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Mobile operator, Celcom Axiata Berhad is now offering all its mobile customers the 1-Day Internet Pass at RM4.99. Called JustGo, the promotion is part of a campaign launched by Axiata Group Berhad, available in six selected countries across Asia Pacific.
The JustGo mobile data roaming promotion runs from 17 August until 16 November 2017 where Celcom postpaid and prepaid customers gets to enjoy 500MB data at RM4.99 a day. The six countries are:
For Celcom postpaid customers, they will be subscribed automatically to the JustGo pass at RM4.99 once their data usage exceeds 100KB. Data charges will be capped at RM4.99/Day. Prepaid subscribers will have to dial *118# to purchase the 1-Day Internet Pass at RM4.99. Customers who exceed the 500MB quota will continue to enjoy unlimited Internet at throttled speed. Multiple subscriptions are allowed.
The JustGo campaign was announced on 17 August by Axiata Group Berhad as part of its plan to disrupt and lower mobile data roaming fees for traveling mobile customers.
During the campaign period, 125 million Axiata customers with a Celcom, XL, Smart, Dialog, Robi and Ncell SIM can automatically enjoy JustGo benefits and immediately use all their mobile data services when travelling to Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Furthermore, Robi customers get the extended advantage of JustGo while travelling in India. JustGo is available at USD1 per day or at the local currency equivalent for data roaming.
Axiata said JustGo is intended to cater to the increasing demand of international data roaming usage amongst customers who, as of the end of 2016, amounted to over 2 million travellers within the Axiata footprint countries.
Dominic P Arena, Axiata’s Group Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer commented, “JustGo is the biggest positive disruptor in international data roaming in Asia. Our offer is automatically activated, with the same USD1 per day for unlimited data roaming to all our customers. This price point drastically reduces roaming costs for customers from around USD10 per day to just USD1, effectively equalising the cost of using data at home and abroad. As international data roaming is now a critical service for our consumer and enterprise customers alike, JustGo is a big step for the Group towards abolishing data roaming fees and creating a unique free-trade-zone within the Axiata footprint countries.”
Celcom is a subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad.


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|This undated photo provided by Gabila Food Products, Inc. shows their original Coney Island square knishs, which have been off the market for at least six weeks. A fire at a Long Island factory billed as the world’s biggest maker of knishes has led to a nationwide shortage of the fried, square doughy pillows of pureed potatoes and other fillings. (AP Photo/Gabila Food Products, Inc.)
COPIAGUE, N.Y. (AP) — A fire at a factory billed as the world's biggest maker of knishes has created nationwide shock and oy for those who can't seem to find the Jewish treats anywhere.
Kvetching has been going on at delis, diners, food carts and groceries since the six-week-long shortage began, but lovers of the square, fried, doughy pillows of pureed potatoes may not have to go without much longer. The factory promises an end to the knish crunch by Thanksgiving, which coincides with the start of Hanukkah.
"Our customers ... are calling us saying they are literally searching supermarkets and stores and they're all asking when we'll be back," Stacey Ziskin Gabay, one of the owners of the 92-year-old Gabila's Knishes, which sells about 15 million knishes a year.
A fire Sept. 24 at the Gabila's plant in Copiague, Long Island, damaged the machinery that makes the company's biggest seller — "The Original Coney Island Square Knish," which also come filled with kasha or spinach.
Gabila's, which also makes matzoh balls, blintzes and latkas, sells the knishes both online and at retail outlets around the country, with New York, Florida and California leading the sales.
"For the last month I haven't had any knishes — my heart is broken," said Carol Anfuso, a native New Yorker who has been without a knish to nosh since the BJ's Wholesale store near her Atlanta home suddenly stopped stocking them.
But Anfuso didn't learn of the shortage until she visited her sister for lunch at the Pastrami King restaurant in Merrick, Long Island, and found that it was out of stock, too.
Pastrami King owner Joe Yamali said he normally sells about 2,000 knishes a month.
"It brings you back to your childhood and they're just so delicious," Yamali said. "Gabila is square and fried. You bite into it and the potato oozes out. It's very good."
Katz's Delicatessen, the 125-year-old landmark on Manhattan's Lower East Side, ordinarily sells about 6,000 knishes a month.
"I usually get four to take home," grumbled Brooklyn native Forrest Gurl. "Their crunchiness, their hard corners, the mustard and sauerkraut you put on them. You can't beat a knish."
Like most places, the round, baked version is still available. But Gurl harrumphed a familiar sentiment of knish devotees: "Who gets round knishes?"
Jesse Hochberg, a retired IT employee, didn't know there was a shortage until he got to the Katz's counter.
"I miss them," he said. "It's something I grew up with. I like the taste, sliced with mustard. ... I always look for them, and I haven't seen them recently."
Katz's chef Kenny Kohn has grown weary of explaining the shortage to customers. Along with the pastrami sandwiches, he serves up a typical New York attitude to the ongoing complaints.
"Get over it! Get a life! It's just a knish."

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According to a recent YouGov poll, a clear majority of the population is in favor of stricter emission limits that require car manufacturers to keep air pollution from vehicles as low as possible. Two thirds (66 percent) of those surveyed in Germany are in favor of car manufacturers being legally obliged to reduce emissions from new cars as far as technically possible. YouGov surveyed more than 8,000 people in seven EU countries on behalf of Transport & Environment (T&E): Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic.
In Germany, 57 percent of those surveyed who would buy a new vehicle are willing to pay up to 500 euros more when buying a car – the maximum additional costs for manufacturers to significantly reduce the pollutant emissions of their cars. The EU Commission is currently examining proposals for new emission standards for cars. These could help improve the dramatically poor air quality in many European cities, which causes tens of thousands of premature deaths every year. The Commission estimates the costs at 100 to 500 euros per car. However, the auto industry fears that cleaner vehicles will eat away at their profits and for a relaxation of the new regulations.
Fabian Sperka, Vehicle Policy Manager at T&E, explains: “ The automotive industry claims that it is too expensive to reduce emissions from vehicles when the real cost is less than a new vehicle paint job . The public, on the other hand, wants cars to be as clean as possible – and people are willing to pay more for clean cars. This impressively invalidates the arguments of the automotive industry.”
A large majority of respondents are also in favor of obliging car manufacturers to reduce exhaust emissions throughout the entire journey – and not just when they are measured under ideal conditions. More than two-thirds (67 percent) of people surveyed in Germany believe that passenger cars should comply with the legal emission limits, regardless of how, when and where they are driven.  Current emission limits do not apply, for example, to short urban journeys where vehicles stop and start more often, or when they accelerate quickly even though the engines emit more exhaust fumes.
The EU Commission is expected to present a proposal for the new Euro 7 emissions standard in April. The limits would apply to up to 100 million new petrol and diesel vehicles sold in Europe from 2025. Reducing air pollution is one of the top priorities of the European Green Deal. The EU Commission is currently reviewing recommendations for the standard after having commissioned independent experts to review the best available technologies.
Emissions from road transport are a major contributor to air pollution and cause a wide range of serious diseases, including heart and lung diseases and cancer. Every year in the EU, air pollution from road traffic is responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths and costs society billions of euros in healthcare costs. Poor air quality also disproportionately affects low-income households and minorities.
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 48 percent of respondents answered the question “To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Cars should comply with the legal emission limits, regardless of how, when and where they are driven.” with “I completely agree” and 29 percent with “I generally agree”.


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Another call for Code of Conduct against Coles and Woolworths, Queensland Dairy group
The annual Northern Dairy Industry Situation and Outlook business breakfast forum today (14 June, 2012) at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre has heard that the supermarket retail milk ‘price war’ is continuing to harm Queensland dairy farmers. This is despite the fact that Coles has contractual arrangements to buy its homebrand milk from Malanda in the Atherton Tablelands in northern Queensland.
At the forum, Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation (QDO) President Brian Tessmann shared results from a QDO survey of dairyfarmers across Queensland, conducted in May 2012. The survey showed that farm confidence had dropped dramatically due to the milk war, which had led to cuts in farm gate prices.
“With these cuts many farmers in Queensland will make a loss this year. Since the supermarket price war started Queensland has lost over 40 dairy farmers. This needs to stop,” Mr Tessmann said.
He said that his industry wanted the whole milk supply chain needs to be encompassed by a mandatory code of conduct that could ensure fairness in the value chain from major supermarkets to processors and right back to the farmers’ farm-gate prices.
Mr Tessmann said the issue still needed urgent attention and action from the Federal Government. “This is having a serious impact on farmers today, and in the future will also impact consumers by eroding the ability of Queensland to supply fresh milk for itself.” He said he also backed food industry calls for the introduction of an ombudsman to tackle unfair practices in the value chain, as well as a code of conduct.
Mr Tessman’s call for a mandatory code of conduct supports the Australian Food and Grocery Council’s proposed draft legislation for the establishment of a supermarket ombudsman and comes on the heels of Master Grocers Australia urging the ACCC to exercise its powers to rein in the market dominance of supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles.


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Alicia Burke returns for Model Search finals
Alicia Burke, winner of Pulse's Search For The Million Dollar Girl TV Reality Show held earlier this year, will return to Jamaica for the live finals of the 2015 event, which culminates on November 1. Close to 200 new faces will compete for Male Face, Petite and Full Figure titles. The top 10 contestants in the Fashion Model segment will go on to compete in the TV reality show.
A Pulse international model, Burke comes back home to Jamaica from the United Kingdom, where she is now represented by Models 1, arguably London's top model agency. Alicia was signed by Models 1, the first agency that met her in London, and is in demand by several Paris and New York agencies. Her signing was effected on a recent Pulse visit to London and Paris headed by the company's chairman, Kingsley Cooper.
Burke will be a key part of a six-pronged Pulse attack on the European market, featuring its young new stars. This is separate from the new global campaigns and editorials being done by Pulse's established supermodels Jeneil Williams, Oraine Barrett, and Nell Robinson.
Last month, Barrett inked a new deal with Ralph Lauren for his high-performance, high-tech suit. Williams, still riding high from her groundbreaking L'Oreal cosmetics campaign launched at the start of the year, has reaped new campaign successes for Nike and others.
Williams' L'Oreal Paris' Infallible is a cosmetics campaign currently being aired around the world. Robinson is featured in multiple pages of July's British Glamour.
Pulse's 2015 campaign also includes Francine James, Alysia Francis, Davina Bennett, Sashauna Robinson, and Asoya Smith, all of whom are now signed to London agencies. Some are also signed to agencies in Paris and Milan.
A native of Bullet Tree District in Old Harbour, St Catherine, Burke says her grandmother's influence has been the most important factor in her young life. She lists Pulse's multiple Vogue covergirl Jeneil Williams as her favourite Pulse model. Williams was a special participant in the eight-week model search TV show, which Alicia won.


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Portland man invents new way to take selfies
PORTLAND, Ore. - A Portland man has invented a new product that he says will revolutionize the way people take selfies.
"You have the selfie phenomenon," said inventor Matt Franklin. "You can tell the person is taking the picture with their arm in the frame."
Franklin developed the GripSnap to get rid of those pesky one-arm shots. GripSnap is a flexible monopod that holds your phone on one end. On the other end is a rubberized, magnetic base. You can attach the magnet to nearly all metal surfaces.
With the help of one of numerous camera timer apps on the market, you can then set a timer and capture the perfect shot. With metal surfaces like fire hydrants, light poles, railings, street signs, and cars all around, Franklin likes to think you can take a picture nearly anywhere.
"That's why I say the world is your tripod," Franklin said.
Franklin has a history of turning out innovative products over the years. He appeared on ABC's Shark Tank with a business partner to promote the PostureNOW, a posture correction device. It's been his most successful invention yet. KATU spoke with Franklin right before he appeared on Shark Tank.
He also participated in a story about another one of his inventions, the i90 Tablet Glasses. The glasses weren't nearly as successful as Franklin hoped. But Franklin forges ahead anytime a product fails to become successful.
"There's nothing worse than having a product fail," Franklin said. "But for me, it kind of fuels me to keep improving and do something better the next time.
You can check out the Kickstarter campaign for GripSnap yourself and decide whether or not to help fund it.


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Li Jinyuan, chief executive of Chinese multinational Tiens Group, said the trip was part of the company’s 20th anniversary celebrations and a way to reward his staff. More than half of his 12,000 employees were treated to hotels and visits to some of France’s most notable tourist sites.
For a trip that is estimated to have cost between $14.5 and $22.3 million, Jinyuan booked up 140 hotels in Paris and about 4,760 rooms in four and five star hotels in Monaco and Cannes. The vacation also included a private viewing of the Louvre museum and a mass visit to the Moulin Rouge cabaret show.
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At 6,400 guests, this was the single largest tour group to ever visit France, one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations.
"We have mobilized public services as well as tourism professionals, hotels, restaurants, shops and designer brands," Christian Mantel, head of tourism development agency Atout France told Agence France-Press. "So far everything has gone smoothly, the feedback has been extremely positive."
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As if an all-expenses paid vacation to France wasn’t enough, Jinyuan also arranged for his employees to break a Guinness world record. To end their trip, the group dressed in identical sky blue hats and T-shirts and gathered on Nice’s coastal promenade to spell out the words "Tiens’ dream is Nice in the Cote d’Azur."
Guinness World Records’ inspectors were present at the scene to watch the staff members break the record for the longest "human-made phrase."
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Tiens multinational was founded by Jinyuan in 1995, and operates in a range of sectors including biotechnology, tourism, and finance and property. Forbes magazine estimates Jinyuan’s fortune to be at $1.2 billion, making him the 24th richest man in China.


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The UK are now in their third lockdown, meaning all ’non-essential’ retailers have been ordered to legally shut their stores.
The Government guidance continues to state that Click and Collect services and delivery services can continue and are not affected by the current restrictions. The Government rules state that as long as a customer does not enter your premises, you can operate a Click and Collect service. All normal Covid measures are to be implemented during Click and Collect.
This is great news for retailers as while this isn’t the ideal scenario, it could help with cash flow during this difficult time. For more information from the Government on Click and Collect, click here.


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Home stock markets began Thursday’s session on a constructive notice, taking cues from Wall Avenue as US stocks recovered from heavy losses after the White Home assured that US President Trump had no intention of firing the US Federal Reserve chairman.
India, like most other countries, follows the dual structure of goods and services tax (GST), allowing both the Centre and the state to divide tax from sale of a product or good. President Donald Trump made a shock Christmas visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a battle zone almost two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of American troops from neighboring Syria.
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Macro Trends Advisors LLC founding partner Mitch Roschelle warned on Sunday that the U.S. economy is on “shaky footing,” despite what many economists and analysts perceived to be a positive April employment report.
On Friday it was revealed that the U.S. economy saw solid job growth in April, suggesting the labor market is still strong despite headwinds from rising interest rates, soaring inflation, a worsening labor shortage and fears of a slowdown.
Employers added 428,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday, beating the 391,000 jobs forecast by Refinitiv economists. It marked the 12th consecutive month that job gains topped 400,000. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, held steady at 3.6%, the lowest level since February 2020.
“What often happens is you look at the headline numbers,” Roschelle told “Fox News Live” on Sunday.
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He went on to acknowledge that more than 400,000 jobs were added “and the unemployment rate is falling,” but noted that “one of the reasons the unemployment rate is falling is because we have our labor participation rate falling.”
“It actually fell for the first time in three months, which means less people are entering the workforce,” he noted.
The labor force participation rate, a key measure of the active workforce, fell 0.2 percentage points in April to 62.2%, matching the lowest level recorded this year as the labor force shrank by 363,000 workers.
Roschelle also pointed to data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released Tuesday, which revealed U.S. job openings reached a record 11.5 million in March.
“So for some reason we have this twisted labor market where there are open jobs and we can’t find people for them and when you don’t have truly full employment, which we don’t, you don’t really have that strong of an economy, which means we may not be able to weather this inflation storm as well as we hoped to,” Roschelle argued.
Roschelle also pointed to data from the Labor Department, which revealed on Friday that average hourly earnings rose by 5.5% year-over-year in March, down slightly from 5.6% the month before. The data comes amid surging inflation, which hit a fresh 40-year high in March.
Last month, the Labor Department said that the consumer price index (CPI) – which measures a bevy of goods including gasoline, health care, groceries and rents – rose 8.5% in March from a year ago, the fastest pace since December 1981, when inflation hit 8.9%. Prices jumped 1.2% in the one-month period from February, the largest month-to-month jump since 2005.
The inflation data for April will be released on Wednesday.
“I think the Fed was denying we had an inflation problem, calling it transitory for way too long,” Roschelle argued on Sunday.
“In terms of printing money, which they printed trillions of dollars of money to get us through the COVID crisis, they were very late in acknowledging that we have to stop the money-printing process.”
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He then pointed to what contributed to inflation from the fiscal policy side.
“I think we were continuing to stimulate the demand side of the economy,” Roschelle argued. “The most recent nearly $2 trillion COVID rescue bill wasn’t necessary. It just continued to pump money into the economy and very simply, too much money chasing too little stuff is what gives rise to inflation.”
“We still haven’t fixed the supply side of the economy and that’s the only way to fix it,” he continued, noting that “that’s really not the Fed’s job” so it’s going to take Congress to act to “try to find ways to fix and stimulate the supply side of the economy and stop stimulating demand.”
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The move was expected to reduce Walmart’s U.S. market share in ammunition from round 20% to round 6–9%. Walmart also said that it was “respectfully requesting” that prospects not overtly carry weapons in Walmart stores, except for authorized regulation enforcement officers. For many years, associates had been recognized within the retailer by their signature blue vest, however this follow was discontinued in June 2007 and replaced with khaki pants and polo shirts.
The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. By late November 2010, a median of a dozen updates per day had been posted on the astronauts’ communal account, @NASA_Astronauts. NASA has additionally hosted over 25 “tweetups”, occasions that provide friends with VIP entry to NASA facilities and audio system with the goal of leveraging participants’ social networks to further the outreach goals of NASA. In August 2010, the corporate appointed Adam Bain from News Corp.’s Fox Audience Network as president of income. For instance, a document was set in the course of the 2010 FIFA World Cup when followers wrote 2,940 tweets per second in the thirty-second interval after Japan scored against Cameroon on June 14. The report was broken again when three,085 tweets per second had been posted after the Los Angeles Lakers’ victory within the 2010 NBA Finals on June 17, after which once more on the shut of Japan’s victory over Denmark within the World Cup when customers revealed three,283 tweets per second.
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The firm investigated and attributed these accounts to a single state-run information operation, which originated in Saudi Arabia. The accounts had been reported to be a part of a larger group of 88,000 accounts engaged in spammy conduct. However, Twitter did not disclose all of them as some could probably be legitimate accounts taken over through hacking. Similarly, Twitter banned 7,000 accounts and restricted a hundred and fifty,000 extra that had ties to QAnon on July 21, 2020.
One examine found Walmart’s entry into a new market has a profound impact on its competition. A Loyola University Chicago study instructed that the impact a Walmart retailer has on a neighborhood business is correlated to its distance from that retailer.
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In 2012, there was an incident with CJ’s Seafood, a crawfish processing agency in Louisiana that was partnered with Walmart, that eventually gained media attention for the mistreatment of its 40 H-2B visa staff from Mexico. These workers skilled harsh residing circumstances in tightly packed trailers outside of the work facility, physical threats, verbal abuse and had been pressured to work day-lengthy shifts. Many of the workers have been afraid to take motion in regards to the abuse because of the truth that the manager threatened the lives of their family members in the U.S. and Mexico if the abuse have been to be reported. Eight of the workers confronted management at CJ’s Seafood in regards to the mistreatment; nevertheless, the management denied the abuse allegations and the workers went on strike. The employees then took their stories to Walmart because of their partnership with CJ’s. While Walmart was investigating the situation, the workers collected a hundred and fifty,000 signatures of supporters who agreed that Walmart should stand by the employees and take motion. In June 2012, the visa workers held a protest and day-lengthy hunger strike exterior of the house building where a Walmart board member resided.
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While these choices succeeded in increasing income 23% in the decade that followed, additionally they led to an increase in both theft and violent crime. Walmart is headquartered in the Walmart Home Office complicated in Bentonville, Arkansas. The firm’s enterprise model relies on selling a wide variety of general merchandise at low costs. All Walmart stores in the U.S. and Canada even have designated “greeters” on the entrance, a practice pioneered by Sam Walton and later imitated by other retailers. Greeters are educated to assist buyers discover what they need and answer their questions.
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Troubled home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond has announced the closing of nearly 100 more of its stores this week, another sign of the company’s dire financial straits as analysts expect it to file bankruptcy in the very near future.
The real definition of “get woke and go broke.”
On top of the 150 stores the company closed back in August, the corporation will reportedly shutter 87 more stores throughout the United States.
After trying to mix business with politics, ever since they decided to stop carrying MyPillow products over the politics of the company’s founder, Mike Lindell. The chain of home furnishing stores has been struggling financially…
The latest store closures—the locations of which were not disclosed—bring the total number of closures across the United States to over 200. In total, Bed Bath & Beyond has around 708 stores.
More details of this report from The Hill:
Bed Bath & Beyond announces 87 more store closures
Bed Bath & Beyond told Nexstar Monday that it will be closing 87 additional stores, an announcement that comes days after the beleaguered home goods chain said it had defaulted on its loans.
The company also plans to close five buybuy BABY stores as well as all of its Harmon beauty locations.
Bed Bath & Beyond said the closures are being done to increase efficiency as the company works with advisors to “consider multiple paths” as the retailer tries to turn the business around.
“This store fleet reduction expands the Company’s ongoing closure program of approximately 150 lower-producing Bed Bath & Beyond banner stores,” a spokesperson told Nexstar. “We will update all stakeholders on our plans as they develop and finalize.”
Impacted store locations were not immediately available Monday.
Last Thursday, Bed Bath & Beyond said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had defaulted on its loans, which may force it to consider restructuring its debt in bankruptcy court.
The filing included some of the other strategies Bed Bath & Beyond is employing to improve its financial position, such as lowering costs, trimming capital expenditures, trying to rework rental deals with landlords and reducing the footprint of its stores, as well as the caveat that “these measures may not be successful.”
Well, they made a big mistake…
They lost my business when they went WOKE. I spent a lot there annually. Big mistake to cancel Mike Lindell…. Big Mistake.
Exclusive: Bed Bath & Beyond preparing to file bankruptcy as soon as this week | Reuters https://t.co/ExBscnButP
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 31, 2023
And here’s the funny ending for this woke company, Mike Lindell might be interested in buying it…
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) January 26, 2023
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Mercedes-Benz will launch the V-Class Marco Polo luxury camper in India on February 6 at the Auto Expo 2020. Mercedes-Benz V-Cass Marco Polo will be the country's first commercially produced camper and come packed with a plethora of features.
In November 2019, Mercedes-Benz had launched V-Class Elite for a starting price of Rs 1.10 crore (ex-showroom, India). The luxury carmaker had introduced 7-seater extra long-wheelbase V-Class Expression for Rs 68.40 lakh (ex-showroom, India) and 6-seater long-wheelbase V-Class Exclusive for Rs 81.90 lakh (ex-showroom, India) in January 2019.
Mercedes-Benz claims that the Marco Polo campers are exceptionally compact and comfortable. The V-Class Marco Polo will introduce the buyers to a whole new world of luxury and adventure, according to the luxury carmaker.
"At Auto Expo 2020, besides launching the AMG GT 4 Door Coupe and unveiling the A-Class Limousine and the New GLA SUV, we also will be launching something unique and never seen before in India. Inspired by the success of the V-Class Luxury MPV in India, we will be launching the V-Class Marco Polo Camper," Mercedes-Benz India Managing Director and CEO Martin Schwenk said.
"Nothing reflects restlessness and a spirit of adventure better than an exciting road-trip and camping. The V-Class Marco Polo embodies these very characteristics combining outdoor ruggedness with Mercedes-Benz's world-renowned luxury and technology. The V-Class camper is surely going to create a lot of interest among our customers, who already have shown overwhelming response to the V-Class luxury MPVs," he added.


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Biden emphasizing electric vehicle charger need as energy costs spike
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The tax break favoring American-made vehicles could be a point of tension when Biden hosts Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
President Joe Biden is highlighting billions of dollars in his giant bipartisan infrastructure deal to pay for the installation of electric vehicle chargers across the country, an investment he says will go a long way to curbing planet-warming carbon emissions while creating good-paying jobs.
Biden on Nov. 17 will visit a General Motors plant in Detroit that manufactures electric vehicles. He’ll use the occasion to make the case that the $7.5 billion in the new infrastructure law for electric vehicle chargers will help America get “off the sidelines” on green-energy manufacturing. Currently, the U.S. market share of plug-in electric vehicle sales is one-third the size of the Chinese EV market.
“It’s a big deal,” Biden declared as he signed the bill into law at a White House ceremony earlier this week.
Republicans — even some of those who voted in favor of the infrastructure package — are criticizing Biden for being preoccupied with electric vehicle technology at a time when Americans are contending with a spike in gasoline and natural gas prices.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell took the Senate floor Nov. 16 to make the case that “the Biden administration doesn’t have any strategic plan to snap its fingers and turn our massive country into some green utopia overnight.”
“They just want to throw boatloads of government money at things like solar panels and electric vehicles and hope it all works out,” said McConnell, one of 19 GOP senators who voted in favor of the infrastructure bill. He added, “American families are staring down the barrel of skyrocketing heating bills, and the Democrats’ response is to go to war against affordable American energy.”
The GM plant that Biden will visit was slated to be closed in 2018 as the automaker tried to shed excess factory capacity to build sedans as buyers shifted toward SUVs and trucks. But the plant, which built cars with internal combustion engines since it opened in 1985, was rescued a year later and designated Factory Zero to build zero-emissions electric vehicles.
Currently, the 4.1 million-square-foot plant, which straddles the border between Detroit and the enclave of Hamtramck, is making pre-production versions of the electric GMC Hummer pickup truck.
Next year it will start making a Hummer electric SUV. The plant will start cranking out the Origin, an electric vehicle for GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary, in 2023, and an electric Chevrolet Silverado pickup at an unspecified date.
The tax break favoring American-made vehicles could be a point of tension when Biden hosts Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House on Nov. 18 for the first North American Leaders Summit since 2016.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said she raised concerns with Secretary of State Antony Blinken when the two met in Washington last week that the proposed tax credit would have an adverse impact on North America’s integrated auto industry and put thousands of jobs in Canada at risk.


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Purchase of ad tech company likely to automatically generate scrutiny from Washington before it can formally close.
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In an era of retail pop-ups and massive downsizings, RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, creates palaces.
Call it counterintuitive, a renegade strategy, or better yet, taking “the road less traveled” as Gary Friedman, the chairman and chief executive officer of RH says, referencing Robert Frost.
It’s Friday, opening day for the six-level, 90,000-square-foot RH Gallery, at 9 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, and Friedman is seated in the outdoor section of the rooftop restaurant with views downtown to the Freedom Tower.
It’s one of Manhattan’s biggest retail openings in a long time, a seminal project for RH, and it’s apparently taken a toll on Friedman, who is under the weather and running on NyQuil and cough drops. Yet he’s effusive, explaining the RH Gallery “experience,” how hospitality has become central to it, that he sees Earth as a planet of neutrals and little color, and how New York’s new RH Gallery — the largest in the chain of 85 in North America — advances the format. “It’s the bridge,” Friedman said. “A global calling card,” meaning a prelude to international expansion.
“We have said that we are looking internationally and that we want to get there. It’s a huge step, but this needed to come first. If we didn’t have an RH Gallery in New York, they really wouldn’t know in Europe who we are. New York from Europe is by far the most traveled city. It’s not even close. We have been looking [overseas] for awhile. We have three compelling spots. I think London is the right bridge to New York, and then Paris and Madrid.”
It’s just hours away from his flight to Europe to check out real estate, and Friedman, looking casually chic in a Brunello Cucinelli denim jacket over a Double RL white T-shirt, gives the impression that an announcement on the first overseas site is close. Sometimes, in securing real estate, “You have to be opportunistic. Now we have an opportunity in London. That is my top priority.”
RH Gallery spaces transcend traditional retail settings by putting a premium on food and beverage, comfort, design and style, and creating dazzling, chandeliered interiors that exude luxury. The merchandise — furniture, fabrics, window treatments, lighting, rugs, beds, bed and bath linens and hardware — ranges in style from traditional to modern along with transitional styles, and bears a decidedly neutral color palette. Interior and exterior design services are offered, pieces can be customized with different fabrics and sizes, and the pricing scheme deviates from the industry’s incessant promoting by encouraging memberships that offer discounts.
The Meatpacking site, a contemporary steel-and-glass structure, rises five floors through the original historic landmarked building with a brick facade. It was owned in the late 19th century by John Jacob Astor, who died on the Titanic.
Inside, there’s a soaring central atrium, stacked cast-iron columns, a striking glass elevator, a barista bar and a rooftop restaurant that opens onto a landscaped park and wine terrace. The site, designed by Jim Gillam of the firm Backen, Gillam and Kroeger, elevates the RH Gallery concept by not only being the largest location, but the first with an RH interior design firm, private design presentation rooms and a restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. The first RH Guesthouse hotel will be nearby.
On the Gallery’s main floor, core items, like the Maddox sofa in vintage velvet with bolster armrests as well as the lacquered finished bamboo tables and armoires, are set alongside Greco-Roman statues and Kate Schermerhorn landscape photography.
Above a grand two-sided staircase, there’s a dramatic installation, “New York Night” by Allison Berger, with 120 handblown crystal pendants that dangle like teardrops at different heights starting from the ceiling 90 feet above.
There’s also an RH Design Atelier where clients, designers and architects can reimagine interiors; the outdoors is brought indoors with topiaries and fountains gracing level four for outdoor collections, and there’s an outdoor design atelier with performance rugs, textiles and furniture finishes. The lower level houses the baby, child and teen collections.
Friedman said his company spent $50 million on the project and it was seven years in the making. “The developer spent more than we spent. The developer built the core structure. We leased it. Our rent starts at $8.5 million and our lease monetizes the investment.”
For the neighborhood and its concentration of smaller specialty stores, the RH Gallery feels formidable. Is bigger better? “Not necessarily. It’s what’s appropriate,” Friedman said. “This galley is sized appropriately to the market.”
But bigger can be better. “We know when we take a legacy store, 6,000 to 7,000 square feet of selling in a mall — and we [re-create] that into a design gallery from 40,000 to 50,000 square feet, we can double the retail sales in the market and more than double the profitability.”
It really boils down to two things: “To create a deeper connection and experience,” Friedman said. “We have always tried to blur the lines between residential and retail and create spaces that are more ‘home’ than ‘store.'” And with the addition of restaurants and baristas, “The next logical step was to further blur lines between home and hospitality. The idea is if you are going to have somebody in your home, you are going to be hospitable. You’re going to offer them something to drink, to eat and then they generally stay longer and you can develop a deeper relationship with them, and that’s really how we think about the hospitality.”
Friedman said people shop for furniture once every five to 20 years, generally. He wants people showing up much more frequently. “The hospitality component, the restaurants, the barista bars, the wine bars, give people a reason to come here. They see the inside of a Gallery, walk past some beautiful things and get inspired about redoing the living room, or hanging that chandelier over a dining table. Otherwise, they don’t really get a chance to be inspired unless they were looking through a magazine or went into a hotel.”
Three years ago, RH opened its first restaurant in its Chicago Gallery. “It was such a success so we conceptualized putting a restaurant on the roof here and we added an addition for a kitchen that was actually a park,” he said.
At RH’s investor day the week of the Meatpacking opening, someone questioned why Friedman didn’t just lease out the top floor and roof to a restaurant operator. “I said it wouldn’t be a reflection of our brand and our values. This is all about controlling the conversation and the experience to the customer and rendering the RH brand more valuable.”
RH Hospitality, the division that runs the food and beverage operations, is profitable, Friedman said. “I never thought it was going to run profitably. My goal was always just to augment the experience and drive more traffic into a Gallery.…If you think about beautiful high-quality food that you can eat every day in a magnificent environment, it really doesn’t exist,” except at RH Gallery, to Friedman’s way of thinking. “It’s a unique experience that we find really works. We thought the Chicago restaurant would maybe do $1 million. It’s doing $6 million.”
Friedman said the RH team travels the world looking for great experiences. “It could be anything, like Scorpios in Mykonos, a beach club that redefined how the world thought of a beach club. I took the whole team there two years ago to see how to redefine something. They created a global conversation. The whole ethos of the food and music is so beautifully integrated.”
On the same trip, Friedman took the team to a store in Ibiza called Sluiz, which he discovered while vacationing with his girlfriend and her family. “We are driving along and the driver, Santi, says there’s a very famous store that people from all over the world come to see. So we’re in the countryside, but then I see these cows on the hillside, and as I get closer, I notice they’re turquoise and white. They’re not real cows. Then I see this big turquoise banner that says, ‘Hermès, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci…and at the end, it says, ‘We don’t sell.’ Then it says, ‘London, Paris, Tokyo, Beverly Hills — No!’ We pulled up a little gravel road to a parking lot and it was a series of buildings, an old farm. This couple from Amsterdam created this store that integrates home, apparel, food and housewares in the most creative presentation I had seen in a long time. I spent two hours just looking and observing, typing notes to my team — someone took a farm in the middle of Ibiza and created a store that created a global conversation. Beautifully done. I had to just study it and take it in.
“We are always interested in where are things going. It’s never really about where it’s at now. It’s trying to figure out what’s next and looking for those clues and dots to connect.”
Friedman, who got booted out of junior college his first year and started his career as a stock boy at the Gap, believes the last two decades were bad ones for retail. He calls it, “the lost generation of retail,” believing that “so many retailers spent all their resources trying to shift their businesses online. Everybody thought the online business was more profitable. It’s not. Now everybody is starting to realize it. They forget that we are physical beings, social creatures. If we weren’t, people wouldn’t go to the movies anymore. I’d rather see a movie with a bunch of strangers and kind of feel I can share an experience with everybody even if I don’t talk to anybody.”
Not that web sites don’t count.
About 45 percent of RH’s total volume, or $1 billion in sales, is online, though the physical experience helps fuel it. Retailers should have spent “reasonable amounts of capital to create web sites and then put capital into reimagining their retail spaces,” Friedman said. “We all want to know what’s new. We all want to be inspired. So many people let physical retailing rot.
“But we are opening these big galleries and more than doubling our retail sales. It’s funny: People don’t study what we do. Don’t be afraid to take the road less traveled because that is where you are going to learn the most. If you ask most people in business why they do what they do, the answer is, ‘it’s the way we have always done it.'”
Next year, the company will bring color to the palette, which has been neutral to the nth degree.
“You didn’t seen any blues. You didn’t see any yellows, right? We are neutral-based. That’s because it’s the biggest part of the market. If you walked into a hundred homes, 80 to 85 percent of them would be neutral-based. Color creates complexity. It can easily throw off the structure and balance [RH Gallery layouts and merchandising underscore symmetry and balance] — and the reason why we believe neutrals do so well is because for the most part, we are all neutral. Every human is some shade of neutral color, from light to dark. We are comfortable seeing that. Where do you see color in nature? Some flowers, something blooming, something growing, an apple. If you look at the earth, it’s neutrals or green. The oceans aren’t really blue. The water is clear. It’s reflecting the sky.” At RH, “We try to reflect the color structure that is of the earth and the majority of humanity.”
Still, come next spring, “We are going to do color in a very structural, architectural way, with the same kind of rigidity and principles you see here,” Friedman said, noting that RH Color will launch with its own source book and occupy a middle of a floor to demonstrate how pieces can be colorized. “Over time, RH Color can add 20 to 30 percent more volume — but we have to do it our way.”


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January 23, 2023
OPC launches 2023 Data Privacy Week campaign
Canada joins many countries around the world in marking Data Privacy Week to commemorate the 1981 signing of the first legally binding international treaty on privacy and data protection.
Philippe Dufresne, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, issued the following statement on the occasion of Data Privacy Week:
My job is to protect and promote the privacy rights of individuals and to ensure that organizations respect their privacy obligations. I do so not only by investigating and making decisions on privacy complaints, but also by championing privacy as a fundamental right, and encouraging businesses and government institutions to foster a culture of privacy by considering privacy implications at the outset of any initiative, and making it easy for Canadians to choose privacy protection as the default setting.
Privacy is a fundamental right that we should not have to surrender in the name of innovation or profit.
When individuals trust that their rights will be protected, they feel confident about participating freely in the digital economy without having to choose between this participation and their fundamental privacy rights. This is good for consumers, good for businesses, and good for innovation.
This week is Data Privacy Week. I encourage everyone to take a moment to think about privacy and explore our website and resources to learn how you can better protect yourself, your customers, and your community.
This year, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has also produced a series of videos featuring OPC employees providing privacy tips to individuals, organizations and federal institutions to help them better protect privacy and safeguard personal information.
The videos will be shared on social media.
The OPC has also developed a videoconference background available for download on the campaign page. We encourage everybody to use it to help us mark Data Privacy Week January 22-28 and increase awareness about privacy protection.
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A new social networking service is known as ‘Tooter’ has been the newest ‘Swadeshi’ (native) program to be established this past year with a view towards cashing in on increasing nationalistic sentiments in the nation which has seen the launch of an entire plethora of half-baked attempts like Chinagari, Mitron, Moj, MX TakaTak and much more. Dependent on the US-based microblogging stage, Twitter, the brand new service keeps the look-and-feel of its well-established counterpart, for instance, blue-and-white color strategy.
It also will come with much the exact same mechanics and functionality of this favorite micro-blogging site, for example, the capability to trace different reports and browse through a feed that has articles from several reports you follow. Individual articles on Tooter are assumed to be known as ‘Tooter’, and consumers have the choice to personalize lists and groups. The support can be found on the net and on Android, however, an iOS program is marked by its absence.
Explaining the idea further, the about’ section of this program says: “We think that India should possess a Swadeshi social media. Without one we’re just an electronic colony of this American Twitter India Company, no more different than that which we had been beneath the British East India Company. Join us at this Andolan”.
Interestingly, Mint indicates that these folks may not have really setup accounts on the stage, using the ‘Tooter’ really lifted straight from Twitter, which might make it less of a Twitter copy and much more of a third-party Twitter program recharges as a first social networking system.
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3D Printed Sculpture of Parkland Shooting Victim is Displayed in Times Square
Published Oct 29, 2018
Manuel Oliver, the father of a student who was killed in the school shooting in Parkland, has 3D printed a life-size sculpture of his son "Guac". The sculpture is a protest against the pending legality of 3D printed guns and was put on display in Times Square.


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German automotive giant, Volkswagen has picked carVertical, a blockchain startup, as its new partner to pilot the creation of blockchain solutions for the automotive industry. The launch of the latest Volkswagen blockchain initiative was announced following carVertical’s success at an entrepreneurship pitch competition organized by German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce in Riga Latvia last month.
carVertical is a Lithuania blockchain startup that is focused on the creation of a decentralized vehicle check system. After gaining support from the European Union and raising nearly $20 million in its ICO campaign in a push for the actualization of its goals, the company was hailed as the most successful automotive-based ICO.
In an attempt to make a quick sale, dishonest car sellers often engage in odometer fraud; the illegal practice of manipulating odometers to produce deceptive mileage values. This criminal practice is on the rise and has led to distrust between car sellers and buyers. Forbes estimates that odometer fraud costs consumers $1 billion annually in the United States; the problem is even more rampant in Europe where an estimated $10.6 billion is lost every year. carVertical is hoping that its blockchain application can help solve this problem.
According to its roadmap, the startup will be heavily involved in applications dealing with decentralized vehicle registry before moving to create a practical API product in January 2019. carVertical plans to build an automobile history record app to help tackle the problem of used car fraud. The app functions as a record storage platform, where vehicle information is uploaded to its blockchain; users of the app can then access and track a car history data by utilizing its technical “passport” or the car vehicle identification number (VIN). This approach would bring decentralization, transparency, and trust back to the automotive industry since buyers would be able to track a vehicle data by themselves.
The company’s ambitious goal is finely enumerated on its website:
“Our goal is to enable every car buyer around the globe to get authentic and non-faked information about the specific vehicle and to help consumers in the maintenance of their vehicles.”
Innovation in the area of a workable decentralized car check system will be of great benefit to the automotive industry; the auto maker has seen the potential in this concept and believes that partnering with carVertical will lead to the joint development of more Volkswagen blockchain solutions.
In September 2018, carVertical will start working in Die Gläserne Manufaktur, a Volkswagen innovation hub located in Dresden, Germany. In addition to receiving €15,000 as financial support for the incubation program, carVertical will also enjoy the perks of working in a high-tech facility with excellent IT infrastructure. Additionally, Die Gläserne Manufaktur will provide the startup with access to mentors, coaches, decision-makers, and other experts within Volkswagen’s domain.
The partnership will benefit both companies, as Volkswagen will be able to establish itself as a leader in the development of automotive/transport-based applications of the future while carVertical will enjoy some valuable perks including financial support, availability of resources and expertise, and market credibility among others.
Volkswagen isn’t carVertical’s first partner; the startup also announced a partnership with GPSWOX, a provider of global GPS tracking solutions, on their blog. The goal of the partnership is to penetrate the “connected cars” market by advancing and developing automobile communication technologies in the area of Internet of Things (IoT).
In the race to create automobile applications of the future, carVertical appears to be on the right track. The blockchain startup has built a solid team consisting of both current and previous executives of car manufacturers, blockchain specialists, cyber security experts, as well as a strong board of directors.


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Cam Systems’ connection drives new 30th anniversary campaign online
Cam Systems is launching its 30th anniversary with an online campaign including a new website at the beginning of 2014. The company will demonstrate its connection to tyre industry retailers, manufacturers, fleets and wholesalers in under the campaign header, ‘Connecting the tyre industry’.
Cam is bringing together its industry-specific software solutions with its comprehensive tyre data, available through its Online Tyre Catalogue, to demonstrate how the combination links the entire supply chain together. The campaign aims to reinforce to all parties how Cam’s systems can benefit them through creating efficiencies, intelligent workflows and managing people to improve profitability, cash liquidity and gain competitive advantage.
Mike Allen, managing director of CAM, says, “Over 30 years of research and investment in our software building blocks means we understand the needs of our customers and how we can enhance the value we deliver to them to ensure their continuous improvement. With a fresh new website supporting our campaign to highlight three decades of industry and technical know-how, we are confident all stakeholders within the supply chain will benefit from connecting with CAM.”


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A blockchain advocacy group launched at last year's World Economic Forum is ramping up efforts to promote dialogue in Europe.
An official from the European Commission has revealed it is currently building a blockchain tool to enable data sharing.
The European Commission has revealed new information about its ongoing blockchain initiatives, including the first of a series of workshops.
A newly released report from the European Commission suggests there is relatively little virtual currency use among organized crime groups.
The European Commission is launching a new blockchain research project focused on non-financial applications of the tech.
The executive branch of the European Union may soon embark on a blockchain test that trials the technology's regulatory applications.
The executive arm of the European Union government is planning to expand its work on blockchain, an official said last week.
The EU is weighing a limit on cash transactions in a move that may also impact digital currency payments.
The European Banking Authority is calling for greater regulatory oversight for bitcoin exchanges and custodial wallets.
The executive branch of the European Union today adopted new AML rules that will impact digital currency businesses.


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There is no confirmation on this one but the first phone to use Samsung’s upgraded ISOCELL Bright HM1 sensor may not be from the South Korean tech giant. Just like last year, a Xiaomi flaship phone may implement the camera sensor first. This is no surprise since the Chinese OEM is usually first when it comes to using new tech and components from other companies. Samsung and Xiaomi have been joining forces to work on some technologies and improvements. Last year, we remember the pair’s efforts to develop a more powerful imaging sensor.
The Samsung ISOCELL Bright HM2 sensor is said to be found on a Xiaomi phone with 108MP resolution. It’s just an updated version of the Bright HM1 sensor based on the brand’s Nonacell technology. The sensor may be able to combine nine 0.8-micrometer to come up with bigger 2.4-micrometer pixels. Doing so results in better absorption of light.
It’s something to look forward to but don’t expect it on the Galaxy Note 20. The series’ design may have been finalized earlier so the new ISOCELL sensor didn’t make the cut. That or they prefer other OEMs to test the product first.
Apart from Samsung and Xiaomi, other Chinese OEMs like Vivo and OPPO can also use the ISOCELL Bright HM2 on their upcoming phones. We’ll see which brand will follow Xiaomi. It can be assumed the Samsung Galaxy S21 series due next year will use this sensor.


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Sustainability is part of The Body Shop's DNA and the brand has been walking the talk in this area, setting up refill programmes and launching its The Body Shop Activist Makers workshop store at Sunway Pyramid in May. While brands these days are working hard to drive sustainability and bring the purpose to life, Qas Qayyum, The Body Shop global head franchise, MD, told A+M in an interview that brands need to come from a place of authenticity.
"You can't simply [drive sustainability] because it's a trend or because it's going to be important to sell a product. Customers are savvy, they're going to see right through this," he said, adding:
My advice would be to keep it authentic and hold the brand to some really tangible targets so you can measure progress.
This is exactly what The Body Shop is doing - measuring its performance and holding itself to really "clear ambitious goals and targets", said Qayyum. While Qayyum (pictured) did not reveal exact figures, he explained that The Body Shop has internal metrics to measure performance with a sustainability angle.
"When we communicate this strategy to our people internally, it is not hard [to get them on board] because they understand that this is our purpose - to fight for a fairer and more beautiful world. Brands should keep driving [the sustainability agenda] because when there is more of us driving it, the greater impact we can make collectively," he said.
When it comes to sustainability, one common trap people might fall into is greenwashing. Not only will it result in backlash from the media and public, consumers too are also more hesitant about trusting sustainability claims. Milieu Insight's survey done earlier this year found that among 1,000 beauty product shoppers found that 67% of respondents will research more about the claims on their beauty products packaging to know if they are really sustainable/clean/ethical, especially those from the Philippines (83%) and Malaysia (72%).
The Body Shop, however, has always strived to walk the talk. The Body Shop's refill programme, for example, is part of its five-year plan unveiled last April to roll out refill stations to the majority of its stores globally in a bid to drive sustainability. Aside from Malaysia, refill stations are also available in its Singapore stores. It also uses natural ingredients in its body butter and ensures that the packaging is made from 100% recycled plastics.
At the same time, activism is also part of The Body Shop's DNA, Qayyum said. In 2017, for example, the brand rolled out a campaign titled "Forever Against Animal Testing" together with non-profit organisation Cruelty Free International to ban animal testing in cosmetic products and ingredients globally. It also announced the UNDI 18 campaign in Malaysia, which allows Malaysians aged 18 to 20 to vote and new voters to be automatically registered. This move came about because the brand believes that young people deserve a voice since the future belongs to the young.
The Body Shop is among the brands that are boldly taking a stand for issues it believes in. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer 2022, societal leadership is now a core business function and 58% of consumers are willing to purchase from or advocate for brands based on their beliefs and values. In Malaysia, specifically, a third of consumers view businesses as "highly effective agents of positive change". Also, CEOs are expected to help inform and shape conversations and policy debates on a range of issues ranging from jobs/economy, wage inequality, and technology to automation, but not on politics.
When asked how The Body Shop toes the line between standing for a cause while maintaining its pool of consumers, Qayyum said: "We are rediscovering our activism muscle. We are getting comfortable with being uncomfortable." The journey is definitely not easy for the brand but Qayyum said it is important to use the brand's influence to bond social and environmental justice both locally and globally. "And that's the beauty of working with partners to understand the local nuances and sensitivities," he said.
Aside from UNDI 18, The Body Shop also worked on a Tiger crisis campaign, garnering about 220,000 signatures in support of protecting Malayan tigers.
It also worked to end domestic violence in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. "It's really important that when we think about driving change and activism, we are locally relevant. Working closely with local NGOs and experts to co-create campaigns is incredibly important because that's when we can really start to drive and make change," he explained.
Physical stores usually offer customers with a more immersive experience which can help The Body Shop champion its causes. When asked how the company is translating that experience into the online space, Qayyum said the company sees online and offline working hand in hand.
"It's truly an omnichannel approach for us where we can drive the element of sustainability and get the product to come to life both online and offline. The omnichannel experience represents a more consistent and seamless experience, regardless of wherever the customer shops," he explained.
Across all its channels, particularly eCommerce, The Body Shop strives for "a consistent but not identical experience" as it deeply values the impact of personal connections, and experience with its customers. "We see our channels as more than just a point of contact but a point of sales. They are channels are places where customers can learn about the product stories, be inspired by like-minded people who fight for the things that we care about. And online is no different. You can jump online to our website and hereof and read about the issues that we care about the campaigns that we want to fight for, and how you as a customer can help to drive change," he said.
How The Body Shop's marketing has evolved
Over the past two years, The Body Shop has taken a more targeted and personalised approach than ever before and according to Qayyum, this forms "a really integral part of [its] omnichannel strategy". "When we do marketing, there is a role for traditional marketing media but from a digital perspective, we also want to be where our young consumers are. That's really also shaping how we communicate the brand on platforms such as TikTok. We think about how we can really engage and produce authentic content to engage the younger customers," he explained.
Aside from being authentic in the push for sustainability, companies also need to ensure the content they produce is authentic to build a genuine connection with the younger generation, who are all about authenticity these days. To this end, Qayyum explained that The Body Shop has social and environmental responsibility woven into everything it does and user-generated content is also an important part of its communication strategy.
"We have a plethora of ambassadors who are passionate advocates of the brand and who have actually worked for the brand. So leveraging them to help drive and create user-generated content becomes a really important element. It also helps inject authenticity into our content. There's also nothing better than being locally relevant," he explained.
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30 Jun. 2011
DECKERS’ MARTINEZ TO BE LAUDED AT ENKWSA SHOWAngel Martinez, the President, CEO and Chairman of Deckers Outdoor Corporation, the California-based multiline shoe manufacturer, will be the first recipient of the Footwear Industry Icon Award at the next ENKWSA show.
The newly created award will be presented to him at the event’s opening night party in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 27. The award honors an individual who has had major influence on his or her own company and the footwear industry in general. Martinez, 53, joined Deckers, which currently produces the brands Ugg Australia, Teva, Tsubo, Simple, Mozo and Ahnu, as CEO and President in April 2005. He was elected Chairman of the Board in May 2008. Before that he served as CEO at the shoe brand Keen, EVP and the Chief Marketing Officer at Reebok International and CEO and President of Rockport.
“Angel’s ability to incubate, nurture and grow brands that truly connect to the consumer combined with the creative leadership he brings to the footwear community are exactly the qualities that WSA wants to highlight for the industry,” says David Kahan, President, ENK Footwear Group.
“I’m honored to be a part of a great night at a great show to celebrate the footwear industry and humbled to receive this award,” says Martinez.
ENKWSA will run July 27 through 29. Producer ENK International reports that more than 1,000 brands from the footwear, handbag and related accessories sectors will participate in next month’s edition.
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News about Brightcove Inc., including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Brightcove, an online video distribution platform, has set the price range for its initial public offering at $10 to $12 a share.
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Countries across Central and Southeast Europe are working to improve their tourism offerings and visitor numbers are going up year by year. But with growth in tourism comes a growth in waste, including mountains of single-use packaging, a problem activists and a growing number of private sector companies in Slovenia are trying to address.
Slovenia prides itself on its beautiful, pristine countryside, and the Slovenian Tourist Board has long made sustainability and green tourism a central part of its offering.
“The biggest sources of waste [in the tourism industry] are food and plastic,” Helena Nieboer of Slovenian non-profit Ecologists without Borders tells bne IntelliNews. “Plastic — mostly single-use packaging of food (eg. at breakfast), plastic bottles and single-use toiletries; food — it is estimated that up to 60% of all waste in a hotel comes from their restaurants.”
Globally, the scale of the plastic waste produced by major hotels is staggering. Calculations by sustainability and plastics consultant Marissa Jablonski for Eco-Business estimate that a 200-room four-star hotel at full capacity can use about 300,000 pieces of single-use plastic in a month, including 49,765 plastic amenities and amenity packages, 216,693 pieces of plastic for food and beverage operations and 20,000 plastic water bottles. Campaign group A Plastic Planet says that 855bn plastic sachets are used every year, enough to cover the entire surface of the planet, many of which are thrown away without being opened.
In Slovenia, Ecologists without Borders analysed waste management data from Bled, a small town of just over 8,000 people on the shore of Lake Bled, one of Slovenia’s top tourist destinations. This revealed a “steep increase in municipal waste and residual waste generation during summer months, starting at the beginning of June and lasting until the end of September, when data plummeted again. When we linked the data to tourist arrivals and overnight stays, it perfectly matched.”
An article published by the NGO points out that not only do hotels create waste in the form of single-use plastic packaging, but tourists tend to use more water and electricity and create more waste when travelling than during their everyday lives.
The NGO has been working with pizza chef and entrepreneur Antonino Esposito, who first introduced the concept of zero waste hotels and restaurants, and collaborated with Hotel Ribno, a family-run hotel and glamping site in the village of Ribno about 2km from Bled, to turn it into Slovenia’s first zero waste hotel.
The hotel dates back to the 1980s, but the chalet-style exterior has recently been renovated, and the old exterior wood has been re-used to make furniture for the lobby and restaurant. It embarked on an intensive two-year programme to reduce waste and ensure that any waste from the hotel was separated, which ended with the hotel achieving a 92% separate collection rate. It also aims to cut back on water and energy use.
Entering the hotel, there is a set of recycling bins where you can separate your waste into organic, plastic, paper, textile and other categories before even arriving at the reception desk. There are similar sets of bins on each floor but none in the guest rooms (except for a tiny bin in the bathroom). There are no mini plastic packages either for toiletries (soap is provided in a refillable dispenser) or in the restaurant, where mostly local foods are laid out in bowls and plates. Signs on blackboards around the hotel urge guests to contribute by not taking more than they plan to eat from the buffet, sorting waste for recycling, drinking tap water instead of bottled water and using reusable bags when going shopping.
Nieboer tells bne IntelliNews that the NGO gets inquiries from hotels, restaurants and event organisers looking to emulate this on a regular basis. “Some of them are already implementing environmentally friendlier solutions without seeking recognition in the form of an eco-label,” she says.
Beyond the hotel sector, according to Ecologists without Borders, "in addition to separate waste collection, the event organisers of Jurjevanje in Bela krajina, Art kamp and (Z)mešani festival also introduced measures for their prevention. They cut the use of disposable plastics and installed drinking fountains at their venues."
Meanwhile, on the demand side, says Nieboer, “More and more tourists search for hotels with a different experience. They value the zero waste philosophy and the protection of our healthy and green environment. Therefore hotels with zero waste certificates and labels attract a different kind of guest.”
But not everyone gets it. Other hotels in the Bled area and elsewhere are seeking to reduce waste and ensure that any waste produced is recycled. Yet this has had a mixed response among tourists, with online reviews of some hotels in the resort complaining, for example, about the lack of individual toiletries in the bathrooms. “I would have expected a hotel of this calibre to have a better selection of toiletries,” complains one disgruntled traveller faced with a single refillable soap/shampoo dispenser in his bathroom.
Ecologists Without Borders points out that the steps towards zero waste tourism are being taken in a country where green tourism and sustainability have long been promoted.
“Slovenia is one of the cleanest and most environment-friendly countries in the world. It is the only country with a zero-waste capital where green tourism is also on the rise. Slovenia’s goal is to be a green country ensuring its people's health, safety and sustainability,” says the NGO’s website.
Ljubljana currently recycles 68% of its waste, up from 29.3% in 2008, putting it at the top of European cities in terms of the percentage of waste recycled. Across the country, there is a 55% recycling rate for municipal solid waste, which is as high as 80% in some communities.
This is unusual in the CEE/SEE region, where Eurostat data shows that recycling is generally behind that in western EU members, though waste generation is lower too as consumption levels and the related explosion in packaging waste still have not caught up with the western part of the bloc. In fact, Slovenia produces larger amounts of waste than its peers in Central and Southeast Europe, though still relatively small amounts in an EU-wide comparison.
The steps being taken in Slovenia come in the context of announcements made by major international hotel chains that they are cutting back on single-use plastics or eliminating them altogether, responding to the growing environmental awareness of business travellers and tourists.
They include the Marriott group that said in 2019 that it will replace most of its hotels’ single-use toiletries with larger bottles this year, which, it said, will prevent about 500mn tiny plastic bottles being sent to landfill each year. It is also eliminating plastic straws, a step already taken by the Hilton chain, which has also cut back on single-use mini toiletries.


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A significant number of lactose-free dairy drinkers in developing markets claim their main decision to buy lactose-free products was down to their health appeal, according to the latest Global Insight Series from ingredients firm DSM.
The report was based on a survey that compared results from the established low-lactose market in Finland with the upcoming markets of Colombia and China.
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In the survey, 48% of consumers in Colombia and 65% in China said the health benefits of a lactose-free product was the main driver behind their choice.
The reason that it would be easier to digest lagged behind at 32% and 36% respectively.
Furthermore, 82% of consumers in Colombia and 73% of consumers in China agreed that lactose-free dairy was healthier than regular dairy.
Meanwhile, only 21% of Finnish people rated lactose intolerance as one of their three most important reasons for buying lactose-free dairy.
According to the DSM report, continued innovation has enabled lactose-free to become mainstream in Finland, more than a decade since the launch of the first lactose-free milk in the country.
It suggested that manufacturers should use the lactose-free ‘health halo’ in crossover dairy products, combining it with beneficial ingredients such as fibres, proteins vitamins, nutritional ingredients or real fruit, to create new ‘better for you’ extensions to existing options.


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Rent the Runway’s splashy Dumbo office space has hit the sublease market.
The company, which rents out designer dresses on a short-term basis, decided to shutter most of its retail stores when Covid struck. It’s now also giving up its office digs at Triangle Assets’ 10 Jay Street, adding over 80,000 square feet of prime space to a market already teeming with sublet space.
Triangle Assets gut-renovated the former 221,500-square-foot warehouse that sits along the East River esplanade and waterfront. It has a striking glass curtain wall providing sweeping views of sunsets over Manhattan’s skyline.
Rent the Runway signed up for its space last May and the furniture was just delivered last week, said Ira Schuman of Savills, who is co-broking the sublet with colleague Stephan Steiner. Its spread includes a 10th-floor penthouse of just over 12,000 square feet that includes a wraparound terrace, as well as over 70,000 square feet on the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors.
Floors eight through 10 are available for immediate occupancy, according to Savills, while the seventh floor, with about 23,600 square feet can be leased starting in 2022 due to other subleases. The entire space can be rented through March 2027 with an option to extend through 2032.
“This virus made them understand what they can do from home,” said Steiner. The company still has its offices at 345 Hudson Street in Manhattan but most of the staff is working from home, Steiner said.
As The Real Deal reported in August, with live events at a standstill due to stay-at-home regulations, the retailer decided to convert to an online only model with its retail shop at 30 West 15th Street becoming a permanent drop-off/return only location.
Sublet space is becoming a big headache for landlords with direct space to list, as it’s generally provided at a significant discount. According to Colliers, sublet inventory now accounts for 23 percent of Manhattan’s total availability and is the highest since 2010.
According to a newsletter from sublet specialist, Ruth Colp-Haber of Wharton Properties, “sublet space offered by non-real estate companies in need of immediate cash flow is now available at discounts of up to 50% or more from pre-Covid levels in some instances.”
Another fashion firm, Hugo Boss, has listed its nearly 70,000 square feet at 55 Water Street on the other side of the East River with an asking rent of $59 per foot through December 2031, Colp-Haber’s newsletter said. It is being offered through another Savills leasing team.
Rent the Runway agreed to pay in the mid-$70s per foot when it signed last year.


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Budweiser beer will be renamed “America,” at least for a few months, because why not?
As USA Today reports, Saint Louis brewer Anheuser-Busch has changed the name of one of its most popular products, Budweiser, to “America,” beginning May 23 and lasting through the election this November.
— Matt Mauro (@mattmauro12news) May 11, 2016
In a statement via PR Newswire, Budweiser vice president Ricardo Marques explains that there’s a lot for Americans to be excited about this summer, and so the name change just makes sense.
“We are embarking on what should be the most patriotic summer that this generation has ever seen, with Copa America Centenario being held on U.S. soil for the first time, Team USA competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Budweiser has always strived to embody America in a bottle, and we’re honored to salute this great nation where our beer has been passionately brewed for the past 140 years.”
Besides changing the name on cans and bottles of Budweiser, the “America Is In Your Hands” campaign will also include murals, billboards, digital content, and other “special surprises.”
In fact, what Anheuser-Busch doesn’t like to tell consumers is that there’s actually not all that much that’s American about Budweiser beer.
Sure, it’s brewed in Saint Louis (among other places), but the company is owned by Belgium-based international conglomerate InBev. And as a small brewery in the Czech Republic has been trying to make clear for over a century, the name “Budweiser” originated in the Czech city of České Budějovice, where the Budweiser Budvar Brewery had been brewing a beer called “Budweiser” long before an American company bought the rights to the name.
As USA Today reported in 2012, in 1939 Anheuser-Busch bought the rights to the name “Budweiser” for sale in all of the American territories north of Panama. While that agreement has worked out just fine on this side of the Atlantic, in Europe it’s resulted in a patchwork of conflicting laws, where in some places the Czech beer is known as “Budweiser,” in some places it’s known as “Czechvar,” and the American beer is sold in some places as just “Bud.” Meanwhile, the Czech brewer insists that the only beer that should be sold anywhere in the world as “Budweiser” is beer produced in that particular corner of Eastern Europe.
Here in the U.S., Budweiser — like other mass-market beer brewers — has been contending with a larger problem than naming rights. As the American beer palate has matured, mass-market beers such as Budweiser are falling out of favor, as Americans gravitate toward more complex and flavorful craft beers brewed in smaller, local breweries.
Budweiser’s reaction to changing American tastes in beer has been rather defensive, according to the Huffington Post.
“Remember, this is the company that dropped the puppy from its Super Bowl commercials so it could run an ad mocking craft beer while claiming that Budweiser, in contrast, is ‘brewed the hard way.'”
Needless to say, reaction to the “America” name change has been less than complimentary on social media.
— Eric Steele (@ThatEricSteele) May 10, 2016
To be more accurate, Budweiser should put “Belgian Multinational Corporation” on its cans until November.
— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) May 10, 2016
Still, according to Los Angeles Times writer Jessica Roy, a cold, frosty can of “America” just makes sense sometimes.
“And let’s be honest: It’s going to be tough to resist the allure of Instagramming yourself cracking open a can of ‘America’ at your Fourth of July party.”
How do you feel about Budweiser changing its name to “America” for the summer?
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While (former) startups such as Lemonade came to attack the weary world of insurance, the travel insurance market is now being treated the same way by companies like Safetywing (covered by TS here) and Battle.
In an ideal world, travel insurance would be easier to understand, pay out quickly when something goes wrong, and work almost like Apple Pay or Google Pay in its simplicity. New start-up “travel insurance for all time” Fay — who came out of stealth mode last month — is looking to bring that kind of vibe with his approach, and now he’s raised support to do just that.
The startup has raised $8 million in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures and F2 Venture Capital. Portage Ventures, Global Founders Capital (GFC) and former NBA player Omri Casspi also participated.
It’s fair to say that most travel insurance products are less for consumers and more for distributors, where jargon-laden add-ons abound. Faye claims her approach is much simpler, asking clients 6 questions to find the right plan.
The platform covers travel, health, property and pets through an app that sends alerts, has 24/7 customer support, and allows you to submit digital claims and electronic refund transfers to your Faye wallet.
Co-founder and CEO Elad Shaffer said in a statement: “Travel insurance has become synonymous with long, jargon-filled policies that leave travelers confused rather than well-informed… Faye is entering the market as a solution to these problems, at a time when consumers are planning to travel. more than ever before and are looking for solutions to take care of them on the go.”
Faye will also cover travelers if they contract COVID-19 prior to travel and cancellations (subject to the terms of the plan), as well as medical emergencies and travel interruptions.
Omri Ben David, General Partner of Viola Ventures, commented: “Fay is reinventing the consumer travel insurance category in the US, where data is not yet used for customized, price-optimized coverage in an industry with very favorable growth characteristics and units. economy”.
The Faye team consists of Jeff Rolander (formerly of Allianz), Moran Traser (formerly of Lemonade) and Lauren Gamport (formerly of Guesty).
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