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The Amazon HQ2 search made it to week 52 without as much as a little leak about the site selection committee's leanings.
Seattle-based Amazon is a huge company with 566,000 employees worldwide, and none of them have had much to say about where the technology and retailing giant plans to spend $5 billion to house as many as 50,000 employees over the next decade. Only a few inside Amazon are privy to the search selection process, but still.
Amazon has proven it can keep a secret. That alone may be a sign it's not a good fit for the capital of leaks, Washington D.C. , which also is one of the 20 finalist cities along with Dallas and Austin.
Give me a sign: As The New York Times reported on HQ2 anniversary Friday, it's become a bit of a sport to find clues in job postings, CEO Jeff Bezos' travel plans or the name of one of many random Amazon employees' dog that appear on broken link pages. The Times quoted a economic development adviser saying HQ2 guessing had become like "Who killed J.R.?" It's actually "Who shot J.R.?" And we're claiming that as a sign down here in Texas.
Chicagoland worries: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that he didn't plan to seek re-election for a third term and the discussion immediately turned to how his departure may affect Chicago's chances for Amazon HQ2. The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Emanuel has been hands-on in trying to woo Amazon to Chicago" and "even hired William Shatner to narrate a pitch video because Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is a Star Trek fan." Emanuel and Amazon's senior vice president of corporate affairs Jay Carney worked together in the Obama administration. It was a connection, one of those signs in a place that already proudly goes by "The Second City."


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Will following the rules of Material Design make your design successful or can you ignore it?
Though urbanites have more options in terms of transport, Uber Malaysia believes that its services complement the country’s public transportation system.
One of Indonesia’s biggest telcos takes the initiative to provide a platform for startups to learn the art of developing apps and growing their business.
The country’s great population and wide use of smartphones as well as thirst for content made it a viable option.
Aiming to help tourists avoid getting fleeced, Big Blue Taxi launches new e-ticketing system
The cumbersome process of finding a reliable electrician led Karl Loo to launching ServisHero, a regional startup aiming to make life easier for households and businesses.
With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 looming ahead, it seems fitting to take round up some of the best apps that have rocked the Google Play Store.
Smartphone users across Asia have become more accustomed to the idea of purchasing products and services within apps, a trend that might become more prevalent over the next few years, according to a new study commissioned by Google Inc.
Two lawyers out to impact the lives of millions, also find self-growth.
BMW partners GreenTech Malaysia to create infrastructure to support hybrid, electric vehicles.

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A brawl within the household.
For a system that is not in lively manufacturing, the Nintendo 64 has certain seen loads of new controllers lately. We reviewed the Tribute64 pad not so way back, and now it is the flip of the Retro Fighters Brawler64 – a pad that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter as a “subsequent technology” providing for Nintendo’s much-loved 64-bit system.
We’re really coming to the Brawler64 a little bit late, because the pad has already been an enormous success at retail to the purpose the place its creator, Retro Fighters, has produced a revised variant which fixes a reasonably main drawback (extra on that in a second) in addition to variations which have completely different colored plastic casing.
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US road traffic regulator, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said the Silicon Valley-based car manufacturer has now filed for a recall of 134,951 vehicles.
Tesla was reported to have agreed to recall the cars because of failures with its famously large touchscreens.
Last month, the NHTSA asked Tesla to recall the Model S sedans and Model X SUVs over a touchscreen issue, as it could increase the risk of crashes.
The touchscreens for cars made between 2012 and 2018 were said to be not working because an issue with the embedded eMMC memory chips wearing out, the NHTSA said after investigating since last June.
Tesla, which tried to fix the issue with software updates but as this did not address the NHTSA’s concerns, it was given until last week to respond.
Founder Elon Musk has boasted in the past about sourcing the touchscreens from computer suppliers rather than automotive specialists as there was not a specialist supplier that made them as big as he wanted.
However, while screens weren’t designed to withstand vibrations and temperature changes that take place in a car, Tesla said its testing showed the screens performed fine.
One Wall Street analyst quoted by the Wall Street Journal estimated the recall could cost Tesla US$300mln-$500mln.


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Starbreeze Vows Never To Do A Free-To-Play Title
Although the company is currently working on a game called Cold Mercury (which is apparently not free-to-play, but "cheap-to-play"), CEO Mikael Nermark told Edge, "We're never going to do free-to-play, because then you have to cater to everyone out there – that's costly and it's hard. We're probably going to go down the road of cheap to play. Would we go all out? No, I don't think I'm going to bet on just one business model."
Nermark has also previously re-iterated the company's commitment to triple-A game titles as well.


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How to be a successful entrepreneur; Netflix subscriber growth falls
What makes an entrepreneur stand out from the rest? Confidence, determination, creativity, discipline, work ethic, spirit, passion. An entrepreneur may have some or all of these qualities. But there’s one trait common to successful startup founders: mastering the art of storytelling.
In a candid conversation with YourStory, V Balakrishnan, Co-founder and Chairman of Bengaluru-based VC firm Exfinity Venture Partners, shares his tryst with IT, politics and startup world. Read to know more.
Exfinity Venture Partners Chairman V Balakrishnan is an established figure in the IT industry.
Info Edge is now looking to capitalise on its vast data bank by using AI, ML, and big data, and present an improved user experience. It is also looking to integrate its various platforms and offer new products to provide 360-degree solutions.
Info Edge MD and CEO Hitesh Oberoi says that the company has become more data-driven to improve the experience for both employers and job seekers.
In the past, Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF) has awarded startups and companies like Forus Health, ideaForge, Tonbo, and Equilibrium. In this video interview, Priya Kapadia, Head of MIF, speaks of the power of ideas.
Priya Kapadia, Head, Marico Innovation Foundation
Lately, Netflix has struggled to add subscribers globally, as its just-released second-quarter earnings reveal. While net subscriber additions were estimated to be about five million, Netflix managed to add only 2.7 million. It was expected to gain around 300,000 paid users, but it ended up losing 100,000. Overall, Netflix has 151.5 million subscribers around the world.
Netflix expects strong subscriber growth this quarter riding on new seasons of shows like Stranger Things
Shahnaz Shaikh, along with her husband Khalil Shaikh, started Microbiz Network India in 2013 with a vision to replace highly hazardous pesticides with the support of agro-ecology. What it means for the farmer is that he has access to a range of products for effective pest management with the help of “green” solutions.
Shahnaz Shaikh, Founder & CEO, Microbiz Network India.
For the first time in the seven-year history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates is not among the top two. Ranked third with a net worth of $107 billion, Gates was overtaken by the Chairman and CEO of the world's largest maker of luxury goods, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Bernard Arnault whose net worth stands at $108 billion.
A series of personal experiences prompted Varun Gupta to launch Zorgers in 2015. In four years, the home healthcare startup has clocked in over 7.5 million hours of caregiving and is now eyeing expansion across 20+ Indian cities.
Founders - Varun Gupta, Anil Kumar and Abhinav Gupta
Most underprivileged kids end up being trafficked for labour and sexual exploitation. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, at least one child is trafficked in India every eight minutes. From helping children of migrant labourers to instilling traffic sense and good value in children, many individuals and NGOs have come forward to help the children in need.


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They've grown a feijoa at Gonville School so big you could use it as one ingredient for a feijoa loaf, feijoa cake or feijoa crumble.
This whopper tips the scales at 280g and is one of the biggest harvested in the country this season.
Yesterday, Year 9 pupil Chelsea Moorhouse posed with the green giant and the match-up showed just how big the fruit is.
School caretaker Grant Winterburn said there were actually two feijoas of similar size on one of three feijoa trees at the school. The trees are about 6 years old.
"When I noticed someone had picked that and tossed it around the school grounds, I decided to pick this one," he said.
Mr Winterburn said the fruit trees grew naturally with no special care or attention, no addition of any secret formula or genetic modifying.
"I've never seen one this big before," he said. "It looks more like a big avocado than a feijoa."
He said they had heard of a big feijoa harvested in Hawke's Bay, but the Gonville one weighed in heavier by about 50g.
The feijoa, Acca sellowiana, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family and is native to much of South America but now grows globally.
While the Gonville giant might be the biggest grown this season, it's a lightweight compared to the 385g one grown by a Havelock North orchardist last year.


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PARIS — Performance from products in the recently acquired WhiteWave Foods Co. helped Groupe Danone withstand several headwinds in the first half of 2018. Net income rose 21% despite rising PET and freight costs as well as a consumer boycott in Morocco, where sales plunged about 40%.
Danone in the first half of the fiscal year reported net income of €1,251 million ($1,459 million), or €1.87 ($2.18) per share on the common stock, which was up from €1,032 million, or €1.57 per share, during the same time of the previous year. Sales of €12,498 million ($14,573 million) were up 2.4% from €12,200 million.
Danone completed its acquisition of WhiteWave in April 2017. In the first half of 2018, Danone delivered sales growth above 5% in plant-based products in North America as well as yogurt and coffee creamers, which together account for about 75% of the former WhiteWave business, said Cécile Cabanis, chief financial officer, in a July 27 earnings call.
“This great momentum confirms the strong rationale for the WhiteWave acquisition and strengthens our confidence in the value-creation potential from this move,” she said. “It shows that WhiteWave is a high-quality business, accretive to our models with brands that are strongly complementary to our own. It has fit well with Danone's operation in North America.”
In the United States, freight costs rose about 20%. An increase in crude oil led to cost inflation of about 20% in PET for bottles.
The situation in Morocco will continue to weight on Danone’s performance in the second half, Ms. Cabanis said.
“We are studying how to make the relevant changes to our fresh pasteurized milk model in response to the consumer environment, where purchasing power is under pressure, and we are fully ready to offer greater transparency and engaging in consumer dialogue, which, we hope, will be an important first step to restore the situation,” she said.
In Essential Dairy and Plant-Based North America, sales of €2,439 million ($2,844 million) were up 24% from €1,970 million in the same time of the previous year. Yogurt sales increased. Plant-based foods and beverages delivered high single-digit growth both in volume and sales.
In Essential Dairy and Plant-Based International, sales fell 6.3% to €4,115 million from €4,392 million as the Moroccan consumer boycott, spurred on by rising food prices, had a negative effect. Danone said it committed to bring economic changes for fresh milk, including selling at cost, in the North African country. Sales continued to decline in Brazil, where a truckers’ strike came amid already difficult market conditions. Excluding Morocco, Essential Dairy and Plant-Based International had sales growth of 0.4% in the first half.
Specialized Nutrition reported sales of €3,644 million in the first half, up 6% from €3,450 million. Waters reported sales of €2,301 million in the first half, down 3.7% from €2,388 million.


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Machinery orders in Japan rose 2.8% in April compared to the previous month, when orders were reduced by 3.9%, a survey conducted by Reuters reported. In annual terms, machinery orders increased by 3.9% after a decrease of 2.4% in March. Economist at Mizuho Research Institute, Hirotaka Yadzawa, said: “The willingness of corporations to invest in order to cope with the shortage of labor and to modernize aging facilities is solid, and we expect that the basic orders for machinery will increase under the direction of the manufacturing sector.” According to the analysts, the Japanese economy in this quarter will return to a moderate growth trend after the first 9-month decline in the previous quarter.
China removes restrictions on car purchases to increase sales01.04.2020
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Samsung says growing demand may increase chip market sales17.03.2020
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The OnePlus company should introduce the new flagship OnePlus 8T phone already on October 14. Earlier it was repeatedly reported that the company does not plan to produce the model OnePlus 8T Pro. CEO of OnePlus Pete Lau on his page in the social network Weibo confirmed that this year’s Pro-version of the flagship will not be.
In his message, he said that fans of the company who like Pro-versions of OnePlus smartphones can buy OnePlus 8 Pro. He added that OnePlus 8T and so turned out to be a great smartphone, to make it even better was impossible, so the release of OnePlus 8T Pro simply makes no sense.
He added that during the presentation of OnePlus 8T fans are waiting for some very nice surprise. The next image published by OnePlus contains hints about upcoming products that are likely to be announced at the OnePlus 8T launch event.
In the image, fans looked at the cable with USB-C connectors, headphones, a smartphone, a gaming accessory with analog sticks or (unlikely) a gaming console, and presumably a very thin laptop.
The company is also expected to release a new smartphone in the OnePlus Nord lineup called the OnePlus Nord N10 5G, which will cost less than $400.


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Stock futures fell Tuesday as investors remain cautious about the strength of a consumer-led economic recovery.
Overseas markets mostly fell.
Investors are sorting through another round of retailers' earnings looking for signs that consumers are spending more. The Conference Board releases its monthly consumer confidence report after the market opens and is expected to provide further clues about shoppers' psyche.
Stocks put a rally on pause Monday after retailers provided upbeat earnings, but cautioned that a consumer rebound would be slow.
Consumers are considered vital to a strong, sustained economic recovery because their spending accounts for more than two-thirds of all economic activity.
Investors are also awaiting Federal Reserve Chairman's semiannual testimony before Congress about the health the economy. The Fed surprised investors last week by hiking rates it charges banks for emergency loans. Traders will want Bernanke to continue to provide reassurances that it plans to keep its benchmark rate at historic lows to encourage growth. He testifies Wednesday and Thursday.
Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 29, or 0.3 percent, to 10,345. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures fell 4.40, or 0.4 percent, to 1,103.10, while Nasdaq 100 index futures dropped 6.75, or 0.4 percent, to 1,814.25.
A modest increase in sales and cost-cutting helped Home Depot's profit top expectations. The home improvement retailer also increased its dividend and outlook, evidence it is confident about the strength of a recovery. Competitor Lowe's Corp. on Monday also raised its outlook, but took a cautious tone about growth saying it's likely to be modest and slow in the near future.
Like Home Depot, Sears Holdings said falling expenses and a slight boost in sales helped its profit top forecasts. Shares of both Home Depot and Sears Holdings rose in pre-opening trading.
Macy's and Target also reported upbeat quarterly earnings.
The Conference Board is expected to show consumer confidence fell slightly in February, after three straight months of gains. Its index likely fell to 55 from 55.9, according to economists polled by Thomson Reuters.
The reading still falls well short of what is considered strong - a reading above 90 means the economy is on solid footing. However, the index has rallied over the past year after bottoming at 25.3 in February 2009.
A report on home prices showed that the housing market is continuing its slow recovery. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 0.3 percent from November to December.
Home prices' rate of decline from a year earlier also showed improvement. That measure fell 3.1 percent. Economists had forecast a year-over-year drop of 3.2 percent, compared with a decline of 5.3 percent in November.
Stocks dipped Monday after four straight days of gains. Major indexes closed modestly lower after big consumer companies gave a cautious outlook for the economic recovery. Lowe's Cos. and Campbell Soup Co. reported strong earnings, their results and outlooks showed consumers are still shying away from heavy spending.
The Dow fell 0.2 percent following its biggest weekly gain since early November. The S&P 500 fell 0.1 percent.
Meanwhile, bond prices rose Tuesday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.77 percent from 3.80 percent late Monday.
The dollar rose slightly against other major currencies. Gold and oil both fell.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.5 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent, Germany's DAX index dropped 0.7 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.4 percent.


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BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC
Calling a business “our baby” is usually just a figure of speech. But in the case of The Green Nursery, operated by husband-and-wife team Scott and Abby Noroozi, it has literal meaning. It was the birth of their son, Avery, that inspired the Bloomington business that specializes in eco-friendly baby supplies.
They started the business seven years ago on West Kirkwood, where they were the sole employees, and where they spent “several years in the red,” says Scott. Now they have a staff of seven, and a large, colorful storefront on East Hillside Drive at South Henderson Street, where they moved in April 2012.
It took a lot of hard work to get the business where it is today, Scott says. The couple worked nights and weekends, didn’t take vacations, and lived simply as they nurtured the young operation. Neither had any formal business training, but they learned as they went, studying trends and tailoring their inventory accordingly.
“We discovered that our niche was cloth diapers,” says Abby. Because cloth can be reused almost indefinitely, its impact on the environment is far less than disposable diapers and is ideal for earth-conscious as well as frugal parents. “You definitely save a lot of money — there’s an initial investment up front, maybe $300, but that’s it,” Abby says.
As diaper sales took off, “we started to gain traction,” says Scott, “and a certain amount of trust developed online around our name.” Though their south-side store is well-stocked and busy, about 85 percent of their business comes from online sales.
The Green Nursery’s website offers a rewards program where customers earn points with every purchase. “The website is well-marketed so that it’ll be the first landing point for customers, sometimes even over the manufacturer’s,” claims Scott.
Diapers are the store’s most popular product, but The Green Nursery also carries toys — many made from recycled materials — as well as skin-care products, teethers, and baby wraps for carrying an infant against the parent’s body.
The shop also hosts free cloth-diapering classes on the second Saturday of each month, and local musician Kid Kazooey entertains children on Wednesdays. Visit The Green Nursery’s website for more information.


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Remember those days when we used to get video game versions of most of the superhero titles that released in theaters? Yeah, me too. It’s been awhile since developers have followed that trend, as most adaptations became quite unsuccessful, despite their being a few gems, such as the Spiderman titles which launched on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Gamecube.
But that’s besides the point. Superheros are BIG right now, probably bigger than they have been in awhile since most movies have been getting significantly better, and it seems video game developers are hopping on this hype train while there’s still time.
Square Enix has announced that they will be working with Marvel for several upcoming titles throughout the next few years, with an Avengers game seemingly being the first project that will be released. The team which will be responsible for the project is the same team that worked on the recent Tomb Raider games, Crystal Dynamics.
Square Enix released a short teaser trailer for the project, which featured a female narrator discussing about how the worlds still needs hero’s, with the hashtag #reassemble thrown into the end of the trailer. Based on the teaser trailer, it seems like the version of the Avengers that we will be receiving in this upcoming project, will be the brand new Avengers which Marvel has been actively revealing in their recent comics. This is mostly speculation though, and with a release window of Spring 2018, it sounds like we’ll have plenty more time to speculate as details will likely remain slim for the time being.
In the meantime, I highly recommend checking out the trailer as it will definitely get you excited for what it soon to come!


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At a time when cloud TV is in the ascendant and the future of the set-top is questioned, and when competition among converged operators is driving down triple and quad-play prices, you have to hand it to Free, France’s self-styled trublion des telecoms, to show a willingness to swim against the tide.
Freebox’s next-generation device, which comes eight years after the launch of the game-changing Freebox Révolution, once again places consumer hardware front and centre of the service provider proposition. Big in all respects – the media player part of the dual-box solution reportedly weighs in at between five and six kilograms, and the dimensions of the triangular design are substantial – the Freebox Delta incorporates soundbar, network-attached storage, a dual-mode voice assistant, hybrid connectivity and 4K UHD HDR10 capability, among other things.
The ‘box’ concept has long been core to French service providers’ marketing, much more so than in other European markets – something Free itself was in no small way responsible for – but the Freebox Delta arrives at a time when most telecom and pay TV players – including Free’s domestic French rivals – are moving away from pushing dedicated hardware and focusing more and more on TV as an app, on migration of delivery to a more flexible OTT TV-like platform and a bring-your-own-device strategy.
Over the last couple of years the rise of the Android TV operator tier has revolutionised the economics of consumer hardware for service providers, with Google’s technology on course to achieve a sizeable market share with a standardised platform that allows operators to retain control of their user experience.
Free itself embraced an earlier version of Android TV for the lower-cost alternative to the Freebox Révolution, the Freebox Mini, while Free boss Xavier Niel’s Swiss service provider Salt more recently turned to Apple TV as the box of choice for its launch of TV services.
In France, pay TV leader Canal+ too has embraced Apple TV in what CEO Maxime Saada described as a “philosophical revolution”, enabling subscribers to choose the device as their principal set-top box, essentially accepting the status for its pay TV service of an app among other apps.
In the US, Charter Communications followed suit with an agreement to offer the Apple TV 4K box as an option for subscribers.
The Freebox Delta very much counters the trend towards box-less delivery, low-cost devices, standardised platforms and TV as an app. But Free is also swimming against the tide it set in motion towards intense competition among multi-play converged service providers, all offering bundles of TV, broadband and fixed and mobile telephony differentiated principally on price.
Freebox Delta will be available to Free subscribers for a premium price of €49.99 a month, plus an additional €10 a month for an associated connected speaker from Devialet – taking the price of the bundle to a whopping €60. (Free is hedging its bets with Freebox One, which will be available for €29.99 for the first year for the first 100,000 subscribers.)
This is a substantial tariff and represents a serious attempt by Free to increase its ARPU – although the offering includes a lot of content as well as functionality, not least a subscription to the basic version of Netflix and Canal+’s service provider offering, TV by Canal, as well as digital press offering LeKiosk.
The launch of the Freebox Delta comes after a period when Free has seen its French business suffer. Niel trailed the launch of the new device as long ago as September 2017, when he highlighted the need for a replacement to the Révolution to combat aggressive competition from the likes of Bouygues Telecom for price-sensitive customers.
The operator’s ability to draw in new subscribers, already slowing at that time, went into reverse this year, with the operator forced to adjust its profit guidelines after a troubled first half after it lost both fixed and mobile subscribers and saw revenues and profits slide.
It now remains to be seen whether the Freebox Delta and the bundled value that it represents can reverse that decline.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 21 – Kenyan women spend about Sh50, 000 a year on average on hair according to a new report by AfroUrembo Beauty Trends Report 2018.
According to the report, Kenyan women are estimated to use about 20 percent of their income on hair, up from 15 percent in 2016.
This is attributable to increase in disposable income for women and availability of more hair products and services in the market.
“Women have been empowered and are now very aggressive seeking job opportunities and getting into side jobs and entrepreneurship, increasing the spending power,” the report states.
According to the report, there is a dearth of such Afrocentric hair care and skin care products in Kenya.
“The trend among women in Kenya is not to use too many commercial products on their hair as very strong, harsh chemicals are used to straighten the hair, they prefer hair care products that are more natural, less harsh and offer smoothing benefits,” the report notes.
The report also indicates that male professionals have become the most preferred among the women in the country.
“There has been a rise of male professionals in the beauty industry in the recent past, with women preferring en to do their hair,” says Irene Kieru, Chief Executive Office of AfroUrembo, a digital marketplace connecting clients with beauty care and grooming professionals.
“The idea was birthed after having lived abroad for so many years, and coming to a realisation that there was no app out there dedicated to afro hair and grooming needs,” Kieru revealed.
Its app will now help even the foreigners who visit Africa to find professionals at the comfort of their phones.
The first workplace will be in Nairobi, Kenya before extending our wings globally.
“We are looking at also going to Lagos, Rwanda and also in Paris, but let’s find out what Kenya has for us,” she noted.
As of 2015, Procter and Gamble estimated that Kenya’s beauty and cosmetic industry to be worth Sh100 billion.


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Naugatuck Police Seek Alleged Liquor Store Thief
In case you didn't realize it, almost every inch of every retail establishment is being video recorded by a surveillance system, and if you steal something, chances are there is a recording of you caught in the act.
The Naugatuck Police Department has released images captured from a surveillance system at a local liquor store and they've released them to the public in order to try and capture a suspect who allegedly used a stolen credit card to purchase some booze.
According to the Naugatuck Police Department, detectives are attempting to identify the female pictured in the photographs in this article. On March 18, 2021, the female suspect entered Town Line Fine Wine and Liquors, which is located at 909 Prospect Street, and left with over $500 worth of alcohol purchased with a fraudulent credit card.
The suspect is described as a black female, with long black braided hair, approximately 5'5", weighing around 140 pounds, wearing a black jacket, and black pants. The suspect was believed to be driving a White Jeep Wrangler, which you can see in the photo below
If you recognize this suspect, or have any information, you are being asked to contact the Naugatuck Police Department at 203-729-5221, or you could call the anonymous NPD Confidential Tip Line at 203-720-1010.


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Some players in Ghana’s poultry industry have called on government to deliberately introduce policies that will boost the local consumption of poultry as the industry struggles with cheaper imported poultry.
The local poultry industry, which suffers largely from minimal government support and excess importation, recently witnessed a jump in demand following limited importation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
President of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Michael Nyarko-Ampem, told Citi Business News if hotels and restaurants of high standing also make it a policy to serve only local poultry as done by Coconut Groove Hotels, it will go a long way to
“We believe that when the hotels are encouraged through policy to patronize locally produced chicken, it will automatically create a market for people to go into the industry and produce” President of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Michael Nyarko-Ampem told Citi Business News.
“For instance, Coconut Grove Hotel, they serve purely local poultry and I applaud them. I will wish that the other hotels will also look at it as a national policy, as a way of helping the economy. Even if it is on a 50:50 bases we will still be okay with it” he said.
International news agency, Reuters, reports that the coronavirus pandemic has taken a huge toll on workers at U.S. meat and poultry processing facilities, with more than 17,000 COVID-19 cases and nearly 100 deaths in April and May, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This has affected the export of poultry from the US to countries like Ghana, one of its major export markets.
According to the President of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Michael Nyarko-Ampem, there has been a slight increase in the consumption of local poultry products due to this situation.
Ghana spends over 350 million dollars annually to import poultry products.
Government has indicated its commitment to increase local production and eventually ban importation by the year 2023.
Data shows that in 2017, over 135,000 tonnes of frozen chicken, which is about 112 million birds, was imported from the European Union.
The figure was a 76 percent increase over what was imported in the previous year.
In estimation, there is an annual increase in chicken consumption of about six percent in the country.


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Wow! It's finally here!
And it looks like we were right! The duo did collaborate on an editorial for the latest issue!
Kimmy and Kara Cara pose for the cover with wet hair, eyebrows on fleek, and completely bare faces.
[Image via Instagram.]
In a not-so-new fashion statement, Kanye has fully embraced a masked musician theme for his Yeezus tour.
We can't help but wonder how he can breathe with all those bedazzled trinkets covering the orifices required to sing! At the very least we hope they're well ventilated. All that sweat adds up!
Mechanics aside, the masks are pretty awesome, albeit slightly creepy.
What do U think of his sparkly tour accessories???
[Image via Splash News.]


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The currency system is also changing fast in recent years. People are
interested in the future of Bitcoin, which is a cryptocurrency that has been
popularized. This needs to be supported by facts and rationality.
A new currency concept was introduced to the financial world in
2009 Although it was initially confusing, the trend quickly grew over the
next year. More people and businesses are now using Bitcoins for a variety
of reasons. To keep the digital currency as current and efficient as
possible, regular updates are made to it.
SOME OPINION ABOUT BITCOIN
Crypto currency is well-known to people all over the globe. Experts have a
lot more to say about it. It is not uncommon to see pro-bitcoin currency
experts stating that the currency will touch between $250,000 to $500,000 per
coin over the next few years.
There are many well-respected financial experts and specialists who will warn
people about potential problems they may face when investing in
Bitcoins. Experts admit that the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and other crypto
currencies may have a lot of value to investors, but they are likely to see
them suffer and take a significant blow.
Bitcoins have many advantages and disadvantages. If the cons are removed,
it is possible that the entire international financial system will undergo a
major transformation. Let’s take a look at these:
BITCOIN HAS MANY AVAILABLE PERKS
* You have complete control over your money and can send or receive any
amount 24X7. Because transactions are not performed by any central banks,
commercial banks, or centralized organizations, this is possible.
* The transaction fees are lower than any other online money
transactions. In reality, the mining service that records transactions on
the blockchain concerned charges fees. This is very low.
It is the safest way to transact money because no personal information is
exchanged. There are also no hassles.
* Everyone can rely on the most reliable and fastest way to transfer money with
the lowest processing costs.
* Bitcoin is not affected in any way by fluctuations in the prices of other
CONS OF BITCOIN
*Bitcoin must have a stronger hold on the local and global financial markets.
* More people and businesses should use crypto currency to ensure stability in
* At this time, there is no guarantee on Bitcoin’s purchasing power. This could
be made available to investors or users.
The Future of Bitcoin is all about speculations
While the cons of Bitcoins are hard to ignore, they can be avoided easily. It can be one of the most popular online currencies in the future, thanks to its stronger market presence and stable price. There are speculations about the future of Bitcoin. It has positive reactions from people all over the world and the potential to be the next big thing. There is no doubt in the idea of having a crypto currency with you as the future of currency market lies in this new dimension. Mining feature of crypto currency not only fascinate the people but also make them enthusiast for this currency model.


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Whiz bang boom -- the latest in Internet games
June 20, 1997
Web posted at: 10:16 p.m. EDT (0216 GMT)
From Correspondent Dick Wilson
ATLANTA (CNN) -- The sights are flashy, the noise is
deafening and the hype is high-powered at the exhibition
where computer game makers strut their stuff.
The "E3" Electronic Entertainment Expo, running Thursday
through Saturday, is showing off some of the latest high-tech
Computer game playing is on the rise, and the newest trend
are Internet games. They can have as few as two players or as
many as several thousand linked together simultaneously.
Some of the biggest players in the computer industry are
placing heavy bets on Internet game playing, but the future
"Right now, it's in a very nascent stage. We're kind of in
the primordial ooze. And we're waiting to see who's gonna
crawl out of the pond," said Johnny Wilson of Computer Gaming
Two of the best known names at the show are Microsoft and
The creator of Star Wars has a soon-to-be-released game
version for online players. And the Microsoft game zone
offers high-action Internet games such as "Fighter Ace."
Such games are called "massively multi-player games," where
thousands of people play each other at once, said Microsoft
Vice President Robert Boch.
There's even a new entertainment game based on history.
And off in a corner of the 500,000-square-foot
exhibition hall are online games without violence,
old-fashioned games such as poker, and trivia
"We offer games that families can feel comfortable playing
with their kids or having their kids play alone with other
people without worrying about it," said Jeff Herscovitz of
What's the next move for Internet game players? Deciding who
will pay for their fun -- consumers or advertisers.
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New Delhi (Anish Yande): Realme, the Chinese smartphone maker, has stated a 20% increase in sales during the festive season. In a series of tweets, the smartphone brand announced that it sold 6.3 million smartphones during this festive season. Realme had announced the news in a series of tweets. The growth of the smarphone maker has been attributed to the sucess of the Narzo and Realme 6 and 7 series and the affordable pricing in the mid-range segment.
Studies Indicate Realme's Rapid Growth in the Market:
Studies by analysts indicate that Realme holds the fourth position in the Indian smartphone market. According to reports by analysts, Realme had a 15% market share in the September quarter. Realme grew by 4% in Year-on-Year growth in Q3 2020.
Samsung retained its position at the top with 32% YoY growth. It had a share of 24% of the smartphone market. According to the study, Vivo occupied 16% of the market share while Xiaomi occupied 23%.
Realme Captures Sizeable Market Share:
According to Realme, they have sold 8.3 million new smart devices during this year's festive period. The smartphone maker has claimed that it has become the first company to reach 50 million sales in the fastest amount of time, globally.
8.3 million devices have been recorded as sold from the Realme catalog for 45 days. According to analysts, Shipments of smartphones in India have grown to 9% year-on-year growth.
Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth said that Realme is overwhelmed to observe the adoption of Realme products. They are overwhelmed to achieve growth at a fast pace. Realme offers the most blockbuster products which are high on features, style, and performance and is available across price segments.
The Narzo series had gained significant growth. The Realme 6 and 7 series were reliable sellers for Realme. According to the study, in the mid-tier segment, Realme shipments grew 52% on a Year on Year basis.
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Diebold ATMs Enable Cardless Cash Withdrawal Via Paydiant Mobile Wallet Application
18 July 2013
The Diebold and Paydiant solution addresses two significant obstacles to adoption: hardware needs and security concerns. The MCA offering allows financial institutions to provide a secure, bank-branded mobile wallet solution without installing additional hardware on ATMs or point-of-sale (POS) terminals. Additionally, Diebold's cardless solution eliminates the threat of card skimming at the ATM.
"As mobile technology proliferates, financial institutions are looking to Diebold for advice on what mobile wallets mean for their businesses," said Diebold's Chief Innovation Officer
The cardless MCA solution allows consumers to pre-stage cash withdrawals on smartphone devices creating a cooperative interaction with the ATM, a feature Diebold highlighted in a concept earlier this year. At the ATM, consumers authenticate themselves by scanning a unique QR code that signals the ATM to dispense cash via an encrypted connection to the cloud.
"Mobile wallets, like plastic credit cards 50 years ago, will become an everyday functionality for consumers," said Natoli. "Diebold's partnership with Paydiant is a step toward creating a mobile wallet ecosystem that offers convenience and security to consumers directly from their financial institutions."
Pairing the functionality of a mobile wallet solution with the convenience of self-service options at the ATM enhances the consumer banking experience while supporting financial institution loyalty. The ability to conduct transactions with a mobile device at an ATM provides the foundation for financial institutions to offer a private-labeled mobile wallet solution that can also be used at retail establishments for everyday purchases.
"Our white-label approach continues to gain traction in the marketplace and traditional competitors are coalescing in an ecosystem around Paydiant offerings," said
Paydiant is the provider of a cloud-based, white label mobile payment and offer redemption platform that enables merchants, banks, and payment processors to deploy and manage their own mobile payment, offer management and offer redemption solution, under their own brand and on their own terms. Visit www.paydiant.com for more information about the Paydiant solution and follow us on Twitter @Paydiant.
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48,500 Louisiana consumers to get their money back after DRAM settlementStaff Writer | August 2, 2016
Attorney General Jeff Landry announced a settlement against Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) – getting money back in the hands of approximately 48,500 Louisiana consumers who were overcharged on electronic devices containing DRAM.
Memory prices Overcharging on electronic devices
In 2005, an investigation began to examine claims that the makers of DRAM were price-fixing.
In 2007, Louisiana joined 32 other States in a lawsuit seeking to recover losses for consumers who paid more than necessary for electronic devices containing DRAM.
That lawsuit was settled and General Landry has recently mailed settlement checks to the Louisiana consumers who made claims against the manufacturers. Those payments averaged $56 per scammed consumer.
“I am excited this settlement will return money to the pockets of those who were exploited,” added General Landry.
“And as Louisiana’s Chief Legal Officer – I will continue fighting to protect our State’s consumers, elderly, and most vulnerable.” ■


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Lowest Thanksgiving Dinner Prices In Years
Red potatoes, onions, celery, and sweet potatoes are just some of the Thanksgiving staples that shoppers say have lower prices this year.
The American Farm Bureau Federation says the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner this year is just over $49.00. That is down nearly 44 cents from last year and is the first price drop since 2009. Some shoppers say they have seen lower prices for vegetables.
"The sweet potatoes seem to be lower this year because they are in quite abundance," says Jeannie Handey, a Thanksgiving shopper.
The manager of Target in Montgomery says because of the price drops in vegetables, he has seen quite a few more shoppers than last year, "Over the past few weeks, we've actually seen an increase in shopping over here. Over 10% of what we did last year. So, I think that the prices are making an impact on what all people are getting," says manager, Blake Stewart.
Not only will dinner be less expensive than last year, so will some travel. AAA says gas prices are down 5 cents a gallon from last year, but some people say the cost doesn't affect their travel plans.
"We're going anyway. It doesn't really matter," says Blake Allen, a Montgomery resident who says he is looking forward to traveling to see family this year.
Even though gas prices are a bit more affordable, AAA estimates 600,000 fewer travelers on the roads this year. They also say the day before Thanksgiving will be the busiest time on the roads, with nearly 37% of travelers leaving on that day.


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In a world where locking down and staying home is the safest thing to do for many, the travel and hospitality industries have been hit particularly hard. The coronavirus pandemic has changed virtually everything about how we move through our lives, delaying or cancelling big trips and little treats alike. That doesn't mean we're totally helpless, though — or that waiting for a vaccine is the only way through COVID.
Google has just announced several updates to its Travel services, in addition to things like noting travel advisories or lockdown orders in search results for destinations. The company is digging into its massive reserves of searches for the features, such as one that estimates "the percentage of open hotels with availability and flights operating at the city or county level based on Google Flights and Hotels data from the previous week."
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The search engine is also adding more services to its results pages that help you save money on bookings. That includes being able to filter hotels and rental properties that allow for free cancellations. Not only that, but Google will pull local data about COVID conditions for your destination, so you can understand what things are like on the ground as you plan your trip.
Some companies are changing up their policies in earnest, and not always for the better: Certain airlines, for instance, have scaled back some of the health and safety precautions implemented on flights for passengers and crew. But putting more information at your fingertips can give you better information about what lies ahead. If that can get your life moving again, these changes might be on the right track.


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Ten top students from the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Program (CCOVI) will attend an event known as the Oscars of the Ontario wine industry.
Sponsored by the Grape Growers of Ontario, the students will attend the Cuvée gala in February. Cuvée offers a chance to taste wines from across the region selected through a stringent process. All Cuvée-featured wines are judged by a panel of winemakers, so only the finest red, white, sparking and sweet wines are presented at the gala. The best are awarded gold at the Cuvée wine awards that evening.
Attending Cuvée “gives our students – the future winemakers, marketers and research and development technologists – to experience and not only taste Ontario’s finest, but to have the opportunity to meet and talk with winemakers at this prestigious event,” said Barb Tatarnic, managing director of the Canadian Wine Library.


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Managing Director of Equiniti Nick Pedersen Honored to Speak at the 2017 Card & Payments Summit
- 16.03.2017 11:00 am
Nick Pedersen, Managing Director of Equiniti International Payments has been confirmed as a guest speaker at the 2017 Card & Payments Summit, taking place at The Radisson Blu Portman, London, on the 27th and 28th of March.
Pedersen, who was appointed Managing Director of the global payments provider in October last year following six years at Citigroup, will speak about the launch of the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2), detailing what this will mean for the banking and Fintech sectors, as well as exploring what impact PSD2 will have on the global payments market.
The 2017 Cards & Payments Summit will look to tackle the hottest topics at the top of the industry’s agenda and will deliver insight into the latest cutting-edge innovations and security challenges facing the payments market.
Pedersen will deliver his presentation during the opening morning of the event at 09.55am, followed by him attending a Leaders’ Forum panel debate alongside other sector experts at 10.40am, to further debate the impact of PSD2 on the evolving payments landscape.
Nick Pedersen, Managing Director of Equiniti International Payments said: “I am honoured to be given the opportunity to share my views and insights alongside some of the most influential individuals in the sector and at one of the top events in the payments industry’s calendar.
“While PSD2 doesn't come into effect until 1st January 2018, preparing for this momentous change is sure to be the big story of 2017. As a business, we certainly see PSD2 as a positive story, as it presents international payment providers the opportunity to offer a wider range of services to merchants and international payment customers than ever before.
“While PSD2 may not be due for some time still, I'm certain that it's going to make its presence felt in every aspect of the international payments landscape throughout 2017.”


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Goodwill North Central Texas announced today Ryan Kennedy has joined Goodwill North Central Texas as Director of E-Commerce Sales.
As director of e-commerce sales, Kennedy is responsible for driving success and growth in Goodwill’s e-commerce department including implementing sales strategies, and overseeing budgets, plans and staff. Prior to joining Goodwill, he served as E-Commerce Specialist and Director of Operations for Conrex, LLC. In addition, he is the owner of Ryan’s Top Shop, a highly successful Amazon 3rd party business. No stranger to Goodwill, Kennedy served as a donation attendant for Goodwill Central Southern Indiana during college. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Technology in 2021 from Ball State University.
“We’re pleased to have Ryan join our leadership team,” said David Cox, President & CEO of Goodwill North Central Texas. “With the rapid growth of online shopping, ecommerce is becoming increasingly important to our business model and having an individual like Ryan onboard to lead our efforts will help us take full advantage of our sales opportunities online.”


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A new Contra Costa County health order requires anyone working at or visiting an essential business, and also public transit and government workers, to wear face coverings to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The order also requires face coverings while public members wait in line to get into essential businesses, like grocery stores or laundromats.
The order, which takes effect Wednesday, April 22, does not require children 12 and younger to wear masks. Children 2 years old or younger must not wear them because of the risk of suffocation.
Members of the public must mask when they:
· work at an essential business
· are inside an essential business
· visit a healthcare provider or facility
· wait in line for or ride public transportation
When outside, everyone must carry masks or face coverings and use them whenever they come near six feet of others outside their own households, the County said.
Businesses are also required to post reminders to visitors about masking and are ordered not to serve customers who do not observe the order. Those working alone in a personal office don’t need to mask unless others enter.
People driving in personal vehicles alone or with members of their households don’t need to wear a mask. Even while wearing face coverings, residents must continue to social distance. Face coverings aren’t required for people leaving homes to exercise, although they should stay farther apart from others while breathing heavily.
“Face coverings can be anything made of cloth, fabric or other permeable material that covers the nose and mouth and the lower part of the face,” according to the County. “Medical-grade masks are not required – a T-shirt or bandana works fine,” said Public Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano.
Visit cchealth.org/coronavirus to read the order or for more information about COVID-19.


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ALL THOSE EUROPEANS who live for the day when John Kerry will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States should have paused before cheering his selection of John Edwards as his running mate which they uniformly think will add to Kerry's chances of moving into the White House.
Edwards was the leading proponent of protectionism during his losing campaign for the presidential nomination. He lost, but Kerry won in part because he out Edwards-ed the young senator from North Carolina by accusing businessmen who outsourced jobs of betraying America.
It is Kerry, of course, and not Edwards, who will determine trade policy should the voters decide to sentence George W. Bush to join his father in retirement. But Kerry's choice for vice president shows that he believes some form of protectionism to be a vote winner, and a necessary pay-off to the trade unions that are putting their foot-soldiers and cash to work to get pro-Kerry voters registered and to the polls.
There is special irony in the massive support for Kerry in the United Kingdom. Just last week the British government argued in a policy paper that the old mercantilist mantra, "exports good, imports bad" has passed its sell-by date. It is that sort of mercantilism that Bush is trying to persuade American voters is against their interests. Which is why he has been pushing for a new global trade liberalizing round, and negotiating bilateral trade-opening deals along the lines of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Kerry has promised to re-examine and tighten all existing treaties, and to insist on labor and environmental terms in new agreements that would most certainly disadvantage the developing countries that are supposed to be the object of the affections of Europe's left. With the exception of France, of course, which clings to agricultural protectionism that dooms Africa's poor to perpetual poverty.
Kerry's ire is aimed especially at the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) that Bush has negotiated and that is now before Congress. That agreement would eliminate duties on more than half of U.S. farm goods and 80 percent of American exports of consumer and industrial products to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and, eventually, the Dominican Republic. Kerry has asked congressional Democrats to withhold approval until he can revise the agreement to make it more acceptable to the trade unions.
America's voters might just be inclined to heed the siren song of the respectable protectionism that Kerry sings. Recall: when hard-right Pat Buchanan tried to sell his brand of outright protectionism, Americans weren't buying. Kerry is subtler: adjust the tax code to make overseas investment relatively less attractive; penalize outsourcers; include in trade agreements provisions that wipe out the labor-cost advantage of poor countries; stall on reopening the Doha round of trade-opening negotiations.
All wrapped in the personable package of John Edwards, who proved his ability to persuade middle-class Americans that he is on their side during his successful career as a trial lawyer. A Gallup poll shows that 83 percent of Americans believe that the job impact of outsourcing is an important issue in this year's election, and 47 percent fear that they or a friend or relative will lose their job to overseas competition. Kerry and Edwards plan to preach to that choir.
THEY DO HAVE some facts on their side. America's trade deficit, now running at over 5 percent of GDP, is unsustainable. Sooner or later, the dollar will decline in value, making American exports cheaper, and imports dearer. But that day is being postponed by the insistence of Japan and China on intervening in currency markets to prevent the value of their currencies from falling, and the price of the goods they export to America from rising. The Bush administration has been singularly unsuccessful in persuading these important exporters to America to stop supporting the dollar.
The Democrats can also point to the refusal of the European Union, and most particularly Germany, to stimulate economic growth by lowering interest rates and reforming their rigid labor markets. This means that Germany and others are relying on sales to America, rather than growth in domestic demand, to fuel their economic recoveries. They are pursuing an export-led expansion, with America the consumer of last resort, and stunted European markets that have little demand for imports from America.
Unfortunately, Kerry has made it clear that he intends to court the goodwill of Europe, a policy hardly consistent with pressuring the French and others to stimulate their economies and to open their markets to American goods. So he will have to find ways to reduce imports, especially from the Asian countries that are the largest contributors to America's trade deficit. That will force China and Japan to divert goods to Europe--the very area that sees the Massachusetts senator as such a wonderful alternative to the Texan president. Even now, a group set up by the European Commission is proposing drastic cuts in textile imports from China and India, and a change in rules to make it easier to file anti-dumping cases at the World Trade Organization.
ALL OF THIS comes at a time when Bush has decided that his flirtation with protectionism--remember the steel tariffs--damaged ,rather than helped, the American economy. He has rejected demands of several members of Congress to renew the international quota system that has limited the access of overseas textile and apparel manufacturers to American markets. Those quotas will expire on January 1, 2005. He has instructed the Department of Commerce to reduce tariffs imposed on Chinese television sets to inconsequential levels.
Bush's record as a free trader is hardly unblemished: Just last week his Commerce Department imposed high tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam. But were Adam Smith alive, and voting, he would surely feel that the incumbent has a comparative advantage over his challenger.
Irwin M. Stelzer is director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute, a columnist for the Sunday Times (London), a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, and a contributing writer to The Daily Standard.


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Shares of the world’s largest two-wheeler maker – Hero MotoCorp – were trading on a flat note at Rs 2,831 after the company informed exchanges that it would temporarily halt operations at its manufacturing units across the country amid rising Covid-19 cases across the country.
“In keeping with its commitment to the safety and welfare of its people, Hero MotoCorp has decided to proactively halt operations temporarily at all of its manufacturing facilities across the country, including its Global Parts Center (GPC), in view of the ongoing escalation in the spread of Covid-19 across the country,” Hero MotoCorp said in a press release on Wednesday.
India’s tally of COVID-19 cases soared by 314,835 over the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase recorded anywhere. The previous record one-day rise in cases was held by the United States, at 297,430, in January.
Hero MotoCorp will utilize the shut-down days to carry out necessary maintenance work in the manufacturing plants. The shutdown will not impact the company’s ability to meet the demand, which has been impacted due to localized shut-downs in many states and production loss will be compensated during the remainder of the quarter, Hero MotoCorp said.
All corporate offices of the company are already in Work from Home (WFH) mode and very limited colleagues are in offices on rotation basis for continuity of essential services, Hero MotoCorp added.
As of 12:42 pm, Hero MotoCorp shares were unchanged at Rs 2,825, in line with the Sensex which was trading on a flat note.


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11 October 2021
Footwear and leathergoods analyst Beth Goldstein has said a return to nights out following covid restrictions has led to a faster-than-expected rebound for some handbags, specifically shoulder bags and cross-body bags, in the US. Writes Leatherbiz.
Ms Goldstein, who works for research firm NPD Group, said sales of shoulder bags in the six months to August 31, were up by 14% year on year, while sales of cross-body bags increased by 7%.
She said the increased popularity of these “hands-free silhouettes” suggested to her that women were buying them for nights out. She pointed out, over the same period, sales of tote bags were down by 1% year on year and sales of satchels by 5% and suggested this was indicative of a slower return to offices or to business events.
Overall, she said the situation in the handbag market was positive. She pointed out that there were fewer promotions and suggested this meant demand was strong.
“The women’s handbag market has rebounded more quickly than expected and regained most of the revenue lost in 2020,” she explained. “Consumers are treating themselves as they return to more of their normal pre-pandemic behaviours. They are willing to trade up because they have more money to spend, after staying at home for months on end.”


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Lambrini millionaire John Halewood will be much missed by his friends and colleagues in the trade, drinks business figures said today.
Mr Halewood, one of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs, died on Saturday, aged 64.
His Huyton-based business, which he founded with his mum Eileen more than 30 years ago, is the UK’s largest independent drinks distributor and turns over more than £250m a year.
It is best known for Lambrini, and sells more than 40m bottles of the sparkling drink every year, but also sells brands including Tsingtao beer, Red Square Vodka and Lamb’s Navy Rum.
Today Jeremy Beadles, chief executive of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, said: “John will be much missed in the trade. He had a reputation for driving his business with passion and inspiring his colleagues.
“It’s a credit to him that he leaves a strong management team in place at Halewood to continue the company’s success.”
Lesley Martin-Wright, chief executive of Knowsley Chamber of Commerce, said: “John Halewood’s contribution to business and commerce is immeasurable.
“His Knowsley-based company has gained an international recognition, built by a passion for excellence, strong leadership and a shrewd judgement for developing an extensive range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks that have a real brand value.
“An entrepreneur in every sense, the company he founded some 30 years ago has grown through his innovation and a determination to succeed. ”
Prof Tom Cannon, head of strategic development at the University of Liverpool Management School, said: “He did a brilliant job at building up the business. He stayed loyal to Knowsley and Huyton.
“What you need is entrepreneurs like him to create real businesses that can sustain employment in the local community.”
Mr Halewood was also well-known in the racing world. His horse, Amberleigh House, won the 2004 Grand National and last month he paid tribute after the death of trainer Ginger McCain.


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Clothing retailer New Look plans to open 50 more stores in China over the next year on the back of a “strong” response in the country.
The firm said that overall revenue grew by 5.4 per cent year‑on‑year to £1.49 billion in the 12 months to 26 March, while pre-tax profit jumped 16.8 per cent to £59.1 million.
It also noted non-recurring exceptional transaction costs of £94m relating in part to its purchase by Brait last year.
Anders Kristiansen, New Look’s chief executive, said it had been a “milestone” year for the business. “With the support of our new owners Brait, we have made continued progress against our strategic initiatives as we develop New Look into a truly global brand.”


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Mar 17 2016 : The Times of India (Bangalore)
When Kumar Ramachandran sold his engineering device services company Vignani Technologies to Foliage, a US-based technology consulting and engineering services company in 2014, he wondered about the next entrepreneurial step he could take. He recalls his daughter then telling him: “You have earned your money; now do something that impacts the society and not just you.“
He and family were in the US then. He had been there since 1984, though he did spend some years in India in between, including when he was MD of Applied Materials India.
When his daughter made the suggestion, Ramachandran decided to return to India to do something in the rural sector. Ramachandran says his daughter has been his biggest motivator in the last two years. “I started looking at the fruit and vegetable industry and realized that the way it works today in India is almost the same as it worked 100 years ago. The consumers have changed but farmers remain the same,“ he says.
He first started a company called Gram Suchana Solutions that developed a portal to provide rural information in local languages.And last year, under that company, he started another venture called GS Farm Taaza Produce, a fresh produce supply chain management firm. The company supplies products to mainly retail stores across Bengaluru, Ooty, Mysuru and Mangaluru in Karnataka, Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, and Hyderabad. Retail firms such as Big Bazaar, Spar, HyperCity, Heritage, FoodWorld, Big Basket and Spencers are among its clients.
Ramachandran notes that farmers in India are at the mercy of nature and of the sabji maandis, which decide the prices. This leads to a farmer not being compensated properly for his produce. “I have tried to bring a small change in this age old system by procuring directly from the farmers,“ Ramachandran says.
Funding was never a problem for Ramachandran, given his long association with investors in Silicon Valley. The investors in Farm Taaza include Sudhe er Kuppam, former Asia Pacific chief of Intel Capital, who was also an investor in Vignani Technologies, and former Igate CEO Phaneesh Murthy. “It took me a month to raise $1 million and another two days to raise an additional $0.5 million,“ Ramachandran says.
He also says he did not have any difficulty turning to entrepreneurship or in moving from the perceived glamour of the technology world to the farm sector. He was Applied Materials' first managing director for India when the company launched in the country in 2002.But he indicates such positions are nowhere as glamourous as people imagine.
“At the end of the day , the larger picture is that you are just a part of the management,“ he says modestly .


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Subscription-based model is the only way forward for growth: Blaise Fernandes, The Indian Music Industry
Music Inc., the high-powered event presented by MTV and curated by Loudest.in and exchange4Media, kicked off yesterday at JW Marriott in Mumbai.
The conference brought renowned music and media industry stalwarts together. Among the various enlightening sessions was a talk by Blaise Fernandes, President, The Indian Music Industry who opened up on the opportunity in the Indian Music industry.
Fernandes shared that a recent IFPI-PwC study reveals that remuneration to sound recording owner from radio broadcasters undervalued eight times their current levels. He also spoke about how recently the Indian music industry grew 27% to Rs 725.6 crore in 2017 from Rs 570.7 crore in the year-ago period driven by growth in music streaming revenue, according to International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) data. âThe numbers will go up once we get in the paid ecosystem,â said Fernandes.
He elaborated on how digital music is claiming a larger part of the pie in line with the global trends. Fernandes said that the initiatives which were undertaken by the government like Digital India, Bharat Net, Cipamâs #lettalkIP program have helped in a big way and will enable the Indian music industry to out-perform most evolved recorded music industries in the digital domain and climb up in rankings in the coming years.
Fernades also addressed the issue of piracy and cited his learnings from a study conducted by IPSOS in India for IMI & International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The indications are that consumers in India listened to around 23.6 hours of music a week, ranking second highest in the world, after Mexico. â94% of users in the study admitted to piracy,â shared Fernandes.
He also discussed the various opportunities for facilitating growth in the industry. âGrowth will also be coming from the connected cars segment,â revealed Fernandes. âSubscription-based model is the only way forward for the industry to grow,â he said.
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text: From jobless and sharing a carton of McNuggets to the Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list by Khalida Sarwari December 17, 2019 Share Mastodon Facebook LinkedIn Twitter The Crystal app helps users learn about the personalities of others to communicate better. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University In many ways, it was like any other August morning in Boston. The air was thick with humidity, and Drew D’Agostino’s phone buzzed with notifications for website errors and other work-related alerts requiring his attention. He and his business partner, Greg Skloot, woke up that morning as 23-year-old executives in charge of a burgeoning venture-backed startup. By the end of the day, they found themselves sitting in a McDonald’s booth, jobless and wondering—over a shared carton of chicken nuggets—how it all went downhill. Theirs isn’t so much a riches-to-rags story as it is about processing and learning from failures and setbacks, and about perseverance and reinvention. Now, six years later, the Northeastern graduates are co-creators of Crystal, an app that helps users identify personality traits of people with whom they want to communicate better. D’Amore McKim School of Business graduates Drew D’Agostino and Greg Skloot were recognized by Forbes for their company, Crystal. Courtesy photo via Crystal The company has raised $7 million from companies, including the cloud-computing software company Salesforce, and garnered 3,000 customers comprised of sales people, recruiters, managers, and consultants. Along with seven other Northeastern graduates, D’Agostino and Skloot have made Forbes’ annual “30 Under 30” lists of 600 young entrepreneurs who are using their ambition and ingenuity to blaze new trails. A full account of how they were fired from Attend, their first venture-backed tech company, is outlined in D’Agostino and Skloot’s book, Predicting Personality. Contending that the cause for their termination was miscommunication, the entrepreneurs explain that their new app is designed to help others avoid similar situations by using personality data to improve daily communication in negotiating and writing emails. The business partners credit Northeastern for their success—and friendship. It was where they developed a prototype for their first company, with the university’s alumni relations office as an early client. “Drew and I were roommates and built our relationship from years of shared experience exploring entrepreneurship ideas, being part of the entrepreneurship club at Northeastern, and building a great friendship as students,” says Skloot, who received a business degree from Northeastern in 2012. D’Agostino, who graduated in 2013 with a degree in marketing and entrepreneurship, attributed his success partly to the co-op experiences that allowed him to work in sales as a student. Personality Map. Courtesy via Crystal “Building a book of business from scratch is very challenging, and it forced us to learn so many entrepreneurial skills: pragmatic thinking, effective communication, negotiation, and persistence,” he says. Forbes also recognized 2018 graduate Joshua Martin and his co-founders at Fortify, who met in the lab of Randall Erb, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern. Martin and his colleagues Andrew Caunter, Dan Shores, and Scott Goodrich Delos, who graduated in 2016, and Karlo Reyes (who graduated this year), are credited with creating a company that developed a new type of composite 3D printing. The co-founders have raised $13 million with venture capital firm Accel. Also making the Forbes list is Brian Sanderson, a 2013 Northeastern graduate who specializes in financing buyouts and corporate mergers at Morgan Stanley. Sanderson has led the execution of deals that have raised more than $150 billion for companies such as Uber, Slack, and Netflix. He also finances deals for software-focused private equity firms. Ryan St. Pierre, who graduated from Northeastern in 2012 and is now a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, was honored by Forbes for designing tiny robots that can accomplish tasks too tricky for human hands. Hoping to match the biomechanical abilities of insects, St. Pierre has dedicated his career to building bug-inspired bots and applying new types of materials to robotics. For media inquiries, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org.


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By Jack Stubbs
On Sunday, February 3rd, a retail property located near the Pike/Pine corridor in downtown Seattle sold for $15.5 million, according to public records filed with King County. The buyer, Melrose Market Regency LLC, shares the same address as Oakland, California-based Regency Centers, a national owner, operator and developer of shopping centers. The seller was Melrose Project LLC, an entity affiliated with Scott Shapiro based in Seattle.
The transaction was recorded on February 8th.
Regency Centers’ Oakland office did not respond to calls for comment regarding the recent transaction in time for the publishing of this story.
The subject property, located at 1531 Melrose Avenue in between Pike and Pine Streets, is a 21,000 square foot Class B retail property constructed in 1912 that is part of Melrose Market, according to public documents. It is not entirely clear how much space is currently available in the property. According to public documents, some of the current tenants include Rain Shadow Meats, Sitka and Spruce and Homegrown sandwich shop.
The retail property shares the same address as Melrose Market, an indoor food and retail market located between downtown Seattle and the bustling Capitol Hill neighborhood. According to the web site for the property, the market occupies a set of historic automotive buildings constructed between 1919 and 1926 which were ultimately converted into the Melrose Market.
Opened in the spring of 2010 and just up the street from Seattle’s downtown shopping district, the Market features a collection of award-winning restauranteurs and retailers and Melrose Market Studios, a large event space and catering facility.
And the recently-acquired property sits in a downtown location that has been eyed with increasing interest by members of the community and city officials in recent months: redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout Seattle, a city in transition, and another in-the-works project is set to bring changes to the city’s continually-evolving Capitol Hill neighborhood.
As one such example, the Melrose Promenade Project—which encompasses a one-mile stretch of street bounded by Pike Street on the south and Lakeview Boulevard to the north—is a community-driven redevelopment effort that is aiming to transform Melrose Avenue and surrounding public spaces from an underutilized freeway frontage into a revitalized, more active pedestrian thoroughfare. The adaptive reuse project, initiated by the community-led Melrose Promenade Advisory Committee (MPAC), also includes various architectural firms such as Berger Partnership, Schemata Workshop and Weinstein A+U.
In April 2018, an open house event was held for Melrose Promenade, at which Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) presented update project plans to members of the surrounding community. In terms of wider community engagement, members of MPAC are also working in conjunction representatives from the Pike/Pine Renaissance project—which is a joint effort between the city of Seattle’s Office of the Waterfront and Downtown Seattle Association (DSA)—to further streamline the planning and design process for Melrose Promenade.
As part of another project, the Pike Pine Renaissance: Act One, DSA and the Office of the Waterfront are looking to redesign and improve the pedestrian experience along Pike and Pine streets, as well as connect the corridor to the waterfront and the nearby Pike Place Market to Capitol Hill.
Further north in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, Regency Centers is working on another project: the company is developing Ballard Blocks II, a 114,000 square foot shopping center a project on which construction was begun in February 2018 and is slated for completion in mid-2019.
The in-the-works development, located at 1451 N.W. 46th St., will be across the street from Regency Centers’ Ballard Blocks project, a 131,000 square foot shopping center that contains a Trader Joe’s, LA Fitness and Ross, among other tenants. The new project will include a 25,000 square foot PCC Community Markets store (the anchor tenant in the space), 25,000 square feet of space dedicated to retailer West Marine and a 12,000 square foot childhood Early Learning Center.
Regency Centers’ portfolio includes 426 centers totaling 58 million square feet of retail space nationwide, according to the company’s web site. “We develop premier shopping centers designed for long-term growth. Our focus is on developments in dense infill and affluent trade areas. We attract best-in-class anchors, leading specialty grocers, market-dominant traditional grocers and select regional grocers.”


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Apple has reportedly hired executives behind TV series 'Breaking Bad' and plans to spend about $1 billion on original programming in the next 12 months.
Acer announced its new H7850 and V7850 projectors are now available in the United States.
Fiat Chrysler is joining the self-driving alliance led by BMW Group, Intel and its Mobileye subsidiary, becoming the second automaker in the group to opt to partner in developing an autonomous driving platform.
Kingston Digital has added 4GB and 8GB capacity sizes to its family of DataTraveler 2000 encrypted USB Flash drives.
Intel has taken the wraps off of one of its future generation Core architectures. The "Ice Lake" architecture will be made on Intel's 10nm+ process.
CyberLink today launched U, a new solution for Windows, Mac and mobile devices that simplifies online business meetings, webinar presentations and instant messaging for business.


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Blog: TPP trade pact finally concluded
Leonie Barrie | 12 October 2015
After more than five years of negotiations, leaders of 12 Pacific Rim countries, including the US, Japan and Vietnam, have finally concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The move paves the way for what will be the world's largest free trade agreement, linking about 40% of the global economy.
While the full text of the TPP is still to be released, initial indications are that for textiles and apparel there will be specific rules of origin that require use of yarns and fabrics from the TPP nations, with a “short supply list” that allows use of certain yarns and fabrics not widely available in the region.
The deal also still needs to be ratified by the individual countries involved – a process that could take some time. Some estimates suggest the TPP could potentially go into force by late 2018 or early 2019, whereas others believe it is unlikely to take effect this decade.
Vietnam is expected to be one of the chief beneficiaries of the trade pact, and US apparel import data released last week confirms its continuing growth. Shipments from Vietnam grew 18.8% year-on-year in August, with strong gains also seen by China, Cambodia and Bangladesh.
Clothing workers in Cambodia are also set to benefit from a new minimum wage agreed from the beginning of next year. Set at US$140 per month – a 9.4% increase on the current wage of $128 – it is well below the $168 that unions had been seeking.
But hundreds of millions of children worldwide continue to be involved in child labour, with 18 countries named as using children in cotton production and nine in garment production,according to a new report.
As the world’s two largest fast fashion retailers, it’s no surprise that Inditex and H&M continue to outperform their peers with their market-leading supply chains – or that common themes unite all the top European supply chain leaders.
Offering opportunities for retailers to drive margin, differentiation and traceability, private label apparel is a growing category. But whereas last year all eyes were on cost as the key sourcing pressure, a new survey suggests a mix of issues has now come to the fore.
September proved to be another mixed month for US clothing retailers. While a later Labor Day weekend and the tail-end of back-to-school selling boosted sales for some, the holiday shift combined with unseasonably warm weather hampered others, leading to many chains posting comparable store sales declines.
The latest innovations in fibres and fabrics are driven by apparel industry demand for ecologically friendly solutions. Among the topics explored in this month’s management briefing are the latest in functional finishes, new outdoor wool and sportswear fabrics, and the challenges that persist in closed loop clothing.
Taking advantage of potential growth in e-textiles and smart garments is not without risk, according to a new report from just-style, and may also require a fundamental shift in core business practices.
And in other news, Gap Inc has revealed another decline in monthly comparable store sales and the departure of Banana Republic creative director Marissa Webb; Wal-Mart Stores has cut around 450 jobs at its head office; and Nike has launched a new fabric that adapts to changes inbody temperature.
Confirmation that digital supply chains are top of mind for apparel industry executives came last week with the latest plans from global sourcing specialist Li & Fung....
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Over the past month, Donald Trump and his team failed to offer any clear plan to ensure Americans would "Buy American, Hire American" - while the British government's attempts to clarify the specifics...
Ananas Anam has secured financing to help ramp up its supply of Piñatex, a natural and sustainable alternative to leather made of fibres from pineapple leaves....
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- Trump and Brexit get a dose of pragmatism
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- Adidas to digitalise Speedfactory concept
- Nike filed patent for "reinforced denim"
- M&S extends sourcing deal with Lindsey brothers
- Gap unveils five-year sustainable fibres pledge
- US Q1 in brief – Columbia Sportswear, Amazon
- Global market review of denim and jeanswear – forecasts to 2022
- When Things Go Wrong - A Practical Guide to Managing Common Problems in Apparel Sourcing
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Editor Greg Johnson and staff writer Ashley Nickle deliver a rebuttal of the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen list that disparages fresh fruits and vegetables.
With its yearly report, the EWG raises the alarm on pesticide residue levels that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states are safe. More than 99% of the produce samples tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture meet that standard.
The EPA explains on its website that the vast majority of residues are miniscule and not a reason for worry.
"Very small amounts of pesticides that may remain in or on fruits, vegetables, grains and other foods decrease considerably as crops are harvested, transported, exposed to light, washed, prepared and cooked," the organization stated on its Food and Pesticides page. "The presence of a detectable pesticide residue does not mean the residue is at an unsafe level. USDA’s Pesticide Data Program (PDP) detects residues at levels far lower than those that are considered health risks."
The EWG rejects the standards of the EPA and instead tells consumers to buy organic all the items on its Dirty Dozen list.
What are your thoughts on this annual report?


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Doha: Qatari Diar and Ariane Holding Group signed an agreement to open the first branch of the British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s in Qatar. Sainsbury's is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The first branch is expected to start operation at Lusail City in the first quarter of 2022.
The agreement was signed Yousef Abu Bakr Al-Musleh, Chief Development and Asset Management Officer, Qatari Diar and Mohamed Hussein Al Ali, Group CEO, Ariane Holding Group in the presence of Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, CEO of Qatari Diar, John Wilkes, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Qatar, Sheikh Suhaim bin Khalid Al Thani, Chairman of Ariane Holdings Board of Directors, Jinoos Shariati, Director of Trade and Investment at the British Embassy and Abdelkarim al Zoubi, CEO of Marakez Trading.
The first branch of the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain would be established in the commercial street in the heart of Lusail in the Downtown area. It is expected to open in the first quarter of 2022.
In 2019 Marakez Trading, a part of Ariane Holding Group, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Sainsbury’s to be the main distributor for its products in the Middle East and North Africa. After the increase in demand for products, the company decided to expand the base of operations by opening its own branches for the Sainsbury’s chain in Qatar. The supermarket in Qatar will give consumers access to the widest range of Sainsbury’s products and will provide a wide variety of products from the UK and around the world.
“The company has chosen Lusail City to establish its first branch in Qatar due to the strategic importance of the city and its many features, whether in terms of infrastructure or services, in addition to being the future city of the State of Qatar,” a company press release said.


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Multimedia retailer QVC said it will ramp up an HD simulcast of its SD broadcast feed by early 2008, calling it “the next logical step” as a means to enhance the attraction of its various products offered to viewers.
QVC, based in West Chester, Pa., already has begun updating its sets and is adding new graphics for its HD launch as part of its overall “multi-tiered brand campaign” that began in October. It’s the shopping network’s first national advertising campaign in its 21-year history, as it continues an evolution from SD to HD, as well as from a TV shopping venue into a multimedia retailer.
QVC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation.
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Regent Seven Seas Cruises has shelved the planned 2021/22 Asia Pacific deployment of its ultra-luxury vessel, Seven Seas Explorer. The program included the vessel’s highly-anticipated inaugural visit down under.
The Miami-based cruise line revealed the decision in the process of announcing its plan to relaunch its complete fleet of five ships back into service by early 2022.
A few weeks ago, Regent Seven Seas outlined the planned resumption of sailings for Seven Seas Splendor, commencing in the UK on 11 September 2021, picking up on its previously scheduled program.
It has now been confirmed that Regent’s four remaining ships will begin their long-awaited return to the ocean from October 2021.
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Seven Seas Explorer will welcome back guests on 16 October, 2021 sailing from Venice, Italy. She will complete two published Mediterranean voyages before crossing the Atlantic to Miami, Florida and, from 15 November, 2021, sail a further two published sailings in the Caribbean. The ship then begins a newly created winter Caribbean season featuring eight new sailings, starting 20 December, 2021.
Explorer will then return to Europe in early April, 2022, sailing three more newly created Mediterranean itineraries before embarking on her published 2022 European summer season on 14 May.
Seven Seas Explorer takes over three of Seven Seas Mariner’s published cruises. Mariner herself will instead go into a technical dry-dock, before resuming operation on 18 December, 2021, from Miami. Similarly, Seven Seas Navigator will recommence operation on 6 January.
Seven Seas Voyager will return on 15 February, 2022 from Barcelona, Spain, meaning her upcoming Africa and South America departures have also been pulled.
As part of the return to sail plan, 17 new sailings in Europe and the Caribbean have been created for Seven Seas Explorer and Seven Seas Voyager, and are scheduled to go on sale in early June 2021.
Asia/Oceania program dropped
Seven Seas Explorer‘s amended schedule results in 14 voyages being axed from October 2021 – 9 in Asia, 4 in Australia and New Zealand and 1 in the Mediterranean.
Steve Odell, SVP & MD Asia Pacific for Regent Seven Seas Cruises shared his disappointment regarding the cancellations, citing the slower vaccination rate in the regions meant Seven Seas Explorer needed to be assigned elsewhere.
“We are truly sorry and share in the disappointment of those who have had that much-anticipated, much-deserved experiences cancelled. We hope however that with the newly created itineraries we are launching as part of our return to sail plan, guests whose bookings impacted by these changes, will find a new reason to travel with us again very soon,” Montague said.
Odell told LATTE, “Fortunately, Seven Seas Mariner arrives in Australia in February 2022, and South-East Asia in March 2022 as part of her World Cruise. This provides significantly more time for local populations to be vaccinated in the respective regions.
“On the upside we are excited that all five of our Regent ships will be back on the ocean by early 2022, the year of our 30th anniversary. We are also excited to welcome Seven Seas Explorer to the Asia Pacific region at the end of 2022,” he noted.
Guests impacted by the cancellations who had active bookings will receive a 100% refund for amounts paid for voyages cancelled with the 6 April suspensions. Refunds will be processed within 60 days.
Those guests that chose to cancel their voyage prior to this week’s announcement of suspensions are subject to the terms communicated at the time of cancellation and are not eligible for refunds.