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7, May 2017, 7:14 PM IST
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi nails it when she talks about the challenges of a working mother
"The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with one another. When you have to build your career, you need to have children. When you are a rising manager, your children need you because they are teenagers. You cannot do justice to everything. So, develop coping mechanisms," she suggests.
8, Apr 2017, 8:16 AM IST
Not 18 yet? You won’t get Pepsi or Coke here
In a first for the state, child welfare committee of Mandya district has banned the sale of aerated and soft drinks to children below 18 years of age.
8, Mar 2017, 8:27 AM IST
More trouble for Coke, Pepsi: Kerala traders to boycott soft drink giants
More than seven lakh traders in the state will join the boycott protest against soft drink majors' 'mindless water exploitation'
4, Mar 2017, 12:40 PM IST
Tamil anger evaporates Cola sales, distributors wary
After small retailers, big retail chains have also followed the suit of boycotting the sale of PepsiCo and Coca-Cola products in Tamil Nadu.
3, Mar 2017, 8:02 AM IST
Why Pepsi, Coca-Cola hold in Tamil Nadu cannot be overturned by local brands
Coca-Cola and Pepsi received a breather from the Madurai bench of the Madras high court as they lifted the ban on water supply from Thamirabarani River to their bottling plants located in Tirunelveli district. Here’s why local brands will have re-strategise to send these soft drinks packing
27, Jan 2017, 3:45 PM IST
No more Pepsi and Coke: Have the winds of change gripped Tamil Nadu?
Recently Tamil Nadu took the centre-stage in the country over Jallikattu row. The state’s unity even shook the Supreme Court. Now the Tamilians have taken on Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Is the state's next war against capitalism?


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The Communications Alliance, Australia’s peak body for the telecoms industry, has published new credit guidance rules which it says underlines industry’s commitment to deliver fair credit management outcomes for all telecommunications consumers.
Telecommunications services company director James Harrison and his companies SoleNet and Sure Telecom have been hit with a $250,000 fine and banned from doing business for two years by Australia’s Federal Court.
A failure to deal with customer complaints promptly has resulted in Internet service provider NetCube being ordered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to comply with the complaints-handling requirements of the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code.
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Waterjet manufacturer Jet Edge and coatings maker Hempel USA have both added key figures to their sales teams.
Jet Edge has appointed a new regional sales manager for the U.S. North Central region, while Hempel has added to its marine coatings team in the Gulf region.
Jet Edge Appoints Callahan
Ben Callahan has been appointed North Central regional sales manager at Jet Edge, which manufactures ultra-high pressure waterjet and abrasivejet systems for precision cutting, coating removal and surface preparation.
Callahan is responsible for Jet Edge waterjet equipment sales and application support in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
|Ben Callahan is the North Central U.S. regional sales manager for Jet Edge.|
Callahan has been with Jet Edge since 2001, serving as a service engineer and waterjet applications lab engineer in positions that directly support customers. Jet Edge says its customers will benefit from Callahan’s “extensive product and applications knowledge.”
Callahan, who studied Machine Trades at Dunwoody Technical College in Minneapolis, is based at Jet Edge Headquarters in St. Michael, MN. He can be reached at 612.963.0933 or email@example.com.
Johnson Joins Hempel USA
Hempel USA, a global supplier of marine and protective coatings, has hired Jennifer Johnson as a sales representative in the U.S. Gulf region.
Johnson will be responsible for marine sales of Hempel’s product line in the territory. The company’s products include antifoulings and coatings for cargo and ballast tanks, cargo holds and shop primers.
|Jennifer Johnson has joined Hempel USA’s marine coatings team in the U.S. Gulf.|
A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy with extensive industry experience, Johnson will be based at Hempel’s headquarters in Houston, TX.


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Beth Colosimo Entrepreneurship Program Executive Director for Salt Lake Community College recently hosted a zoom meeting to introduce The Goldman Sachs Foundations push to train small business entrepreneurs in rural areas hosted by the Economic Development Corporations of Utah (EDCUtah). Along with training comes access to capital investment partners through the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
Assisting with the zoom was Deb Bilbao, coordinator of the Global Business Center at the Miller Business Resource Center at SLCC. Bilbao is also outreach manager for the 10,000 Small Businesses program.
Over 10,000 businesses have been through the training programs in the 10 years the foundation has been in existence. Funded by a $½ billion dollar commitment from the banking company Goldman Sachs, the program has operated in 14 cities across the nation so far, including Salt Lake City.
According to Colosimo, the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled the foundation to expand through online forums into rural partnerships with those who in normal circumstances would not be able to make it to Salt Lake for training.
The banking giant has seen fit to commit an additional ½ billion dollars to this latest outreach. All of that is intended to train and develop a rural economy and provide those businesses completing the training, access to investment bankers and venture capitalists.
The 10K Small Business Program is not for startups. This program is intended to make existing businesses better trained for growth. It is aimed at companies with 2 to 150 employees. The businesses must be representative of their community and have at least $75,000 in annual earnings.
The course work is not taught by professors but subject matter experts. These are business professionals with access to local partners that will provide more than just information. These leads are intended to help the businesses make real world connections in order to expand their rural businesses into being able to provide their goods or services to a greater audience.
If you are the owner or co-owner of a business that has been in operation for 2 years or longer, are employing between 2 and 150 people, and your business is earning $75,000 per year this is definitely something that can be life changing.
By training and helping to develop existing businesses with a track record the investors the Goldman Sachs foundation are lining up feel they are taking less risk with their money. And bear in mind that not everyone who applies makes it into the program let alone finishes it. Colosimo revealed that only 30-40 businesses will be selected for the program.


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One of the best-paid footballers on the planet, Cristiano Ronaldo is also a money making machine off the pitch as he’s flooded with endorsement deals left, right and centre.
The most followed athlete on Twitter with 37 million followers, Ronaldo is paid an astonishing amount of money to promote products on his personal account.
Spanish newspaper AS have published figures from media brand specialists Opendorse that show Ronaldo gets paid €230,366 per promotional tweet.
That’s nearly a quarter of a million euros for typing 140 characters or less!
Ronaldo already earns 21 million from his on-pitch exploits for Madrid and is positively raking it in with a reputation as the world’s most marketable footballer.
Lebron James is the next highest paid athlete for promotional tweets, earning €125,638 every time he promotes a brand on social media.
James Rodriguez is also in the top ten list with €40,032 every time he tweets and Gareth Bale is 13th, one place behind Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: Multimedia journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld spoke with a former Starbucks employee about the National Labor Relations Board's decision that orders the company to reopen stores it says it closed unlawfully. Click the arrow above to watch the video.
LOS ANGELES — Starbucks could be forced to reopen six SoCal locations that it closed last summer, with federal regulators alleging the stores were shuttered in an effort to suppress unionization efforts by employees.
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Wednesday questioning the closures of 23 Starbucks locations nationwide, noting that workers at more than a half-dozen of those stores had already voted to unionize with Starbucks Workers United.
The NLRB called on Starbucks to reopen the locations, although the matter is expected to go before an administrative law judge sometime next year, The New York Times reported.
Mari Cosgrove, a member of Starbucks Workers United, issued a statement calling the NLRB complaint “the latest confirmation of Starbucks’ determination to illegally oppose workers’ organizing. It adds to the litany of complaints detailed in the company’s own report released this morning. If Starbucks is sincere in its overtures in recent days to forge a different relationship with its partners, this is exactly the kind of illegal behavior it needs to stop.”
A Starbucks representative told The New York Times, “Each year as a standard course of business, we evaluate the store portfolio” and typically open, close or alter stores. The company told the paper it opened hundreds of new stores last year and closed more than 100, of which about 3% were unionized.
Workers at more than 350 corporate-run Starbucks locations nationally have voted to unionize.
The closures of the six SoCal stores included in the NLRB complaint were announced by the company last summer. At the time, Starbucks vice presidents Debbie Stroud and Denise Nelson wrote a letter to employees suggesting that the closures were the result of safety concerns at the locations being targeted. They wrote that issues facing the nation as a whole — including “personal safety, racism, lack of access to health care, a growing mental health crisis, rising drug use and more” — were impacting some of the coffee chain’s locations.
“With stores in thousands of communities across the country, we know these challenges can, at times, play out within our stores too,” they wrote. “We read every incident report you file — it’s a lot.”
The Southland store locations referenced in the NLRB complaint are:
Santa Monica Boulevard and Westmount Drive in West Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue
First and Los Angeles streets in downtown Los Angeles
Hollywood and Vine Street
Ocean Front Walk and Moss Avenue in Santa Monica
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USSD banking: Nigerians to be surcharged N4 for every 20 seconds from Oct 21
As from October 21st 2019, Nigerian customers and consumers will start paying a surcharge of N4 for every 20 seconds of USSD banking transaction with their phones.
Customers who use unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) channels to access banking services would have to pay new charges from October 21.
Some telecommunications network service providers have sent notices to their customers of the new charge.
“Please note that from Oct 21, we will charge N4 per 20 seconds for USSD access to banking services. Thank you,” a notification sent by MTN to customers read.
Banking services were introduced on USSD channels to ensure easier access to banking services.
Before now, telcos charged customers per USSD session.
This charge differed across networks with the highest being N20 per session.
However, this new charge would mean that customers will be charged N12 for every minute spent on the USSD channel.
Already, the development has elicited reactions from customers and they have taken to social media to express how they feel on social media.
Some customers went as far as sending messages to their banks for further information on the charges.
Some banks have responded saying their charges remain unchanged.
“Our fees and charges on the USSD service remain unchanged and all our services are available,” Access Bank’s Twitter account replied a customer.
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Md. Firm Buys Maker of Hit Video Games
Thursday, June 25, 2009
ZeniMax Media, the Rockville-based parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks, announced yesterday that it has acquired game development studio Id Software.
Id is famous among video game fans as the Texas-based studio behind popular franchises such as Doom and Quake. Bethesda Softworks, meanwhile, is known for games such as last year's blockbuster hit Fallout 3.
ZeniMax's chairman and chief executive, Robert A. Altman, said that he approached Id a year ago to find out if the company would be receptive to an acquisition.
"The more we got to know them on a personal level, the more we found that we look at things very much the same way," Altman said of Id's team. Altman said that his company's studios are best known for a different type of video game than what Id specializes in, "so there was no overlap."
The deal's terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is just the latest expansion by the privately-owned local company, which happens to feature boldface names such as movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer and Cal Ripken Jr. on its board of directors. Two years ago, ZeniMax announced that it was opening a new game studio in Hunt Valley, Md., with the aim of creating an online game in the same genre as the popular computer title World of Warcraft. That studio's secret project is still in the works.
Id is a legendary game company, said Edward Wu, an industry analyst at Wedbush Morgan, but one that has lost some of its primacy. The company once made money by licensing some of the game software technology that it developed, but others have gained an edge in that area. "It seems that [Id] lost some of their momentum to other companies in recent years and that may have prompted them to do the merger," he said.
Consolidation in the video game industry is certainly nothing new. Over the last several years, many Washington area game development studios have been snapped up by major publishers such as Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive Software.


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- The expected increase in electric vehicle (EV) adoption will require an investment of more than $2.2 billion in charging infrastructure across the United States' 100 most populous metropolitan areas by 2025, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) said in a new report.
- The report, published on Monday, said $1.3 billion would be needed to make the necessary upgrades to home charging, while a further $940 million would go toward workplace and public charging. The report did not name a specific funding source, but pointed to utilities and other companies, as well as local, state and the federal government as options.
- Investments in charging infrastructure are critical to boost EV adoption rates in the U.S. as studies have shown that a lack of charging opportunities remains a top reason why potential buyers would not opt for such a vehicle.
Total EV sales in the United States saw an 81% year-over-year increase in 2018, with 361,307 cars sold, according to Inside EVs. Globally, consumers bought more than 2 million EVs last year, with BloombergNEF (BNEF) forecasting that this figure will grow to 10 million by 2025 and 56 million by 2040.
Reaching those predictions will require large investments across various sectors, including charging infrastructure. The Department of Energy last month reported that there are now over 20,000 EV charging stations with more than 68,800 connectors across the country. Of that total, 10,860 units, or approximately 16%, were DC fast chargers.
The ICCT report concluded that at least 100,000 public and workplace chargers will be need across the 100 analyzed metro areas to help serve the anticipated 2.6 million new EV and plug-in hybrid EVs on the roads in those areas by 2025. In an earlier report, the ICCT predicted that most locales in the U.S. will need to increase the number of charging stations by 20% each year to keep up with demand.
Monday's ICCT analysis focused on America's largest 100 metropolitan areas as they combined represent 88% of all new EV sales and 75% of overall car market.
Of the $2.2 billion figure that researchers calculated, more than $1 billion, or 50%, will go toward labor costs, with hardware (25%), materials (20%) and permits (5%) accounting for the rest.
Charging network operators EVgo and Greenlots did not respond to requests for comment.
The ICCT report also showed that the cost for public charging infrastructure decreases on a per-vehicle basis as chargers become more utilized and developers shift to more outlets per charging site. The nonprofit expects the per-vehicle cost for public chargers to decline from $480 now to $300 in 2025.
On the home front, researchers expect more than half of EV owners will continue to use their existing home charging options without any upgrades, while about 38% are expected to upgrade their home chargers at an average cost of $1,400.
"Based on these findings, charging infrastructure buildout is a strong candidate for large-scale federal funding," the report said. "Although state-level utility support is growing, city and state funding for charging is generally limited. Cost-sharing federal and local funding would help leverage limited funding to help fill the charging gap and allow local authorities to align the federal support with their own action plans."
The report's authors recommend federal grants for cities that demonstrate high EV uptake, along with comprehensive EV action plans and policies, such as a streamlined permitting process for EV chargers and supportive building codes.
The Smart Electric Power Alliance and Advanced Energy Economy did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.


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Dr Ulrich Bez, CEO of Aston Martin, looked relaxed in Dubai. Despite the recession, he has proudly unveiled the Rapide, the car maker's four-door sports car, and the One-77, a limited edition supercar. "The Rapide is a new definition of a car," he says. "We are looking to sell 2,000 globally [next year], around 150 to 200 cars in the Middle East." People want sports car style with four-door practicality, says Bez.
"The One-77 will start production next year," Bez says of Aston Martin's other big Dubai launch, and he is confident that all 77 cars will be sold. "We have sold 50 of them and we have 50 other hot prospects," he says. "Fifteen out of the 50 have been sold in the Middle East. The car has to deliver the same prestige inside and outside, front and back," Bez says of the car's striking exterior and high-concept interior.
"2007 was our best year," says Bez of the year when 7,000 Aston Martins were sold worldwide. With sales around the 5,000-unit mark in 2009 and projections of 6,000-7,000 sales in 2010, the company is ambitious. However, Bez says that improved showrooms in the UAE and other Gulf nations will increase sales over the coming years. "In 2000, we sold 10 cars in the Middle East, in 2009 we sold 200, in 2010, we expect to sell 300-400 cars but we need better car dealership representation," he says.
Kuwait's Dar and Adeem Investment Company bought Aston Martin in 2007 and since then, Bez says Kuwait has outperformed other Middle Eastern markets with its "benchmark dealership." "We need proper representation in Dubai and Abu Dhabi," he says and hopes to achieve something similar to the elegantly minimalist Paris dealership near the Champs Elysee. "This would be our desire for Dubai and Abu Dhabi, we are in negotiations [for new dealerships]."
When asked about Aston Martin's plans for producing environmentally friendly cars, Bez's response is different to the usual line taken by manufacturers about low or zer-emissions cars. "I am green since I can remember," he declares, before going on to explain that his house is built from renewable materials and he doesn't let his car idle when it is stopped at traffic lights. He then told The National about the renewable materials that have been used to build the Aston Martin design studio before finally referring to the cars.
"We have the Cygnet, it has a one-litre engine, you can sit in it in style and it has the lowest fuel consumption [of all Aston Martins]," he says and scoffs at the suggestion of Aston Martin producing electric sports cars. "This is an honest solution - if you are going to go green, you have to be honest about it." email@example.com


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Do Food Apps Bite? Or Deliver Pocket-Friendly Service?Food delivered to your door, in minutes, from just about any restaurant in town? There's an app for that, in fact there's a bunch.
Amazon Holiday Shipping, Christmas Eve Deliveries Set RecordAmazon says it shipped a record number of items worldwide for the holidays, with Christmas Eve the biggest day ever for deliveries using the company's Prime Now service
Everyone Loves Same-Day Delivery, Until They Have To PayEveryone likes the idea of same-day delivery. But who wants to pay for it? That's the problem merchants face as the busy holiday shopping season approaches.
Sweet Tooth Alert! Dunkin' Donuts Tests Dallas Delivery ServiceDunkin’ Donuts has long served its entire menu all day long, but today company officials announced their partnership with on-demand delivery service DoorDash to test Dunkin’ Delivery service in Dallas.
KFC To Deliver "Finger Lickin' Good" Fried Chicken On DemandColonel Sanders wants to come to your home: KFC says it will start delivering its buckets of fried chicken to customers in two U.S. cities.
Meals On Wheels Delivery Driver Saves Man's LifeThree weeks ago, by chance, a delivery driver saved a man's life because of a Meals on Wheels last-minute change to the delivery schedule.
FedEx Predicts 12 Percent Increase In Holiday ShipmentsWith more and more consumers doing their shopping online, FedEx is bracing for a record volumes this holiday season.
Wal-Mart, Others Speed Up Deliveries To ShoppersChristmas won't come early this year, but the gifts might. Just in time for the winter holiday shopping season, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Macy's and other retailers are working to make sure they can deliver online orders faster.
7-Eleven Expands Home Delivery, But Slurpees Not IncludedDallas-based 7-Eleven expanded its home delivery service to three cities Tuesday, but its most well-known item, the Slurpee, isn't on the menu for now.
Houston Mother Delivers 10 Lb Baby In CarA Houston baby couldn't wait to come into the world and made his debut while riding on the highway.
Authorities Say Teens Getting Dangerous Hallucinogens In The MailImagine a fate worse than death delivered to your door. Authorities say it can happen to those who overdose on a drug that's creeping into Collin County schools.
Icy Weather May Impact Mail ServiceYour mailbox may be empty this afternoon, and if it is, it's likely due to the icy conditions.


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Cameron “Cam” Cantrelle has been around the horticulture industry long enough to understand its problems. For more than 20 years, he’s worked as a landscape contractor and business owner. But as the rest of the world adopted different ways of buying and selling goods, he watched his industry continue to rely on piles of paper order sheets and the fax machine.
He was spending too much time staring at dozens of growers’ availabilities, poring over spreadsheets, making phone calls and waiting for callbacks. The process was hectic and chaotic, and he decided it was time the green industry developed a better way.
That was the problem Cantrelle set out to solve when he launched Plantbid in January 2014 with a small group of wholesale growers. Plantbid is a plant sourcing system that aims to streamline communications between buyers and sellers for the professional horticulture industry. Participating nurseries simply email their availability list to firstname.lastname@example.org, and they become visible to a multitude of new buyers — retail garden centers, big box stores, home improvement, landscape contractors, landscape architects — anyone who has the ability to buy wholesale product. There is no cost to join Plantbid and list your inventory. Plantbid’s software sorts through long buying lists and finds the best nurseries to order from, factoring in not only plant prices but also shipping costs.
“The sellers are the backbone to everything buyers need,” Cantrelle says. “But the current messaging process puts all the burden of cost in their hands. The selling network markets their material in all these different places. It’s up to the buyers to go hunt and peck for what they need. The problem with that is you don’t have enough participation. So the buyers don’t get a good look at what the sellers have, what’s out there.”
Live Oak Gardens, a wholesale nursery based in South Louisiana, has been using the service for about a year. General manager Mike Richard says it took about five minutes to set up.
“We upload our inventory into the system, then we get requests for quotes,” Richard says. “If a customer is looking for plants to source on jobs, it makes it easy to fill out and submit bids. We’ve found quite a few new customers through them, too.”
The new customers are a boon, but Richard says his existing customers like using the service, too, because it takes less time for them to source plants.
“They just submit their list to Plantbid, and it finds things for them,” he says. “They also call, too, it’s not just the automated system. You can talk to an actual human being.”
Live Oak Gardens grows shrubs and perennials in small and large containers on 40 acres, in addition to 150 acres for field-grown B&B trees. The nursery already was emailing Excel spreadsheets with its current inventory to current customers, so it didn’t have to do any extra work to reach a broader range of customers.
“It takes a lot of the headache out on my end,” Richard says. It’s easy to submit… it’s much faster than manually typing in everything or writing up a quote. Boom, it’s off and they’ve got it. It streamlines the process a lot.”
Plantbid buyers typically shop in one of three ways: self-source, send out a request for proposal to the seller network, or hire a broker and let them handle all the logistics.
Plantbid offers a few different ways to use the network. For buyers, the standard plan ($20/month) includes unlimited access to the quote tool. In addition, buyers can perform self-use searches through the software for 2.5 percent of the materials sourced. For buyers not yet comfortable with software or too time crunched to verify the product offerings, Plantbid's sourcing team will take the buyers plant list and verify the selling networks offerings for free. The buyer only pays a fee, which is based on the total amount of materials sourced, if they decide to receive the verified product.
Sellers can respond and win targeted requests for pricing at no cost through Plantbid, because the platform was designed to help sellers acquire new customers. By becoming part of the network, growers can reach the right qualified customers for what they grow, and focus on building personal relationships with those customers to grow their business.
Cantrelle says about $1 million of product has been placed by nurseries that have gotten new customers with Plantbid.
Plantbid has its highest density of users in the Southeast, where the company is based, but is currently shipping across the country. Last summer, many Texas buyers were shopping for xeriscape plants due to the drought. Texas nurseries didn’t have enough, so Plantbid sourced plants from New Mexico, California and Arizona nurseries to be able to handle Texas’ needs. Plantbid has a large network of independent haulers and shippers, and it helps organize that process.
“At the end of the day, we’re a facilitator,” Cantrelle says. “We’re trying to manage the process and help the industry save a lot of time, and potentially good money, by having this visibility and movement of plants across our culture.”


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Federated Media Publishing has dismissed seven people as part of a shift away from display sales.
Falling ad prices and reduced spending by mid-sized marketers have led the company to focus more on its custom and strategic marketing programs, which appeal to prominent brands that make up the bulk of its clients. It expects to make several new hires in those areas in coming weeks.
“We’ve talked to a lot of smaller customers who’ve said, ‘Call us back in a year,'” said Matthew DiPietro, marketing manager at FM. “They’re hiding under a rock and not spending any money. Large customers are saying we need you to do more of what you’re doing, but for less.”
Moritz Loew, senior director of national sales at MSNBC, confirmed last month that many mid-sized advertisers have cut digital ad spending.
“The middle class is gone from marketers right now,” he said. “You see the bottom feeders getting stronger. In the top tier, we’re getting more big deals than ever before — the big custom branding stuff. It’s the middle, your bread and butter $50,000 to $250,000 RFPs, that are going away.”
In the coming months FM plans to hire several new staffers to support its conversational and strategic marketing services. The current ratio of its display ad revenue to its larger conversational marketing campaigns is about 70 percent to 30 percent, according to DiPietro. He said the company is trying to change that ratio to about 80/20.
In a display ad report earlier this week, PubMatic found the price for advertising on Web sites of all sizes fell by about 53 percent from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008.
FM’s DiPietro said FM expects display prices to be squeezed for at least the next two quarters.
The layoffs were spread across all FM locations, including those in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. In a post on FM’s blog, founder and CEO John Battelle thanked the departing employees and affirmed the company’s commitment to executing “complex media programs” for clients.
“While the economy is in deep recession…the media business is also in a historic transition from models based on mass distribution to models based on social interaction,” he wrote.
This year, 154 million consumers shopped over the long holiday weekend, an increase of 3 million from last year
Emotion can be very powerful when trying to reach an audience, and it can be boosted by linking it with the way memory affects human behaviour. How can all of this apply to the demanding mobile audience?
With social media reach and engagement rates having dipped so precipitously over the last year or so, paying to play is the only option for most brands now.
Digital (and in our case search and content) data holds the keys to marketing success.


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Our friends at Worldcarfans are reporting that BMW has no plans for a new BMW Z4 M, based on the recently unveiled roadster. Even though a BMW spokesperson confirmed the report for iMotor.co.uk, we’re keeping this at a rumor level. But, the confirmation rumor is pretty much similar to what we have been saying for the past few months: BMW has no plans, SO FAR, to build a motorsport version of the new E89 Z4.
BMW blames the current economic situation on the decision of axing the Z4 M, but it also places a big question mark next to the upcoming BMW X5 M and X6 M. Sure, BMW has approved these models at least a couple of years back, so this could explain the need to release them next month.
BMW Z4 fans will have to settle for the high-end sDrive35i model, along with a M Sport package and in the future, the upgraded twin-turbo 3.0 liter engine from the 7 Series. Sure, the M Sport Package will be similar to the ZMP one recently released for the 1,3 and 5 Series and it includes upgraded Sport Suspension, aerodynamic package, M Sports leather steering wheel with paddle shifters, M gearshift level, M footrest and many other gimmicks.
But, let me leave you with this, typically an M model is released a year or two after the “regular” cars are available, so in the next couple of years, many things might change. If indeed 2010 will be a recovery year with companies starting to report profits again, plans might and will change, and a Z4 M could make the cut this time.
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New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Division of Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that a man from HudsonCounty, N.J. has pleaded guilty to an identity theft scam.
According to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Ronald Chillemi, Remny Gomez, 24, of West New York, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft of identity before Superior Court Judge Robert J. Mega in Superior Court.
The charge was contained in a UnionCountygrand jury indictment returned on Aug. 27, 2010.
Judge Mega scheduled sentencing for Jan. 12, 2012. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Gomez be sentenced to three years in state prison. He will also be ordered to pay $4,126 in restitution.
In pleading guilty, Gomez admitted that between Feb. 16 and March 13, 2008, he fraudulently used other people’s personal identifying information to commit insurance fraud and to make credit card purchases without their authorization.
The investigation began after Gomez was arrested on Feb. 17, 2008 by the West New York Police Department while allegedly driving a stolen, “re-tagged” 2003 BMW 745. West New York Police Department’s investigation determined that Gomez was in possession of fraudulently obtained insurance identification. The West New York Police Department referred the matter to the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor for further investigation.
While that investigation was pending, Gomez was arrested on March 13, 2008 while attempting to use a $100 gift card to purchase an $850 computer in a Walmart in Secaucus. A vigilant check‑out clerk reportedly noticed that the account numbers on the check‑out slip did not match the numbers on the gift card. Further investigation revealed that Gomez possessed a number of credit cards that had been “re‑encoded,” meaning that the credit cards had been digitally altered.
Gomez is said to have fraudulently possessed a New Jersey driver’s license of another person, a Commerce Bank Visa Debit card and an All Access Gift credit card, a Bank of America Visa card and a re‑encoded Carver Federal Savings Bank credit card, two PNC
Visa Check Cards, a re‑encoded U.S. Bank National Association credit card, a re‑encoded
Commerce Bank Credit card, without the owners’ authorization and a Best Buy Reward Zone MasterCard and a Citibank credit card that had been re‑encoded.
An investigation determined that Gomez allegedly used the fraudulent credit and debit cards to make at least $4,126 worth of purchases.
Detective Jarek Pyrzanowski and former Deputy Attorney General John J. Higgins were assigned to the investigation. Deputy Attorney General Dennis Kwasnik represented the state at the guilty plea hearing.
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Finally, the week football fans and collectors have been anxiously awaiting for months has arrived — and we’re not necessarily talking about Super Bowl week, either. We’re talking about something perhaps even bigger (at least in collecting circles): Prizm release week.
In three short days, Panini America’s 2012 Prizm Football, one of the most anticipated sports card products of this or any other year, will finally be live in hobby shops across North America. The extraordinary secondary-market performance of Prizm’s trailblazing basketball counterpart, in concert with the product’s much-improved utilization of the popular chromium printing technology, has sent expectations for Prizm Football to seldom-seen heights.
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Rent and food top expats' list of expenses
Sources at the Statistics Centre of Dubai said the study measured poverty among expatriates. The year-long survey was conducted on a random sample of 4,042 national, Arab, European and Asian families out of 250,000 families living here.
The research covered food, tobacco, clothes and shoes, homes, furniture and family services, transport, education, culture, entertainment and sport, healthcare, commodities and various services.
The survey was intended to explore patterns of consumer spending for use in the calculation of inflation levels. It examined the average expenditure of families and individuals according to nationality, profession and educational level and demand for commodities and services.
The data will help officials forecast future food needs, measure average wages and assess economic development programmes and levels of nutrition. Policy makers will be able to draw up plans based on the information, curb the level of poverty and specify periodic salary increments.


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Freight Index rises in January
Mar 14, 2008 9:55 AM
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) rose 2.4 percent in January from its December level, matching its largest monthly increase in the last two years, the US Department of Transportationís Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported.
TSI measures the month-to-month changes in the output of services provided by for-hire freight transportation industries. The index consists of data from for-hire trucking, rail, inland waterways, pipelines and air freight.
In January, the TSI noted an increase--the third rise in the last four months. At 111.5, the freight TSI is down 1.5 percent from its peak of 113.1 achieved in November 2005 but up 3.2 percent in the four months since its recent low of 108.0 in September 2007.
With the January increase of 2.4 percent, the freight index had its largest climb to start the year since the January 1993 increase of 4.2 percent.
The January freight TSI of 111.5 was 2.7 percent higher than the January 2007 level and remains 0.3 percent below the January 2006 level and 1.3 percent lower than the January 2005 level.
Despite declines from recent January levels, the freight index has increased 7.9 percent in five years and 13.5 percent in 10 years.
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Global equities returned nearly 4% in the first half of November and had reached all-time highs before the Omicron news. Despite ending the month marginally down, dollar appreciation produced a positive return for sterling-based investors. While cyclical companies were hardest hit, a strong performance from technology stocks softened the blow and meant the broad US index fell only 0.5%. There were similar modest declines in Asia and emerging markets while Europe and the UK were down just over 2% in local currency terms. After trending higher over the past three months on rising inflation and the prospect of central bank tightening, yields on US and UK 10-year bonds eased to 1.4% and 0.8% respectively. Long-dated and index-linked UK gilts made strong gains which appears a somewhat contradictory reaction to the inflation uptick. Brent Crude fell 15% to $72.
Supply chain disruptions continue
Growth in China has been losing momentum this year. There are some signs of this stabilising - year-on-year industrial output rose 3% in October and retail sales nearly 5% - but new travel restrictions and continuing problems in the property sector indicate that growth could remain subdued for some time. Fixed asset investment has slowed to 6% year-on-year and, with the authorities determined to avoid reflating the property bubble, the economy is unlikely to accelerate while money supply and total social financing remain broadly in line with nominal GDP.
Japan’s economy shrank more than expected in Q3 as global supply disruptions impacted car manufacturing and Covid-19 restrictions affected consumer spending. Factory activity, especially auto production, has rebounded and Q4 GDP should see a strong recovery as restrictions ease. As elsewhere, input prices have risen sharply, but Japan does not have the labour shortage experienced in other regions so inflationary pressures are likely to remain muted. The Eurozone has seen a similar acceleration in activity, although new lockdowns have dampened expectations for the services sector. Price pressures are the highest for nearly 20 years with companies reporting some success in passing these on. While the surge in energy costs was the main contributor to CPI rising to 4.9% in November and wage growth is less of an issue than elsewhere, there is pressure on the European Central Bank to reconsider its policy stance with various core inflation measures above 2%.
The UK recovery continues to lag other countries even though there has been the same pattern of sustained growth in business activity, robust consumer spending, an improving jobs market and sharply rising inflation. CPI reached a 10 year high of 4.2% in October and is expected to peak in H1 2022. The key concern is wage inflation despite earnings growth of 4.9% being distorted by temporary factors and compositional effects. Low unemployment and vacancies of around 1.2 million - a third higher than pre-pandemic - indicate a post-Brexit structural shortage. Faced with a potential wage spiral, the Bank of England has hinted that interest rates could soon rise. Bond markets see this as a potential policy error as - if the labour shortage is partly structural - the problem is unlikely to be resolved quickly and higher rates will add to the cost pressures on consumers.
The acceleration in growth and sharply rising inflation has emboldened central banks to taper stimulus measures and, in some cases, to start raising interest rates. The Chair of the Federal Reserve has dropped any reference to “transitory” inflation and the ECB is expected to announce plans to unwind its bond purchases. This suggests there is upward pressure on bond yields even without a knee-jerk rate rise which - given high debt levels - is likely to damage growth. The consensus view is that inflation will normalise in 2022 albeit at a slightly higher level than pre-pandemic. However, the last two years have highlighted the vulnerability of the global “just in time” supply chain and companies are expected to respond by diversifying their suppliers. If this is the case, the golden era - from a consumer perspective - of price deflation may be coming to an end.
In the short-term, strong corporate earnings have outweighed warning signs of tighter liquidity and a squeeze on margins from higher costs. Even assuming that the latest Covid-19 mutation has no adverse impact, we expect global GDP growth and corporate profits to revert to trend in 2022. December is often a strong month for financial markets but, after the strong run this year, current valuations leave little scope for disappointment - especially if bond yields edge up and provide an alternative source of return. While we remain positive on equities versus other assets, an element of caution appears warranted.


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We check in on eight companies that already have reported results and three others that will report in the next couple weeks.
Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) today announced a new partnership with Under Armour (NYSE: UA), the originator of performance footwear, apparel and equipment, furthering Kohl's commitment to becoming the active and...
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(By Sanjay Kothari): The year 2016 is being celebrated as ‘Golden Jubilee’ of India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) which was set up by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India (GoI) in 1966. This is one of several Export Promotion Councils (EPCs) launched by the Indian Government, to boost the country’s export thrust, when India’s post-Independence economy began making forays in the international markets. GJEPC has been granted autonomous status since 1998.
The GJEPC is the apex body of the gems & jewellery industry and today it represents almost 6,000 exporters in the sector. During last five decades, the GJEPC has emerged as one of the most active EPCs, and has continuously strived to expand its reach and depth in its promotional activities as well as widen and increase services to its members. The India International Jewellery Show (IIJS), being organized by the GJEPC since last 33 years has now become one of the most important shows globally and a gateway to India’s gem & jewellery sector.
I must mention here the Council’s measures undertaken to upgrade, upskill and generally improve the industry’s standards and products. It has set up various institutes across the country, foremost among them the Indian Institute of Gems & Jewellery (IIGJ) imparting international quality courses for training artisans and designers for this industry. There are various gemmological institutes under its umbrella like the Gemmological Institute of India (GII), Gem Testing Laboratory, Jaipur and the Indian Gemmological Institute, New Delhi and Indian Diamond Institute in Surat, undertake research, training and certification activities.
The GJEPC interacts closely with the National Skill Development Council (NSDC), an initiative of the Government of India, to take the latter’s programme to the gems & jewellery industry. It has played an important role in setting up the Gem & Jewellery Skill Council of India (GJSCI) recently.
The India Gem & Jewellery Awards has over the years been recognition of achievement and excellence of the leading companies within the industry and acted as a spur to improve performance to others. New categories like Woman Entrepreneur, Socially Responsible Company introduced recently have kept the Awards categories relevant and up to date with the current environment.
Taken together, through its various functions and activities, the GJEPC has forged a fitting atmosphere to provide a boost for gems & jewellery exports; by creating an enabling environment through its interaction with the Government and other agencies and bodies; by creating awareness and branding of the Indian industry and its products in India and abroad; and by providing the necessary inputs for both the industry and its product to keep developing and improving.
The progress of the GJEPC is so far so good. But now the sector faces some challenges which I think it should address effectively. Liquidity crunch is one of the foremost issues faced by the diamond traders in recent times. Small and big size defaulters in diamond sector have compelled the banks tighten its credit norms. But I think it is unfair on part of banks to punish the entire diamond industry for a few ‘bunch of black sheep’. Bankers and financial institutions have literally lost faith in the industry after a trail of banking defaults since 2007. The collaterals have been increased to over 100%, which were earlier used to be in the range of 20-30%. It is the right time that the government should tighten the noose around such defaulters and set an example for others falling in the line.
Generic promotion is another issue needs to be addressed immediately. Unfortunately, De Beers, which built up the global market for diamonds with its iconic generic campaign featuring the tagline A Diamond Is Forever, has withdrawn from promotions ever since its market share fell below the 40% level. It hopes to promote diamonds in the gift-giving segment, particularly in China. It has recognized, however, that consumer demand needs stimulating and has announced a promotional campaign for its own Forevermark brand.
GJEPC and De Beers, during the 33rd edition of the IIJS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake joint promotional activities to drive consumer demand for diamond jewellery in India. The marketing campaign will be run over the key selling season later this year. Details of the funding are being discussed and will be subsequently decided by both GJEPC.
Besides, the Council has also signed a similar MoU with the Diamond Producers’ Association (DPA) is and eager to sign more such pacts with other mining Companies. These initiatives will certainly help boost consumer confidence which has been badly shaken in recent years and help activate demand in future.
Another issue that the industry faces is of Undisclosed Synthetics. The Indian diamond industry has expressed its concern about the menace of ‘contamination’ in natural diamonds and has also taken several steps including formation of Natural Diamond Monitoring Committee (NDMC) that has recently developed some solutions which would help prevent undisclosed mixing of synthetic diamonds with the natural ones.
The solutions developed by the NDMC are outcome of one of the most comprehensive studies ever made in the diamond sector – spanning eight countries across three continents over a period of nearly four months. The study has incorporated inputs from a wide variety of players including manufacturers, retailers, equipment firms, testing laboratories, global Trade Bodies, legal firms, consultants and industry experts. The solutions evolved on basis of the study will ensure fair trade practices to curb the issue of undisclosed mixing and ensure full and fair disclosure to the purchaser, claims the NDMC.
Let me emphatically stress here at this juncture that the GJEPC has truly played a very constructive and pivotal role, of course with the due policy support by the Indian government, in transforming the Indian Gem & Jewellery Industry into the modern days’ status. We, at GJEPC are very proud to see the Council achieving this milestone of 50 years and wish it many more such credits in years to come.
(The author is former Chairman GJEPC who is fondly known as ‘Father of the Modern Indian Diamond Industry)


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Japanese mobile internet venture sells off overseas businesses at a significant loss February 28, 2007Posted by fukumimi in Economy & Business, Internet, IPO.
For-Side.com, originally one of the big Japanese mobile content providers (ie ringtone merchants – though they have branched out into other things like content (music, video) creation and distribution) has announced that it is selling its overseas operations which operate under the iTouch group banner to concentrate on domestic activities.
It had purchased the iTouch operations (which previously was a member of the FTSE 100 Techmark index) in May 2005 for 184million pounds in cash……..
The company is being sold to a group led by the ex-CEO of iTouch for 7.6B Yen, which today is about 33million pounds.
I don’t think I need to bother commenting any further….
The company had grown through an acquisition strategy, which clearly hasn’t worked.
Shares were trading (on Jasdaq) at JPY6670, off nearly 80% compared its 52-week high of JPY32,300. It had traded at over JPY200,000 back in the middle of 2004.
To end this post, I’ll leave you with Reuter’s one line comment about this company:
Rapidly selling its acquisitions. Mobile contents business minimal. If overseas businesses are sold, what remains is basically just a consumer loans business.
And this is the state isn’t unique for a listed Japanese “internet” company. Like Livedoor before it, this company probably doesn’t deserve to be called an internet company, if that definition is to have any meaning. Consumer loans (read: legalised loan sharking at up to 28% APR) and an M&A vehicle seems to be the right characterisation of this company.
And another example of a failed attempt by an young Japanese company to expand overseas. Hint: You need a real business to succeed….


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Wow, what a week. The US may have had midterm elections this week, but the most important moment for financial markets this week was yesterday’s (Thursday 10 November 2022) US CPI inflation data.
At 7.7% headline US CPI was a lot lower than the 7.9% economists had forecast and well below September’s reading 8.2%, while the core reading, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, also come in lower than expected at 6.3%.
This was undeniably a big slowdown, and confirms our view that the high for inflation is well and truly behind us – and unsurprisingly, global equity markets rose sharply on the expectation that the Fed will not only start to slow its monetary tightening, but potentially start to cut interest rates next year.
Sentiment was also boosted by today’s US consumer sentiment data and news that China is easing some of its coronavirus restrictions: the University of Michigan consumer sentiment data added to the signs that the US economy is slowing (and thus added to the narrative that the Fed can slow its current monetary tightening); while the easing of quarantine for secondary contacts intensified speculation that this is the beginning of the end of China’s strict Covid-Zero policy, meaning that the China may soon join the rest of us living with the virus.


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IFF announced that it has acquired Phytotechnology LLC or PowderPure. PowderPure is a creator of all-natural food ingredients by eliminating water while leaving the taste, color and nutrition. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“With innovation and the pioneering spirit an integral part of the IFF story, this acquisition represents another exciting chapter for us, as it fortifies our industry-leading naturals platform to meet consumers’ growing demand for natural and clean label products,” said IFF chairman and CEO Andreas Fibig.
PowderPure works with its proprietary Infidria drying technology to develop all-natural ingredients without water, while repurposing materials from other food processing systems and removing them from waste streams. Founded in the early 2000s, the Portland-based company uses minimal processing on whole fruit and vegetable powders, juice powders and other specialty products.
Matthias Haeni, group president of IFF flavors, said, “IFF’s focus on creating natural sustainable solutions for our customers is woven into everything we do. We are excited to work with PowderPure and leverage their fantastic technologies to create minimally processed products from natural ingredients. PowderPure will be a great addition to the IFF family.”
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On February 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published guidance aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) advertising claims. After the massively successful beta release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, many companies, big and small, are promoting AI as part of their products and many consumers are seeking AI products. However, several companies and consumers do not have a firm understanding of AI or its capabilities. The FTC instructs those who are marketing and selling products in this space to beware: “for FTC enforcement purposes […] false or unsubstantiated claims about a product’s efficacy are our bread and butter.” It’s important for companies that market technology, specifically AI, or utilize the technology itself to understand the FTC’s evolving enforcement of AI claims to avoid future penalties.
Section 5 of the FTC Act prohibits unfair and deceptive acts and practices. In advertising, this means that all claims, whether explicit or implied, must be truthful and substantiated. Claims are viewed through the eyes of the reasonable consumer and all reasonable interpretations must be truthful, accurate and substantiated. What constitutes adequate substantiation depends on the specific claim itself.
Specifically, as it relates to AI, advertisers are warned not to exaggerate the features of their AI products or promise that the AI-enabled version will perform better than a non-AI product unless there is sufficient, adequate substantiation. The FTC also notes that even some AI purveyors may not know the capabilities or limitations of their products. Nonetheless, the FTC says AI vendors “need to know about the reasonably foreseeable risks and impact of [the] AI product before putting it on the market.” Further, if the product does not actually use AI, “FTC technologists and others can look under the hood and analyze other materials to see if what’s inside matches up with your claims.”
This is not the first guidance on AI that the FTC has promulgated. Earlier FTC AI guidance from April 2021 focused on fairness and equity, and a lengthy June 2022 report at the direction of US Congress studied “how artificial intelligence (AI) may be used to identify, remove, or take any other appropriate action necessary to address a wide variety of specified online harms.” [quotation marks omitted]. Additionally, just last month, the FTC announced the launch of a new Office of Technology, further signaling the FTC’s focus on increased enforcement in the technology sector. The new office is designed to “strengthen the FTC’s ability to keep pace with the technological challenges in the digital marketplace by supporting the agency’s law enforcement and policy work.”
With the latest published guidance, it’s clear that the FTC will be scrutinizing any advertising and offerings in the AI space for truthfulness, as well as requiring that AI vendors understand the capabilities and limitations of their products.


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Wal-Mart project faces town review
Impact of increased traffic will be discussed at Aug. 23 meeting
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COLONIE -- Town officials are set to weigh whether to allow the construction of a large Wal-Mart store that has raised traffic concerns.
The supercenter would be built on a site off Route 9 in Latham that is near and visible from the Northway, near Nemith Motors and behind a Holiday Inn Express. It would replace a nearby store in Latham Farms shopping center.
The new location would be about 70,000 square feet bigger than the existing store and would include a supermarket, pharmacy and restaurant.
The Colonie Planning Board is set to review the plan at its Aug. 23 meeting.
"It's going to be interesting to see what the turnout is going to be," said Joe LaCivita, the town's director of planning and economic development. "That's probably going to be a big night."
Wal-Mart proposed the store in 2008, but the plan has been delayed as town officials worked to resolve traffic concerns along the stretch of Route 9.
Still, worries about the store's traffic impact persist.
"I find it hard to get out of my driveway as it is," said Latham resident William Serafin, who lives a short distance from the proposed site. "No one is going to be able to convince me that a super Wal-Mart isn't going to make that worse."
Wal-Mart, which did not respond Thursday to requests for comment, has been running radio advertisements urging the town to approve the supercenter. The ads note property taxes the store would pay, and claim that Colonie residents drive to Wal-Mart supercenters in neighboring towns and counties.
Serafin, though, said the store would leave a large vacancy at Latham Farms, which is a short distance from the largely empty Latham Circle Mall.
Though he shops at Wal-Mart, Serafin questioned whether allowing the new construction would be wise for a town with underutilized shopping centers.
"Some of these corporations just keep expanding," he said.
The store would employ 450 people, according to plans submitted to the town.
The Latham Farms Wal-Mart, along with the rest of the plaza near Northway Exit 6, opened in 1993 and was remodeled in 2001.
The company, though, has generally moved to replace such smaller stores in favor of large supercenters.


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Whatever John Boumphrey thought he was taking on when he became Amazon’s UK boss, he almost certainly underestimated it.
When he was appointed in November 2020, Britain was engulfed in the second major wave of Covid-19 infections and Amazon was seeing a surge in demand as customers who were stuck at home turned to online shopping.
He was then forced to confront more mayhem last year when the Russian invasion of Ukraine threw global supply chains into chaos, leading to soaring inflation and sparking the cost-of-living crisis.
Learning on the job: Whatever John Boumphrey thought he was taking on when he became Amazon’s UK boss, he almost certainly underestimated it
But the extent of the company’s growth since the pandemic has shocked even veteran staff – and Boumphrey has seen his British workforce more than double to 75,000 since he started.
‘It wasn’t easy and there was a lot of learning on the job,’ he admits. ‘I’m looking forward to having a normal year, because I haven’t had one yet.’
Boumphrey’s calm and jovial manner contrasts with the frantic hive of activity at our meeting place – the main floor of one of Amazon’s massive warehouses, or as the company calls them, ‘fulfilment depots, near Dartford on the south bank of the Thames.
Behind us, machines and employees are busy picking, packing and shipping thousands of items to waiting customers across Britain in a symphony of whirring conveyor belts, beeping barcode readers and aptly named ‘Slam’ (scan, label, apply and manifest) robots stamping addresses on packages. The warehouse itself, the size of six-and-a-half football pitches, is only slightly younger than Boumphrey’s tenure as UK manager, having opened its doors in 2021.
And the rapid expansion that he has presided over shows no signs of slowing down. Amazon plans to open two more warehouses before the end of the year, one of which will be based in the West Midlands town of Sutton Coldfield and will create up to 1,400 jobs.
The company will also keep moving into the bricks-and-mortar world of physical shops with its Amazon Fresh brand.
Boumphrey dismisses recent reports of shop closures in some areas, saying it is part and parcel of running the division.
‘One of my roles as country manager is to champion the UK and make sure we are at the forefront of receiving investment,’ Boumphrey says.
Amazon launched in Britain in 1998. At that time, it was still primarily an online bookseller headed by founder Jeff Bezos, who appeared to be intent on upending the traditional publishing industry.
Since then, it has grown into one of the country’s largest private-sector employers and a one-stop-shop for virtually everything that can be bought legally.
This was emphasised by data released last week showing the top 25 most popular products of all time on Amazon.co.uk. The list, which is topped by Andrex Gentle Clean toilet rolls, also includes the much-derided Crocs shoes, Earth Rated dog poo bags and Nizoral anti-dandruff shampoo, alongside more predictable wares such as Harry Potter books, the card game Dobble and the Echo Dot smart speaker.
Boumphrey has witnessed the stark shift in shopping patterns over the past year as the cost-ofliving crisis has piled pressure on household budgets.
AI: Amazon is already working to implement AI, with the technology currently being used in the US
‘We’ve seen people buying more unbranded goods and also changing the sizes of their purchases. They are either buying in bulk to save money or buying items in smaller sizes than they were before.’
But one customer the company can seemingly count on is the boss himself, saying he and his family ‘buy everything on Amazon’, including multiple Kindle ebooks to satiate their reading habits.
Brought up on the Wirral near Liverpool, Boumphrey, 48, has a family legacy in retail. His father worked as a regional manager for US food giant General Foods, now a part of Kraft Heinz. His mother, meanwhile, initially stayed at home before retraining as an adult literacy teacher when he was a teenager.
In his professional life, Boumphrey spent more than seven years as a manager at US consultancy Bain & Company before nearly five years at DIY retailer Homebase. He joined Amazon in 2011. Since then the retail and tech giant’s presence in Britain has exploded, with its workforce surging from around 2,500 staff.
His ascent to the top of the British arm of the business almost mirrors the dramatic expansion of Amazon UK over the past decade, as well as how the retail landscape has altered drastically.
He joined as a director of the music and DVD business, both of which have since been subsumed by streaming services such as Spotify, Netflix and Amazon’s own Prime arm. The father of three then steadily moved up the ranks, heading Amazon’s European fashion arm for just over two years before taking over as UK boss in 2020.
The new perspective that his current role has given him on the business environment has raised one area of concern. Surprisingly, it is not about the tax regime – an area where Amazon is frequently criticised for not paying its fair share despite the company’s claims to be one of the top 15 contributors to Revenue and Customs.
‘I’ve got so much on my plate that I haven’t had time to really think about the UK tax regime,’ Boumphrey says, although he stresses that it is ‘really important that big businesses contribute’ to the nation’s coffers.
Instead, he voices worries about the state of the UK’s competition regulations, saying there is an ‘opportunity’ for Britain to stand out post-Brexit from its continental counterparts.
He says firms should have the ability to appeal the substance of decisions made by the watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), rather than the proposed regime, which allows businesses to challenge only the process by which a conclusion is reached.
‘The CMA has significant power over companies and they can’t challenge the substance of a decision… I think a merits-based appeal approach is what we would be looking for.
‘The UK does have an opportunity to differentiate itself from the EU. And I think what’s really important is that there are appropriate checks and balances in place.’
He adds: ‘This is an untested regime and I think for companies and the Government, it makes sense that the appeals process is fit for purpose.’ Boumphrey remains tight-lipped about Amazon’s plans in the UK beyond the imminent opening of the two new fulfilment centres, although that could be because some of it may hinge on the choices of his US bosses.
‘I don’t have a crystal ball, unfortunately,’ he says, but reiterates that Amazon is likely to keep focusing on the very corporate-sounding area of ‘innovation’. Key to this is the rapidly developing area of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly through computer programs such as ChatGPT.
‘Over the past six to 12 months we’ve seen generative AI really come on in leaps and bounds. And I think every part of the shopping experience is going to be reimagined by that,’ he says.
Amazon is already working to implement AI, with the technology currently being used in the US to help summarise thousands of customer product reviews. Does he ever find himself coveting the top job at Amazon and becoming the next Jeff Bezos?
Boumphrey laughs, saying he is ‘absolutely delighted’ to be in his current role.
‘It’s a huge privilege to be managing Amazon UK. It’s a big business we’re running and I feel a responsibility to the 75,000 employees we have in Britain.’
He also seems uninterested in decamping to the US, where he previously worked for almost three years as Amazon’s head of consumables programmes at its Seattle headquarters.
‘I’ve had the opportunity to work over there and absolutely loved it. But for personal reasons, I’m really happy to be back in the UK.’
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The OnePlus 11 5G smartphone will appear in two colours: Glossy Green and Matte Black. This information comes from tipster Max Jambor. Let’s explore the OnePlus 11 5G’s specifications, features, and other information that is known so far.
OnePlus 11 5G colours, specifications
The OnePlus 11 5G will be launched in India and other markets in at least two colour options. According to the tipster, the Matte Black will be making a comeback while the Glossy Green could be similar to the Emerald Forest option we saw on the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G.
In terms of specs, the OnePlus 11 5G is expected to have a 6.7-inch QHD+ AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ certification. This is a recognisable panel that we’ve also seen on the OnePlus 10 Pro. Under the hood, the upcoming flagship headset will be powered by the all-new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, with up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and up to 512GB of UFS4.0 internal storage.
The OnePlus 11 5G is rumoured to have three cameras on the back, including a 50MP Sony IMX890 primary sensor, a 48MP ultra-wide lens, and a 32MP telephoto sensor. A 32MP front camera will be seen on the phone for taking selfies. The alert slider, which was temporarily removed from the OnePlus smartphones, will also be back on the device. The OnePlus 11 5G is believed to include a 5,000mAh battery with support for 100W fast charging. The phone will also come pre-installed with OxygenOS 13, which is based on Android 13.


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One of the many strategies Amazon applies to win more leverage in its brutally competitive retail industry is organizing a whole day with nothing but appealing sales. This date doesn’t coincide with other national events that promote deals. Instead, this project represents this company only to the detriment of its rivals. The organization has just designated July 10th as the third such Prime Day of the year.
The First Prime Day Celebrated Amazon’s 20th Anniversary in 2015
Amazon Prime is getting ready its online platform to sustain lots of tempting sales and enthusiasts and not crack under pressure. At precisely 9 p.m. ET on July 10th, the company will officially declare the opening of the third annual Prime Day. The grand event will be available in 13 countries and will last for only 30 hours.
This novel concept helped the company to attain even more awareness among potential clients. For instance, last year this event was 60% more successful than it was in 2015. In America alone, users ordered 50% more than usual.
The very first Prime Day occurred on July 15, 2015. It started off as a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Amazon activities. However, its impressive performance convinced the company that this phenomenon has a lot of potential and needs to be repeated. As a consequence, one year after, the company held other 30 hours of sales in an effort to turn more enthusiasts into Prime members.
Amazon Is Willing to Go to Great Length to Convert as Many Shoppers into Prime Members
The company is extremely attentive when it comes to its Prime service. Amazon has numerous reports that show that Prime members are several times more valuable and loyal than the usual shoppers. As a consequence, the online retail platform is going to great strides to bring only delicious services and offers to them.
This year the company made sure clients will receive access to more deals than in the previous editions. Around 40% of the offers will come from small entrepreneurs. On top of that, the company wants to encourage clients to enjoy even grocery items from them. Giving the recent acquisition of Whole Foods, shoppers will get even 35% off discounts for edible products.
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Beijing, March 31st (Reporter Zhang Xinxin) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will accelerate the 5G network progress. It is expected that the number of 5 base stations will exceed 600,000 by the end of the year to achieve continuous outdoor coverage in prefecture-level cities. Scene coverage:
In recent years, China's 5G development has achieved remarkable results. As of the end of February, there were 164,000 5G base stations nationwide. The 5G industry ecology has gradually matured. As of March 26, there have been 76 5G mobile phone product types in China, with cumulative shipments exceeding 26 million.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has proposed that students based telecom companies can encourage 5G terminal consumption through package upgrades, credit purchases, and other measures to accelerate the development of users to migrate to 5G. At the same time, we will use 5G application technology industry squares and other platforms to unblock 5G application research and promotion Important link to promote the innovation of 5G integrated education application management in various industries and fields.


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The government is not in a position to force jewelers to replace their male employees with women as was the case with lingerie and cosmetics shops because women cannot provide enough protection, a local newspaper reported recently.
The Arabic language daily Al-Sharq quoted Karim Al-Anzi, head of the Gold and Jewelry Committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as saying jewelry shops in the Kingdom are not well-protected and are vulnerable to robberies.
“The security personnel assigned to jewelry shops in the Kingdom are provided by some companies … they are not armed enough,” he said.
“These people cannot even protect women working at lingerie shops from molesters, let alone against theft and robberies. So I don’t think there will be any decision to replace men with women at jewelry shops.”
He said jewelry dealers in most countries rely on male workers to ensure sufficient protection, adding that gold shops in Saudi Arabia each has on average at least SR10 million worth of jewelry.
“How do you expect women working at these shops to protect these valuable contents? Unfortunately, jewelry dealers in the Kingdom rely on themselves to protect their shops by hiring untrained security personnel whose weapons are only mobile phones to report any theft or attack to the police,” he said.
The Kingdom began replacing all male workers with women at its lingerie and cosmetics shops three years ago in line with a longstanding policy banning mixed-gender working.


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British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to make a final attempt at persuading lawmakers to back her "new" Brexit deal on Wednesday but the agreement — and May's...Europe Politicsread more
Consumers in China are taking to social media to express their support for Huawei as the U.S. government looks to ramp up pressure on the Chinese smartphone maker.Technologyread more
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Shares of Saudi shopping mall operator Arabian Centres were trading at 24.34 riyals ($6.49) in early deals in Riyadh.IPOsread more
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McDonald's and some of its franchisees have been hit with multiple class-action lawsuits filed by workers alleging that the fast-food giant is systemically stealing their wages.
The suits, which were filed Wednesday and Thursday in California, Michigan and New York, claim McDonald's has engaged in widespread wage theft by making employees work off the clock, shaving hours off time cards and not paying workers overtime.
McDonald's Vice President of Global External Communications Heidi Barker Sa Shekhem wrote in an email, "McDonald's and our independent owner-operators share a concern and commitment to the well-being and fair treatment of all people who work in McDonald's restaurants. We are currently reviewing the allegations in the lawsuits. McDonald's and our independent franchisees are committed to undertaking a comprehensive investigation of the allegations and will take any necessary actions as they apply to our respective organizations."
This is the latest in a string of actions by fast-food workers, many of whom earn minimum wage, to protest how much they are paid.
(Read more: Restaurants need a 'Circuit City' event)
In early December, workers staged mass protests throughout the U.S. to demand the federal minimum hourly wage be raised to $15 from the current level of $7.25.
In response to these protests, McDonald's has stressed the opportunities its jobs gives workers.
Lisa McComb, a McDonald's spokesperson, told Nation's Restaurant News, "We offer employees advancement opportunities, competitive pay and benefits. And we invest in training and professional development that helps them learn practical and transferable business skills."
A separate movement has grown on Capitol Hill, with President Barack Obama and many Democrats in Congress advocating for a hike in the federal minimum wage to $10.10.
But a recent Congressional Budget Office report provided ammunition for those opposing such a move.
(Read more: $10.10 minimum wage could hit total employment: CBO)
The nonpartisian CBO estimated that an increase to $10.10 could result in about 500,000 jobs being lost by late 2016.
—By CNBC's Katie Little. Follow her on Twitter


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Sharp will start selling the industry's thinnest 4K monitor, a 32-inch LCD screen that is just 3.5mm thick, in February.
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Japan's Sharp, struggling with deep losses and searching for a financial savior, has cut short an early retirement program after being flooded with volunteers.
Google is so ubiquitous in our everyday digital lives that it's easy to overlook the many tools it offers that have a business slant.
The new, 11th version of Acrobat sports a number of new wrinkles
Three top executives promoted Monday at Intel are among the leading candidates under consideration to replace Paul Otellini as the company's CEO, according to sources familiar with the chip makers' plans.
China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips, in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence in the country's mobile ser...
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The term “ingredient household” is making rounds on TikTok, but the term has been part of Google searches for years. Which means people want to know: what is it?
The term refers to a household where there is no ready-to-eat food, but rather ingredients that need to be prepared in order to eat. That means no frozen lasagna, breakfast pastries and so forth.
In December, terms “ingredient house” and “ingredient only household” have become more popularly searched but the term is not new. Google Trends records that the term has been searched as early as 2004.
While one blog explains that the choice to buy ingredients may help save money, eat healthier food, and have more control over healthy eating.
At the heart of the discussion are the economic reasons for how the household shops. An ingredient household indicates someone in the home has time to prepare food, or perhaps finds it to be less expensive, or may be more environmentally conscious. A household where pre-made food is available could indicate a more socially active family, among other reasons.
The TikTok trend of those who currently live or have lived in ingredient households is to share what they eat as snacks or when they don’t feel like preparing food. The quick items that some say they grab include nuts, spoonfuls of peanut butter, chocolate chips, croutons, cheese, sprinkles, and even dandelions.
The discussion of ingredient houses is not limited to TikTok. On Twitter, users have been sharing their opinion of the trend, and one even shared that they found a way to use an artificial intelligence chat what they could make with the ingredients they had in their household.


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December 20, 2018
Paperworld 2019 – including the Remanexpo product group – is fast-approaching, with myriad companies now confirming their participation in Frankfurt in January.
2019’s edition of the annual trade show takes place at Messe Frankfurt, Germany, from the 26th to the 29th of January, and with three months still to go, excitement and anticipation are beginning to build. Over 100 exhibitors from across the globe are already confirmed, and they will be joined at the show by many hundreds of visitors from every corner of both the industry and the planet.
Among the exhibitors in Frankfurt in January will be Biuromax, which will be exhibiting at Booth C42, in Remanexpo’s new home of Hall 5.1. The Polish company will be displaying various new products at the trade show, including new HP monochrome toner specially designed for HP CF237 (M608). Discussing the products, Biuromax stated that “the toner ID and fusing properties are just perfect”; it will also introduce visitors to its colour toner for multiple HP devices, compatible with the HP M252/M254/M452/M180/M553.
Explaining its reasons for attending Remanexpo, Biuromax commented that “the show saves time and costs, as it is covering business trips that you would otherwise have to arrange separately, whereas at the show you can meet your customers and suppliers within 4 days at the same place.”
The company added that its focus was always on “personal meetings. That is why our team of Export and Product Managers are there to have an opportunity to meet customers and suppliers face to face.”
As well as meeting customers, Biuromax highlighted the diverse range of attendees at Remanexpo, and the value that brings, especially when looking to the future.
“You can get inspired when listening to people from different regions but also you can verify which direction the competition is heading,” the company elaborated. “We listen to our vendors and try to give them an idea of our vision of doing business – therefore, taking part in exhibition has a lot of value. We can hear what’s new in terms of products and market trends.”
As with the company’s previous appearances at Paperworld, Biuromax has invested in a “big and comfortable” booth, and will be providing a hearty range of Polish drinks and snacks to visitors, “to guarantee a pleasant atmosphere.”
Biuromax enjoyed a particularly successful Paperworld in 2018, winning The Recycler Awards for Customer Service of the Year and Marketing Campaign of the Year, to add to its title of Supplier of the Year 2017. Yesterday’s announcement of the nominees for The Recycler Awards 2019 saw the company shortlisted in the aforementioned three categories once again, and it will surely be hoping for another triumphant appearance.
Biuromax is just one of dozens and dozens of exhibitors due at Remanexpo, within the Paperworld trade show, and it’s still not too late to book your visit – simply click here to register and confirm your place as a visitor at Europe’s premier show for the aftermarket industry.
Last year’s Paperworld show welcomed thousands of visitors, with one big-name exhibitor describing it as “the world’s best office supply trade fair.” To revisit The Recycler’s coverage of the 2018 event, click here, here, here, and here, or check out our bumper review feature in Issue 304 – available here.
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Rolled Ice Cream Shop Opens Up in West Duluth
This isn't just another ice cream parlor
DULUTH, Minn.- Hot temperatures made for the ideal opening week for a new Duluth business called T-Icy Roll.
The hibachi rolled ice cream shop allows customers to see their ice cream being made right in front of them.
They officially opened in the Denfeld Center in West Duluth the second weekend in August and manager Michelle Lin says that customers like the unique flare on their ice cream.
“Our ice cream is very creamy, very yummy, it’s very good. That was what they said. They were very happy we opened a place right here.”
With over 30 toppings to choose from, customers can create their own combination of flavors or choose from a list of pre–made crowd favorites like cookie monster, a mix of crushed Oreo and condensed milk.
T–icy also serves bubble tea, fruit tea and smoothies.