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The track only McLaren 12C – the 12C Can-Am – was revealed as a one-off at Pebble Beach but is now going in to limited production. The 12C Can-Am is aimed at the lucrative track day market in the States, and without the constraints of any production series McLaren has been able to play as they wish. That means the 12C Can-Am – developed by the McLaren GT Team which developed the 12C GT3 Race car – gets a new aerodynamic package that improves downforce by 30 per cent, including a carbon fibre splitter with winglets, a carbon fibre diffuser and huge rear spoiler.Tue, 17 Jul 2012
Ariel Motors has announced a one-make race series for its Atom track car: the Atom Cup. Starting in 2013, it offers drivers a potentially all-inclusive package to get involved in the racing scene. What's the thinking behind the Atom Cup?Fri, 30 Jan 2009
Yesterday’s drive of the new Fiesta ECOnetic got me thinking. It’s astonishing what car makers can get out of a car these days. The new ECOnetic manages a combined figure of 76mpg.
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New York City is a notoriously difficult place for restaurateurs. They have to deal with expensive rents and a crowded market, among other hardships. Business Insider even notes that among the 1,000 restaurants that opened last year, 800 of them will fail within the next five years. Not quite a happy statistic, is it? More interestingly, however, Business Insider looks at 13 restaurants that shuttered recently, positing why they might have bit the dust, while revealing their best and worst Yelp reviews. So what were the unlucky places under review?
Even Lady Gaga couldn’t save Vince & Eddie’s, which the publication believes closed due to poor health-report scores; Anthos was sold to become a steakhouse; Barzinho was marshaled by the city; Lingua was losing money and located in a “cursed space.” P & G Bar and Grill had demons and debt; Moran’s, located near the World Trade Center, never recovered after the attacks of September 11, 2001; Floridita Tapas’ closing was blamed on the poor economy; Town owed $79,000 to its vendors; Wall Street Burger Shoppe filed for bankruptcy (people didn’t want $175 burgers — shocker!); Motorino had landlord issues; Stivale had building violations; 5 Burro Café had health violations; and Nicky’s Pho’s location didn’t have enough foot traffic.
None of these reasons for shuttering comes as a major surprise, but the story is still worth a read for the negative Yelp reviews. Like the one that reads, “The experience was so sub-par that it finally prompted me to set up a Yelp account and warn potential diners of just how bad this place is.” Ouch.

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Multitasking isn't great, says Toyota and TED Talks
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Toyota has announced that it will be removing the Matrix for the 2014 model year.
Espousing the benefits of electric vehicles is typically what you'd expect your Green Peace-loving neighbor to do, replete with bumper stickers for all sorts of progressive causes.
With its newest concept, the Toyota Me.We, is a symbol of minimalism in a world of excess.


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The company says manufacturers can enjoy faster distribution and access to markets, and consumers would enjoy low prices and access to a greater number of produ...
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Every year, the flowers bloom, a new iPhone is released — and Lay’s releases wacky new flavors.
Last year, shelves were stocked with Crispy Taco, Everything Bagel with Cream Cheese and Fried Green Tomato. Oh, and who could forget Southern Biscuits and Gravy and Chicken & Waffles? (They can forever keep those Ketchup-flavored chips. Never again.)
This year, though, Lay’s is kicking its launch up a notch: They’re releasing the most new chip flavors ever introduced by the brand at one time. The eight new regionally inspired flavors represent every part of the good ole US of A. Lay’s also has celebrations scheduled across the nation to help introduce the flavors to the regions they’re most inspired by.
We have to give it up to the Lay’s team. They hit the nail on the head with this batch, and this time around, you’re going to want to try every single one.
Let’s introduce the new cast, from West Coast to East Coast.


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With the start of the new school year, it’s time for parents to think about healthy kids’ lunches. “Whether you pack your child’s lunch or they eat in their school’s cafeteria, it’s important to make healthy eating choices that benefit overall and oral health,” says Dr. Deborah Aten, a Charlotte, N.C., dentist. More than 1.4 million children will be starting school in North Carolina in a couple of weeks and more than half (847,000) will be served lunch and about a third (330,000) get breakfast at school. “Thanks to new nutrition standards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meals at school are healthier than ever, “ says Dr. Aten. “Students and their parents are also being encouraged to make smarter food choices.” “Your body is a complex machine and the foods you choose and how often you eat them can affect your overall health and the health of your teeth and gums. Consuming too many sugar-filled sodas, sweetened fruit drinks or non-nutritious snacks can put you at risk for tooth decay which is the most common chronic childhood disease,” says Dr. Aten. “The good news is that cavities are entirely preventable.” School meals now include more whole grains, fruits and vegetables, low fat dairy products, lower sodium foods and less saturated fat. “Parents should talk to their children about the changes in the meals served at school, plus prepare healthier meals and snacks for them to take with them,” adds Dr. Aten. “The days of the tried-and-true peanut butter and jelly sandwich are gone, but there are tons of great school lunch suggestions available to parents on the Internet,” says Dr. Aten. “Alternatives such as tuna salad, chicken and fruit salad, turkey-melon wraps, honey-lime drumsticks, turkey-meatball pitas are not only good for you and your teeth, kids love them. There are easy recipes on the web.” “Snacking is hard to resist, but kids can do their mouth a favor by watching the amount of soda, juice or other sweetened beverages they drink during the day. It’s always better to choose snacks such as fruit, low-fat cheese, yogurt or raw vegetables,” says Dr. Aten. “And if you chew gum, make sure it’s sugarless.”
Dr. Aten also urges children to drink more water during the school day. “Not only are students going to be thirstier because of activity at school, water helps hydrate and cleanse the mouth, removing food and reducing bacteria that can cause decay. Most schools provide water pitchers and cups on lunch tables, or a faucet or water fountain where children can fill their own water bottles.”Kids with braces should pay special attention to what they eat. “Your dentist may recommend that young patients avoid certain foods that can interfere with braces or accidently bend the wires. These may include nuts, popcorn, hard candy, ice and sticky foods such as chewing gum, caramel or other chewy candy.”
Additional information on oral healthy nutrition can be found at www.ncdental.org or www.ada.org. Or visit the NCDA’s healthy choice website: www.ChooseMyPlate.gov. The N.C. Dental Society represents 3,600 dentists throughout North Carolina. The NCDS encourages improvement of the oral health of the public, promotes the art and science of dentistry, sustains high standards of professional competence and practice, and represents the interests of the members of the dental profession and the public which it serves.


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Artificial sugars aren’t so sweet for fruit flies. The insects live an average of 45 to 60 days, but those raised in tubes containing Truvia (pictured)—one of the best-selling sugar substitutes in the United States—lived for an average of only 5.8 days. Six other sweeteners—four artificial, two natural—had no impact on lifespan, the team reports online today in PLOS ONE. Researchers also found that Truvia-fed flies had difficulty in climbing up a small vial, indicating impaired motor function. The problem, the team discovered, lies in an ingredient present in Truvia but not in the other six sweeteners: erythritol, a commonly used food additive approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This is the first evidence that erythritol baits could be used as effective insecticides, at least against fruit flies, say the researchers.
*Correction, 5 June, 10:19 a.m.: The article has been corrected to state that six other sweeteners, both artificial and natural, had no impact on lifespan. An earlier version incorrectly stated that the other six sweeteners were all artificial.


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There were certain problems affecting its impressive camera. But thankfully Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 camera issue gets firmware update
Those of you who have followed the Lumia 920’s trajectory since its launch know that its camera has been universally hailed as the best on a mobile phone. However, fan euphoria aside users did find some niggling issues with things like white balance, image saturation and a general slight blurriness. It was a bit of a tragedy that the Lumia 920 which could capture images which were far and away the least blurry with your shaking hands, actually slipped a bit against other cameras when your hands were still.
It wasn’t a big issue mind you. The slight difference was noticeable only if you were paying really close attention or comparing it with images from other cameras. It was, nonetheless, an issue. While Nokia didn’t actually confirm any of the issues, some recent activity indicates that a fix for the said problems are indeed in the works.
For those who have not been keeping up with the news, Microsoft has recently released an update for the Windows Phone 8 – and 7.8 – platform which brings numerous improvements and at least three new features. The Nokia update is coming hard on the heels of this update.
Engadget is reporting that the update which will have the number PR 1.1, will be hitting US shores sometime in December, which means pretty soon. The tech site got hold of identical set of pictures one of which were taken with a Lumia with PR 1.0 (the original software) and another with PR 1.1 which is the updated software.
And what can we say, the difference is there, apparent in that tiny little bit of extra sharpness. The white balance problem has not gone away however. But this is not the end of the news. The update also brings other stability and performance fixes for the LTE, browsing and such like.
So here is the thing: if you are a current Nokia Lumia 920 owner it is time for you to hold it up in your hand and do a little twirly dance. Between the update that Microsoft is pushing out – and we hear that it has a ‘reply with SMS’ feature on the call receiving screen, plus keep Wi-Fi on and of course its main function is to fix the random reboot problem – and the one Nokia is pushing out, the Lumia 920 will become a really painless device to use.
All that is needed now is for someone to speed up the app load time. Microsoft, you listening?


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KITCHENER — Seniors isolated at home due to the rising spread of the coronavirus will soon be able to borrow a tablet from the City of Kitchener.
The city purchased 10 devices, including iPads, Samsung tablets and Chromebooks, and is set to start a tech lending library for seniors next month who feel disconnected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When everything went online it created a large divide,” said city manager Lori Palubeski.
For those seniors who have tablets at home, virtual programming, including exercises, such as strength training and chair yoga, have been popular online, she said. Many of the twice-weekly classes are full with up to 40 participants.
About 400 seniors have registered online since March and are participating in senior programming at various locations including the Rockway Centre and the Breithaupt Centre.
But not all seniors are as active or have the ability to participate in online classes.
During the first shutdown, city staff connected with seniors at home online and also by phone and gaps became evident, Palubeski said.
In the second shutdown, city staff are set to offer tech literacy skills to seniors who are not familiar with tablets and provide them with a device that they can borrow for a month at a time, she said.
The city received federal grant money — $25,000 — toward the purchase of the tablets.
Logistics are being worked out such as drive-through pickup at community centres or curbside drop-off, Palubeski said.
Other ways the city is connecting with seniors include a youth/senior letting writing program via email and curated activity boxes that get dropped off at homes.
Palubeski said the activity boxes have “really taken off” and 30 boxes have been delivered to seniors since the end of November.
“The boxes have been very well received. It’s something to talk about that is not COVID,” she said.
The activity boxes include art supplies, paints, paint brushes, glue sticks, beads and recipes.
“I think we gave a responsibility to really support folks that may not have the resources or the knowledge to weather the pandemic storm,” Palubeski said.
“Some are doing OK and some aren’t,” she said.


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Like the rest of the country, consumer price inflation in B.C. soared in May with year-over-year growth in the consumer price index (CPI) reaching 8.1 per cent compared with 6.7 per cent in April as prices accelerated.
Following a 1.3 per cent CPI increase from April, B.C.’s 12-month inflation leapfrogged the national figure for the first time since December 2020 and was the highest among Canada’s four largest provinces. Inflation was consistent across the province with both Metro Vancouver and Victoria at 8.2 per cent.
Households are experiencing a broad reduction in purchasing power with already elevated inflation amplified by global supply chain woes, the war in Ukraine and strong domestic demand. Motorists absorbed a 9.9 per cent increase in gasoline prices from April. This increase lifts the year-over-year growth to 42 per cent, compared with 32.8 per cent in April.
Natural gas prices rose 18 per cent and other fuel oils were up 59 per cent, year over year. Food prices continued to track higher with store-bought prices up 8.6 per cent powered by sharply higher meat, produce and bakery aisles prices.
Shelter costs rose 8.4 per cent year over year, which was consistent with April’s 8.2 per cent pace as slowing housing prices dampened ownership costs and rent growth steadied. That said, with mortgage interest costs on the rise and stronger rent increase due to population growth and constraints to home ownership affordability, upward pressure will likely continue.
In other goods and services, prices remained sharply higher than a year ago for furniture, reflecting supply chain challenges, as well as travel accommodations as the normalization of the pandemic has triggered revenge spending on holidays and services.
The latest figures underscore the monstrous inflation challenge for households, particularly lower-income groups without a savings buffer. Wage growth has not kept pace with higher prices meaning severe pressure on any savings. Rising oil prices through much of June and higher interest rates mean that these pressures are unlikely to abate immediately, although easing inflation is anticipated partway through the second half of the year as monetary policy works to cool the economy and improved supply chains dampen prices.
Tourist visits in B.C. climbed for a third consecutive month in April as visits increased sharply following Omicron fears and relaxed entry restrictions. Visits in April moved up 43.5 per cent month to month (m/m) to 341,769 adding to the 15.8 per cent boost in March.
One-day visits posted stronger growth (up 93 per cent) compared with overnight visits (up 34 per cent). American tourists accounted for 77 per cent of all tourists coming into B.C. Short leisure trips and business travel likely drove the increase. B.C. has regained 74 per cent of its pre-pandemic tourism from February 2020.
There is a strong desire by many to travel to B.C. to visit family, for business purposes and for general holiday making. This is especially true now that many festivals and activities have returned to regions across B.C. after a nearly two-and-a-half-year absence.
What could begin to weigh on tourism numbers is the high cost of fuel and the general higher cost of living due to inflation. Both factors may take a larger bite out of the wallets of potential tourists.
Bryan Yu is chief economist at Central 1 Credit Union.


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Mars Inc. is pushing further into the lucrative business of pet care, saying on Monday it had agreed to buy a European veterinary operator.
The deal to buy AniCura from European buyout firm Nordic Capital values the business at close to €2 billion ($2.36 billion) including debt, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It marks the latest in a series of deals in pet care by privately held Mars, which has long owned a substantial pet-food business dating back to 1935, with brands such as Iams, Pedigree and Royal Canin.
Last year, Mars bought veterinary and dog day-care company VCA Inc. for $7.7 billion. And just last week, Mars agreed to buy U.K. veterinary-services provider Linnaeus Group Ltd. from private-equity firm Sovereign Capital Partners.
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With the new EEStor technology, the cityZENN will be a true highway car with an operating range of 400 kilometres capable of achieving 125 km/h. A zero-emissions cityZENN could be recharged in less than five minutes, and its operating costs would represent only 10% of those of a conventional internal combustion engine.
ZENN is currently working on a drive train that could replace the internal combustion engine of commercial vehicles in North America.
ZENN currently has exclusive rights to the EEStor technology in the following markets:
- All new vehicles weighing up to 3,000 lbs (excluding battery weight)
- All internal-combustion-engine cars converted to electricity
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Wisynco adding two new beverage lines for export push
The installation of two new beverage lines by Wisynco Group Limited will boost production by at least 35 per cent, according to Chairman William Mahfood.
The drinks manufacturer plans to increase its capacity to meet the growing demand in local and export markets.
Speaking on the sidelines of an official factory tour on Wednesday, Mahfood told the Financial Gleaner that Wisynco has already paid out just over US$4 million, or about $600 million, for equipment that’s to be shipped to Jamaica by June 2023, the end of its financial year. The spend amounts to around a third of the overall project cost.
The tour of the company’s facilities at White Marl and Lakes Pen in St Catherine was part of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association, JMEA, 75th anniversary commemorative tours of member companies.
Senior management at Wisynco hosted Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, along with representatives from the JMEA. Mahfood noted that all the company’s four beverage lines are running at maximum capacity, and are working overtime to keep up with demand.
“We need that expansion to give us that room to produce optimally. The capacity that we have is almost at its limits, and that improvement will just have to come soon,” he said.
The two new beverage lines are expected to cost about $1.8 billion overall. The company will put in 50,000 square feet of additional space to the east of the 360,000-square- foot Lakes Pen facility to accommodate the incoming machines. The company also operates a 170,000-square-foot plant at White Marl, for a total of 530,000 square feet of factory and warehouse space. Wisynco also leases a 26,000- square-foot warehouse facility in Hague, Trelawny, along with temporary storage facilities in St Catherine and Clarendon.
In addition to the new beverage lines, according to Mahfood, the company will be installing a new energy-generation plant, aiming to reap even more savings following on the cogeneration plant it installed in 2019. That installation uses LNG to supply 2MW of power, along with heat, to run some manufacturing processes. It has cut the company’s energy bill in half, Mahfood said.
Wisynco Group is a manufacturer of beverages as well as food utensils, but it also distributes around 140 local and foreign consumer brands under contract, encompassing around 4,000 products.
The company is striving to grow the proportion of revenue it earns from foreign sales to various Caribbean markets, as well as the United Kingdom and North America.
Export Manager Stephen Dawkins told the Financial Gleaner that exports account for about three per cent of total revenue, but the ratio climbs to about 10 per cent when only manufactured goods are factored.
The company wants to double the latter ratio over the next two years.
The company has been touting progress on its export thrust in recent times, including in its newly released first-quarter earnings report.
“We are encouraged by the increased demand for our products in all channels, including exports, which were up 10 per cent over the same quarter of the prior year. The supply chain challenges continued into this quarter, however, we are seeing improvements,” the company said in a release accompanying its financials.
The company’s July-September first quarter produced sales revenue of $11.9 billion, which Wisynco said was the highest in its history. It reflected a 30 per cent gain relevant to the $9.2 billion of sales recorded in the corresponding first quarter of 2021.
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Saks’ Sales Slide 13%, Loses $42.8M in 3Q
New York City Saks Inc. announced Tuesday that third-quarter losses of $42.8 million and a net-sales decline of 13% (to $698 million from $796 million a year ago) will prompt the company to cut its 2009 capital spending by 40%.
Capital expenditures will be reduced to $75 million for fiscal 2009, down from $125 million for the current year.
The cutback in capital expenditures follows similar moves by retailers, such as Target and Macy’s, in response to a dramatic pullback in consumer spending.
Saks’ announcement came as the retailer reported a wider-than-expected loss in the third quarter in contrast to a profit a year ago.
The company said it lost $42.8 million in the quarter ended Nov. 1, in comparison to a profit of $21.6 million in the year-ago period. Net sales fell 13%.
The retailer also issued a dour outlook Tuesday, predicting deteriorating profit margins in the fourth quarter amid heavy discounting. It also plans to cut spring inventory by 15% year-over-year.
“The current macroeconomic environment is unprecedented and consequently, it is impossible to predict future performance with any degree of certainty,” Stephen I. Sadove, chairman and CEO of Saks, said in a statement.
Like many luxury retailers, Saks had seen its business slow down this past summer as the economy deteriorated, but the financial crisis intensified in September, leading to massive layoffs at investment firms, sharply lower stock prices and a dramatic cutback in spending by the wealthy.
In a desperate attempt to pull shoppers in, Saks was forced to slash prices on merchandise, including new arrivals, a move that hurt its profit margins.
Same-store sales fell 5.9% in August, 10.9% in September and 16.6% in October, representing an 11.5% drop for the quarter overall.
Meanwhile, its OFF 5th outlet business fared better than the company’s average for the period, but business was “significantly below prior quarters,” according to Sadove.
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All Insignia LCD televisions available at Best Buy stores across the U.S. by Dec. 31 will be ENERGY STAR 3.0 certified. For more information and an updated list of brands meet the 3.0 specification, visit www.energystar.gov/products.
Klein’s Markets joins Wakefern under ShopRite banner
KEASBEY, N.J. and FOREST HILL, Md. Klein’s Family Markets, based in Harford County, Maryland, announced that it will be joining the Wakefern Food retail cooperative. With membership in the cooperative, Klein’s will transition its seven stores to the ShopRite banner.
“Transitioning to the ShopRite banner will allow us to expand our offering throughout our store including a broader selection in our meat, produce, deli and bakery departments,” noted Marshall Klein, perishable director of Klein’s Family Markets. Marshall Klein also noted that the quality of the ShopRite private label brand was another consideration when deciding to join ShopRite. “Harford County residents will now have access to more than 3,000 ShopRite branded items, including imported specialty foods, that we believe will bring a new level of quality and value to our customers,” said Klein.
The Klein family becomes the forty-fourth member of Wakefern Food Corp. and will complete their transition to the ShopRite banner by the first quarter of 2009. In addition to providing its members with procurement, warehousing and distribution services, Wakefern is the marketing and advertising arm for ShopRite.


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Avinash Jain explains that today the most important demand from the industry is to nudge the government towards creating an expansion in infrastructure & real estate development which is a big factor in influencing the growth of the pumps market.
In a country which is agriculture and industry dominated, Pumps play a very important role in forwarding the businesses of the said sectors. Playing a dominant role in the progress of sectors like agriculture, oil and natural gas production, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, power generation, domestic and household utilities, pumps contribute a major part in nation’s economy and wealth. Today this sector commands a net worth of more than Rs. 25000 million and has over its hundred year history contributed to the nation’s economy significantly leading to become India’s vital growth driver.
In the Indian society pumps are the vital cogs in the sustenance & development of various sub-industries like agriculture, onshore and offshore production of oil and natural gas, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, mining, ship-building and marine duties, power generation, public water supply and sanitation, domestic and household utilities. They also cater to the emergent demand of process industries like fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, drugs and pharmaceuticals, textiles, soaps and detergents, cosmetic and health care products, dairies, vegetable oil and processed and packed food products, breweries, paints, etc.
The Indian pump industry which took shape in the earliest years of the 20th century, has been fulfilling the needs of the Indian & foreign consumer with international quality pioneering technologies at dirt-cheap pricings. An inherently mature market, the Indian pumping sector has seen fair sales over the past years which are expected to hover between 10 to 14 percent in the coming years. Currently pegged at a growth rate of 16 percent in domestic sales, experts believe that this market will churn production anywhere between 2 million units to 3 million units in the coming years, which will increase the suitability of the sector.
While today the demand of pertinent pump solutions emanate from the fact that due to rapid development and urbanization the water table of the country is rapidly diminishing, it also is dependent on the varied needs of various economic sub-sectors which demand top technology at budget pricing. It is this significant pump manufacturing industry composed of over 500 small, medium and large manufacturers that is called upon to address every emergent need that is supplemented by both Indian and international players in the market.
The Indian pump industry today caters to the needs of every segment of consumer and delivers developed mechanisms including industrial pumps for infrastructure needs, and domestic pumps for consumer & agricultural needs churning out technologies like displacement pumps like rotary, reciprocating & peristaltic and general centrifugal pumps like single-stage radial, submersible, multi-stage radial, axial & mixed pumps.
Being a fairly need-based market, the domestic pump market’s 95% consumption is met by local producers, with more international producers catering to bigger clientele. In here, the need today is to have robust consolidation wherein various horizontal and vertical mergers will enable swift changes in technology, economy, legislation, market and positive customer expectations that will create a better future for the industry. Herein experts believe that with strategic inputs, planned investments and favourable governmental policies, the future augurs well for this opportunity-filled market.
Today the most important demand from the industry is to nudge the government towards creating an expansion in infrastructure & real estate development which is a big factor in influencing the growth of the pumps market. The industry understands that rising population & urbanization boosts the demand for pumps in the market and thus looks towards the government to entail positive measures that will promote growth. While there are many challenges in the sector as of today, the sector also seeks the government to come out with positive policy outlay that will enable the pump manufacturers to attract positive consumer outlook.
The sector expects the government to create a value stream of investments and inputs into this industry to keep up the progresses. While the domestic manufacturers have their work cut out to better their product line quality and create a world-class stream of pumps, the government should also bring in remedial measures to reduce the dependency on foreign imports by liberalizing the input of newer technologies to the domestic product range to bring it at par to international standards.
Today India exports pumps to almost 100 countries, with the USA and Germany, at around 13 and 12 percent respectively being the largest destinations. Thus governmental policies should thus be attuned towards encouraging greater sales across international markets. One interesting fact to have come out in the past decade or so is that the Middle East has emerged as an attractive export destination for low- priced Indian pump sets which are being increasingly preferred over European and American counterparts. While the region is a production and infrastructure hub, it still lacks a domestic manufacturing base, which we as leading constituents should look to address. Thus the government should also create a Middle-East focused policy measure that will enable greater export to the region and will earn us critical foreign exchange.
A significant growth driver, incorporation of newer technologies by domestic players will greatly reduce the dependency on foreign players for technological innovations, thus the government should also look into developing indigenous R&D technologies that will enable greater in-house production. This will also reduce the input costs which in the long run will help in reaching out to the untapped markets with price-efficient product range.
In the upcoming budget outlay, the government should ensure friendly export/import, excise duty, and custom duty policies while ensuring that motor industry develops high efficiency motors indigenously on priority basis that will help take the industry on a greater international level. Also there is an urgent need to address the demands of the infrastructure industry whose success is directly relative to the betterment of the pump industry. The aspirations of the infrastructure industry which seeks greater autonomy in terms of policy outlay, favourable taxes, lower import costs and greater impetus to exports need to be addressed as based on the development in the infrastructure industry, stability and growth in the pump industry can be achieved.
We hope that these recommendations will definitely go forward in creating a more inherent line of operation for the sector and will definitely open up newer vistas of the growth of the industry. We are optimistic about the impending success of the sector internationally and thus are looking towards the government for positive support that will enable the industry attain its actual worth and become the lead contributor the new generation of the country’s shining future.
(The author is Managing Director – Arise India Ltd. The company is a leading manufacturer of Inverters, Batteries, Gas & Electrical Geysers, Pumps, R.O. systems, Air conditioners and LED Televisions.)


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Delegates at the Romeo Bragato wine industry conference in Auckland see a positive mood at the gathering as a sign of the industry's recovery from a downturn during the world recession.
The latest annual report from New Zealand Winegrowers shows the industry is climbing out of a downturn over the past two years, with a 5% increase in wine export earnings and an 11% increase in sales.
The results come after the industry has been struggling with a production glut and price slumps that forced some vineyards out of business.
Mission Estate viticulturist Caine Thompson says it's a marked contrast to the mood in 2008 when a lot of people were frustrated.
He says at that point the industry had been growing at a rapid rate, people were drinking less and cheaper wine because of the global financial crisis and there were record supply numbers which started putting pressure on supply and demand.
But Mr Thompson says now New Zealand markets are starting to strengthen in terms of domestic production and international market demand is also increasing.


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LOL Big Surprise ripped apart in mum’s scathing online review of $100 ‘must-have’ Christmas toy
A MUM has taken to social media to post a scathing review of the LOL Big Surprise — one of this year’s “must-have” Christmas toys.
A MUM has taken to social media to ridicule one of this year’s ‘must-have’ Christmas toys.
Livid Ciara Umar bought the $99.99 LOL Big Surprise for her daughter Elisa as an early festive treat following the hype surrounding the original sized toy.
The mega limited edition version boasts 50 gifts in each ball.
However, Ms Umar, who is self-employed, issued a scathing review on Facebook after being left unimpressed by the contents.
In her post, the 27-year-old wrote: “So Elisa got the big lol surprise today I would definitely not recommend if you don’t want to waste your money the pic on the right is all you get just pre warning yas.”
Her post has been shared almost 8000 times and has racked up over 11,000 comments from other parents.
Agreeing with the mum-of-one, a Facebook user wrote: “Oh my god that’s terrible! How can they justify the price! Definitely won’t be getting one if that’s all u get.”
But others failed to be put off and one fan posted: “ There is a lot more you get with it, for starters you haven’t done any of the fizz bombs yet which have things inside.”
Ciara told the Manchester Evening News: “I was mortified when I saw the contents.
“It’s an absolute waste of money, it’s not even a full ball either, it’s only half a ball as the back is flat.”
The reaction from Aussie mums has been similarly dubious.
“So after you open it all you just end up with some really small pieces of plastic stuff? Is that it? It would be a no from me. It’s pointless,” wrote one mum on the Essential Baby forum.
“These are just tiny pieces of plastic that you used to get free in cereal,” wrote another mum.
“So much unnecessary plastic wrapping! They are just McDonalds Happy Meal toys wrapped in $100 worth of plastic branding,” wrote another.
Since its release in March, the LOL Surprise ball has sold over half a million of the toys in the UK alone.
A range of toys, clothes and accessories are packed into the toy for kids to unwrap. Some surprises are even hidden in bath bombs which have to be dunked in water to reveal the toys.
MGA Entertainment in the UK said: “LOL Surprise is currently the best-selling toy in the UK and a number of other countries.
“The LOL Big Surprise contains 50 exclusive surprises that can’t be found in other LOL products which individually are valued higher than the total RRP.”


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In this environment, the Chinese search giant Baidu has launched a photo service on the basis of the blockchain, designed to protect the rights of ownership of the image in China.
A service called Totem uses the blockchain in order to add a time stamp for each of the original photos for the authenticated user and stored associated with the image data in a distributed network.
Thanks to Baidu opportunities in the field of web scraping data and artificial intelligence, the platform can compare the images that appear on the Internet, with data stored in a traceable blockchain. So she will be able to substantiate claims of intellectual property infringement.
According to information posted on the website of Totem, the platform was joined by a few stock fotoservisas among which the Visual China Group — the local partner of photoregatta Getty Images.
It is unknown what the blockchain is built platform — public or private, but its development marks another step Baidu in the implementation of blockchain technology.
We will remind that in January of this year, Baidu launched its own platform, providing ready-blockchain solutions (BaaS), and a month later released his analogue CryptoKitties called Leci Gou.
It is worth noting that the Chinese search giant is not the first technology company that uses the blockchain as a solution to the problem of intellectual property for digital media assets.
So in the beginning of 2018 Kodak announced the project “an encrypted digital registry of ownership rights of photographers”, and also announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency.
Such developments also deals with Intel, which has applied to patent a method of use of the blockchain for downloading rights to digital images.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) – China’s ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) held a convention name on Wednesday with main suppliers, throughout which an organization consultant recommended the trade dispute with Beijing may have been a factor in final week’s U.S. order banning American corporations from promoting items to the smartphone maker, based on an individual aware of the decision.
The Commerce Department final week banned American corporations from doing enterprise with ZTE after the corporate violated an settlement reached after it was caught promoting U.S. items to Iran regardless of U.S. sanctions.
The ZTE consultant on the decision mentioned it will be naive to assume the ban was ordered in “a vacuum” and was assumed to be related to the U.S.-China trade struggle, the individual mentioned.
The U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs on as much as $150 billion of Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to warn that it will retaliate if Washington pushes forward. The U.S. additionally has taken actions aimed toward lowering entry to the U.S. by ZTE and Chinese tech firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] amid allegations the businesses may be utilizing their expertise to spy on Americans.
In response to a Reuters request for remark, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross mentioned late Wednesday that the order was “a law enforcement matter unrelated to broader trade policy,” based on a press release supplied by a spokesman.
The convention name befell between ZTE and greater than a dozen members of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the individual mentioned.
“It was a factual update on what happened, what they’ve done since the order was put in place, and what they’re doing to remedy the situation,” a Semiconductor Industry Association spokesman mentioned. “There was no discussion of helping ZTE advocate before the U.S. government.”
U.S. firms are estimated to offer 25 p.c to 30 p.c of the elements used in ZTE’s gear, which incorporates smartphones and kit to construct telecommunications networks.
Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O), which is one among ZTE’s high suppliers, mentioned on Wednesday the lack of ZTE’s enterprise will harm its third quarter earnings. Canalys, a expertise consultancy, estimated that 65 p.c of ZTE telephones comprise Qualcomm chips.
It isn’t identified whether or not a Qualcomm consultant was on the ZTE name and the corporate declined to remark. A ZTE spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
LETTER TO BUSINESS PARTNERS
ZTE additionally despatched a letter to its enterprise companions on Wednesday, explaining why it believes the seven-year ban was a “drastic action” out of proportion to its misconduct.
According to a replica of the letter obtained by Reuters, ZTE mentioned the order ought to be “very concerning to all,” because it took impact with out warning to the business, with out ready for the outcomes of an impartial inner investigation due on the finish of the month, and with out recognition for all of the enhancements in its export compliance program.
ZTE invested over $50 million in 2017 in enhancing its compliance program and deliberate to extend that spending this 12 months, the letter says.
The Commerce Department ban was ignited when ZTE admitted in March that whereas it had fired 4 senior workers, it had not disciplined or decreased bonuses to 35 others when it mentioned it had.
In the letter, ZTE mentioned that when it confirmed the worker bonuses weren’t decreased and reprimands not accomplished, it disclosed the knowledge and took “immediate remedial action.”
The order “sends the wrong message” to different firms who may be contemplating settling with the Commerce Department over export management points, ZTE mentioned.
It mentioned it was dedicated to complying with the order and U.S. export management laws “while seeking a resolution to the matter on all available fronts and with the support of many of our business partners.”
(This model of the story was refiled to appropriate identify of firm in 16th paragraph)
Reporting by Karen Freifeld in New York and Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Chris Sanders & Shri Navaratnam


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Plastic pallets are more durable than their wooden counterparts, can be re-used more often and are less prone to breakages which can help reduce the risk of damage and waste in the supply chain. In fact, Tosca estimates that its plastic pallets can be used over 100 times and recycled at end of life.
The collaboration with Tosca will cover the distribution of materials from Avery Dennison factories and distribution centers across the EU as well as the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. Deployments will gradually phase in over the course of the next year.
The agreement allows Avery Dennison’s network of partners to also join the pooling program under favorable terms to cover the onward freight of finished materials to brands and other end users.
Tosca operates a pooling model and delivers clean empty pallets from its service centers located across Europe, to Avery Dennison sites. The service is fully managed with pallets inspected and washed after every rotation by Tosca. At the end of every year, Avery Dennison and its customers that take part in the pooling program will receive a CO2 emissions reduction certificate.
Tosca predicts that Avery Dennison alone could save 819 tons of CO2 emissions annually by switching all its Euro-sized wooden pallets (1,200 x 800mm) to Tosca.
The pooling program has been trialed for almost a year for shipments from Avery Dennison distribution center in Dublin to customers in Ireland.
Violeta Gómez, central packaging leader at Avery Dennison, said: ‘The pooling program has been a massive success in Ireland and is helping us to reduce our carbon footprint and eliminate waste within the supply chain. Customers appreciate the fact that plastic pallets offer standard quality: they are cleaner (dust-free) and with less risk of damaging their products.
‘Avery Dennison’s and Tosca’s plastic pallet pooling vision doesn’t stop after the pallets arrive to the customer. We encourage customers to take the chance to extend the pooling program further down the supply chain to end-users and help grow the eco system further.’
Felix Van Ouytsel, business development manager at Tosca, added: ‘Tosca provides solutions that enable companies across the world to eliminate wasted materials, miles, space and labor to make the entire supply chain more sustainable. As the largest pooler of plastic pallets in Europe, we deliver a combination of reusable products, a flexible global service network and a committed partnership which will benefit Avery Dennison and its customers. We look forward to this partnership and are very happy to welcome Avery Dennison to the Tosca family.’
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Indian digital payment and commerce company Paytm on Tuesday opened the door of its Payments Bank in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The Paytm Payments Bank will be the third payments bank of its kind in the country, following similar set ups by India Post Payments Bank Ltd And Airtel Payments Bank Ltd. Paytm’s parent organisation, One97 Communications Pvt Ltd will be investing roughly Rs 400 crore into the bank over the next two years to extend the business network of its payments bank. The Paytm Payments Bank comes under a new format of banks that have been approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Now, the company aims to attract 500 million customers in the next three years and will offer 4% annual interest rate as well as cash back on deposits. The bank will charge zero fee for online transactions. This is the lowest interest rate among the three payments banks: Airtel Payments Bank offers about 7.25% interest per annum, while India Post offers 4.5% on deposits up to Rs. 25,000; 5% on deposits of Rs. 25,000-Rs. 50,000 and 5.5% on Rs. 50,000-Rs. 1,00,000 (annually). Backed by Chinese firm Alibaba and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Paytm’s payments bank targets to open 31 branches and 3,000 customer service outposts in its first year of operations, the company said. Paytm Payments Bank is offering the initial account services by invitation only.
“RBI has given us an opportunity to create a new kind of banking model in the world. We are proud that our customer deposits will be safely invested in government bonds, and be used for nation building. None of our deposits will be converted into risky assets,” Paytm Payments Bank Chairman Vijay Shekhar Sharma said in a statement.
Here is a look at the products and services:
*Cashback of Rs 500 for first one million customers who give transaction more than Rs 50,000 into their Paytm Payments Bank account.
*The first million customers to open accounts with Rs 25,000 deposits, will get cash back of Rs 250 and the cash will be credited instantly to their account.
*Paytm has already forwarded messages to its 220 million subscribers who hold its mobile digital wallet, informing them about the payments bank services.
*Interested customers can log on to www.paytmpaymentsbank.com or download the iOS app to get an invitation for payments bank account opening.
*Customers will need to submit their e-KYC (Know your customer) documents for verification.
*Customers can open an account using their Aadhaar number and biometric credentials.
*Zero minimum balance requirements.
*Online transactions including RTGS, NEFT, IMPS etc will be offered free of charge.
*Physical services like chequebooks, demand draft and debit card will be available at a nominal fee, benchmarked to the industry. While virtual debit cards are free, the cheque book and physical debit card are chargeable at Rs 100. Similarly, e-statements and online passbooks are free but physical deliverables are priced at a fee of Rs 50 each.
*Under the new banking rules, bank accounts and wallets will be two separate entities. In order to be a part of the banking system, the user will have to open a bank account with Paytm separately.
*Payments banks can allow to deposit sums up to Rs 1 lakh per account.
*Like the other banking services such as debit cards, mobile banking and online banking will be made available in Paytm Payments Bank. For now, they will not be able to offer any loans or issue credit cards to their customers.
*Paytm Payments Bank can allow the provision of financial services like loans, insurance, pension funds and mutual funds among other services, by partnering with a financial organisation.
*Paytm Payments Bank would also offer RuPay debit cards to customers. “We will offer five free ATM transactions (in non-metro cities) per month. After that, customers will pay Rs 20 per ATM withdrawal,” the company said.
“We are very excited to launch Paytm Payments Bank and bring financial services to unbanked segment of Indians. Our ambition is to become India’s most trusted and consumer-friendly bank. Leveraging power of technology, we aim to become the preferred bank for 500 million Indians by 2020,” said Renu Satti, newly appointed CEO, Paytm Payments Bank.


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Achilles Labs Massive 33% Off Sale
Achilles Labs, a Bitcoin mining hardware provider located in China, Is offering a huge 33% discount sale on AM-6000, AM-3400, and AM-1700 Bitcoin miners. While fluctuations have affected the Bitcoin mining industry as a whole, a drop in sales volume for Achilles Labs means that you can pick up some serious hardware for a big discount.
While Bitcoin price is down, there is still ample opportunity in Bitcoin mining now and in the near future. The machines currently offered by Achilles Labs are powerful and with the 33% discount, likely a good bargain.
Achilles Labs offers free worldwide shipping on all miners, and currently accepts Bitcoin payments. In addition to the free shipping, all products come with a 1 year warranty which allows customers to either get a refund or a replacement in the unlikely case of a defective miner. The specs and price of the miners offered in the 33% discount are as follows:
AM-6000: 6TH/s, 3800W, 0.63W/GH ($1940.00)
AM-3400: 3.4TH/s, 2150W, 0.63W/GH ($1270.00)
AM-1700: 1.7TH/s, 1075W, 0.63W/GH ($734.00)
The Achilles Labs 33% sale only lasts until inventory is gone. With the high hashrate and big discount, it’s a good time to get started in Bitcoin mining or expand your existing hardware.
For more information please visit http://achilleslabs.com/


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A research team at Yale has developed a robot that can wrap itself around soft objects and make them move. This system was developed by Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, an engineering professor at the university, in her lab. This robotic system is a general purpose machines which is designed to move everything which is sufficiently soft.
Kramer-Bottiglio, lead of the project, said in a statement that We can take the skins and wrap them around one object to perform a task — locomotion, for example — and then take them off and put them on a different object to perform a different task, such as grasping and moving an object. We can then take those same skins off that object and put them on a shirt to make an active wearable device.” The researchers, in a published in a paper published in Journal Science Robotics wrote that this Omni skin can help move a wide range of soft bodies.
This project basically took the idea from the functions a human skin performs. It protects what is underneath, for instance, protecting the body from bacteria, viruses etc. But the basic idea was the skin being the organ which dictates the movement of our body. So the researchers at Yale, instead of tissue based skin, used a Robotic skin to to move inanimate objects. This robotic skin is made of elastic sheets which has sensors and actuators(movers) that are embedded in it and they are the reason why this robotic skin can then make an inanimate soft object move.
This innovation is pretty exciting because a single robot can do stuff that would actually require multiple robots. This technology also involves using multiple skin for complex movements such as bending and compressing at the same time. The demonstration of this was done on a foam cylinder which was then able to crawl on the ground, a shirt which could improve bad posture by gripping it. It also caused a stuffed horse to wiggle its legs.
Although the system is not fast as other robots but it can perform various functions. The researchers say that even though the project seems funny it actually is not. It is intended to fulfill a serious purpose for NASA which required multi-functional, squishy robots that could adapt to unpredictable tasks in deep space.
We are yet to see the change what this amazing new invention can bring to the world.


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StrategyEye | December 12, 2012 – Big data analysis firm IDInteract has raised USD 700,000 from undisclosed backers. The Seattle-based firm offers a marketing analysis service that allows advertisers to interpret big data to identify and interact with clusters of prospective targets. The company aims to offer traditional marketing, business intelligence and CRM system implementation for clients under one platform. The company is to be led by CEO Matthew Standish who has served as chief information architect at T-Mobile and practise director of 4G IP platforms at AT&T.
Link to Article: http://www.strategyeyedigitalmedia.com/article/2012/12/12/idinteract_grabs_usd700000_for_big_data_analysis/


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This year, chefs and provenance entrepreneurs finally joined the dots, deciding how we'll eat tomorrow
It’s tempting, in retrospect, to believe that the 2016 food story was shaped by a January ruling from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The regulatory body, which began cracking down on laissez-faire food imports a few years ago, declared that nothing would be allowed into the country unless it still had 60% of its shelf-life intact—no matter that goods packaged in the European Union and the US carry “best by" dates, not dates of manufacture.
Self-serving as that starting point may be—the notification came on the back of a series of similarly well-intentioned, if clueless, steps, including a 2011 ruling that recognized only “non-animal rennet" cheeses—its implications, coupled with concurrent concerns about carbon footprints, agricultural futures and costs, have been transformational for the restaurant industry this year.
How? Consider the cheese. Animal rennet is at the heart of prized products like Italy’s Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC)-certified Parmigiano Reggiano. Its non-availability encouraged the rise of the artisanal Indian cheesemaker, who uses vegetarian rennet and Internet recipes to develop tweaked versions of Brie and Grana Padano.
Like brothers Prateeksh and Agnay Mehra, who set up The Spotted Cow Fromagerie in 2014 and now produce 100kg of cheese every month. “We make bloomy cheeses, two in the French style and one in the Italian. We call them Bombrie, Camembay and Rombay (after Robiola), since the originals are geographical indication or DOC-tagged and can’t be reproduced elsewhere," says Prateeksh.
As thrilled as the Mehras were with the welcome their cheeses received, their biggest validation came when Craft, a casual dining place in Kurla, Mumbai, put “handcrafted, artisanal, preservative-free cheese from The Spotted Cow Fromagerie" on the menu. “This was something completely new and unexpected," admits Prateeksh.
Call it jugaad, making the best of a bad situation or simply a huge opportunity, “the use of indigenous ingredients in food—Indian, European and beyond—can define 2016," says Riyaaz Amlani, chief executive officer and managing director of Impresario Entertainment & Hospitality Pvt. Ltd and president of the National Restaurant Association of India. Virtually every single trend that has emerged or intensified over the past year looks to dig deep within the borders, make the best of locally available resources, fragmentize broad regional cuisines and crown Indian—be it cuisine or ingredient—as the king of the palate.
Even for veteran industry-watchers, the triumph of Indian flavours in “affordable casual dining"—a price bracket covering per-person spending of Rs500-1,000—comes as a surprise. “The millennials are far less experimental in their choices of cuisine than their parents," says Bakshish Dean, five-star executive chef-turned-executive director at Prime Gourmet Pvt. Ltd, a restaurant company.
What helped, says Zorawar Kalra, five of whose six brands spin north Indian food in various ways, was presentation. “Indian food used to be poorly marketed, poorly packaged. Farzi Café put a modern molecular twist to the food in a high-energy, youth-oriented environment and now the modern Indian genre is the No.1 mega phenomenon in the country," says the man who added 12 outlets to his Massive Restaurants portfolio in 2016.
Staying with the Indian theme but pushing the creative envelope significantly, Manu Chandra of Toast & Tonic, Joy Banerjee of Kolkata’s Bohemian, and Thomas Zacharias of The Bombay Canteen make the ordinary exceptional. With a Twitter feed full of photographs of fresh produce from markets in Mumbai and around the world, Zacharias puts his money where his eyes go: His current winter menu features a barley salad with ponkh (green jowar), a ceviche with locally sourced red snapper, kokum (a souring agent), salt and black rice, a haleem with tender wheat berries, and a slider served with a pickle of the humble tendli (ivy gourd).
“This is our second winter and it’s quite astonishing to see people come back and ask if we are serving ponkh or pink guava or even unexciting veggies like parval or tendli again," says Zacharias. “Beyond Mumbai, we have also sourced bamboo rice from Tamil Nadu and black rice from West Bengal."
Black rice is also a big hit at Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda Café, where owner Farhad Bomanjee—self-confessedly more ideator than chef—gives the very Indian ingredient a foreign twist: He uses it in a mushroom risotto and as a side to a Thai red curry with grilled rawas. “I encountered black rice for the first time in a sample bag from the Original Indian Table (OIT)," says Bomanjee. “I tried it out and immediately put in a bigger order: It’s important for me to promote indigenous grains so that farmers continue to grow them. And for that I really appreciate the work that OIT does, because it’s not something I would do."
A large part of the credit for the Indian-food-first zeitgeist, then, must go to the all-new provenance entrepreneur, professionals in their 20s and 30s who introduce structure, ethics and accountability to a notoriously ad hoc system. Consider OIT, set up in 2015 by finance professionals Ishira Mehta and Puneet Jhajharia after they had spent two years travelling across 20 states for their agriculture value chain solutions company.
“In pockets across the country, we found farmers moving away from pesticide-reliant agriculture and growing local varieties of crops that require fewer chemicals, if not going organic. But they were lost when it came to larger markets. At the same time, there were people in the cities looking for newer, healthier products. So we stepped up to bridge the gap," says the Delhi-based Mehta. Besides varieties of rice, OIT’s products include barnyard millets, munisiari rajma, nuts, rock salt and the like, all of which are picked up by their restaurant partners and sold on their website, as well as on Bigbasket.com and Amazon.in.
A similar quality code governs cutting-edge seafood suppliers Era Fishery Products Pvt. Ltd, run by Anurag Dewan and his brother Prabhat. “What sets us apart is the fact that we process our catch—red snapper, reef cod, emperor, barracuda, everything that’s found in the Andaman Sea—at source," explains Prabhat. “Our unit in Port Blair allows us to blast-freeze fish and seafood to minus 35 degrees Celsius as soon as they make landing. The produce, about 50 tonnes a month, travels to Chennai in reefers and then joins the mainland cold chain. Compared to chilling, blast-freezing maintains the properties of the seafood, thereby ensuring a better product on the plate."
Among Era’s clients are Viva O’ Viva at Goa Bhavan in New Delhi, Guppy By Ai in New Delhi and Coastal Reef in Gurgaon. Prabhat’s big test, though, will be the imminent retail supplies in northern India, where, he’s convinced, people have no idea how fish really tastes.
The success of indigenous ingredients in no way surprises professional home chefs, who were the first to tap into the nostalgia-rich, experience-hungry migrant populations of India’s biggest cities, and who have experienced something of a boom this year. “I source 80% of what I need—grains, greens like colocasia leaves, broad mustard greens (not to be confused with sarson saag), even herbs like mandhoniya, lawfah or musondori—from the North-East," says Gitika Saikia, who is popular in Mumbai for her home-cooked Assamese food pop-ups.
The “authentic" tag appropriated by home chefs cooking up everything from Iyengar to Kayasth to Khasi to Chettinad, however, comes with a caveat. Home chef Pritha Sen, well-known for her one-off storied East Bengali meals, points out: “When a trend catches on the way pop-ups have, the gatekeepers—be it the home cooks or the aggregators—have to be extra vigilant. Otherwise mediocrity will creep in and then it’s just a question of time before it goes bust. The focus has to be on a new experience and great value-addition, nothing else will work."
There’s a takeaway there for the restaurant industry as well which witnessed, as Amlani says, a 15% growth in the affordable, casual dining segment over the past year. At the moment, it may sync neatly with the muscular assertion of a national identity, mashing up a robust respect for indigenous ingredients with a distinct disregard for foreign intellectual property, balancing a celebration of the local with a growing insularity. But unless it’s nurtured with integrity, empathy and foresight, the repercussions could extend well beyond the plate.


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Responding to the controversy over a customer’s alleged demand not to assign a Muslim delivery person, food delivery platform Swiggy said that there is no place for discrimination in Swiggy’s delivery universe as it is an equal opportunity platform.
It further clarified that no such requests are taken into consideration as the assignment of orders is entirely automated.
The response came after Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra took to twitter objecting the discriminatory demand and asked Swiggy to blacklist the customer. She tweeted, “Sickening to see normalisation of hatred & bigotry – what would earlier be hidden personal prejudices now become proud public proclamations of majoritarianism. @Swiggy pls blacklist customer, make name public & also file police complaint. This is blatantly illegal.”
Replying to her tweet Swiggy with its twitter handle Swiggy Cares, responded, “Hey Mohua, as an equal opportunity platform, there is no place for discrimination in Swiggy’s delivery universe. The assignment of orders is entirely automated and does not take any such requests into consideration. We’ve been attempting (cont)”
On August 30, Shaik Salauddin, National General Secretary of the Indian Federation Of App Based Transport Workers (IFAT), shared the screenshot of a direction from a Swiggy customer in Hyderabad saying, “Don’t want a Muslim delivery person.”


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U.S. factory orders post largest drop in more than a year
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New orders for U.S.-made goods recorded their biggest drop in more than a year in October and business spending on equipment appeared to be softening, suggesting a slowdown in activity in the manufacturing sector.
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Microgaming, one of the leading content providers in the iGaming industry, has revealed that a new form of poker product will be added to its diverse casino games portfolio. The supplier is dedicated to delivering top-quality content to operators, with a particular emphasis on poker games.
This announcement comes just months after the closing of the Microgaming Poker Network, a website that has delivered award-winning gaming experiences to online poker players for more than 16 years.
With the launch of Lucky Showdown scheduled to be revealed in the coming months, Hold’Em Poker is the first in a complete suite of exclusive poker games that will be launched by the company.
Hold’Em poker is a modern take on the classic version of the poker game, with a fast pace. With a new random prize pool wheel mechanic and a progressive jackpot of €25,000, the brand is tailored for mobile usage. This title will be published on December 1st exclusively, and on December 9th it will be released worldwide.
Microgaming members, who recently teamed up with BTG, say that Hold’Em will add a new dimension to their vertical online casino and that the titles will provide diverse content and creative gaming experiences for their customers.
John Coleman CEO said: “Hold’Em Poker will add a new dimension to our online casino vertical, introducing a range of fun and exciting poker games to our platform. Designed to appeal to both poker and casino players, these games will deliver even further choice to our customers as we continue to diversify and innovate our content offering.”


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We visited Biostar this afternoon as part of our frantic race round Old Taipei, and the company had some interesting things to say.
The company’s main focus is still on desktop motherboards, but it’s shipping quite some quantities – something like 500,000 pieces a month, said Eric Yung, the sales and marketing manager.
That has given it more access to Intel – it became an Intel direct partner last month.
Last year, Biostar revenues were $12 million.
The company has about 50 or so products in its line, a mix of AMD and Intel motherboards. Biostar won’t ship that many USB 3.0 motherboards but may change its attitude in the second half. NEC’s hegemony on controllers will change because a number of third parties, including Via, will make cheaper chips than the $9 a pop they cost right now.
Biostar has good business in Russia, South America, Eastern Europe and China, especially Brazil. But it also ships between 10,000 and 15,000 motherboards to India a month, with its partner Abacus.
Yung said that the company will also enter the notebook market – not the netbook market – which he said was dead. It will offer 12-inch and 13-inch fully fledged machines in the near future.
It also sees a future in digital signage and has ambitious plans to grab a share of internet cafe desktops in China.


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Risk-off start to the week
It is always a shame when a week begins with a risk-off tone, but this is one of those weeks. Weaker China retail sales and industrial production out early this morning has supported the recent thoughts of a China slowdown, while the situation in Afghanistan does little to help the overall risk sentiment. If I knew more about that I’d say something but I’ll refrain from doing so right now for fear of getting it wrong, suffice to say it looks like one almighty mess and a complete waste of time and life. Parliament is to be recalled in response to the Afghan crisis.
UK unemployment numbers due out tomorrow, there had been a fear that unemployment would increase dramatically at the end of furlough scheme, the feeling now seems to be that this will be nowhere near as bad as initial concerns. GBP a bit off recent highs, GBPUSD now 1.3860, EURGBP at 0.8505 (GBPEUR 1.1760).
AUD dips on news of extended lockdowns in Australia plus the China slowdown which won’t help matters. AUDUSD now 0.7340, AUDNZD 1.0440. Could see some more volatility in AUDNZD later this week when RBNZ meet, there is growing feeling they will lift rates from 0.25% to 0.5%. Some were even looking for a 50bps raise but this seems to be less likely now. Watch 1.0420 in AUDNZD, pretty much the lows from late 2020 and the lows since April 2020. Overnight 1.0450 AUDNZD put cost just 20 nzd pips.
In other news, Canada PM Trudeau has called a snap election for 20th Sept, I presume in the hope of getting re-elected with a majority. Meanwhile it seems ECBs Lagarde and BoEs Bailey have not been invited to the Jackson Hole event next week. The event will focus on a domestic invite list due to limited capacity. Some thinking they may use the event to raise tapering talk.
Today is pretty quiet in terms of economic data releases but the rest of the week looks pretty full. UK sees unemployment numbers tomorrow, inflation Wednesday and retail sales Friday, EU GDP tomorrow and inflation Wednesday, US retail sales tomorrow, CAD inflation Wednesday and retail sales Friday. All that and RBNZ, Norges Bank and PBoC rate announcements.
So perhaps today will be the calm before the storm. Which gives us plenty of time to savour Spurs fantastic victory over Man City yesterday proving the team can still compete even if Kane were to be sold. While we are all enjoying that, the last day of the England/India cricket test match has the potential to be very exciting. Of all the good things in sport over the weekend, I am sorry to say my fantasy football team has got off to a terrible start, partly due to me missing the deadline and leaving several of my big-hitters on the bench. My bench scored nearly as much as the team that played. Why do I bother!
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- 13.30 CAD manufacturing sales
- 02.30 RBA minutes
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Lexaria Corp (OTCMKTS:LXRP) is making a small reversal off $0.27 a share and investors are hoping this continues. The stock saw highs of $0.70 in January of this year but has been coming back down since.
LXRP is one exciting penny stock that has got everyone’s attention boasting patent-pending ground breaking bioavailability technology, one of the tightest share structures for any bb in the sector and a fast growing loyal shareholder base who believes this one goes much higher.
Lexaria Corp (OTCMKTS:LXRP) searches for projects that could provide potential above-market returns. LXRP owns 50% of ViPova(TM) that uses only legal CBD oil extracts, grown from legal hemp in locations where it is legal to do so, in ViPova(TM)-branded tea. ViPova(TM) uses its patent-pending process to infuse concentrated amounts of CBD within lipids in its tea, providing more bioactivity and comfort to the body during the absorption process. Only ViPova(TM) has this ground-breaking technology for CBD/lipid infusion.
Lexaria has been trading on the bb’s for some time; the Company was initially registered in Nevada in 2005 to explore and develop oil and gas assets in low-risk areas of North America. The Company still owns significant oil production in Mississippi, producing oil from wells at the Belmont Lake oil field.
LXRP still receives revenues from these wells reporting $463,798 in revenues for the 9 months ended July 1, 2014. The Company says they have earned a total of $3.5 million oil production revenues since their inception.
In November of last year LXRP acquired 51% of PoViva Corp. PoViva literally means “Taking in Life” PoViva uses a patent pending process to bind active CBD ingredients with a lipid, allowing for a more efficient and comforting delivery of the CBD than competing products that do not have the benefit of our patent-pending process.
In August announced a suite of new ViPova(TM) products available for purchase immediately. The new products all utilize Lexaria’s patent-pending technology designed to enhance bioavailability.
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In addition to the new products listed below, Lexaria is pleased to announce that ViPova(TM) brand coffee and hot chocolate are expected to be available in September; and that the much-anticipated Lexaria Energy protein bar is expected to be available around the end of September, in two initial flavors. More information on these products will be released as available.
On October 8 LXRP announced the manufacturing process to infuse active hemp oil utilizing Lexaria’s patent pending technology designed to provide higher bioavailability, has been completed for both coffee and hot chocolate. Both products are currently under packaging development and will be available for our customers soon.
According to the PR once the products have been delivered to ther Phoenix distribution facility, ViPova Coffee and Hot Chocolate will be available for purchase both through their online store at vipova.com; and also at their growing network of retail locations. Lexaria will announce when these two products are available to be purchased.
Vipova tea is currently available at a growing number of dispensaries across California. Contract sales efforts will also be made during the next 3 months, for dispensaries in Nevada; Oregon and Colorado. These new sales initiatives will continue to broaden the availability of ViPova products.
On September 6 LXRP announced two important new developments: the Company announced it has entered its first ever Private Label agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Lexaria will cause a certain new line of cannabidiol/herbal products powered by its patent-allowed technology to be manufactured under the Timeless Herbal Care Limited (“Timeless”) brand name for Timeless to market and distribute across the USA, Canada, and Jamaica. The Timeless brand with Lexaria’s enhancements will offer Timeless’ consumer base improved taste and bioavailability for hard-to-absorb molecules. By utilizing Lexaria’s protected technology the products will be unique in a sector where tangible benefits are highly sought after.
Lexaria has also entered a definitive technology out-licensing agreement with Timeless. Under the terms of the agreement, Timeless has acquired exclusive rights along with only Lexaria itself in the country of Jamaica and the option to acquire semi exclusive rights in each of Canada and the USA to use Lexaria’s patent-allowed palatability and absorption improving technology to develop, produce and sell certain products containing cannabidiol and other active ingredients under the Timeless brand in those nations.
On May 10 LXRP announced plans for research and formulation development (“R&D”) on nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (“NSAIDs”) utilizing its patented technology and as provisioned within its previously announced 2017 & 2018 R&D program.
Lexaria will conduct in vitro absorption studies utilizing the Company’s technology to examine improvements in absorption across human intestinal tissue, which is expected to be followed by in vivo (animal) studies to confirm the Company’s hypothesis regarding first-pass liver metabolism. The Company postulates that its technology may enable oral delivery of NSAIDs without encountering first-pass liver metabolism, which has the potential to greatly reduce corresponding liver damage.
Pain-relief drugs are comprised mostly of NSAIDs and of opioids and represented a $36.6 billion market in 2014. (MSP, BCC Research – The Global Market for Pain Management Drugs and Devices, September 2015) Long term use or overuse of NSAID’s has been associated with chronic liver conditions that can be debilitating and even cause death.
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Currently trading at a $21 million market valuation LXRP has a tight share structure and a strong cash position of $830,000 in the treasury and no debt. LXRP is one exciting situation developing in small caps that has quickly attracted a loyal shareholder base who believes this one goes much higher; the Company is led by CEO who seems to be making all the right moves including buying up shares on a regular basis to augment his already 9M shares. LXRP patent pending technology designed to provide higher bioavailability has led to many new exciting products such as their much-anticipated Lexaria Energy protein bar as well as ViPova(TM) brand coffee and hot chocolate. We will be updating on LXRP when more details emerge so make sure you are subscribed to Microcapdaily so you know what’s going on with LXRP.
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Istanbul to host the 2016 Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum
(Geneva/Istanbul) – Women entrepreneurs from across the world will on 1-2 September 2016 convene in Istanbul, Turkey, for the fifth Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum (WVEF). The event will be preceded by the annual Trailblazers Summit on 31 August, which brings together leaders from business, government and civil society to advance the role of women in business and global trade.
The two events are organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and hosted by KAGİDER, the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey.
WVEF brings together buyers and sellers from selected sectors to bolster trade between women-owned businesses from developing countries and buyers in the corporate and government sectors. In less than five years, more than a thousand enterprises from over 50 countries have participated in the forum, concluding business transactions worth more than US$ 50 million. The sectors featured in this year’s event are: information and communications technology (ICT) and business services; textiles and garments; and tourism.
In the first year of implementation of the Global Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which were agreed upon by world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, WVEF and the Trailblazers Summit play a crucial part in ITC’s efforts to support and promote Goal 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
Picking up from last year’s Trailblazers Summit, held in São Paulo, Brazil, the 2016 edition will continue to focus on why more women and girls are needed in business and global trade. Before and during the event, it is expected that a range of companies and organizations will sign up for ITC’s SheTrades initiative, which aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020.
Announcing the 2016 edition of WVEF at a press conference in Istanbul, ITC Executive Director Arancha González said: ‘Helping women in developing countries to succeed in business requires interventions in multiple areas. Through WVEF and SheTrades, we are taking steps to help women overcome those barriers.’
KAGİDER President Sanem Oktar said: ‘WVEF is a valuable opportunity that will open up new horizons for the women entrepreneurs that we represent. It will provide them with opportunities to carry out business transactions with buyers of leading national and international companies.’
Ms. González added: ‘Hosting this year's edition here in Istanbul is a recognition of the trailblazing efforts of Turkish women entrepreneurs, but also serves as an inspiration for women business entrepreneurs in the region and beyond to ensure economic growth.’
- Learn more about the Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum
- Learn more about the SheTrades initiative
- Learn more about ITC’s Women and Trade programme
ITC is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. ITC assists small and medium-sized enterprises in developing and transition economies to become more competitive in global markets, thereby contributing to sustainable economic development within the frameworks of the Aid-for-Trade agenda and the UN Global Goals. For more information, visit www.intracen.org. Follow ITC on Twitter: @ITCnews
The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGİDER) is the first women business association in Turkey whose mission is to enable better educational and employment opportunities and to develop entrepreneurship and leadership for women. The Association is at the vanguard of advocacy for women’s economic and social empowerment. With 300 members active in various sectors such as textiles, communication, public relations, tourism, mining, chemistry and health, KAGiDER has reached, through its projects, more than 10,000 women entrepreneurs in Turkey.
The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW), Vital Voices Global Partnership, WeConnect International, UN Women, Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), SDI International, the International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA), International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Foundation (IWEC), United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USHCC), and Quantum Leaps
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As the world has been changing significantly from the past, and the manufacturing industry is entering into the new unforeseen era where every single production process is being connected together with IOT, robotics, and big data solutions. Since then, Manufacturing Expo 2021 will open up its gate once again to write the new chapter in manufacturing by gathering the newest innovations and solutions by 2,400 brands from 46 countries. It will definitely continue to be the annual gathering of the community for more than 100,000 industrialists seeking the fastest way to empower their manufacturing.
Manufacturing Expo will be held in BITEC, Thailand from 23-26 September, 2021.
For more information, visit https://www.manufacturing-expo.com/en-gb/about-the-show.html


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The soft drink and crisps brands have hundreds of the Xbox One X to give away next month as part of an event called "The drop zone" and the "Every 60 seconds" online auction.
Players will need to download "The drop zone" app to register for a spot to participate in the AR games. If they get through the games will have to find, claim and keep control of a virtual console within the app by "deploying offensive and defensive power-ups".
Ryan Matiyow, senior director for marketing at Doritos, said: "Dew and Doritos are known for providing gamers with unique ways to access exclusive gaming experiences.
"We're upping the ante with the introduction of ‘The drop zone’ experience this fall. The augmented-reality capture-the-flag experience is going to be off the charts for gaming fans nationwide."
The series of AR events will take place in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago over the weekend of 10 November.
Chauncey Hamlett, senior director for marketing at Mountain Dew, added: "Xbox fans are always looking for innovation and unique gaming experiences. The immersive and thrilling Drop Zone experience by Doritos and Dew is a totally unique, exciting way for fans to get their hands on the most powerful gaming console today."
Fans can also win a console through online auctions which are taking place throughout November.


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Computer Simulation Technology announced the winners of the CST University Publication Award 2015, an annual prize given to university institutes and researchers for published papers involving applications of electromagnetic simulation.
Computer Simulation Technology (CST) has added Filter Designer 2D to CST STUDIO SUITE®, allowing the synthesis, electromagnetic simulation, optimization and multiphysics analysis of filters in one single environment
Computer Simulation Technology(CST) has joined the Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS Partner Program as an official Solution Partner. In conjunction with the new partnership comes the ability of the company’s CST STUDIO SUITE®2014 to import models from SOLIDWORKS directly.
CST has announce that Delcross Technologies’ Electromagnetic Interference Toolkit (EMIT) is now available through the CST of America sales channel. The software will be fully supported by CST’s skilled team of electromagnetic specialists.


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The platform initiated by Nedbank in partnership with Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play team, sought to connect leading global and local innovation talent to leaders ready to implement disruptive technologies.
The two-day event was structured into deal-flow sessions on Day 1 where 30 of Nedbank CIB’s top clients engaged with 10 of the most innovative startups sourced with the help of Plug and Play, known as the world’s largest innovation platform. Day 2 saw pitches from the 10 startups and a Disruption Panel Discussion with Nedbank’s lead thinkers on disruption and digital transformation to over 200 clients of Nedbank CIB’s, Retail Business Banking and Nedbank Private Wealth clients with a goal to stimulate and accelerate innovation action.
“The focus on disruption is something that we’ve been driving not only in our business but as new value propositions for our clients. Additionally, our objective is to advance the local tech community,” shares Stuart van der Veen, Head of Innovation and Disruption at Nedbank CIB.
Nedbank identifies the top 100 disruptors every six months, both locally and globally. From this, 12 collaborations are identified across Nedbank with six progressing to experimentation and one through to commercialisation on a rolling basis.
Reflecting on the event, Alex Fenn, technology and innovation lead for Sibanye-Stillwater, commented, “Mining companies are experiencing increasing cost pressures and volatile commodity prices. We’ve pulled all of the efficiency levers that we have at hand. I believe the next paradigm shift in operational performance will come from the adoption of some type of disruptive technology at a very broad level. We’ve identified enormous opportunity amongst the startups that we have engaged with, which could be critical to our digital transformation and sustainability going forward.”
In the venture capital space there a number of new entrants investing in disruptive tech startups, with the industry sitting around 4.4 billion and around 530 deals existing within the venture capital sector. Of these figures, 1.1 billion was new capital invested and 159 of deals took place in 2017 reflecting steady growth in the sector.
When talking about The Disruption Agenda, Herman Singh, chief digital officer for MTN Group, shared, “This model of like-minded corporates working together to assist and facilitate innovation results in the startup model having the highest probability to succeed.”
The Disruption Agenda sought to activate experimentation and proof of concept initiatives between startups and corporates as a pragmatic, action-orientated approach to ensure impactful outcomes of the engagements.


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A $70 million marketing campaign for a new direct-to-video movie, featuring a tie-in with General Mills, has captured the attention of retailers. "Aladdin and the King of Thieves," from Buena Vista Home Video, Burbank, Calif., will release Aug. 13. It is the third movie in the animated series that started with the theatrical hit "Aladdin" and was followed by the direct-to-video, "The Return of Jafar." Priced at $24.99 and starring Robin Williams, who returns as the voice of the genie -- he was not in "Jafar" -- the title promises to be the biggest sell-through of the summer, said observers. Retailers are cheering the big marketing campaign by increasing their orders on the title. "I think it really makes a difference," said Jamie Molitor, director of video operations at Dierbergs Markets, Chesterfield, Mo. The return of Robin Williams also is an important consideration to the retailers. "I think it is going to do better than 'Return of Jafar' just because Robin Williams is in it," said Molitor. "With Robin Williams in it, it seems that it will be a natural," said Clifford Feiock, video coordinator at Nash Finch Co., Minneapolis. The marketing spending is also a factor in Nash Finch's purchasing decisions, he noted. "When Disney spends that kind of money, it is noticed. They always do a good job on it and I can't think of a time when it hasn't had a major impact," said Feiock. One problem with the new Aladdin title is getting art work to use in a store that helps determine the buy, he said. "We've got the materials for Disney product through the end of the year, but on this one title, we have nothing," he said. "I'm doing a pretty aggressive buy on it," said Randy Weddington, video specialist at Harps Food Stores, Springdale, Ark. Harps is working closely with its Disney sales representative and its video distributor, WaxWorks Video Works, Owensboro, Ky., to increase its merchandising activity on behalf of the title, he said.
Through an upcoming meeting, "we're going to have some of our other departments in and we will try to do a little more with the General Mills cross-promotion," he said.
While the big marketing campaign contributes to Weddington's buying decision, "the biggest factor is really our Disney sales rep. He worked very well with us on the 'Pocahontas' and 'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' promotions and now we are building on that. I expect big things," he said.
The $70 million marketing campaign includes spending by Disney, General Mills and McDonald's. National television, print and outdoor advertising will be part of the program, as well as a large publicity effort.
Other Disney divisions, such as Publishing and Theme Parks, also are planning activities around the video release.
With the General Mills cross-promotion, consumers can get a $5 mail-in rebate by purchasing "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" and three boxes of Big G cereals, 7-ounces or larger.
An additional $5 rebate will be offered to consumers who buy the "Aladdin" movie and one other eligible tape, either from Disney's Masterpiece Collection, Family Film Collection, or "The Return of Jafar," "Goofy" or "The Brave Little Toaster."


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Are the uniforms of NFL players soon to be a patchwork of ad logos by sponsors, in imitation of NASCAR racing cars?
"In as little as three years, experts predict the NFL will come down with a case of NASCAR-itis and finally turn players into bill boards. More than $230 million in advertising money is up for grabs if teams let sponsors buy space on NFL jerseys, according to a recent study by media analysts Horizon Media."
So writes Maxine Shen in an article in the New York Post.
The article adds, "The lure of that kind of money is especially strong now — as the Players’ Union is expected to demand a bigger share of league revenues when negotiations over a new labor agreement begin this spring. The prospect of allowing NFL jerseys to be used for advertising has been kicking around for a number of years. Ads on uniforms have been standard in the European soccer leagues for years."
A spokesman for the NFL told the Post that the league does not have plans to put logos on players uniforms, adding that "We are often approached by companies" to do so.