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Europe and the LATAM region are attractive regions for many companies to establish operations. Europe”s overall cannabis market is projected to reach USD 66.8 Billion within the next five years, while the LATAM region is expected to reach USD 12.7 Billion in sales by 2028, according to Prohibition Partners. The research notes that several European countries have passed medical marijuana legislation recently, and there is a 50% chance a few more could pass recreational laws. Meanwhile, the LATAM region is being targeted mainly for cultivation facilities due to its fertile lands and inexpensive costs associated with growing, as more countries view legalization with zest. ‘As more markets open, international trade begins and research and science take a front seat in the coming years,’ said John Billings, head of cultivation for The Farm Dispensary. ‘There”s no reason to think this trend will not continue. Growing plants/varietals with higher concentrate returns will help keep production costs down. You have old players (Israel, Jamaica, GW Pharmaceuticals and the U.S.) and new players (Canada and Mexico) coming into the scene with their own ideas and plans.’
Blueberries Medical Corp. (OTC: BBRRF) (CSE: BBM) earlier last week the company announced that it, ‘has entered into a letter of intent (the ‘Letter Agreement’) dated February 13, 2019 for a joint venture (the ‘Joint Venture’) with Harmony and Life S.A.S., operating as El Manantial medical centers (‘El Manantial‘).
The Joint Venture will further the development and commercialization of Blueberries” medicinal cannabis products through El Manantial”s rapidly growing patient base and collaboration with El Manantial”s team of physicians, pharmacists and technicians with deep expertise in a variety of medical areas. It will also provide a direct distribution channel to an established and rapidly growing patient by selling exclusively Blueberries” cannabis-derived products. The Company has also set out to build two BPE (Good Elaboration Practices) certified pharmacies in support of the initiative which will provide additional sales channels for Blueberries” products. Blueberries and El Manantial will also develop a treatment-focused medical education program designed to assist physicians in prescribing cannabis-based treatment plans to patients.
‘Our joint venture with El Manantial provides an outstanding opportunity for Blueberries to develop medical products and acquire patients in the Colombian market’, stated Christian Toro, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. ‘El Manantial is a respected leader in Colombia, and their focus on equitable access to medicine and patient care aligns with our goal of providing treatment to a broad spectrum of patients. The Joint Venture emphasizes communication with prescribing doctors and education of both doctors and patients which is expected to ensure that Blueberries is developing treatments that the medical community needs, and that a streamlined process is developed for the company to reach its patients.’
El Manantial is among the fastest growing networks of medical centers in Colombia, currently representing over 7,000 patients and expected to grow to over 50,000 patients over the next 36-month period as four new centers are projected to come online. This is an important development in Blueberries” strategy to acquire patients and develop treatments with cannabis products, positioning Blueberries as a leader in the Colombian medicinal cannabis product market.
‘This transaction will allow us the opportunity to work with the Blueberries team to develop new cannabis products and treatments, which can in turn be rolled out to our medical center network, offering patients the best possible care’, stated Dr. Andres Vidal, founder of El Manantial. ‘We plan for our prescribing physician education program to be an important step in supporting the widespread adoption of cannabis treatments in Colombia and globally.’ Dr. Vidal, who has control and direction over El Manantial, is also a director of Blueberries.
Pharmacy Build-Out: Blueberries will make a strategic investment of up to C$400,000 in the construction of specialized pharmacies that are BPE (Good Elaboration Practices) certified. In addition to the pharmacies owned and operated by El Manantrial, the Company-owned pharmacies will also sell cannabis and cannabis-derived products exclusively from Blueberries. Completion of the build-out of the Company”s pharmacies is expected to occur during Q3 2019.
Letter Agreement Terms: Collaborate on the research, development, and commercialization of Blueberries cannabis derived medicinal products.
Blueberries to be exclusive supplier of cannabis and cannabis-derived products to El Manantial for research and sale through their medical center network and pharmacies.
Blueberries will make a strategic investment of up to C$300,000 for the development of educational programs for the medical community to deliver to patients. The program will include certification for physicians obtained through comprehensive training, and it is expected to come online in Q2 2019.
Blueberries will invest up to C$100,000 for medical center facility upgrades to expand capacity in order to accommodate the rapidly growing patient base.
The proposed Joint Venture is subject to completion of satisfactory due diligence by each of the Company and El Manatial, and the execution of a definitive agreement.
About El Manantial: Founded in 2013 by Dr. Andres Vidal, El Manantial offers its patients the best of conventional medicine, and the best of alternative and complementary medicine, guaranteeing the best possible patient care. A diverse team of physicians and technicians of various specialties of conventional medicine, family medicine, nutrition, aesthetic medicine, homeopathic medicine, and natural medicine, bacteriologists, paramedics, pharmacists make El Manantial a leading center of medical expertise in Colombia. As one of the fastest growing medical center network in Colombia, the goal of El Manantial is to generate equitable access for all Colombians to medical treatment. The centers are actively engaged in the research and development of new and cutting-edge treatments to meet the needs of patients. For further information about El Manantial, please visit https://centromedicoelmanantial.co/.
About Blueberries Medical Corp: Blueberries is a Colombia-based licensed producer of naturally grown premium quality cannabis with its primary operations ideally located in the Bogotá savannah of central Colombia. Led by a specialized team with proprietary expertise in agriculture, genetics, extraction, medicine, pharmacology and marketing, Blueberries has received all licenses required for the cultivation, production, domestic distribution, and international export of CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)-based medical cannabis. Blueberries” combination of leading scientific expertise, agricultural advantages, and distribution arrangements has positioned the Company to become a leading international supplier of naturally grown, processed, and standardized medicinal-grade cannabis oil extracts and related products.’
Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (NYSE: IIPR) is focused on the regulated U.S. cannabis industry. Earlier this month the company announced that it closed on the acquisition of a property in Sacramento, California, which comprises approximately 43,000 square feet of industrial space. This acquisition marks IIP”s first investment in California and expands its portfolio to ten U.S. states. The purchase price for the Sacramento property was approximately $6.7 million (excluding transaction costs). Concurrent with the closing of the purchase, IIP entered into a long-term, triple-net lease agreement with an experienced operator, which intends to operate the property as a licensed cannabis cultivation facility in accordance with California regulations. The seller of the property is expected to complete redevelopment of the building, for which IIP has agreed to provide reimbursement of up to $4.8 million. Assuming full reimbursement for the redevelopment, IIP”s total investment in the property will be approximately $11.5 million.
Tilray, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY) is a global pioneer in the research, cultivation, production and distribution of medical cannabis and cannabinoids currently serving tens of thousands of patients in twelve countries spanning five continents. Tilray, Inc. recently announced that after completing an acquisition of its existing import and distribution partner Alef Biotechnology SpA, the company has officially relaunched as Tilray Latin America SpA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tilray. Tilray Latin America will further strengthen Tilray”s position as a global leader in the medical cannabis market. Tilray currently has medical cannabis products available in twelve countries and operates globally through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Germany, and Portugal. Tilray Latin America will import, produce and distribute Tilray branded medical cannabis products in Chile and create a hub to distribute Tilray products throughout Latin America, subject to local laws. Tilray previously announced a partnership with Alef Biotechnology in February 2017 to import and distribute Tilray products in Chile and Brazil. Alef, now Tilray Latin America, is currently licensed by the Chilean government to commercially produce medical cannabis and is planning a state-of-the-art facility to domestically produce and process medical cannabis products. Chilean law permits patients to access medical cannabis products under the supervision of a recommending physician.
Village Farms International, Inc. (OTCQX: VFFIF) (TSX: VFF) is one of the largest and longest-operating vertically integrated greenhouse growers in North America and the only publicly traded greenhouse produce company in Canada. Village Farms International, Inc. recently announced that its 50%-owned joint venture for large-scale, low-cost, high-quality cannabis production, Pure Sunfarms Corp. has entered into a credit agreement with Bank of Montreal (‘BMO’), as agent and lead lender and Farm Credit Canada as lender in respect of a CAD 20 Million secured non-revolving term loan. Pure Sunfarms intends to use the funds available under the Credit Facility to finance the final costs of converting its 1.1 million sq. ft. greenhouse for cannabis production, the vast majority of which was completed in January of this year. The funds available under the Credit Facility may also be used for general corporate purposes. ‘The ability to establish this Credit Facility with Bank of Montreal, a Canadian Schedule I bank, and Farm Credit Canada, the country”s leading agriculture lender, is a testament to the strength and potential of Pure Sunfarms,’ said Michael DeGiglio, Chief Executive Officer, Village Farms International. ‘Village Farms has long-standing relationships with both BMO and FCC, each of which, based on our extensive histories, recognizes and values our three decades of large-scale greenhouse production experience and deep expertise throughout the supply chain. We are pleased to now extend these relationships to Pure Sunfarms as it rapidly approaches full production at one of the single largest cannabis facilities in the world and begins to generate positive cash flow from operations as expected in the first quarter of 2019.’
iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: ITHUF) (CSE: IAN) owns and operates best-in-class licensed cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensary facilities throughout the United States, providing investors diversified exposure to the U.S. regulated cannabis industry. iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. recently announced that it has opened its first and flagship dispensary in New York on December 30, 2018. The dispensary, located at 202 Flatbush Avenue directly across from Barclays Center and Atlantic Terminal, is the first in Brooklyn, New York”s largest borough, with a population of roughly 2.6 million people. The dispensary will operate under iAnthus” ‘Citiva’ New York dispensary brand. ‘The opening of our Brooklyn dispensary is a major milestone for iAnthus and Citiva. With an ideal location and an expert team in place, we expect this dispensary to be a major asset to the community and the Company,’ said Hadley Ford, Chief Executive Officer of iAnthus. ‘We are incredibly proud to be the first to open a dispensary in Brooklyn, which serves as a testament to iAnthus” track record of innovation and industry firsts.’
PharmaCielo Ltd. (OTC: PHCEF) (TSX-V: PCLO) is a global company privately held and headquartered in Canada, with a focus on processing and supplying all natural, medicinal-grade cannabis oil extracts and related products to large channel distributors. PharmaCielo Ltd., the Canadian parent of Colombia”s premier cultivator and producer of medicinal-grade cannabis oil PharmaCielo Colombia Holdings S.A.S., recently announced that it has received a 500-year-old ancestral cannabis strain for its exclusive use from the Arhuaco indigenous people. The Company received the Seeds as part of a traditional ceremony at the site of its nursery and propagation centre in Rionegro, Antioquia. The Seeds will be cultivated by PharmaCielo in the Arhuaco”s ancestral territory of the Sierra Nevada mountains. ‘Our team is grateful to the Arhuaco for their friendship and the trust they have placed in PharmaCielo to carry a strain of great cultural importance to the wider population of Colombia and other global markets,’ said Anthony Wile, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PharmaCielo Colombia’One of our primary objectives as a corporate leader in Colombia is to bring opportunity to historically exploited indigenous communities through the quality production of strains that have been in community use for hundreds of years. With a combination of pharmaceutical-grade cultivation and production standards, vastly scalable, low-cost production capacity and access to unique strains like that provided by the Arhuaco, PharmaCielo is positioned to be a global leader in the production and sale of medicinal-grade cannabis.’
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NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The expansion of the cannabis industry has led companies involved in the marketplace to expand internationally as larger players are extending their operations into other regions such as Europe and Latin America. Cannabis is enjoying a global perspective shift on legalization, however, the industry is still heavily hindered by certain regulations. Nonetheless, many countries are exploring opportunities within the market for medical applications. Despite its continued global expansion, the U.S. continues to dominate the cannabis marketplace. According to Verified Market Intelligence, the global marijuana market was valued at USD 42.20 Billion in 2017 and is expected to reach USD 466.81 Billion by 2025. Additionally, the market is projected to register a CAGR of 35.3% throughout the forecast period from 2018 to 2025. The market is primarily being accelerated by the growing adoption of medical cannabis for the treatment of chronic diseases. However, as more U.S. states begin to legalize recreational cannabis, projections show that recreational sales could overtake medical sales in the near future. Blueberries Medical Corp. (OTC: BBRRF) (CSE: BBM), Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (NYSE: IIPR), Tilray, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY), Village Farms International, Inc. (OTC: VFFIF) (TSX: VFF), iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. (OTC: ITHUF) (CSE: IAN).


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Renault Trucks announced a very significant delivery during the last days of August. The Swiss brewery Feldschlösschen, belonging to the Carlsberg Group, received the keys to all 20 Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E. trucks, whose first deliveries actually started some months ago. The 26-tonne electric truck was lately introduced in its LEC (low-entry cab) version in a 6×2 format with a steered rear axle, especially designed for urban waste collection tasks.
The trucks delivered by Renault Trucks are manufactured in the company’s Blainville-sur-Orne facility in Normandy. They have already covered a total of 66,000 km and transported 9,300 tonnes of goods. Thanks to these electric vehicles from Renault Trucks, Feldschösschen will save 240 tonnes of CO2 a year compared to diesel trucks.
The statements from Renault Trucks and the Swiss brewery Feldschlösschen
«These 20 electric vehicles from Renault Trucks represent a true milestone for the Feldschlösschen company on the way to CO2-neutral logistics. As Switzerland’s leading brewery and beverage distributor, we produce our beers and beverages in an environmentally friendly way and deliver them to our customers in the same way», declared Feldschlösschen CEO Thomas Amstutz.
On the other hand, Bruno Blin, President of Renault Trucks, added: «Renault Trucks is investing heavily to address the challenges of climate change. I am proud that our customers, following the example of Feldschlösschen today, are on board with us. Together, we are working to make sustainable transportation a reality».
Agreements with major players in electric mobility
The Renault Group is working a lot lately to improve and enhance its offer in terms of zero-emissions vehicles. It is not a coincidence that some important agreements have been recently announced. To name a few, the one with STMicroelectronics for vehicle development, as well as the creation of ElectriCity, aimed at making the Renault sites in the Hauts-de-France region the most competitive and efficient production unit for electric vehicles in Europe, with 400,000 vehicles produced per year by 2025.
Back to Renault Trucks, an agreement has been lately signed and announced concerning the Italian market. Enel X is expected to develop of a series of solutions dedicated to electric mobility: from vehicle recharging infrastructure, to the supporting web platform for managing and monitoring the recharging points installed in company car parks, from management programmes for company fleets of electric vehicles to the training of qualified personnel.

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10-28-02 Gannett News Service: Cookie factory deal: job for a lifetime
Cookie factory deal: job for a lifetime
Productivity jumps at plant on owner's promise
By Vic Kolenc
Gannett News Service
DEMING, Texas - Joseph Semprevivo doesn't want to just sell more cookies from his cookie factory here. He also wants to bring back an old concept: job security.
Mr. Semprevivo, part-owner and chief executive officer of Joseph's Lite Cookies, which produces 1 million bite-size, sugar-free and fat-free cookies each weekday, offers his 24 employees lifetime employment.
The message he sends to employees - whom he prefers to call "team members" - is this: "As long as I have a company, you have a job. I will never bring in a piece of machinery to replace you."
The lifetime employment offer, just one of the benefits received by the workers, is "done through a handshake," he said.
It's not a new concept for the company, said Mr. Semprevivo, 30, who founded the company along with his now-retired parents in 1986. But it's one he's trying to publicize more in light of recent corporate scandals and layoffs by large corporations.
"I want to change the corporate culture as much as I can," Mr. Semprevivo said. "If a small company can do it, any company can do it. Big business needs to start coming along and playing the game, care about team members and the quality of their products. ... People want to know there are companies like mine. There are a lot of companies like mine that don't get publicity."
Joseph's Lite Cookies, popular with diabetics and others who prefer sugar- or fat-free foods, are sold in all 50 states and 18 countries at 54,000 stores, including Albertson's, Wal-Mart and Kmart.
Mathias Velasco, 30, who has worked at Joseph's for 11 years, nine of those as shipping and receiving manager, said the offer of lifetime employment and other benefits the company offers has made a difference in the way people look at their jobs.
"I think when someone comes to the point that they realize they are at a place that will take care of them, they tend to work to not jeopardize that," Mr. Velasco said. "Personally, I think to get the best out of employees, you need to offer employees some type of stability or goal."
Frank Hoy, director of the Centers For Entrepreneurial Development at the University of Texas at El Paso and former dean of UTEP's College of Business, said Mr. Semprevivo's philosophy is "a good thing." But promises of lifetime employment are difficult for companies to keep in today's global economy, he said.
"We're in a much more volatile economic environment than back in the '50s and '60s when it was common for someone to work 20 years to 30 years for a company and then retire," Mr. Hoy said. "It's hard (today) to say you can keep things in one place and everyone has a job forever.
"I think all companies would like to provide guaranteed lifetime employment. But if you have to cut payroll to be competitive and got to move from labor-intensive to capital-intensive - replacing people with machines to be competitive. ... If the company doesn't exist because you're not competitive, then there's no lifetime employment," Mr. Hoy said.
Joseph's Lite Cookies might be operating in more of a "sheltered industry," Mr. Hoy said, where a promise of lifetime employment might be easier to keep.
Mr. Semprevivo said productivity in the plant has increased "300 percent in the last four years," which he largely attributes to his philosophy of treating workers with respect, adding good fringe benefits, and focusing on product quality and new machinery.
"Job security is important as well as (other) benefits. I think you'll see a lot of people beat down the doors to get here" in the future, said Paul Surette, 51, production line manager at Joseph's, where he has worked for a year.
Yet Joseph's still has problems finding employees, even with the lifetime employment offer, other fringe benefits such as health insurance and a 401(k), production bonuses, and a base wage that averages $8 an hour for production workers and more for management positions, Mr. Semprevivo said.
"A lot of team members move out of town, so that's a big reason for turnover," Mr. Semprevivo said. Some people find out they don't like factory work, and the company wants dedicated employees, he said. But, he estimated, "80 percent of the team has been here at least two years."
The company moved to its 48,000-square-foot plant in Deming's industrial park eight years ago. Mr. Semprevivo expects to double the plant's production in coming months, which would mean the plant would produce 2 million cookies a day. It will add five to seven employees, he said. Mr. Semprevivo won't divulge revenues, except to say it has "multimillion dollars in sales annually."


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Kansas City grocery chain announces senior management promotions
Contextual commerce platform Chicory has released findings from its Omnichannel Grocery Shopper survey of over 1,000 U.S. consumers, providing insight into how today’s consumers are meal planning and grocery shopping.
Key findings include:
Multi-Channel and Online Shopping is the New Normal. 66 percent of consumers have purchased groceries online in the last 60 days. While shopping behaviors are similar across gender and age groups, women and consumers 30 to 40 years old express the highest overall preference for online shopping, while 44 percent of those who prefer to shop in-store still order groceries online.
Off-Site Channels are Key to the Path to Purchase. Food blogs and recipe publishers are the most popular sources of online meal inspiration, according to 64 percent of survey respondents. This is consistent across all age groups. In fact, food blogs and recipe publishers outperform TikTok among the youngest generation of grocery shoppers, those 18 to 29 years old.
Almost 50 percent of shoppers are likely (31 percent) or very likely (18 percent) to purchase groceries directly from online food content (e.g., digital recipes, social media posts), signaling that off-site grocery commerce is becoming increasingly common.
Shoppers Prioritize Price and Convenience. Price is the top consideration for purchasing a product again (71 percent). It’s also the factor most likely to drive someone to change preferred retailers (65 percent).
However, location/convenience is an important factor too according to 48 percent of survey respondents. This likely explains why grocery and food delivery apps, which deliver groceries right to shoppers’ doors, are nearly tied with Target as the third-most popular online grocery retailer.
“For the second year in a row, respondents identified food blogs and recipe sites as their go-to sources for meal inspiration online,” says Chicory CEO and co-founder Yuni Sameshima, in a statement. “If brands and retailers aren’t yet leveraging off-site content to acquire new customers, they need to start. Today, winning at the shelf requires meeting consumers in moments of inspiration, well before they hit the retailer’s store or site.”
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We are extremely excited to offer this glimpse into technology’s future! #NATIONALFINTECHDAY
August 20th is National Fintech Day, celebrating the continued collaboration between financial institutions and their
financial technology (fintech) partners. The day recognizes innovative services and solutions that meet the shifting
demands of today’s consumers, as well as the next-generation of account holders.
In celebration of the second annual National FinTech Day, we will be holding a Technology Fair at the Main Office on August 16th. This will be a large scale outdoor event featuring interactive showcases of financial technology, an escape room, 3D printing, virtual reality, food, fun and a 47 foot Ferris wheel.
In an ever-changing world, the partnerships between financial institutions and FinTech companies are becoming increasingly important. Together, they bring outstanding and innovative products and services to the consumer, creating better experiences and strong brand preference for the financial institution.


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By Daniel Tay
DEAL.com.sg is making a move into the online luxury space with D’Luxe, which will be a space dedicated to luxury products.
By Julia Q. Zhu
China’s online space is home to over 500 million netizens, homegrown social networks and a thriving e-commerce market. While companies sim...


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ZETOR TRACTORS a.s. presented the innovations from its portfolio at Techagro Show in Brno. ZETOR attracted attention through its eight exposits as well as through accompanying program such as Gamers corner with Pure Farming game. Between April 8-12, over 110,000 visitors from the whole world had the chance to visit the ZETOR booth. The ZETOR booth was also visited by the Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic.
At TECHAGRO Show in Brno, ZETOR TRACTORS a.s. presented its latest innovations. Just like at Agritechnica in Hannover, the biggest attraction was MAJOR in the new design. By creating it, the Company kept its promise given during the presentation of the design concept ZETOR by Pininfarina at Agritechnica 2015. Visitors were also attracted by the HORTUS and UTILIX model ranges as well as by the innovated PROXIMA and FORTERRA. The visitors could also learn more about the displayed innovative 4-cylinder ZETOR engine.
“Just like two years ago, we have been monitoring growing interest in ZETOR products, coming both from fans and new potential dealers and suppliers. The crowded booth was a proof that the ZETOR brand is still lingering in peoples’ minds. We were really honoured by the visit of Mr. Jiří Milek, the Minister of Agriculture. Another important guest was the Iranian ambassador. In respect of business, we have encountered hundreds of demands for tractors of all model ranges. At the exhibition, we also concluded several real businesses,” says Lukáš Krejčíř, Finance Director, ZETOR TRACTORS a.s. commenting on the positives of this year’s participation.
The official presentation of innovations was attended by journalists of significant professional and news media. The Monday press conference part of which was the presentation of innovations was attended by more than 30 journalists from the Czech Republic and other European countries, e.g. Sweden, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. The public could also take part in a tipping competition and try the Gamers’ Corner with the new Pure Farming PC game which allowed visitors to try what it is like to be a farmer and drive ZETOR tractor.
TECHAGRO is one the three largest farming shows in Europe. This year it was visited by 110,000 visitors both from the Czech Republic and abroad. In the Tractor of the Year 2018 competition organized by the Farming Weekly, FORTERRA HSX 140 won the second place. The next show takes place in two years again and the fans of the ZETOR brand can be sure to see some more innovations and attractions.


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The buzz around an upcoming AR/VR headset from Apple won’t go away, and now one of Apple’s top analysts in the business has stepped in to say the device could be unveiled in January 2023.
In an industry note seen by 9to5Mac (opens in new tab)the generally reliable Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that the new hardware will “probably” be announced in January 2023 – but he also says it may not be on sale to consumers at the same time.
There were rumors that the headset would see the light of day sometime in 2022, although more recent rumors predicted a 2023 launch as Apple continues to refine the technology and make it suitable for a full launch.
The most complicated Apple product ever
In his note, Kuo describes the AR/VR headset as “the most complicated product Apple has ever designed” and a “game changer for the headset industry.” There’s also an acknowledgment that Meta might start spending less on VR hardware.
“While Apple has repeatedly reiterated its focus on AR, I believe Apple AR/MR with see-thru video support can also deliver an excellent immersive experience.” says Kuo (opens in new tab). “Therefore, the launch of Apple AR/MR will further increase the demand for immersive gaming/multimedia entertainment.”
Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he “couldn’t be more excited about the opportunities” in augmented reality and virtual reality, and that any future products must “put humanity at the center” to succeed.
Analysis: What we think we know so far
Apple executives have long talked about the possibilities offered by augmented reality, or AR, which is superimposing digital graphics on the real world. Rumor has it that Apple is busy working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses right now.
At the same time, a more complete (and expensive) device is believed to be in the works, which is what Ming-Chi Kuo is talking about here. It apparently combines AR with virtual reality or VR – digital worlds that are more or less completely closed off, as we’ve seen with hardware like the Oculus Quest 2.
This combination of AR and VR, sometimes called mixed reality or MR, looks set to be Apple’s next big product launch. Rumors are that it will run the same M1 chips that can be found in Apple’s laptops and tablets, and that it will be based on a new software platform called realityOS.
From what we’ve heard, it’s shaping up to be a premium device and will come with a premium price tag attached: perhaps something in the region of $3,000 (about £2,450 / AU$4,320). Maybe we won’t have to wait much longer to find out.


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Solar energy is a proven renewable energy technology, which is already growing rapidly in terms of the amount it is used. A significant part of that growth can be attributed to the fact that there are lots of technological innovations still frequently shaking up the industry. One example is the continued development of solar panels that track and follow the sun, an innovation that many believe can potentially improve energy production by up to 20%.
Several startups and companies have invested in solar tracking technology, though so far, none have entered the mainstream marketplace. One interesting recent example is the emergence of Sunfolding, who have used robotics to design solar panels that respond to the sun and weather conditions, protecting itself in harsh conditions, while using a simple air compression mechanism to alter position.
Sunfolding’s technology is specifically designed to last decades without needing to be repaired or altered. Large parts of the product are being designed to be made out of plastic, lowering costs significantly, it’s a promising example of a possible step forward in this area of renewable technology.
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Zoetis Inc. (ZTS - Free Report) posted second-quarter 2019 adjusted earnings of 90 cents per share (excluding one-time items), which not only increased 16.9% year over year from 77 cents but also beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 82 cents.
Total revenues rose 9% year over year to $1.55 billion and exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.52 billion as well.
Zoetis’ stock has gained 32.2% year to date compared with the industry’s growth of 4%.
The company reports business results under two geographical operating segments, namely the United States and International. It has a diverse portfolio of products for livestock and companion animals.
Revenues from the United States segment increased 15% year over year to $780 million. Moreover, sales of companion animal products in this region were up 23%, primarily owing to higher sales of the dermatology portfolio, the acquisition of Abaxis and a host of in-line products including Simparica, Clavamox, Cerenia and ProHeart. Further, sales of livestock products grew 3% in the quarter, driven mainly by poultry products from increased sales of alternatives to antibiotics in the medicated feed additives. Meanwhile, promotional activity resulted in modest growth in the swine portfolio.
Revenues at the International segment inched up 2% year over year on a reported basis (up 7% operationally) to $742 million. On the contrary, livestock sales declined 4% (up 4% operationally) in the quarter. However, growth in the poultry portfolio was aided by higher sales of vaccines and medicated feed additives. Cattle product sales increased on the back of a favorable comparison with the prior year, which bore the brunt of a national trucking strike in Brazil. Sales of swine products were flat with the prior-year figure while growth in vaccines including new products was offset by the adverse impact of the ongoing African Swine Fever in China.
Moreover, sales of companion animal products grew 12% on a reported basis, reflecting sales rise in the dermatology portfolio and parasiticides including Simparica and Stronghold Plus. The acquisition of Abaxis also fueled growth.
The company raised its guidance for the full year. It expects adjusted earnings of $3.53-$3.60, up from the previous expectation of $3.42-$3.52 per share. Revenues are expected to be $6.175-$6.275 billion, up from the prior projection of $6.100-$6.225 billion.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings and revenues is currently pegged at $3.48 and $6.20 billion, respectively.
The guidance reflects the current strength and performance of the company’s business. Plus, it mirrors the foreign exchange rates in late July.
In July 2019, Zoetis received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP) on its three-way combination parasiticide for dogs. An approval from the European Commission is expected later this year. Regulatory reviews are also underway in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Japan with further submissions expected in China and Mexico during 2019. If approved, Zoetis expects to launch the product across Europe and the United States in 2020.
The company received the FDA nod for ProHeart 12 (moxidectin), the industry’s only once-yearly injection, to prevent heartworm disease in dogs aged 12 months and above.
In the second quarter, Zoetis expanded its Fostera swine vaccine franchise with the approvals of different formulations across new geographies. Fostera Gold PCV MH was approved in Brazil while Fostera PCV, a single-dose vaccine that aids in the prevention of PCV2, was approved in China.
Last month, the company announced plans to acquire Platinum Performance, a privately held, nutrition-focused animal heath company. Platinum’s premium nutritional product formulas and a unique approach to the field of scientific wellness for horses, dogs and cats will further boost and diversify Zoetis’ portfolio in the equine and petcare markets. The buyout is expected to close in the third quarter of 2019.
Zoetis’ second-quarter earnings and sales exceeded estimates on the back of growth in new parasiticide products (Simparica and Stronghold Plus), vaccines, a solid dermatology portfolio and the addition of Abaxis’ diagnostics platform.


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Jeremy Hobson: Canada just recently announced plans to phase out the penny. And there’s already talk about bringing it back — in digital form. The Royal Canadian Mint wants help developing something called the MintChip.
Scott Peterson covers business for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and he joins us now from Toronto. Good morning.
Scott Peterson: Good morning, Jeremy.
Hobson: When I hear MintChip, I think it’s like my favorite kind of ice cream. But tell us what it is in this case.
Peterson: Yeah it’s not a Rocky Road. It’s like a debit card, basically. What we’re doing here is the Canadian mint — which is the goverment basically out of Ottawa — wants to come up with this so-called MintChip, which it’s a prototype at this point. It’s almost kind of like a debit card or an app in your computer or even something you can download like a USB stick, basically to pay for what they’re calling “micro-transactions,” and that’s anything under $10. So basically you can have this instead of cash.
Hobson: But how does it work? Because it’s not tied to your bank account, so I guess technically then you wouldn’t have to have the money in order to spend it, right?
Peterson: Yeah, part of the appeal here is that there’s no personal information attached, because a lot of people, if you’re surfing the web and buying something off the web, you’re afraid of downloading that personal information. So that’s why they’re calling for applications right now, for developers. It’s basically we’re going to find at the end of summer who’s won this contest, and it’s basically how to define this thing — how does it work? Whether it’s going to be a chip that we carry around on our card, whether it’s something we can swipe. Starbucks has already, for example, you can swipe your phone up against the computer. So at this point, we’re waiting for these app developers. There’s a $50,000 prize attached to this, so it’s a bit of a question mark exactly how this thing will work.
Hobson: Well are there concerns already about not having a physical currency?
Peterson: Yeah, there’s a lot of people who are asking the same thing, like: What happens if you load up your card with a lot of money and you lose it? I mean, so there is some question marks. We’re expecting that to be flushed out from this app developers as far as having some sort of security or the ability to cancel it. But at this point, you’re right — it’s a double-edged sword. In one essence, you have no personal information attached to it, and on the other, it’s how to make that a little more secure.
Hobson: Scott Peterson with the CBC, joining us from Toronto. Thanks a lot.
Peterson: Thanks Jeremy.
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snack at least once a day. Fifty percent of adults
said they snack two to three times per day with
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snack these days. By comparison, a study released
by Mintel in 2014 indicated only 64% of consumers
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Fallout 76 has only been out for a week and retailers are already dropping the price of the messy multiplayer RPG to below £40 on both consoles.
Currently, most other retailers have the online adaptation of Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG floating around the £50 mark, so this represents quite a big discount in such a short space of time.
- Fallout 76 on PS4 for £39.95 from The Game Collection via Amazon UK
- Fallout 76 on Xbox One for £39.95 from The Game Collection via Amazon UK
Will that cut in price during the Black Friday sales be enough to tempt you, though? Response from press and players so far has been less-than-enthusiastic, to say the least. Complaints have focused on the game being a broken and buggy shambles, as well as a drastic lack of life in the game world.
Bethesda has a near 50GB patch on the way that will begin to address some of Fallout 76's major issues, yet whether that will be enough to revitalise the game is tough to say for sure considering sales of Fallout 76 are down over 80% compared to Fallout 4.
As we approach Black Friday we're waiting for prices on all this year's most wanted tech to drop harder than a Fallout 76 nuke. We're tracking all the best Ps4 Black Friday deals, Xbox One Black Friday offers and Nintendo Switch Black Friday sales over the coming days.


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Audi South Africa in partnership with Rubicon has brought 43 additional electric vehicle (EV) charging stations online across the country.
Should they all be used simultaneously, it would mean a total of 57 EVs would be able to top up their batteries at the same time.
The latest rollout includes the very first DC 200kW ultra-fast charger in South Africa, which is installed at the impressive Mall of Africa. The EV battery of an e-tron GT can be recharged within 15 minutes. The solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed at Mall of Africa is one of the largest of its kind in the Southern hemisphere, making this installation a progressive statement towards sustainable charging.
The rest of this second phase of infrastructure investment comprises four 100kW (DC), eight 60kW (DC), five 25kW (DC) and twenty-five 22kW (AC) fast EV charger installations at convenient locations across the country to serve all EV customers.
If you combine the first and second phases of charging infrastructure installation, that means that Audi and partners GridCars and Rubicon, have installed 76 fast and ultra-fast EV chargers across South Africa, representing about 28% of public charging stations in the country.
“The rollout of our second phase of EV charging stations is the next step in realising our vision of sustainable mobility and living our mantra that the ‘Future is an Attitude’,” says Sascha Sauer, Head of Audi South Africa. “EVs are the future of mobility and we’re investing not just in hardware infrastructure, but in making electric mobility simpler and more widely available for South Africans, thus enabling the local EV market to grow. By fulfilling our promise from early 2022, we’re demonstrating our commitment to helping take SA into the future of mobility”.
“While load shedding is a reality to which South Africans have become accustomed, it is worth pointing out that our charging network also capitalises on solar installations, where possible, to keep the charging stations optimally operational,” says Sauer. “With a range between 350 and 480km the Audi e-tron models typically do not require a charge every day, so depending on driving style and daily commuting distances, owners will be able to find their nearest charging station and charge their vehicles regularly, with ease”.


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For example, a number of the world's largest and best-known auto manufacturers are currently dealing with major problems coming across the semiconductors they need to make modern vehicles, according to a report from The Financial Times. The reason why? The companies that make those critical computer components are reserving them for tech manufacturers that will use them in the manufacturing of smartphones, tablets, computers and similar devices.
The impact of this shortfall in production numbers is significant: Volkswagen says it will make 100,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year than it originally planned, and Nissan, Honda, General Motors and more announced production cuts of their own, the report said. Unfortunately, this is a long-tail effect of the pandemic, as major semiconductor manufacturers were forced to shut down in early and mid-2020, and lead times for rolling out orders is typically between six and nine months.
A supply chain problem
It's worth noting that the vast majority of semiconductor production is not dedicated to the needs of automakers; only about 10% of the plants that produce these chips are dedicated to the automotive industry, according to a separate Financial Times report. meaning that these companies — giant though they may be in the grand scheme of things — don't have a lot of heft when it comes to demanding that chip manufacturers meet their production requirements. Indeed, computer and tech companies take precedence for chip manufacturers simply because they buy a lot more chips each year.
Already, it appears that number has surpassed a quarter-million and the industry is not remotely out of the woods yet, the report said. Expert estimates show that by the time this shortage is over, production of as many as 500,000 vehicles will have been pushed back worldwide.
Another big part of the reason why semiconductor manufacturers are lagging when it comes to automotive production is because there are a lot more requirements that go into producing them for vehicles versus, say, an iPhone, according to Bloomberg. For instance, there are strict safety regulations that automakers and chip manufacturers must work together to meet, and it can take an average of eight weeks to ramp up production even if the chip is fully ready to manufacture.
With all of this in mind, it's certainly an issue that many in the sector will have to monitor going forward to ensure their production efforts aren't thrown too far off course by pandemic-related problems — or any others. Agility should be the watchword for any supply chain professionals, so that in just about any situation, they can pivot from one option to the next.


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The new Audi e-tron will go on sale from €101,750 OTR (exclusive of government grants for EVs), with the first deliveries of the new electric SUV arriving in the spring of 2019.
The new e-tron will be available to order from January and pricing includes a four-year service plan. Audi Ireland is also continuing to offer an online pre-registration tool where customers can leave a refundable €2,000 deposit.
The new Audi e-tron accelerates from zero to 100 km/h in under 6 seconds and is capable of covering more than 400 kilometres on one charge. The SUV has a new generation of the quattro drive, the electric all-wheel drive.
Thorsten Godulla, Managing Director, Audi Ireland said: “We’re really excited that our Irish customers will have the opportunity to experience a piece of the future in the shape of the Audi e-tron from Spring 2019. It’s an historic time for Audi with the launch of our first fully electric model. I know that sustainability is increasingly important to Irish drivers, and so I’m delighted to offer Audi’s first all-electric full-size SUV to the Irish market.”


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Coffee shop to offer online ordering
Customers will soon have a new way to get their brew at Coffee Muggers, 644 Main St.
The coffee shop is working with Splick-It to provide online menu ordering. Splick-It is a nearly 2-year-old company that provides ordering services for a variety of cafes, coffee shops and restaurants nationwide.
When the technology launches in the next couple months — an exact launch date isn’t set — customers will be able to visit http://www.splickit.com to place a coffee order or send an order via text message to a Blackberry at Coffee Muggers. The menu will start out with 10 items, including coffee, tea, lattes and espresso drinks, but Coffee Muggers co-owner Jen Ruppe said she hopes to eventually include her entire menu on Splick-It.
Employees will take the order and have it hot and ready to pick up when the customer arrives. Splick-It keeps a tab of orders and won’t bill a customer until their tab reaches $8. A 25-cent user fee is charged for each order.
Ruppe said she met the Splick-It people at a coffee convention in Las Vegas this year and decided to try it out. “Texting an order and knowing it’s already paid for” attracted her to the company, she said, adding, “It’s just so simple.”


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Affection for Queen in her jubilee year sends sales of her beloved Launer bags soaring - with the commemorative silver version the bestseller
The Queen has been seen with a Launer handbag on her arm for almost as many years as she has reigned and now the fashion pack are catching up with her sophisticated style.
The British company behind the structured handbags have seen sales soar after issuing the bags in metallic colours this year to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee.
The silver version has been the most popular helping Launer to post a 55 per cent increase on handbag sales since early June.
Style staple: The Queen carries a black Launer last week, left, and back in 1974, right
The 'diamond edition jubilee' bag in silver trumped sales of other accessories online and has sold consistently both in the UK and overseas since its launch in May.
Gerald Bodmer, creative director at Launer, said the luxury heritage label are delighted that sales have been so strong despite the country being in a recession for some time this year.
Completing her wedding outfits: The Queen carried a black version of the bag to the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla, left, while last year, she had a cream edition for Prince William's nuptials
He said of the silver bag: 'It's been our biggest seller this year, and we take great pleasure in feeding this back to the British public, as they’ve rallied around our label and bought British as the economic climate tries to steady itself.
'It’s a testament to the longevity of the British fashion industry that our brand, with such an iconically British figurehead as the Queen, can navigate these uncertain times.'
Bestseller: The silver edition of the bag which was launched in May
Her majesty has long been a fan of the handbags and she awarded the firm the Royal Warrant in 1968. She has four bags especially made for her each year that must meet her exact standards, such as having a longer handle added so she can carry it over her arm.
She favours the handbag in black and was pictured last week with one on her arm as she visited Bristol as part of the jubilee celebrations.
When her grandson Prince William married Kate Middleton in 2011, she carried a cream version of the bag to complement her yellow suit. This also led to a spike a sales as people clamoured to copy the Queen's style.
Mr Bodmer said he expects the handbag in silver to continue to be a bestseller into 2013. He added that the brand also intend to issue a range in jewel colours next year.
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Six years after the launch of Second Life and two years after reporting profitability from it, how much is Linden Lab worth? How does somewhere between $658-700 million sound to you? That's the opinion of NeXtUp Research, an analyst firm which recently published an extensive report on behalf of SharesPost, a new startup that handles the buying and selling of shares to a number of privately-held, pre-IPO companies. One of those companies is Linden Lab (here's their Linden page), and right now, SharesPost is listing 22 potential Linden share sellers -- and 35 potential buyers. (This after recent news that another firm had purchased Linden shares from an original investor.)
You can download the full NeXt Up report on Linden Lab from the SharesPost site after creating a free account. For a company analysis, it actually makes for interesting reading. (Even the Tea Crate Rebellion and the War of the Jessie Wall rate a mention in the company history section.) More salient to Internet business watchers, however, is the analyst's estimate of Linden's revenue and profit, with the former forecast to hit $150 million in 2011, and profit (i.e. "Net Income") to reach $35 million that same year. (See chart above.) NeXtUp uses these numbers and related virtual world business sales (such as Disney's purchase of Club Penguin for $350 million) to arrive at that half billion-plus valuation figure.
But is all this accurate?
I gave the report a pretty close read, and it's remarkably well-informed. There are some niggling errors here and there: for example, NextUp estimates Second Life has 170K Premium subscribers, but during my last interview with CEO M. Linden, last April, he mentioned the number was more like 75K. Then there's the frequent mention of "Linden Labs" plural, a common mistake. But it's not far off from my own analysis of Linden's revenue.
$700 million, it goes without saying, is an extremely high valuation. Then again, it's several orders of magnitude less than the $5 billion a Techcrunch report pegged it at in 2007. NeXtUp also did an analysis of Facebook for Sharespost (page here), and gave the social network a valuation of $3.15-$4.34 billion. Then again, that figure is for a system of 200 million monthly active users, versus Second Life's much more modest 800K. The outstanding question, of course: What if anything will the tech industry make of the valuation?


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Ebay wants to grow in Europe with click & collect
Ebay is planning to expand its click and collect service across Europe. The American ecommerce company saw its buyers collect 1.5 million parcels from British store chain Argos during the first year and a half the service is running. Ebay noy wants to boost its presence in Europe by entering into several partnerships.
Paul Todd, who’s eBay’s senior vice president for Europe, told Bloomberg click and collect is becoming “the dominant way that consumers want their online purchases to be fulfilled”. It started working with Argos back in August 2013, giving customers the ability to pick up their products in store. The service covers about 750 stores across the United Kingdom and is being used by about 160,000 eBay merchants.
Click & collect becoming more popular across Europe
It’s not only eBay that has noted click and collect is a very popular delivery method. Last Christmas, more than half of online orders place with John Lewis department stores in the UK were picked up from a store, while France’s largest consumer-electronics chain Darty announced last week that 20 percent of all web sales in the fourth quarter were collected, an increase from 10% compared to the same period a year ago.
So picking up the purchase from a store rather than risk missing a home delivery is something more and more consumers in Europe prefer. And thus it’s getting a bigger priority for online retailers. This also applies to eBay, that says click and collect allows them to grow their seller base and increase their product range.
And the expanded click and collect service could well happen in the UK, where research company Mintel estimates that 17 percent of all online retail sales will be collected from stores this year. An increased effort from eBay to accommodate its customers in the UK wouldn’t be a surprise after all, as its sales in this European country have been growing at a faster than in the US, where eBay is losing ground to its larger competitor Amazon.
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The options for Ebay in the UK
It’s still unclear how the expanded click and collect service from eBay would look like. It is however a fact there’s surplus space in British supermarkets; J Sainsbury said earlier that about a quarter of its stores will have some under-utilized space in the next five years “The need for grocers to fill that space presents a huge opportunity for eBay”, Todd told Bloomberg. Another option could be the expanding of its partnership with Argos’ parent company Home Retail Group, by letting eBay customers pick up their goods at the Homebase DIY stores. Ebay is also said to be testing a service that allows its sellers to drop off items at Argos stores.


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BEIJING - As many as 100 billion digital hongbao or red packets may be sent in China this Chinese New Year.
Forecasters expect the number of hongbao sent using social messaging services such as Wechat to explode in number this year as people in China become more comfortable with mobile payments, BBC reported.
Over six days of the Chinese New Year last year, 516 million people sent and received 32 billion digital red envelopes - 10 times the number as over the same period in 2015.
It certainly is convenient - saving the sender the time and hassle of getting notes from banks and putting them in the packets.
There is also the advantage of being able to send a hongbao to someone who is not in the same province or country.
While a bank transfer across borders can take days, peer-to-peer payment takes seconds, and you only need to know the recipient's mobile phone number or email address.
It's not just for hongbao. The popularity of social payments is rising among the young for splitting bills, contributing to household costs or sending a gift, BBC said.
The Chinese social media platforms operated by the tech giants Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu have spearheaded the social payments explosion in Asia.
However, it hasn't taken off widely in Singapore.
A street poll of 60 people by The Straits Times last year found that most would not consider giving electronic hongbao.
Here, DBS Bank's eAng-Bao feature in its DBS PayLah app allows its customers to send and receive cash through their smartphones.


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BIODIESEL OPPOSED IN MINNESOTA
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A coalition including the trucking industry is opposed to the State of Minnesota’s controversial idea of blending “biodiesel oil” into regular diesel by 2002.
The group, which includes the Minnesota Trucking Association (MTA), argues that imposing the fuel — a mix of derivatives from soybean and vegetable oils — will lead to higher diesel fuel prices, loss of fuel sales to surrounding states and possible fuel supply shortages.
The proposed legislation under consideration in the Minnesota Legislature would mandate the mix by 2002, then expanding the mixture by 2006.
“Biodiesel fuels have a promising future, but mandating the use of biodiesel is not the way to develop the industry,” said John Hausladen, president of the MTA.
The coalition says a study by the University of Minnesota found that mandating biodiesel would increase the cost of diesel fuel sold in the state by 2 US cents-to-6 US cents per gallon. On an annualized basis, that works out to a cost to consumers and suppliers of US$16 to $48 million a year, according to the study.
“The increased cost of biodiesel fuel will be passed on to all consumers of transportation services, affecting farmers, transit users, grocery store owners and customers, manufacturers, you name it,” Hausladen added.
“Some trucking contracts carry provisions calling for automatic fuel surcharges when the cost of fuel rises certain amounts and the cost of a biodiesel mandate could trigger those surcharges. A state biodiesel mandate really amounts to a hidden tax on all segments of the economy that rely on diesel-powered transportation,” he concluded.
The coalition includes the MTA; the American Automobile Associations of Minnesota and Iowa; Canadian Pacific Railway and Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway; United Parcel Service and Federal Express; Yellow Freight Co. and Ryder Trucks. Also participating is the National Association of Truck Stop Operators.
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U.S. Construction Spending Inches Higher In March
(RTTNews) - A report released by the Commerce Department on Monday showed a modest increase in U.S. construction spending in the month of March.
The Commerce Department said construction spending inched up by 0.1 percent to an annual rate or $1.731 trillion in March after rising by 0.5 percent to a revised rate of $1.729 trillion in March. Economists had expected construction spending to increase by 0.7 percent.
The uptick in total construction spending came as spending on private construction rose by 0.2 percent to an annual rate of $1.380 trillion.
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Sean Harapko, Global Media & Entertainment Supply Chain leader at EY, discusses the benefits of service management integration (SMI) and the CIO’s role in it.
While yesterday’s companies were expected to cover and do everything themselves, today’s technology advances and talent shortages are driving them to outsource an increasing amount of services to providers that move up the value chain into front-office functions. Examples of such services are R&D, infrastructure as a service, software as a service or analytics as a service. Effectively managing an increasingly complex and specialized supplier landscape is fraught with challenges. Many of these apply to both the suppliers and the retained organization. Without effective control of these areas, delivery costs can spiral out of control.
Gilberto Lozano, Mexico Strategy Leader – Performance Improvement at EY talks “Going omni” and three other topics CIOs need to keep in mind when creating a digital strategy.
We live in the era of digitalization. The merger of the real and the virtual world, together with business intelligence and technology, have impacted how business is done. Digitalization is rewriting the way companies are approaching the market and, as a result, the rules of competition.
Mark Brown, Executive Director EY, Cyber Security & Resilience
The consumer products (CP) sector is evolving, and e-commerce is the norm rather than an exception. Forecasts show that e-commerce globally will almost double from US$1.2 trillion in 2013 to US$2.36 trillion in 2018. With new developments, however, come new challenges. And one of the costliest challenges in the industry today is cybersecurity. But, as some companies have experienced, cybersecurity can also act as a catalyst that helps organizations enhance their business models and unearth new sources of revenue.
Aloha McBride, Principal, Federal Health Advisory Services Practice, EY looks at how CIOs can use technology to transform the health and lives of diverse populations
In a world where everything is available at our fingertips, it isn’t surprising that health care is too. People are swiping screens and pressing buttons to get fitter, improve diagnosis and treatment, provide better pre-natal care and even to control epidemics. With simple apps and wearable devices that support real-time health analysis on the go, mobile health (mHealth) is here to stay.


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Media reports: Iran’s oil exports to soar 60% on the year
May exports are expected to reach 2.1 million bpd from 1.3 million bpd in the same month of 2015. Exports to Asia reached 1.7 million bpd in April, which is almost three times bigger than a year ago and the most since 2011. Meanwhile, exports to China stood at 840,000 bpd in April and are expected to reach over 620,000 bpd in May, according to the source. Exports to Europe reached 487,000 bpd and are likely to reach 400,000 bpd this month.
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(Denver, Colo., May 9, 2006) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated Xanterra Parks & Resorts, headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo., as a 2006 Performance Track Corporate Leader.
EPA Region 8 Administrator Robert E. Roberts said, “Xanterra provides food and lodging for millions of visitors each year, and they do so on spectacularly beautiful lands that are the jewels of our nation. Xanterra’s remarkable environmental performance demonstrates that, while doing the right thing for our planet makes good green sense, it makes successful business sense, too.”
EPA created the Performance Track Corporate Leader designation to recognize companies that demonstrate an exceptional corporate-wide commitment to environmental stewardship and continuous improvement, and companies that are substantially involved in Performance Track at the facility level.
“Performance Track members are at the forefront of innovation and environmental stewardship, fundamentally strengthening the relationship between business and government,” says EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. “The program itself marks an important milestone this year; EPA is pleased to celebrate five years of top environmental performance from members of the Performance Track program.”
Thirty-two percent, or six of Xanterra’s 19 facilities, including facilities at Bryce Canyon, Mt. Rushmore and Zion National Parks in Region 8, are Performance Track members. The six facilities include Xanterra’s larger operations, where more than 50 percent of the company’s employees work.
Xanterra’s history of environmental leadership includes:
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: Xanterra has realized a five percent absolute reduction in greenhouse gases over the past five years by switching fuels from oil to propane and using strategic conservation programs. The company’s conservation programs include energy control systems in rooms and facilities, efficiency upgrades, such as lighting retrofits and Energy Star-rated equipment, a corporate CAFÉ standard to improve fleet vehicle efficiency, and targeted area shutdowns.
Implementing a sustainable foods program: Sustainable foods are grown, harvested, processed, packaged, and distributed to reduce environmental impacts. The company’s purchases of sustainable foods increased by 50 percent in 2005. Xanterra is the first U.S. hospitality company to be granted “Chain of Custody” certification from the Marine Stewardship Council for sales of sustainably fished wild salmon.
Verifying environmental performance: Xanterra has received external, third-party verification and certification of its environmental programs to determine whether the company’s environmental initiatives are reducing environmental impacts. In addition to undergoing ISO 14001 audits by an external auditor, Xanterra commissioned a private company to perform environmental compliance audits at key locations. Xanterra also publishes a sustainability report that includes third-party certification of its environmental data.
Supply chain performance: Xanterra collaborates with key suppliers as part of meeting its environmental goals. For example, packaging is a high-priority area for Xanterra, as product packaging is the primary waste material that the company generates. All suppliers must adhere to Xanterra’s packaging policy. To encourage innovation in this area, the company created an annual award to recognize the stakeholder who has made the greatest contribution to waste reduction through packaging and distribution innovations.
Emphasis on corporate governance: Xanterra is a privately owned company. Its CEO and Executive Team govern the company. The Senior Director of Environmental Affairs is a member of the Executive Team, which monitors environmental performance by requiring monthly reports on all environmental initiatives.
Xanterra’s future commitments as a Corporate Leader include: Further reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent; diverting 33 percent of all solid waste from landfills; increasing facility membership in Performance Track; increasing by 20 percent the number of suppliers that provide green or environmentally preferable products and services to the company -- this excludes food products but includes materials for building construction and renovations, retail products, vehicles and transportation-related items; and doubling sustainable food purchases.
More information on award winners can be found at: https://www.epa.gov/performancetrack/benefits/halloffame.htm. For more information on facilities accepted in August of 2005, visit https://www.epa.gov/performancetrack/events/new_round10_facilities_aug05.htm; those accepted in February, 2006, can be viewed at: https://www.epa.gov/performancetrack/round11PTFacilities.htm. For more on the program in general and its 402 members, visit https://www.epa.gov/performancetrack.
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(ABC4) – According to the Deseret Hope Treatment Center, 1 in 3 (33%) Utahns said they would support stricter laws on the sale of alcohol.
This can include limiting sales to certain days of the week or times of the day (compared to a national average of 22% that would support it).
These results were further broken down by age group among the respondents, which found that those aged 65 and older were most in favor of stricter alcohol sale laws.
The research also found that most consumers believe alcohol is too freely available in public spaces such as airplanes, grocery stores and drugstores.
The top five states that would support a partial prohibition today are:
- New Mexico – 48%
- Mississippi – 37%
- Oklahoma – 33%
- Utah – 33%
- Maine – 30%
These concerns have arisen after many stories and videos of drunk people inciting drama have gone viral.
41% of Americans think alcohol should be prohibited entirely in venues where children are present in order to prevent incidents of drunk and disorderly behavior.
Depending on where you live, the ease of accessibility and affordability of alcohol varies.
Most of the Southwest sells all types of liquor in their grocery stores, while most grocery stores in the south only carry beer.
The full report can be found here.


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Dutch tomato specialist has named Marieke van Heeswijk as the latest member of its supervisory board
Marieke van Heeswijk has joined the supervisory board of international tomato specialist RedStar, effective 1 June, the company has announced.
The company said it planned to “make good use” of Van Heeswijk’s experience and expertise as it continued its recent rapid expansion.
Van Heeswijk previously held roles as managing director and marketing director at Unilever, The Walt Disney Company and MediaMarkt.
‘With Marieke we have an inspiring supervisor in house. With her international experience, she can challenge and spur on the management of the company,” said Peter Kalden, CEO of RedStar.
Van Heeswijk commented: ”It is a special pleasure for me to work for a family business. The lines are short, the drive is great. RedStar is a global player that has further professionalised in recent years.”
The RedStar supervisory board also includes Special Fruit CEO Bert Barmans and Alexander van der Bijl, CFO at Florensis Holding.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Feb.11, 2019) – Selligent Marketing Cloud, a B2C marketing automation company, recently named Archer Malmo ‘Partner of the Year’ for North America at its annual 2019 Global Partner Awards.
Every year, Selligent Marketing Cloud recognizes the top partners that merged creativity with Selligent marketing technology to deliver some of the world’s most inspirational digital campaigns. This year’s winners were announced at Selligent’s Global Partner Summit in Paris.
“We’re honored to receive this prestigious award from Selligent in recognition of the successful partnership we’ve formed over the last year,” said Ken Rohman, principal and chief digital officer at Archer Malmo. “This award is a true testament to our team’s hard work and efforts in order to successfully serve our clients.”
Archer Malmo and Selligent Marketing Cloud announced its partnership in September 2018 and immediately set off to work on joint clients, including Palm Beach Tan, an indoor tanning market leader in the U.S. Archer Malmo’s roster of clients includes Hyatt Hotels, Delaware North, Smile Doctors and more. For more information on Archer Malmo’s award-winning client work and capabilities, please visit archer.amdevel.com.
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More than 700 brands across retail, travel, automotive, publishing, and financial services rely on Selligent’s proven platform. With 10 offices across the United States and Europe and more than 50 agency partners, Selligent serves over 30 countries with local, personalized service.


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Intel recently unveiled its latest laptop processors a few weeks ago. Now the company has shown off the latest generation of desktop processors. The 10th Generation Intel Core S-series is all set to be used for playing games, streaming content, and editing video. The company claims that this flagship model is the ‘world’s fastest gaming processor.’
Staying true to its naming convention, Intel’s Core S – series has been launched in four models: the Core i9, i7, i5, and i3. The i9-10900K is the flagship model and offers 10 cores, 20 threads, and a maximum base frequency of up to 3.7 GHz. By making use of the different performance-boosting systems Intel offers, this can be bumped up to 5.3 GHz.
According to Intel, the i9 is capable of providing 31% better overall system performance as opposed to the PC from three years ago. Furthermore, the i9 can also give 63% more frames per second in gaming, 15% faster HD video editing, and 18% faster 4K video editing.
The other models are quite decent as well. The Core i7 features eight cores and 16 threads and maxes out at 3.8 GHz but can be boosted up to 5.1 GHz. The Core i5 comes with six cores and 12 threads and can be enhanced to a maximum of 4.8GHZ. Finally, the Core i3 offers four cores and eight threads and tops out 4.6GHz upon boosting.
The complete lineup can handle faster internet connections as well. The 2.5 GB Intel Ethernet Connector I225 can double the network speeds of a conventional 1GB Ethernet connection and the 10th Generation processors are Wi-Fi 6 ready. Intel further said that the very first wave of desktop systems comprising the 10th Generation Intel Core S-series will be released in May. There’s no word about its pricing yet. Nonetheless, we are really excited, what about you?


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The New York Times reported a steep double-digit drop in print advertising revenue in its most recent quarterly earnings, reflecting the ongoing challenges the newspaper industry faces as it struggles to offset the shrinking print product with digital initiatives.
In a quarterly earnings report Wednesday, the Times recorded an 18.5 percent decline in print advertising revenue, which dragged down total advertising revenue 7.7 percent to $124.9 million. The Times did record a 21.4 percent increase in digital advertising revenue to $44.4 million, which is positive news for the company that in June recorded a drop in digital advertising revenue because of declines in traditional Web display advertising.
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Digital ad revenue in the third quarter made up 35.5 percent of the Times’ total advertising revenue, which the Times attributed to growth to mobile advertising, programmatic buying and branded content.
The Times and many other newspapers have been grappling with advertising fallout for years now, with marketers moving their budgets to digital and Facebook and Google dominating online spending. But declines in print advertising have been particularly dramatic this year, arguably leaving the newspaper industry in its most difficult position since the aftermath of the 2008 economic downturn.
Money coming directly from readers has therefore become an increasingly vital revenue stream for major players like the Times, which continued to grow its digital subscriber pool in the quarter.
Circulation revenue was up 3 percent to $217 million, mainly due to an increase in home delivery prices for the Times’ print product as well as digital subscription growth. Total digital-only subscription revenue, including the Times’ crossword puzzle subscription service, grew 15.4 percent to $56.1 million. The Times said it had around 1.6 million paid digital-only subscriptions at the end of the quarter, a 30 percent increase compared with the same time last year.
The Times also recorded a $2.9 million charge of severance costs related to the company’s closure of its Paris operations, and an additional $13 million in other severance costs.
Total revenue was down 1 percent year-over-year. Adjusted operating profit, which the Times uses to measure its quarterly results, was down 17.7 percent to $39.2 million, which the company attributed to the decline in print advertising revenue and to higher costs across the board.
Times president and CEO Mark Thompson said in a company release that the growth in digital subscriptions “proved yet again that The New York Times has a very compelling digital revenue story to tell.”
But the company warned that it expects total advertising revenue in the fourth quarter to continue to decline at around the same rate.
“We expect print advertising to remain challenged in the fourth quarter and while we will continue innovating and investing where we think it makes sense, we will remain focused on our cost structure and on rapidly growing our digital business,” Thompson said.
Earlier this year, the Times conducted a sweeping review of the company in order to determine how the company could weather the storm over the next several years. That has included thinning the Times’ staff with voluntary buyouts, sketching out plans to grow the paper’s international readership, and coming up with various alternative revenue streams. The Times in October acquired the product recommendations site The Wirecutter for more than $30 million, which will bring in revenue through readers purchasing recommended items.


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Early Monday morning, AT&T announced a sudden change of direction: it reached an agreement to disband WarnerMedia – a consortium of Warner Bros., HBO, CNN, DC Comics and others – into a new company to be merged into Discovery. While Discovery’s list of Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Food Network is much less exciting than WarnerMedia’s lineup Batman, Harry Potterand The throne game, the combined company assembles the components needed to build a new streaming giant. And it’s already clear that this new Discovery-Warner hybrid has Disney on display.
“It’s a combination of bringing both sides of the business together and creating more attractive direct consumer production for HBO Max or Discovery Plus,” says Neil Macker, a stock analyst at Morningstar. Limit.
WarnerMedia has worked well so far. Its streaming platform, HBO Max, hit 64 million subscribers a year after its launch. But it’s only about half the size of Disney Plus (which is about a year and a half old) and a third of Netflix’s size. And it seemed that AT&T had no constant interest in seeing it overtake them. AT&T CEO John Stankey said Squawk on the street on Monday, WarnerMedia needed a home where shareholders would be willing to “take that ride” to see the company grow as large as possible.
The rationale for the deal makes sense for AT&T. The telecom company never intended to do a stellar mission in the media industry (see: Verizon and Yahoo, AOL and Time Warner, Snyder Cut), and can use the proceeds from the sale to still build a very large 5G network.
But WarnerMedia can be a bigger winner. It gets out hard leadership and it becomes the star of a new business. It’s a much larger company than Discovery, with $ 30.4 billion in 2020 revenue for Discovery’s $ 10.7 billion. And Discovery is poised to spend large amounts on content to enable WarnerMedia to match its competitors: it plans to invest $ 20 billion a year in content, competing with Netflix ($ 17 billion) and surpassing Disney (which is set to reach $ 14-16 billion by 2024).
Even before a new investment, a combined content library for companies offers benefits to both parties. The new company brings together WarnerMedia’s list of pop culture phenomena – the types of great shows and movies known to attract sign-ups – with Discovery’s deep reality shows that “thrive well on streaming platforms,” Macker says, and are generally helpful in retaining subscribers.
In an interview this week, Discovery CEO David Zaslav mentioned WarnerMedia’s great features – The throne game and Single life came up a lot – and praised the fact that the company had the right to show these titles itself. The combined company isn’t entirely the mindset of ever-changing content stores that can make tops disappear from streaming services on a monthly basis, and it can guarantee a steady hit list, just like Disney Plus offers.
“Another thing we don’t have is some companies don’t,” Zaslav told CNBC, is a “great, great IP”.
It’s a major leg in Netflix, which doesn’t have a long list of iconic features. And it’s hard not to hear Zaslav aim for Disney when he tells Bloomberg that the acquisition “makes us a truly huge global IP business to compete with the best in the industry”. (In the past, he has been a former Disney Plus manager rumored as a challenger to manage the merged entity.)
Zaslav’s goals are great. At CNBC, he discussed “hitting 2-, 3-, 400 million homes in the long run,” doubling Netflix’s current one.
The plan is to do more than just build a huge Disney Plus competitor. In the television and film industries, revenues are beginning to shift to streaming. But Discovery still has a huge TV business that it plans to continue to grow. The company has sought to expand its news and sports channels across Europe (Zaslav suggested CNN could be involved), and the addition of WarnerMedia’s programs and additional channels will allow Discovery to “serve advertisers” and sell its content as a package over cable, he said.
Macker says it’s the same strategy that Disney follows: using existing successful companies – in Disney’s case, ESPN, movie studios and soon again Theme Parks – to build the next growth area. “All those parts make money,” he says. “You invest directly in consumers for long-term growth.”
WarnerMedia and Discovery continue to face serious challenges. It immediately seems likely that WarnerMedia could fall into a leadership vacuum when looking at the deal with the company’s CEO allegedly looking for an exit. And while Discovery is eager to build a streaming giant, it’s ultimately not the job of Discovery’s current management and shareholders. AT & T’s shareholders own most of the combined company, so Zaslav must sell them with this investment – an investment that Stankey suggested that AT&T investors were unsure of.
For the most part, merging the two companies seems to be a bet that the current streaming landscape – with a choice of large and small streaming devices – will not last much longer. Combining WarnerMedia and Discovery is a coping with an accident that can destroy smaller services and become stronger on the other side. These two companies are not allowed to do anything special or unique: they just do what they already do – but together and bigger. That’s good news if you want to subscribe to fewer services at once, even if it takes a while before we know if they lead to better performances.


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IPC APEX EXPO Pre-Registration Soaring, Heading to Pre-Recession Attendance
Press release date: March 2, 2010
BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA - Pre-show registration for IPC APEX EXPO(TM), taking place April 6-8, 2010, at Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center, is 15 percent higher than in 2009 and appears to be headed close to record-breaking 2008 levels, show management announced today.
"We are delighted with our pre-show numbers," says IPC President Denny McGuirk. "The industry seems to finally be on the rebound. The strong registration demonstrates the need for people to get together, see new equipment, and catch up on the latest research. IPC APEX EXPO is more than a trade show; it's a focal point for the industry where important networking and relationship-building takes place."
IPC reports that international attendance has reached 10 percent of total attendance, with registrants coming from 44 different countries. Attendance for the professional development courses and technical conference is the strongest in three years. The EMS and PCB Management Meetings, focused on executive education, have recovered to 2008 levels as well.
"Budgets were so tight last year that companies were focused only on survival," says McGuirk. "This year, you can see that companies understand the need to catch up on vital industry developments and get a jumpstart on the recovery."
According to a June 2009 Tradeshow Week study, 89 percent of attendees and buyers consider conventions, trade shows and conferences to be an important part of their product sourcing and buying process. Eighty-seven percent agreed that these events are essential for comparing products and meeting suppliers in person.
IPC Director of Trade Show Sales Mary Mac Kinnon has seen companies wrestle with the tight budgets they developed in 2009 against the need to get in front of customers in what appears to be an economically improving 2010. "I am pleased that we have not only the industry's leading companies exhibiting at IPC APEX EXPO, but also many new companies and new products. Buyers and specifiers will find nearly 350 companies from every part of the supply chain ready to show innovative solutions and equipment. There's no better place to see and evaluate printed board and electronics manufacturing equipment and services and to meet with customers or suppliers in person."
Industry professionals can register for free exhibit hall admission online at www.IPCAPEXEXPO.org/register. Those who register by March 5 can save 20 percent off fee-based activities and can save an additional $200 by using promo code APEX10. For more information on all the activities taking place at IPC APEX EXPO as well as a current list of exhibitors, visit www.ipcapexexpo.org.
About IPC IPC (www.IPC.org) is a global trade association based in Bannockburn, Ill., dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its 2,700 member companies which represent all facets of the electronics industry, including design, printed board manufacturing, electronics assembly and test. As a member-driven organization and leading source for industry standards, training, market research and public policy advocacy, IPC supports programs to meet the needs of an estimated $1.7 trillion global electronics industry. IPC maintains additional offices in Taos, N.M.; Arlington, Va.; Garden Grove, Calif.; Stockholm, Sweden; Moscow, Russia; and Shanghai and Shenzhen, China.