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HullBID and Hull College announce double boost for hospitality sector
HullBID has launched a new venture aimed at giving the city centre’s hospitality businesses a helping hand and bringing together the wider membership for a new networking opportunity. The HullBID Supper Club was unveiled with a launch at Bilocca – the new training restaurant at Hull College – and is being rolled out with a first season of six dates at destinations including local independents...
Arco signs up to inclusive PPE charter
Hull-based Arco, the UK’s leading provider of safety products and services, has signed up to a new charter calling for inclusivity in workplace PPE. The Protection for Everyone Charter, launched by health and safety news publisher SHP, calls for well-fitting personal protective equipment (PPE) to be seen not just as best practice, but as the minimum standard for all. Arco is one of the first...
How you can support staff to choose cycling
The daily commute contributes significantly to an individual’s work-related carbon footprint and yet, in Hull, only 6.9% of people cycle to and from work – according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). There are many reasons that an employee may not currently choose to cycle to or for work, such as affordability, lack of awareness, access to facilities (such as secure cycle parking,...
Arco wins EcoVadis gold medal for excellence in sustainability
Hull-based Arco, the UK’s leading safety provider, has once again been awarded a gold medal for sustainability by the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. After thorough examination of its sustainability performance by independent experts at EcoVadis, Arco has retained its “Gold” status for 2024, improving on its overall score since the company’s last...
‘Awesome woman’ tells of transformation from tech industry trailblazer to personal sovereignty
A tech industry globetrotter told a Humber Business Week audience that the “personal sovereignty” which enabled her to bounce back from personal and professional catastrophe would be at risk in the modern era of AI advances. Ragini Annan, who was one of the early recruits at Lotus and then worked with Steve Jobs at Apple, told how she turned to the traditional Indian Vedic techniques as her...