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Albany’s first food cart and food truck pod, the Barn at Hickory Station, opened in late June with five eateries.
But more are on the way for the North Albany business, possibly later this summer, said Brian Hovelsrud, who owns the business with his family and high school friend Jason Crow.
“Our ideal number of carts is 10,” Hovelsrud said. “There’s never an argument about what to get to eat, because everybody can get what they want.”
So far, the carts included are: High on the Hog, a barbecue joint with another cart in Salem; Dreaming of Sushi, a brand new food cart; Happenings Food Truck, formerly of Lebanon, which serves fajitas-style tacos and more; Ma’s Delicious Food, formerly of Salem, which serves Texas-style food and fair offerings; and Mobile Street Sweets, which specializes in desserts and has a second cart in Salem.
Hovelsrud and Crow had been talking about bringing a food cart pod to Albany for about a decade, back when restaurants that weren’t brick and mortar operations were a bit of a rarity in the mid-Willamette Valley.
When the West Albany graduates decided to go into business, they, as well as Hosvelrud’s son Alex Hovelsrud, visited as many food cart pods they could and put together a plan.
“We basically figured out what everybody did right and what everybody did wrong,” Hovelsrud said. “The concept isn’t new. We’re just putting our flair to it.”
Crow said that one of the strengths of the Barn is that he and the Hovelsruds were very selective with what carts they chose to bring to Albany.
The outdoor area of the Barn is also an emphasis, though it remains a work in progress.
This summer, the owners hope to add outdoor bathrooms and create a 10,000-square-foot lawn space for playing outdoor games and relaxing with four-legged friends (on leashes).
An outdoor stage, for live music, is planned for spring 2020.
The patio roof of the barn also will be extended another 100 feet, creating more space for picnic tables.
“People want to be outside. We can provide a very large green space where people can do that all summer long,” Crow said. And, knowing Oregonians, people won’t mind being outside even if the weather is a bit dreary.
The business also has a family atmosphere, and while there are a few televisions, that isn’t an emphasis.
A private party room is available for class reunions, baby showers, fantasy football drafts and other events.
The Barn also will have 32 taps with microbrews, ciders, wine and kombucha. Nothing will be served from a can or bottle, owners said.
Jane Chen of Salem, the owner of Dreaming of Sushi, said that the location of the Barn seemed great, and being part of the first food cart pod in Linn and Benton counties was critical.
“When you come first, it’s always the best for business,” Chen added.
Jason McCrory of Happenings Food Truck said that the move to the Barn has led to an uptick of business after operating in Lebanon for the eatery’s first three months.
“There’s a lot of people around here that work and not a whole lot of food choices (in North Albany),” McCrory added.
Ken Hayes, who operates High on the Hog with his wife Armeda Hayes, said that Hovelsrud and Crowe tried his food, and essentially recruited him to join the Barn. The Memphis native was looking to open a second cart, so the timing was perfect.
“The response here has just been amazing,” Hayes said. “People here are so happy this is up and running.”
Sammy Carpio, who runs Ma’s Delicious Food with his wife Norma, agreed.
“They’re hungry for something like this here,” Carpio said. “The vibe is really good.”
Heidi Carver, owner of Mobile Street Sweets, said she knows the Barn will be a success.
“The food park industry is really hot. They’re popular. We serve a good quality food, and people just like them,” she said.
“It’s fast food but fresh,” added her daughter, Cammie Stice.
Matt Wood of Albany, at the Barn for dinner with his wife, daughter and dog last week, said that his family has been going to food cart pods in Salem and Portland to get their culinary fix.
“We love food carts. We’ve been thinking they need more here,” he added.
The Barn at Hickory Station, 640 Hickory Street NW, will initially be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. or later seven days a week.
For more information, go to the business’ Facebook page or call 541-666-2974.
Kyle Odegard can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org, 541-812-6077 or via Twitter @KyleOdegard.
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A Scottish sausage skin and casing company has seen a 15% sales growth from Asian and South American markets, while more "mature" markets were broadly flat.
Devro, headquartered in Moodiesburn, South Lanarkshire, said that its volumes had increased by 4.6% in the opening months of this year compared to the previous year.
Japan and North America helped deliver strong growth for the company, offsetting the lower demand in the UK and Europe, which had benefited from elevated retail volumes in March 2020 as the pandemic took hold.
Devro reported revenue down by 1% last year from £250m to £247.6m thanks to its pricing investments in long term contracts and lower product sales.
Underlying profit grew by 4% year-on-year to £40.8m, mainly due to increased supply chain efficiency.
Restructuring costs from the 2019 closure of its Bellshill site cost the company £4m, while £600,000 was used to implement the final stage of its new global operating model.
Devro is expecting the growth in international markets to continue, but is mindful of the pandemic and “headwinds” from foreign exchange rates.
The company noted its strong cash flows during the first quarter, ending it with comparable levels of leverage to the 2020 year-end, including the dividend payment made in January.
It repaid the $25 million private placement due on 19 April 2021 using a combination of available cash resources and revolving credit facility drawings. As a result, the group maintained significant liquidity, but has a lower average cost of borrowing.
Its remaining debt facilities consist of a committed $105m revolving credit facility, which expires in 2023, and $75m of private placements expiring April 2024 ($50m) - and 2026 ($25m).
Rutger Helbing, chief executive at Devro, commented: “The progress we made in 2020 provides a strong foundation for further strategic and trading performance improvements in 2021 - we also expect another year of good free cash generation.
“We expect to make further progress in 2021 driven by our sales pipeline actions, solid underlying demand and the ongoing benefits of operational improvements.”
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No batteries are required, and you can say so long to Bluetooth or other digital chips. Normally, these components are needed to send bio-signals from a wearable sensor to a smartphone or a tablet. These rigid devices add to the physical bulk and can make the whole system more susceptible to damage. Not so with a new wearable sensor developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Meet e-skin. While it may sound like something from our dystopian future, the electronic skin that the team has developed is more akin to Scotch tape: a flexible semiconducting film that adheres to the skin of the wearer.
How does this e-skin work? It relies on the two-way piezoelectric properties of the compound gallium nitride, which does the double duties of mechanically vibrating with the introduction of an electrical impulse, and responding to mechanical strain by producing an electrical signal. Researchers were able to use the dual-action nature of gallium nitride to sense bio-signals and wirelessly communicate data at the same time.
The touch of gold: in testing their e-skin, MIT researchers paired gallium nitride with a layer of gold to boost the conduction of incoming and outgoing electric signals. The result was a film that vibrated in response to the wearer’s heartbeat and reacted to the salt in sweat, generating an electric signal that was wirelessly transmitted to a nearby readable device. Though researchers believe that e-skin can detect a broader range of bio-signals. MIT researcher Jun Min Suh says, “We showed sodium sensing, but if you change the sensing membrane, you could detect any target biomarker, such as glucose, or cortisol related to stress levels.”
All of these features require only minimal power. Researcher Jeehwan Kim explains, “Chips require a lot of power, but our device could make a system very light without having any chips that are power hungry.” And minimal in size: the sample e-skin the MIT researchers worked with has a thickness of 250 nanometers, which is around 100 times thinner than an average human hair. Kim says, “You could put it on your body like a bandage, and paired with a wireless reader on your cell phone, you could wirelessly monitor your pulse, sweat, and other biological signals.”


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ServiceTitan announced Anmol Bhasin has joined the company as its chief technology officer. Bhasin will be responsible for leading global product development and engineering and pioneering new SaaS technology to improve how businesses across the country work, the company says. Jacksonville, Fla.-based Turner Pest Control announced the promotion of six employees. Brian Hawkins was promoted from regional director of operations to regional vice president of operations. Michael Litsey was promoted from regional director of operations to regional vice president of operations. Stacy McKinney was promoted from director of marketing to vice president of marketing. Cheri Michaels was promoted from director of sales to vice president of sales. Angela Nelson was promoted from director of human resources to vice president of human resources. Ginny Zuckero was promoted from director of IT to vice president of IT and PMO.
Sam Pass, B.C.E., joined Control Solutions in the role of marketing director for CSI Pest, Quali-Pro and Martin’s Brand divisions. Pass grew up closely alongside the pest management industry. He spent more than five years as a technician at his father’s first pest control company, Action Pest Control of Evansville, Ind. He became interested in entomology which led him to earn a bachelor’s degree in entomology and nematology from University of Florida.
Truly Nolen Pest Control announced the promotion of Steve Gitlin to manager of the company’s Bonita Springs, Fla., service office. Gitlin joined Truly Nolen in April 2021 as a manager-in-training. Some of Gitlin’s new responsibilities include helping the service office gain more visibility with the local Bonita Springs community as well as instilling the company’s core values throughout his team, the firm says.
Central Life Sciences is expanding its Zoëcon Professional Products sales team with the addition of Carlos Montejano as the Southwest regional sales manager. He will support both the professional pest control and vector solutions product lines. Montejano joins the Zoëcon Professional Products sales team to cover Southern California, Southern Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Previously, he served as sales representative for Univar USA, as Western region account manager for Industrial Fumigant Company (IFC) and as territory manager and key account manager for UPL.
FMC Corporation appointed Jason Hart as key customer manager for the pest U.S. Northeast and Northern territories. Bringing Hart on has allowed the company to realign territories to better fit its customers and their needs, said Tom Wharton, FMC North American sales manager for the pest market. Hart is a veteran of the British Armed Forces and spent over a decade with a major distributor in the pest control industry. He brings deep industry knowledge to FMC and his customers in the Northeast and Northern territories, having held positions of outside sales associate, senior account executive and international account executive.


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Of all the parties walking away as winners in the deal between Apple and EMI to remove copy restrictions from digital music, Tom Cullen is among those who worked the least, but benefited greatly. Sonos, a five-year-old company that sells a line of wireless devices that play digital music tracks around the home, has always suffered because it couldn't play songs purchased from Apple's (AAPL) iTunes store.
It was a common complaint from owners of Sonos' ZonePlayer products, who had spent several hundred dollars to unlock the music stored on their computers so it could be played on stereo systems around the house over a wireless network. 'I wouldn't say we lost customers because of the lack of compatibility,' says Cullen, a Sonos co-founder. 'But we sure spent a lot of time explaining why the songs wouldn't work on support calls. We just blamed Apple.'
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But now the problem is fixed"”at least partially. Apple's plan to offer EMI's music via iTunes with no digital rights management (DRM) software to restrict the conditions under which songs can be copied will automatically give Sonos the compatibility it has wanted so long with at least some of the music sold on iTunes. Cullen says with luck, more labels will follow EMI's lead.
Sonos, like so many other companies that have long struggled with Apple's refusal to license its FairPlay DRM technology to any third parties"”except Motorola (MOT) for the Rokr wireless phone"”had approached Apple several times seeking some kind of cooperation. Apple's response was always the same: It didn't want to get into the business of supporting a bunch of hardware partners on behalf of the record labels.
This made the Apr. 2 joint announcement between Apple and EMI all the more surprising. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs formally suggested that recording labels should allow online music to be distributed without DRM protection, it seemed less likely that any would go along and more likely that DRM would remain a linchpin of digital music distribution for the foreseeable future. Still, some labels, including EMI, conducted market tests to see how unprotected songs would fare.
News of their agreement came just a few hours before European Commission regulators announced that they would launch an antitrust probe against Apple and the major recording labels. The Brussels body alleges that DRM rules"”which are to be changed in about a month in Europe"”under which the songs are sold through iTunes violate competitive rules. The regulators sent Apple, Universal Music (V), Warner Music (WMG), EMI, and Sony BMG (SNE) a confidential statement of objections outlining the charges last week.
News of the antitrust probe clouded what was otherwise seen as a winning play for Apple: The timing of the announcement suggests that Apple rushed to be ahead of the news of an investigation it knew was imminent.
Still, by cutting the chains of DRM, EMI and Apple are moving toward the day when a song sold from a digital store is as universally playable as a CD is today. And for some suppliers of MP3 players that don't bear the iPod name, the fact that soon they'll be compatible with at least some of the content sold in the iTunes Store will give them some added benefits to crow about.


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St. Croix Valley residents on the Minnesota side of the river may be able to fill up their Fourth of July coolers this year with liquor purchased in their home state on Sunday, July 1. A bill moving through the state Legislature would allow liquor stores to be open on Sundays, and many residents are hopeful that the Legislature will repeal the liquor “blue laws” this session.
The Sunday liquor sales bill, known formally as House File 30, would remove previous restrictions on the sale of beer, wine and hard liquor on Sundays.
“From our sources, they have all the votes they need to get it passed, so we are preparing like it is already going to happen,” said Beau Farrell, vice president of e-commerce and marketing for Haskell’s, during a visit to the Stillwater location.
For liquor store owners, the move to allow Sundays sales could have positive and negative outcomes, and Farrell didn’t pick a side when asked if he is for or against the change. Other Stillwater liquor store representatives declined to comment on the record or could not be reached for comment.
“Alcohol is a controlled substance and the state of Minnesota controls when we can be open and when we can be closed,” Farrell said. “So we will do exactly what the state tells us. It’s kind of a middle ground answer.”
Minnesota is one of a dozen states that have restriction of the sales of alcohol on Sundays. In recent year, Minnesota has slowly repealed laws related to the manufacture and sale of beer and spirits. In 2015, a bill to allow for off-sale liquor sales failed to pass in the Senate. However, the Legislature did expand sales of beer at brewery taprooms to Sundays.
“We have a lot of contemporaries in other states that have gone through the traditional ‘blue law’ of being closed on Sunday being repealed,” Farrell said. “They have said eventually — in three to five years — Sunday becomes your third or fourth busiest day.”
Farrell, however, doesn’t believe adding Sunday sales will increase overall sale of liquor, beer or wine.
“I find it hard to believe that the population of people in Minnesota are going to drink more because they have an extra day to buy it,” Farrell said. “It will just spread the business over seven days.”
As of Feb. 8, the language of the House bill would limit Sunday liquor sales to between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., and would not allow liquor deliveries to liquor retailers to take place on Sundays.
“Minnesota’s laws are going to be kind of weird in that hours are going to be limited and that you can’t deliver on Sundays,” Farrell said. “It will cause us to plan more and maybe build a bigger budget for our stores because we have to figure in these two days when our distributors are going to be closed.”
Sunday liquor sales have been allowed in Wisconsin since 1874, only stopping the sale of liquor during Prohibition. In border cities like Stillwater, residents of Minnesota cross state lines to purchase alcohol on Sundays. Al Severson owns B and L Liquor in Houlton, Wis., and said the change to Minnesota’s liquor laws will affect his small business.
“Quite a few of our customers come from Minnesota,” Severson said. “Sunday is one of our busiest days.”
Severson said that if customers from Minnesota decide to shop for their Sunday liquor in Minnesota, he will have to change his business hours.
“I will probably have to shorten hours,” Severson said. “But who know what is going to happen in the future. In business you have to always be ready for change.”
The issue of Sunday liquor sales is not one that comes to the forefront, said Senator Karin Housley (R-St. Mary’s Point).
“I have only received one email about Sunday liquor sales,” Housley said. “During the election, I heard from voters that they are concerned about healthcare costs, transportation, education — Sunday liquor sales was not a top priority among voters.”
When the issue last came before the Senate, Housley said she heard from liquor store owners that the change would affect business.
“The stores most impacted by the change would be the smaller ‘Mom and Pop’ liquor stores,” Housley said.
Increased costs in staffing are a concern for Minnesota liquor stores, Farrell said.
“It’s going to be an incurred payroll expense for us, for sure,” Farrell said. “But in the long run it is a convenience issue for the consumer. It will be an increased cost for us to absorb.”
The off-sale Sunday liquor sales bill was adopted by the Commerce and Regulatory Reform Committee Jan. 17 and has been placed in the House of Representatives’ General Register to wait for a vote. Currently, there is not a companion bill in the Senate.
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CDT previously reported on the shift in anxieties among Chinese people, including food safety. With recent food scandals, such as the testing of golden rice on Chinese children, China sought to increase their food safety regulations. Despite China’s efforts, China Daily reports shoppers are still consumed with concerns over food safety:
Food safety is a top concern for Chinese shoppers, especially regarding such produce as vegetables, meat, seafood, grain, cooking oils and dairy goods, according to a report from Ipsos.
“Food safety incidents that have occurred in China attracted a lot of attention but the general public still has a very limited knowledge base on the issue. In the United States and European countries, there have been fully fledged food manufacturing practice and response measures toward safety issues,” said Jennifer Tsai, managing director of Innovation and Forecasting at Ipsos Marketing in Greater China.
More than 80 percent of the Chinese shoppers interviewed by Ipsos said they were eager to see the publication of food testing results, plus more transparency in this regard, besides the normal measures taken by competent bodies. More than 70percent of the public hoped that random inspections will be conducted and test results published.
“Food companies have a broad range of measures that can betaken to inform customers, such as clearer logos, product composition and information regarding possible allergies. If possible, such companies could allow visits to be made by members of the public to their plants and post videos online for the public to watch. At present, the transparency issue for domestic companies is still poor.”
Concerns over the safety of Chinese food products is not limited to China. Der Spiegel reports on the health hazards of food from China amid a recent norovirus outbreak in Germany:
China, which already sews together our clothes, assembles our smartphones and makes our children’s toys, is now becoming an important food supplier for Germany. Since China, as a low-wage country, doesn’t exactly have a good reputation among consumers, the food industry usually doesn’t mention the origin of the products it sells. Many Germans only realized how much of the food on their plates is harvested and produced in China when thousands of schoolchildren in eastern Germany were afflicted with diarrhea and vomiting two weeks ago in anepidemic thought to have been triggered by Chinese strawberries contaminated with norovirus.
The biggest problem with Chinese food products is the local production environment, which includes the excessive use of toxic pesticides for crops and of antibiotics for animals, sometimes coupled with a complete lack of scruples. In 2008, some 300,000 infants in China were harmed by milk and baby formula products adulterated with the chemical melamine. Chinese producers had added the substance, which is especially harmful to the kidneys, to powdered milk.
Chinese producers have also sold peas dyed green, which lost their color when cooked, fake pigs’ ears and cabbage containing carcinogenic formaldehyde. Then there was the cooking oil that was captured in restaurant drains, reprocessed, rebottled and resold. The government newspaper China Daily has even reported on fake eggs.
Aside from contaminated food in Germany, other contaminates have been found in Chinese food products that were exported to Denmark, Italy, and Spain, according to The New York Times:
Cypriot inspectors found arsenic in the frozen calamari. The Italians discovered maggots in the pasta. There were glass chips in the pumpkin seeds bound for Denmark, and Spanish regulators blocked a shipment of frozen duck meat because of forged papers. It has been a rough year for Chinese food exports to Europe.
Wu Heng, a graduate student in history in Shanghai, once thought food safety was an issue for other people, something that existed mostly in the media or through gossip. He said he felt “like a frog in warm water,” unconcerned about the rising temperature, unaware of the growing danger.
But a story about cancer-causing additives being added to meat got his attention in April of last year, and he and some friends started a Web site that began charting reports of food scandals nationwide.
The name of the site is a mouthful — Zhichuchuangwai, which means “throw it out the window.” They name comes from the story of President Theodore Roosevelt having thrown his breakfast sausage out a window after reading “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel that exposed the meatpacking industry in Chicago.


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The European Union (EU) has imported 4.6M tonnes of rapeseed from non-EU countries in the 2022/23 crop year to date, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reported.
Rapeseed imports into the EU from July 2022-February 2023 increased by 45% compared to the same period the previous year despite abundant supplies of EU rapeseed, UFOP said.
The main reason for the increase was availability and prices on the global market, the 2 March report said.
According to research by Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI), Ukraine maintained its top position among the key rapeseed suppliers to the EU in the current crop year despite the ongoing war. With 2.6M tonnes, just under 63% more than in the same period the previous year, the country accounted for 56% of EU rapeseed imports. This share compared to 50% in 2021/22.
Australia gained in importance due to a bumper crop and now ranked as the second most important supplier to the EU with 1.7M tonnes and a 36.4% share. This was double the volume compared to the same period the previous year.
Meanwhile, imports from Canada slumped from 501,800 tonnes to 193,400 tonnes, representing a drop from 12% to 4.2% of total share of EU imports.
Supply from Moldova and Serbia to the EU-27 also declined compared to 2021/22, the report said.
UFOP said that last year’s fears of bottlenecks had been mitigated by shipments to EU member states bordering Ukraine, with suppliers seeking alternative delivery routes to closed or blockaded seaports.


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Recently on “Everyday Leadership” Dan talked about the different ways men and women work and how they consume. Consider the fact the women make up just over 50% of the U.S. population, and make over 80% of consumer decisions. Dan will have different experts on to discuss why this is, and the differences and similarities between the genders.
Lars Perner a Professor of Clinical Marketing at the University of Southern California was on to talk to Dan about consumer behavior and the psychology of marketing. Perner will discuss how the study of consumers helps firms and organizations improve their marketing strategies by understanding why or how they select products.
Dan also talked with Roger Martin from Martin Waymire Advocacy Communications on the proposed 2012 state budget. Governor Synder made the budget announcement February 17th, and garnered sure a lot of attention with the proposed spending cuts.


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“Amazon is launching Astro, its first household robot, powered by its Alexa smart home technology. The company said it can be remote-controlled when not at home, to check on pets, people, or home security. It can also patrol a home automatically and send owners a notification if it detects something unusual.”
“Since it’s not possible to pre-program the infinite range of experiences that can happen in the real world, robots are learning how to adapt to the unknown by training in simulation on millions of trial and error iterations – similar to how babies learn.
‘Our goal is to bring the benefits of deep learning to robotics because the world is a variable that needs to be rapidly adapted to,’ said Jitendra Malik, director of Facebook AI Research.”
- “The sector saw sales grow more than 30% in 2020, much steeper growth than could have been imagined at the close of 2019.
- A Simbe spokesman pointed out to me that with the company’s robot robot Tally, stores have seen a 20% reduction in out-of-stocks and a 2.2% uptick in annual sales, and partners like Schnuck Markets are moving to expand their use of this tech quickly.”
“CNBC’s Frank Holland reports on the use of robots and artificial intelligence to help meet the demand in online shopping.“


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In the pot-friendly city of Vancouver, illegal marijuana dispensaries outnumber Starbucks outlets, and among the most popular is Weeds, Glass and Gifts. There, in a relaxed space reminiscent of the coffee chain, jovial “budtenders” sell coconut chocolate bars infused with marijuana and customers smoke powerful pot concentrates at a sleek dab bar.
When Canada legalized recreational marijuana, on Oct. 17, one of the central aims was to shut down the thousands of illegal dispensaries and black market growers dotting the country. But taming an illegal trade estimated at 5.3 billion Canadian dollars is proving to be daunting.
Many of the products sold at Weeds, Glass and Gifts are banned under the new law, which restricts licensed retailers to selling fresh or dried cannabis, seeds, plants and oil. Yet the retailer’s owner, Don Briere, an ebullient 67-year-old and self-styled pot crusader, has no intention of shutting down his four Vancouver stores or changing his product lineup.
He even has plans for expansion with a new line of outlawed canine marijuana treats, which purport to reduce pet anxiety.
“We’ll keep selling what we are selling,” said Mr. Briere, who in 2001 was sentenced to four years in prison for being one of British Columbia’s most prolific pot producers. [Read More @ NY Times]
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Captured in a studio, Actress Kristen Stewart poses for photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino for the Chanel Spring 2020 ad campaign.
“The clothes feel activated. You’re meant to do something in them, not just sit and look pretty,” Kristen Stewart says about Chanel’s spring-summer collection.
A brand ambassador since 2015, and the face of Gabrielle Chanel perfume and Noir et Blanc de Chanel makeup, Stewart currently appears in the Benedict Andrews biopic “Seberg” about French actress Jean Seberg, which Chanel designer Virginie Viard cited as an inspiration for her spring fashion proposal, paraded on a set of Parisian rooftops.
In the campaign, Kristen wears designs including embellished jackets, pleated skirts and tweed designs. Accessorized with layered jewelry, she exudes cool in every shot.


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The product will protect companies against business interruption costs from events where there is no physical damage. Aon says that the product is designed to cover revenue streams as events like terrorist action, cyber-attacks and unseasonal weather become more of a threat to businesses.
“Given that more and more businesses comprise either few, or a low concentration of physical assets, there is a need for an insurance product that places less emphasis on the physical damage component of a loss,” said Kurt Cripps, Head of Aon’s innovation and solutions team. “This new NDBI cover protects these types of companies against the events that can have the biggest impact on their revenue streams.”
The NDBI cover product will be structured by Cripps Innovation & Solutions and will be supported by advanced data and analytics and actuarial analysis. Aon says this allows for the development of customised policies for individual clients.


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Managed IT groups in Darwin should keep updated on what’s new in the technological world to be able to perform their very important task of keeping your business networks safe and secure. Here are the latest in technology and managed IT updates that can affect Darwin businesses.
Have you been discussing updating to the latest operating system with your managed IT team in Darwin? You may or may not have a chance to decide for yourself soon. Microsoft is taking desperate measures in making users upgrade to Windows 10. They have disappointingly resorted to trickery.
Microsoft has been pushing users to upgrade to the latest OS version since last summer as an optional free upgrade. It later became a recommended at the start of this year. If you and your managed IT services group in Darwin have set up your systems to do automatic updates then Windows 10 will automatically be downloaded and installed onto your machines.
The insistent pop up informing users of the free “optional” upgrade used to give PC users a choice and clicking “x” meant declining the update. Because of the “recommended update” trickery, even if you and your managed IT group in Darwin chose not to go for the update, clicking that “x” button will still download the said updates onto your machines.
There is still however an option to cancel the scheduled update and to change the upgrade schedule, but let’s be real here, it is almost second nature to press that “x” button when we see pop up notifications. If you have accidentally gone ahead with the Windows 10 upgrade and you do not wish to continue using it, just notify your managed IT team in Darwin so they can help you with rolling back to your previous operating system, but make sure you do so within 30 days.
Your managed IT services team in Darwin may have already informed you that the free Windows 10 upgrade will end on the 29th of June 2016, and it will be sold for the price of $199 thereafter. Most new PCs will already have the latest OS version of Windows 10.
Terry Myerson, the executive VP of Microsoft says that they were not trying to be sneaky and users have the 30 day roll back option. They just wanted more users to have better security features that the latest OS offers.
Meanwhile in the transportation front, the NSW trainlink had hacking issues forcing their online booking system to shut down. Enterprises that conduct business with neighbouring cities and other regions have been affected. If your business has employees or transactions that were affected by the trainlink hack, inquire with your managed It service team in Darwin as to how they can help set up a unified communications system for your business so that you may be able to conduct real time communications with clients and employees whenever and wherever you and your staff may be.
Andrew Constance, the NSW Transport Minister made a statement earlier this month reassuring commuters that the the contactless payment system was just as safe as shopping for groceries. Matt Cole, the President of Cubic which handles the electronic ticketing system in NSW said that they have successfully rolled out similar contactless payment systems in Chicago and London and the changes that will happen with the NSW ticketing will not require much changes since the existing Opal system already has the contact capacity in the reader hardware. The system may have been very secure at the time but cyber criminals are working double-time these days so we, especially businesses that do not managed IT managed support in Darwin, should take a pro-active approach.
Both AusCERT and the police are helping in the investigations on the breach that resulted to possible theft of personal data and credit card information of the trainline’s customers. Trainlink advised customers to be very vigilant when it comes to phishing attacks and scam messages that are often successful in gathering credit card information and personal details. Your managed IT services team in Darwin can help set up better security measures for your machines and gadgets so that you and staff will be safe from such phishing attacks that can also compromise valuable business data. It is best to monitor your credit card activity and to report unusual transactions.
The transport department and the NWS privacy commissioner stated that personal data and financial information were most likely accessed in the hack but the level of the risk is still undetermined. Opal cards were however not affected because the data is kept on another system.


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SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics decided to take the “Optimus” name out of its high-priced premium smartphone models. Used for more than three years since the launch of the “Optimus Q” smartphone in May 2010, the Optimus brand will be relegated to low- and medium-priced models.
LG Electronics announced on July 18 that it set the name of the follow-up model of its Optimus G Series as “LG G2″ that will be released on August 7 in New York. Thanks to the strong sales of its previous premium smartphone models Optimus G and Optimus Pro, LG Electronics has become a No.3 player in the global smartphone market.
An LG official said, “Our new brand policy is part of our efforts to make a bigger leap forward in the global marketplace, thereby changing the paradigm in the global smartphone market.”
In a situation where the company broke the record of 10-million smartphones sold in the first quarter of this year, it remains to be seen whether the company’s new brand “G2″ can continue its rally. Some industry analysts are pessimistic that the G2 may not satisfy market expectations just like Samsung’s Galaxy S4 or Apple’s iPhone 5.


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At the beginning of 2020, an unexpected outbreak of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus infection has rapidly raged around the world, seriously affecting people's health and normal life, and causing a huge impact on the global economy.
The war on "epidemic" is a big test for the whole world. And this is a huge challenge for Nanjiang. In this resistance war without smoke of gunpowder, everybody is the soldier. And the engineers in NanJiang who go abroad to serve customers are warriors.
In this special period, as long as the policy permits, Nanjiang will still let engineers go to the customer's factory to install and debug the paper bag machine.
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Whirlpool filed legal action on Friday against South Korean rivals LG and Samsung, saying they dumping underpriced washing machines into the US market in violation of trade laws.
Whirlpool said in a statement it had asked the US government to investigate the two companies' production of home clothes washers in South Korea and Mexico, "which are being sold in the United States at substantially less than fair value."
"This action undermines competition, causes material injury to the appliance manufacturing industry, threatens American jobs and ultimately harms consumers who are left with fewer product choices," said the firm, a leading home appliance manufacturer.
The anti-dumping petitions were filed with the US Department of Commerce and the US International Trade Commission.
Whirlpool said it had also filed a companion petition for anti-subsidy duties against the same products from South Korea.
In October, Whirlpool won duties from the US Department of Commerce on refrigerators it alleged were being dumped by LG and Samsung, and also by Mexican firm Mabe and Swedish competitor Electrolux.
It seems that Whirlpool really are up for a scrap with the two big Korean companies.


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schemes. According to Google‘s John Mueller, Google has announced all updates to the Penguin filter to the public. By Google’s estimates, Penguin affects
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According to Compete PRO, 34.52% of the incoming traffic to mit.edu sites in July 2014 came from Google.com. That’s 1,403,774 out of the 4,065,881 visits to these sites from the U.S. that month. This presentation will explain how search works and give an overview of the more than 200 unique signals or “clues” that Google’s algorithms use today. It will also cover three major updates to Google’s algorithms, named Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird. And it will take a look at the algorithms of the second largest search engine, YouTube.
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(noted male model / sports journalist Eric Brynes shows off the new Diamondbacks ensemble)
Megan Finnerty’s Arizona Republic item about the Snakes’ new uniforms is headlined “New Threads Boast Aggressive Look,” which makes sense if you define “aggressive” as being reminiscent of the Washington Nationals.
“I think it’s sexy, it’s strong, it’s hot,” said Melissa Leonesio, 40-ish, of Paradise Valley. “It makes us look like we’re the team to beat.”
Phoenix-based Campbell Fisher Design, the firm that did the team’s original uniforms, updated the look so the merchandise would be more popular and so the uniforms would be more TV friendly, with the team’s name shorter and therefore easier to read for viewers.
“The uniforms we had were really divisive,” team President Derrick Hall said.
Purple and turquoise was a color combination that fans either loved or hated, he said, and it was the first change Major League Baseball suggested when it approached the team about a new look.
“You’re just not going to get everybody to wear purple for whatever reason,” Hall said.


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Apple already had its go-'round with software developers. Now, it's Google's gig.
Thousands of software developers are expected to show up in San Francisco this week for I/O, the cleverly named Google software-developer presentation party. Google's cavalcade will be broader than Apple's, as Google CEO Larry Page wants the focus to be on more than just new software for tablets and phones (a la Apple). I/O will also focus on cars, watches, thermostats, TVs and more that can operate on Google software.
The software developers will be touting their Android-enabled apps at I/O, which begins Wednesday. Also on tap: The developers will get their shot at Android Wear, the new software from Google aimed at wearable devices.


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Subtrop, representing around 1,200 avocado, lychee, mango and, for the moment, macadamia growers, has just concluded its annual marketing symposium in White River, Mpumalanga.
The past avocado export season to the EU will be remembered for many years, said Zac Bard, vice-chairman of the World Avocado Organisation and executive manager of Westfalia Fruit in Africa. “South Africa will remember it because of its lower crop and the higher price returns. Why was it such a fantastic season? There was a lot of growth in traditional EU markets and new markets emerged even faster than expected. The increase in China and other Asian markets clearly illustrates the aforementioned. Ripe-and-ready is becoming more and more of a norm in Europe as well as other markets and that is clearly growing consumption. In conjunction with the health benefits, avocados are becoming a staple for which people are prepared to pay a premium."
He continued: “The Peruvians had both a very good crop and very high returns for their fruit, so they’ll remember it even more than South Africa. The past season’s success is likely to attract further plantings in the future and hence one of the reasons why it’s so important to promote the consumption of avocados in the EU – now the second largest market in the world for imported avocados after the US.”
Vice-chairman Bard added that the World Avocado Organisation’s 2017 inaugural promotional campaigns definitely played a role in boosting consumer demand and awareness of avocados.
WAO promotional campaign in London during the summer of 2017
The avocado and macadamia industries are in expansionist mood, with much talk about new plantings moving into areas like Haenertsburg (Limpopo) and the Southern Cape, as well as infrastructure like new nurseries and cooling facilities. One grower told FreshPlaza that the waiting list for avocado trees is five years.
Another theme that comes up, however, is the extent of avocado and macadamia theft, particularly in Limpopo Province.
South African economy vulnerable to political risks
Thanda Sithole, economist at Standard Bank, sketched a sobering picture of the South African economy which has moved out of recession on the back of the agricultural sector. “The agricultural sector outperforms the entire economy.” The fiscal outlook is deteriorating in a sphere of political instability and profligate government spending which has breached the expenditure ceiling by R3.9 billion in its repeated bailouts of state-owned entities like South African Airways. He put forward the expectation that South Africa’s debt-to-GDP ratio could be over 60% by 2021/2022.
Investors are awaiting the outcome of the African National Congress’ elective congress in December. At the 24 November meeting of some ratings agencies it is not expected that South Africa would be further downgraded, but it is expected that we could be put on credit watch. However, a further downgrade might be somewhere in the near future with the concomitant outflow of money from the country. He presented a forecast of the Rand of R14.75 to the US$ by June next year, “but the Rand is at risk of deteriorating more than forecast”.
Barry Christie, operational manager for macadamias at Subtrop with Lizette de Wet, SAAGA administrator and symposium organiser and Derek Donkin, Subtrop CEO.
Less ebullience in mango industry
While a weaker Rand does favour exporting, South African production is heavily dependent on input imports. According to the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy, as quoted in the latest Landbouweekblad, South Africa’s nitrogen and potassium are the most expensive in the world; phosphates fourth most expensive.
There are anecdotal reports of producers like maize (corn) and even dairy farmers, who import inputs but can only recoup costs in Rand terms, who are tentatively looking into export crops like avocados and macadamias. A number of growers at the symposium talked of mango orchards being replaced with avocado or macadamias; the past mango season has been called ‘chaotic’.
Douglas Hoets (Insect Science), Zylon McGaffin (DuRoi Nursery), Danie Vaughan (Growmac Nursery), Gerhard Duvenhage (Houers Koöperatief), Martin van Nierkerk (Insect Science) and Scott McKenzie (Cederberg tree nursery)
Future of retail
Derek Donkin, Subtrop CEO who visited Beijing last week as part of a Fruit South Africa market access delegation, told the audience about the operations of JD.com, third largest online retailer with 250 million customers, primarily in China. They visited the Beijing headquarters where 14,000 employees work. The company has 355 warehouses in 40 cities.
“So you look at these numbers and you ask: where are we going to sell the extra two or three thousand hectares of macadamias we’re planting or the extra thousand or two thousand hectares of avocados? When you look at these numbers you see there’s a huge opportunity there. They’re not only into retail but they also do the delivery logistics. In the next few years they’re hoping to do deliveries to homes using drones. That’s just an indication of what is to come.”
Delegates from East Africa: Eric Kimutai and Gilbert Kimutai of the Kenya Nut Company
Bonnie Buthelezi of Subtrop and Morongwa Seabela (Protactic) presented an overview of their avocado promotional campaigns and programmes throughout the year, to a large degree aimed at enlarging the consumer base among black South Africans. Thabiso Dubazana of Minanawe marketing agency discussed the promising opportunities to do just that.
Elizabeth van Renen of the Department of Trade and Industry explained the principles governing South Africa’s trade policy, with reference to, inter alia, South Africa’s recently concluded Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
She said that South Africa was hoping for a seamless continuation of trade with the post-Brexit United Kingdom.
The South African subtropical fruit and nut industry covers approximately 55,000ha of area planted, employs 23,000 people in primary agriculture and is worth roughly R5.5bn to the economy.


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For ten days of January prices in Russia increased by 0,1%
For the first ten days of January the index of consumer prices according to information of the Russian State Statistics Committee made up 100,1%. In 2011 the rise of prices in Russia on this date was equal to 0,8%.
Thus, salt became by 1% more expensive, pork, eggs and Russian-made drinks – by 0,3-0,5%.
Prices for vegetables increased too. Fruits and vegetables became by 0,6% more expensive in the country on average: cabbage – by 1,1%, potato and carrot – by 0,8 and 0,7% correspondingly.
The cost of flour, buckwheat and millet goes on dropping on the shelves.
Besides, the statisticians don’t register any substantial rise of prices for energy carriers. Thus, benzene prices remain the same and diesel fuel became by 0,1% more expensive.
Analyzing the current situation in the consumer market the statisticians took the prices for 62 most important goods and services in 271 Russian cities into account.


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Danone eyes foodservice with latest launch in Spain
Danone targets foodservice in Spain
Danone has developed a product for Spain's foodservice sector, the first time it has created a line specifically for the channel in the country, the company said.
The French dairy group said the Danone Pro yoghurt could be used by hotels and restaurants as "the basis for healthy desserts"
The yoghurt is sold in a 960 gram doypack. Danone said the packaging "contrasts to the higher volumes commonly offered to the channel" and is being used to cut waste and help hygiene. The packaging also gives chefs the ability to apply the yoghurt with "precision", in a similar way to a pastry bag, Danone said.
The yoghurt is the latest product Danone has launched in Spain this year. In May, Danone introduced Actimel Pro-Vital in Spain, a product the company claimed helps promote physical and mental vitality and combat fatigue.
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A small brewery nestled inside the remote garden island of Kauai, has been rapidly expanding over the last three years.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the day in the green thanks to positive earnings from tech giants Alphabet and Amazon.
Anheuser-Busch InBev shares were on the rise Friday despite missing second quarter profit forecasts
The Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller deal is another step closer to completion.
Jim Cramer on what he thinks of Anheuser-Busch InBev's lower-than-expected quarterly earnings.
On Friday, July 29, investors will get quarterly results from Anheuser-Busch Inbev and the first estimate of second quarter GDP.
Facebook crushes earnings expectations while SABMiller puts a hold on the AB InBev deal.
Easing worries over the economy helped to pull stocks out of the red, at least temporarily.
Anheuser-Busch increases its offer for SABMiller after Brexit while the Federal Reserve prepares for action against Goldman Sachs.
A slew of corporate earnings and closely watched Federal Reserve meeting are in focus for the week of July 25.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit a record high 7 days in a row and has been higher for 9 straight days.
Anheuser-Busch and Molson Coors shares rose as their separate megadeals got steps closer to becoming a reality.
SoftBank's decision to acquire ARM Holdings is 'breathtaking' along the lines of the LinkedIn takeout by Microsoft earlier this year, and it will ignite the semiconductor sector.
If you think the best thing to do post-Brexit is buy more, here are 4 to consider.
It's going to be even more in demand, and no one wants to sell the yield they have.
Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter sat down with Real Money to talk about the booming market for craft beers and his company's looming $12 billion tie-up with MillerCoors.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors and Constellation Brands should be purchased, says Jim Cramer.
Starbucks, a company known for coffee beverages, just partnered with Anheuser-Busch InBev, a company known for beer.
Investors appear confident that the brewing giant will complete its tie-up with SAB Miller, although U.S. probes may loom.
Molson Coors unveils a peek into the benefits of scooping up Anheuser-Busch's remaining stake in U.S. peer MillerCoors.
Oil prices were able to rise premarket for the first time this week.
In 'What's Ahead on Wall Street' for Wednesday May 4, investors will hear from Twenty-First Century Fox, Kraft Heinz and Tesla Motors.
In 'What's Ahead on Wall Street' for the week of May 2, another wave of earnings from big companies, ranging from food to tech.
Anheuser-Busch InBev is in the midst of a $103 billion acquisition of SABMiller, but that's not stopping the company from moving deeper into the alcohol and craft categories.
With earnings around the corner, most analysts expect good things as the 2 brewing giants finalize separate megadeals.
Both Anheuser-Busch and Molson Coors shareholders benefited Tuesday on BUD's $2.9 billion sale to Asahi Group.
Crude's recovery leads way for market recovery.
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Show me the money, America! It's time to learn how to pronounce 'Xiaomi'
Zoo-me? Xee-moo? Nope
Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics upstart trumpeted as the David to Apple's Goliath (but is instead sticking it to Samsung) is planning a gentle entry into the US.
At a showcase in San Francisco, Xiaomi announced it was going to start selling gadgets and gizmos Stateside – and certainly not phones nor TVs.
It will instead start with small items such as headphones, battery packs and fitness trackers, which will no doubt scare the heebie-jeebies out of the incumbent manufacturers as they see decent quality devices coming in at super low prices.
Xiaomi is much more like Samsung than it is like Apple because it makes a wide range of app-supported devices and has a significant content play around its software layer which runs on Android called MIUI. Xiaomi is keen to emphasise that it is not a fork of Android.
The US will be the first of a number of markets, to see the softly-softly Xiaomi approach. Its executives said that one of the elements behind this decision was the need to get FCC approval, but dismissed an onslaught of journalists' questions about patent infringement, claiming that it was not the over-riding concern.
The patent view is fuelled by a spat between Xiaomi and Ericsson in India.
It’s worth noting that the US market for SIM-free devices is much smaller than in other parts of the world. Without a carrier behind a mobe, launches can be very difficult.
While the introduction to the US might be low-key, the scale of the business in China is anything but, with flash sales that have seen 150,000 phones sold in 10 minutes and 11 “fulfilment centres”, which have delivered 940,000 products on their busiest days.
The arrival of Xiaomi in the US will no doubt be watched closely by its rivals. A major press event with presentations from the co-founder and the head of global is much more a statement of intent than the launch of some fitness wristbands. ®


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Aaron Sorkin told democrats like AOC to stop acting like "young people", so she went on a Donkey Kong livestream and talked about Pokemon Snap and why the N64 is the best console.
How does Toyota's resurrected icon compare with other sports car legends?
And in a day, it's already two-thirds of the way to its fundraising goal of $75,000.
"Community Actions" will start rolling out to users in the US on Monday.
We learned how Facebook is still key to the pet rescue world, stepped out in Nike's new self-lacing sneakers and took a ride on the most high-tech chairlift.
Here's our ongoing guide to the upcoming DC Comics film starring Zachary Levi.
Have some spare gift cards? Just looking to treat yourself? Here are some great ideas that won't break the bank.
The Democratic National Committee apparently hasn't lost its allure for Russia-linked hacking groups like Cozy Bear.
Maybe the president's game show past will let him end the shutdown this way.
If it's confirmed or rumored, it's on this list.
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
Just a day after Borders declared bankruptcy in the United States, the Australian version of Borders, which is entirely independent of its American counterpart, went into administration today along with its partner bookstore, Angus & Robertson, which is the largest bookseller in the country. "While the Australian dollar is high, a lot of Australian consumers determine that they will buy whatever they need online and from overseas suppliers," said Maree McCaskill, the CEO of the Australian Publishers Association. (Guardian)
Today is National Poem Day in Vietnam, with celebrations held at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi. (Voice of Vietnam)
According to New York Magazine, Martin Scorsese is set to direct Leonardo DiCaprio in a film adaptation of Jordan Belfort's 1990 best-seller The Wolf of Wall Street.
According to the LAist, Los Angeles has a thriving literary magazine scene comparable to New York City's but lacking that metropolis's pretensions.
As promised last month, the National Book Foundation has launched its blog celebrating each of the fifty-one poetry books honored with the National Book Award over the last sixty-one years—remarkably, the NBA eliminated the poetry category entirely from 1984 to 1990, thus explaining the discrepancy between years and books.
As the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, the recent wildly successful publication of the first volume of the Autobiography of Mark Twain was the result of a huge amount of detailed efforts over many years by editors and scholars, as well as major financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities since the Twain Project began in 1967.
Has Brooklyn, New York, become "repulsive with novelists," as the borough-departing author Jonathan Franzen told the Los Angeles Times this weekend? The Guardian has a fun quiz to test your repellant knowledge.


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Today we're excited to announce that we've launched a new version of Magisto, optimized for Amazon's new Fire phone.
Poet, musician and songwriter Michael Franti is currently rocking his way down the east coast on the Soulshine Music and Yoga tour. We're excited to share a fun movie, created at the event, featuring the latest single from Michael Franti & Spearhead - 11:59.
We're excited to announce that over the weekend Magisto was included in a new editorial feature on the US App Store called Split Second Video. The list features 25 awesome video apps that do everything from automatic to collaborative editing, filter addition and more.
Today we're excited to bring you Episode 1 of the "Show Us How It Feels To Be You" show - a new project we've been working on featuring Magisto users and their stories.
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We’ve seen high-tech companies — including Google, Microsoft and Tableau Software — open offices on both sides of Lake Washington in order to attract workers who don’t want to commute over the congested bridges. But Avalara, a little-known success story in these parts, faces a tougher challenge when it comes to recruitment. The maker of Web-based tax management software has the Puget Sound separating it from the multitudes of geeks in Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond.
Based on Bainbridge Island for the past seven years, Avalara has grown into a powerhouse in its industry. It now employs about 200 people, with annual revenue on pace to top $30 million this year. More than 8,000 customers use its product.
The company has no intentions of abandoning its island roots. In fact, it is planning to open a much larger headquarters facility on Bainbridge next month, which is conveniently located near the ferry dock.
The company just opened an office on 2nd Avenue in downtown Seattle, in part to recruit developers and executives who might not like the idea of jumping on the Bainbridge-Seattle ferry run every day. The new office has space for about 15 workers.
Recently named vice president of finance Annette Eyraud, along with five others, currently are based in the Seattle office.
“We recognize that having this presence downtown will certainly expand our reach into King County,” said Jason Warren, director of customer loyalty at the company.
Started with nine employees in February 2004, Avalara doesn’t get as much attention as some other technology startups around these parts. That’s driven in part by its location, but also because of the nature of its product. After all, a software-as-service tax product doesn’t always get the juices flowing. (In that regard, the company is kind of like Redmond’s Concur Technologies which has built a massive software-as-a-service business for travel and entertainment expense management).
Nonetheless, Avalara — founded by Rory Rawlings, Jared Vogt and Scott McFarlane — has been on a serious growth curve. Revenues doubled to $20 million last year, and the company expects sales to top $30 million this year.
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Right now, many countries are in the middle of determining how they want to approach new and improved car technologies, and organizations are currently setting a lot of goals regarding the future of car industries all around the world. In the United States, for example, President Obama signed a bill that will toughen fuel standards, raising the national mile per gallon average to 35.5 (15.1 kilometers per liter) [source: Broder].
The push for vehicles that are less dependent on fossil fuels and cars that operate predominantly on electricity is also strong. Since cars running on electric power produce little or no emissions when driven, they contribute much less to regional pollution and global warming. Around the same time as Obama's new standards were announced, Miguel Sebastián, the Spanish Minister of Industry, promised one million all-electric vehicles on Spain's streets by 2012. Although officials looked over this objective and pushed the target date back two years to 2014, it still cites a major change in how drastically the auto industry could evolve in the coming years -- that many new electric cars on the road might make a significant impact on current driving habits and send a message to other auto manufacturers around the world.
With many companies looking to do their part in developing new technologies, Spanish automaker SEAT, which stands for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo -- Spanish Passenger Car Company in English -- has introduced a brand new hybrid plug-in concept car for Spanish drivers to consider. The company, which is now a part of the German Volkswagen Group, has taken one of its current models, the León, and given it a greener, more fuel-efficient spin. With the SEAT León Twin Drive Ecomotive, SEAT hopes to move one step closer to getting rid of internal combustion engines from its fleet altogether.
So what's in store for the León Twin Drive Ecomotive? What plug-in technology will power its gasoline and electric systems? Keep reading to learn more.


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Stocks' relentless levitation suffered a rare pause last week as tension in the Middle East sent crude-oil prices over $100 a barrel. But old habits die hard, and following a three-day selling jag, stocks rebounded Friday after Saudi Arabia raised output to quell concerns that a Libyan rebellion might disrupt oil supply.
The market's loss last week came to just 1.7%, but that was enough to qualify as the biggest weekly loss in three months. Just as quickly, the horde of bullish investors shrank from 47% to 37%, the biggest one-week drop in—you guessed it—three months. In the short term, this fickle lot likely will continue taking its cue from the direction of oil prices. Meanwhile, Wall Street's habitual upgrading of economic growth forecasts will be put on hold, at least for now.
If oil were to remain between $90 and $100 this year, a roughly 20% markup from 2010 levels, overall economic growth could decline by 0.8 of a percentage point, estimates Vadim Zlotnikov, chief market strategist at AllianceBernstein. But growth in big-ticket spending more sensitive to oil prices could fall 5%. The U.S. economy can probably handle higher gas prices or higher mortgage rates—but not both, says Strategas Research economist Don Rissmiller. His rough rule of thumb: Risks of a downturn increase when the numerical sum of gasoline prices (currently below $4) and mortgage rates (approaching 5%) exceeds 10.
Energy stocks jumped, and even before Friday were up 12.6% this year—nearly triple the 4.8% gain for the next-best group, industrials. In fact, the energy sector has rallied more than 40% over the past six months. Bespoke Investment Group analyzed the five prior instances since 1940 when energy stocks have had similarly big spurts. Historically, they've pulled back four out of five times to register an average decline of 2% a month later and were still down 1.1% after three months. This might suggest the benefits of rising oil prices are quickly priced in.
On the other hand, energy stocks trade at just 13.4 times projected earnings. That's in line with the broad market, says Morgan Stanley, and growth expectations aren't much more elevated compared with the overall market's. And energy stocks benefit if oil keeps climbing. Who suffers if that happens? Typically, sectors with a high proportion of commodity costs but limited pricing power, like auto, retail, food and beverages and household products.
Crude ended last week up 9.1% at $98, and gold climbed to $1,409 a troy ounce. Despite a lift from Boeing ba 0.7211811470755253% Boeing Co. U.S.: NYSE USD177.37 1.27 0.7211811470755253% /Date(1490733447636-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1322477 P/E Ratio 23.163398692810457 Market Cap 107083776080.841 Dividend Yield 3.205417607223476% Rev. per Employee 628379 More quote details and news » (ticker: BA), the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its second loss in 13 weeks and closed down 261, or 2.1%, to 12,130. The Standard & Poor's 500 snapped its three-week winning streak and fell 23, or 1.7%, to 1320. It's still up 2.6% this month. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 53, or 1.9%, to 2781, while the Russell 2000 slipped 13, or 1.5%, to 822.
ENERGY STOCKS MAY BE the most immediate beneficiaries of spiking oil prices and global sedition. But who says the world can't become a better place, in five to 10 years, for the likes of, say… Whirlpool whr 0.029436006122689273% Whirlpool Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD169.91 0.05 0.029436006122689273% /Date(1490733444068-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 400442 P/E Ratio 14.736933344890353 Market Cap 12652871082.605 Dividend Yield 2.352664392424421% Rev. per Employee 222774 More quote details and news » (WHR)? After all, what's happening from Libya to Thailand is a cry for a better life. Crass though it is to suggest in the midst of bloodshed, but improved prospects for the globe's expanding–and adamant–middle class should ultimately come with more washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers and ovens. Oh, and dishwashers.
It's a long road to that better tomorrow, and Whirlpool has plenty of problems today. But as a result, the stock is cheap. Latin America and Asia are booming but make up less than a third of sales. In its bedrock North American market, stagnant wages and slipping home prices complicate the task of passing on to customers higher steel, copper and plastic prices. Fourth-quarter income jumped 80%, but only thanks to things like energy tax credits, and heavy discounting lifted sales just 3.6%. And once the holidays passed, traffic dipped, and appliance shipments in North America shrank 12.7% industry-wide in January.
But Whirlpool's problems are well understood. Economic recovery hopes have lifted the consumer-discretionary sector, whose weighting in the S&P 500 recently overtook consumer staples' for the first time since 2006. Yet Whirlpool has lost nearly 30% of its value since last spring, with selling picking up as gas prices climb.
At 81, the maker of brands like Maytag and KitchenAid now sports an enterprise value (market cap plus net debt) just five times the company's very solid cash flow, near its lowest ever. Sure, competition from LG and Samsung is forcing Whirlpool to design more energy-efficient and innovative appliances, but management's forecast for demand to rise just 2% to 3% in North America and in the high single digits in Latin America and Asia looks fairly conservative next to other consumer stocks. In fact, shares fetch just 6.8 times projected 2011 profit–no higher than they did during the worst of the credit crisis, and below the 10.6 average for the household appliance sector. Now that's a discount.
IN CONTRAST, THE ASCENT OF Weight Watchers International wtw 2.2571050892267017% Weight Watchers International Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD15.4715 0.3415 2.2571050892267017% /Date(1490733409740-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 471419 P/E Ratio 15.147058823529411 Market Cap 967624005.617599 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 65600.1 More quote details and news » (WTW) and Priceline.com pcln 1.2779345372460496% Priceline Group Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD1794.645 22.645 1.2779345372460496% /Date(1490733440969-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 315183 P/E Ratio 42.08179048511835 Market Cap 87129236755.3711 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 580703 More quote details and news » (PCLN) to record heights was accompanied by analyst upgrades and a besotted crowd calling for more to come.
Weight Watchers has gained almost 68% so far this year, and more than 150% since July. This month, it issued a robust 2011 forecast after fourth-quarter profit more than doubled. Fans gush about a new points program, called PointsPlus, which goes beyond calorie-counting to better parse the body's energy needs. But really, Weight Watchers' biggest gain was Jennifer Hudson's weight loss. Unlike previous spokesmodels, including a certain duchess, Hudson was a bigger, more relatable star. When the five-foot-nine singer with the American Idol fan base, the Oscar and now a baby dropped 80 well-publicized pounds on the program and went down 10 dress sizes, enrollment soared.
Sure, Weight Watchers has a familiar brand, profit momentum and a scalable business model, but it also has a hefty debt load. Shares pushing a record high above 61 fetch 18 times projected profit, quite a rise from nearly 10 times a year ago, and above the 9.9 average for specialized consumer services stocks. Its enterprise value is 14 times its cash flow.
The months between New Year's resolutions and swimsuit season are a gold mine for weight-loss companies, and much of the good news is as well-flaunted as Hudson's newly svelte self. Besides, the pounds could come and go—remember Kirstie Alley?—and unrealistic expectations are as hazardous to dieters as they are to stock buyers.
Meanwhile, Priceline.com reported a 72% jump in fourth-quarter income that has already-bullish Wall Street analysts scrambling to hike their price targets to between 500 and 600, a stratosphere the stock last inhabited during the tech bubble. Apparently, trouble in the Suez can't dent global travel. Cairo is off limits? Let's go to Cannes!
How can you not like Priceline? It has 21% net profit margins, more than $10 a share in free cash flow, no debt and a knack for increasing earnings. It facilitates travel. William Shatner prances around on its Website. Google's (GOOG) acquisition of ITA Software, a flight-information company, could provide competition, but that deal hasn't cleared regulators. Fourth-quarter bookings grew 44%, including 65% overseas, and the company expects first-quarter revenue to rise a whopping 29% to 34%.
Even if rising energy costs and global tumult don't give you pause, the stock's swelling fan club should. After climbing 500% in less than two years, Priceline has amassed Buy ratings from 16 of the 21 analysts who cover the stock, and not a single Sell rating. Shares fetch 25 times projected profits—compared with 11 times for the Shatner-less Expedia expe 1.0758998435054774% Expedia Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD129.175 1.375 1.0758998435054774% /Date(1490733446826-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 847636 P/E Ratio 75.27674418604651 Market Cap 19145462167.7566 Dividend Yield 0.865025178411443% Rev. per Employee 437039 More quote details and news » (EXPE) or 19 times for hospitality stocks. In fact, the company is now valued at 13.9 times its book value, the highest in a decade, and double levels just last summer. Can't you feel the love?
The Dow ended its three-week winning run as crude-oil prices closed in on $100 a barrel. The blue chips' 2.1% loss marked their worst week since early November.


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It’s practically a cliche in the Northwest now to stress your use of locally grown ingredients, but not the way that Sound Bites is cooking.
The oils used in the two-month-old company’s pestos and sauces are different varieties — make that varietels — of grapeseed oil made in the Yakima Valley, cold-pressed from grape seeds. The taste of the oils is remarkably different between the Chardonnay and Merlot pestos — or maybe not so remarkable, considering the differences in the source materials.
And the oils aren’t the only surprises. One of the company’s selections, for instance, substitutes the toasted, nutty taste of camelina seeds in place of tahini from foreign-grown sesame seeds.
“It could be called a Columbia Hummus because the camelina and the grapeseed oils all come from Central Washington,” said Rich Hines, board president of the Tacoma Farmers Market, who owns Sound Bites along with friend Stephen McConkey.
“We started this company because we wanted to utilize the diversity of the crops that are grown here in the Northwest, and we’re not afraid to substitute ingredients to make them as local as we possibly can.”
The new company is already a full-time job for Hines and McConkey, who both have backgrounds in marketing and started the business through farmers markets (high on outreach and low on startup costs). Hines had already made connections with farmers throughout the state through his previous work for the Washington State University Small Farms Program and College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.
“We have jumped in with both feet first,” he said, and they are currently at 14 markets, including Broadway, Wallingford, Columbia City, Queen Anne, Bellevue, Phinney and Madrona.
Products were tested at home with a small food processor.
“It was a fun phase of the business, the product sourcing and development, which we did for a couple of months before we officially launched.
“And during that time we reached out to WSU extension professionals around the state as well as farmers; it’s how we came up with the sources for beans,” Hines said. Next product up: Another hummus spread, colored dusty rose, using a Rojo Chiquito bean that originated in South America but has been adapted for the climate of the inland Northwest.
The company is based in Tacoma’s historic Stadium district, with “a nice little kitchen” and staff to help keep up with the demand. “It was exhilarating to stay up all night for the first few weeks. Then it gets to be a bit of a drag.”
We made an anonymous visit to the stand, sampled every product and thought every one was worth a taste, with especial points to the pleasantly biting chimichurri.
“I got inspired because of sustainability, climate change, oil depletion and other big picture environmental and social issues I think we need to address (that) can be taken care of, or at least you can make a start, through changing how you eat,” Hines said.
And if that isn’t your thing, there’s always the pull of interesting products that also taste good.
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Children are being diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), the polio-like paralyzing illness, according to numbers released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There have now been 106 confirmed cases of AFM in 29 states this year, according to the CDC, an increase of 16 since last week. There are also 167 possible cases of the illness, an increase of five from the previous week.
AFM is a rare illness that affects the nervous system, especially the gray matter in the spinal cord, and causes muscle weakness and sudden onset of paralysis. There’s a spectrum of how children can be affected: Some regain the use of their paralyzed limbs, while in severe cases, respiratory failure and other serious neurologic complications can occur, potentially causing death.
Most people who get AFM will experience a sudden onset of arm or leg weakness and loss of muscle tone and reflexes. Others, may also experience a drooping face or eyelids, difficulty moving the eyes and difficulty swallowing or slurred speech. There is no known cause, vaccine, or cure of AFM.
The disease can often be tricky to identify, even after extensive testing, the CDC says. One primary suspect is enterovirus, a typically mild illness that usually mimics the common cold. Though enteroviruses are usually mild, in rare cases they can cause neurologic illnesses like AFM, meningitis and encephalitis.
The CDC is also advising that U.S. consumers stop eating any kind of romaine lettuce, and that retailers and restaurants not serve or sell any, until more is learned about an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections linked to romaine lettuce.
This includes all types or uses of romaine lettuce, such as whole heads of romaine, hearts of romaine, and bags and boxes of precut lettuce and salad mixes that contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad.
Symptoms of E.coli vary in each person, but often include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea (often bloody), and vomiting. Most people get better within 5 to 7 days. Some infections are very mild, but others are severe or even life-threatening.
Consumers who have any type of romaine lettuce in their home should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick.
If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine or whether a salad mix contains romaine, do not eat it and throw it away. Wash and sanitize drawers or shelves in refrigerators where the romaine was stored.


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OLYMPIA — A bill to extend and amend the original Social Equity in Cannabis Program was signed into law Monday. SB 5080, sponsored by Sen. Rebecca Saldaña (D-Seattle), extends the Social Equity in Cannabis Program until July 1, 2032, and modifies the licenses that the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) may issue or reissue under the program. It waives annual fees, and provides a one-time, one-license annual fee reimbursement to current cannabis licensees who submit a social equity plan to LCB.
Black people and other people of color are currently underrepresented in ownership of cannabis businesses in Washington state, and this legislation will address this inequity.
“Building pathways of opportunity and flexibility for people of color disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs is not only a moral imperative, but a crucial step towards a more just and equitable society,” Saldaña said. “We heal the harms of the past by our commitment to action and change today.”
State data reveals that the vast majority of Washington’s cannabis business owners are white, and only 4% of the state’s retail cannabis licenses went to Black applicants. This bill helps create a more inclusive cannabis licensing program for Black and brown business owners in Washington.
The bill also amends the definitions of “disproportionately impacted area,” “social equity applicant,” and “social equity plan” in the program, and modifies the time period for cannabis licensees to qualify for a social equity technical assistance grant. It enables additional retail stores to be established over time, giving social equity licensees more flexibility in choosing a location, while also preserving local control over zoning and outlet density.


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Slower consumer demand continues to weigh on Staples Inc., and the retailer says its second-quarter net income sank 38%, to $92 million. And while total company sales registered a 9% gain to $5.5
billion, same-store sales in the U.S. fell 5%.
The company says the declines reflect shrinking average order size, as well as weakness in such categories as business machines and furniture.
Computers, inks and papers performed better.--Sarah Mahoney


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Citing monopolistic behavior in how it reviews, posts, and removes apps from the App Stores, a cadre of 28 Chinese developers have filed a complaint against Apple, alleging antitrust violations.
The 28 developers filed through Beijing's Dare & Sure law firm, according to a report by Reuters. The complaint alleges that the apps are removed by Apple without notice, and the company doesn't give details on why — and when it does, the queries are not responded to in Chinese.
Developers are also complaining about excessive fees for in-app purchases.
"During its localization process Apple has run into several antitrust issues," Lin Wei of Dare & Sure said. "After an initial investigation we consulted a number of enterprises and got a very strong response."
The law firm invited developers to join the complain in April. The complaint, including unnamed developers, was filed on Tuesday with China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission.
Apple issued a blanket statement, referring to its terms and conditions for developers, including fees. In the statement, Apple noted that most Chinese App Store submission are approved to be on the store "within 48 hours, or less." It went on to state that the rules for the app store, including transaction fees, apply equally to all developers in every country, and in accordance with those universal rules there is an appeal process for developers that feel that apps were removed in error.
The Chinese developer's complaints appear to include Apple's revision on it's "tipping" policy for digital content providers. Once banned, Apple changed its rules to allow the tips through in-app purchases — but is taking its customary cut of such transactions.


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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen announced on Tuesday that Connecticut residents who bought certain eBooks will soon receive notices related to a $69 million national settlement with publishers.
In September, Simon & Schuster Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC and Hachette Book Group agreed to pay more than $69 million to consumers to resolve antitrust claims. The companies allegedly engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to fix electronic book prices.
The three publishers agreed to change how they price eBooks in the future. Connecticut consumers will receive approximately $1.3 million from the settlement. A related trial is currently scheduled for June connected to continuing litigation against Penguin Group Inc., Holtzbrinck Publishers .LC, doing business as MacMillan, and Apple Inc.
"This settlement helps consumers who were overcharged get back some money for their past purchases, and to ensure competitive eBook prices in possible future purchases," Jepsen said.
In the past few days, consumers affected by the settlement should have received emails from retailers where they bought their eBooks. Consumers who bought books through Sony or Apple will receive emails from the email address Administrator@vertismail.com with the sender listed as State Attorneys General E-book Settlement. The emails are legitimate and are authorized by Jepsen.
Consumers who bought one or more qualifying eBooks between April 1, 2010, and May 21, 2012, who follow instructions in the notices will receive a credit from their eBook retailer or a check. Credit and check distribution will vary among retailers. The two levels of payments includes one for eligible New York Times bestsellers and another for other eligible books. The specific amount to be paid per eBook in both categories is not yet determined.


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Motovicity Distribution Announces SpeedRing Motor Sports Festival; Race Against Nob Taniguchi and the HKS GT1000+
Long Beach, Calif. – June 21, 2016 – Motovicity Distribution announces the debut of the SpeedRing Motor Sports Festival Powered by HKS, a unique, industry-based event that will be open to the general public. The event will take place at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California on August 21, 2016.
The weekend action will be highlighted by a time attack race comprised of enthusiasts and shops, as well as a GTR-only class allowing participants to compete against Nob Taniguchi, who will pilot the HKS GT 1000+ Nissan GT-R. In addition to the time attack, the event will also feature a car show, vendor midway, industry insiders and much more.
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The B2B intent data space headline roundup spans a Forbes column, a marketing conference, and product announcements.
Augment Marketing and Sales Strategy with AI
This Forbes article suggests using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to identify intent signals and improve segmentation efforts for marketing programs.
Author Lilach Bullock says the insights gleaned from intent data captured by AI can fuel – and improve – sales and content strategies and activities.
B2B2MX: Invest in Intent Data
A Demand Gen Report article about the closeout of the 2019 B2B Marketing Exchange conference recaps some hearty enthusiasm for the use of intent data in B2B marketing.
Intent data, the article says, can improve identification of target accounts, guide refinement of a company’s ideal customer profile, and optimize targeting of the ideal customer profile.
NLP-powered Intent Intel
RichRelevance, a global experience personalization-as-a-service provider for B2B and B2C brands, announced natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning enhancements to their existing offerings. The new capabilities promise segment-based personalization that can engage individuals in real time and at scale, ultimately strengthening relationships with customers.
According to the company’s press release, a deep learning neural net enables the NLP capabilities to determine purchase intent and extract insights from previously unlinked data points, such as product descriptions, user reviews, user-generated content, and behavioral data. The newly updated Xen AI platform “can now auto-discover meaningful customer behavioral trends and patterns.”
MA-based Data Startup Tunes into Transaction Details
Highland Math, a startup based in Arlington, Mass., is a co-op of data providers that sells aggregated intelligence about all kinds of data transactions rather than behavioral or intent data.
The co-op was founded in 2018 and is comprised of 40 data providers who exchange transactional data for contextual insights. They provide intelligence about points of sale, prices, segment categorizations, and advertisers across about 70 platforms used by the participating data providers.
CEO and Co-founder Dan Scudder — who was recently a guest on Aberdeen’s The Intelligent Business Show podcast — said in the second half of 2019, Highland Math will begin to provide insights directly to advertisers for their target-audience segmentation efforts.
Q&A with Demandbase CEO
In this Q&A with Sudipto Ghosh of MartechSeries, Demandbase CEO Christopher Golec discusses the next phase of ABM, how big data is shaping ABM and B2B data management, and his predictions for the future of the martech ecosystem.


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News & Opinions
The latest news and insights from Hanley Wood’s outspoken experts and key thought-leaders throughout the residential and commercial design and construction industry.
I’ll Have What They’re Having
Teresa Burney / BUILDER / April 25, 2013
Happy resident testimonials and glimpses of the “good life” help sell homes to older buyers.
The home shoppers thought they were coming to see the model homes in Traditions of America’s 50-plus Silver Spring and Liberty Hill communities last April, but what the builder really wanted to show off was the communities’ lifestyle and happy residents.
So every time the shoppers opened the door of one of the model homes in the builder’s Pennsylvania communities’ “Live Better Now” events, they were greeted by a current homeowner and member of one of Traditions of America’s many clubs that had set up shop in the models.
There were cooking demonstrations by the community’s foodie group at one model, and hot dogs grilling with a condiment bar at another. Over at the clubhouse visitors lined up for chair massages, listened to live music, and participated in putting contests and bocce ball.
And everywhere shoppers went they were greeted by what Traditions calls its “ambassadors,” residents who already live in the community eager to share their stories about life in their new Traditions of America homes.


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The future for the Indian textile industry looks promising, buoyed by both strong domestic consumption as well as export demand as China is drifting away from textile manufacturing activities. With consumerism and disposable income on the rise, the retail sector has experienced a rapid growth in the past decade with the entry of several international players like Marks & Spencer, Guess and Next into the Indian market.
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Handlooms and Textiles Minister K.T. Rama Rao directed the officials of the concerned department to prepare a handloom directory with complete details on the condition…+ More
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Vending Market Watch reported that bottled water growth slowed down last year. One of the reasons they reported was that consumers were concerned about the sustainability of water bottles with the waste generated. However, beverage companies like a lot of companies are growing green in response to these concerns.
Coca-Cola is really trying to define and frame this issue first. In an article published yesterday in Ad Age, it was reported that Coca-Cola will spend an estimated $10 million on a major sustainability ad campaign around the idea of “sustainable well-being.”
The campaign begins this week with several large print ads that feature a new aluminum bottle. Coke has promised to recycle 100% of its aluminum cans sold in the U.S. and is providing financial support to the construction of the world’s largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant just down the road from me in Spartanburg, S.C.
Learn more from my previous post, “Can Coca-Cola Become Water Neutral?”


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The Australian has begun offering content from The Economist in print and online today following their new syndication partnership.
The Australian’s Editor-in-Chief Paul Whittaker said: ''The partnership with The Economist is part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the world’s highest quality news coverage, commentary and analysis to our readers and subscribers.’’
“The stated mission of The Economist is to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.”
“This makes the brand a perfect fit with The Australian” Whittaker said.
The Australian offers stories from The EconomistBy in Media News on Monday, 01st May 2017 at 2:25pm
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