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Momeni adds to sales team in three markets
Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, August 22, 2012
CARLSTADT, N.J. — Momeni, a rug and home accessories manufacturer and importer, has expanded its sales team in three key markets.
All the new salespeople report to Stephen Hoberman, national sales manager.
Based in Chicago, Geoffrey Siebold now manages all company product lines in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Prior to joining the Momeni sales team, Siebold worked in management positions for Couristan and Tufenkian.
Elaine Greenberg manages all product lines in Florida, and is based in the southern part of the state. She has more than 20 years of experience in the furniture, accessory and area rug industries, according to the company.
Phil Rosenberg and Deb Heymann were named area rug salespeople for the Northern California region. Rosenberg and Heymann, who are married and are based in Sacramento, have worked in furniture and flooring sales in the area for more than 20 years.
"The recent expansion of the sales team positions Momeni to fulfill the company's goal of expertly servicing our dealers across the entire United States," said company President Reza Momeni. "The salespeople are charged with promoting our products and service in line with our tradition of quality. We are fortunate and proud to have such great additions."
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Like rival GM, Ford is also in the red this year, by a whopping $12 billion. In 2006, CEO Bill Ford Jr. stepped aside to let former Boeing CEO Alan Mulally tinker with the company's big problems. Revenues fell 10% from last year, making Ford the only company in the top 50 to see a decrease in sales, bumping the carmaker down two notches on the list.
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Skylanders Academy is up first
Before long, we’re going to start to see television shows and even movies based on Activision Blizzard properties. The company is putting together a new “film and television studio devoted to creating original content” for its series like Call of Duty, StarCraft, and Diablo.
The first project to come out of Activision Blizzard Studios will be an animated TV show, Skylanders Academy, led by Futurama writer Eric Rogers. There are also plans for (here it comes!) a Call of Duty “cinematic universe,” with the “possibility of television adaptations” as well.
I don’t know about all that, personally speaking, but adaptations of Blizzard’s games could be cool.


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ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 17th
Olympic Media is excited to announce that Inc. Magazine has ranked them No. 13 on its annual Inc. 5000. The exclusive annual list details the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America where companies such as Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, and Patagonia first gained national attention. The most effective direct response ad agency in the country, Olympic CEO Ryan Coyne sought to provide a non-traditional agency model, offering zero-risk to all clients.
“We are honored to be included in such an esteemed list which serves a ‘who’s-who’ of American business,” said Coyne. From humble beginnings in 2018, Coyne’s entrepreneurial acumen and risk-taking methods have paid off. “We started as a one-man operation in an office the size of a closet. Now we have over thirty employees making up four departments, all dedicated to our diverse clientele and to each other.”
Among the 5,000, the average median three-year growth rate soared to 543%, and median revenue reached $11.1 million. Together, those companies added more than 610,000 jobs over the past three years. Headquartered just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Coyne has assembled an elite team of veteran digital operatives and marketing experts who have delivered results far beyond their client’s expectations and their own. When asked about the astronomical success, Coyne offered his secret.
“It’s a pretty simple formula—when our clients win, we win.”
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The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Vision Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. Formore information, visit www.inc.com.
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Here we are not sure when the Apple Car will arrive, but for sure, the rumors around it sound fun no matter how often you hear it.
There are new rumors surrounding the Apple Cars, but they are based on solid evidence.
Apple has approved a new type of sunroof technology where the driver will be able to control the light, allowing him to let the sunlight on the car without opening the sunroof.
According to the patent, seen by MotorTrend, Apple has visualized a sunroof with a glass of opacity, which will turn on the light at various degrees and be completely visible through granular controls.
“Another feature of the embodiments revealed is the vehicle that connects the window with the translucence variable defined in the window.
The flexible translucence area is controlled to allow the desired level of light through the window, ”reads the patent, referring to a unique solar roof.
This sunroof can be used if you want to get some sunlight, say, in the winter, but do not want the cold air inside. However, in the summer, the Apple Car will have a feature.
The patent stated that the sunroof would open in sequence with side windows, unlike a solid sunroof in cars with similar technology. An open sunroof will allow the driver to get fresh air, but there may be other purposes, too.
It is also possible that all sunroof controls will be available in CarPlay and even Siri. But copyright does not say that.
However, the patent is one of the tangible evidence that Apple is actually working with its Apple Car and that it will have to wait. Previous rumors may have been correct, if we go by what Apple has officially revealed so far.
Apple is reportedly developing and testing a new self-driving car system, which could get into its first car. Other reports also suggested that the Apple Car would be an electric car (EV), similar to the Tesla.
The company is said to be organizing the production of the car in partnership with car manufacturers. But despite all, the Apple Car is unlikely to launch soon.
Much of the leak says Apple Car will still last for three or four years, which may be true given the negative management of Apple’s car project.


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At the consumer electronics expo CES in Las Vegas, Xiaomi’s Chief Financial Officer Shou Zi Chew dismissed speculation that the Beijing-based firm could be raising additional funds in response to a challenging year in which Xiaomi has lost smartphone market share to competitors. Xiaomi, one of China’s most valuable startups, with a valuation of $46 billion, soared to the top of China’s smartphone market in 2014 by selling sleekly designed smartphones online to cut costs and building buzz with viral marketing. But in the past two years, it has been overrun by local rivals Oppo, Vivo and Huawei Technologies, which used traditional advertising blitzes to win consumers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Xiaomi’s smartphone market share in China, its biggest market, fell to 8.7% in the third quarter of 2016 from 15.9% a year earlier.
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LEXINGTON, SC (BRAIN)—The Hawley Company's service center manager Ian Foyster was tragically killed on Monday.
"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was shot," said Dave Goeppner, marketing manager for The Hawley Company.
“Your cyclists really know their stuff. It’s more intense than in San Francisco. The bike coalition is strong there, but in Portland, the cyclists are more into the details. They want to know how their handle bars will work with handrails.
MIRAMAR, FL (BRAIN)—Who dares to believe they can keep up with seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, on a bike? Well the people behind Clear2Go, the sports water bottle with a replaceable filter, are giving would-be cyclists around the country the opportunity to do just that.
JUPITER, FL (BRAIN)—Sports Marketing Surveys and the Gluskin Townley Group have formed a joint venture to publish a monthly Consumer Intelligence: Bicycles & Bicycling Report beginning January 2010.
VENTURA, CA (BRAIN)—Hill Billy USA, a Southern California company offering a wide range of golf-related products and services, is launching Dogleg–a series of electric bikes.
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SAN DIEGO, CA (BRAIN)—Bicycle art from all over the world will be on display and for sale at the 2009 Bike Art Spectacular, a fundraising event for Kimberlee’s Bikes for Kids. The event will take place on Saturday, November 7 from 6-9 p.m. at San Diego’s Quilt Art Vision Gallery.
MOAB, UT (BRAIN)—The 25th annual Ellsworth Moab owners retreat weekend is only two weeks away—November 6 – 8.
There are still spots left to come join Tony and the Ellsworth staff for a weekend of riding in one the most legendary mountain biking regions in the world.
LAGUNA HILLS, CA (BRAIN)—Focale 44, a manufacturer of fixie bikes and components, has launched a new Web site.
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Sunny skies and warm temperatures helped this year’s Sea Otter Classic see double-digit attendance increases the first three days of the show.
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LATROBE, Australia (BRAIN)—Due to a severe lack of funding, the Latrobe Carnival has been cancelled for the first time in more than a century, according to an ABC Australia article.
The event is part of the Tasmanian Christmas Carnivals Series and includes cycling, running and woodchopping.
BERKELEY, CA (BRAIN)—The Bay Area’s cycling social event of the season, the NorCal League’s CycleFest 2009 will feature the CEO of Slipstream Sports, Jonathan Vaughters, as its special guest at its main annual fundraiser, a three-day gathering, November 6-8 in Mill Valley.
WILMINGTON, MA (BRAIN)—Pedro's has partnered with 2pure to represent the Pedro's brand of bicycle care products throughout the UK.
Pedro's will be added to the limited yet diverse mix from 2pure with the objective of deeper penetration into the UK's retail base.
LOS ANGELES, CA (BRAIN)—The host cities for the record-setting Amgen Tour of California professional cycling road race were unveiled yesterday via a Twitter exchange that took place between Gov.
"In Kentucky, you can't love your grandmother more than basketball. And if you did, your grandmother would tell you you're stupid."
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LAGUNA HILLS, CA (BRAIN)—Darren Zielinski, former vice president of sales and marketing for Rocket Science Sports, has launched a blog aimed at bicycle retailers.
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When Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at CES last week he unveiled the company's next-generation self-driving car platform, the Drive PX 2. According to Nvidia, its Drive PX 2 platform packs the same amount of compute power as six Titan X boards, in just two GPUs. During the show, Jen-Hsun displayed the new system -- but what he showed from stage almost certainly wasn't Pascal.Image by Anandtech. The label is fuzzy to my eye.
As Anandtech readers noted(Opens in a new window), the hardware Jen-Hsun showed was nearly identical to the GTX 980 in an MXM configuration. The new Drive PX 2 is shown above, the GTX 980 MXM is shown below. The hardware isn't just similar -- the chips appear to be identical. Some readers have also claimed they can read the date code on the die as 1503A1 -- which would mean the GPUs were produced in the third week of 2015.Image by Anandtech. The GTX 980 MXM
If Nvidia actually used a GTX 980 MXM board for their mockup, it would explain why the Drive PX 2 looks as though it only uses GDDR5. While Nvidia could still be tapping that memory standard for its next-generation driving platform, this kind of specialized automotive system is going to be anything but cheap. We've said before that we expect GDDR5 and HBM to split the upcoming generation, but we expect that split in consumer hardware with relatively low amounts of GPU memory (2-4GB) and small memory busses. The Drive PX 2 platform sports four Denver CPU cores, eight Cortex-A57 CPUs, 8 TFLOPS worth of single-precision floating point, and a total power consumption of 250W. Nvidia has already said that they'll be water-cooling the module in electric vehicles and offering a radiator block for conventional cars. Any way you slice it, this is no tiny embedded product serving as a digital entertainment front-end.Then again, it is still possible that the compute-heavy workloads the Drive PX 2 will perform don't require HBM. It seems unlikely, but it's possible.
Wood screws 2.0?
These issues with Pascal and the Drive PX 2 echo the Fermi "wood screw" even of 2009. Back then, Jen-Hsun held up a Fermi board that was nothing but a mock-up, proclaimed the chip was in full production, and would launch before the end of the year. In reality, NV was having major problems with GF100 and the GPU only launched in late March, 2010.
The good news is, we've seen no sign that Nvidia is having the same types of problems that delayed Fermi's launch and hurt the final product. As far as we know, both AMD and Nvidia are on-track to launch new architectural revisions in 2016.
What's more perplexing is why Nvidia engages in these kind of overreaches in the first place. Claiming the first public demo of a 16nm FinFET GPU may be a decent PR win, but claiming it in the context of automotive market isn't going to ignite the coals of a GPU fanboy's heart. Nvidia's push into self-driving cars and deep learning is a long-term game. Launching a new Shield or game GPU might push some fans to upgrade immediately; precious few people are going to have the luxury of planning a new car purchase on the basis of Nvidia's PX 2, no matter how powerful it might be.The entire point of holding up a product from stage is to demonstrate to the audience that the hardware actually exists. If it's later shown that the hardware in question wasn't what it was claimed to be, it undercuts the original point. Worse, it invites the audience to question why the company is playing fast and loose with the truth. There's no reason to think Pascal is suffering an unusual delay -- but these kind of antics invite speculation to the contrary.


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Impersonation scams have more than doubled in the first half of 2021 with crooks stealing £129.4m.
These scams involve criminals pretending to represent a trusted organisation such as a bank, the police, a government department or a service provider.
Banking watchdog UK Finance said there were 33,115 cases in the first half of the year – up from 14,947 in 2020 when £57.9m was stolen.
People are urged to challenge requests for info and to take action to protect themselves, such as reporting scams to a bank and the police.
Criminals trick their victims into transferring money using a range of stories. These include claiming they need to protect an account from fraud, that a fine or tax needs to be paid, or a refund sent by mistake must be returned.
Research found nearly a fifth of people felt uncomfortable saying no to a request for personal information from a stranger via email or text, rising to nearly a quarter when it comes to phone calls.
Gareth Shaw, from consumer group Which? said: “There has been a devastating spike in scams during the pandemic as fraudsters have exploited people’s isolation during lockdowns.
“Any unexpected emails, texts or phone calls asking for personal info or bank details should be treated as suspicious.”
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The App is Dead
Our team attended DC’s An Event Apart this summer, a conference about the latest web design and development trends. We’ve been writing about our takeaways, including accessibility, measuring engagement, and image optimization. In this post, we dive into the world of progressive web apps.
Apps, as we know them, may be dead. The mobile landscape is changing, and traditional apps are being replaced by better, faster, slicker mobile websites known as progressive web apps.
Jason Grigsby filled us in on the rise of this technology during his presentation, “The Case for Progressive Web Apps,” at An Event Apart. Our Creative Director Rob Smelik also wrote about this topic on his website. Here’s an introductory look at this emerging trend.
Why are native apps going away?
Whenever you download a game like Candy Crush from the app store, you are adding a native app to your smartphone. These apps are developed by specialists who know the ins and outs of Apple and other native app hosts.
The time, effort and costs of native app development are some of the reasons progressive web apps are becoming more popular. As Rob puts it, “With the growing number of mobile OS platforms and the cost associated with developing apps for each, it comes as no surprise that mainstream companies are jumping ship to more cost effective web-based alternatives that rely on the flexibility of responsive website design.”
Responsive websites have improved over the last few years. In 2015, Google changed its infamous algorithm to favor responsive websites, which perform well on any desktop, mobile or tablet device.
Rob explained that Google’s change led to many companies to invest in mobile-friendly sites, rather than native apps. “Why pour money into the development of multiple apps for iOS, Android and even Google’s newest platform Fuchsia, when you can develop one web app to cover all bases?” he wrote.
What are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)?
You may be asking, “So are these really apps, or just regular mobile websites?” According to Jason Grigsby, it doesn’t really matter. Whether you call them progressive web apps or responsive websites or any other name, the technology is changing the way many companies operate online.
Like native apps, PWAs also deliver push notifications. You can add a PWA to your smartphone home screen, which is not a feature of typical mobile websites. Then, you can opt in to receive regular updates from the site, the way you would from a weather or news app. It’s important to note that this PWA option isn’t available on iPhones. In fact, iOS doesn’t support many PWA features, at least not yet.
Based on Jason’s presentation, here are some other reasons PWAs stand out from other websites.
- Speed: With better caching technology, PWAs load faster than other mobile sites. Users also have a smoother experience as they navigate the PWA.
- Security: PWAs have SSL certificates, which encrypt user information. You can read more about HTTPS websites in our recent blog post.
- Responsiveness: PWAs work well on any desktop or mobile device.
According to Jason (@grigs), PWAs are showing promising results, even in their early stages. Companies are seeing improved SEO, website traffic, and engagement from their progressive web apps.
What should I do?
As PWAs become more popular, you may want to consider how this affects your digital strategy. For instance, maybe developing a native app doesn’t make sense for your company. As Jason pointed out, almost half of U.S. smartphone users don’t download any new native apps on a regular basis.
You may also want to upgrade your website to include PWA features. However, you don’t have to make a lot of changes all at once. You can take small steps to move your site into the new age of progressive web apps.
First and foremost, you can make sure your website is responsive. That way, it will look great on any desktop or mobile device, even if you don’t leverage all of the tools PWAs have to offer just yet.


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Concerns surrounding the recent outbreak of the coronavirus have cancelled the California Spring Trials lineup. CAST is an annual week-long event held in various locations throughout the state of California that showcases the newest plant varieties, outdoor trials, new merchandising and signage products and much more.
See the following timeline for more information on each stop's cancellation:
Syngenta Flowers, Sakata Seed America and Griffin Greenhouse Supplies pulled out of the event on Wednesday citing concerns about the health and safety of employees, their families and customers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 12,10:17 a.m. EST: In a statement issued early Thursday, Dutch breeder Beekenkamp announced that it is no longer participating in the 2020 California Spring Trials.
March 12, 12:00 p.m. EST: PlantHaven International has canceled its stop after California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statement calling for the cancellation or postponement of non-essential gatherings of more than 250 people. "Needless to say, this leaves us no choice but to cancel our California Spring Trials event in Santa Barbara," said CEO Robert Bett in an email.
March 12, 1:33 p.m. EST: American Takii has become the latest breeder to withdraw from CAST. HilverdaFlorist was also scheduled to showcase at the Takii stop, but they also will not be attending. Schoneveld has also canceled and will not be participating in the event.
March 12, 1:40 p.m. EST: Ball Horticultural currently still plans on hosting its CAST stop. According to a spokesperson, they expect a "very low turn out," but still have plants and displays for any attendees who make it out to their stop in Santa Paula, California, barring any decrees that limit public events in Ventura County. To date, there have been two confirmed cases in the county.
March 12, 2:00 p.m. EST: Green Fuse Botanicals and its partners, Westhoff, Shoneveld Breeding, One Floral Group and T.O. Plastics have pulled out of CAST as well, citing concerns about the coronavirus and the safety of its employees. Green Fuse Botanicals will compile digital presentations of its 2020-2021 introductions in order to showcase its breeding lines. Skagit Horticulture also announced its cancellation as part of its shared site with PlantHaven International.
March 12, 2:37 p.m. EST: Speedling is closing Breeders Avenue "out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of all involved." The company says it doesn't take the action lightly, but wants to limit exposure in the interest of everyone's health. 2020 exhibitors at Speedling include Hem Genetics, Plant Source International, Ameriseed, Vista Farms, Beacon Hemp and Lambert Peat Moss.
March 12, 3:26 p.m. EST: Suntory Flowers is the latest breeder to pull out of CAST. Suntory shared its site with PlantHaven, who pulled out earlier in the day. Per a Terra Nova representative, the company is "still going, but considering all of its options."
March 12, 3:47 p.m. EST: Due to rising concerns about COVID-19, Suncrest Nurseries has canceled its CAST stop for 2020. "This decision was made with heavy heart but necessary for public and personal safety for all of our visitors and exhibitors/host," said a company representative. Exhibitors for this stop include Cohen Nurseries, Hishtil Nurseries, Jaldety Nursery, Kamel Plastic Pots and Nir Nurseries.
March 12, 4:30 p.m. EST: Benary is also no longer participating, according to a statement. Danziger has also exited the event. "In light of the current events concerning the spread of COVID-19 in North America and around the world, Danziger and Headstart have made the decision cancel their participation in CAST 2020," Danziger's announcement states. "The health of our customers and employees is our top priority in this rapidly evolving situation."
March 12, 6:26 p.m. EST: Pacific Plug & Liner has cancelled its stop, including
March 12, 6:26 p.m. EST: Pacific Plug & Liner has cancelled its stop, includingQuality Cuttings Team, Plant Development Services, Terra Nova Nurseries, Flamingo Holland, Berger, Klassman-Deilmann and Concept Plants. The company says it is working on "alternative means of showcasing the product that was expected to be displayed" at the event.
March 12, 9:48 p.m. EST: Windmill Nurseries has cancelled its stop. "Kientzler, J. Berry Nursery, Dramm Corporation, Smithers Oasis look forward to welcoming our visitors at Spring Trials next year," an organizer for Windmill Nurseries said.
March 13, 9:36 a.m. EST: Dümmen Orange is no longer participating in Spring Trials. The company is in the process of producing a series of videos that will highlight all Dümmen Orange products that were originally scheduled to be shown during Spring Trials.
March 16, 11:00 a.m. EST: Syngenta Flowers has announced it is hosting a 'digital Spring experience" from March 30 to April 1. Interested parties can register here.
March 16, 3:36 p.m. EST: On Monday, Ball Horticultural announced that was pulling out of CAST and canceling its stop in Santa Paula, California.
"Decisions progressed quite rapidly late last week from both a state and federal level, and the company is now working on virtual means of educating the industry on its new products," a company spokesperson said in an email.
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This year's event hails as the largest PACK EXPO to ever touch down in Las Vegas since the show's inception in 1995., there are mMore than 1,600 processing and packaging solutions exhibitors are registered for PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 23-25). Attendance is expected to surpass 26,000 manufacturing professionals from the baking and snack, beverage, confectionery, pharmaceutical and other industries-a 10 percent rise over 2011 figures. In fact, in addition to adding acreage to the show floor previously, exhibit space had to just recently be increased just months before show time.
"Our exhibitor numbers are already up 15 percent, and the floor itself has expanded by 12 percent compared to the 2011 Las Vegas show," says Charles D. Yuska, president and /CEO of PMMI, the Association. for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the sponsor and producer of PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
Location is everything!
This year, PMMI is trying something new and making learning more accessible for attendees by bringing education to the show floor.
"We are trying a new approach to education at PACK EXPO this year. Instead of pulling attendees away from the exhibit halls to attend seminars, we're leaving the education on the show floor," says Kate Achelpohl, director of marketing communications, PMMI.
After PMMI conducted a "Voice of the Attendee" (VOA) in-depth study of PACK EXPO attendees, they found out that, although show goers value education, the location was critical to whether they took advantage of these learning opportunities.
"VOA made it clear that education is as important to attendees as exploring potential purchases, yet they see any time off the show floor as a drawback," says Jim Pittas, PMMI vp, trade shows. "They learn from the experiences they have in the exhibit halls, such as watching technicians operate equipment or break it down. In fact, those two examples are among the top takeaways mentioned during interviews."
Educational offerings include:
• Innovation Stage-More than 40 30-minute seminars about technologies, innovations and trends that are changing the marketplace for all industries, from the exhibitors who are leading the way. (Located in the Central Hall, Booths C-141, C-142 and C-143.)
• The Center for Trends & Technology-Sponsored by Rockwell Automation and its PartnerNetwork Program Displays and education sessions centered on the theme "Improving Production through Innovation." Trends in the spotlight include network security, line integration, secure remote monitoring, cloud computing and manufacturing convergence-and staff will help visitors find the solutions in action on the show floor. (Located in the Central Hall Booth C-1358).
• The Food Safety Summit Resource Center-If you are seeking an expert on the Food Safety Modernization Act, count on finding one here. The center offers free presentations, information and one-on-one consultations that address critical food safety issues and compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Choose your selection from a variety of both short presentations and one-on-one conversations. (Located in the Upper South Hall, Booth S-7332.)
• Clemson University: Packaging Emporium Design for the Future-Sponsored by EskoArt: Clemson University makes its third trip back to PACK EXPO with another interactive experience to explore and reveal how package design affects consumers. The exhibit will use digital eye-tracking technology to track the elements driving attendees' "purchase decisions" in a retail environment. A presentation of their findings will be made after the show concludes. (Located in the Central Hall Booth C-151.)
• The Reusables Learning Center-The Reusable Packaging Assn. brings sessions that underscore the long-term cost-saving benefits of reusable packaging. Learn the innovative ways end-users and industry leaders are increasing sustainability by integrating reusable packaging into the supply chain. (Located in the Lower South Hall, Booth S-6458)
• Exhibitor education sessions-Throughout the show, visitors can tap into exhibitor expertise as exhibitors present educational sessions at their booths. PMMI's research also indicates many companies use PACK EXPO in their professional development efforts. For example, they may tie attendance to performance reviews, and they're also taking advantage of the show as a tool for improving cross-functional communication and collaboration.
Innovation takes the stage
Partnering up with PMMI on the Innovation Stage this year is Mintel (www.mintel.com), a leading global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence. The two organizations are working together to deliver a line-up of stimulating presentations crafted to shed light on trends that are driving consumer purchasing decisions and to also help brand managers, marketers and package designers learn more about new avenues to boost connections with shoppers and rev up brand sales.
"Innovation Stage at PACK EXPO Las Vegas is a place where attendees can gain an edge by seeing first-hand some of the newest products and technologies that will impact the market in the months and years ahead," says Yuska. "Because of our partnership with Mintel, PACK EXPO Las Vegas attendees will have access to expert knowledge on the latest trends that will affect consumer purchasing decisions, and ultimately- their business."
The presentations will be led by Lynn Dornblaser, Mintel's director of Innovation & Insight. Program line-up is:
Presentation 1: It's not easy being green-consumer perception on sustainable packaging Date/Time: Mon., Sept. 23; 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Location: Innovation Stage 1, Booth C-141
Presentation 2: Packaging for seniors-an untapped opportunity
Date/Time: Tues., Sept. 24; 10:00-10:30 a.m.
Location: Innovation Stage 2, Booth C-142
Presentation 3: Packaging for the connected consumer
Date/Time: Wed., Sept. 25; 10:00-10:30 a.m.
Location: Innovation Stage 2, Booth C142
"Our presentations will provide thought-provoking consumer insight that will spark great ideas for package designers to strengthen brands and grow market share," says Pete Giannakopoulos, president, CPG Americas/EMEA, Mintel. "Attendees can look forward to insights that will help them develop products that will position them a head above their competitors."
PACK gives back
If you find yourself in town prior to opening day, take some time out to have some fun and attend the PMMI Education & Training Foundation Golf Tournament (Sept. 22; Royal Links Golf Course, Las Vegas).
The tournament is the traditional kick-off event for PACK EXPO Las Vegas and a vital fundraiser for the PMMI Education & Training Foundation, which provides more than $100,000 in financial assistance to packaging students and programs at 4-year and 2-year schools, through three key areas of funding:
1. Academic scholarships, including those presented as prizes to the top three teams in the Student Packaging Solution Contest at PACK EXPO;
2. Travel scholarships for students and educators to attend PACK EXPO.
3. Tuition reimbursement for qualified member employee education.
Serving as the Gold Sponsor and the Luncheon Sponsor for the event is Morrison Container Handling Solutions (www.morrison-chs.com).
For more information surrounding PACK EXPO Las Vegas and all the exciting educational opportunities going on or to register, visit www.packexpo.com or contact PMMI's show department at 703-243-8555 or [email protected]. You can also download the PACK EXPO mobile app to keep show information at hand on your iPhone, on your iPad or Android device.


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Luxury communities in Southern Nevada offer a lot of things — golf, country clubs and family outings and activities. The Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas at CityCenter stands out with its exotic car club.
The cars range from Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces and restored classic vehicles, some redesigned with a modern twist, “that are just as valuable as a new Lamborghini,” according to the group’s organizer, resident Frank Napoli.
Any resident or their guests can participate in periodic activities put on by the community’s car club, Mandarin Auto Club; some of which include a monthly coffee meet-up and a cruise to different places.
Napoli, who professes a love of fast cars, moved into the building this spring and noticed several beautiful, high-end cars in the valet area.
“A lot of them were sitting under covers, covered in dust,” he recalled. “They weren’t being driven. So I thought, clearly there’s a lot of car enthusiasts here, and I want to meet my neighbors, so we need to get these cars out and have a good time. So I thought up Cars and Coffee, and the Mandarin supported that. So did the residents. We’re on our third event. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger.”
In August, club members met at a restaurant owned by of one of the residents, the Eldorado Cantina.
In September, members gathered on a Sunday afternoon at the Chicago Motor Cars Las Vegas’ showroom that keeps an inventory of expensive, rare autos, which are mainly traded online, and occasionally loaned out for film and video shoots.
Napoli is a local luxury Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services. He says he’s “always been a car guy,” who had coveted his New York cousin’s Chevy Camaro Z28 from a young age. “Since I was a little kid, I was infatuated and wanted to have one, but they’re hard to find and I’m very picky. I finally found one this year, and had it restored.”
He can be seen cruising in his Z28 up the Strip on weekends.
Besides Napoli’s 1969 Camaro, other cars in the parking lot at the September event included a 2010 Bentley Super Sport, and a white Ferrari 458, which was owned by Daniel Graham.
He’s a software engineer and owns a hotel company called Reservada. The Ferrari is his daily vehicle. “I take it to the In and Out Burger, the office or wherever I need to go,” he said. “This is one of the first dependable Ferarris that I’ve had,” he said.
Graham is also involved in exotic car sales and rentals in L.A., “so for me, this is a business, not just a hobby.”
Graham moved to Las Vegas four years ago from Marina Del Ray, California and chose a unit on the 28th floor of the Mandarin Oriental. “ … At Mandarin, you have the five-star, five-diamond experience. For me, it’s about the community; it’s about the service, the quality. Everything is so refined and convenient,” he said.
The Bentley Super Sport is owned by Travis and Brenda Fox, who moved into the Mandarin this spring from the Los Angeles area. They chose a unit on the 43rd floor with a north view of Paris Las Vegas, which they say they love. Brenda Fox is a decorator who has done some condos in the Mandarin and the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.
The Foxes chose to move to the Mandarin Residences because of “all the amenities, its location, the quality of service and most importantly, the staff act like family, so when you walk in they know everything about you and you know them … It feels homey, even though you’re in the middle of the Strip. It’s a five-star building … probably six,” Travis Fox said.
Besides being a social outlet for residents, the club functions as a business networking opportunity, since many of the Mandarin residents are business owners, Napoli said. The September meeting was supported with food offerings from Fruits &Roots. Coffee was available from A Taste of Costa Rica, a third-generation import business owned by the Foxes, who sell directly to the consumer online.
Chicago Motor Cars owner Nick Dossa is in the process of buying a condo in the Mandarin because he believes it will be a good investment and because of the building’s proximity to his business location off Dean Martin Drive.
About 60 percent of my clients live in the Mandarin. It only makes sense to live there. It’s close and convenient,” Dossa said.
Also represented at the event was Scorsetti Design, which is across the street from the cars showroom.
The company has done work for the Panorama Towers, The Martin and is working on the Gipsy and Piranha nightclubs. Owners Angeles Scorsetti and Steve Mason say they love the resort-style living provided by the Mandarin. “We love the lifestyle, having the spa, restaurants and pool. It’s so easy to entertain. If we’re having a party we can request the bar or the pool. You can’t get all these amenities in a house” Scorsetti said.
As the group evolves, Napoli said “I see this growing and being a way to not only help those who have businesses but also as something we can do to support the local economy and local charities. We plan on as a group, fill our trunks full of food and deliver it to local charities for food drives,” he said.
The sight of Santa pulling out of the CityCenter in an exotic convertible overflowing with presents? Just another odd sighting on the Las Vegas Strip to look forward to.


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Felipe Azenha is a former Peace Corps volunteer who discovered the benefits of using cinder blocks as fitness equipment during the pandemic lockdown. He and his friend started doing these (very unique!) workouts around their area and, with more people joining, they formed a crew and called their workouts "CinderFit." Word quickly got around and news spread. Today, Felipe continues to lead the CinderFit movement, helping people stay fit using unconventional means.
What initially started as a hobby turned into an early stage business after engaging industrial designers to create a cinderblock design that looks like furniture. "The cinder block will be in every home gym in the United States within the next 10 years and beyond," states Azenha confidently.
He believes the tool can replace dumbbells and kettlebells. They've certainly gained some market validation by solving personal frustrations during the pandemic when fitness equipment was incredibly difficult to come by. They've been successful in driving sales through word-of-mouth and community-building efforts in Miami, where they're based.
Some key moments:
[00:00:57] Positive COVID story on CinderFit business.
[00:04:03] Cinderblocks turned into "furniture" for working out.
[00:07:07] Investing in fitness patents, minimal marketing spend.
[00:13:06] Grassroots campaign focused on South Florida gyms.
[00:15:07] Sent blocks to influencers and saw solid results.
A few key takeaways:
- Solving personal frustrations can lead to successful business ventures.
- Word of mouth is a powerful tool for gaining market validation and driving sales. CinderFit has seen success through grassroots efforts and influencer marketing, rather than heavy investment in online advertising.
- Building a presence in local markets is crucial before seeking larger orders. Entrepreneurs should start small and iterate before scaling up to avoid wasting resources.
- Patents can be important for protecting a product in key markets, and it's worth considering the potential value of obtaining one before launching.
- Building a community around a product can help create a loyal following and increase brand awareness. CinderFit is aiming to double down on their "cult" in Miami by continuing to connect with local individuals and gyms.
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A first look Teaser Trailer for Square-Enix and Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider Reboot series has surfaced online, and is available to feast your eyes on below.
It was recently announced that Tomb Raider would be delayed until early 2013, but the game will be showcased during the E3 2012 event in early June.
Quoted by Studio Head Darrell Gallagher:
“Our priority now is to make sure we fully deliver the very highest quality game. In order to do this, we have decided to move the game’s release date by a few months, from Fall 2012 to the first quarter of 2013,”


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Women Likely To Help Other Women Reach Financial Goals: Fidelity
Nearly 90% of women in a new study from Fidelity Investments reported that they have recently made money moves or plan to do so within the next six months. Fidelity noted that retail accounts opened by its female customers grew by 65% between 2019 and 2022, compared with 60% growth in retail accounts opened by men during that period. About 53% of women in Fidelity’s survey said talking about financial topics with peers helps them feel more confident about their finances. This is especially true of Generation Z and millennial women, 66% of whom prefer to learn about financial matters from other women. Fidelity released its research findings on the first day of Women’s History Month. The firm said it is rolling out a month-long series of free virtual events, featuring special guests Jessica Alba and Venus Williams, to provide women the tools and resources they need to build a better future together.
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It’s been a while since we figured out that Mazda is going upscale. The new platform has been developed and should make this Japanese manufacturer a genuine premium brand. Therefore, it’s quite logical that our expectations from the 2023 Mazda CX-90, which will be the new flagship model, are huge. It will replace the current CX-9 and it will be the most prestigious model in the company’s future lineup.
Based on the new platform, the new CX-90 will bring so many interesting design solutions. From what we know so far, all-wheel drive will be standard, while the power will come from longitudinally mounted engines. Furthermore, it will also come in a plug-in hybrid version. Naturally, the new model will also bing a completely new design, more elegant and more attractive than ever. The same is expected from the new interior, which should also offer more passenger and cargo space.
The all-new 2023 Mazda CX-90 could arrive already by the end of this year.
2023 Mazda CX-90 Design
The 2023 Mazda CX-90 will replace the current-generation CX-9 and it will bring all kinds of novelties. First of all, it will ride on the company’s new platform. The new architecture features longitudinally-mounted engines and a rear-wheel-drive layout, though the latest reports suggest that all CX-90 models will come standard with all-wheel drive. From what we can hear, the Japanese manufacturer will offer an even more advanced suspension setup, which should improve both comfort and handling.
At this point, we don’t know details about the size, but we presume that the 2023 Mazda CX-90 could come with slightly bigger dimensions compared to the outgoing CX-9. We count on a longer wheelbase, which would ensure more space on the inside, which is arguably one of the weakest points of the outgoing model.
As we’ve just mentioned, the biggest drawback of the current model is the lack of cabin space. This particularly refers to the third row, which is really tight, as well as to the cargo area, which is pretty small for a mid-size SUV. These things should be fixed with the new 2023 Mazda CX-90, considering that we are about to see a longer wheelbase and bigger overall dimensions.
Of course, more space won’t be the only novelty to come with the next generation. We also count on a completely new dashboard design. The current model already looks very stylish and very luxurious, but the new model should bring everything to the next level. This refers to both aesthetics and quality. The new materials should be even nicer, while the build quality should be even more impressive. Naturally, we also count on lots of new tech features.
2023 Mazda CX-90 Engines
The powertrain department will certainly be one of the most interesting aspects of the all-new 2023 Mazda CX-90. As we’ve just mentioned, the new platform will bring an RWD layout, longitudinally-mounted engines and many other upgrades. Among big novelties, we will also see completely new engines. The first one to mention is the new inline-six gasoline engine with 3.0 liters in displacement. From what we know so far, the new engine will come in two variants. Base versions will feature a naturally-aspirated version of the engine, while the upgrade will come in the form of a turbocharger. The exact numbers are still to come. Another important novelty will be a new 8-speed automatic transmission.
Besides the gasoline powertrain, the new 2023 Mazda CX-90 will also come in the PHEV version. We count on the same setup we can find in the CX-60. That system uses a 2.5-liter inline-four engine in a combination with a 134-horsepower electric motor. The combined output goes up to 323 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque. Also, the system includes a 17.8-kWh battery pack, which provides up to 39 miles of the all-electric range in the CX-60.
2023 Mazda CX-90 Release Date and Price
If we can trust the latest reports, the 2023 Mazda CX-90 could debut already in late 2022, though early 2023 sounds more likely. We estimate a base price of around 40.000 dollars.


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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Lenovo’s plans for establishing a major presence in Europe took a big hit on Monday night.
Gateway said it had exercised a right of first refusal to buy Packard Bell, a PC manufacturer based in Belgium. The announcement was not a surprise. Still, Gateway’s move to thwart Lenovo’s plans to acquire Packard Bell is a setback for the PC manufacturer, which maintains its headquarters in Morrisville.
Earlier this summer, Lenovo disclosed that it was in talks to acquire Packard Bell. A successful deal would have given Lenovo infrastructure and market recognition in Europe where its own name is not that well known and Packard Bell is.
Acer, which is based in Taiwan and is battling Lenovo for third place in worldwide PC sales, agreed to acquire U.S.-based Gateway for $710 million in August. And Gateway held that valuable first refusal option with Packard Bell.
While who ranks third – and far back as it is – behind No. 1 HP and No. 2 Dell in world PC sales is not that important since HP and Dell have such commanding leads in share. But through purchasing Gateway and Packard Bell, Acer does keep Lenovo at least temporarily from entering the European market in a significant manner.
"From Acer’s perspective, they know Lenovo’s strong in Asia, and they know Lenovo wants to grow in the U.S. and Europe," Samir Bhavnani, an analyst with Current Analysis West, told Cnet. "This throws up a little bit of a block and gives Acer an advantage in Europe."
Up until Monday’s announcement, Lenovo executives such as Chief Executive Officer William Amelio held out hope to acquire Packard Bell. Lenovo wants to expand sales to consumers and small businesses, which were not targets under the IBM PC division that Lenovo acquired two years ago.
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Amgen will buy Celgene's psoriasis drug Otezla for $13.4 billion (€12.05 billion) in cash, clearing the way for Bristol-Myers Squibb to go ahead with its $74 billion deal for Celgene by the end of the year.
Amgen, which announced the deal on Monday, is paying a hefty price for the drug, analysts and investors said. Still, Otezla will deliver growth for the company right away, and its shares rose about 2 per cent in early trading.
Bristol-Myers and Celgene’s shares were both up about 3 per cent.
Bristol-Myers said in June that it would sell Otezla to allay concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission because of a competing treatment that it is developing. Analysts said at the time that they were expecting Otezla to sell for between $8 billion and $10 billion.
Bristol-Myers said in a statement that there was significant interest from multiple potential buyers from early on in the process.
This is an attractive product for them that fits more or less with their current portfolio
Otezla brought in sales of $1.61 billion last year. Amgen, which has an operations facility in Dublin, said it expected the drug’s sales to grow at least in the low double digits over the next five years.
Jeff Jonas, healthcare portfolio manager at Gabelli funds, said that a number of Amgen’s current drugs face loss of patent protection and competition from biosimilar drugs, so the growth from Otezla would be welcome.
“This is an attractive product for them that fits more or less with their current portfolio,” he said. “It’s an approved product with a good safety profile, so there’s not a lot of risk.”
Still, he expressed some scepticism about Amgen’s growth forecast for the drug, noting that new competitors, including Bristol-Myers’s drug in development, are likely to eat into its market share.
Amgen said it expects the deal to produce tax benefits with a present cash value of $2.2 billion, reducing the actual deal total to $11.2 billion. Bristol-Myers said most of the proceeds from the sale will go to pay down debt from the Celgene deal. It also increased a previously planned $5 billion accelerated share buyback to $7 billion. – Reuters


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Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel, which controls networks in the Basque Country and, through subsidiary R, in Galicia has posted revenues of €430.4 million for the third quarter, up 76.1%, and EBITDA of €209.5 million, up 79.6%.
On a like-for-like basis, including R’s prior year revenues, revenue growth was 2.2%, driven primarily by 4.4% growth in its residential business. EBITDA growth on a like-for-like basis was 5.7%.
Euskaltel had 549,000 customers at the end of the period, up marginally quarter-on-quarter. Total revenue generating units amounted to 1.88 million, up 72,000 since the start of the year.
Some 65.2% of Euskaltel’s base took three or four products at the end of September, up from 62.1% for the same period last year.
The company said it added 24,500 TV customers in the first nine months, with TV now reaching 55% of the company’s base.
Euskaltel’s board yesterday approved a 0.15% dividend, which will result in a payout of €22.77 million.
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MindArk started its massively multiplayer online game platform Entropia Universe with a virtual currency that could be used to buy virtual items in microtransactions. And that was in 2003.
Fast forward to today, and MindArk is the latest company to launch its own cryptocurrency that can be used to purchase items on its blockchain-based Intellectual Property Exchange. This new exchange will open the properties sold in Entropia Universe available to those outside the borders of the current universe.
David Simmonds, vice chairman of MindArk, said in an interview that the existing virtual currency Project Entropia Dollars (PED) generates more than 33 million microtransactions per day and supports a $400 million virtual economy. Now it hopes to broaden its commerce for its existing business through the creation of its Deep Token, which is now available for anyone to purchase. Simmonds said the company hopes to generate more than $100 million through the token sale.
“We’ve had a good head start to be a part of this,” Simmonds said. “We’ve been following the market and decided to go this route for a few reasons. Most companies tend to lose control raising money. We wanted to keep total control of our business plan. It’s the same business plan we have had for many years, and this token could make Entropia Universe what we always wanted it to be.”
The Entropia Universe is a collection of games and worlds created by developers and users. It already has a repository of more than 70,000 reusable assets, which will be available through the IPX.
“We’ve been a niche game, but we have quite a few partners and are progressing very well,” Simmonds said. “We do more than one billion microtransactions per month.”
MindArk’s IPX will enable a digital assets ecosystem, providing an environment for the exchange of intellectual property for and amongst business developers, institutions, token holders and platform users. As an open, cross-platform digital exchange, the IPX will support the development of a market where all developers can easily and effectively monetize their work.
MindArk will issue 125 million DeepTokens, and 100 million of those will be available to investors. The transactions will be handled via Ethereum smart contracts and will contain an immutable record of every transaction through the use of transparent, traceable, and secure blockchain transactions.
It also allows for the ‘bitesizing’ of digital assets on the IPX, meaning that licensing fees can be easily split amongst a consortium of investors and ensuring that even retail investors have access to the market. After the token sale is over and the IPX is operating, MindArk will create the MindArk Bank, a financial services institution fully licensed by the Swedish banking authorities (the Finansinspektionen) and the first bank in the world to hold its capital base in cryptotokens.
Now it will be far easier to prevent fraud or theft because items can be tracked to their owners and also marked as unique assets.
“It gives you security to know that you actually own an asset,” Simmonds said. “We’ll have all of the systems needed to build a new game from these digital assets. We can help game developers get to market quicker.”
MindArk decided to open its sales of tokens up to everyone at the same time, rather than do a presale to accredited investors. That’s because other initial coin offerings (ICOs) have gotten a bad name because accredited investors by the coins first at discounts, and then turn around and dump them as ordinary consumers get a chance to invest.
“We wanted to make this a fairer system, and so we decided not to do a presale or discount,” Simmonds said. “It’s not available in the U.S. at this moment in time.”
He said the company is working closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to follow regulations closely.
“The scams don’t do anyone any favors,” Simmonds said. “Most token offerings are coming from startups, with a few people getting together. They do a fancy web site and write a white paper and they raise money. We want that to stop. We want regulations.”
It will also see the establishment of the Accelerator Funding Program which will both fund and coach developers to maximize the value they create for themselves, the Entropia Universe and the IPX. MindArk was founded in founded in 1999 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is an independent software company dedicated to establishing the 3D internet: a convergence of online games, virtual worlds and 3D social networks. MindArk has 50 employees.
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NTT Docomo Expects Operating Profit Fall on New Rate Plans
Tokyo, April 26 (Jiji Press)--NTT Docomo Inc. <9437> said Friday that it expects a slump in consolidated operating profit in the current year through March 2020 due to its new rate plans.
The new plans will be introduced in June this year, reducing mobile communications fees by up to 40 pct. It will be the company's first operating profit decline in five years.
The mobile phone carrier projects an operating profit of 830 billion yen, down 18.1 pct from the previous year. Sales are seen dropping 5.4 pct to 4.58 trillion yen.
President Kazuhiro Yoshizawa told a press conference that the new plans, which will separate mobile phone purchases costs from communications fees, will push down sales by 250 billion yen.
For the year that ended last month, NTT Docomo reported sales of 4,840,849 million yen, up 1.7 pct. Operating profit grew 2.7 pct to 1,013,645 million yen.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. (CBS.MW) -- Cabletron said Wednesday it will sell its manufacturing operations to Flextronics for $100 million, a move that will allow the telecommunications-equipment maker to focus exclusively on the development of new products for high-speed networks.
Flextronics, based in San Jose, Calif., said the purchase will give it a strong presence on the East Coast and in Ireland, where the Cabletron CS, -0.24% plants are located. Flextronics is a manufacturer of an array of electronic products used in the communications, computers, medical and consumer markets.
Flextronics said it will make a "substantial investment" to turn the Cabletron plants, which have more than 1,000 workers, into "state-of-the-art manufacturing centers." The plants should increase the company's overall revenue by $300 million in fiscal 2001, Flextronics said.
Cabletron has been shedding assets over the past year and is narrowing its focus on the development of new products for high-speed communications networks.
While demand for such products is soaring, competition is also very intense. By parceling out noncore assets and reducing costs, Cabletron hopes to become more competitive and quicker to the market with new goods.
In addition, industry analysts say that such moves make the company a more attractive acquisition candidate. The stock has almost quadrupled from its 52-week low amid persistent speculation that the company will be sold.
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HPE Hires Dell Technologies Veteran To Lead Storage Business
The changing of the storage guard at HPE comes as the edge-to-cloud services provider moves to drive market-share gains against the likes of Dell Technologies, Pure Storage and NetApp.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has hired a former 14-year Dell Technologies veteran, Jim O’Dorisio, as senior vice president and general manager of its $4.4 billion storage business.
O’Dorisio, whose most recent position was senior vice president and general manager at information management provider Iron Mountain, started in the new position three weeks ago.
Before joining Iron Mountain in January 2018 and departing in December 2020, O’Dorisio was vice president and COO of Business and Technology Operations for Dell Technologies.
O’Dorisio reports to HPE Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hybrid Cloud Fidelma Russo.
Russo worked with O’Dorisio at both Iron Mountain where she was CTO and executive vice president of global technology & operations from May 2017 to May 2020 and at Dell Technologies where she was senior vice president and general manager of the enterprise storage business from January 2011 to January 2017.
Among O’Dorisio’s positions at Dell Technologies was COO of the Backup and Recovery Systems Division, vice president and product management in the storage business and general manager and vice president of the backup software group.
O’Dorisio replaces Tom Black, who was executive vice president and general manager of the storage business for three years until he was moved to a position as executive vice president and general manager of private cloud for HPE GreenLake
HPE’s storage business in the most recent quarter was down 13 percent to $1.1 billion with an 8.1 percent operating profit margin compared to 15.4 percent for the prior year period.
The changing of the storage guard at HPE comes as the edge to cloud services provider moves to drive market-share gains against the likes of Dell Technologies, Pure Storage and NetApp in the core storage business now that the supply chain crisis is over.
HPE is, in fact, investing in storage and compute specialty resources even as it eliminated last year a number of general sales roles in North America, including some territory account managers, enterprise account managers and partner business managers.
“All of HPE’s major competitors have significantly increased their investment in the channel to grow storage market share,” said C.R. Howdyshell CEO of Advizex, a Fulcrum IT Partners company and a top HPE partner. “HPE needs to step up quickly with more investment into the channel to drive storage gains in a very competitive market. Dell has done a great job partnering with us to drive market share gains in the storage business.”
Russo last October told Wall Street analysts that HPE is “poised” to gain storage market share as a result of its Alletra storage product leadership position and new go-to-market investments.
“Since its launch, HPE Alletra has seen the fastest customer adoption of any storage platform in HPE history,” said Russo in her first public comments since being named, effective last Nov. 1, as the head of the HPE hybrid cloud business unit, which now includes storage. “In addition to our product leadership, we are also increasing investments in our go to market, both in our direct sales force and in the channel, and with these investments we are poised to take share from our competitors.”
Russo said she sees the opportunity to gain share from not just traditional storage competitors but also public cloud providers.
“We have got about a 10 percent market share within storage,” she said. “We have got a lot of runway to go, and we are very confident about the cloud-enabled and the platform-based attractiveness of the architecture for our customers. We see this not just against traditional players but also with customers who are thinking about, ‘Should I put my data in the public cloud or should I put my data on-prem?’ With AI being more top-of-mind for storage buyers, we are seeing more and more conversations [with customers] about how do they expand their storage footprint on-prem.”


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General Motors is rumored to phase out the compact luxury sedan Buick Verano on the US market after the 2017 model year. The move comes after an increase in crossover sales and is also backed by numbers: last year the first generation of Buick Verano sold only 32,000 units on the US market.
Buick unveiled the second, revamped generation of the Verano on the other side of the Pacific, at the Auto Shanghai event last year. The redesigned model, featuring, among others, xenon headlights and LED daytime lights, is already being sold in China. However, according to industry experts, should the second generation Verano not make an appearance on the US market, the move will owe more to Buick’s increased interest in SUVs than directly to Buick Verano’s performance on the market.
Overall, the Buick Verano has not performed so poorly compared to other cars, in fact it consistently ranked at Buick’s second best-selling sedan. Specifically, it has exceeded Regal on sales (in 2013 Regal sold fewer units than the Buick Verano). However, in the premium compact sector Buick is competing with other, more prestigious rivals, the likes of Audi and Mercedes-Benz. Additionally, the launch of a compact sedan by Cadillac could also become one more nail in the coffin. Whatever the reason, the phasing out of Buick Verano will come to confirm the trend that has become apparent of late, according to which sedan sales are either shrinking or remaining frozen, while SUVs are picking up.
Asked whether the rumor was true, Stuart Fowle, Buick PR chief did not confirm it, but was not too quick to dismiss it, either. Instead, he stressed the company’s plans to focus on selling the current model and added that no future plans for the Verano had yet been devised.
If the rumor pans out, the Buick Verano will join the list of other nameplates that did not manage to pass their first generation, such as the mid-size luxury SUV Rainier, the upscale sedan Lucerne and the Buick Terazza minivan. By 2017 Buick expects sales of crossover SUVs to make up around 70 percent of its overall US sales, namely from the Encore, Enclave and Envision, the latter yet to go on sale.
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Juniper Networks announced it is expanding its association with Samsung
to offer mobile security, secure connectivity and device management
capabilities for enterprise customers of Samsung smart mobile devices.
Juniper and Samsung will collaborate to offer enhanced secure mobility
solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to protect mobile
devices as well as the network resources and applications they access in
today’s mobile enterprise environment.
“Our partnership with a major mobile device manufacturer, such as
Samsung, enables us to jointly deliver on critical and innovative functionality
enabling the highest value for our joint customers,” said Sanjay Beri,
vice president and general manager, Junos Pulse Business Unit, Juniper Networks.
“Juniper and Samsung are committed to a partnership wherein the two
companies will continue to deliver secure, business-ready solutions enhancing
security posture for enterprises and enabling new differentiated offerings for
service providers,” Beri added.
The strategic partnership builds on existing efforts to provide Juniper
Networks Junos Pulse and Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite full line of
features and services on select Samsung mobile devices, enabling reliable,
secure mobile remote access, application and threat protection, and mobile
device management and control.
The latest version of Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite includes the
ability to automatically remove malicious applications from Samsung GALAXY
Note, GALAXY SII and GALAXY Tab 10.1.
End users benefit from simplified access to security solutions, enhanced
mobility experience and productivity. Enterprises will be able to protect any
of the current and future supported Samsung devices, while also preserving the
security and integrity of their data, network and resources.
The solution also benefits service providers who can now quickly roll
out a range of value-added business class services with the Samsung GALAXY
“We are delighted to partner with Juniper Networks using their
Junos Pulse technology as they understand the needs of consumers and enterprise
IT leaders in an increasingly mobile world that requires mobile security and
device management,” said Jongshin Kim, vice president of Media Solution
Center at Samsung Electronics.
Recently, AT&T partnered with juniper to provide a new mobile security platform. It will allow customers to better protect their
devices against security threats.
By Telecomlead.com Team


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Could anyone possibly be excited by, or even interested in, a new browser. I tried the new Microsoft Edge on my MacBook Air and examined my feelings.
Google creates a new Python training certificate to boost your chances of getting a job.
The SharePoint CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability has been one of the most targeted security flaws.
Google Authenticator is the granddaddy of two-factor authentication apps, but it's old and has some severe downsides.
Security company researchers warn of a large increase in conversation-hijacking attacks. Here's what they are and how to spot them.
Microsoft has started rolling out its new Edge browser to the general public. Its new features should be welcomed by consumers and enterprise customers, but how will Google respond?
With last month's 5G network rollout we had to give a capable 5G smartphone the top spot. Stay tuned for many more 5G-capable phones during the year -- with a shakeup of this list coming in February.
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Today's patches also fix a major vulnerability in Windows' cryptographic library.
Microsoft Windows 7 will no longer receive security patches - and cyber criminals will be looking to exploit it to target businesses that still haven't upgraded from Windows 7. Getting your security strategy right is vital.
If your business is still running on Windows 7, it's time to get serious about how you're going to handle the January 14, 2020 end of support. Here are your four options.
Microsoft is ready to push a full-screen warning to Windows 7 users who are still running the OS after January 14. The nag-screen payload is part of the December 10 Patch Tuesday monthly rollup.
The longer you've used Windows the more likely you are to have built up a collection of tips and tricks for squeezing out extra performance. Here are five popular techniques that haven't stood the test of time and deserve to be retired.
Did you know that there are many top-tier commercial games available for Linux? Here's the quickest way we know to get up and running.
The certainties that Windows 7 embodied have long gone, and that's no bad thing.
Malwarebytes said it found malware pre-installed on Unimax U673c handsets, sold by Assurance Wireless (Virgin Mobile) in the US.
Is your iPhone's battery draining faster than expected? Here's how you can find out whether this is a hardware problem, or an app that is misbehaving, and become an iPhone battery wizard!
Advanced SystemCare is an all-in-one yet easy-to-use software to clean, optimize, speed up, and protect your PC and your privacy. The...
Twenty years ago, some developers dealt with the millennium bug by postponing it until... now.
Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended in 2016, right? Not exactly. The GWX tool may be gone, but all the other upgrade tools still work. The end result is an apparently valid digital license, and there's no evidence that the free upgrades will end any time soon.
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" Intelligent Manufacturing Upgrade
Our reporter Zhou Lei and Cui Guoqiang
High-speed railways are swiftly moving, shields are digging through mountains, quay cranes are extremely powerful, and domestic computer computing power has doubled... The central enterprises are making every effort to build a "big power weapon" to equip China and go to the world.
As the backbone of the national economy, the central SOEs thoroughly implemented the important instructions of General Secretary Jin Ping, "promoting the transformation of Chinese manufacturing to Chinese creation, the transformation of Chinese speed to Chinese quality, and the transformation of Chinese products to Chinese brands", and exerted technological innovation and accelerated transformation and upgrading.
Recently, the reporter went deep into China Railway Equipment, Hunan Great Wall, Zhenhua Heavy Industry, CRRC Changchun and other companies to investigate the "central enterprises" in accelerating the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
Seize smart business opportunities
Under the blue sky and white clouds, quayside container cranes of different colors stand majestically, forming a unique landscape of Changxing Island in the East China Sea.
Container cranes are known as the "arm of global trade", and the quay crane products customized by different terminal operating companies are also colorful.
As a port machinery manufacturer with quay crane products maintaining the number one global market share for 23 consecutive years, Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. is close to "As long as there are container ports in the world, there must be crane operations produced by Zhenhua. "The goal.
Next, how to get to the next level?
"System integration and general engineering contracting are one of the company's main businesses, including the world's fourth-generation fully automated terminal system." Shan Jianguo, vice president of Zhenhua Heavy Industry, introduced as the general system contractor of the Guangzhou Nansha Phase IV automated terminal project , Zhenhua Heavy Industry provides a complete set of automated loading and unloading systems and equipment, mainly including 12 automated quay cranes, 35 automated rail cranes, 70 intelligent guided vehicles (IGV) and other equipment, as well as terminal automation information and communication systems including TOS , Customized the world’s first “Guangzhou solution” of “single-trolley automated quay crane, intelligent guided vehicle IGV, horizontally arranged side loading and unloading of the yard, and fully automated port area” to create the first fully automated solution in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area pier.
The reporter saw at Zhenhua Heavy Industry Changxing base that a row of orange cars was driving up and down, and the stand-alone no-load and heavy-load function tests were being carried out.
The intelligent guided vehicle developed by Zhenhua is equipped with multi-sensor fusion positioning technology such as satellite navigation and positioning, lidar SLAM, visual SLAM, etc., which can be transformed into a flexible "porter" and shuttle freely between the docks and yards.
According to Fei Guo, chief engineer of Zhenhua Heavy Industry, the automated terminal using AGV previously needed to bury tens of thousands of magnetic nails to provide navigation and positioning and limit its travel route, while IGV uses unmanned driving technology to travel, which is more intelligent and flexible. .
At present, many old terminals need to be automated. The new technical route has the advantages of high efficiency and low cost, and the market prospect is broad.
Zhenhua Heavy Industry's exploration is the epitome of the equipment manufacturing industry's seizure of smart business opportunities.
In Changchun, Jilin Province, CRRC Changchun Rail Bus Co., Ltd. made every effort to build advanced products and made a major breakthrough in intelligent rail transit equipment.
The train that gallops on the world's first intelligent high-speed rail Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail is the proud work of CRRC Changchun.
When the reporter walked into the driving cab of the CR400BF-C intelligent EMU train of Fuxing, he learned that the train has powerful automatic driving functions, automatic driving at the point, automatic operation of the section, automatic parking at the station, automatic opening of the door at stop... automatic speed control function The accuracy is within 2km/h, and the parking accuracy can be controlled within 0.5m.
"The automatic driving of the CR400BF-C intelligent EMU does not purely drive according to the preset time and speed, but can simulate the thinking of the human driver according to the actual situation, and adjust the driving control at any time." Zhang Guoqin, senior engineer of CRRC Passenger Car , Smart high-speed rail can also provide smart services and smart operation and maintenance.
Ten years of sharpening a sword.
China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as "China Railway Equipment") has solved two major problems in the construction of a full-face hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM) through joint research and developed an intelligent tunneling system.
"The system can turn the'black box' tunneling into'transparent' tunneling and'intelligent' tunneling." According to Wang Dujuan, deputy general manager of China Railway Equipment, in the Shandong Wendeng Pumped-storage Power Station project, the system's rock mass parameter prediction accuracy rate is average It is 88.9%, which is 30% higher than similar products.
Power smart manufacturing
China Great Wall Technology Group Co., Ltd. Hunan Intelligent Manufacturing Base is an important production base for China Electronics Information Industry Group to build an independent security industry chain, with the ability to produce 2 million complete independent security computers per year.
In the Hunan Great Wall Computer Intelligent Manufacturing Workshop, various intelligent control equipment and robotic arms are "playing the leading role".
On the production line, the red, white, and black robotic arms are dexterously twisted to accurately complete the work of installing memory sticks, installing hard disks, assembling optical drives, locking screws, and transferring products.
The reporter roughly counted the number of robotic arms in the workshop, as many as 10 or more than 30.
"The production of a laptop computer has to go through more than 10 processes. We use robotic arms and intelligent control equipment to complete more than 70% of the processes. While greatly improving work efficiency, it greatly guarantees the quality of production." An Shao, general manager of Hunan Great Wall Ping said that since the implementation of the smart manufacturing strategy, factory production efficiency has increased by 25%, operating costs have been reduced by 20%, and product development cycles have been shortened by 30%.
Qin Le, production director of Hunan Great Wall, told reporters that the robots on the intelligent production line are self-developed and manufactured by Great Wall of China.
The Great Wall of China started to explore robots instead of humans eight years ago, but there are very few robot products on the market that can meet the company's high-precision production requirements, and the prices are too high.
Under this circumstance, Great Wall of China has conducted a lot of basic research on the production characteristics of computer products, and determined a new robot technology route that can achieve high precision and control costs at a low level.
It is reported that the self-developed production line of Hunan Great Wall is the first intelligent manufacturing production line using robots in the domestic 3C electronic assembly field. The entire production process is intelligent and traceable.
At present, the upsurge of smart manufacturing upgrades in the manufacturing industry is surging.
The large-scale intelligent production workshop of box girder steel structure for port machinery built by Zhenhua Heavy Industry in Changxing base was selected as the first batch of 20 intelligent factories in Shanghai.
The workshop adopts management and control solutions such as flexible assembly, automatic welding, automatic logistics transfer, smoke and dust absorption and informatization to realize the intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing of box beams. Compared with the traditional workshop, the staffing of the front-line operation is reduced by 26.7%, and the total project manufacturing cycle is shortened. In about 7 days, the product yield rate reached more than 99%.
Build a global brand
Leading Chinese manufacturing companies are accelerating their efforts to become world-class.
At the China Railway Equipment Shield Assembly Workshop in Zhengzhou, two "steel dragons" with a length of hundreds of meters and a weight of hundreds of tons are ready to go.
The shield machine is a high-end equipment integrating mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, sensing, information, mechanics, and oriented research technologies, and is known as the "king of construction machinery".
China Railway Equipment has accumulated more than 1,100 shield machines from the factory, and has a safe tunneling mileage of more than 2,600 kilometers. The market share has been the largest in China for 9 consecutive years, and the production and sales volume has been ranked first in the world for 4 consecutive years.
"Innovation is the foundation of an enterprise!" Wang Dujuan said that China Railway Equipment has developed a number of world-first or domestic first products, especially in the design and manufacturing technology of super large-section rectangular shields and horseshoe-shaped shields.
At the same time, advanced research has been carried out, and technology accumulation of the third and fourth generation roadheaders has been completed.
Data shows that China Railway Equipment has invested more than 1.5 billion yuan in research and development, and annual research and development expenses account for more than 6% of its main business income.
Undertook a number of major scientific research projects such as the national "863 Program" and "973 Program", and presided over or participated in the compilation of 26 national and industry standards.
China Railway Equipment is transforming from a parallel run to a leader, and is accelerating to the high end of the global industrial value chain.
"Our overseas business is developing very fast, and the brand recognition in the international market is very high." said Zhang Zhiguo, deputy general manager of China Railway Equipment.
"The two machines for the Paris project were successfully boring, and the performance of the Chinese shields far exceeded expectations." Qian Fu, the head of the shield for the Paris Metro Line 16 project of China Railway Equipment, said excitedly. In April this year, two large-diameter soils independently developed by China Railway Equipment The pressure-balanced shield machine started smoothly in Paris. The high-quality products and professional services of Chinese companies have won praise from French owners. This move also marks the entry of Chinese shield machines into the global high-end market.
Not only shield machines, domestic computers also have impressive performance.
The reporter discovered at the Great Wall of Hunan that the Great Wall of China series of computer terminals have "China Core", which realizes complete independence of computer information technology from chips, middleware, complete machines, controls, network-equipped operating systems, databases, security products, and application systems.
"To build a digital China, we must take the core technology in our own hands and create a computer'Chinese technology architecture'!" said Liu Yiming, head of R&D at Great Wall of China. Through more than 10 years of R&D investment, the parent company, China Electronics, has innovated to build independent security of computer software and hardware. PK" system (domestic CPU+domestic operating system), related innovation achievements have won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award for 3 consecutive years, providing strong support for China Great Wall's independent security series of terminal products.
Data show that in the first quarter of this year, Hunan Great Wall's export value increased 13 times year-on-year, and tablet computers and notebook computers grew strongly.
The export market is also expanding. Hunan Great Wall's export value to Europe and other markets is increasing, and at the same time, it has also opened up regional markets such as Central America.
"Last year, 50,000 independent-brand computers were exported to Kazakhstan, and this year they have added additional orders. The two sides will also carry out in-depth cooperation in more areas." An Shaoping said that the next step, Great Wall of China will give full play to its own technological advantages and intelligent manufacturing advantages. Let China's computer brands and technology go to the world.


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Nissan CEO resigns after admitting he was overpaid
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CNN — Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa has resigned. It's the latest twist in a mounting pile of problems at the Japanese carmaker.
The company's board of directors announced Saikawa's departure, which is effective September 16, after a meeting on Monday. It named Chief Operating Officer Yasuhiro Yamauchi as acting CEO while Nissan searches for a successor.
Saikawa's resignation came just days after he admitted to reporters in Japan that he and other top Nissan executives were overpaid as part of a stock-related payment plan. He denied any wrongdoing, and said he would return excess funds.
Details about the payments emerged in news reports ahead of Monday's board meeting, where the company's directors heard the results of an internal investigation into conduct at Nissan. The probe was prompted by the surprise arrest last November of former chairman Carlos Ghosn.
The company's stock appreciation rights program, or SAR, was a subject of the probe, according to Yasushi Kimura, the chairman of Nissan's board of directors. He spoke to reporters at a press conference in Yokohama, Japan on Monday.
While the payments were not illegal, he said, the program was "intentionally manipulated" to increase the amount of money that could be gained from the scheme.


text: Authorities in Macon County say fake marijuana is lining the shelves at some local stores and they say parents should be aware. The synthetic drug looks like incense or potpourri but it's actually a potentially harmful form of marijuana. The product is clearly marked that is shouldn't be consumed but that's not stopping some teenagers from indulging. Sheriff Tom Schneider urges parents to talk to their children and educate themselves on the dangers of synthetic marijuana. Lawmakers banned k2 earlier this year but some stores simply started purchasing other forms of synthetic drugs.


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Another round of imported contaminated food and drugs for America appears inevitable. That means all Americans should avoid food and drugs from those suspect nations. The problem is that most of our drugs, vitamins and minerals are produced in China and a few other countries. And there have already been recalls of vitamins and deadly drugs sold in the U.S. only three years ago.
And food products that have been found to contain harmful contaminants must be tested to identify the unlisted ingredient. But we don’t have enough inspectors. So it’s up to us. First thing, avoid every product from China if possible. That would help a lot.
Here are a few of the more notable deadly events resulting from having no control over U.S. imports:
Melamine is used to make plastic dinnerware but when eaten in large enough quantities, melamine can cause kidney damage. In 2007 “pet foods contaminated with Chinese supplied melamine killed dozens of dogs in the United States and Africa, sickened thousands of pets and forced recalls of nearly 90 brands. Melamine has also been found in chocolate and eggs from China. (And in food for chickens-Perdue)
A serious event in 2008 was the contaminated Heparin drug from China that killed more than 140 people in the United States. Other incidents include toothpaste from China containing Diethylene Glycol–used in antifreeze–counterfeit Lipitor from Central America and counterfeit glucose monitor test strips.”
Chinese-made cough syrup contaminated with antifreeze killed hundreds of Central Americans, and Chinese toothpaste made with the same ingredients was sold in parts of the U.S., including Florida, at discount stores.
Since American companies shipped most of their manufacturing jobs overseas to cheap labor the FDA hasn’t been able to keep up with inspections. The FDA’s acting principal deputy commissioner John Taylor said today it’s hard “to protect the health of Americans since a lot of medicine sold in the U.S. is made abroad and outside of strict FDA oversite. Read more.
The fact is that the U.S. Government never had the resources to check for contaminated food and drug products imported into the United States. But during the Bush administration, the corporate/government partnership of Canada, Mexico and the United States agreed to eventually take over “inspection” of imports by the integrated nations of North America. Click image.
The goal is to cut down on inspections so that any part of the continent is considered a valid port of entry. This deeper integration of the continent was signed by George W. Bush, Vicente Fox, and Paul Martin of Canada at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005.
Taylor “warned that another public health crisis may be inevitable because the agency can’t guarantee the safety of many drugs and food products manufactured overseas.”
Your next choice would be to visit a site that keeps up with product recalls, the dangers presented and steps you can take. Still, because of globalization, a method of making huge profits for corporations and nothing else, it means that most Americans, when they go to their doctor or the grocery store, are playing the lottery.
See why food woes continue in China and why toxic food and drugs are still a threat to American citizens. It’s part of the business culture. Anything goes.


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GLOUCESTER Rugby have wound back the clock to launch their latest range of official merchandise by releasing a retro hooped shirt.
The Guinness Premiership leaders are delighted to officially launch the new shirt that not only reflects Gloucester's old playing kit and the founding date of the club - 1873 - underneath the new crest but also has a modern feel.
The 100% heavy weight cotton garment is available for pre order now for delivery week commencing 31st March. This is exclusively available online at www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk or from the club shop at Kingsholm.
Speaking of the decision to launch the shirt, Gloucester's head of sales and marketing Pete Grzonka said: "This is a project we have wanted to launch for some time and we are thrilled it is now up and running.
"I think there is sometimes a perception we do not do enough to safeguard hugely important areas of the club's history and although we have to move forward within the modern game and everything that involves, we believe this hooped shirt is a fitting tribute to heroes and eras of the past that play a huge part in our history.
"It is a great mix between the traditional and the modern - we are working hard to retain elements of the past that are important and this shirt does that.
"There has been a consistent demand for this type of shirt and now we have provided one we hope it will be a tremendous success. There have been many developments over the past 12 months and this is another one we are very excited about.
The garment is 100% heavy weight cotton with double stitched seams and rubber buttons. It is the official licensed product of Gloucester Rugby. The retro hooped leisure shirt is available in men's, ladies, children's and infants and is available for pre order now.
Gloucester's kit is produced by Rugbytech and Steve Lee, UK sales manager, added: "We look to raise the bar on quality, originality and style and this design contains key elements of the past but also the future.
"This classic hooped shirt has been designed with the history and heritage of Gloucester Rugby in mind but with a modern twist and we believe it will be a great success."
Despite he and a number of his team mates playing out of position, Greig Laidlaw's four penalties were enough to help Gloucester to a 12-11 Aviva Premiership win at Sale on Friday evening. The skipper told GRTV after the game that everyone had played their part, especially the younger players.
Greig Laidlaw skippers the Cherry and Whites on Friday evening, when they head to Sale Sharks for the penultimate game of this season's Aviva Premiership. The Scottish half back spoke to GRTV about the challenge posed in Salford.
Previewing Friday night's Aviva Premiership fixture away at Sale Sharks, Head Coach Laurie Fisher acknowledged the fine home record that the Salford based outfit have built up this season, but is looking for Gloucester to round off their campaign on a high note.
Speaking to GRTV following the 16-9 victory over Exeter, Tom Savage felt that Gloucester needed that win after a tough few weeks and hopes that it acts as a springboard to a good end to the season for the Cherry and Whites.
A week on from '...letting down ourselves, the jersey and the supporters...', skipper Greig Laidlaw was full of praise for his team mates following the 16-9 Aviva Premiership win over Exeter Chiefs at Kingsholm on Friday evening.
The excitement is building ahead of this Saturday's Gloucester Rugby City Walk 2016, with over 200 participants signed up to take part in the walk across the city, to raise money for worthwhile causes.
Four penalties from the boot of skipper Greig Laidlaw were just enough to see Gloucester dog out a tense 12-11 win at Sale on Friday evening and thwart the home team's attempts to finish the season unbeaten at home.


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NEW DELHI : The Centre warned the industry that it may impose a price cap on imported tur dal to keep domestic prices in control as it is concerned about monopoly suppliers of Myanmar and Mozambique.
In a meeting held with the pulses industry and trade representatives on Monday, Consumer Affairs Secretary Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh warned the industry of tough action. “The government is very upset about the strong bullish trend in tur prices. It is also concerned about the bullying by exporting countries like Myanmar and Mozambique,” said an importer from Tamil Nadu.
Wholesale prices of whole unprocessed tur had fallen to ₹85-90 a kg in December 2023 from last year’s high of Rs 120 when the old stock was over and new crop was yet to be harvested. However, they have again increased to ₹103-105.
Industry representatives said challenges in imposing a maximum import price (MIP) include the possibility of a fall in imports. “Our vessels of tur purchased at $1,000 per tonne from Africa are already on the way to India. If the government keeps the MIP for Africa lower than $1,000 per tonne, then we are bound to incur losses,” a Mumbai-based importer said on condition of anonymity.
“However, it has become clear we could import only 13,000 tonnes of tur in January this year, which indicates that Myanmar traders are hoarding the crop,” said the Mumbai-based trader cited earlier.