Barry Parkin is chief sustainability and procurement officer at Mars.
How we’re ending deforestation in Mars’ palm oil supply chain|jakemeth|October 7, 2020|Fortune
“We have cleaned up our act,” said Barry Parkin, chief procurement and sustainability officer at Mars.
‘We’re weeding out the bad actors’: Mars says its M&Ms no longer contribute to deforestation|Bernhard Warner|October 6, 2020|Fortune
Yet, it could have been much larger had Kenya not pulled out of the project back in 2015 over alleged procurement irregularities in the awarding of software contracts.
Three East African countries are merging their stock markets to boost local investment|Yomi Kazeem|September 24, 2020|Quartz
“If the business is hit hard then there will be logical cuts to the budget and with that also likely a shift in scope with an underlying need for savings,” said a marketing procurement director at a pharmaceutical company who asked not to be named.
‘It’s more transformational’: For the third time in five years, advertisers will launch a mediapalooza of account reviews|Seb Joseph|September 2, 2020|Digiday
We also don’t know which police departments have facial recognition technology, because it’s common for police to obscure their procurement process.
There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Procurement budgets for weapon systems and operational-cost accounts are separated by a near-unbreachable wall.
America’s 60 Year-Old Nuclear Bomber Might Finally Get a New Engine|Bill Sweetman|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Junk leaves no room for family, jobs, or relationships other than those organized around the procurement and enjoyment of junk.
American Dreams, 1953: ‘Junky’ by William S. Burroughs|Nathaniel Rich|June 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
At Pentagon procurement prices, the cost of switching the stationery alone would be astronomical.
More South-Bashing!|Michael Tomasky|May 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It's hard to imagine any reason that the state needs to get into regulating the procurement and sale of . . . wooden boxes.
A Victory Against Big Funeral in Louisiana|Megan McArdle|March 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And procurement of body-scanning machines could stop, since TSA already has more than they need for secondary screening.
TSA, Don't Touch My Junk!|Robert Poole|November 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
For a large period of the war the procurement of precision instruments was in the hands of the General Engineer Depot.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
For a brief season subsequent to arrival the sexes remain apart, and seem only intent upon the procurement of food.
Nests and Eggs of Birds of The United States|Thomas G. Gentry
Inspection and procurement detachments were maintained in most of the eastern industrial centers.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
The procurement of the webbing for these articles was in itself a manufacturing achievement.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
The greatest difficulty incurred, in having a game of ball, was the procurement of a ball that would survive even one inning.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson|Edward A. Moore