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The department store business Debenhams could be set to close down 90 of its stores and shed as many as 10,000 jobs in the process, it has been reported.Read More
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PALIN AND WAL-MART CLEARED: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate who caused a stir last year when she spent $150,000 on a high-end fashion shopping spree during the election, has been exonerated by the Federal Election Commission. The FEC dismissed the case against Palin, a decision made April 30 but made public Tuesday by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the watchdog group that originally filed the complaint. The group alleged Palin, the Republican National Committee and several operatives violated campaign finance laws by “improperly” using funds to glam up the candidate’s wardrobe at Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York and Macy’s for her debut on the national stage. The FEC agreed with Palin and the RNC that RNC money was used to purchase clothing and accessories and not Palin’s own campaign funds. The FEC also closed a case filed against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by labor groups alleging the retailer violated election laws by warning employees to vote against then-Sen. Barack Obama for president because he supported legislation that would make it easier for employees to unionize.
SHOW BUSINESS: Italy’s Camera della Moda is still fine-tuning its schedule for men’s fashion week in Milan, and, while few major surprises are expected, a handful of smaller houses will forgo the runway in June. Among them are Haute, Andrew Mackenzie and Belstaff, which will opt for a presentation at an as-yet-unnamed location.
DARK KNIGHTS: Striking electricity workers caused a power cut during the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. Stores and hotels along the Croisette were left temporarily without power midafternoon as workers at Electricité de France demonstrated in the town center. At a cocktail to fete Dsquared’s new store, guests milled outside in the sunshine while the interior was left in darkness. “You can’t see anything,” said designer Dan Caten, in good humor. But things could take a more dramatic turn today: Rumor has it strikers are threatening to cut the power again during Quentin Tarantino’s drum-rolled premiere of “Inglourious Basterds.”
WRITER’S MUSE: From catlike, furry boots by Bruno Frisoni in homage to “Puss in Boots” author Charles Perrault to a 19th-century style armchair by Paul Smith for Patti Smith, asking 40 designers to imagine objects for their favorite writer makes for an unusual read in Editions Norma’s latest design tome, “Design & littérature: Une liaison inspirée” by journalist and designer Esther Henwood. In the book, published this week, Matthew Williamson dreams up a large wicker armchair for the Indian author Kiran Desai while Christian Lacroix picks three French novelists, imagining a wrought iron chair for Patrick Modiano, a Baroque-style armchair with orchid embellishment for Joris-Karl Huysmans and a praying mantis chair with Gothic detailing for Joseph Delteil. “I have never stopped consulting them,” Lacroix said of the writers who have inspired him in numerous collections.
MOVING OVER: Longtime Bloomingdale’s insider Stephanie Zernick is leaving for a bigger volume job with the big sister division, Macy’s. Zernick, Bloomingdale’s vice president and divisional merchandise manager of handbags and small leather goods, has become group vice president of handbags, small leather goods, soft accessories, hosiery and sunglasses at Macy’s. It’s an opportunity that opened up with the recent centralization of Macy’s, forming a national buying group. “She came to Bloomingdale’s right out of college and spent 24 years with us. She elevated the business,” said Michael Gould, Bloomingdale’s chairman and chief executive. “She has epitomized the passion and the loyalty and the commitment of the people at Bloomingdale’s.”
Zernick is the wife of Frank Doroff, Bloomingdale’s vice chairman and general merchandise manager of rtw and Bloomingdale’s Direct. She reported to Francine Klein, executive vice president and gmm of accessories, cosmetics and fine jewelry.
OVER THE POND: Carla Wachtveitl, formerly part of designer Yohji Yamamoto’s public relations team in America, is moving over to Givenchy — and to Paris. Wachtveitl joins the French fashion house as worldwide press manager, reporting to Caroline Deroche Pasquier, public relations and press director, effective June 1.
NIFTY FIFTIES: There’s no stopping Parisian night lord André. The pint-sized entrepreneur said he’s preparing to open his next hotel venture in Saint-Tropez in June. Called the Hermitage, the inn will boast a mix of rooms and artist residences, with Chloë and Paul Sevigny; Dash Snow, and The Virgins already lined up to lodge there. “In the Fifties, all the artists would go down to Saint-Tropez. The hotel really has the look of that era,” he said.
OPPOSITES ATTRACT: Oddball fashion couplings seem to never go out of style. After collaborating with Jean Paul Gaultier and Raf Simons, Dr. Martens is bringing its rebel aesthetic to Comptoir des Cotonniers, the mother-daughter contemporary label better known for floaty dresses than heavy-duty footwear. Dr. Martens has created a new version of its classic eight-hole ankle boot in mouse gray leather for fall, retailing at 140 euros, or $189. Quiksilver, meanwhile, has teamed up with trendy Japanese streetwear designer Takashi Kumagai for a range of jackets, shirts, T-shirts, shorts and bags, to be sold in select Japan boutiques and Colette this month. Finally, gypsy-inspired label Manoush has tapped French handbag designer Inès Etienne for a transparent acrylic bag designed to eliminate endless rooting. Priced at 115 euros, or $155, the bag will be available in Manoush stores this summer.

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WeightWatchers food range back on TV after six-year hiatus
WeightWatchers is undertaking its first TV advertising campaign for its food range in six years.
WeightWatchers: set to return to TV advertising for its food range
The campaign kicks off this week and forms part of WeightWatchers £28m support behind the brand in 2013.
WeightWatchers was last on air with its food range in 2007, although it has been on TV in the intervening period supporting the WeightWatchers overall brand.
The latest campaign is made up of two creative executions and will run for six weeks.
The ads will highlight two products – Greek yoghurt and a piri-piri ready meal – and are tailored to extend the brands appeal beyond dieters.
Chris Stirk, WeightWatchers UK commercial director, said: "The ads have been designed to show consumers that you don’t have to be on a weight-loss journey to enjoy the WeightWatchers Food range."
The TV campaign will be supported by in-store point-of-sale activity and a consumer press campaign, which will run in titles such as Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Own and Weight Watchers Magazine.
WeightWatchers' other food brands include breakfast oats, peach and pear fruit pots and roast chicken savoury snacks.
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New York (August 4, 2006)–Some people trade in their cars after a few years, and there’s the bigwig, CEO-types who seem to think you can trade in your spouse, too, but now InnovaSon has brought the “trade-in” concept to pro audio. As part of the company’s 10th anniversary of making digital mixing consoles, it has launched an initiative to take back your old console and replace it with a new one at “an extremely preferential rate.”
InnovaSon’s sales and marketing director, Xavier Pion, explained, “We felt that it was an excellent way of marking 10 years in the business. It is a great way of saying ‘Thank you’ to our existing customers who have supported us since the beginning, and also provides us with a unique opportunity to tempt those who haven’t yet invested in InnovaSon but are thinking about updating their console. We are confident that they will be delighted with their choice, and the offer we are making today is just one more good reason to take the plunge. And of course, we benefit from having a modern fleet of consoles in circulation which requires less maintenance and offers us better exposure to potential customers and end users. It’s a win-win situation.”
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A new credit scheme especially for retail employees has been launched with financial backing from key retailers including Theo Paphitis, John Lewis and New Look.
The credit union dubbed RetailCUre is available to anyone over 16 working in the retail sector in the UK, allowing workers to access loans of between £500 and £5000, as well as offering savings accounts of up to £15,000 with interest rates of three per cent on one year deposits.
Loans taken from the not-for-profit scheme will be paid off over six months at a rate of around 11 per cent.
Other retailers backing the scheme include Ryman, Iceland, Schuh and Pets at Home, with many more expected to join.
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The union is run “by the industry, for the industry” and operates as a cooperative and is controlled by its members. It seeks to offer a fair alternative to banks and payday lenders who are often the only choice for the millions of low-paid retail workers.
“There has never been a credit union for the retail industry before, so for the first time ever we can give our retail colleagues the toolset needed to live a responsible financial lifestyle,” Theo Paphitis, whose companies have invested a six-figure sum in the scheme, told Retail Week.
“The economy as it stands at the moment does not offer a great incentive for people to save money.
“This is not just about loans or deposits – its about making it possible for people to manage their finances irrespective of what their financial status is.”


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Demonstrators, some coming from other Spanish cities, carried banners condemning the layoffs and calling for a boycott of Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, the multinational's only bottling company in Spain, said at the end of January the closures were needed to improve efficiency. But workers argue the layoffs are unjustified since the company is making a profit.
Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, which currently has 4,000 employees on its books, was founded last year by merging the seven bottling companies in Spain
owned by the US brand. Under the restructuring plan, four of the 11 plants in Spain — Fuenlabrada near Madrid, Palma, Oviedo and Alicante — will close.
Of the affected 1,250 jobs, 750 will be axed and 500 relocated to other plants.
Management and trade unions have until Friday to come up with an agreement, but talks stalled after union representatives demanded the whole plan be
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Trivandrum, Dec 22: Technology plays a key role in the sustainable development of the society and it is high time we effectively shun old and outdated technologies and usher in the state-of-the art machinery, according to Sri Aryadan Muhammed, Honorable Minister for Power.
Inaugurating the Elelctronics Day on the second day of Vyapaar 2011, he noted that in the last 10 years, Kerala has been able to bring down energy transition loss from 32% to a mere 15 % with help of technology.
The Minister also appreciated the initiative of One Roof India Pvt Ltd, the organizers of Vyapaar 2011, in showcasing such an interesting trade conclave and extended the state governmentâ€™s full support to such initiatives.
The second day of Vyapaar 2011 was noted for the inauguration of Electronics Day. The second day got off to a start with a seminar on opportunities in the Silk industry. The seminar was attended by around 30 textile students from the Central Polytechnic, Vattiyoorkavu.
The seminar was led by Sri Babu Giridaran, Assistant Director, Silk Mark of India and Sri Naryanan Kutty, Director, Silk Board of India. The session had the participation from both speakers and students, and included discussions on the evolution of silk, major producers, major markets and techniques and methods of producing silk.
The speakers reminded participants about the abundant employment opportunities in the silk industry, which encompasses areas from plantation to weaving, cocoon cultivation and marketing. They also demonstrated the governmentâ€™s quality mark for silk (Silk Mark) in India adding that around 1700 stores are authorized to sell Silk Mark products which ensures purity and quality . Active audience participation added sheen to the discussions with many ideas being shared.
This was followed by sessions in â€˜Online Marketing and Brandingâ€™ which was very much informative for the audience about using the web as an effective tool for marketing and advertising. Another session on â€˜Angel investment in Kerala Scenarioâ€™ shared with the participants ideas IT investment in Kerala . The final seminar of the day discussed Investment Opportunities in tourism Sector.
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Morgan Stanley raised their stock price forecast on TransUnion to $119 from $115, reiterating an ‘Overweight’ rating on the consumer credit reporting agency and said the company will outpace its 7-9% organic growth guidance for the year, following a deeper dive into the state of the company’s business lines.
Last month, Chicago, Illinois-based company updated its second-quarter 2021 earnings per share outlook to 0.890-0.920, well above the Wall Street consensus estimates of $0.790.
TransUnion forecasts revenue in the range of $744 million to $754 million, better than the market expectations of $691.63 million. The company also updated its full-year 2021 EPS outlooks to 3.450-3.580 per share.
“We see positive data points across non-mortgage financial services, emerging verticals, and consumer interactive that can drive upside to TRU’s 7-9% growth guidance for the year. We model 10% growth and are now 2% above cons on revenue and 3% above on adj. EBITDA,” noted Toni Kaplan, equity analyst at Morgan Stanley.
“We are increasingly bullish on the recovery of TRU’s non-mortgage financial services business given the positive outlook around consumer spending.”
TransUnion shares rose about 11% so far this year. The stock ended 1.4% higher at $109.99 on Monday.
Eight analysts who offered stock ratings for TransUnion in the last three months forecast the average price in 12 months at $119.29 with a high forecast of $125.00 and a low forecast of $110.00.
The average price target represents 8.46% from the last price of $109.99. Of those eight equity analysts, seven rated “Buy”, one rated “Hold” while none rated “Sell”, according to Tipranks.
Morgan Stanley gave the stock price forecast of $165 under the bull scenario and $66 under the worst-case scenario.
“TRU is a best in class credit bureau that has an ample runway for growth driven by innovation, expanding in attractive markets (e.g. healthcare, insurance), extending its consumer reach (e.g. more indirect partnerships), and leveraging its global operating model (expanding its solutions to additional markets),” Morgan Stanley’s Kaplan added.
“Management has demonstrated strong execution historically, showing its ability to grow above peers; TRU’s diversified verticals reduce risk and drive HSD growth in our model following a 2020 recession. The stock is trading at a 2x discount to Information Services peers, despite what we view as an intact growth runway in a post-COVID-19 environment.”
Other equity analysts also recently updated their stock outlook. Credit Suisse raised the target price to $120 from $115. Deutsche Bank lifted their price objective to $110 from $103 and gave the company a buy rating.
Truist upped their price objective to $120 from $100. Barclays boosted their target price to $120 from $110 and gave the stock an overweight rating.
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Greek PMI up in December
Greece’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) grew to 50.2 points in December from 48.1 in November, recording the first improvement in the manufacturing sector in the last 16 months, returning to growth levels for the first time in 12 months, Markit said on Monday.
In a monthly report, Markit said that the December growth rate was the highest since August 2014 and noted that production increased despite a new decline in incoming new orders. Production continued falling since September 2014 while a decline in new orders in December was the lowest in 13 months. Employment in the manufacturing sector grew slightly, ending an eight-month period of shrinking. Pending works fell at the lowest rate in 23 months. Inventories fell in December while supply purchases fell for the 16th successive month, although at the slowest rate recorded in 12 months.
Markit said that import prices rose in December, at the highest rate in three months, while outflow prices fell and delivery times extended for the 13th successive month.
Samuel Agass, an economist in Markit, commenting on the report said that “a slightly improvement of operating conditions is a sign of steady progress for an economy which was very risky six months ago”.
The PMI measures business activity in the manufacturing sector. Readings above 50 indicate a growing sector while readings below 50 a shrinking sector.
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To draw extra content material creators, Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is now paying bonuses of as much as $10,000 to those that submit movies on Reels.
In line with 9To5Mac, creators will now have the possibility to earn as much as $10,000 by posting these quick movies known as “Reels” as a part of the Reels Play bonus programme.
Nevertheless, the principles of the bonus programme are usually not clear to customers, citing TechCrunch, the report stated.
A creator with greater than 50,000 followers earned $1,000 in a month, however some individuals with extra followers earned solely $600. Different creators stated they had been supplied $800 in the event that they reached 1.7 million views on all Reels posted in a month.
In line with Instagram, the bonus programme is being examined with a small variety of creators, and customers ought to “anticipate them to fluctuate whereas we’re nonetheless getting began”.
The corporate claims that bonuses will develop into extra personalised sooner or later. These bonuses are “rolling out slowly” and are usually not accessible to all customers but.
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A recent business monitoring report states that the UK export market has shrunk in Q4 2018 to its lowest level since 2015. UK exports growth has continued to fall since its peak at the beginning of 2017, however, this is the first quarter in which the UK’s export score has shown a contraction in the market.
Recent Brexit uncertainty is again highlighted as a problem for British business. However, the report also points out that many other factors are affecting the current state of UK exports. Political and economic turmoil in the EU and a slowdown in growth from many of the world’s major economies paints the picture of a business climate uncomfortable for many corporations.
Brexit Pause Hits UK Business
The report into UK exports praises the resilience of UK businesses. However, this resilience, in many sectors, is now turning into stagnation. The Office of National Statistics reported that UK business investment fell for three consecutive quarters in 2018 to lows last seen during the financial crash. Investment is a key component in growth across all sectors, which is why many industries have reported similar growth contractions. A prominent example is the services industry, whose recent reports highlighting record lows for growth have led to many believing the UK economy could stagnate in Q4 2018.
The risk outlined by many, including in this report, is of a disorderly Brexit. With companies unable to have confidence regarding the likelihood of a future trade agreement beyond March 2019, businesses have to re-evaluate their plans for next year. Some companies have changed business strategies to target more stable markets around the European Economic Area, whilst many more are holding off on investments until the business landscape is certain. Many industries do expect business confidence, investment and the economy to bounce back in the event of a deal being agreed, but until that is certain, this outlook of minimal growth will continue.
A Troubled EU Economy
The reason Brexit is having such a significant impact on all aspects of UK business is due to the deep trade ties between the UK and EU. In the recent manufacturing sector report, they highlighted that many companies hope to continue importing and exporting the majority of their goods between these trade routes in the future. A similar picture is seen across British trade, where just under half of all exports are currently to the EU and over half of all imports are from the region.
However, many factors play a role in the exports market. The report makes a note of the many economic and political problems being faced domestically by Britain’s biggest trade partners. Whilst the UK’s export score fell by 0.7 from Q3 to Q4, the country’s two biggest trade partners inside the EU – France and Germany – saw considerably larger drops in performance.
The report highlights recent regulations in the German automotive industry as the cause for their exporting decline. However, France’s decrease is related to current domestic political uncertainty, which has halted economic growth patterns. This particular problem is becoming more frequent in the global economic climate and is having a direct impact on global demand.
The eurozone recently reported its worst levels of growth in around four years, primarily as a result of a stalling Italian economy. The two biggest economies, the US and China, have both reported economic slowdowns in recent months, partly as a result of trade sanctions but also due to domestic financial pictures. These are some of the reasons why analysts are predicting a challenging early 2019 for global businesses. Regardless of the final result of Brexit negotiations, the future for British exports will be challenging.
With a perilous future outlook for businesses, it’s vital that they look at all possible ways they can support potentially fluctuating incomes during this turbulent period. We at ERA are one of the leading procurement services companies and have helped major national and international businesses streamline their supply chains. Our specialists are experienced in specific sectors and work with businesses to save millions in key cost areas such as fleet, packaging and utilities. So, if you want to optimise your procurement strategies as we head into this turbulent period, get in contact with us today.


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If you tell me that I have the chance to design my own clothing, choose the material, and adjust the measurements with accuracy to the fit I want my clothes to be – then I think I would flip to have that technology.
Apparently, London’s Loughborough University researchers are developing this technology. They are determining how to modify 3D printing into textiles. If this becomes successful, it would have big changes to the world and our environment as fast fashion is rising and becoming more excessive.
This tech would massively cut fabric waste and have the manufacturing process for all types of clothing more environment-friendly.
But some experts foresee a day when we could print out customized garments right in the store, or maybe even from 3D printers in our own homes.
At the 2018 Paris Fashion Week, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen showed off a 3D-printed dress and other fashion designers have also presented 3D printed shoes where the plastic material is distributed into layers that create the three-dimensional structure.
Moreover, the 3D printing for shoes has become big in several including Nike and New Balance. Adidas began selling shoes with 3D-printed soles in January.
“Imagine having a garment fit exactly to your size and preferences,” Melissa Dawson, an assistant professor of industrial design at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a 3D printing expert, told NBC News MACH in an email. “You could also customize your color and pattern choices… maybe even trims and finishes.”
Dawson shared that 3D printed shoes are more feasible in the next 10 years to print at home than clothing since they’re smaller which is less expensive.
With technology as advanced as no longer trying clothes back and forth or having someone customize clothing according to my proportions, I don’t think I’d even be disappointed at all if I didn’t like the design I made.
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DENVER (AP) — Coors Light is now available in Russia, Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced Tuesday as it continues to take its flagship brand into new markets.
The brand will be in grocery and convenience stores and some bars across the Moscow region in what is considered the world's fourth largest beer market by volume, the company said. Coors Light is now available in more than 25 countries.
Although the market for international premium brands in Russia declined this year because of new taxes, the company said, it expects the category to grow in the coming years.
Molson Coors will manage the marketing and advertising of the brand, while Moscow Brewing Co. will brew it.
Molson Coors has recently announced partnerships with Mahou San Miguel in Spain, Viet Thai in Vietnam, and a joint venture with Si'hai Brewery in China.
Shares of the Denver-based brewer closed unchanged at $43.61 on Monday.


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The West Coast is bracing for yet another heat wave this weekend. Embattled growers are developing creative solutions and seeking government aid to address heat related issues with summer crops.
A record 4.1 million acres burned last year, reducing the available fuel in some areas. Otherwise, fire season in California has ideal conditions to begin earlier and be more intense.
ProduceIQ Index: $1.01 /pound, -5.6 percent over prior week
Week #27 ending July 9th
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Though prices have been falling for two weeks, honeydew remains at its second highest price in the last ten years. Markets are in flux as growing fields transition and excessive heat dries out the drought sensitive commodity.
Harvesting crews should be commended for valiantly picking during very challenging conditions.
Honeydews transition to San Joaquin valley from Arizona and Southern California. The Mexican growing season is closed. Markets are reliant on the heat-exposed Central Valley growing region to meet demand.
Prices are down, but a slight shift in circumstances (like forecasted temperatures of 113 degrees Fahrenheit in The Central Valley) could quickly send prices in the opposite direction.
Honeydew movement by region for a typical year, 2019, is shown.
Honeydew prices, compared to many produce commodities, aren’t highly volatile. 2020 is higher priced than most years.
Northwest blueberry growers are reporting severe losses in yields due to the record-breaking heat wave. North Carolina, New Jersey, Michigan and Canada also have blueberries in limited supplies. Expect shortages throughout July and look for supply relief in August.
Cherry growers are facing the same unprecedented temperatures scorching the NW growing region.
Despite the unique challenges heat brings to growing cherries, in an interview with Blue Book’s Greg Johnson, Cherry Growers reported that this year’s crop is expected to surpass last year’s output.
“This year’s Northwest cherry crop is projected to reach 22.4 million 20-pound cartons, according to Northwest Cherry Growers, which would be up 17 percent over last year’s 19.8 million cartons.”
Prices are hovering around $35/case, which is middle-of-the-range over the past 10 years. Growers rise to the occasion during this short season, employing innovative strategies to battle the heat and maintain a quality supply.
Except for 2016, cherry prices tend to remain relatively flat during the Washington season.
Iceberg ahead! After a brief uptick, prices lower again. Iceberg spent much of the year hovering near the price floor, that was until a heat wave lit a fire under frigid prices. As demand for iceberg wanes and supply improves it seems price winter may be on the horizon again.
Grape markets vary as fields transition. Coachella and Mexican grape growers are wrapping up their season while Central Californian growers are beginning to harvest.
Prices are down 23 percent, but stay vigilant, grape markets, notoriously explosive, are primed for even more volatility as growers navigate an urgently dry and hot summer.
Aggravated by rain, heat and seasonal movement dry onion prices are gradually rising. Red and white onions are increasing, more so than yellow.
The ProduceIQ Onion index is up 17 percent over the previous week, which is a significant move for a stable commodity.
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According to a new analysis by global shipping consulting firm Drewry predicts that despite the limited growth of the reefer container market in 2019, the field will maintain strong growth in the next few years.
In 2019, the number of reefer containers increased by 1.7% to 130.5 million tons, which is the lowest annual growth rate since 2015. This is largely due to extreme weather in Europe and droughts in South Africa and Chile that have led to a decline in shipments of deciduous and citrus fruits.
Despite this, Drewry still predicts that the reefer container market will surpass the dry goods market in the next few years and will grow at an annual rate of 3.7% by 2024, when the global reefer container volume will reach 156 million tons.
In addition, the transformation from the traditional reefer container transportation mode will also help the growth of reefer container cargo, which will quickly surpass the broader container transportation market. For example, last year, the number of refrigerated cargo transported by container ships increased by 3.4% to 5.3 million FEU. Drewry expects to increase by 5% annually by 2024, far exceeding dry bulk.
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Someone else will be pouring the coffee at Birmingham's Biggby Coffee on Wednesday, but it's all for a good cause.
From noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Birmingham's Biggby Coffee will play host to guest barista 89X-FM's Sarah Eatherly, who will be serving up coffee and collecting donations for Goodwill Industries.
The project is part of a partnership with 89X and Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit to collect new toys during the "Season of Goodwill" through Dec. 4.
With any donation of a new, unwrapped toy at one of the 29 participating Biggby Coffee locations throughout Metro Detroit, including Birmingham, patrons will receive $1 off any grande or super specialty beverage.
Each day of the campaign, a guest barista from 89X will be serving up coffee at one of the participating locations. All donations and 100 percent of tips earned by guest baristas contribute directly to the success of Goodwill’s annual Santa Shop. Details on locations and times will be available at http://www.89xradio.com and http://www.goodwilldetroit.org.
“The Santa Shop offers families a chance to actively participate in the holiday season by providing Goodwill program participants the opportunity to shop for gifts for their families at little or no cost," said Lorna Utley, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries.
"We are proud of the community support this initiative receives annually and look forward to another successful year spreading the holiday spirit in Detroit," she added.


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On Monday, solana became the fourth most capitalized cryptocurrency on the market, surpassing BNB, Binance’s cryptocurrency.
While bitcoin is undergoing a strong correction, let’s focus on solana, the cryptocurrency which is catching up with everyone in terms of capitalization.
Of the 10 most capitalized cryptocurrencies on the market, solana achieved the only upward performance in a week, with a 20% increase, compared to losses for all other assets. This Monday, Solana became the fourth most capitalized cryptocurrency on the market, with $78 billion in capitalization, surpassing BNB, Binance’s cryptocurrency.
How to explain such enthusiasm around this crypto? Solana benefits on the one hand from the institutionalization of bitcoin, which depends on developments in financial products indexed to its price, bitcoin spot ETFs. Furthermore, solana remains linked to a fast, reliable and most of the time cheaper blockchain than that of Ethereum for carrying out operations and transactions.
“Its ecosystem has flourished, including a wave of new meme coins which have spread. Its phones have also been snatched up,” underlines the specialist media Cryptoast.
We are undoubtedly back for a very solid year for Solana, after an already spectacular 2023 which saw it jump 95% in the month of December alone.


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Liner carrier MOL has announced the following organizational changes for the transpacific trade, which will take effect in August:
- Calvin Duffaut, assistant vice president for yield management and corporate communications for MOL (America), has been promoted to vice president of yield management of MOL Liner and will relocate to Hong Kong.
- Toshihiko Sato, senior manager of transpacific trade, will relocate to Hong Kong in support of the transpacific trade management migration to MOL Liner.
- Tom Smart, currently assistant vice president for transpacific export trade management, will become the assistant vice president of transpacific trade pricing.
- Lincoln Pei, currently assistant vice president for refrigerated services, will become the assistant vice president of transpacific westbound trade management.
- Jim Boyer, currently the assistant vice president of transpacific trade pricing, will become the assistant vice president for refrigerated services.


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AT&T is now taking bids from various companies to purchase DIRECTV, but the early offers are far below the $49 billion the company paid for the satellite TV service in 2015.
That’s according to an article published last night by the New York Post.
“Opening bids from a coterie of buyout firms came in at around 3.5 times DIRECTV’s roughly $4.5 billion of Ebitda, implying a valuation at around $15.75 billion, according to a source close to the process,” the newspaper writes.
The New York Post reports that Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm, could be one of the companies making a bid. However, the newspaper adds that Dish, DIRECTV’s top satellite rival for more than two decades, is not involved in the bidding.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that negotiations between Dish and AT&T stalled last year when anti-trust concerns emerged. (The two companies tried to merge nearly 20 years ago, but the Federal Communications Commission nixed the deal on the grounds it would reduce consumer choice.)
Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen is known to be a difficult negotiator, and that could have derailed the talks as well.
“Rival satellite-TV provider Dish Network — whose billionaire boss Charlie Ergen once said a merger of Dish and DirecTV is “inevitable” — isn’t participating in the auction, according to sources. That’s after a failed bid last year by Stephenson to merge the two that ran into antitrust concerns,” the Post writes.
Dish, of course, could still try to buy DIRECTV after/if it’s sold to another company, particularly if it’s an equity firm that might buy it to flip it.
The Post did not confirm which companies have bid for DIRECTV. The newspaper says an AT&T spokesperson would not comment when asked about the bids.
AT&T is looking to sell DIRECTV for two main reasons:
1. The satellite TV service has lost roughly six million subscribers since AT&T purchased it due to cord-cutting and what some would argue is AT&T mismanagement.
2. AT&T has decided that the satellite TV business has a bleak future, unlike streaming which is growing in popularity. The company has invested heavily in HBO Max, a new streaming service that’s an expanded version of the pay TV HBO.
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Auto Windscreens has issued new-to-market Motorola TC55 smartphones to its technicians.
The pocket-sized devices, which use Android’s Jellybean operating system and are tailored specifically for Auto Windscreens, have been rolled out to all technicians to help manage their workloads more effectively while on the move. The units are being used to make customer calls, record individual glass repair/replacement job information, access technical information and conduct customer surveys, among other actions.
While Auto Windscreens installed similar devices four years ago, the new handsets are faster, with better data accessibility, greater functionality and access to the range of business apps from the Google Play Store, according to the company. The phones also include a high-quality camera system.
“Technology has moved on dramatically since we launched our previous Motorola devices, which managed job workflows but could not be used for calls or navigation,” says Chris Thornton, Auto Windscreens’ managing director. “As part of our ongoing commitment to developing our customer-centric systems, we are excited about the potential of our new smartphones and believe they will add real value to our operations.”


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Safaricom has lined up a bundle of goodies for its over 35.6 million customers as it celebrates 20 years of transforming lives.
The telco was launched on 23rd October 2000 and in its third decade of growth, it has renewed Its commitment to Transform Lives and keep Kenyans connected.
“In the past two decades, Safaricom has grown from a telecommunication service provider to a technology company and our customers have been a key part of this journey. We are cognizant that technology and a data-driven economy can further support Kenya’s economic growth and these will be our launchpad for the next 20 years,” said Peter Ndegwa, CEO, Safaricom.
“We started out with 17,000 customers and now we have over 35million customers, with a market share of 64.5%.”
To ensure all customers benefit, each customer will receive a notification a day before to alert them of their free call.
Customers who have been on the Safaricom network for 20 years as well as customers turning 20 this year will also receive a free 20GB data bundle valid for 7 days.
For the next 30 days, a promotion dubbed 20@20 will enable customers to purchase 20 minutes of call time and 20MBs at Ksh 20, while for the next 90 days, customers purchasing personalized Tunukiwa voice offers will receive free 20 minutes to call across all networks.
Both offers are available on USSD *444# under the ‘Buy Minutes’ option.
Its brand campaign dubbed ‘Twende Tukiuke’, a callout to go beyond what is thought possible, the service provider will also showcase the power of mobile technology in transforming lives.
“We are cognizant that technology and a data-driven economy can further support Kenya’s economic growth and these will be our launchpad for the next 20 years,” Ndegwa said.
“We plan to go beyond to new frontiers, be more present, more world-class, and enable new platforms to launch our SMEs into greater possibilities,” added Ndegwa.


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Hong Kong group Design Innovation has found success with Quicksilver, a product developed for client ABC Communications. The palm-sized Quicksilver is a data receiver, which keeps investment-mad Hong Kong residents up to date with exact stock prices in real time. It sold out within eight weeks of launching – and a second-generation version is already under development. The device uses Alkaline batteries, and has a snap-on protective cover which doubles as a stand.
Games and augmented reality features for children sit alongside artificial intelligence features for parents, who can ask questions to find out about their child’s progress.
The winning entry of the product design competition will be awarded £3,000, while a further £2,000 will go to the university they study at.
We look at some of the most exciting product design stories from this year, including a reincarnated version of the Nokia 3310 handset, a touchscreen projector from Sony and a smart
The West Midlands city has been awarded £3 million, and will host a year-long series of events that will encompass art, design, theatre and more.


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If you’re a luxury bag collector, come closer – we’re letting you in on a secret that only fashion insiders know.
LuxLexicon, which has been known as a trusted online reseller in the luxury consignment market, has finally launched its flagship store! We were told that LuxLexicon is the largest purveyor of Hermès Birkin and Kelly handbags – sometimes carrying items that you can’t even easily find in official Hermès stores in Singapore!
Because over 60% of their stocks are made up of high quality pre-owned items, customers can typically get a huge savings on the bags.
Now, LuxLexicon has opened up its own brick-and-mortar retail store, designed as a physical showroom to allow customers to view these luxury bags in real life.
To celebrate its opening, LuxLexicon has curated over 20 Hermès Special Order (SO) Bi-Colour handbags. Hermès Special Order (SO) – which are customised and emblazoned with the exclusive Hermès Special Order Horseshoe stamp to represent the owner’s inclusion into the Horseshoe Club – has always been the crown jewel that every elite Hermès aficionados would want to get their hands on. This is the largest collection of Special Order Hermès handbags presented in Singapore for the first time.
LuxLexicon new flagship store is located at #02-20, The Centrepoint (176 Orchard Road, Singapore 238843). It is opened from Monday to Saturday, from 10.30am to 7.00pm. Visit LuxLexicon’s website for more information.


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|Sơn La mangoes were sold at the provincial mango week in Hà Nội last year. The province has exported more mangoes to China this month. — Photo hanoimoi.com.vn|
HÀ NỘI — Thuận Châu District, Sơn La Province exported its first batches of 20 tonnes of mangoes to China on May 14.
This district has more than 1,300ha of mangoes with a total output of 1,000 tonnes, of which 700ha have been harvested, according to the people’s committee of Thuận Châu District. Thuận Châu mangoes have been grown according to international cultivation standards for export.
Nguyễn Xuân Hoàng, deputy chairman of Thuận Châu people’s committee told local media that since the beginning of this year, his district has coordinated with the provincial investment promotion centre and large export enterprises to seek local consumption and export contracts.
Two days ago, Sơn La’s Yên Châu District exported its first shipment of 30 tonnes of mangoes to China. Yên Châu District is home to more than 2,700 ha of mango farms, of which over 170 ha have been granted with an area code to become eligible for export, with approximately 130ha being provided with VietGAP certificates.
In Sơn La Province, 59 mango growing regions with total area of nearly 1,400ha have been granted area codes. Those mango growing regions are estimated to have a total output of 16,000 tonnes.
Of which, there are 14 regions supplying 1,200 tonnes of mangoes reaching standards to be exported to Australia, the US and other strict countries.
Meanwhile, the province expects to export 1,600 tonnes of mangoes to mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea this year. — VNS


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The British Retail Consortium has warned that “no town or city centre in England is safe” as retail giants brace for an increase in business rates as part of the autumn statement next week.
Retail Week can reveal that according to data provided by real estate business Gerald Eve, the regions of England face an average increase of more than £50m for 2024/25 if the business multiplier rises at the anticipated 6.7%.
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Samsung has sent out invites for a health-focused event on May 28th in San Francisco. Several people assumed that Samsung may launch a health-related product at the event, but it seems that’s not the case.
Speaking to Re/code, Samsung VP Stefan Heuser said there will be no product announcement at the event. This should put an end to the rumors predicting about a new health-oriented product from Samsung.
Apart from this, Heuser didn’t mention the main objective of the event, and what Samsung will announce there, so it seems it will be interesting to see what the company has in mind. If there are no product announcement, what could the Korean OEM announce at the event?
May 28th is not too far, and it would be interesting to see what Samsung has to announce at the event, if there’s no product. On a side note, LG is holding an event on May 27th as well, where we might see the latest flagship device from the company dubbed as the LG G3.
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Responding to fan concerns that the final release of Destiny will disappoint in terms of overall content and scale, Bungie Community Manager Eric “Urk” Osborne said that the Beta “barely scratched the surface”. With the recent news that there would be only one area per world, and the constant rumor that the level cap will be 20, many fans were asking just how big Destiny could be. If Osborne’s comments are to be believed then Bungie has a few tricks up their sleeve for the upcoming first-person shooter.
Destiny’s Beta was water wings. Level 8 is nothing. You barely scratched the surface.
In the response, Osborne explained how Bungie was pushing for Destiny to be bigger and better than anything they have done before. “With Destiny, we’re looking to exceed what we’ve done before, not just in terms of scale – the Moon is our smallest destination – but in terms of scope and breadth of activities. That’s true for day one, as you expect, but it also means we want Destiny to have super long legs.”
According to Osborne, Bungie took many lessons from their past games, especially those in the highly revered Halo franchise. “We think we did a decent job supporting Halo, post launch, but we were only ever able to cater to the competitive set,” explains Osborne. “That left a lot of players out in the cold. That made a lot of the team grumpy. We wanted to do better. So, Destiny is philosophically built support every type of player, and all modes with ongoing activities and events. We look at it quite a bit like television programming, as opposed to a singular film, as we had in the past. We think it’s gonna be pretty great, but we wanted to test out a bunch of our new stuff with Beta, to make sure we could flip knobs and levers live, reacting and responding with lots (and, ho boy, did we see LOTS) of players online and playing.”
Osborne concluded by assuring gamers that what they have seen so far isn’t enough to judge the final contents. “[Destiny’s] Beta was water wings,” said Osborne. “Level 8 is nothing. You barely scratched the surface, and it seems like some folks had fun with what was there.”
Destiny will hit store shelves on September 9th for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, and PS4.


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Mayowa Nicholas is on a roll! From walking in tons of major shows during fashion month to landing a spot in this year’s Victoria Secret’s Fashion Show, 2018 has been a massive year for the 20-year-old Nigerian model and she’s not slowing down.
She takes on the power suit trend in the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar, and as always, she killed it.
In the issue photographed by Camilla Akrans and styled by Patrick Mackie, Mayowa wears a variety of impeccably tailored and trendy suits from Alexander McQueen, Oscar de la Renta and Ralph Lauren.
Scroll down to see more aesthetic photos from the shoot.
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It was no accident that Mahmoud Abbas chose November 29 to seek a United Nations General Assembly vote recognizing Palestine as a state, albeit as a non-member "observer" state at the U.N. November 29 is the 65th anniversary of the General Assembly's Resolution 181, which partitioned British-Mandated Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states.
The Jews accepted the Resolution; Arabs unanimously rejected it. It passed by a vote of 33-13 with 10 abstentions. Had the Arab world voted for the plan, a Palestinian state would be as old as Israel is today, and within larger borders than the 1949 Armistice lines that the Palestinian President now claims for his new, notional, "state."
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Three weeks ago a photo appeared at the top of social media feeds featuring cascades of milk spilling from the back of a truck, pooling in the grass, underneath the headline, “Help make cheese with surplus milk for Food Banks.” The attached link was quickly shared to hundreds throughout the Finger Lakes community, and by the end of the day had surpassed its original goal of $20,000.
“The first few weeks of COVID, we were in deep shit,” says Head Cheesemaker Pete Messmer. “Our sales dropped by 50 percent because half our sales are to restaurants, or distributors who service restaurants. It was pretty scary; I thought we might not exist in a month.”
While Messmer could halt his production if needed, he knew the dairy farms from whom he purchases fluid milk couldn’t just stop producing. So Lively Run came up with a plan: raise money to buy surplus milk (that would otherwise be dumped) from nearby dairies, and turn it into cheese for local food banks in need.
Amid the widespread community support for the plan (at time of writing, the fund has surpassed $47,000) came some concerns. Many wondered how there could be both a surplus of milk and a shortage of dairy products in grocery stores and food pantries. In the commercial dairy industry, producers often belong to cooperatives that purchase 100 percent of their milk; In the wake of COVID-19, these cooperatives may not be buying as much product, or are buying at a lower price. And companies that manufacture popular dairy products such as shredded cheese and sour cream are often set up to produce bulk goods for restaurants and schools, with no ability to pivot to making smaller servings for household consumption. This breakdown in the supply chain is what many consumers are currently experiencing in their local dairy aisles.
Messmer explains that, along with the halt in sales to restaurants and schools, a regional grocery store chain also suspended their wholesale artisan cheese orders. “At the beginning of the COVID crisis, they said, ‘We’re going to stop buying from you because our logistics are barely enough to keep up with our main staples’,” says Messmer. Under the intense strain of changing buying habits, the store could not afford to keep stocking artisan goods like their cheese.
As Lively Run saw sales decline rapidly, they began to hear of small goat and cow dairies in even more diresituations. About 2.5 hours north in the Adirondacks region of New York, their friends at were also struggling.
“We dumped milk for six weeks because we didn’t have anywhere else for it to go,” says Hidden Pastures co-owner Blake Place. “And that’s horrible because being a farm, we can’t shut the lights off—we have to feed the animals, we have to pay our grain bill.” At Hidden Pastures, much of the milk is sold to small creameries to be made into cheese, as well as to restaurants. When COVID-19 struck, projected cheese sales plummeted, so the cheesemakers had to stop buying. Dumping milk seemed like the only option for Place.
“There is nothing worse than taking a product you worked so hard to create and literally dumping it because you can’t find a place [for] it,” says Place. “It was very sad, because people needed food. But there was a disconnect on how to get our food to people.”
That disconnect is exactly what Lively Run is trying to fix. Messmer can turn milk into chèvre within three days, and the money from the fundraiser will enable Lively Run to make over 7,000 pounds of cheese. Between April 24th and May 12th, they delivered 950 pounds of cheese to 11 pantries, who gladly took it. “Small companies like us who are nimble can quickly switch over to retail packaging—but the challenge is getting the food to people,” says Messmer. “There’s more demand than we can keep up with.”
In order to help more small producers, Lively Run is now working with Ithaca-based organization to secure funding to reproduce this model for other cheesemakers in New York, and possibly across the US. CTA is an independent 501(c)3 organization affiliated with Cornell University, and would act as the fiscal sponsor for the program “Lively Run Cheese for New York.”
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo recently announced a new program called , and Messmer hopes that small producers will be included. The state plans to work with farmers to purchase products and send them to food banks in need.
“We’re going to be okay,” says Messmer. “But I know of other small producers in the state who are in dire need.”


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SSDs are encroaching on hard disk drives with the promise of faster access to data, but HDDs are fighting back -- in some cases, with built-in solid-state storage of their own.
On Tuesday, Seagate Technology took the fight to the enterprise market, introducing its Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD, which it calls the world's first enterprise hybrid drive. Shipping now to server and storage vendors and resellers, the new drive is also available as an option in IBM System x servers.
Many enterprises are adopting SSDs for the data they need to access most often and most quickly. Though far more expensive per gigabyte than HDDs, solid-state flash devices can read and write data much faster. SSDs in many cases are taking the place of the fastest HDDs, which spin at 15,000 rpm but still don't match the speed of flash storage, said Forrester Research analyst Henry Baltazar.
The Enterprise Turbo combines a 3.5-inch, 600GB 15K drive with 32GB of flash cache. It will cost just slightly more than a conventional 2.5-inch 15K drive and offer more than twice the speed, according to Seagate. It's as much as three times the speed of a conventional 3.5-inch 15K drive.
Hybrid drives are already available for consumer systems, including Apple's iMac. The Enterprise Turbo is built for enterprise use with higher reliability, tolerance for rotational vibration and other features, the company said.
"With the rise of flash storage, the number-one thing that's at risk is the 15K drive," Baltazar said. Seagate, a major vendor of such drives, has a lot at stake in that transition even though the company has already entered the flash business itself, he said.
With the hybrid drive, Seagate seems to be staking out a middle ground, overcoming some of the limitations of the traditional 15K drive. Deployed inside an individual server, such a drive would have its advantages, including faster startup times and fast access to often-used application data, Baltazar said. However, many large enterprises are looking at using flash separately from HDDs, such as installing flash cache in servers for speed but keeping low-cost drives on a SAN, he said.
"This could be a bit of a stopgap ... but the popularity of flash is already growing," Baltazar said.


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Apple declared another iPad Pro today, presenting a huge number of much-required highlights to the tablet, including support for the up and coming age of Wi-Fi, a component that has not recently been accessible on either iPads or MacBooks.
Wi-Fi 6 showed up barely a year back, and switches supporting the new age of Wi-Fi are beginning to turn out to be progressively normal. Wi-Fi 6 chips are as yet being coordinated into workstations and cell phones, however — not by any means the 16-inch MacBook Pro from before the end of last year or the new MacBook Air reported today incorporate Wi-Fi 6 chips. The main past Apple items to offer Wi-Fi 6 are the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro.
Wi-Fi 6 is something other than a basic speed help. It’s intended to improve remote systems when there are different gadgets associated. All things considered, US family units have around nine Wi-Fi-empowered gadgets, which can negatively affect the switch. Wi-Fi 6 permits switch to better perform multiple tasks to keep up reliably solid associations.
The new iPad Pros are scheduled to dispatch on March 25th, beginning at $799. Notwithstanding Wi-Fi 6 chips, the new tablets will likewise incorporate a quicker processor, a LIDAR camera, and backing for another console with an implicit trackpad.
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Two of the biggest Chinese e-commerce giants said they will stop selling e-cigarette and accessory products to U.S. buyers amid a proposed ban on certain flavored vaping products after rising lung injury cases associated with vaping.
Alibaba Group said Wednesday that starting Oct. 10 listings for vaping products will not be displayed for U.S. users and orders from U.S. buyers will be blocked.
JD.com Inc. announced a similar move, saying any shipping of vaping products to the U.S. will be suspended, according to a Chinese media report.
Vaping products have been linked to a deadly lung illness that is reported to have led to 18 deaths as of Oct. 1, with 1,080 confirmed and probable cases of the lung injury, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. President Donald Trump recently called for the Food and Drug Administration to ban all non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes from the market.
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At a time when direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs on television are coming under fire, TV has emerged as the category's dominant ad medium, according to findings of the 2004 DTC Monitor Study. The study, which was released Tuesday by NOP World Health, shows that TV ad awareness has grown to 89 percent of prescription drug users, up from 69 percent in NOP's 2003 study. During the same period, awareness of prescription drug ads declined for every other medium, with the exception of the Internet, which rose to 8 percent in 2004 from only 2 percent in 2003.
"The web is becoming an important 'intermediary' between DTC-aware patients and their doctors," according to Sue Ramspacher, senior vice president of NOP World Health's Healthcare Patient practice area. "One-third of those who contacted their physicians after seeing an ad, first visited the Internet. The use of online sources of information is already far exceeding the historical usage of 800 numbers."
Magazines, the base buy for prescription drug brands before 1997 when the Food and Drug Administration authorized more explicit use of DTC brands in TV advertising, declined precipitously. Awareness of magazine ads fell to 17 percent from 31 percent.
Awareness of advertising in doctors' offices, meanwhile, decline to 11 percent from 17 percent, while word-of-mouth dropped to 3 percent from 7 percent.
The good news for all media is that DTC ad spending has been soaring, growing 30 percent in 2004 to $4.2 billion overall.
Within major prescription drug classes, spending grew even more dramatically, from an average of $165 million per category in 2003 to $245 million in 2004, an increase of 48%, according to NOP. Both existing brands and new launches, such as recent erectile dysfunction entries, are generating these dramatic increases in DTC investment, the company said.
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Home Depot will tell attendees at its annual investor and analyst conference that it does not expect a recovery in residential construction and the overall housing market until late this year or early next.
The company issued a press release early Wednesday morning. It outlined its financial targets for 2007, which include:
- Total sales growth of 0 percent to 2 percent, with HD Supply growing from 13 percent of total sales to approximately 15 percent of total sales by the end of the year.
- Retail comps in the negative mid-single-digit area.
- Approximately 115 new store openings; 4.6 percent square footage growth.
- Diluted earnings per share decline of 4 percent to 9 percent.
- Capital expenditures to increase 29 percent to $4.5 billion, focused on new stores and retail reinvestment.


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Famous from Formosa: Taiwanese inspiration
The taste for Taiwanese among Japanese consumers is also expected to grow this year. Popularity for Taiwanese desserts in particular, including traditional shaved ice (pictured) and bubble tea, led to the opening of a number of Taiwanese dessert shops in Japan during the course of 2014. This year, Taiwanese beef noodle soup will be one of the big winners. According to reports by the Japan National Tourism Organisation, Japanese visitors to Taiwan reached over 1.4m annually in 2013, a 9.5% increase from 2010.
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It’s time to take that last step and go mobile. Your competition is already there with nice, neat, accessible and entertaining blogs. Just because you’re online doesn’t mean your readers are compelled to visit you from their smartphones. You have to make it simple and enjoyable for them.
Why go mobile?
There is a reason people use mobile apps instead of opening clunky browsers on their phones and looking up information as they would on a desktop computer. People turn to mobile ...
Let’s be honest: I drive a car. I hate traffic. I get lost a lot. So when I heard there was an app that combined GPS navigation with traffic updates, it was installed on my phone within the hour. I was willing to try anything. Fortunately, as it turned out, Waze is actually pretty darn good.
What is Waze?
Waze is an app for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian -- basically, pretty much everyone with a GPS function on their ...
Google's augmented reality glasses are the key to a killer business strategy: how to provide Google to its users 24/7 -- it's instant search on steroids. You'll be able to Google reality anytime, and all the time.
Facebook can keep the social network space and the ten and more hours a month that its users spend there; Google has its eyes on the biggest prize of all -- reality. Forget social, 24/7 is the new battleground.
Google is ready and able to ...
With reports that Iran is set to restrict access to the internet by August, equally fervent denials are beginning to circulate.
According to news agency AFP, the initial statement -- which supposedly came from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology actually had nothing to do with it.
In a statement, the ministry said ”The report is in no way confirmed by the ministry”. It added that it was “completely baseless,” and that it served only, “the propaganda wing ...
Sushi’s tricky enough to make as it is. But when you have to make it look good enough to eat off a half-naked model, well that’s when things get really complicated.
In this week’s HalfArsed-a-chef, the contestants were challenged to dish up the Japanese speciality a-la Kenny Kunene. For those not in the loop, Kunene is a South African businessman -- and former convicted criminal -- who rose to prominence after serving platters of sushi off half-naked models in his ...
Iran plans to completely block its citizens from accessing the web by August. By then it hopes to restrict access to its own sanitised, internal Intranet.
According to the International Business Times, the first phase of the project will be rolled out in May, during which services from the likes of Yahoo!, Google, and Hotmail will be replaced by Iran Search and Iran email.
According to Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology the changes are in ...
Twitter may have been abuzz with users claiming they were ready to leave Instagram after it was bought out by Facebook but it might not matter. Why not? Well for one thing, some 5-million users have downloaded the Android version of the app since it went live six days ago.
According to TheNextWeb, this makes it one of the most successful Android launches of all time. In fact it puts the performance of the OS app completely in the shade. ...
Sideloading apps? Not on our PlayBook, said RIM. The “chaotic cesspool” of the Android Market and piracy concerns caused Alec Saunders, Developer Relations VP to send out this tweet:
@Spy520e we're removing sideloading for consumers.Pretty sure we've got a solution for devs.
— Alec Saunders (@asaunders) April 4, 2012
RIM would have none of it. The struggling company sent a message which counteracts Saunders' message:
Just days after Instagram launched an Android version of its immensely popular app, Facebook has bought the photo-sharing social network.
Facebook is estimated to have paid around US$1-billion in cash and stock options for the company.
This is a massive acquisition for the social networking super power, which itself is on the verge of what is expected to be a record-setting IPO.
In fact, the acquisition is so big that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted about it on ...
To say that Twitter’s reaction to Facebook buying out Instagram has been mixed would be an understatement. A massive understatement.
Many users reacted to the announcement with what can only be described as outright betrayal:
Deletes instagram of iphone, post-haste...— Angelo Coppola(@angelo2711) April 9, 2012
Instagram, you sell outs. Typical hipsters.— . . . . . . . . . .(@violentflux) April 9, 2012
R.I.P. Instagram— cut:eater (@cuteater) April 9, 2012
Prepare for instagram to be downgraded because of Facebook.— Jay Christopher. (@MadebyJay) ...


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Mercedes-Benz has teased what’s possibly the most important car interior it has developed in years, with the new S-Class’ tech promising a big upgrade over what you’ll find in dealerships today. The new luxury sedan will feature a big new touchscreen display to dominate the dashboard, while the driver will get an augmented reality head-up display.
Long the flagship of Mercedes’ line-up, the S-Class is out of reach of most drivers. Nonetheless, the technologies it introduces are an important preview of what traditionally trickles down to more attainable models in the range.
Previous generations have introduced driver’s and passengers’s airbags, electronic stability control, and new cabin tech. While it hasn’t always been immediately available on cheaper Mercedes, those features and more have generally begun to show up more broadly across the automaker’s cars and SUVs. That’s why this latest-generation MBUX infotainment system is so important.
The new 2021 S-Class won’t be shown off in full until September, so we’ve some way to go before the sedan is revealed in its entirety. What we do know, however, is that there’ll be a plug-in hybrid version, as there is in the current range. Mercedes’ new hybrid drivetrain, however, will significantly extend the electric-only range: the automaker is suggesting 100 km (62 miles) will be possible, compared to the 30 km (19 miles) of the existing car.
You’ll be able to ask the upgraded MBUX voice assistant for what the remaining range is, one of a number of new features. The dashboard of the new S-Class will have a sizable portrait-orientation touchscreen making up most of the center console. From there, the driver and front passenger will be able to control HVAC settings, multimedia, navigation, and features like the massage seats and other luxury add-ons.
That may only be the second-most intriguing display in the car, however. Mercedes is also teasing a new augmented reality head-up display (HUD), which will be able to overlay navigation instructions directly over the driver’s view of the road ahead.
The current iteration of MBUX does have AR navigation as an option, and you can add a HUD, but the two systems aren’t in fact integrated. Instead, as it operates today, the AR directions are overlaid onto a view ahead of the car on the center infotainment display, as seen from a front-facing camera. It’s clever, but it does require glancing away from your direct view of the roadway.
This new AR HUD has no such problems. Since you look “through” the screen, which is projected on the windshield, Mercedes can overlay animated arrows that track upcoming turns and junctions. The arrows gradually blink out as the maneuver approaches, moving around the HUD as the car itself reorients.
We’re not expecting the full windshield to be turned into a HUD; that’s still the realm of concept cars, at least for now. Still, Mercedes is likely putting a significantly larger HUD into the new car, so as to maximize the real-estate drivers will have to work with. We’ll know more later this week, when the automaker pulls back the curtain on the new version of MBUX.


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Rivian continues to see red in the second quarter of 2022
NORMAL (25 News Now) - After seeing a loss of $1.59 billion in the first quarter of 2022, Rivian saw more red in the second quarter, announcing Thursday a net loss of $1.7 billion.
This comes as the company says it remains focused on fully ramping its 150,000 installed annual units of capacity in its Normal, Illinois facility to meet the strong demand for their product.
“As we produce vehicles at low volumes on production lines designed for higher volumes, we have and will continue to experience negative gross profit related to labor and overhead costs. This dynamic will continue in the near term, but as we have already started to experience, we expect it will improve on a per vehicle basis as production volumes ramp up faster than future labor and overhead cost increases,” Rivian said in its second quarter letter to shareholders.
“We continue to invest in key technologies and capabilities that we believe position Rivian to maintain strong demand and attractive long-term growth, while also delivering structural cost advantages,” Rivian added in it’s letter.
Rivian says it produced 4,401 total vehicles in the second quarter. That is compared to 2,553 in the first quarter of 2022. As of June 30th, Rivian says their net consumer preorder backlog was approximately 98,000.
It also generated $364 million of revenue, which Rivian says was primarily driven by delivered vehicles in the second quarter.
“Supply chain continues to be the limiting factor of our production; however, through close partnership with our suppliers we are making progress. We expect to be able to add a second shift for vehicle assembly towards the end of the third quarter,” said Rivian in its letter.
Total operating expenses in the second quarter grew to $1 billion. That is compared to $580 million in the same period last year. Research and development expense in the second quarter was $543 million, compared to $394 million last year. Rivian says that included
Rivian also praised Amazon’s rollout of its custom EDV’s to locations across the country in Chicago and St. Louis.
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THE ceiling price for face masks will be reduced to RM1.20 from RM1.50 per unit beginning Aug 15, said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi.
He said the wholesale price for the product would also be reduced from the current RM1.45 per unit to RM1.15 from the same date.
Nanta said the rationale behind the price reduction was in line with the government’s plan to consider compulsory use of face mask in public areas, as announced by the Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
“Based on the ministry’s surveillance and monitoring, face mask production and distribution is sufficient and supported by import. So, there is no supply issue,” he said during question time at the Dewan Rakyat today.
Nanta was responding to a supplementary question from Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim (GPS-Batang Lupar) on the rationale behind face mask price reduction.
On July 20, Muhyiddin in his special message on the latest development of the Recovery Movement Control Order said the government was mulling the possibility of making it compulsory to use a face mask in public places as COVID-19 threats still persists.


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WALLINGFORD — Chick-fil-A has its eyes on a potential Route 5 location as the Atlanta-based fast food chicken chain continues to expand into Connecticut.
An application was filed with the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission Tuesday at 4 p.m., Environmental Planner Erin O’Hare said Wednesday.
If approved, the restaurant would be built on the site of Midas car care as well as a portion of the Lowe’s Home Improvement parking lot and a smaller vacant property owned by Lowe’s.
O’Hare said a presentation from the company will not be made until the commission’s October meeting. There are no wetlands in the area of the proposed restaurant, O’Hare said, but it must come before the commission per local regulations. If a property includes over 20,000 square feet of impervious surface – such as pavement – and plans call for the addition of another 10,000 square feet of impervious surface, an application with the commission must be filed, O’Hare explained.
Midas owner Ken Freschi stressed Wednesday he will continue to operate the car repair shop at that location if plans for the restaurant don’t move forward. “We have no idea what’s going on until a closing day is set,” said Freschi, who has run the business for 25 years.
This isn’t the first time a restaurant has considered moving onto his property. “We’ve had five restaurants call us looking for locations,” he said. “They want to be in a high-traffic area.”
If plans for the restaurant don’t move forward, the lifelong Wallingford resident said: “I’m going to be here.”
Doreen DeSarro, business recruiter for the town’s economic development department, said Wednesday that she’s only seen one Chick-fil-A in her life while in Florida. Connecticut’s first Chick-fil-A restaurant is under construction in Brookfield, and is set to open in 2014. The fast-food chain only has three restaurants in New England to date. Two are in Massachusetts, and one is in New Hampshire.
“I guess they have a following,” DeSarro said. “I do know people that have eaten there who said they have good food.”
Comments about the definition of marriage from Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy last year prompted both protests and shows of support for the chain. Cathy told an interviewer from a religious publication that he supports “the biblical definition of the family unit.” Many in the gay community criticized the comments and the company’s contributions to a private foundation that opposes gay marriage.
One statewide gay rights advocacy group said Wednesday that, while it welcomes any business to Connecticut that will create jobs and foster economic growth, it opposes the use of corporate resources to oppose gay rights.
“Something we will not tolerate is when a corporation believes that it can use its resources to infringe upon the rights of American citizens,” said Anthony Crisci, executive director of the Norwalk-based Triangle Community Center. “Whether or not members of our community choose to patronize Chick-fil-A is not of great concern to our organization. I personally will never support a business that makes contributions to any organization that seeks to limit minority rights.”
But a restaurant industry analyst said enough time has probably passed since the controversy that people will likely accept the restaurant into their community.
“Those things tend to blow over after a couple months,” said Peter Saleh, director and senior restaurant analyst for the Telsey Advisory Group. “Generally speaking, most of these restaurant chains try to stay out of politics. I don’t think anyone will really remember.”
While traditionally located in the South, the privately held Chick-fil-A is likely looking to expand by “growing into locations and towns where they don’t already have a presence,” Saleh said.
Even with the area saturated with fast-food chains, “I think they’ll do just fine,” Saleh said.
The restaurant offers a quality product, he said.
A representative for Chick-fil-A declined to comment for this story.
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Warming up with their latest branding outdoor advertising campaign, prime real estate developer Landmark Sabbour has released a teaser OOH campaign to make the billboards viewer wonder what is happening at “1 El Teseen St.” that seems to refer to the 5th settlement.
The teaser is dropping the news to announce that “A new landmark coming soon” according to their ad copy that also includes an unfamiliar logo that seems to be the one for their upcoming project, while the visuals have a sample nature to grab the attention with different dark solid colors on the background. Another visual similar to the ones on their previous branding campaign states "From locations to landmarks".
The campaign started to spread during the last week of October, using butterfly double-decker, uni-poles, mega-signs and billboards in various locations across Greater Cairo.
We promised you to reveal this project, the developer has unveiled it on an outdoor campaign in December, calling it 1-Ninety which is the translation to the "1 Teseen St." with a huge media plan.
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Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a structural material that can store electrical energy and act like a battery within electrical devices.
The team is collaborating with Volvo to develop the material further as car bodywork and a device to store and discharge energy, which could lead to cars that are lighter and more energy efficient. The material was created by weaving carbon fibres together into a cloth, putting a layer of glass in between to separate the electrodes, then infusing a resin. Although targeted at automotive applications, the potential future for the technology could include new types of casing for smartphones and tablets which replace the batteries and allow for much thinner designs. "The challenge throughout this project has been to make a material that simultaneously stores electrical energy and gives good mechanical properties. We've now made a very big breakthrough – we've developed a very new material which has both those things at the same time," commented Dr Emile Greenhalgh, from the department of aeronautics at Imperial.


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Boohoo Group PLC (LON:BOO), a leading online fashion group, notes recent media commentary about its interest in Karen Millen and Coast.
The Board today confirmed that it has made an offer to acquire the online business of renowned British brands Karen Millen and Coast, together with all associated intellectual property rights.
The Group believes that the online business of these brands would represent highly complementary additions to its scalable multi-brand platform and extend the Group’s offer as part of its vision to lead the fashion e-commerce market globally.
These discussions may or may not result in agreement of a transaction. A further announcement will be made when appropriate.


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People who bought wristbands that were promoted as a mosquito repellent were bitten by a sales pitch not supported with science, federal authorities said Tuesday.
The Federal Trade Commission announced that the marketers of Mosquito Shield Bands had settled an investigation that alleged the product was sold based on claims that weren't supported by scientific evidence.
In the settlement, Viatek Consumer Products Group, Inc. and company owner and President Lou Lentine did not admit or deny the allegations and agreed to pay a $300,000 fine.
"With Zika virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses in the news, consumers might be looking for products that protect them from mosquitos," Jessica Rich, the agency's director of consumer protection, said in a statement. "The defendants took advantage of those concerns, and peddled a product without having scientific support that it effectively prevented mosquito bites."
The FTC said Lentine and Viatek claimed Mosquito Shield Bands, wristbands containing mint oil, would protect users from being bitten by mosquitos through a "vapor barrier" that would shield people within five feet of the product. The FTC alleged there was not "competent and reliable scientific evidence" to back up the claims.


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Pharmaceutical companies in final-stage clinical trials anticipate that they will require strict temperature controls to safeguard their products – down to temperatures as low as -70 deg Celsius. Thermo King brand of Trane Technologies has intelligent end-to-end temperature-controlled cold chain solutions for vaccines shipments. It has expanded its portfolio of temporary storage solutions that can meet the unique requirements of global pharmaceutical companies developing COVID-19 vaccines.
Trane Technologies HVAC & Transport, India & SAARC country leader, Kishor Patil, said that the company is keen to introduce this end-to-end global solution to the India market, so as to safeguard people’s health and safety by providing the ‘unbroken’ link to cold chain solutions for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. In addition, the company will further develop tailored products for local adaptations to meet the growing needs during and beyond the pandemic.
The solutions can enable these companies and their distributors to ensure the efficacy of their products through the entire cold chain – from air transport to marine, rail, trailer, last-mile delivery and at storage points along the way.
According to the World Health Organisation, nearly 20% of temperature-sensitive healthcare products are damaged during transport, and 25% of vaccines reach their destination in a degraded state due to breaks in the cold chain.


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A shameful showcase of misleading advertising from the UK’s TV and broadband providers kicked off 2014 for advertising watchdogs.
Late 2013 ads and marketing from AOL, Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin and YouView all came under fire for exaggerating their own features or unfairly attacking their rivals.
BT – which has healthy bad-ads file of its own – was the only big broadband or pay-TV player to escape censure in the Advertising Standards Authority’s New Year salvo.
Taking the bulletins of promotional perjury (the non-criminal variety) in alphabetical order:
After a complaint by BT, AOL (now owned by TalkTalk) was slapped for a misleading advert which attempted to show it was cheaper than its competitors, but left out key features of BT Broadband, including the performance and capability of the latest BT Home Hub, Smart Talk via their mobile phone’s WiFi, and the inclusive BT Sport channels.
Sky was criticised for making only small changes before it repeated a direct mail booklet which had already been banned for misleadingly exaggerating the effect of Virgin Media’s traffic management policy on broadband speeds.
TalkTalk took a hit for running the same misleading table of comparisons with BT’s broadband services which was used by its subsidiary, AOL.
Two public complaints brought Virgin Media under fire once again for mailouts which falsely claimed that its broadband and TV were available to the majority of homes in their local area.
YouView was criticised after a complaint from Sky, for an ad with three bad claims – a suggestion that movies were free on YouView, failing to make it clear that YouView needs a set-top box, and failing to make the cost of the YouView box clear.
Two out of these five claims are repeat offences, so here at Recombu we confidently look forward to another year of mendacious marketing from the UK broadband and TV business.


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WHAT ARE THE “DIRTY DOZEN?”
You might be thinking film and Oscar glory here. But no, we’re sadly not talking about a critically acclaimed 1967 film about a dozen convicted murderers assigned to assassinate German officers in World War II. We’re rather referring to a list of fruits and vegetables that are the most pesticide-riddled or contaminated, even after washing.
Each year, the Environmental Working Group, a US-based advocacy organisation made up of scientists, researchers and policymakers, releases its 12 worst food offenders, the ones that test the highest in pesticide residues, which, whenever possible, we should buy organic.
By ranking the fruits and vegetables in order based on how much or how little pesticides they contain, the EWG is hoping to bring transparency to our food supply and encourage informed and healthy choices, in turn telling us when it’s worth spending more cash.
Pesticides are inherently toxic and can lead to a host of health problems, including cancer, according to the David Suzuki Foundation, an environmental research body based in Canada.
Last year, an international study led by researchers in the UK and partly funded by the European Union, found that “eating organic fruits and vegetables could be equivalent to an extra two portions of the recommended five a day” because they have more antioxidants and lower levels of toxic metals.
It’s clear that choosing foods of the highest quality can have a significant impact on our health and wellbeing, not to mention reducing our pesticide consumption. But eating only organic fruits and vegetables can prove expensive when on a budget, but if you make an effort to buy these 12 organically, you’re heading in the right direction.
The 2015 results, which consider how people prepare and wash fresh produce, are based on tests performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2013 on over 3,000 samples.
Here are some highlights from the 2015 EWG report:
- Apples top the list – again – and for a fifth year in a row.
- 99% of apples, 98% of peaches and 97% of nectarines sampled tested positive for at least one pesticide residue.
- Peaches and nectarines rank high because they are often treated with chemicals both before and after harvest to ensure longer preservation.
- The average potato has more pesticides by weight than any other produce.
- A single grape sample and a sweet bell pepper sample contained 15 pesticides.
“Dirty Dozen” 2015 list in order of contamination:
- Sweet bell peppers
- Cherry tomatoes
- Snap peas (imported)
By our online editor Chantal Ouimet