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Market research this week had identified Tesco as a festive victor, but the group said lower sales of general merchandise and the collapse of a tobacco supplier cast a shadow over a record week of trading before December 25.
Tesco has posted a like-for-like sales increase of 2.2% in its United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland operations over the 19-week period incorporating its third quarter and Christmas.
The clothing market was particularly weak in October and food sales have been continuously underperforming, he said.
Tesco and Sainsbury's have announced "best ever" Christmas trading periods, as Asda and M&S lose ground.
Analyst Adam Tomlinson at Liberum said: "A tough October impacted and the business carried more stock into its December sales than planned".
The supermarket group revealed that sales over the festive period grew 4% when compared to the same period in 2016.
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"Our trading momentum accelerated across the third quarter and into December, with the four weeks leading up to Christmas Day delivering record sales and volumes in the United Kingdom", chief executiuve Dave Lewis said.
Mr Rowe said on food, the group had "a lot to do to get our business back on track" having disappointed in the last few quarters despite rivals enjoying a sales boost from rising inflation.
Department store John Lewis shrugged off any gloom with a 3.1% hike in sales over the six weeks to December 30, while its sister company Waitrose booked a rise of 1.5%.
Clothing and homeware fell 2.8%, while food, seen as its most successful sector, was down 0.4%.
M&S also did not take part in Black Friday, which helped buoy John Lewis results. For Tesco, shares of which were also dented by weak merchandise sales, there's no question it remains in good enough shape to absorb such disappointments.
However, group tobacco sales declined by 2.6 per cent with tobacco like-for-likes down 2.1 per cent and as a result, total sales were up 3.4 per cent and like-for-likes were up 3.8 per cent.
Catherine Shuttleworth, chief executive at retail marketing agency Savvy, said: "We think that the M&S food shopper has in part been lured away to the discounters this Christmas with their enhanced premium ranges and outstanding wines and spirits offers".

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A quarter of auto recalls are not repaired on average each year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Ignoring a recall notice or waiting to have the repairs done can lead to more problems down the road.
By the time Stephen Smith found out about the recall on his 2013 Dodge Ram, it was just a little too late. Smith said the truck’s alternator failed back in July while he was on the road. Smith knew he wouldn’t make it home to Canaan, so he took it to a dealership in Torrington.
"It literally died as I was pulling into their parking lot," Smith said.
An employee at the dealership told Smith that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) had issued a recall on the alternator at the end of 2016.
"They said everything was great. The recall would cover the alternator, all that," Smith said.
Smith assumed "all that" included two new batteries installed in his diesel truck to replace the ones that were drained, as well as the cost of a rental vehicle.
"If the alternator was under recall and the alternator is what supplies the energy to keep the batteries charged, they should be covered under the warranty," Smith said.
But the remedy outlined in the official recall notice only includes the alternator and makes no mention of batteries or other associated costs.
Smith took his complaint directly to FCA and said one customer service agent told him they’d send over some paperwork to fill out in order for his case to be considered. Another said to be on the lookout for a check but Smith never received either.
When his own efforts stalled, Smith asked NBC Connecticut Responds to take over. Within 24 hours of reaching out to NBC Connecticut's consumer team, Smith received a phone call from FCA.
About a week later, he got a check for $577.93 to cover his out-of-pocket costs.
A spokesperson for FCA told NBC Connecticut, "FCA US is pleased to resolve this situation and regrets any inconvenience it may have caused. However, we urge customers to respond to the instructions on recall notices. Safety is a paramount concern at FCA US. Further, it is prudent for consumers to periodically consult one of the various online search engines, such as checktoprotect.org, to learn if a vehicle may have an open recall."
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An engineer who cashed out her 401K to turn her passion for vegan comfort food into a thriving business took home the top prize in the Will This Float? pitch competition on Monday night.
"I'm shocked. This is my first pitch competition," said Adyre Mason, who launched The Veggie two years ago in Huntsville, Ala. "Maybe I'll do some more now."
The competition, a Startup Week mainstay, gives fledgling businesses a boost with $3,000 in funding for the winner, $2,000 for the second place finisher, and $1,000 for the people's choice pick. This year's competition featured female founders and a partnership with EnrichHER, which connects women to the capital and networks to grow their businesses.
"There are 1,800 women each day launching businesses, and over 80% of them make it to year two," said Tiara Zolnierz, head of business development for EnrichHER and one of the judges of the pitch competition.
Will This Float? featured eight female entrepreneurs who have launched businesses that run the gamut from artisanal pies and recycling services to an app that helps people find overnight accommodations when they are traveling with horses.
The competition gave each entrepreneur just a few minutes to pitch their vision to a panel of judges. Honing that message into a tight set of talking points is a real challenge, said Briana Garza, founder of the Chatt Taste Food Tour, which took home the people's choice award.
"How do you describe your life project in three minutes?" she said before the event. The tasting tour business Garza leads launched in September and sold out the first 60 days immediately. The pitch competition on Monday night was her first foray into fundraising. "We are brand new to the pitch scene," Garza said.
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Blue Skies Curbside Recycling provides residential and commercial single-stream curbside recycling pick-up services for rural areas where municipalities do not offer these services.
Founder: Anne Montgomery
Chatt Taste Food Tour showcases the essence of Chattanooga Cuisine for visitors with limited time in the city by visiting 3-4 restaurants in one evening on a guided tour. Took home the people’s choice award.
Founder: Briana Garza
Crafter Perfecter is a glove that eases discomfort and provides pain relief for everyday crafters.
Founder: Monique Evans
Horse Away is a streamlined app and website where people traveling with horses can easily find and reserve overnight accommodations for their horse.
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Mama Crunk’s Pies offers scratch-baked and artisanal pies, pastries and catering.
Founder: Christine “Crunk” Nguyen
The Veggie specializes in vegan comfort food served through fully prepared meal delivery, catering and personal chef services, and wholesale partnerships. First-place award winner.
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Freedom From Laundry LLC provides pick-up and delivery laundry service in the Chattanooga & North Georgia area. Second-place award winner.
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Southern Spooning LLC produces small batch, made-from-scratch chocolate sauce.
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The female focus of the event made this a particularly appealing opportunity, said Lauren Zilen, the founder of Southern Spooning. "That's the biggest honor of being in it," Zilen said.
Zilen's chocolate sauce startup did a soft launch over the holidays last year, selling jars of the confection at Niedlov's Breadworks, which her family also owns. She launched Southern Spooning with her mother using a recipe from her grandmother, Zilen said.
"It's our family business, so we're just sharing the story of our family," she said. "This is our first pitch competition and our first pitch ever."
Christine Nguyen, the "Mama Crunk" behind Mama Crunk's Pies, launched her business in 2016, and has benefited from the Kiva fundraising program, which connects entrepreneurs to interest-free loans through online lenders. Progress has been slow but steady as she grows Mama Crunk's into a major player on the pie scene, Nguyen said.
"We've been sort of a rag-tag team over the years, and I feel proud that people know us around town," she said.
Her bakery business is all women, and being part of the female founders edition of Will This Float? was especially appealing, Nguyen said.
"It's fun to see all the different women doing their own thing," she said.
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By Antonio Guerrero
Though its economic growth may be stalling, Brazil is still an attractive destination for investors. But the recent imposition of tariffs on certain imports has sparked an international ruckus.
For several years now, the international community has complained about Brazil’s growing protectionist stance. With the country’s economy experiencing a slowdown, authorities in Brasilia have contended, in turn, that recent measures to protect local industries are simply part of a defensive strategy. But now even local businesses are questioning the measures.
“To try to isolate and protect industry from competition may benefit the local industry, but it has long-term costs and will block the development of a truly competitive and innovative industrial base,” British prime minister David Cameron told the Brazilian press ahead of an official visit to the country in September. The message seemed a warning to the administration of president Dilma Rousseff that its policies may ultimately backfire. UK-Brazil bilateral trade was $5.2 billion between January and August, with a $567 million surplus in Brazil’s favor.
“We can’t extend the economic retraction by isolating ourselves and setting up protectionist barriers,” Cameron added. “Instead, we have to break them by providing more jobs, growth and prosperity.” The prime minister contends that, unlike Brazil, the UK is lifting trade barriers, slashing taxes on partnerships, granting tax incentives to new businesses and even issuing more business visas to get top talent to relocate to Britain—all to boost the country’s slow economic recovery.
Cameron was responding to a September move by the Brazilian government to increase import tariffs on a list of 100 products ranging from steel and rubber tires to produce. The measure elicited a letter from the US government to the Rousseff administration asking it to reconsider the measures. The Brazilian government had already introduced previous rules to protect local industries, including hiking taxes on foreign car imports.
“We live in a time when the world market is shrinking and exporters flood Brazil, which is one of the few growing markets, and our industry is being harmed by this,” finance minister Guido Mantega told reporters in Brasilia, when questioned about the recent round of tariff hikes. Indeed, many exporters have been enticed by Brazil’s growing consumer market in what last year overtook the UK to become the world’s sixth-largest economy.
Prazeres, Brazilian ministry of development, industry and foreign trade: Recent increases in import tariffs are still below the ceiling
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in late September, president Rousseff said such measures are not protectionist but defensive. “We cannot accept that legitimate initiatives of commercial defense by developing countries can be classified as protectionism,” she said. “Protectionism and all forms of commercial manipulation must be fought.” The administration argues that recent moves are primarily aimed at easing price differentials caused by the weak global outlook.
Furthermore, authorities note that Brazilian tariffs remain within international standards. “All of the defensive commercial measures adopted by Brazil are in compliance with the international rules contemplated in the accords signed by the country and cannot be regarded as protectionist,” says Tatiana Lacerda Prazeres, foreign trade secretary at Brazil’s ministry of development, industry and foreign trade. “The recent increase in import tariffs was done using percentages that are still below the tariff ceiling set for Brazil by the World Trade Organization. Even still, the measure is temporary and valid through 2014 and affects 100 items within a universe of 10,000 tariff codes.”
Despite the government’s rationale, exporters looking to tap the Brazilian market feel otherwise, with some analysts charging that the moves are intensifying as the nation’s economy slows. According to a forecast from Standard & Poor’s, Brazilian GDP is expected to grow by a meager 1.5% this year, though acknowledging that fiscal, monetary and credit stimulus should boost GDP and domestic spending next year. In March the International Chamber of Commerce’s ICC Index ranked Brazil as having the most protectionist policies among the G20 nations.
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Recent measures also come as Brazil’s trade surplus, which had been fueling economic growth, continues to slip. The trade surplus dropped to $2.6 billion in September, from $3.1 billion during the same month last year, with analysts blaming global market weakness for the decline. In August the government cut its 2012 export forecast to $256 billion, from a previous $264 billion estimate. The government expects the situation to reverse over the medium term, as pre-salt oil deposits discovered in 2007 will double oil production to some five million barrels per day by 2020. The deposits, estimated to hold some 100 billion barrels of crude, will make Brazil one of the world’s biggest exporters.
Nicholas Morse, manager of the Schroder ISF Latin American Income fund, thinks recent measures will, at the margin, reduce the import of certain products, but, more importantly, may dampen demand for such Brazilian export and commodity goods as iron ore and soya. He argues protectionism tends to foster inflation, a less competitive and productive industrial sector and reduced choices for consumers. “It seems likely that the president wants to reduce interest rates to the low 7% [level] and keep them there using other tools, such as macroprudential measures rather than monetary policy. to manage inflation, if possible,” he says. “Inflation and inflation expectations are being pushed up by rising food prices and recent fuel price increases, only partly to be offset by lower electricity prices.”
“We cannot accept that legitimate initiatives of commercial defense by developing countries can be classified as protectionism”
– Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff
However, Morse still feels the situation is not likely to keep investors away anytime soon. “Nations outside Mercosur [Southern Common Market] might react to Brazil’s increased protectionism, but bear in mind that Brazil is still regarded as an attractive investment destination, hence FDI [foreign direct investment] running at $45.9 billion year-to-date.”
Although local industries stand to benefit directly from the government’s policies, with steel sector stocks surging after the recent round of tariff hikes, some business leaders say tackling what has come to be known as the “Brazil cost” would yield better long-term results. The “Brazil cost” includes high tax rates, a lack of skilled workers and often-deficient infrastructure. The Brazilian government this year unveiled an ambitious infrastructure development plan.
Paulo Skaf, head of the powerful Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), summed it up best after meeting with the British prime minister: “We do not want any type of protectionism, what we want is competitiveness.”


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The 25-page report, titled Business Travel Trends 2024, was produced by Globetrender in partnership with Cytric Easy, a digital travel tool developed by Amadeus.
It outlined a series of trends that Globetrender believes will be at the heart of business travel this year, driven by two synchronous shifts in attitude.
“When looking at the future of business travel in 2024, it’s clear that two macro shifts are happening in parallel,” explained Jenny Southan, CEO and Founder of Globetrender. “Technology is making the planning and execution of trips ever-more seamless; but there is also a desire to ‘go back to basics’, which is manifesting in nature-based corporate retreats and the revival of ‘power lunches’.”
Southan added that the trends highlight both “the enduring value of human connection” in business, as well as the need for every journey to “justify the return on investment” and “carbon impact of flying”.
Globetrender noted that as pressure grows for companies to minimise outgoings and improve their sustainability, employees will face heavier demands to justify their work trips. Consequently, 2024 is expected to see business trips planned to fulfil more than one goal – a practice Globetrender calls “objective stacking”.
This practice will see more business travellers take more time to meet clients, forge deals, conduct analysis of competitors or investigate opportunities for expansion – rather than flying out and back for the sake of one meeting.
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More businesses are expected to book “strategic getaways” in 2024 – multi-day team-building trips offering a range of immersive experiences, aimed at building camaraderie between employees and boosting company loyalty.
The rise of the AIs
2024 is also expected to see greater implementation of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) as part of the business travel experience. These AI tools will be capable of advising on itinerary options, providing a detailed trip brief, and offering guidance on company travel policy in natural language.
Globetrender forecasts the continued popularity of blended itineraries in 2024 – a concept also known as ‘bleisure’, where leisure travel experiences are added on to work trips.
This trend is getting more sophisticated, facilitated by automated systems that improve the flexibility of traveller itineraries.
Power networking is expected to emerge as a new trend this year – referring to a hyper-focused approach to acquiring and developing business connections. This includes a return to older practices such as the ‘power lunch’, where professional relationships are nurtured over meals.
Suzanne Sangiovese, Director of Travel and Technology at Riskline, spoke about how business travel is evolving in the February edition of ITIJ.


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Last year, Apple
During the selloff that kicked off August, the Mac maker surpassed Exxon Mobil
Today, Apple hit a new market-cap milestone as it broke into uncharted territory. As of this writing, Apple's intraday high has been $431.37, and when you multiply that by the 932 million shares outstanding, you'll notice that its market cap reached as high as $402 billion, breaking $400 billion for the first time ever.
Note that the chart above represents market caps based on the previous day's close, as opposed to the intraday figure calculated above for Apple. Exxon still reigns as top dog with roughly a $422 billion market cap, but it's safe to say that Apple is still the largest tech company in the world by market cap. Cupertino topped Microsoft's
Looking at revenue on a trailing-12-month basis, Apple has also recently squeezed out a lead over fellow tech giant IBM
When it comes to competing with HP, Apple may be about to swoop in and steal a different title from the embattled PC maker. If you assume that the iPad counts as a PC, which is a distinction debatable from both perspectives, then Apple may be about to claim the name, by shipments, of top PC maker in the world.
With Apple set to report earnings on Tuesday, with hints of a blowout, we'll see how Mac and iPad shipments turn out and whether or not Apple can take the lead.
With Apple leading the mobile revolution, some winners are hard to see -- because they're buried inside the gadgets. The proliferation of mobile devices is going to be breathtaking, and a handful of companies stand to rake in the profits as consumers snap up each year's latest and greatest models. We've just released a new special free report on "3 Hidden Winners of the iPhone, iPad, and Android Revolution." In it, you'll find three companies that supply crucial components that virtually every mobile device relies on. Check it out now -- it's free.


text: Ferro Corp. (NYSE: FOE) has reported a smaller fourth-quarter loss than a year earlier, when the company took $80 million in impairment charges that pulled down results. The maker of specialty chemicals said its net loss narrowed to $13.1 million, or 19 cents a share, from $63.7 million, or $1.47 a share, in the fourth quarter of 2008. Ferro said its diluted shares outstanding climbed 61%, to 69.8 million in the latest fourth quarter from 43.4 million a year earlier. Ferro had a large stock offering in late 2009. Sales at Ferro rose 6%, to $458.4 million from $432.2 million. Ferro said its volume of products sold in the first quarter of 2010 is expected to improve from the fourth quarter of 2009, particularly in the company's Electronic Materials, Performance Coatings and Color and Glass Performance Materials segments. “Customer demand is expected to follow historical seasonal trends during 2010, with somewhat higher sales in the first half of the year compared with the second half,” Ferro said in a statement. Ferro expects modest economic growth worldwide, and does not expect to see what it called “a return to recessionary conditions” in the company's major regional markets in the United States, Europe and Asia. “Based on these assumptions, the company currently estimates 2010 net sales will increase between 5% and 10% compared with 2009, to between $1.75 billion and $1.85 billion,” Ferro stated. In 2009, Ferro had sales of $1.66 billion and a loss of $41.3 million.


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Samsung Galaxy Note 9, not Galaxy S9, will be the first phone to have an under-display fingerprint sensor. KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says Samsung has already got samples from BeyondEyes and Samsung LSI and has begun testing the technology.
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Samsung is planning to fix the weird placement of the fingerprint sensor in the Galaxy S8 series and Galaxy Note 8 with the launch of Note 9 next year. According to KGI Securities' analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the Note 9 will be the first smartphone from the South Korean company to feature a fingerprint sensor embedded within the display. The under-display fingerprint sensor was earlier rumoured to debut first on the Galaxy Note 8 and Apple's iPhone X.
According to reports, both Apple and Samsung tried to incorporate fingerprint tech under the display for their 2017 smartphones but failed to develop the technology in time for launch. Now Kuo says an optical sensor that can function from within the display will be available for the Note 9 next year. He adds that BeyondEyes and Samsung LSI are the two suppliers that have already shipped part samples to Samsung Electronics.
With the launch of the Galaxy Note 9 next year, Samsung is said to be using a new technology that will allow the AMOLED screen to double up as the light source for the sensor, reports Business Insider. The technology is seen as a way to enhance the battery life of the smartphone. While BeyondEyes and Samsung LSI are likely to win the contract, Samsung might also consider Egis, the supplier of regular fingerprint sensor used on current Galaxy phones.
Samsung currently includes Iris recognition and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor for authentication with its existing flagship smartphones. While the placement of the fingerprint sensor has been ill-conceived, the iris scanning technology has been found easy to fool.
A recent report said that Android smartphone makers have started investigating 3D sensing technology used by Apple for Face ID on iPhone X. It also said that under display fingerprint sensors have been sidelined but Samsung now seems to be focusing on getting the technology right for its future devices.
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We took a spin at the show floor of the just concluded CP+ camera and photo imaging show and here are some highlights we've collated just for you.
While news of the leaks were rampant all over the net just a day before their official unveiling, both the Samsung Galaxy S II and the new 10.1-inch Samsung Tab still managed to live up to their hype. We took a quick look at these two devices and came back with some good news to share.
At long last, the open secret once known as the PlayStation Phone makes its official debut as the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. We share some of our hands-on experience with the Xperia Play and its fellow Xperia siblings, the Neo and Pro.
CP+ is the only large-scale camera and photo imaging trade show in the first half of the year. This year, it was held from February 9 to 12 in Yokohama, Japan. Canon Singapore took the opportunity to show us their latest products that would soon be available.
With Mobile World Congress 2011 coming right up, we round-up some of the most prominent news that have made an impact in the mobile scene, and put in some of our predictions and our own wish lists for the annual exhibition.
AMD has rolled into town to launch its Fusion APU for the Asia Pacific region. Joining the AMD executives at the event were numerous OEM partners, which meant that we got to check out some of the upcoming Fusion powered notebooks, nettops and barebones systems.
What do you do when you've just engineered the world's slimmest 3LCD projector? We say, announce it to the world! That was exactly what Epson did with its new EB-1700 series. Read on to find out what else they've in store.
Developers get down and dirty with RIM at the inaugural BlackBerry DevCon Asia. Find out more about the PlayBook tablet staus, BlackBerry ecosystem, super apps and more hands-on feedback of the PlayBook tablet from our event coverage.
In our next edition of our CES 2011 coverage, we've covered JVC, LG, MSI, NVIDIA, Plantronics and BlackBerry.
And now, for Part 5 of our CES 2011 coverage straight from Las Vegas. Sleepless nights to get you all the updates straight from the show floor and featuring Panasonic, Razer, Creative, Audio Technica and so much more.
- YouTube reveals Singapore’s top-trending videos of 2016
- Pebble confirms that it's joining Fitbit; will issue Kickstarter refunds
- Google is working to shrink the size of Android app updates by as much as two-thirds
- How the ‘Get a Mac’ ads were made
- Apple said to be negotiating for earlier access to movies on iTunes
- Apple says iPhone 6 fires in China are not due to product faults
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ISTANBUL, May 22 (Reuters) – A group of Turkish business associations is looking to buy the household appliances division of Dutch electronics giant Philips in a plan supported by Ankara, Turkish newspaper Sabah said on Friday.
Philips said in January it was looking to separate the household appliances division, which had $2.6 billion in sales in 2019.
The Turkish group includes five leading organisations in the business world: the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), exporters’ assembly TIM, the chambers and commodity exchanges union (TOBB) and business associations TUSIAD and MUSIAD, Sabah reported.
“We as Turkey are the most powerful country in production between Germany and China. Hence an economic model must be created by the Turkish business world forming consortiums and buying global brands,” said DEIK board member Murat Kolbasi.
Sabah quoted him as saying Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan had expressed support for the project. (Additional reporting by Toby Sterling in Amsterdam;Writing by Daren Butler;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)


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The 20th annual black-tie gala Zoobilee is this Friday, July 16, at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Local restaurants, bars and wineries will dish up a long list of food and drinks. Here are just a few nibbles and drinks to be found at the event: Joel Mertens, executive chef of Masa and Asado, told me that from Asado, guests will nibble on mesquite grilled chorizo with quinoa and chimichurri. Masa will serve margaritas made with Aha Toro tequila, Mertens said. What's cooking from Pacific Grill? Chef-Owner Gordon Naccarato said the restaurant will serve meat candy, roasted dates wrapped in bacon, and Albacore tuna tartare with crostini and a green peppercorn vinaigrette.
Find details of the event here and buy tickets here ($200-$275 each, tickets are still available), and find a list of participating restaurants, bars and other food businesses here. Proceeds from the gala benefit education and conservation efforts at the Zoo and Aquarium. The event is 21 and older only.
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Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
For over 70 years, TriState has provided corrugated packaging products and services to customers located in the Northeastern United States. The company operates out of three facilities in the Philadelphia-area. TriState has the capabilities to manufacture highly customized corrugated packaging of any size, including high-graphic packaging products through its ProCorr brand, and has recently installed a single-pass digital press.
The acquisition will expand Unicorr’s manufacturing footprint into Pennsylvania, offering increased capability and flexibility for both Unicorr and its customers.
“This acquisition strategically marks the next phase of growth for both Unicorr and TriState, and combining capabilities, services, and expertise across all locations will offer significant benefit to our customers,” said Hap Perkins, CEO of Unicorr. “The geographic expansion and strong cultural fit along with the potential for cross-selling opportunities makes the combined company well-positioned for growth.”
Unicorr, like TriState, is a multi-generation family-owned business. Perkins runs the business alongside his three sons, Matt, Nick, and Jim.
Allen Friedman, President of TriState, will remain with the company as the Vice President of TriState Container and Jim Perkins will be joining the TriState management team.
The TriState and ProCorr brands, which have long been established in the Philadelphia-area, will remain and TriState will operate as a subsidiary of Unicorr.
Friedman said, “My grandfather founded this company over 70 years ago and through the years the most important thing at TriState has always been the customer. I wanted to find a partner that shared these values and that would continue to steward the company in the right direction.
“Unicorr’s complementary capabilities and geography make them an obvious choice from a business perspective, but greater than that is their legacy as a family-owned business and their recognition in the market for serving their customers. I look forward to continuing with TriState, growing the combined entity, and preserving the legacy built by my grandfather alongside the Perkins family,” Friedman concluded.
Beyond being a strong cultural fit, the combined businesses will be able to provide virtually all types of corrugated packaging from standard brown box to high-end graphic packaging as well as sizes from mini to jumbo to customers based in the Northeast. Unicorr also provides protective packaging products consisting of foam, wood crates, and pallets, and supplies.
Founded in 1946, Unicorr is among the largest converters of custom corrugated products and protective packaging in the Northeast. Headquartered in North Haven, Connecticut, Unicorr has six manufacturing facilities in four different states with the ability to manufacture and distribute a wide range of packaging including corrugated containers, high graphic displays and retail packaging, wood crates and pallets, foam, distribution products, and more.
SOURCE: Unicorr Packaging Group


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David Cameron's claims that supermarkets hike price of food to fund cheaper alcohol dubbed 'nonsense' by retail group
- Prime Minister said 'good evidence' supermarkets are subsidising low alcohol price with higher food prices
- British Retail Consortium dismissed the claims
David Cameron said there is 'good evidence' food prices are higher in supermarkets to fund cheap alcohol
Claims by David Cameron that supermarkets are funding cheap alcohol by overcharging shoppers for food have been branded 'nonsense'.
The Prime Minister said yesterday there was 'good evidence' that supermarkets were subsidising low prices on wine, beer and cider by increasing the cost of everyday food.
The British Retail Consortium have rejected the claims and demanded to know on what evidence it was based.
Mr Cameron was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying: 'There is some evidence, pretty good evidence, that what some supermarkets are doing is actually pushing up the price of food to heavily pay for the very discounted, very cheap alcohol.'
He was speaking to a group of factory workers in north Wales yesterday about the Government's proposals to introduce a minimum price of alcohol of 45p a unit to tackle Britain's binge drinking problem.
The Prime Minister said the proposals would prevent strong lager being sold for as little as 25p a can.
However, supermarkets have denied they are overcharging for food to fund cheap alcohol.
Andrew Opie, from the British Retail Consortium, told the Daily Telegraph: 'This is nonsense. What evidence? The Government's own figures show alcohol prices rising at exactly the same rates as food prices.'
Downing Street told the newspaper Mr Cameron's comments were based on research by Newcastle University liver specialist Dr Chris Record in 2009.
The British Retail Consortium said Mr Cameron's comments were 'nonsense'
The 45p-a-unit rule would slap an extra 70p on the price of some bottles of wine and an additional £1.30 on a two-litre bottle of cider.
Last month, the European Commission warned Mr Cameron that his plan of putting a minimum price on alcohol is illegal.
A nine-page letter from Brussels to the Prime Minister said the scheme would break laws governing the free movement of goods.
The average family drinks bill could soar by almost £100 a year under the Government's plan.
Bottles of wine could not be sold for less than about £4.05 each, beer will be at least 90p a can and a bottle of vodka will cost at least £11.70.
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The games industry reacts to the loss of the show, and mulls its future.
Today, the Entertainment Software Association officially cancelled this year’s E3 show amid growing safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 virus. First reported by Ars Technica, the news comes on the day the coronavirus has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, and after weeks of speculation born from E3’s perceived waning relevance and last year’s doxxing of more than 2,000 journalists.
“After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry--our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our longtime E3 partners--we have made the difficult decision to cancel E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11 in Los Angeles,” the ESA’s announcement reads. “Following increased and overwhelming concerns about the COVID-19 virus, we felt this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented global situation. We are very disappointed that we are unable to hold this event for our fans and supporters. But we know it’s the right decision based on the information we have today.”
For Piers Harding-Rolls, research director of games at analyst group Ampere Analysis, this development isn’t surprising.
“I’m not surprised at all that it’s been cancelled,” Harding-Rolls told GameDaily. “The format of a semi-consumer show with lots of show floor interaction means it was hard to go ahead under current conditions. What is great is that they will be cancelling the physical event with three months’ notice. That gives the industry time to organise itself and shift announcements purely online as required.”
While nobody can blame the ESA for taking such safety precautions, E3 is still a beloved show with a long history as the marquee gaming event of the year. On social media and elsewhere, much of the industry has reacted bittersweetly to its cancellation, and speculated about the questionable future of such a show.
“The health and safety of employees, fans and our partners around the world is a top priority,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. “We support the ESA in its decision to cancel E3 following increased public concerns with the COVID-19 virus.”
For Harding-Rolls, Microsoft stood to benefit a great deal from this year’s E3. With Sony once again not attending, the Xbox Series X was set to be the only upcoming next-gen console with a presence at the show. Still, according to Xbox head Phil Spencer, Microsoft will be hosting a digital event in lieu of E3.
“E3 has always been an important moment for Team Xbox,” Spencer said on Twitter. “Given this decision, this year we'll celebrate the next generation of gaming with the Xbox community and all who love to play via an Xbox digital event. Details on timing and more in the coming weeks.”
Also on Twitter, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla lamented the loss of E3:
“I've been to every E3. I love the show. There's nothing like it in the world--LA, the best games, the best people. Everything about it rules, even the bad parts. It's incredibly disappointing to see this year cancelled, but I think it's a very responsible choice by the ESA.”
In an email to GameDaily, Nintendo issued a statement similar to Microsoft’s:
“Nintendo supports the ESA’s decision to cancel this year’s E3 to help protect the health and safety of everyone in our industry--our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our longtime E3 partners. We would like to express our concern and support for all those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak during this challenging time.”
Ubisoft also issued a statement to GameDaily via email:
“The health and well-being of our teams, players and partners is our top priority, so while we’re disappointed, we fully support the ESA’s decision to cancel E3 2020. E3 is and will continue to be a moment where we come together as a community and share our love of games. We’re exploring other options for a digital experience that will allow us to share all the exciting news we have planned.”
For some of the bigger publishers and developers, E3 wasn’t much of a necessity. In fact, a number of larger brands--like Activision and Sony--have been ditching the show in favor of self-contained events to announce games on their own terms. However, indie developers seeking to pitch their games to publishers could be negatively affected by the lack of an E3. On Twitter, Kotaku reporter Jason Schreier said as much.
“Most people only think of E3 as press conferences, but those will be easily replicated. The repercussions will come from the deals that don't happen: the indie pitches and biz lunches and chance meetings that can save companies. E3's cancellation could really hurt some people,” he stressed.
Last month, GDC was also postponed due to COVID-19 fears. Shane Bettenhausen, who works in the developer relations department at Sony, echoed Schreier’s sentiment about the unfortunate side effects, but also pointed out the potential impact on non-industry workers when it comes to such cancellations.
“These cancellations have knock-on economic effects,” Bettenhausen said on Twitter. “I heard a local radio piece this morning about how 11 conferences have all cancelled at the SF Moscone Center now; they interviewed a local catering company that's had to lay off 40 employees so far this week.”
For some, though--such as Stephanie Tinsley of Tinsley PR and Marketing--E3 has historically been an unwelcoming environment for indies.
“All this and that about indies at E3. Does everyone understand indies were never welcome there to begin with? In recent years smaller games had only just begun to show up. Relax. The indies never needed E3,” Tinsley said on Twitter.
Tinsley PR represents Devolver Digital, an indie publisher known for its annual anti-E3 mixer that’s held every year in a parking lot around the corner from the LA Convention Center during the conference. In 2017, the ESA reportedly attempted to block Devolver’s event by allowing another event to occupy the parking lot.
Another organization that exhibited frustration with E3 is AbleGamers, a charity aimed at improving the lives of gamers with disabilities. For Steven Spohn, COO of the organization, E3 has historically been unwelcoming to this under-served demographic.
“I had to call ESA every year to pressure E3 to let AbleGamers in as we were told we are too small representing a niche group,” Spohn said on Twitter. “This includes the years we won awards.”
Considering E3’s struggle to remain relevant over the last several years, some are predicting that the coronavirus could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, so to speak. We could be seeing the end of E3 in its current form, if not the outright end of the show altogether.
“E3 used to be largely a retail show, with retail buyers connecting with publishers to see upcoming games for release later in the year and place orders,” Harding-Rolls told GameDaily. “Times have changed though, and although it will be a blow not to be able to have face-to-face meetings, the importance of E3 as a B2B show has definitely shrunk over the last few years. I do think the coronavirus outbreak might lead to some permanent change to events like E3, which were already struggling to define themselves in the rapidly changing landscape of games. Next year, E3 may well be quite different.”
For long-time games journalist Brian Crecente, E3 has never been able to adapt to an entertainment environment that once saw video games as a maligned and unimportant medium. Now, it’s the largest form of entertainment in the world, and E3 has been struggling to find its footing in the spotlight.
“E3 was born out of annoyance and necessity and quickly became the place where most buying decisions were made by big retailers,” Crecente wrote in a blog post. “But over the years those purchase decisions shifted to being made well before E3, and perhaps more importantly, the rise of digital sales and near-death of box shops like GameStop have minimized the importance of physical sales.
“But things have changed so drastically since the mid-90s that once what was an important, driving force of the game industry has become not just unnecessary, but in many ways an embarrassment.”
Crecente, among other industry professionals, posit that if E3 is to survive beyond 2020, the ESA is going to have to make some significant changes. One potential solution is to take a note from Nintendo’s Direct playbook and make the entirety of E3 digital. Many big publishers already stream their press conferences, so why not just lean into that aspect and make the show free to watch online?
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc not just on E3 and GDC, but the overall games conference circuit. Yesterday, organizers cancelled Japan’s BitSummit, and some analysts are predicting more shows will follow.
“If the outbreak continues in Europe, I think it is inevitable that Gamescom will be impacted,” Harding-Rolls said.
Every year, Germany’s Gamescom hosts more than 300,000 visitors.
Regardless of what 2021 holds for E3, this is a time of transition for the ESA and the perennial showcase. The shifting landscape of the games industry necessitates that event organizers adapt to consumer expectations, something that it has not been able to do thus far. Hopefully, the cancelation does not signal the end of E3, and it is able to return next year with a fresh take.
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The Empire Strikes Back: Apple Scores U.S. Ban on HTC's Low End Phones
December 19, 2011 11:21 PM
Move deals a blow to America's largest smartphone seller, but it won't likely hurt its flagship offerings
Remember how the Imperials stormed into the rebel base on Hoth, just as they were successfully clearing out? That's more or less how one of Apple, Inc.'s (
) biggest court victories played out. Much like Apple's
short-lived Netherland's sales ban
against Samung, its legal victory over Taiwan's Android-endowed HTC Corp. (
) only temporarily hits the Asian smartphone maker's lower end products.
I. Apple Manages to Annoy Sales Rival
Christmas came early for Apple, facing off in Washington D.C. before the
U.S. International Trade Commission
(ITC). As companies have increasingly begun to do in recent years, Apple had turned to the ITC to play court and offer a back door to ban its competitors' products.
The ITC examined several of Apple's patent claims (including a humorous one in which Apple claimed to have "invented" interrupt driven undervolting of a computer chip). In the end it decided that HTC was presumably in infringement of only one of those patents --
U.S. Patent 5,946,647
Apple has struck a blow at the pesky Android rebels, with a token victory over HTC's legacy products. [Image Source: LucasFilm; modified]
Like many of Apple's technology patents, it came from the lucrative period between 1998 and 2004, where Apple pushed through increasingly ambiguous patent claims, which it would use over a decade later as a club to try to beat back its mobile competitors.
The patent seems to cover in various vagueries some sort of software framework that takes messages and then launches events -- a nebulous description that could cover everything this side of
Watson the supercomputer
The abstract reads:
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. The application program interface communicates with the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the detected structure.
The patent was filed in 1996, over a decade before Apple announced its first smartphone was coming.
II. Busines as Usual for HTC, Despite Ban
The interesting thing is that the ITC somehow seemed to reach the opinion that a shift occurred around Android 2.3 Gingerbread, removing the infringing feature. This means that not only did most of Apple's claims get dismissed, but that its sole successful claim only worked towards banning a handful of aged HTC devices, which were still sporting Android 1.6 ("Donut", remember that?), Android 2.1 "Eclair", and Android 2.2 "Froyo".
Only HTC's older models will be barred from U.S. sales, come April. [Image Source:
Noticeably not on the list is HTC's flagship product lineup, which includes best-selling smartphones such as the HTC Rezound.
HTC cheered this positive turn of events, commenting, "We are very pleased with the determination and we respect it. However, the 647 patent is a small UI experience and HTC will completely remove it from all of our phones soon."
Even if the ban is ratified by ITC President , it won't go into effect until April 19, 2012.
If Apple hope to use the lawsuits to regain its U.S. sales lead, which it
recently lost to HTC
, it's likely out of luck. And while Apple may be able to at least effectively harass patent-poor HTC, Apple has seen its legal campaign against the world's top smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) start to collapse.
Earlier this month the ITC
slapped down Apple's request
to ban Samsung's mobile devices. And in Australia it saw one of its lone victories over Samsung erased as a
of appeals courts
unanimously decided to lift
a sales ban, admonishing a lower court judge, who they argued grossly misinterpreted the law in her pro-Apple decision.
II. The More You Tighten Your Grip... The More Star Systems Slip Through Your Fingers.
Falling behind in both domestic and international sales to its surging Android rivals, Apple CEO and co-founder in his waning days urged his workers to
spend the entirety of Apple's substantial cash fortune
, if necessary to try to legally drive Android into the ground.
For it's part Apple is reportedly trying some more clever techniques, founding shell companies, such as Cliff Island LLC, and
partnering with experienced "trolls"
like Digitude Innnovations. Apple also continues to patent seemingly obvious technologies that have been on the market for several years or more,
such as the swipe unlock
, a feature found on Neonode Inc.'s (
) mid-2000s feature phones, and on other early products. Oddly the U.S. Patent and Trademark rubber-stamped two Apple patents on that particularly feature, with nary a question or complaint.
Currently while Android smartphone makers are drastically outselling it (roughly 5-to-2), Apple is still wildly more profitable,
rivalling Exxon Mobile
) for the distinction of being the world's most profitable company. But those massive sales are predicated on the continued success of Apple's tablets and smartphones. If that market share continues to dwindle, as analysts are predicting, Apple may find itself falling off
its record fiscal fortunes
, which it has enjoyed of late.
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An on-demand grocery startup called Instacart is hiring 300,000 workers to meet soaring demand in light of the novel coronavirus.
Instacart is a San Francisco-based business that offers same-day grocery delivery to your home.
The company will hire its new delivery drivers over the next three months.
Last week, Amazon said it was hiring 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the U.S. to deal with the spike in business. Walmart is hiring more than 150,000 hourly workers in the coming months.
Instacart said it expects this hiring spree will more than double the company's current workforce of full-service shoppers.


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Online beauty communities could shape market trends
Online beauty discussion on social media and among other digital communities is changing the beauty market and could hold the key to future industry trends, however it is currently under-analysed.
A new report from market research company Diagonal Reports has found that the number of informal online groups discussing beauty has seen major growth in recent years. These discussions are considered trustworthy by the consumer and represent traditional word-of-mouth recommendations moving online.
The groups analysed by the company include communities that discuss products, share advice on beauty problems and talk about personal experiences, however do not actively sell products themselves.
According to the report, these digital communities are becoming just as important as the product house and retailer when it comes to shaping the consumer beauty market, and are “helping to create new cultural formations”.
However although there is a high volume of informal discussion on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms about beauty, the industry knows very little about what is being said because the content is unstructured and complex to analyse.


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MasterCard Bangladesh has appointed Sohail Alim as the Account Management Director. During his tenure in this position, he will establish new relationships as well as work on partnership issues with MasterCard's priorities, such as banks and financial institutions, including Fintech (Financial Technology).
The two offers will run until September 30, 2021, and the customer will receive a one-time cashback for each offer.
The Reserve Bank of India has barred Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd from onboarding new domestic customers (debit, credit or prepaid) onto its card network from July 22, 2021.
Planning new strides in the digital payment segment, Reliance Industries’ proposed New Umbrella Entity (NUE) for payments services, in a consortium with Infibeam Avenue, Google and Facebook has set its eyes on global launch.
Mastercard is acquiring Transactis for an undisclosed amount. The deal is expected to boost the company's effort to launch its Bill Pay Exchange services later this year.
Mastercard said that it is acquiring Ethoca, a technology solutions company that works with merchants and card issuers in real-time to identify and resolve fraud in digital commerce.
Mastercard said it has entered into an agreement to acquire Transfast, a global cross-border account-to-account money transfer network.
Mastercard has appointed Paul Stoddart as president, New Payment Platforms, effective March 1, 2019. Stoddart succeeds David Yates,
Andhra Pradesh govt partners Mastercard to launch digital marketplace e-Rythu for horticulture sector
e-Rythu will make horticulture markets more transparent for sellers and buyers, says AP Horticulture Commissioner, Chiranjiv Choudhary
Euronet Services India has launched its VISA and MasterCard certified online payment authentication Access Control Server (ACS) platform in India


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Mere weeks before Huawei is set to officially unveil its Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro smartphones, which is taking place at a much-anticipated October 16 event, a stunning show-all video has revealed just how much of a threat the series could be to Apple's new iPhone XS and Google's Pixel 3 flagships. Huawei did not stop there though, adding some unique twists to the earbuds - well, the case to be more specific. The Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro will reportedly have a cool bonus if you also buy the upcoming Freebuds 2 Pro true wireless earbuds. According to Quandt, the Freebuds have three hours of listening, extended to 20 hours with charges from the case, just like the AirPods. Wireless charging will be a bit slower, but still, a great option for when you're on the go.
According to sources, the Mate 20 Pro will also sport a headphone jack. Marketing materials for the Mate 20 and Freebuds 2 Pro say that you can also use the phone as a charging pad. It appears a total of 20 hours of play may be possible off a single charge of the case, so the case itself will probably hold around 6 charges. However, when it launches, we're now to understand that a new version of Huawei Freebuds will launch alongside. Huawei indicates the new earbuds use bone conduction technology to help isolate a user's voice, making the earbuds more effective when used for voice commands.
Freebuds 2 Pro, a new pair of wireless earphones by Huawei has leaked out on the internet.


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Aurora Cannabis, Inc. (NYSE: ACB) on Thursday reported a narrower loss for the third quarter of 2022. The company’s revenues dropped 9% year-over-year during the quarter.
The Canada-based medical marijuana company reported an adjusted EBITDA loss of C$12.3 million for the third quarter, compared to a loss of C$20.9 million in the prior-year quarter. Total revenues decreased 9% annually to C$50.4 million. Medical marijuana sales increased 8%, while consumer marijuana sales declined 43%.
“We continue to steer our differentiated global cannabis business towards long-term shareholder value creation. This is being accomplished through a sole focus on the most profitable growth opportunities, rationalization of our Canadian cost structure, and disciplined use of capital. Our plan is working and we remain firmly on track to achieving a positive Adjusted EBITDA run rate by the first half of fiscal 2023., ” said Miguel Martin, chief executive officer of Aurora Cannabis.
Shares of Aurora Cannabis traded slightly higher early Friday on the Nasdaq stock market, after closing the previous session higher. It has lost about 58% since the beginning of the year.
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TripAdvisor has appointment Cindy Tan as Vice
President of Display Advertising Sales, Asia Pacific.
Based in Singapore, Cindy will lead a team
in continuing to drive the growth of the business in Asia Pacific,
including China, India and Japan.
Cindy has over 14 years of
experience across sales, marketing and business development in the
Prior to TripAdvisor, she was at BBC Worldwide for seven
years with her last role as Regional Director for its Southeast
Asia and China operations.
Before BBC Worldwide, she was Regional
Manager at a travel trade company managing its multi-platform solutions.
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Monash University and an
Executive Certificate in Finance from INSEAD.
“With unique user traffic to TripAdvisor sites
across Asia Pacific growing at double digits year-on-year and
crossing the 10 million mark for the first time in May, the
region is an important market for us,” said Robin Ingle, Senior
Vice President of Advertising Sales at TripAdvisor. “Through
Cindy’s leadership and our shared industry knowledge, we wish to
continue to develop innovative and truly effective campaign
solutions for client and media agencies in Asia Pacific.”
From January to May 2012, the number of sold
advertisements on TripAdvisor sites in Asia Pacific grew by 129% year-on-year, with the strongest growth coming from
airlines (211%) and tourism boards (500%).
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Microsoft revealed the next feature update for Windows 10 – Redstone 2 at the Microsoft’s Ignite conference yesterday.
The session called, ‘Discover what’s next for Windows 10 Mobile for phones and small tablets,’ consisted of a number of announcements especially regarding Redstone 2.
The update brings along a new feature called Proximity Connect which, through the use of Bluetooth pairing will allow users to connect wirelessly to a dock without having them to manually remove the phone out of their pockets.
Users can also independently customize their Start menu along with numerous Continuum improvements. The new feature will also equip the device with the ability to bulk update devices via USB.
Redstone 2 is expected to arrive in April 2017.


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This year marks the tenth anniversary of the awards, now in conjunction with the London Bike Show.
The Track Cycling World Cup will visit London's Lee Valley Velopark in 2018.
The 2018 event will be the fourth
HSBC: "Turning Britain into a greener, fitter and healthier nation."
50 years in the making: a mysterious banner and a bike shop's birthday
Ashmei, Factor and other brands to be at evening event.
London Cycling Campaign's annual awards will be staged in the Guildhall at International Cycle History Conference
Revolve24 expands range of events into e-bike, amongst other categories
Talbot Frameworks's "tripedal" dog Affy may or may not be there on 3rd May
The brand will feature as part of the Black Label Collection
The Scottish Cycling Running and Outdoor Pursuits Show is once again taking place in 2018 at the SEC Glasgow.
Rides to be staged in Edinburgh and Inverness
British distributor NEOS Cycling will partner with the 2018 BikeBiz Awards as sponsor of the Best IBD award.
Cycle Expo Yorkshire is due to take place in Harrogate later this year, bringing an estimated 20,000 cycling enthusiasts into the region.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) issued new strict anti-money laundering regulations for unlicensed virtual asset service providers to combat cyber financial crimes.
According to UAE regulatory authorities, the latest obligations are designed to support financial institutes in verifying unlicensed crypto services and protect them from misuse for money laundering and terrorist financing. The UAE is the second world’s largest economy, implementing a legal framework to regulate unlicensed crypto platforms, a signal to show their commitment to securing the global financial ecosystem. The Central Bank of the UAE claimed that these new laws are issued under the Act of National Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism. It will enhance the financial institution’s security and expand AML compliance derivatives. The UAE government aims to educate the economic sector on how unlicensed crypto service providers are high-risk associated and vulnerable to the integrity of the global financial ecosystem.
The Central Bank stated that the crypto guidance is implemented now because digital currency has become easily accessible to anyone. However, these obligations are designed in collaboration with UAE supervisors to secure operations and digital asset transactions. Governor of the UAE Central Bank and chairman of the committee, Khaled Balama, stated, “as our digital economy matures, our work on combating all kinds of financial crimes intensifies through raising awareness of their risks and emphasising the importance of compliance with relevant regulations and legislation to ensure the integrity of the UAE’s financial system.”
Over the past year, the UAE has shown impressive progress in combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and the proliferation of weapons. They have passed strict regulations to strengthen financial security and curb economic crimes. The purpose of the updated guidance, which is in compliance with the directives of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is to provide reporting entities, such as designated non-financial businesses and professions and licensed virtual asset service providers, a thorough road map for improving their corporate governance and operations. The Central Bank stated, “it specifically requires them to remain vigilant of the various fraudulent methods unlicensed Vasps adopt [and] continue to manage money laundering, financing of terrorism and proliferation financing risks effectively.”


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Monday, April 25, 2022
Borderlands 3 is finally getting full crossplay across Xbox, PlayStation, Stadia, and PC, Gearbox has announced.
The third instalment in the Borderlands series added crossplay between Xbox, PC, and Stadia back in June 2021. However, despite developer Gearbox intending to add crossplay to PlayStation consoles as well, it was reported that Sony had blocked the feature.
“Good news or bad news first? Good News: An update for Borderlands 3 has been prepared for release that includes full crossplay support across all platforms. Bad News: For certification, we have been required by the publisher to remove crossplay support for PlayStation consoles,” read a Tweet from Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford at the time.
However, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, this year's Borderlands spin-off, did launch with full crossplay support. And now, Gearbox has announced that Borderlands 3, which released in 2019, will get full crossplay across all platforms in a future update later this Spring. Better late than never, we suppose?
You can read our full Borderlands 3 review here.
ICYMI, #Borderlands 3 is getting full crossplay across PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Stadia, and PC later this Spring! Keep an eye out for the exact date soon. pic.twitter.com/Elvp1r9HeV— Borderlands (@Borderlands) April 22, 2022
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Following the recent report flying round the media on the increase in electricity tariff the commission has debunked the 50 percent increase, this was contained in a press release made available to the public.
According to the release, “The attention of the Commission has been drawn to publications in the print and electronic media misinforming electricity consumers that the Commission has approved a 50% increase in electricity tariffs.The Commission hereby state unequivocally that NO approval has been granted for a 50% tariff increase in the Tariff Order for electricity distribution companies which took effect on January 1, 2021.”
The commission stressed, “On the contrary, the tariff for customers on service bands D & E (customers being served less than an average of 12hrs of supply per day over a period of one month) remains frozen and subsidised in line with the policy direction of the FG. In compliance with the provisions of the EPSR Act and the nation’s tariff methodology for biannual minor review, the rates for service bands A, B, C, D and E have been adjusted by NGN2.00 to NGN4.00 per kwhr to reflect the partial impact of inflation & movement in forex.”
The Commission however retraited it’s commitment towards protecting electricity consumers from failure to deliver on committed service levels under the service-based tariff regime.
In the light of strong public interest on this matter.
The commission however urged the media to retract their earlier publications misinforming electricity consumers nationwide about a purported 50% increase in electricity tariffs and beseached there customers to refer to the commission website and office line for further clarifications.


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State-owned telco firm Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) (https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=telkom) is setting aside up to $2 billion, or about 25 per cent of last year’s revenue, for capital expenditure this year, finance director Harry M Zen revealed. The company is also learnt to be reviewing 10 potential merger and acquisitions involving fintech, e-commerce, and ICT startups.
“We are currently reviewing our business expansion plans for the future. What we can do, we’ll do it ourselves. What we can’t do, we’ll acquire,”
he told reporters in Jakarta, adding that the company is looking at both foreign and local firms for acquisitions.
Telkom raked in $8.7 billion in revenues last year.
The publicly-listed company has repeatedly said that it wants to boost expansion, particularly in the digital space, whether through collaboration or acquisition. It set up a VC firm, MDI Ventures (https://www.dealstreetasia.com/s=MDI+Ventures), in 2014 to make this vision a reality. It has committed $100 million for the VC to invest into global and domestic startups within the span of four years. MDI Ventures’ most recent investment was a pre-Series A round that it led (https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/indonesia-mdi-ventures-kofera-74914/) in June into Kofera, a marketing SaaS firm.
Agus Winarno, Telkom’s operation vice president for consumer assurance, said that the company sees its future depend on the digital space as it grows and expands. The company continues to explore deals in this area with many startups.
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Music streaming services generated more than half of the income earned by record labels in the UK last year, as CD sales continue to plummet.
Subscription streaming platforms operated by Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music, made revenues of £468m in the UK last year, 54% of the £865.5m total income for the recorded music industry. It is the first time that subscription streaming revenues, which grew at 35% year-on-year in 2018, have accounted for more than half of total recorded music revenues for labels.
The overall streaming total, which includes a cut of advertising revenue from YouTube music clips and ad income from Spotify’s free service, was £516.4m – or 60% of the total. The most streamed tracks in the UK last year included Drake’s God’s Plan, Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa’s One Kiss, and George Ezra’s Shotgun.
The figures, reported by the BPI, the record labels’ association that promotes British music, also highlights the ongoing financial dispute between the music industry and YouTube, with artists and labels demanding a greater share of the revenue generated by the video service.
YouTube, owned by Google’s parent group, Alphabet, paid just under £30m to record labels from an estimated 30bn views of music videos by UK fans last year. This represents just over half the £57m in royalty income that record labels received from the sale of 4.2m vinyl albums in the UK in 2018.
“The outlook for the future remains positive, but there is still a long way to go to recapture lost ground,” said Geoff Taylor, the chief executive of the BPI. “Long-term growth depends on robust government action to tackle the value gap, promote investment and ensure online platforms take responsible action to reduce infringement.”
In November, Google said it paid out more than $1.8bn globally to the music industry between October 2017 and September 2018 in advertising revenue.
The BPI’s annual figures also underline the ongoing decline of the CD. Record labels made £176.8m from their cut of the sale of music CDs in the UK last year, a 28.4% drop year-on-year. As recently as 2017, record labels pocketed almost £300m from CD sales in the UK.
The biggest-selling albums in the UK last year, counting streams and downloads, included The Greatest Showman soundtrack, George Ezra’s Staying at Tamara’s and the soundtrack to Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
In January, Kim Bayley, the chief executive of the Entertainment Retailers Association , which publishes an annual roundup of sales and spending on entertainment products, said high street retailers has suffered a “Christmas from hell” last year.
In the week leading up to Christmas, sales of DVDs were down more than 31%, Blu-ray discs plummeted by more than 33% and music CD sales slumped by 29%, a festive nightmare that pushed the UK’s biggest music and movies retailer HMV into administration.


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Launched in Q3 2015, YADA has been managed by the Expede Group from conception and its development a direct result of a sector specific problem within the event industry.
A collaborative social platform for feature-rich, scalable events, YADA offers an affordable solution to event organisers seeking to channel engagement, transaction and user data through one digital source. Launched in August 2015 for iOS and Android devices, the mobile application has a team of six employees and has grown an active user base of circa. 5,600 users since January 2017, through the running of 1,200 events on the platform, from fashion and exhibitions to weddings.
In 2016, the technology company attended Collision Conference, a technology conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana, as part of the ALPHA programme, before returning the following year to exhibit as part of the conferences' BETA track. The business will be launching an updated and rebranded version of the technology in late Q4 2017 as part of the company’s monetisation strategy.
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YADA unveiled its new brand identity in print and on its social channels. The rebrand will be continued into the new app launch in late Q4 2017.
The company announces an active user base of 5,600 users across 1,200 events, since January 2017.
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Sonning jewellers in name challenge by Pandora
A small home-based jewellery business has said it will have to start from scratch after it was forced to change its name after a challenge from jewellery giants Pandora.
Beadessence in Sonning had its trademark application contested by the firm, which has stores in 80 countries worldwide, for being too similar to their brand name Essence.
Karen Bradley, who owns the firm which started trading last year, said: "Everything we've done so far for the last year, we'll have to start again."
Pandora said the similarity in name could cause confusion among its customers.
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The advertising industry is quickly approaching a future where household-level sales attribution becomes table stakes for all media campaigns and channels. This future sets up digital media companies well, but could be disastrous for TV companies.
TV has an attribution problem, and the industry needs to fix it.
Let's be clear: TV advertising does not have an effectiveness problem. No media channel delivers access to more consumers faster, with more impact, than TV. TV’s ability to drive sales predictably and at scale for categories from retail, travel and packaged goods to restaurants, cars and financial services, has been well known and documented for decades.
However, TV companies don’t provide real-time reporting at the household and user level for each and every campaign, as digital, search and social do. And that’s a big problem for TV companies that want to avoid big ad budgets cuts -- especially from agencies and brands under pressures to provide greater accountability for when and where they spend ad dollars.
When marketers buy ads from Google, they get access to Google Analytics to help them attribute sales and conversions to those ads at the user level. When large marketers buy ads from Facebook, they are given access to what is arguably the best marketing science team in the world, as well as a powerful set of software tools to understand and attribute the sales impact of their ads at the person and household level. When marketers buy ads on Amazon … You get the picture.
Digital is winning bigger and bigger ad budgets because it works, and because digital giants can draw a visible line between ad exposure and a sale. As advertisers become increasingly addicted to campaign-level sales attribution -- and they are -- media sellers that lack this feature will lose budgets, whether or not they are effective. That is the dilemma TV faces.
Fortunately, there are now plenty of tools to link TV ad exposures to sales and conversions at the campaign and household level. TRA, now owned by TiVo, helped pioneer this capability. Neustar has built a powerful product here. Nielsen provides these capabilities through its NBI and NCS tools. ComScore has offerings here. So do another dozen or so start-ups. And sellers like CBS, NBCU, Turner, Fox and Viacom are stepping up in this area, including attribution with some of their campaigns.
However, in spite of a plethora of tools, providing campaign-level sales attribution at the household level still the exception in TV. It needs to become the norm.
What’s holding TV attribution back? First, many in the industry are afraid of it. What if the ROI is low? That's one worry.
Second, many others don’t think that TV should be driving sales, let alone providing attribution for it. TV is a branding medium, they say. Plus, clients and agencies control the creative, so it’s an unfair burden.
Third, it’s expensive. Who will pay for all of this, they ask.
Fourth, putting sales attribution and ROI out front in TV will create a race to the bottom in pricing, they claim.
Fifth, if they just keep doing the same things as last year, and maybe negotiate a bit harder in the upfront, they’ll make it through another year -- or through the sale of their company -- without having to make any big changes.
For all of those worried about what "they say," I point you to TripAdvisor’s Q4 earnings call from last week. On it, the online travel booking company’s CEO and CFO told investors to expect strong revenue and profit growth for the year ahead.
Why? As a result of significant improvement in the company’s cross-channel ad attribution capabilities, TripAdvisor was going to significantly increase its TV ad spend and decrease its digital marketing expenditures -- which would result in more sales of higher quality than it was getting from its previous marketing mix, more heavily skewed to digital advertising, according to the CEO.
Yes, that's a digital- and mobile-first company making that statement.
The message for TV companies is simple: Trust in your platform. TV ads are underpriced, not overpriced. But you won’t be able to capture the real value of your ad inventory until you know exactly how your spots drive sales for your advertisers, and you make sales attribution table stakes for all your campaigns.What do you think? Are you ready?


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Eight years ago I attended a local food summit in Iowa City with more than 80 people. It was an event designed to connect local meat and vegetable growers with customers.
Among the speakers was Andy Dunham of Grinnell Heritage Farm. He spoke about the challenges of scaling his carrot production to meet consumer demand at New Pioneer Food Coop in Iowa City. It made no sense at the time they couldn’t produce more, although eventually they did.
Yesterday Dunham revealed New Pioneer and other grocers weren’t buying as much organic produce as they had. Because of decreasing grocery sales and Iowa’s unpredictable weather made worse by climate change, they are exiting their community supported agriculture business and what they characterize as a broken local food system.
It was a surprising decision from a farm many considered to be vibrant and sustainable.
For the full story about changes at Grinnell Heritage Farm read Cindy Hadish’s post on Homegrown Iowan here.
The idea there is a functional “local food system” is a story we tell ourselves to get through the challenges of raising and marketing locally grown meat, vegetables, fruit and flowers. The challenges of sustainability for a community supported agriculture project don’t go away be saying these three magical words. It’s hard work, subject to the vagaries of weather, cultural adaptation, marketing, and endemic farming challenges.
Each farm runs differently with unique revenue streams from CSA shares, meat sales, restaurant and grocery store sales, farmers market sales, government programs, pasture rentals and more. In the world of big agriculture operators carve a niche of customers and product lines to keep themselves financially sound. It doesn’t always work.
Grinnell Heritage Farm is a USDA certified organic fruit and vegetable farm. Most local food producers are not certified organic because of the expense. Many follow organic practices but can’t afford, don’t want, or don’t feel a need to get certified. Most consumers can’t tell the difference in farm products. For Grinnell Heritage Farm to downsize is a bad sign for the future of organic farming in Iowa. If they can’t make it, who will?
Climate change is real, it is happening now, and we haven’t seen the worst of it. The last two years were hell for local food farmers used to predictable growing seasons. Variation from year to year is expected, but not like this. Larger operations like Grinnell Heritage Farm feel the brunt of changing climate.
Consumers are a fickle lot. Yesterday I calculated spending about 24 percent of our 2019 food budget on locally sourced fruit and vegetables. We buy more local produce than most regional consumers. We also have a large garden not included in my calculation. A bag of locally grown carrots is stored in the crisper drawer of our ice box yet I buy USDA certified organic carrots at the wholesale club as well. I haven’t been able to grown enough carrots to meet our needs and the ones from the store are cheap and serve culinary purposes. I know the face of the farmer on the local food I buy but they and I combined can’t supply our household with enough carrots.
The changes at Grinnell Heritage Farm were surprising, but not completely unexpected. With growth in the market share of organic produce, large corporations are getting involved and comparatively smaller operations are being pushed out. Whatever arguments one might have with Dunham’s characterizations of the marketplace or his assessment of the impacts of climate change, he and his family are doing what they believe will save their farm. That’s what all insurgent local food producers do.
As consumers we need to be ready to support local food farmers or decide we don’t care. Either choice has ramifications for our local food environment. I can’t call it a system today because a big part of it will be lost with the exit of Grinnell Heritage Farm from the marketplace.
We had hoped for and worked toward a local food system and could imagine it. The dream hasn’t proven to be sustainable yet.


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