With two new online projects dubbed “Lives with M” and “Stories with M,” McDonald’s Portugal is going backstage and unveiling some details of its corporate life by telling success stories of its current and former employees. The idea to launch the project roots in the company’s commitment to provide younger generation with a chance to make the first step in their business career and achieve significant results either within the chain or in other areas. Want to see real people who succeeded on a professional or personal level by working for McDonald’s? Here they are.

P&W has designed the packaging for Tesco’s newly-launched Mexican ready meals. The range, comprising seventeen different products including fajitas, enchiladas and ribs, taps into consumer interest in Mexican food by offering consumer a convenient alternative to leading brands such as Old El Paso, which require consumers to assemble the components themselves, and brings something new to the ready meals category.

Unilever has released its new Sustainable Living Plan focused on minimizing the environmental impact of the company’s brands. The program will be rolling out for the next 10 years and will help the company produce more sustainable products and as well as reach a set of economical targets. Unilever CEO Paul Polman unveiled the plan in London, Rotterdam, New York and New Delhi at the same time on November 15 and noted that the new plan is to “create preference for our [the company’s] brands.”

General Mills detailed its progress in four environmental sustainability areas and announced new environmental sustainability goals for 2015. The company’s new, expanded environmental sustainability targets include: reducing water usage by 20%, reducing solid waste generation by 50%, reducing energy usage by 20%, and reducing greenhouse gas emission by 20%.

A range of processed food, drink and alcohol manufacturers as well as fast food companies are collaborating with the UK Department of Health to develop a government policy on obesity, a problem which mainly roots in improper eating habits. The companies, which teamed up for working on the paper, are McDonald’s, KFC, PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo.

frog design announced a collaboration with UNICEF as the organization’s lead design and innovation partner on Project Mwana, a major mHealth initiative to improve maternal and infant health and welfare in peri-urban Malawi and rural Zambia. The immediate goal of the project is to leverage mobile technologies in innovative ways to significantly increase mothers’ visits to clinics for ante and postnatal care by January 2012.