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As stakeholders in the creative industry set for the African version of the Advertising Week, Raheem Akingbolu reports that the event will be an ideal platform for the continent to tell her story and project her businesses.
To creative and communications experts, one of the major challenges facing the African nations is leaving their stories for others to tell. As a result of this, concerned individuals and groups in the marketing and communication sector have consistently called on head of governments and businesses in various African countries to have a common front to tell African stories rather than leaving it for foreigners. It is also believed that such platforms will provide opportunities for players in communications related fields to share ideas and explore opportunities.
After many years of expectation, promoters of the Advertising week, in December last year, announced that an African version would berth in Johannesburg, South Africa, this year. Advertising Week is believed to be the world’s largest annual gathering of advertising, creative, entertainment, marketing, media and technology industry leaders in today’s market. The African edition is expected to unite the continent with other cities that have hosted the global event like London, Mexico City, New York City, Sydney and Tokyo.
According to the organisers, a global partnership has since been instituted with Nelson Mandela Foundation, to create new employment opportunities for young people to cushion the effect of poverty in Africa. While the event will be led globally by Stillwell Partners, a group of eggheads from Republicom, a group of six market-leading companies working together to deliver 360-degree integrated marketing, advertising and creative services, led by Tunji Adeyinka, Tosin Lanipekun and Eyitayo Olayemi, will be on ground to overseas the Johannesburg leg of the Advertising Week. To work with them are 31 additional members of the Advertising Week Africa Advisory Council, drawn from various countries and business organisations.
Since 2004 when it was founded by Matt Scheckner and Lance Pillersdorf, Advertising Week has evolved into the #1 business-to-business event in New York City, cutting across all industries and has expanded rapidly across the globe replicating its signature formula blending thought leadership on the business of the business by day and show business by night. The Week now enjoys a global footprint with editions in London (7 years), Mexico City (2 years), Sydney (2 years), Tokyo (4 years) and now, Johannesburg. Via AW360, Stillwell has extended the thought leadership platform beyond the events onto smartphones and tablets year-round as well as year-round education and continuing professional development via AWLearn.
On the choice of the hosting city for the maiden African edition, the Chief Executive Officer of Advertising Week, Matt Scheckner, had stated in a statement issued in December last year that the selection of Johannesburg was the culmination of more than two years of developmental work, adding that it was grounded in a strategic positioning to create and execute Africa-wide participation and presence.
“From female entrepreneurs in Kenya to start ups in Ghana to a broad spectrum of digital innovation out of Nigeria, there is a unique opportunity to unite the continent and leverage our platform to tell incredible stories from all corners of Africa. This one has a higher purpose.” he said.
Beyond the need for entrepreneurs and start ups in various countries to leverage the platform for positioning, the Group Managing Director of Republicom Group, Tunji Adeyinka, GMD, stated during a stakeholders’ interactive session in Lagos, on how best to approach the international event, that it has potential to enhance the knowledge of the industry. He also stated that the event would give Africans the opportunities to tell their authentic stories.
“We have seen that across Africa, there is a deficit in talent within the industry: the industry is not attracting as many young people as it should in the competition for talent. Thus, as Republicom group, we see advertising week as a platform that has a potential to enhance the knowledge capacity of the industry. Besides, Advertising Week will provide a great platform to tell authentic African stories and showcase the great marketing and technology innovations and breakthroughs that have come out of Africa” he said.
In an exclusive interview with THISDAY, a CEO with Republicom UK, who also doubles as Director of Advertising Week Africa, Tosin Lanipekun, described Advertising Week as a global industry event and thought leadership platform that will impact on players in the advertising, technology, media and other related fields positively.
“I have just attended an advisory council meeting in Lagos and I was excited with the preparation and readiness of our people to be part of this global event. What is being put together transcends traditional industry conferences with its combination of global industry thought leaders and ‘A List’ starts from Sheryl Sandberg, Arianna Huffington to Kanye West, Trevor Noah and Puff Daddy. What we conceive is a good mix of thought leadership by day and entertainment and business of show business at night. Besides, there will be photo lunches, dinners and awards that resonate well with the industry. This award will recognise those who are making impact in the industry from various parts of the continent,”
Though an African event that is positioned to allow Africans to speak loud of their continent from the rooftop, Lanipekun argued that it has supreme relevance in Nigeria because of the strategic position of the country in Africa. He also pointed out that the event will help brand owners to interact with one another and customers across the globe.
“In Africa, we struggle with intra-country and intra-region but with Advertising Week Africa, business owners have gotten an already made platform to showcase products and services. With the maiden African edition holding in South Africa, we are moving ahead to galvanise support from other African countries so that it will be all involving event,”
While disclosing that the event has gotten the buy-in of different sectoral bodies of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), companies, media organisations and similar bodies in Ghana, Kenya and other African countries, he expressed his confidence that the event would foster good business, education, marketing and networking relationship among the participants.
“This is the premier event for leaders from the advertising, marketing, media and related creative industries. By hosting the African version of the global event, Johannesburg will join New York City, London, Tokyo, Mexico City and Sydney as Advertising Week host cities. Each edition of Advertising Week presents endless opportunities to learn, network and engage in conversations about the many issues, opportunities and challenges facing the industry today. For any business organisation that want to do business outside its country, advertising Week will be a launch pad.
This is possible because it will bring together participants, drawn from the client, media, technology and broader cultural communities, while focusing on the key business drivers which shape and influence the global industry. Of course it will also create a global platform through AW360, to tell African success stories all year round to a global audience of influencers and opinion leaders. We are starting in South Africa but expounding to the broader continent,” he added.
Reason for African edition and Expectations
Speaking on what informed the decision to settle for African now; Lanipekun explained that the continent was though long overdue for the event, the promoters concluded to hold it now because of the belief that it is well positioned to provide answer to various socio-economic problems facing Africa.
“Though it ought to have held in Africa but even at that, bringing Advertising Week to Africa now is timely, considering various challenges facing our people. With it, stakeholders will be able to access where we are coming from and the likely future. Experts, drawn from various countries will dissect activities of many sectors to know where the shoe pinches,”
He also pointed out that there are a lot of creativities, technologies and ideas coming out of Africa that needed to be shared with the rest of the world.
On what participants should expect from the event, Lanipekun stated that the immersive daytime programming will be made up of over 50 seminars and workshops that focus on the industry’s most relevant topics and trends. He also pointed out that the award that will come with the event is different from what practitioners are used to as it would reward organisations that are solving common problems in Africa, especially as they concern youth development and empowerment.
“In the awards that will come with Advertising Week, we may not look at the campaigns but the messages they pass and the impact they make in impacting the society on perhaps gender balance and other developmental issues or creation of talent pipelines for youths,”
Advertising Week President, Lance Pillersdorf, had earlier stated in a previous statement that the African version was inspired by the 2018 centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, to partner and create new initiatives to elevate the global conversation around uplifting those in poverty and create enhanced education and ultimately, employment pathways.
“It will create access to education and internships which bring the digital economy to those who historically are shut out of such opportunities. Indeed, it is a key driver of what we are doing with Advertising Week,” he added.


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Competitive Xbox One Digital Pricing "On the Agenda" Says Major Nelson
Written Friday, January 24, 2014 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
Having pushed up the prices of first-party Xbox One digital games ahead of Christmas, there's a glimmer of hope that Microsoft may actually introduce competitive pricing for digital games on the Xbox Games Store on Xbox One, following a post in a Reddit thread from Larry 'Major Nelson' Hyrb.
"We are way aware of this and many of the concerns of the community," Hyrb wrote in response to a troublesome Titanfall promotion on the Microsoft Store. "We have some great stuff planned for Xbox One this year (and beyond.) As soon as we can share some of the goodness...we will."
Quizzed as to whether said "great stuff" might incorporate lower, more competitive prices for digital downloads, the Major responded: "It is indeed on the agenda."
At time of writing, the majority of full retail games on Xbox One's digital store cost between £49.99 and £54.99, prompting savvy consumers to find better deals online or on the high street. And the less said about Angry Birds Star Wars for £35/$50, the better.


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Car theft continues to be a persistent problem for motorists across Australia, and there’s only so much that a good alarm and security system can do — especially if the thief already has your keys. What if you were able to track wherever your car was on a map on your phone, though? Having your car stolen — at least for good — may soon be a thing of the past.
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Thieves in Western Australia are apparently turning to home thefts, reports the ABC, with the sole purpose of stealing car keys — since 90 per cent of cars in WA are fitted with immobilisers and can not be operated without the correct key being inserted. WA is the most at-risk state for “theft by keys” incidents, and one group has a modern approach to solving the issue.
With car thieves using this workaround to gain access to cars, one possible solution being trialed by the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council is GPS tracking of high-risk vehicles — like Find My iPhone for your stolen car. A test run of 1,000 cars in Perth are being fitted with GPS trackers, with owners using a complementary smartphone app to set a virtual boundary around their cars — and when that perimeter is breached, the owner is sent a notification or alerted via SMS.
While it’s not a preventative measure, GPS tracking — especially if it’s undetectable by theives — should make for a great deterrent to stealing a car in the first place, as long as potential thieves know that they might be caught. [ABC News]


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The Kentucky State Fair Board is interviewing a Las Vegas trade show and convention company president as a finalist for a new president and chief executive officer.
The Courier Journal reports the board is considering two finalists to replace Harold Workman, who has had a tension-filled year with the board and will leave his post Dec. 31. Though its board chairman wouldn't name the finalists, Clifford "Rip" Rippetoe, president of Rippetoe Solutions Group, said he is a candidate and will be interviewing today in Louisville.
The board will meet later today at the Kentucky Exposition Center to vote on the candidates, according to the report.
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STX Golf Launches National Broadcast Campaign Featuring 'Skylar Chase'
(BALTIMORE, MD) - STX Golf, world-renowned as an industry pioneer in putter innovation with its patented Soft Face Insert Technology, has launched its broadcast campaign featuring the new 2012 putter line and Skylar Chase.
The creative commercials target their younger 18-35 demographic and will run nationally as well as regionally. During the US Open, the spots ran in the Maryland area to support local business and kick start the campaign around the home of STX. Throughout the Travelers Championship, the STX commercials will be broadcasted on The Golf Channel in San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles. Golfsmith, one of STX's largest retailers, are in each of these California counties. In addition, the company has expanded its distribution in the South; therefore spots will also be aired in North and South Carolina.
During the next couple of months, the STX commercials will air nationally as well as expand into other specific territories including; Pittsburgh, Florida and all up and down the East coast and Midwest. "STX is enjoying rapid sales growth thanks to key retailers. We developed this comprehensive broadcast campaign to support their sell-thru," added Henneman.


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MakerBot, the company that became a leading voice in desktop 3D printing by taking desktop additive manufacturing from build-it-yourself kits to refined consumer devices, has just let go of 20% of its workforce and closed its brick-and-mortar stores.
According to reporting by Motherboard, the reduction represents about 100 employees of the Brooklyn-based company that launched in 2009 and was later purchased in 2013 by industrial 3D printing giant Stratasys for $403 million. During that time, the company has made changes of original and key personnel, most recently seeing founder and CEO Bre Pettis stepping down to take a new position with Stratasys, and his successor Jenny Lawton doing the same thing.
Still, this is by far the largest batch of layoffs for the company.
A new announcement on MakerBot’s website this afternoon explains, “Today, we at MakerBot are re-organizing our business in order to focus on what matters most to our customers. As part of this, we have implemented expense reductions, downsized our staff and closed our three MakerBot retail locations.”
Stratasys also announced a $100 million write-down on Makerbot’s valuation in February.
The now-shuttered brick-and-mortar stores, located in Manhattan, Boston, and Greenwich, Connecticut, followed an Apple Store model, with sales, demos, classes, and even providing in-store printing services. No news yet on their retail partnerships with outlets such as Home Depot.


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Action Figure Insider. The centers will use Hasbro properties to "create interactive, immersive and innovative entertainment experiences in a high-energy, gamified environment with multiple activity zones," according to the announcement.
Kilburn Live produces live entertainment, produces and finances films (Hacksaw Ridge), and produces and distributes TV shows. This type of fixed-location event center appears to be a new field for the company, which has brought in shareholder Goff Capital to partner in the project.
The key move appears to have been the hire of former Main Event Entertainment CEO Charlie Keegan to run the new division. Main Event operates 41 centers featuring bowling, laser tag, ropes courses, video games, billiards, virtual reality and other activities around the U.S.
Licensed brands announced for the centers to date include My Little Pony, Monopoly, Mr. Potato Head, G.I. Joe, Clue, Battleship, Hungry Hungry Hippo, Trivial Pursuit, Chutes and Ladders, with other unannounced brands also included in the deal.
"Our partnership with Kilburn will allow us – for the first time ever – to offer a wholly immersive and true play experience that unlocks a totally new and exciting way for fans to experience the Hasbro family of brands," SVP and GM Hasbro Consumer Products Casey Collins said in the announcement.
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Africa, although rich in mineral resources, has the lowest level of intra-regional trade, according to the World Economic Forum. Fayelle Ouane, an entrepreneurship advocate and co-founder of Suguba, a regional platform that fosters entrepreneurship and regional integration in West Africa, says this is actually worse in West Africa, where the majority of Francophone countries are located. She takes a look at entrepreneurship’s key trends and opportunities in the region.
In 2015, only about 12% of exports from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) went to member countries, 6% to other African countries and 80% outside of Africa. The trend is even more pronounced in Central Africa, which is predominantly Francophone. In the same year, only 1.5% of exports went to the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).
Poor integration is based on historical and geopolitical factors that date back to the colonial era, when trade was seen by Western Imperial powers as a way to get access to commodities and natural resources. France tended to favour mercantilist policies, and these left an institutional legacy that was less conducive to free trade than in British colonies. This matters because Francophone African economies are on average much smaller than their English-speaking neighbours. Even after a recession, the Nigerian economy in 2016 was estimated at $405 billion. Meanwhile, the total of ECOWAS economies (excluding Nigeria & Ghana) was less than $120 billion in the same year, which is less than 30% of the Nigerian economy.
For example, a Nigerian entrepreneur could start a company today, turn it into a vibrant start-up within a year and a growing company within 3 years; there will still be ample domestic growth opportunities if he/she decides to remain in Nigeria. However, as an entrepreneur in Francophone Africa, if you set your sights on Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal, you will only reach 16% of the potential Nigerian market. Given the smaller size of economies in Francophone Africa, entrepreneurs and start-ups must have a regional mindset if they intend to reach substantial scale to attract investors.
It is important to focus on regional trade and integration along with developing strong and resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems in the region particularly connecting strong champions located in various African countries. Thus, it is critical to foster the development of strong indigenous value chains that will give them access to bigger markets and help them capture a greater share of the value of their local resources through processing and transformation.
Meanwhile, some potential investors in Francophone Africa see the language barrier as an “insurmountable obstacle” according to a discussion at the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum in 2016.
I am always a little surprised when I hear this. When Western investors decided to pay attention to the Chinese market for example, they didn’t let the language barrier derail their plans. Investors need to ensure that they can recruit team members who are Francophone. I actually think the major barrier is not language but rather the institutional and legal framework, which is completely different from the one in Commonwealth countries.
The majority of investors will tell you that the most important factor in determining an investment decision is the entrepreneur, not his/her idea or business model.
In order to spur innovation and promote entrepreneurship in Francophone Africa, we need to rethink the instruction models that are used from a young age. Currently the Francophone education system still focuses on memory-based learning vs. creative thinking. Aspiring Francophone African entrepreneurs need to unlearn the propensity they have developed for regimented problem-solving and relearn a new way of doing it, possibly focused on a free and unbridled approach.
Along the same lines, Francophone African entrepreneurs need to rethink the way they communicate with investors. The Francophone educational system has become prone to verbose, flowery communication that require flipping through several pages of background information before getting to the meat of the argument. This is not a strategy that would suit investors who want quick answers about the potential impact to assess an opportunity.
In recent years, Francophone African entrepreneurial ecosystems have been maturing at a rapid rate especially in countries such as Senegal. Our entrepreneurs have been gaining visibility in international competitions such as Coin Afrique in last year’s XL Africa, FireFly Media in last year’s PitchDrive and OnPoint at this year’s CEO Forum.
We have just as much potential as our Anglophone counterparts but in order to fully realize our entrepreneurial worth , we need to optimize opportunity of regional blocs, adjust our communication and thinking to seize all opportunities so that our indigenous entrepreneurs can transform into agile regional gazelles.
Fayelle Ouane is an entrepreneurship advocate and co-founder of Suguba, a regional platform that fosters entrepreneurship and regional integration in West Africa


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Are you in the market for a new smartphone but can’t imagine paying hundreds of dollars for the newest piece of tech? If so, you may be in luck. Verizon Wireless has a few offers on smartphones that should knock down prices and make things more affordable.
The first big deal involves a flat 20% discount on any phone’s normal price – and yes, that wasn’t a typo. Consumers can pick up any of the latest phones at the reduced price, including the new Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, iPhone 7 Plus, or any other device. However, there are a few stipulations.
In order to take advantage of the discount, consumers will need to visit Verizon Wireless and pay for the phone of their choice AND a payment plan. After that’s done, continue to checkout and enter the code “SAVE20” into the designated area. This will automatically knock 20% off the price, which can add up to a lot.
For example, the new 32 GB Google Pixel phone is currently priced at $650. With the discount, consumers can pay $520, saving $130. The deal can be sweetened even further with a currently running trade-in offer on both the Pixel and Pixel XL.
New customers who want to buy either phone from Verizon Wireless and trade in their current device can save an additional $400 – or $300 for current customers. That will knock the price of the 32 GB model all the way down to $120, which is a pretty big steal. Combining the offers on the Pixel XL will knock the price down to $216.
A report from Droid Life suggests that this deal may not work if you’re buying a phone using a corporate or employer discount. However, there is one additional code that consumers can punch in to save some money; entering in the code “SMART100” will also allow consumers to save $100 on any smartphone bought with a payment plan.
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Award-winning surfboard designer Hayden Cox and his wife, former reality TV star Danielle Foote, have bought back into Palm Beach.
They have bought hillside on Pacific Rd home for $2,995,000. The three-level, four-bedroom home dates back to 1950s.
Set on 905 sqm, the home features an open plan living with views across the ocean towards the lighthouse.
LJ Hooker Palm Beach agents Peter Robinson and Denniss Kennelly sold the home.
The couple had previously owned Los Paloma on Barrenjoey Rd, securing $3.36 million through Ray White Prestige Palm Beach agent Michael King and Noel Nicholson. The sale came after Foote undertook a full contemporary update having paid $1.8 million in 2016.
The couple have also secured a 1930s waterfront on Clareville’s dress circle Hudson Pde.
Cox paid $3,337,500, and recently sought $2200 a week tenants.
Cox invented parabolic carbon fibre frame surfboard technology FutureFlex which is sold globally, along with his brand Haydenshapes, in over 70 countries.
Haydenshapes his surfboard brand was founded in 1997 in Sydney by Hayden Cox at the age of 15. Cox got his first board for his fifth birthday.
He began shaping boards, during work experience at a Mona Vale surfboard manufacturer when he couldn’t afford to buy a new one after he broke his own.
Foote, who was born in Adelaide, appeared on Big Brother Australia 2006.
It was in January 2015 when they married, then working together in the business, including time in California where it has outlets.


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Retail spending in the Hastings district halved during the Covid-19 lockdown but although spending's up now, there's still uncertainty about what's next.
Spending data shows there was a big spike in the week before lockdown, more than last year's spend, but then a huge drop as alert level 4 hit.
Statistics from late May show spending levels again rising above last year's spend.
A weekly report measuring the numbers for the quarter between 9 March and the week of 31 May reflected the impact of Covid-19, compared to the same time last year.
Hastings District Council economic development manager Lee Neville said from March-May 2019 the weekly spend remained consistent - about $14 million.
But this year, the number of transactions spiked in the week of 22 March just before the alert level 4 lockdown.
Neville said this could be because people were stocking up on supplies before going into lockdown.
But Neville said there was a "sharp slump" in the following weeks until 12 April, when spending fell to just over $7m.
In May this year spending rose to just over $14m, about $1m higher than the same time last year.
Neville said it was possibly due to pent-up demand.
"This may be a bubble as people return to their usual activity and may reduce - the value of spending seems to reflect the activity on the streets in the Hastings and Havelock North CBDs, and across the district."
What council is doing to support business
District councillor Wendy Schollum said the results were expected and there would be volatility in the months ahead.
"As a council we are actively working to help support retailers, most recently through the establishment of an urban centres recovery fund of $150,000 to enable the business and retailers associations in the Hastings, Havelock North and Flaxmere urban centres to attract shoppers via marketing and promotional activities.
"The move to Level 1 has increased anxiety for many retailers, with concern that consumers will focus less on shopping locally, as life returns to 'normal'."
Alert level 1 'up and down'
That's partly the fear of Annabelle Plowman, who runs lifestyle store Annabelles in Havelock North.
She told RNZ although online sales boomed during alert level four, bringing her the most online sales ever, foot traffic at alert level 1 had not reached pre Covid-19 levels.
She said although it was busy until Queen's Birthday, it wasn't the same in alert level 1.
"I would say it's a lot more up and down," Plowman said after the first week of alert level 1.
"I'm having some really really good days and some really really quiet days and it's not as consistent as it used to be. Obviously, like, people are being a little bit more cautious."
What were people spending money on in the Hastings district this year?
- Food, pharmacy supplies and liquor up 14 percent on the same time last year
- Clothing and footwear was up 18 percent
- Home and recreational spending up 62 percent
- Fuel and accommodation spending was down 15 percent
- Hospitality and accommodation decreased by 8 percent


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R Street testifies in support of free-market pricing in secondary ticket markets
In a hearing to examine HB 5108, which would allow the resale of event tickets at higher or lower prices, Smith reiterated R Street’s support of the bill, which would put Michigan on an even playing field with most other states.
“It is counterintuitive to imagine that offering up property for resale at whatever price you establish in the marketplace is a crime against the sate,” said Smith. “What the public supports is the idea that even when an event is sold out, somebody for the right price will let you go in his or her place.”
Smith argued that markets are much more adept at working out ticket values than are any group of public officials, but cautioned that free market pricing does not necessarily negate the need for government protection against online scams and misallocations.
“Limited, efficient government may also mean that laws targeting fraud may have to be occasionally updated to reflect all the improvisations of electronic age thieves,” he said.


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P&O steams through end of duty free
P&O Stena sailed through its second quarter and said the end of duty free concessions may have made the business more buoyant.
The ferry company said higher fares for marginally increased vehicle traffic on its key cross-Channel operations helped headline profits surge to £26.5 million in the three months to 30 June against £6.7 million in the same period last year.
P&O Stena, which put up crossing rates essentially because duty free was ending, said it had made higher margins on an almost unchanged volume of vehicle traffic and a 13% increase in freight. Passenger crossings increased slightly.
'Tourist vehicle carryings in the first half of 1999 remained broadly constant. Importantly, however, achieved rates were significantly above those in the first half of 1998,' it said. But prophecies by many cross-channel ferry firms that the end of duty free would bring gloom and doom to the industry seem to have been exaggerated.
'The ferries are able to sell under the French duty and tax regime. Gross margins are less but the limits on the volume of goods sold have been removed. It is too soon to give a firm view of the take up under the new arrangements but initial indications are encouraging,' P&O Stena Line said.
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Adidas is taking its footwear to space. The sportswear goliath declared on Tuesday, a multi-year organisation with the International Space Station that will enable the organisation to investigate item development outside of Earth.
The organisation is booked in any case Adidas’ pined for Boost innovation, denoting the first occasion when that any footwear advancement will be tried without the interruption of gravity.
These tests outside of Earth’s gravitational dismantle are anticipated to impact the presentation and solace of existing models and improve the development of new items.
“The unique conditions of space provide the ideal environment to discover the unknown,” explained Christine Kretz, vice president of program and partnerships of the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory.
“For example, microgravity is the only condition in which we can observe specific experiments like the behaviour of a spinning soccer ball without interrupting airflow and external supports holding it in place. Having control of certain variables allows us to conduct tests and collect insights that aren’t possible on Earth.”
Testing will start as right on time as 2020. Adidas will send its mark Boost pellets and footwear to the ISS National Lab installed a future SpaceX cargo strategic space travelers locally available the station will execute investigations to reveal on the off chance that it is conceivable to create Boost padded soles with districts of various molecule sizes–something that researchers estimate could enhance footwear execution and solace.
Next, Adidas likewise plans to look into components, for example, human execution and manageability while utilising the space station.
Bits of knowledge from space explorers could permit Adidas to apply potential learnings to competitors, while improvements in round assembling could help advance economic creation and entertainment techniques pertinent to Earth.


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To the small business owner, particularly for first time entrepreneurs, the potential for wireless technologies to amplify and improve one's business cannot be understated. Best of all, in an age where wireless services and devices are beginning to rule the day, entrepreneurship can finally become color blind.
As barriers to entry come crashing down, and defining one's niche and accessing the ideal audience gets easier with the click of a few keys on a laptop or smart phone, entrepreneurs have a brand new opportunity to play on a more leveled playing field than ever before.
Historically, lack of access to capital and the necessary resources to produce, promote and scale one's ideas have often proven insurmountable hurdles for people of color in starting their own business. What's more, these deficiencies often make it harder to sustain a thriving business. Although wireless technologies do not totally overcome these factors, they can be leveraged to maximize output, efficiency and reach at a fraction of the cost and time. As any entrepreneur will tell you, maximizing yield while decreasing resource expenditures is key to creating a successful business.
The importance of wireless technologies became a national priority earlier this year when President Obama talked about the need to deploy next-generation 4G wireless networks to 98% of the nation during his 2011 State of the Union Address. Likewise, the Federal Communication Commission has become acutely attuned to the need for additional greater spectrum in order to sustain wireless growth and demand..
Because of the increasing importance of wireless accessibility and the need to improve the more efficient allocation and use of spectrum, the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile represents a very important measure for the future of wireless-enabled entrepreneurship, especially for people of color. Regardless of the companies involved in this deal, the end result holds a greater promise for consumers and businesses alike, particularly for those individuals who stand to lose access to a 4G LTE network if this doesn't come to fruition.
While supporters and opponents of the merger may differ in their beliefs about the impact the merger may have on consumers, a few facts remain clear with regard to the effects this intended union could have on entrepreneurship efforts and small business ventures. The improvements in accessibility for over 97% percent of the country to a high-speed 4G LTE network will unlock opportunities and allow for new business models otherwise inaccessible, in turn leveling the playing field.
With the realities of time, place and resources altered by the benefits of access to reliable, high-speed wireless networks, entrepreneurs who may have been traditionally disadvantaged and unable to bring their ideas to market, could soon fully experience the richness of developing in an ecosystem conducive to their growth and overall success. I continue to ask the question. What other solutions are people presenting to solve this problem? I don't see any.
In the wireless age, the merit of an idea and the strategic implementation of a business plan can take precedence over the ethnic and socio-economic situation one happens to be born into. The traditional barriers to entry are no longer the same as they used to be five, ten or even fifteen years ago. And even as access to capital and resources remain very real concerns for minority entrepreneurs, the reality is that leveraging wireless technologies can help people transcend the difficulties they may have otherwise encountered.
In the wireless age, we should be able to have a level playing field in which an idea- an entrepreneur- will be judged by the content of its concept rather than by the color of its maker. So we need to make everyone has equal access and the opportunity to do so.


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U.S. Chamber urges support of the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement
July 20, 2004
Honorable Bill Frist
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Frist:
The United States Senate will be voting shortly on legislation to implement the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The U.S. Chamber of Commerce —the world's largest business federation, representing more than three million businesses in every size, sector, and region — urges you to support this FTA, which will bring tangible commercial benefits to American companies, workers, and consumers.
U.S. products exported to Morocco currently face an average tariff of more than 20 percent. The U.S.-Morocco FTA will level the playing field for American businesses to compete with the European Union, which already passed a free trade agreement with Morocco. This FTA will immediately eliminate more than 95% of remaining Moroccan tariffs on U.S. consumer and industrial goods exported to Morocco. In addition, the FTA builds upon and improves existing international copyright agreements, and includes important new enforcement provisions to deter piracy and counterfeiting.
The United States exported over $465 million to Morocco last year, with a trade surplus of over $79 million. The FTA would further eliminate trade barriers, lower tariffs and provide increased market access for U.S. companies. By knocking down trade barriers in Morocco and in the rest of the world, we can help support even more American jobs.
When the Senate considers the U.S.-Morocco FTA, we urge you to strengthen the position of American workers, consumers, and businesses by supporting this FTA.
R. Bruce Josten
Executive Vice President, Government Affairs
U.S. Chamber of Commerce


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Denver-based Smashburger is the nation’s most promising company, according to Forbes.
The 4-year-old “fast casual” restaurant chain topped Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising Companies” list for 2011, released Wednesday.
Smashburger has 131 operating locations across the United States, as well as commitments from franchisees to open another 450 across the country and world. The company this week announced its expansion into Canada.
A total of seven Colorado-based firms made the Forbes’ top 100 most promising companies list.
“These privately held up-and-comers have compelling business models, strong management teams, marquee customers, strategic partners and precious investment capital,” Forbes said of the companies on the list.
At No. 7 is Denver-based Allonhill, a financial company that audits residential mortgage loan files for institutions that invest in mortgage-backed securities.
Denver-based Four Winds Interactive, which sells software to create and manage content for digital signs and interactive kiosks, came in at No. 16.
In the No. 23 spot is Latisys, based in southeast Denver’s Inverness Park, which runs a network of data storage centers. Latisys last week announced expansion plans.
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The eighth annual Green Festival, held this year in San Francisco on Nov. 13-15, turned out an impressive 125 speakers and 350 exhibitors that highlighted eco-friendly ideas and products meant to create safe, healthy communities and strong local environments.
One of the more unique aspects of the festival was the HIA Hemp Pavilion, which featured member companies showcasing the many uses of industrial hemp in the marketplace, from hemp clothing and personal body care to hemp foods, oil and paper. The pavilion also hosted a hemp fashion show produced by one of the industry’s premiere designers and manufacturers, Summer Star Haeske from Envirotextiles.
On Saturday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom even made an appearance to the event. On the main stage, Gavin gave a speech highlighting San Francisco’s efforts to go green, which includes having the most aggressive local climate action plan in the U.S. He also voiced his support for green jobs, plug-in electric hybrid cars and city-wide composting efforts.
“It’s incumbent upon us to make real some of the rhetoric … to take these ideas and manifest them. It’s no longer good enough to talk about the way the world should be. We have to demonstrate the capacity to make it so,” said Newsom.
Some of the 350 exhibitors at the event included vendors involved in conservation, eco-art, fashion, fair trade standards, green building, green careers, entertainment and technology, as well as socially responsible investing and organic homes and gardens.
Amy Goodman, who wrote Breaking the Sound Barrier and Standing up to Madness, spoke about ways that powerful individuals, organizations and government manipulate the media and why there’s a need for alternative media organizations to make sure that full stories are told.
Marion Nestle, who is also the Paulette Goddard professor in the Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health Department at New York University, spoke about how the recent prevalence of food recalls is proof that food safety legislation in the U.S. is in major need of an overhaul.
The event also featured a wide variety of organic food as well as a beer and wine garden that included vendors like America’s first certified organic brewery, Eel River Brewing, and Frey Vineyards, which makes premium organic and biodynamic wines that contain no added sulfites.
Even kids had a ton of ways to enjoy the festival. Many showed up at the Green Kids’ Zone, which held fun, interactive activities like homemade butter-making classes and the youth theater project, Enviro-War, an educational story about heroes and villains battling it out over the environment.
Best of all, though the Green Festival always leaves a big impact on the host community, what it doesn't leave is a big environmental footprint. Last year, the San Francisco Green Festival had a 96.6 percent recovery rate by composting 5.7 tons of waste and recycling more than 23,000 pounds of paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and plastic.


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Staying healthy this year has never been more important, and the food we eat is helping families rebound from the pandemic.
More Americans are turning to the garden as a family-friendly and stress-relieving hobby.
It also helps ease growing concerns about food shortages as lockdowns slow the distribution of some U.S. crops.
Organic farmers like Linda Borghi say there's no better feeling than growing your own food.
Fruit and vegetable seed sales are up worldwide.
The popular Burpee seed company says it sold more seed in march 2020 than any time in its 144-year history.


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Mobile offers and personal financial management are different technologies that make the same promise: if a bank offers them, the consumers who use them will consider that bank's product their top-of-wallet account.
Like combining chocolate and peanut butter, the financial technology vendor Geezeo is providing the tools to mix these two systems into a product that it says can be more enjoyable than using each ingredient separately.
Banks "could have the aggregated data [from personal financial management] in the mobile device that's powering offers beyond just the [primary] debit card," says Peter Glyman, president and co-founder of Geezeo.
Personal financial management, or PFM, takes aggregated data from multiple bank accounts and presents it all in one clean view to help consumers set budgets and savings goals across multiple accounts. The transaction data is often presented as bar charts or pie charts to make it easier to read.
Geezeo does not make a mobile offer system. Instead, it plans to announce an application programming interface, or API, to make it easier to link its PFM technology to a mobile banking app. This way, banks could seamlessly combine their mobile offer systems with PFM, rather than build a separate app for each.
Adding PFM can boost the effectiveness of a mobile offer system, Glyman says.
"When you start using a real-time API, you can actually start doing things like recall real-time categorizations on transactions," he says. For pure PFM, this allows users to know right away if they've exceeded a particular budget. For mobile offers, this allows data from multiple accounts to be used to generate new offers.
"Getting into transactional-level detail [at the] point of sale, you can start getting immediate feedback" that can inform offers and other financial decisions, Glyman says.
Mobile-offer systems already look at transaction details from users' accounts to provide rewards in real time or to use past spending to generate future offers. The systems are often considered a selling point of mobile wallets; when Google launched its Google Wallet last year, it announced the mobile wallet side-by-side with its new Google Offers system.
By offering an API, Geezeo enables smaller mobile-software developers to do things with its technology that Geezeo could not normally accommodate.
"We're not a custom dev shop," Glyman says. "We don't change our code. The API, in a sense, lets them create their own experiences using our architecture and backbone."
Movenbank, which plans to provide financial services primarily through mobile banking, works with Geezeo's technology. Glyman says this is one example of how financial institutions can design new things with his company's software.
"[Movenbank] is all mobile," he says. "They're cardless. They're going to market with a mobile product."
Geezeo is not alone in trying to combine its technology with mobile offers. Intuit's Mint.com has a mobile app that pulls in data from multiple accounts to help consumers decide whether to switch their bank accounts to products offered by Mint's partners and advertisers.
When Intuit designed Mint's iPad app, it used the device's larger screen to make it easier for families to consider such changes together, compared to the mobile phone which is a more personal device.


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Faced with ongoing uncertainty and disruption of COVID-19, consumers have turned to familiar, comforting retail products to find emotional support. In particular, many categories of packaged desserts and confections are enjoying greater sales and frozen desserts, in particular, are thriving.
Interestingly, manufacturers have used this challenging period to explore new formats and co-branded innovations. It’s all to give consumers an experience that’s both new, yet accompanied by a comforting degree of familiarity.
Mintel has upcoming research on trending flavors and ingredients in desserts and confections. These studies already suggest that nearly half of consumers like desserts that remind them of childhood. This data certainly is inspiring and guiding retail brands and operators to feature long-established flavor profiles in new menu creations.
Nostalgic flavors and products bring a sense of comfort, in a time when consumers seem more affected by stress. The bottom line is that consumers want guaranteed enjoyment in a dessert purchase and they’re less likely to try an unfamiliar flavor. Meanwhile, new familiar “hybrid” desserts give consumers more fun flavor options—instead of having to choose just one treat category.
Create Novelty with Co-Branded Products, Mix-and-Match Flavors
Young consumers are an ideal audience for hybrid innovation. Mintel’s upcoming report suggests that two in five Millennial and/or Gen Z consumers are interested in dessert and candy “mash-ups.”
From soda to cereal, Mintel already finds evidence of brands and foodservice operators crisscrossing product categories and giving consumers nostalgic experiences. Long-established cereals such as Froot Loops and Corn Flakes (Kellogg’s) and Fruity PEBBLES (Post Consumer Brands) have mixed into a range of dessert categories to create novelty and attract those consumers who a soft spot for these legacy brands. Last spring saw Weinerschnitzel introduce a Froot Loops dipped ice cream cone and shake as a limited time offer. This May, Shake Shack leveraged a fan favorite soda flavor (cherry) and created a Cherry Pop Shake.
Co-branding isn’t the only interesting new angle. Operators also could consider borrowing flavors from adjacent categories for new dessert innovations. These can leverage the power of positive associations and appeal to an already wide and established audience. For example, popular branded puddings and brownies also could be suited for hybrid innovation.
Where’s the next “sweet spot” for dessert innovation? Mintel expects to see more creativity and collaborations tap into the power of fun new mash-ups, familiarity, nostalgia.


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Scott Grieve usually makes about 700 candied apples a week at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory but this isn't a typical Whistler week.
Right now his candied apple cauldron is churning out hundreds of mouth-watering treats a day, roughly 2,000 a week.
The hot sellers, of course, are the apples decorated with maple leafs and inuksuit (the plural of inukshuk) and at the beginning of the week he was completely sold out of Olympic chocolate medals. He plans on making more as soon as he gets the chance.
"People want to be a part of it and what better way to be a part of it than by eating it," he said, behind his big candied apple cauldron.
Elsewhere in the village, Kevin Sopp at Sportstop is watching Team Canada jerseys and T-shirts fly off the shelves. He's sold more than 500 jerseys this month in the four Whistler stores.
"Anything that they can get that's hockey-related has been super popular," he said.
"Really, the only group that's not buying them is the Americans.
"Canada is hockey and hockey is Canada. Regardless of the outcome of the score or the tournament, everyone puts Canada with hockey. When in Canada... buy something hockey-related."
If it's not hockey, then it's inuksuit.
Over at the family-owned Trading Post at Whistler, Grayson Serface had just one locally-made inukshuk left on his shelf, crafted from local rocks. He's sold a few hundred of them already and could have sold a few hundred more, if he had them. The inuksuit he has left are not locally-made but that's not slowing business any.
"People buy five, six, eight at a time," he said.
In the first week of the Olympic Games, shoppers were only looking for Olympic-related stuff. That's why he's had to place three orders to his Olympic suppliers for more toques. But now other things are starting to move too, like fun Whistler skiing T-shirts.
"We knew that Olympic stuff was going to be the big ticket because that's what people are here for, but we're starting to see that other things are moving now," he said.
"We found out really quickly what the hot items were."
Surprisingly, the RCMP Mountie souvenirs are not moving, no matter where he displays them in the store.
"We're not selling as much as we thought we would given the presence that they have in red serge at the ceremonies and things like that," said Serface.
The store is open 16 hours a day from 8 a.m. to midnight and business is booming. Sometimes it's so busy it's hard to get inside.
"It's what we were hoping for but not what we were expecting," he said, adding that they kept their expectations low to avoid disappointment.
It's hardly disappointing when business is three times busier than on a busy Christmas week, like at Carlbergs Gift Shop.
Charmaigne Issa, general manager of the Carlbergs properties, said it didn't start out that way. But a few days into the Games brought high traffic into the souvenir store.
Ninety to 95 per cent of the sales there are Olympic merchandise.
"Pins are the hot seller," she said. "We're almost sold out right now."
She said she was surprised the Olympic clothing line didn't sell as well at her store,
"It's not as hot as pins or gadgety stuff."
Customers range, she said, from locals to tourists, police officers to journalists, volunteers to athletes.
"Everybody who is in Whistler is shopping," she said.
That's what Seattle resident Amy Grice was doing while her husband, son and father-in-law were watching the ski jumping at Whistler Olympic Park this week.
Her bags were filled with things like mini hockey sticks, locally made ornaments with inuksuit and an Olympic hockey jersey with a large inukshuk.
She was on the hunt for more T-shirts and small things to give to friends and family.
When asked about the selection in town, Grice said:
"Everything's pretty much the same stuff. The prices are different, which is kind of odd. Luckily I had a couple of hours free to just walk and see what everybody had first and now I'm going back and hitting everybody that had them on sale."


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Multinational beauty company, Coty, has announced it will purchase a 51 per cent stake in Kylie Jenner's beauty business.
The $600 million purchase includes Jenner's brands Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin and values the business at almost US$1.2 billion, according to Forbes.
The deal means that Jenner will keep a 49 per cent stake in Kylie Cosmetics – she will also remain the creative lead on product development and marketing initiatives. The transaction is expected to be confirmed by mid-2020.
Coty has recently been open about making moves to target a younger demographic. By purchasing Kylie Cosmetics, which has over 22 million followers on Instagram, Coty will join a line-up of successful, social-first beauty companies like Glossier and Huda Beauty.
Coty chairman of the board, Peter Harf, said of the deal: "This new partnership between Kylie and Coty is an exciting step in Coty's renewed emphasis on its beauty business," he said. "Kylie is a modern-day icon, with an incredible sense of the beauty consumer, and we believe in the high potential of building a global beauty brand together."


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NEW YORK — For Vera Wang, shopping with her daughters Cecilia, 21, and Josephine, 17, is a favorite pastime. Wang learns about their generation’s style on those trips to Bleecker Street or Madison Avenue, and the experience is now proving to come in handy as she launches into juniors apparel and accessories under the Princess Vera Wang moniker.
The collection, which officially launches at Kohl’s next month, is an extension of Wang’s fragrance of the same name, which she introduced in 2006.
“It made sense to leverage the success of the Princess fragrance into a complete juniors collection,” the designer said. “For me, it is also my chance to express the inner youth of my creative head. I love the freedom to mix and match at will, to layer and color, style and express fashion with energy.”
The collection embodies a younger spirit than anything Wang has offered so far, and is based on several teenage archetypes, like rock princess, preppy princess and flower princess. Case in point: an ocelot printed top layered over an orange tank, plaid twill pants, cropped blazers and graphic printed T-shirts — the kind of clothes girls might need for back-to-school. There are also handbags and shoes in the launch assortment. RELATED STORY: Narciso Rodriguez Kicks Off Kohl's Designer Program >>
Mario Grauso, president of Vera Wang, said the Princess brand “has resonated for us in a powerful way, even internationally. Vera and I felt strongly about expanding it at some point, and talked about doing more of a lifestyle collection within the brand.”
The lineup, priced at retail from $12 to $84.99, will be exclusively available through Kohl’s, which, since 2007, has been selling the Simply Vera Vera Wang line. Kohl’s official launch date is July 9, though merchandise will start to trickle into a select number of doors as soon as Friday (the promotional department store needs to carry merch for two weeks before it can mark it down).
Overall, the new categories are estimated to have retail sales of $36.3 million for the fall season, with apparel being the largest category at $27.9 million.
For Kohl’s, the addition could lift its overall juniors business, which “has been tough for us the last couple of years,” admitted Wesley McDonald, Kohl’s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer, at the Jefferies 2012 Global Consumer Conference this week. “It continues to be tough in the spring.…We also, obviously, didn’t have as much of a color denim. That’s a big trend in juniors, so that’s been rectified for back-to-school. We’ll be a big player in that business. So just like any other year, there’s always some content issues that we can improve upon.”
Wang and Grauso see Princess expanding into a soup-to-nuts lifestyle brand with the same kind of breadth of Kohl’s Simply Vera line. Asked about potential categories, Grauso cited cold weather and home as areas Wang would like to explore for Princess.
For Wang, it’s not just an additional business but also provides a way to snag her future clientele at an early age. “That’s certainly something we hope for,” Grauso said, adding that once that customer is captured, “We can then give her an offering through her wedding and beyond.”
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MyCape, an airline booking app for space-available seats, announced it has entered into a partnership and will be debuting its app in October with Nature Air, a Costa Rican airline based in San José. The app for iOS and Android partners with airlines to sell unsold seats and allows its members to bid on these flights to save up to 75% off normal fares. They are actively working with other airlines and will soon be expanding globally.
Travelers can book flights to and from the following destinations for as low as 30 US$:
San José, Tamarindo, Liberia, and a whole lot more. Members will soon have access to destinations in Europe and Asia over the next coming months.
MyCape has been a hit amongst backpackers, travel-junkies and budget travelers. In just two weeks, they were able to amass a waitlist of close to 20,000 members. It has been recognized as one of the most exciting travel apps by companies and media outlets such as TechCrunch, Travelport, Phocuswright, Skift and Web in Travel.
“One step at a time. We are excited to open the door for travelers. We have always believed travel is something everyone should have access to and we are thrilled to provide our members with this privilege”, said Lyle Jover, MyCape’s founder, and CEO.
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It's not easy to be a cable vendor in the Year of Our Disruption, 2016.
You have to keep up with all kind of emerging video technology -- everything from over-the-top delivery to high dynamic range (HDR) and 4K.
And what's in FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's head may not be in yours. But somehow, you have to find a way to predict an industry future that will be wrought by potential regulation, such as the FCC's "Unlock the Box" proposal. And that situation is further complicated by the fact that the industry has been stuck in the run-up to massive consolidation for the past 26 months.
But vendors could all end up getting rich, too, with MSOs spending big on the DOCSIS 3.1 transition to keep up with their fiber rivals, while extending the possibilities of their Wi-Fi services, just to name a few growing business paths.
In FierceCable's latest special report, we worked with research firm IHS to look at how the vendors in four key pay-TV sectors are competing by examining their challenges, opportunities and leaders.
I hope you enjoy the read.—Daniel


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Virgin IPO seizes on travel boom, but bankers fear door is closing
Virgin Australia’s potential initial public offering comes as demand for travel soars and Australia welcomes back international tourists, but questions about its timing and talk of an economic slowdown could make the deal a tough sell for bankers.
Some bankers are labelling Bain Capital’s decision to relist Virgin – an asset it bought out of administration for an enterprise value of $3.5 billion in August 2020 – opportunistic.
Rival Qantas, for example, is enjoying its strongest valuation since the beginning of the pandemic as airlines benefit from a travel rebound.
While a transaction – expected in the second half of 2023 – will be a welcome injection for deal-starved equity capital markets desks, there are question marks over Bain’s timing.
Sceptics worry demand for travel will eventually wane as consumers feel the pinch of rising mortgage repayments, utilities bills and prioritise spending on staple goods rather than holidays.
Nonetheless, large swaths of the Street, from UBS to Goldman Sachs, are preparing to pitch Bain in what could be one of the biggest ASX listings of 2023.
And a major part of banks’ pitch deck will be precisely how an IPO for Virgin could be sold to an investor base in an inflationary environment.
“Bain bought [Virgin] and really, they’ve held it for maybe 12 months of non-COVID-related trading. Virgin is just starting to come good and all of a sudden, it wants to flick it,” one managing director said.
“One would think [Bain] would want to operate under normal conditions for a while, prove it is commercially viable, before going to the IPO market.”
Another banker said educating investors on Virgin would be no easy task because of oil price hedging and other nuances unique to commercial airlines.
“I think it will be hard to get [investors’] minds around Virgin. Planes, depreciation, amortisation, travel cycle, oil price hedges – you name it – it has got everything,” the banker said.
“For it to be the deal that opens the IPO market, I would have thought this deal would come when markets are wide open.”
Indeed, equity markets are anything but wide open. Only 34 companies listed on the ASX in the second half of 2022, down from 130 in the second half of 2021, as capital costs soared and company valuations dipped.
Keeping it simple
Bankers buoyed by a potential Virgin IPO, however, reckon the company should keep it simple with investors, and play to the airline’s strength as the more affordable domestic option.
Virgin has set up a dedicated team to prepare the airline for relisting. It will focus on Virgin as a new-look, slimmed-down airline, free of former subsidiary Tiger Airways and less worried about competing with Qantas on international business.
Under Bain, Virgin has repositioned itself as a domestic carrier, which is homing in on a consumer hungry for cheaper, domestic travel at a time when increased living costs are hurting their wallets.
“People are nursing their purse strings,” a third banker said. “In a challenged economy, overseas airfares are expensive, and our currency is not as strong as it was, so I think there will be a sustained pick-up in domestic travel.”
Australia’s big reopening
Major sporting events such as the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne and the Women’s FIFA World Cup in July should also stoke demand for domestic travel, not just from Australians, but overseas visitors tapping into the local airline network.
China’s decision last month to end its zero-COVID-19 policy and reopen some travel this month is a key to airlines’ recovery, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report.
China provides the largest number of tourists to Australia, data from Statista shows. In 2021, only 6550 visitors from China arrived in Australia, a far cry from the pre-pandemic average of 1.4 million a year.
A gradual return to those sorts of numbers should buoy local airlines, Moody’s said.
Virgin’s C-suite is also confident the airline will register a profit in 2023, just about three years after it collapsed under an almost $7 billion debt load.
Airlines, too, are padding their profit margins with remarkably more expensive airfares than previous years, as passenger demand for travel is still high.
Bain could be thinking now is the ideal time to float Virgin and cash in before consumers grow more frugal.
“The key is that travel is back. Is it opportunistic from Bain? Probably, but it is also appropriate given we are in a post-COVID world,” the third banker said.
To be sure, Bain said it intends to retain a significant holding in Virgin, but an IPO does position the investment firm to exit the business.
Bankers reckon an IPO could materialise in the second half of 2023, giving the company ample time to assess conditions, listen to (and mandate) financial advisers, and monitor Qantas’ share price for a viable comparable trade.
A deal in the latter half of 2023 also gives Virgin and Bain time to see how other companies might fair in equity offerings.
With Qantas shares at their highest levels since the pandemic, Virgin’s deal could be the bellwether the capital markets need to ignite deal flow. But the complexities of the aviation business and a dose of economic uncertainty should be top of mind for investors.
“The outlook for Virgin is positive. It could be the breakout trade of COVID,” the third banker said.
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Topic: Apple TV
03/01/2014, 05:03 pm
Apple has acquired at least 23 firms over the last five quarters, but the purpose--and even the identity--of some of them remains a mystery. This is no accident.
02/28/2014, 06:02 pm
On the heels of numerous rumors and speculation that Apple will soon release a next-generation Apple TV set-top box, one well-connected journalist has voiced his doubts on the claims.
02/28/2014, 01:02 pm
Sales of the Apple TV are estimated to have grown by 80 percent in 2013, reaching around 10 million units for the calendar year, or some $1 billion worth of set-top boxes sold to end users.
02/28/2014, 12:02 pm
Apple on Friday kicked off a temporary promotion that will give customers a free $25 iTunes gift card with the purchase of an Apple TV from the company's online or retail stores in the U.S.
02/25/2014, 03:02 pm
Apple TV owners in Sweden gained access to a new channel on Tuesday, with the TV4 network gaining its own dedicated application on Apple's set-top box.
02/24/2014, 11:02 am
Monday morning brought about the launch of the new streaming network from World Wrestling Entertainment, as well as new applications for both iOS and the Apple TV that allow users to access the content from all of their Apple devices with a $10-per-month subscription.
02/21/2014, 08:02 am
Internet retail giant Amazon is reportedly planning to preempt Apple's rumored springtime Apple TV refresh with an Android-powered set-top box of its own -- and the device could go on sale as soon as next month.
02/19/2014, 12:02 pm
Though the Apple TV does not yet have an official App Store, Apple continues to expand the content available on its set-top box with new channels from third-party content providers, while behind the scenes it is hiring new personnel to ensure those partners are providing end users with the best possible experiences.
02/12/2014, 10:02 pm
It was reported earlier on Wednesday that Apple is preparing to debut a new Apple TV platform in partnership with Time Warner Cable, but Comcast is now said to be finalizing a purchase of TWC that could affect continued negotiations.
02/12/2014, 02:02 pm
Users clamoring for an update to Apple's set-top streamer could have their wish granted within the next two months, as the company is reportedly preparing a springtime introduction for the fourth-generation device that would come with a substantial media tie-in but would not launch until this fall.
02/11/2014, 10:02 am
With the debut new product categories promised by Apple in 2014 will likely come entirely new platforms, and a fresh job listing from the company discloses that such plans are in fact currently in the works.
02/10/2014, 03:02 pm
As whispers of an impending Apple TV refresh grow louder, references to a fourth-generation hardware platform for the diminutive streamer are said to have been discovered inside iOS 7 configuration files.
02/10/2014, 07:02 am
Commemorating 50 years since legendary band The Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show," the Apple TV was given a quiet update on Monday, featuring content from the band available on iTunes, along with the band's landmark U.S. television appearance in 1964.
02/07/2014, 07:02 am
Apple last month again pared back the fees it charges third-parties and accessory makers who wish to manufacture official (MFi) electronic accessories, AirPlay audio accessories, and game controllers that connect to its iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
02/03/2014, 02:02 pm
World Wrestling Entertainment on Monday announced that the company's nascent WWE Network will launch on Apple's set-top streamer Feb. 24 alongside native apps for the iPhone and iPad.
01/28/2014, 02:01 pm
The most recent update to Apple's online store brought more than just Valentine's Day deals, as the company's Apple TV set-top streamer was promoted from accessory to top-level product category -- fueling speculation that the box may soon see a major update.
01/28/2014, 11:01 am
Cupertino's favorite hobby received a minor update Tuesday with the addition of Red Bull TV, an advertisement-free all-digital television network focused on action sports, music, and cultural events.
01/23/2014, 01:01 pm
Apple's favorite hobby may soon see a long-awaited update that would add support for iOS games and Bluetooth game controllers, a new report claims.
01/21/2014, 04:01 pm
Amazon is reportedly negotiating with major entertainment companies for the rights to rebroadcast content live over the Internet as part of a new pay TV service from the online retailer.
01/02/2014, 06:01 pm
Despite refreshes or redesigns for almost every product under Apple's umbrella in 2013, even more excitement is expected from Cupertino in 2014 with rumors pointing toward potential forays into television sets and wearable devices alongside larger displays for iPhones and iPads.


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Calgary-based FinTech startup Flahmingo raised $1.88 million CAD in its pre-seed funding round in the last week of September.
According to the startup, it was an oversubscribed funding round that saw the participation of Kevin Sandhu, CEO and founder of Control; Austin Hankwitz, a FinTech entrepreneur; Hanif Joshaghani, CEO and co-founder of Symend; and Open People Network, a Toronto-based angel investor group.
“People are led to believe they need thousands of dollars to start investing, but that’s just not the case”
The new capital is earmarked for growth, said Flahmingo’s spokesperson, as the company looks to hire more people for product and technology marketing as well as customer success teams. Flahmingo is also looking to further bolster its marketing efforts from now until its product launch next year.
Founded in 2020 by co-founders Taran Singh Kainth, Gio Moros, and Kunal Seth, Flahmingo is a commission-free fractional investment app that utilizes an automated Pies and Slices model, which the company claims is the first of its kind in Canada. With the Flahmingo app, users can fund their account with scheduled deposits, automatic roundups, and one-time deposits.
Flahmingo said the “pies” in its Pies and Slices model can be interpreted as categories such as tech pie, fashion pie, or summer travel pie. Each pie is made up of slices where each slice represents a publicly-traded company or ETFs personally hand-picked by the user.
“People are led to believe they need thousands of dollars to start investing, but that’s just not the case,” Seth said. “Flahmingo is changing the narrative and letting Canadians know that they only need $1 to start.”
A 2020 survey by Finder claimed only about 39 percent of Canadians, or approximately 12.3 million Canadian adults, use a stock trading app.
However, the report also states that interest in stock trading in Canada is on the rise, seeing a major jump over the last year, which was accelerated by the pandemic.
By Q1 2022, Flahmingo will be launching its trading app as well as Flahmingo Central app, the latter a gamified experience where users can learn more about the stock market through free, short educational videos.


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- Full details: Volkswagen diesel emission scandal
- US government sues Volkswagen
- Volkswagen announces emissions fix
Volkswagen's "clean diesel" catchline has landed the company in hot water with the US Government, which has launched a lawsuit against the brand for false advertising.
The Federal Trade Commission says the Volkswagen Group "deceived customers" with advertising used to promote diesel models secretly equipped with software that masked unacceptably high emissions during government test cycles.
It says Volkswagen and Audi should compensate US consumers of more than 550,000 vehicles.
"For years Volkswagen's ads touted the company's 'Clean Diesel' cars even though it now appears Volkswagen rigged the cars with devices designed to defeat emissions tests," FTC chair Edith Ramirez says.
"Our lawsuit seeks compensation for the consumers who bought affected cars based on Volkswagen's deceptive and unfair practices."
Volkswagen spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan says the company "has received the complaint and continues to cooperate with all relevant US regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission".
The car maker has until April 21 to present regulators with a plan to fix vehicles affected by the emissions crisis. The US Justice Department sued VW for up to $US46 billion ($60 billion) in January for violating environmental laws and VW faces more than 500 civil lawsuits related to excess emissions, along with suits from some US states.
The manufacturer has a plan to address Australian emissions that includes a software update for 2.0-litre four-cylinder diesel models, while 1.6-litre models must have a physical piece of mesh added to the car's intake system.
Australian authorities have not started legal action against Volkswagen, though there are private class action suits pursuing local payment from the car maker.
Former General Motors executive Bob Lutz told the New York Times that "there's no way to fix these noncompliant cars".
Lutz says he now understands why engineers for his company could not match Volkswagen's efficiency claims.
While admitting that emissions fraud has taken place at the company, Volkswagen's top brass deny knowing it was happening at the time.
BMW software specialist Daniel Lange told a computer hacker's conference in Germany that the emissions fraud was not the work of an individual, and that it is "completely unrealistic that a lonely engineer" could have orchestrated widespread emissions fraud.
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Electric Porsche Taycan Revealed on the Production LineOctober 16, 2018
Porsche has published the official renderings of the future Taycan electric production line. The presentation also revealed some details. Porsche says it has invested a lot of money in the creation of a production line that will in no way resemble anything that is used today.
In fact – this will be the first plant in Germany using flexible conveyor lines. Future products will be moved using unmanned “carts”.
“By applying the production of flexible lines, Porsche will be the first car manufacturer to use unmanned transport systems in continuous mass production,” – said Albrecht Reimold, head of logistics for a German brand.
By choosing this approach, the company will also generate about 1,200 new jobs, making the model one of “the largest generator of jobs in Porsche history,” as the head of HR Andreas Haffner said.


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This year was marked by the 10th anniversary of League of Legends and the many announcements Riot Games made. Legends of Runeterra, Arcane, Project L, F & A... the studio has a plethora of new features for us in the coming years.
In parallel, Riot Games have announced the creation of Riot Forge, a video games publishing label for third-party developers. In short, independent developers will work in parallel with the studio to create unique games that will extend the League of Legends universe.
These new games will be developed on different platforms and in different genres, but always in the spirit of the announcements made during the 10 years of LoL in order to bring new experiences that will be integrated into the LoL universe.
"We are always looking for new ways to bring the World of Runeterra and its champions to new and existing audiences around the world," said Greg Street, VP of IP and Entertainment at Riot Games in a press release. "There are so many talented game studios around the world that have exceptional experience and craft skills in all areas of game development, and we are really excited to work together to bring the LoL IP to new game experiences."
Several projects are already in development and will aim to enhance the League of Legends universe for players around the world. The new and innovative gaming experiences awaiting players will complement the various games announced by Riot Games during the special edition of Riot Pls, on the occasion of LoL's 10th anniversary.
If you want to know more, go to the official website www.riotforgegames.com.
Ten years ago, the 27th October 2019, the closed beta of League of Legends — Clash of Fates ended and our favorite MOBA unveiled itself to the whole world. Since that date, the game evolved so much that it is now completely different from what it was. Do you feel the nostalgia? Because we do...


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Casual onlookers may have a hard time digesting the broader implications of the virtual reality sector. Having personally stepped into the realm of digitalized ecosystems, I can tell you the practice takes some getting used to. At the same time, innovation is constantly moving forward, which makes the investment case for virtual reality stocks an intriguing one.
That’s really the main point about this market segment: no, it’s not going to appeal to absolutely everybody. Wearing a digital device on your head for extended periods isn’t exactly the most comfortable thing....More>>>
Technology stocks have been battered and bruised in 2022, with the Nasdaq down 32% year to date. As bad as that is, semiconductor stocks have easily outpaced the downturn in the broader tech sector, with the PHLX Semiconductor Index falling 44% so far this year. However, unlike some high-flying tech stocks that had no basis for their lofty valuations, the companies that make semiconductor chips and equipment are vital to the economy. Their products are the basis of the world as we know it. Of course, that’s not to say their share prices can’t go lower from here. With this in....More>>>


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UK cloud services company iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM) has come to the rescue of World Whisky Day after the website set up to celebrate Scotland’s most famous export crashed on launch day last year.
iomart has placed the World Whisky Day website on its Cloudsure platform to ensure that it enjoys 100 per cent uptime and can be accessed through all time zones for this year’s event which takes place on Saturday May 18.
Aberdeen University student Blair Bowman set up World Whisky Day after realising there was no designated day to celebrate the iconic spirit. He set up a website and asked people to post their events and messages but it crashed under the weight of interest from supporters across the globe.
Blair Bowman explained: “When I rang up the hosting company we were using in California they couldn’t even find my details. They said it would take 48 hours to fix and I said it can’t because it’s World Whisky Day today! I ended up manually inputting hundreds of events myself. Thankfully iomart have come to the rescue so the website won’t crash again. ”
Phil Worms, marketing director for iomart, added: “Blair got a fantastic response to his launch of World Whisky day last year, it was even trending worldwide on social media, but he wasn’t able to capitalise on this because the website was on a server that couldn’t take the spike in traffic and the hosting company’s support staff weren’t responsive enough. We’ve put the website on our Cloudsure platform so that it has the scalable and reliable hosting plus round-the-clock technical support to ensure that this year’s event is the toast of the world whisky community.”Subscribe to RSS Feed