforce to further support small and medium sized enterprises across the country.