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Nuro, a start out-up which tends to make autonomous shipping and delivery motor vehicles, introduced Thursday that it is setting up a factory and a shut study course exam-keep track of in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Funded by Softbank, Chipotle, Toyota’s Woven Cash and others, Nuro suggests its two new commercial services will volume to 125,000 sq. toes of house throughout at the very least 80 acres of property, like 74 acres of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The start off-up will invest $40 million into the amenities, and aims to crank out 250 positions in Southern Nevada originally.
Unlike other driverless automobile ventures, Nuro is concentrated on making zero-occupant, robotic electric delivery vehicles that seem extra like a kitchen appliance than a common motor vehicle. They are scaled-down than vans and most taxis, but can however function on public roadways fairly than in bike lanes or on sidewalks.
Even though Nuro’s driverless shipping service is not commonly obtainable but, it is performing in Houston, Greater Phoenix and Silicon Valley areas, according to the firm’s internet site.
Clients can area an order for shipping with a single of Nuro’s retail associates. When they examine out, they can decide on a driverless motor vehicle possibility, and they will obtain updates in a cellular app as the Nuro motor vehicle finds its way. On arrival they get a last notification with an obtain code utilized to open up the vehicle’s compartment containing their purchased objects.
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Domino’s, Kroger, CVS, Chipotle, FedEx and Walmart are amongst people who have at the very least examined Nuro’s robotic shipping motor vehicles.
Walmart stated it options to use Nuro as component of its new GoLocal shipping and delivery company, along with other autonomous automobile companions which include GM-backed Cruise and Alphabet’s Waymo.
In get to understand and navigate close to a neighborhood, the company’s present-day R2 autos use cameras, mild ranging and detection sensors (or lidar), and other brief and long-assortment radar, and ultrasonic sensors.
Nuro plans to create its new auto, the R3, at its forthcoming assembly plant in Nevada.
In their announcement on Thursday, Nuro lauded the point out of Nevada for its help of the nascent, autonomous auto business. Nevada was the initial state to move autonomous car laws in 2011 with their AB 511 which formally authorized for the operation of autonomous cars on highways within just the state.


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2020 marked record year for store closingsFortune 01/07/2021
Retailers closed 12,200 stores in 2020, representing 159 million square-feet of retail space, according to CoStar Group. Last year’s number establishes a new record. A total of 10,000 stores were shuttered in 2019.
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Due to the corona crisis, Danone sells far fewer bottles of spring water to the catering industry and therefore wants to save costs.
The French food manufacturer is firing up to 2,000 employees to boost profitability, the company reports in a press release on Monday.
The maker of dairy and yogurt products, baby food and Evian mineral water, among other things, will cut 400 to 500 jobs in France.
The rest of the jobs will be lost elsewhere.
About a quarter of the jobs at the head office in Paris will disappear.
Worldwide, Danone employs approximately 100,000 employees.
It is unclear whether jobs will also be lost in the Netherlands.
Annual costs should be reduced by EUR 1 billion by 2023 with a reduction in administrative expenditure and cheaper procurement.
The group expects the measures to cost approximately 1.4 billion euros.
In addition, the organizational structure of the company will be set up differently.
There will be a much greater focus on geographic areas.
Between January and September, Danone had a turnover of almost 18 billion euros, almost 5.4 percent less than in the same period a year earlier.


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Des Plaines, Ill. — Nestlé® Toll House® Café by Chip®, the popular international bakery café chain, has opened its newest location at 1605 South River Rd. in Des Plaines, Ill. It is the only Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip now open in a convenience store that also doubles as a gas station.
“Every new café opening is exciting to us, but this one is extra special because it marks two important milestones: our only café in Des Plaines and the only existing café located inside a convenience store/gas station,” says Ziad S. Dalal, president of Crest Foods, Inc., the franchisor of Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip.
The Des Plaines café is the brand’s fifth location in Illinois and among more than 160 cafés system-wide.
Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip is a premier dessert and bakery café. Crest Foods Inc., franchisor of Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip, based in Richardson, Texas, is a premier restaurant franchisor company. The company currently franchises more than 160 bakery cafés in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada and the Middle East. The versatile concept has kiosk, in-line mall and street café locations. The first café opened in 2000. For more information, visit nestlecafe.com.
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Shares of Vivint Solar (VSLR) tumbled over 8% during pre-market trading on Wednesday, a day after reporting widened losses and weaker-than-expected fourth quarter revenue. The stock slide is a follow-up to yesterday’s after-market decline of about 10%.
Even as the street was expecting a profit in Q4, the Lehi, Utah-based firm said its losses widened to 73 cents per share from 43 cents per share a year ago. Revenue was down 5% to $63.5 million, missing the average analysts’ consensus of $71.74 million.
Estimated Gross Retained Value per Watt at quarter end was $2.06, in line with the third quarter. This is one of the key metrics tracked by the street as an increase in installations would result in more value created per watt, which would improve the top line.
Vivint installed approximately 54 MWs during the quarter, in line with the management projection. For the full year 2019, the company expects 15% growth for MWs installed.
The company also provided guidance for the first quarter of 2019. Vivint said it expects Cost per Watt in the range of $3.45 – $3.52 and plans to install 43 – 45 MWs during this period.
VSLR shares have gained 75% in the past 52 weeks as investors expect the solar market to pick up this year.
The stock has been volatile throughout 2018 as the industry was impacted by the trade war between the US and China, resulting in lower demand for solar panels. Margins of other solar panel manufacturers like First Solar (FSLR), JinkoSolar (JKS), SunPower (SPWR) and Canadian Solar (CSIQ) were also hurt by dwindling panel prices due to lower demand.
Last month, the IPO market was in a full swing. IPOs of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and JFROG (NASDAQ: FROG) had an impressive opening day in September, the former creating a
PepsiCo Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) beat market expectations on both revenue and earnings for the third quarter of 2020. The company saw the momentum continue in its snacks business while the
With more and more people turning to virtual entertainment sources, amid the virus-related movement restrictions, video game publishers like Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) are witnessing unusually high demand. Not surprisingly,


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Alimentos ProcesadosEne. 13, 2022
Oceanía: impulsarán exportaciones de productos nutricionales de alto valor
New Zealand’s High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge (HVN NSC) has published updates on how
its digestive, immune, infant and metabolic health research programmes are progressing, all of which are
designed to foster exports of local products to global markets.
The HVN NSC is on 10-year mission to develop high-value foods with validated health benefits in hopes to
increase export revenues from the food and beverage sector by 2025.
Funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the organisation recently
published its annual report, providing an update on the progress of the four key programmes from June
2020 to July 2021.
In the digestive health programme, the previous annual report found kiwifruit is comparable to psyllium
fibre as a treatment for constipation. This made way for Zespri International Ltd to promote kiwifruit as a
locally-grown food and high-value food that benefits wellbeing.
Two new clinical studies are now in the works with industry partners, currently recruiting subjects to study
the effect of kiwifruit on constipation and irritable bowel syndrome.
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THAT’S A SOME 30 YEARS: Winslow pizzeria marks three decades of delicious
A lot of our society’s most treasured institutions are turning 30 this year, it seems.
According to mentalfloss.com, the Mac computer, Transformers, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” album, the first Ghostbusters film and The Cosby Show all premiered in 1984.
1984 is also the year that Lee and Marti Grant opened That’s A Some Pizza in downtown Winslow, Aug. 7, 1984, to be precise.
The opening of the Bainbridge eatery came just one month after the couple’s first restaurant opened in Kingston, Washington to phenomenal success.
Though the legacy of the restaurant spans three successful decades, their mainstay pizza dough is a holdover from another time more than 100 years ago.
“It started as a pizza contest between my dad and his best friend,” explained Will Grant, Lee and Marti’s son and current co-owner of the Bainbridge pizzeria. “They ended up coming up with a [dough] recipe from his best friend’s great-grandfather’s Klondike Gold Rush sourdough starter recipe. We had the starter dough, and it worked out really well. They opened up the first one there in Kingston, and the first day they opened there was a line two blocks down.”
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Similar enthusiasm awaited the island restaurant, which also proved an immediate hit. Thus began the delicious legacy of one of Bainbridge’s most recognized establishments where business — minus a few new menu items and one ill-fated frozen yogurt machine — has continued very much the same to this day.
Soon afterwards, the Kingston branch was sold, but today the Bainbridge restaurant boasts 22 employees and a full menu of more than 20 different speciality pizzas as well as salads, calzones, chicken wings and focaccia sandwiches.
The unique phonetic-inspired name, Will explained, was his father’s idea.
“My dad just liked the idea,” he said.
“It’s really awkward to say because you have to kind of tell people twice over the phone,” Marti laughed.
As unusual as the name may be, its had no trouble working its way into the popular culture of Bainbridge. Will estimates that on a busy Friday he and his staff will make 300 or 400 pizzas, including those who dine in, take out and order delivery.
Delivery service has always been an option at That’s A Some Pizza, Will said, and so has an insistence on using the best quality ingredients and top-notch customer service.
“We think of every customer as a neighbor, whether you live here or don’t,” Will said. “The customer’s always right. We really stand by that. Customer service is what we really try to strive for here. You can get cheaper pizza on the island, but you won’t get a better experience on the island.”
Nothing trendy here
And while so many in the culinary world are proudly declaring the importance of regionally sourced fresh ingredients now, at That’s a Some Pizza, Will laughed, that’s just business as usual.
“That’s the way we’ve always really been,” he said. “It’s so funny that it’s a fad now to do these things that we’ve done for 30 years.”
“We make all our own dough,” Will said. “I think it’s something like 300 pounds of dough a day. We shred our own cheese. Most people will just do mozzarella [or] provolone, we do a mozzarella and provolone mix. We make our sauces also.”
In fact, the only product they do not have a direct hand in at That’s A Some Pizza is their increasingly popular gluten-free crust.
One of the first and only local pizza places to offer a gluten-free crust, Will explained that his staff does not make that specialty product because there simply isn’t time, and he was able to find a source that make a dough he was happy with.
“We always try to use the best ingredients and make everything from scratch, being informed about what we buy and what we use,” he said.
Ironically, given their vast array of artisan and speciality pizzas, Marti and Will agree that the classics are easily their best sellers. Pepperoni or just plain cheese, they said, are definitely the most often ordered pizzas.
More so than just a reputation for quality, Will and Marti said they are most proud of the restaurant’s social legacy on the island.
Since first opening, Will estimates that the pizzeria has had more than 2,000 employees, many of them island teenagers for who working at That’s A Some Pizza was their first job.
“I like that,” Marti explained. “I was a teacher for a while, and this is really just a smaller scale of teaching.”
“We’ve hired thousands of local kids,” Will agreed. “And the reality is that there are several thousand kids that this is pizza to them. They grew up with this being their pizza.”
That legacy and continued reputation is a responsibility that Marti and Will take very seriously.
“Pizza is one of those things that people really don’t take seriously,” Will said.
“They don’t think of it as a serious restaurant, they think of it as fast food and all of my chef training at other restaurants — and our other restaurants — really brought that pride back in here. You’re getting more than just a good pizza, you’re getting good service and a good time as well.”
Changes over the years
Will cited computers as the biggest change in the food industry in the last few decades, but said he is determined to keep That’s A Some current with the latest customer service needs. Starting next week, the pizzeria is expected to launch an online ordering option, as well as smart phone ordering applications.
Marti claims she is now semi-retired, but don’t be surprised to see her behind the counter or even delivering some pizzas now and then. She said she hopes now to have more time to ride horses — her second favorite pastime after spending time with her granddaughter.
Will, who has been primarily responsible for running the business for many years now, said that he considers it an exciting time to be a small business owner and, armed with the latest technology and a century-old recipe, has high hopes for the next 30 years.
“I’m very excited, I’m revitalized,” he said. “I’ve worked for my family my whole life, now it’s my time to kind of step forward and take the That’s A Some Pizza name as far as I can.”


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LOS ANGELES — At an event like the Los Angeles Auto Show, it’s obvious automakers spend millions (possibly billions) of dollars competing to get a new car buyer’s attention. From the elaborate auto show stands to the full-on multimedia presentations to the post-show new vehicle media drive events, everyone is spending big bucks to differentiate themselves in a market where the bandwidth between reliability, features and pricing is paper-thin.
In a vast field of new vehicles that, objectively, all perform at a very similar level, the subjective nature of how a car looks can make or break a new car in the showroom. This is why, outside of marketing, automakers are also investing heavily in new car design. And one of the automakers that has wholeheartedly bought into this “car design as added value” theory is South Korea’s Kia.
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Kia’s global head pen, chief design officer Peter Schreyer, deserves much of the credit for the brand’s design renaissance. However, the automaker’s most recent and critically acclaimed (and best-selling) vehicles have come from Kia’s Design Center America, located just south of Los Angeles in Irvine, Calif., and headed by American Tom Kearns.
“The studio does mostly production work, probably 85 per cent is actually making proposals for production programs. But we also do a show car maybe once a year. So there’s some advance work being done as well,” Kearns explained during an interview shortly after the debut of the new 2014 Forte sedan and refreshed 2014 Sorento crossover here at the show.
Before joining Kia in 2004, Kearns was a General Motors man, his most notable work being the “art and science”-themed 2002 Cadillac CTS sedan. In the eight years he’s been running Kia’s West Coast design studio, Kearns has overseen the debut of some of the brand’s most groundbreaking designs; vehicles that have driven the Korean automaker from an also-ran to a design leader, such as the original, 2006 Soul concept, 2007 KUE crossover concept (that previewed the current Sportage) and the 2008 Kia Koup concept, that led directly to the current Forte Koup two-door.
He explained that his team’s goal is to create a look that offers a lot of “design content” or “design value,” which supports Kia’s fundamental brand values.
As chief designer, Kearns puts it this way: “If we can create a design that looks more expensive — or you feel you’re getting more for your money — then I think we’ve done our job. You can see that in the Optima. You can get every option on that car, and it’s hard to break $35,000. But the design — for the average person, anyway — looks like a BMW or a Euro-something that maybe should cost $55,000.”
Kearns’ “design value” ethos shows up on the sales charts as well. The majority of Kia’s biggest sellers in North America originated from his studio.
“The original Forte sedan and five-door hatchback, the current-generation Sorento and the new Sorento facelift, the Sportage, the new Rio sedan and five-door all came from our studio,” Kearns says. This all means good design is helping sell more Kias.
After the reveal of the new 2014 Forte Sedan, it’s hard to see Kia straying too far from this current path of success. Arguably, the front-wheel-drive, five-passenger four-door is suddenly the most sophisticated-looking car in its class. And Kearns says that’s no accident.
“The overall shape of the car and proportions can give an impression of value. And with the new Forte, I think we’ve done a good job with that,” Kearns explains proudly.
The Kia designer also said much of the new Forte’s design value can be found in the details.
“The LED daytime running lamps, the beltline, the chrome door handles — some of those are things that normally you might not see on a comparable Honda, Nissan or Toyota,” Kearns says.
While the 2014 North American Forte shares its platform with the foreign-market Kia Cerato, the two cars are separate designs. Kearns’ studio handled the North American car’s exterior and interior design, then followed the car as it made its way from his designer’s sketches to the factory floor.


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European car stocks were battered last year, but their fortunes are looking brighter in 2012 on bets that the euro will weaken sharply and on strong demand from the U.S. and emerging-market economies.
Companies that specialize in high-end cars and SUVs are considered particularly likely to thrive as demand for these vehicles from Asian consumers shows no sign of easing up.
The sector’s performance this month appears to underpin this optimistic view. The Stoxx Europe 600 automobiles and parts index surged 20% in the first three weeks of 2012, a reversal from the full-year slide of 28% in 2011. Among individual stocks, luxury brands BMW AG and Daimler AG, as well as Fiat SpA, which is now considered in part a play on the U.S. market, have all leapt close to 25% this year.
German car makers are seen as the biggest beneficiary of a falling euro. Their production is generally in the euro zone, but many of their customers are in Asia and the U.S. A weaker euro could lead to fatter profits when earnings overseas are converted back to the currency.
French car makers, however, such as Renault SA, are likely to see less of an impact, given that most of their sales are within Europe and it therefore won’t benefit from the currency impact, analysts said.
Morgan Stanley raised its 2012 and 2013 earnings estimates for the premium car makers by 10%-15% last week. It reversed its view on BMW, the world’s best-selling luxury-car maker, to “overweight” from “underweight,” saying it and competitor Daimler could enjoy a one-percentage-point boost to margins in 2012 and 2013 because of the weak euro. It predicts the euro will end the year at $1.20, from just below $1.30 on Friday.
“While we are genuinely surprised to find ourselves upgrading earnings estimates in the midst of a likely European recession, we cannot ignore the solid order and sales momentum and favorable currency on premium vehicle profitability,” Morgan Stanley said.
It estimated that each further 10-cent drop in the euro against the dollar could add around 8% to BMW’s 2013 earnings per share and around 6% to Daimler’s.
The impact of currency moves was echoed by Bernstein Research, which said a falling euro against the dollar would mean “massive benefits for export profits.” The firm also favors BMW and Daimler.
Analysts noted ever-growing demand for SUVs, particularly in the premium sector, and said the marginal profit is much higher than on compacts or sedans. BMW, whose X5 model is among Europe’s best-selling luxury SUVs, has said it expects industry sales of premium vehicles to increase 8% this year, double the 4% rate of the overall car market. Its own vehicle sales surged 14% last year to a record 1.67 million units.
“With a third of its sales in premium SUVs, we see BMW as the key player here,” Morgan Stanley said.
Goldman Sachs last week reiterated its attractive view on the European auto sector, stating its preference for high-end manufacturers like BMW and Daimler. And BMW is Credit Suisse’s preferred emerging premium brand; it expects China to contribute 27.3% of BMW’s pretax profit in 2012. “It best combines top-of-the-class brand equity, product momentum, management execution and valuation,” Credit Suisse said.
At least one nonluxury manufacturer is also expected to do well. Goldman Sachs analysts described Fiat as one of the most attractive equity stories in the sector. It says the company, which took control of most of Chrysler’s assets in 2009, is well placed to benefit from the recent upturn in the U.S. car market.
“Most importantly, Fiat.Chrysler generates more than 50% of its sales in the U.S. market, which we believe is structurally a more profitable car market post significant government-funded restructuring,” the firm’s analysts said in a report.


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Maverik Convenience Stores puts a premium on its unique brand experience at some 270 locations across more than 10 states, and it is now using digital signage solutions around its stores to engage shoppers and set it apart from its competitors.
The Salt Lake City, Utah, retailer has installed Samsung Smart Signage display panels around the stores to promote items and services using attention-grabbing motion graphics. Maverik’s marketing team is also using digital signage solutions to connect their customers with the Maverik brand and story.
Maverik and its solutions partner, RevelTV, have found clever ways to use screens around the stores, embedding them above a giant soda fountain station and using daylight-readable displays in windows facing out to motorists at the gas pumps to draw them inside. Smart controls allow operations to fine-tune display brightness to the ambient conditions of each store.
To see how Maverik is using digital signage to put its business on display, check out the following video with Ernie Harker, director of marketing for Maverik, or read the in-depth case study.


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The Competition Tribunal has been clamping down on companies that have been hiking prices of sanitisers and masks since the Covid-19 outbreak.
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On Friday, the Tribunal said it had confirmed two consent agreements relating to Covid-19 exorbitant pricing complaints, bringing the total to 20 since April.
“All of these agreements relate to the alleged excessive pricing of goods, such as sanitisers and face masks, used by consumers in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Tribunal said.
After investigating complaints from the public, the Tribunal found a Bloemfontein-based company, Vasilis Supermarket T/A Vasilis Cleaning Supplies, has contravened the Competition Act.
The store sells products online for nationwide distribution and does not manufacture its products but sources these locally and internationally, the Tribunal said.
The Tribunal received information about the alleged excessive prices charged by Vasilis for different types of surgical gloves, surgical masks and dust masks.
“The Commission concluded that Vasili’s conduct of significantly escalating margins on surgical gloves and face masks without any corresponding increases in costs during the period February to April 2020, is a contravention of section 8(1)(a) of the Competition Act read together with Regulation 4 of the Consumer Protection Regulations,” the statement said.
Vasilis does not admit that its conduct constitutes a contravention of the Competition Act.
However, they have agreed to desist from pricing excessively by reducing its gross profit margins applicable to the sale of surgical gloves and facemasks to an agreed maximum percentage with immediate effect for the duration of the State of National Disaster.
The company says it will also donate essential goods amounting to R243,148.70 to three charities, Mangaung Society for Care of the Aged, Boiketlong Old Age Home and the Hearts2Hand Foundation.
The company will also contribute R44,128.51 to the Solidarity Fund and develop and implement a competition law compliance programme.
Meanwhile, Sanitech, a division of Waco Africa, has also been accused of inflating prices.
Sanitech is a supplier of sanitation facilities and offers professional washroom hygiene services through several branches nationwide.
“The Commission accuses the company of charging excessive prices for five-litre hand sanitisers during March and April 2020,” the Tribunal said.
In addition, while the company does not admit to any wrongdoing, Sanitech agrees to resolve the complaint through several remedies set out in the consent agreement.
Sanitech has also agreed to donate R65,028 to the Solidarity Fund; stop the excessive pricing; reduce its gross profit margin on hand sanitisers for the duration of the State of National Disaster.
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That’s a 10% increase compared to the same time in 2018
More than 600,000 electricity customers switched suppliers in September, a 10% rise from the same period last year.
A total of 603,400 customers moved to a different supplier, bringing the total number of electricity switches to more than 4.7 million so far this year.
That’s an increase of 11% on the same time in 2018 when a record 5.8 million customers switched suppliers.
The data reveals out of all the switches in September, 34% were from larger to small and mid-tier suppliers, 16% from small and mid-tier to larger companies, 23% between larger suppliers and 27% between small and mid-tier firms.
Lawrence Slade, Chief Executive at Energy UK said: “It is brilliant to see that every month more and more consumers reap the benefits of increased competition.
“Customers, whatever their circumstances, can benefit from checking their tariff so if you’re concerned about your bill going into winter, pick up the phone to your supplier and see if you’re on the best deal – or have a look at what other offers are available in the market.
“Just as importantly consumers can save more on their energy bills by getting a smart meter and making their house more energy efficient, which will also reduce their carbon footprint and help tackle climate change.”


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Tata Motors shares traded off the day’s low after earlier dropping as much as 2.5 per cent on weak Q1 results. The owners of the luxury Jaguar Land Rover brands had on Friday reported a 49 per cent slump in net profit and 6 per cent fall in net sales during the June quarter.
Here Are The Reasons For The Sharp Fall In Net Profit:
1) Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover unit is facing challenges in its biggest market – China. Jaguar Land Rover sales in China fell by a third during the June quarter, pulling down total sales at the luxury carmaker by 1 per cent.
2) According to Kotak Institutional Equities, China sales declined to 14 per cent of total volumes in the June quarter versus 30 per cent of volumes in the corresponding quarter last year and 18 per cent of volumes in the March quarter.
3) Tata Motors has been criticised for pricing its locally-made Range Rover Evoque SUV too high in China. The company was also forced to recall some vehicles over quality issues, which didn’t help matters, analysts say.
4) The weakness in China is a big concern for Tata Motors because strong sales of Jaguar Land Rover cars in China have long propped up profits at the company.
5) Jaguar Land Rover is not the only company facing problems in China, where economic growth has slowed to a 25 year low; automakers such as BMW and General Motors have also been facing headwinds in China, which is the world’s biggest car market.
Tata Motors did not witness a huge cut post Q1 earnings because a majority of analysts retained their “buy” call on the stock saying China-related weakness looks largely discounted and valuations remain supportive. Tata Motors shares have fallen over 25 per cent over the last three months.
“Given the sharp fall in the stock in the past few months, it is factoring in China negatives but ignoring positive response to recent launches and strong product cycle,” Credit Suisse said.
Tata Motors on Friday said it has cut prices, sales and production targets at its Jaguar Land Rover arm in China. The company also cut the price of JLR’s locally-made Range Rover Evoque sport-utility vehicle (SUV) by up to 6 per cent, and lowered the launch price of its Jaguar XE compact sedan.
According to Nitesh Sharma of Phillip Capital, Jaguar Land Rover should see a return to sales growth from the December quarter driven by new launches and as management improves brand awareness for the China-made Evoque.
Analysts also took heart from the domestic performance of Tata Motors; car sales in India have picked up and commercial vehicles cycle has bottomed out helping Tata Motors beat domestic sales estimates, analysts said.
“Medium and heavy commercial volumes increased by 21 per cent year-on-year and passenger car volumes rose by 41 per cent year-on-year in the June quarter offset by weak light commercial vehicles volumes,” said Hitesh Goel of Kotak.
The brokerage has a “buy” rating on Tata Motors with a target price of Rs 525.As of 10.43 a.m., Tata Motors shares traded 1 per cent lower at Rs 389.50.


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A Samsung Galaxy S7 user has credited his survival from a shipwreck in the Philippines to the flagship phone's waterproof capability. The Galaxy S7 managed to work properly even after being submerged in water, allowing the user to contact authorities and seek help.
Samsung disclosed the incident on 30 August, which took place when the user was on a mid-sized boat heading towards Sabang Beach in central Philippines for a scuba dive trip with 10 other divers on 30 July. The vessel suddenly overturned amid a storm and the passengers were stranded on the foundering vessel for about an hour.
The user – whose identity has been withheld – narrated the incident to Samsung and said it was through the phone that he could contact authorities for help in time. He also added that his Galaxy S7 had more than 50% power although in had been over 24 hours since he last charged the battery of the phone.
Samsung's S7 series has an IA68 rating, meaning it is equipped with gears that can withstand dust, dirt, sand, and is resistant to submersion in water for up to a maximum depth of 1.5 meters for 30 minutes. The same technology has been used by Samsung in the recently launched Galaxy Note 7 as well.
According to previous figures the global sales of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are estimated to have reached 25 million worldwide as at the end of June.


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Thousands fall for fake BBM app
June 27, 2013 5:49 by Muhammad Aldalou
A few days ago, when thousands of mobile users anticipated the early availability of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) on Android and iOS platforms, they learned the hard way not to give too much credibility to internet rumours.
An application, called ‘blackberry messenger bbm,’ created by developer RIM, was available on Android’s Google Play store.
Of course, it turned out to be a fake, adding no real value (unless you count a few irksome bookmarks and unusual icons on users’ handsets) except displaying a screen that promised users that the app would be functional today.
Google had it pulled off, but not before more than 100,000 Android users downloaded it.
You see, today is June 27. And that meant, at least according to month-old rumours (further confirmed by T-Mobile UK), that the popular messaging service would be officially available to download on both iOS and Android platforms, free of charge.
Even with BlackBerry having swiftly denied those rumours, the bright side is that the large number of ‘scammed’ users was a testament to the unexpected popularity (at least by critics) of the application.
BlackBerry has repeatedly said that its messaging service would be available sometime this summer, but that it can neither guarantee nor confirm a specific date.
Unlike Apple’s iOS store, the Google Play Android app store is not moderated, so users download applications at their own risk. Just remember, you should only install apps that you trust completely, while dedicating a fair amount of research beforehand.
For instance, had the victims of this scam followed the news, they would have known that the company no longer goes by the name ‘RIM’ since they rebranded to ‘BlackBerry’ earlier this year.


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They're the kind of photos that even the most liberal of boyfriends might worry about. So let's hope that Cristiano Ronaldo has a strong stomach. The footballer's half-naked Russian girlfriend Irina Shayk draped herself over handsome male model Arthur Sales in a photoshoot to advertise a new clothing collection.
Topless model Irina Shayk clings to male model Arthur Sales in these shots advertising Xti clothing's new range The provocative pictures capture Irina posing in just a T-shirt, or skirt. In one case she is topless, in an embrace with the handsome model. The shots are designed to advertise Spanish label Xti's new season collection, of which Irina and fellow model Sales are the face. Irina, 25, has been working hard in recent months.
As well as promoting her new issue of Sports Illustrated magazine she has also been busy modelling for clients including Victoria's Secret and Ory swimwear. The model is dating superstar footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but also working hard Wipe clean: Irina in a PVC playsuit from the range But she has also been finding plenty of time to spend with her superstar boyfriend.
Let's hope he's not the jealous type: Irina and boyfriend Cristiano Ronaldo flirt at a football match last week The pair were spotted watching the match between his team Real Madrid and Hercules at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Saturday. But while she may be supportive of her boyfriend's career, Irina has made it clear that she has little interest in the game.
During an interview last year, Irina laughed: However, Irina, who was born in Yemanzhelinsk, Russia, said it wasn't an easy decision for her to move to New York and follow her dream. My mother saw an ad on a bus stop and I came to a local beauty school accompanying my older sister. Then I started modelling in Paris. Irina poses in a shot for the fashion range Slender: But Irina claims she never diets, instead eating healthily and working out five times a week With her slender figure, yet attractive curves, Irina found a ready fanbase.
Speaking recently about how she maintains her figure, Irina told E! You just show it in the body and face. Irina has been working hard in recent months, promoting her new issue of Sports Illustrated magazine and modelling for clients including Victoria's Secret and Ory swimwear Advertisement.


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Budget 2022: ease the stress of taxation on small businesses and reduce tax burden
The decline in Demand led to chain of events resulting in losses
The textile sector is mainly dependent on two factors, the first being produced, and second demand. When the Covid-19 outbreak happened, production was shut down and demand was already negligible. All the shops were closed, and people were mainly focused on maintaining the essential needs. People lost their jobs and this led to a decline in demand. The fashion industry posted a 20 percent decline in revenues in 2019-20. Import and export are adversely affected too. Slowly people are trying to bring their lives back to normal, but this isn’t a cherry on a cake. This crisis most directly impacts textiles and clothing sales, given that sellers and potential customers adhere to strict social distancing norms.
Having an online presence has proved beneficial
We are following all the protocols as per government guidelines. The last year was quite good for us, as there was a major increase in sales. People have moved from offline to online shopping. And this helped us immensely to increase the revenue for our company. We applied tactics that were new for us but it turned out well. Digital marketing and adding new products to our website, with creativity that is different from others, has made a great impact as a company on customers’ minds. To have an online presence is the best thing a company can do. We have improvised a lot in every department. Our customer care department guides every individual properly and helps them to get the fabric which is suitable for them. We have made the delivery faster and our reputation in quality proceeds with our name.
Textile sector will benefit from the positive direction of the Budget
Last year there was no major imposition of taxes when the budget was introduced, and that was quite advantageous. But with the rise of the third wave of the pandemic, people associated with the textile business are worried again, that the demand for the products might decline, simultaneously reducing production. Bringing down customs duties on raw materials and intermediaries would reduce the burden. Expectations include reducing the tax burden for small businesses and enabling them to do business more easily. By lowering taxes, more investors and more job opportunities will be attracted, which will boost the economy. The performance of this year’s budget will determine the direction of the textile business. The textile industry is willing to cooperate and work according to government policies.
Hopes are high for the budget.
Looking forward to work in tandem with policies set by Government. As I said, the budget for 2022 is very important because it will decide the future of the textile business. And people have very high expectations from it. We trust the process undertaken by the government. And from last years’ experience, I am sure that the budget is going to be beneficial for us. We all are hoping that government will consider the opinions of people related to the textile business. We are ready to co-operate and work accordingly with the government policies.
Changing people’s perspectives on fabric
We desire to have widespread online store reachability. We want people to scroll through our website and experience how it feels to be in the world of fabrics and we will not disappoint them. As the leading fabric store in the world, we strive to be a part of everyone’s wardrobe. Develop a distinct perspective and launch versatile collections. Provide innovation and deliver top quality products. We want to redefine how people view fabrics.
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UCS rack and blade servers now have some company in Cisco's biggest server update in years.
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Next-generation servers set to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet networking and 12 Gb/s storage drives.
IDC sees some positive trends emerging in the server market.
IBM's General Manager of Power takes aim at Intel and details why openness matter for chip design.
VIDEO: Solomon Hykes explains what's coming next in the open-source Docker container virtualization project.
A new report from IBM stacks up Linux container against KVM virtual machine performance.
Integration with Database and Java development teams leads to new server CPU innovations.
The company, which is investing $1 billion in its cloud initiative, is continuing to grow the services offered under the Helion umbrella.
HP licenses future development of DEC's OpenVMS to a startup that will push the server operating system forward.
The company launches a partner program with ARM, AMD and others to develop a common platform for servers powered by ARM-based chips.
VMware reports second quarter revenue of $1.46 billion, touting the growth of its cloud products.
Microsoft warns data center operators that hanging onto the long-lived server OS is potentially endangering their IT infrastructures.
Beta release sets the stage for next level of innovation in system management.
The Chinese government's anti-monopoly agency approves the $2.3 billion deal, which is still getting reviewed by U.S. regulators.
Red Hat-based CentOS 7 debuts less than a month after the general release of RHEL 7.
CEO Yang Yuanging said that despite U.S. security worries, its $2.3 billion proposal to buy IBM's server business will be approved by regulators.
The country will develop its own ARM-based server processors, with the first chips scheduled to launch in 2015.
Dell announces more new equipment for converged-type infrastructure data centers, including specific new hardware for Oracle Database 12C.
The Tianhe-2 retains the crown as little has changed on the most recent list of the world's top 500 supercomputers.
Red Hat CEO still sees share growth coming from Unix and Windows server migration as well as recent acquisitions.
After three years, RHEL 7 is now GA, but that doesn't mean RHEL users failed to benefit from features updates for RHEL 6.
The Intel-powered X4-4 and X4-8 include Oracle's elastic computing capabilities to dynamically adapt to workload needs.
The new system, powered by Intel chips and small enough to fit in closets, comes as Lenovo works to close the deal for IBM's x86 server business.
New Apollo portfolio of servers announced as well as expanded converged systems offerings.
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Talking to mediapersons, Shahi said that agriculture has got the highest ever allocation of Rs 5,092 crore in the budget.
Gujarat Government has announced today the Garments and Apparel Policy-2017, with the aim of creating more opportunities in the garment sector of Gujarat and to create huge employment opportunities for women through the apparel industry.
The state government, on June 4, banned the sale of Maggi noodles for one month in the state after the lead and monosodium glutamate levels in the noodles were found to be above the prescribed limits.
Akhilesh also announced setting up of a perfume park and perfume museum in the city, traditionally famous for its 'ittras' (perfumes).
Nandini Milk, which enjoys near monopoly status in Karnataka with nearly 65% market share, is considering the proposal to raise milk prices.
A day after e-commerce giant Amazon announced its mega investment plans to set up its largest fulfillment centre in Telangana, the state government said it would bring in a new law to regulate online trading and mobilise tax revenue from such sales.
The farmers would have ownership rights in these stores and the state government would take care of the brand, state Agriculture Minister O P Dhankar said.
Excise Department officials have found violations in 40 clubs, officials say, adding that notices had been issued or would soon be sent.
He is on an indefinite fast to awaken the government to the plight of handloom weavers in the state. Prasanna, theatre director and founder of Charaka Desi Institute, has made Gajendraghad in Gadag district his quiet battleground for the past three days. And he has resolved not to end his fast till a decision is made.
During last 5 years, FPI sector has been growing at an AAGR of 8.6% as compared to around 3.8% in agriculture & 7.7% in manufacturing.
The section 8 is about the ‘agents’ liable to pay tax while section 22 deals with the liability on the part of dealers to register with VAT authorities.
These measures should be duly supported by setting up food processing centres and world-class agriculture universities, said the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.
The DMK leadership has instructed district secretaries to assemble cadres for the protest against the price hike.
The Karnataka government plans to amend the Value Added Tax Act to remove ambiguities surrounding e-commerce and bring its transactions under the tax net.
The Centre's move to include onion and potato in essential commodities list will benefit consumers in the state.
About 18% of the country's fruits and vegetables output worth Rs 44K cr gets wasted every year because of lack of proper cold chain storage infrastructure.
The state rounds off the MRP of each liquor bottle to next multiple of five rupees. This extra money goes to private retailer & not the state exchequer.


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Home sales in Regina were at their lowest level in seven years in August, while the number of homes listed for sale remained high, contributing to downward pressure on selling prices, said the Association of Regina Realtors.
There were 330 sales reported in the Regina area, down two per cent from August 2014 when 336 sales were posted. August’s sales were below both the fiveyear average of 361 and the 10-year average of 343 for the month and the lowest number of sales since 2008 when 254 sales were posted.
Single-family detached home sales were up one per cent, while other types of housing sales, mostly condominiums, were down eight per cent.
The average sale price in the Regina area for the month was $311,318, up five per cent from $296,293 in 2014.
But the higher average price figure is entirely attributable to a larger proportion of higher-priced homes selling and should not be interpreted as an indication of property values, the association said Wednesday. For August, home price index (HPI) – a much more accurate measure of housing price trends than average price – reported a composite residential price of $279,200, down 3.5 per cent from $289,400 last year, indicating that residential selling prices have fallen in the Regina market over the past year. The HPI also shows selling prices as being down 6.4 per cent over the past three-year period. Home sales in the Regina area in August totalled $102.7 million, compared with $99.6 million in 2014, a three per cent increase.
For the year to date, 2,384 sales have been reported in the Regina area, a six per cent decline from 2,537 in 2014. Year-to-date sales volume stood at $748.1 million, down six per cent from $797.9 million for the first eight months of 2014.
There were 1,369 homes for sale at the end of the month, a decrease of four per cent from 1,342 last year and the lowest since March. Despite the decline, listings continue to be at well above historical levels, with nearly one quarter of listings in the city being condominiums.
“Although sales were off from what they have been in recent years, we did see the number of active listings begin to recede for the first time since the spring,” said Gord Archibald, CEO of the association.
“Despite this, the number of active listings continues to be at elevated levels, providing choice and selection for buyers.”
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In a statement on the Need For Speed website, the developer spoke about their passion for delivering the best experience possible. Based on their desire for producing a high quality game and the reactions of the community to early previews of the game, the developer Ghost Game has decided to postpone the PC version until next spring.
A significant aspect of the decision to delay Need for Speed was because the PC community prioritised an unlocked framerate and high quality visuals.
While this delay will undoubtedly disappoint the PC gamers, Ghost Game has decided to include all of the upcoming content updates on day one of the PC release.
Ghost Game also recently spoke about their plans for releasing pieces of downloadable content. In an FAQ on their website, they revealed that they currently have no plans for any paid DLC to come out although a series of free content updates are in the works, presumably similar to those added to GTA Online by Rockstar.
They also announced that there will be no microtransactions in the game. There will also be two pieces of pre-order incentive content, called the Styling and Performance packs.
Need For Speed will be set in an open world environment called Ventura Bay, in which players will race against others and AI while avoiding the police. The game’s many cars will be heavily customisable.
Playstation 4 and Xbox One gamers will be able to start playing Need for Speed from 5 November 2015, while the PC version will be released on an unannounced date in spring 2016.Related Topics: Electronic Arts, Ghost Games, Need for Speed


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Love it or hate it, the design of LaFerrari comes completely from one place— Maranello. The most powerful street-legal Ferrari ever made was styled entirely in-house, which means that for the first time in recent memory, a Ferrari wasn't crafted by Pininfarina. An Italian legend in its own right, the design house has created nearly 200 Ferraris dating to the early 1950s.Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700
The Ford F-Series has been America's top-selling truck for decades. But in a nod to changing times, Ford is now also focusing on fuel economy for its iconic truck for the 2011 model year. The F-150, which is offering a V6 again this year, will get 23 mpg on the highway and 16 mpg in city driving using the naturally aspirated, 3.7-liter V6 that makes 302 hp.Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0700
JAPANESE car giant Honda is to cut production at its UK factory from three shifts to two, threatening 340 jobs. Most cars built at the plant in Swindon, Wiltshire, are exported and sales in other countries have not been as strong as in the UK. "Over the last 12 months, we haven't seen the growth we'd anticipated.


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Epic Games has today announced the launch of its own game store which aims to offer developers a bigger slice of overall sales.
It seems like everyone’s coming after Steam, first, we’ve got Activision launching Destiny 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 via Battle.net, Bethesda launching Fallout 76 via Bethesda.net, and even Discord launching its own curated store, now Epic Games with the Epic Games Store.
Where Epic Games Store differs from its obvious Valve competition is that they’re promising a higher revenue share to developers – as much as 88%, and even more if they use Epic’s Unreal Engine. This is quite a big leap to Steam’s 70/30 split, with games on the Epic Games Store earning 18% more than those on Steam.
Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Epic CEO Tim Sweeny explained how this will be a profitable business for the company:
“While running Fortnite we learned a lot about the cost of running a digital store on PC. The math is quite simple: we pay around 2.5% for payment processing for major payment methods, less than 1.5% for CDN costs (assuming all games are updated as often as Fortnite), and between 1% and 2% for variable operating and customer support costs. Fixed costs of developing and supporting the platform become negligible at a large scale.
“In our analysis, stores charging 30% are marking up their costs by 300% to 400%. But with developers receiving 88% of revenue and Epic receiving 12%, this store will be a profitable business for us,” he added.
In addition to the high revenue split, Epic Games will also waive all royalties it’d be due for revenue generated through Epic Games Store. That’s not to say that the store won’t support games built on other engines, it’s just a much sweeter deal for those with UE4 titles.
Adding to this, Epic aims to also support YouTube and Twitch creators with a “Support-A-Creator program which rewards them for highlighting developers’ titles. This makes sense, considering how creators have played a massive part in making Fortnite as big as it is today.
“Previously, most creators were not compensated by game developers for their work and instead had to rely on donations. By matchmaking creators with developers, the Epic Games Store makes it easier for players to discover games, and rewards content creators for their efforts,” Sweeny said.
To begin with, the Epic Games Store will offer a hand-curated set of games on PC and Mac, with more games being added throughout the next year and beyond. In an effort to bring more players to their store over others, they’ll be offering one free game every two weeks, which Epic themselves will fund so that players can explore the different titles on offer.
Epic Games is yet to announce when the Epic Games Store will launch and which games will be available on that store (though we can likely expect Fortnite). So stay tuned for more information to come soon.


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*Part 4 of the Autostyle Car Design Awards Digital Edition Workshops explains all
Mention Mustang and immediately hearts and minds excite to a modern day sports car that has a rich heritage, not only in the United States, where it originated but right around the world. While America’s most popular sports car for generations progressed into this decade with the latest model, Ford took a rather surprising direction in creating the Mach-e, an all-electric SUV coupe, sporting the iconic Mustang badge!
Thanks to the Autostyle Car Design Competition Digital Edition Workshop Series, Part 4 presented by Claudio Messale from the Ford Design Centre in Cologne, Germany explained all; the reasoning, the design challenge and the serious commitment to the project. Following Claudio’s introduction, a most interesting video got the viewer’s pulses racing with the historical footage shown that chronicled the various eras of the Mustang and included interviews with proud owners of differing generation models, not forgetting the star roles the legendary coupe played on the ‘Big Screen’, with Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the most notable, of course. One particular owner called it the ‘Original American Super Hero’, thanks to its power and performance, …. whatever about the looks of certain variants! Comments by Bill Ford, Chairman of the Ford Motor Company and Jim Farley, the recently appointed Ford CEO both fully endorsed the project and that the zero-emission Mach-e – “Is what Ford stands for” – and harked back to the company’s founder Henry Ford, who heralded electric mobility technology over 100 years ago.
Actually, it was Jim Farley that keenly pushed to make the new car a Mustang derivative, while ensuring that was ‘not to become a science project’.
While the complexity of the design was described as ‘risky’ the co-operation within the company “got our people excited”, on both sides of the Atlantic – Detroit and Cologne. “Make it Mustang,” said Jim. “Capture the magic of the car.” He challenged the design teams “to show us what you’ve got!”
Indeed, the collective talent did shine, as the end result proved. Having the privilege of seeing the prototype vehicle some 14 months, before the official launch at a special Ford Press Event in Amsterdam. One and all there were capsulated by the concept.
Early descension in the camp arose. Some were adamant that the ‘Crown Jewels’ remain unspoilt; turning a two-door 2+2 coupe into a four-door SUV and make it electric, was unheard of, like changing religion! Gradually, as the project gained traction, the naysayers turned around and “the new horse in the stable was accepted”. That said, the design teams redoubled their effort all round is assuring the classic ques and styling elements from present and past Mustangs were evident. “It looks like it’s moving, while standing still,” enthused Claudio, who spent his early career at the Italian design house Ghia, which had strong links with Ford.
Similarly, the interior prototype linked past with the future but with much more space created. “This is a ‘we’ car to be experienced by all. The Mach-e features key Mustang like lines but more practical, more family oriented,” he added, citing that many Mustang owners’ needs have changed over the years.
For those who wish to express more ‘free spirit’ from the new model, Ford has gone one step further with the development of the high-performance Mach-e GT version.
Claudio explained that the initial idea began over three years ago. With Ford’s global team involved, a new platform had to be designed initially to accommodate the electric powertrain requirements. It had to have a strong personality, carry instant appeal and successfully compete against existing and future models in the crossover segment. In describing the numerous design traits. Claudio highlighted the coupe-like silhouette, having double luggage space (under the bonnet and in the boot) and featuring a muscular, athletic stance and without door handles!
The interior, he stressed; “is a dream to come true”, full of openness, user friendly focussed. From the B&O sound system, the 10.2” touch screen, highly efficient connectivity through the latest Ford SYNC system, the driver and passenger experience offering is exceptional.
Before the end of the session, movie and TV celeb Idris Elba enthusiastically outlined details of the Mach-e GT with its 465hp/830Nm driveline (compared to 337hp/565Nm from the standard model), Claudio emphasised the significance of 360º CAD sketching, which hugely help create the new model – Visually picturing the new car’s outlines on screen “as if created from within” – “Providing a holistic view” – ‘Just like a video game”. “The designer becomes immersed in it,” he added, “complete picture forming from ideas” – and become an essential tool for all car designers at every level.
While admitting that the Ford S-Max at the time was a most rewarding development project in his career, with its European Car of the Year Award in 2007 to boot, the new Mustang Mach-e is indeed ‘closest to my heart’ he said. A sincerely modest man, with pride in his eyes! Jarlath Sweeney


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How to save $50 on your annual visit to Charleston, SC’s largest hospital
Charleston’s largest private hospital, the University of South Carolina, announced Wednesday it will begin a new, $50 savings card program that is aimed at boosting enrollment of low-income patients.
The Charleston Health System is the second-largest in the state, and it has been in crisis since the closure of its main hospital in Charleston, S.C., in July 2017.
The new card offers a $25 discount off a standard admission to the hospital, up to a maximum of $150.
The $25 card will go into effect July 1, 2019.
The announcement was made on a call with local media.
“We are going to do a lot of the stuff that we do for low- to moderate-income people, but the card we have, we’re going to make sure that the low- and moderate- income folks have access to,” said Charleston Health Secretary Mary Ann Jones.
“It’s really important to us that we get them into our system as quickly as possible.”
The Charleston card is a combination of the new $50 discount card and the Charleston Health Card, which is an annual enrollment card that is available for anyone who wants to enroll.
In addition, the new card is available to people who have already made a $50 payment on a Charleston Health plan or have already completed a 90-day trial period.
“For the Charleston card, we are also offering a $5 discount off the standard admission.
We’re going forward with the trial period because we want to give people the opportunity to try it and see how it works and then we’ll roll it out,” Jones said.
The Charleston card has a minimum $500 deductible, a $100 co-pay, a limit of one hospital visit per year and no limit on how much patients can charge.
As with all new enrollment programs, Charleston Health has said that people with income between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level should enroll in the program.


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- Apple reported $33.36 billion in iPhone revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter Wednesday.
- The company released its iPhone 11 series toward the end of the quarter.
- Apple is planning to release a 5G iPhone line that is expected to drive up sales, Nikkei Asian review reported earlier on Wednesday.
Apple reported iPhone revenue of $33.36 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. Analysts were expecting revenue to come in at $32.42 billion.
iPhone revenue for the quarter was down 9% year over year, but up from the third quarter when iPhone revenue came in at $25.99 billion.
Apple stopped breaking out iPhone unit sales as of this year as it tries to shift the narrative for investors toward services revenue. But the iPhone remains an important piece of the puzzle for Apple, which introduced its newest line, the iPhone 11, in the last few weeks of the quarter.
Some analysts are expecting an iPhone sales bump to come from future quarters once Apple releases an anticipated 5G phone. Prior to Apple's earnings release, Nikkei Asian Review reported that Apple is planning to ship at least 80 million new 5G iPhones, citing a source familiar with the plans.
Such a move could entice a significant number of iPhone customers to upgrade their current models, as many have hung onto old phones for longer periods of time. Piper Jaffray recently found that of 1,050 current iPhone owners surveyed, 23% would upgrade to a $1,200 5G iPhone, up from 18% of respondents a few months earlier. The firm said it expects iPhone unit sales to remain steady as some customers hold out for the 5G phones.


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Pantone Releases 2022 Color of the Year
Global color and design company Pantone released its Color of the Year last week, revealing a hue equally touched by vibrant blues and reds.
PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri is touted as having a courageous presence that “encourages personal inventiveness and creativity,” the company says.
“As we move into a world of unprecedented change, the selection of PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri brings novel perspective and vision of the trusted and beloved blue color family, encompassing qualities of the blues, yet at the same time with its violet red undertone, PANTONE 17-3839 Very Peri displays a spritely, joyous attitude and dynamic presence that encourages courageous creativity and imaginative expressions,” said Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of The Pantone Color Institute.
Pantone adds that the bright and cheerful purple was chosen to serve as a symbol of global zeitgeist of what we’ve all been experiencing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Pantone Color of the Year reflects what is taking place in our global culture, expressing what people are looking for that color can hope to answer,” added Laurie Pressman, Vice President of The Pantone Color Institute.
“Creating a new color for the first time in the history of our PANTONE Color of the Year educational color program reflects the global innovation and transformation taking place. As society continues to recognize color as a critical form of communication, and a way to express and affect ideas and emotions and engage and connect, the complexity of this new red violet infused blue hue highlights the expansive possibilities that lay before us.”
Very Peri Palettes
To help incorporate the color into designs, Pantone released a series of palettes for PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri. Each palette is reported to convey a different mood, illustrating the versatility of the shade, and includes what the company calls “Color Harmonies.”
All of Pantone’s colors can be experimented with digitally on the company’s digital color platform, Pantone Connect. Originally launched in April 2020, with the Pantone Color Match Card update in June 2020, the platform serves to “adapt to a new creative and working environment that has merged physical and digital like never before due to the pandemic.”
Pantone Connect is available in the Adobe Extension Marketplace for use in Adobe Creative Cloud software, for smartphones in the App Store and Google Play and as a web application.


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Global revenues from traditional pay TV and OTT TV episodes and movies will reach $265 billion in 2018; up from $254 billion in 2017 and $234 billion in 2015.
Ginx Esports TV has launched on Swisscom’s IPTV platform, marking the channel’s first carriage agreement in Switzerland.
A survey conducted ahead of the Broadband World Forum has found 69% reporting positive growth in the industry with 19% claiming business had “rocketed” over the past 12 months.
Five major US broadcasters have committed to the new ATSC 3.0 standard.
Eleven Sports is set to deliver a LaLiga first in Portugal on Saturday when the sports provider live streams Barcelona v Sevilla on Facebook.
Horizonsports, the world’s only Nature Sports & Wellness video platform, has announced a new partnership with the It’s Great Out There Coalition.
Harmonic has expanded the company’s board of directors with the appointment of Deborah Clifford.
The Polish on demand service Ipla has revamped its package aimed at viewers living overseas.
Content owners and rights holders incur an annual loss of $750 million in MENA, according to Aditya Verma, senior legal counsel, OSN.
According to the latest SVOD Barometer conducted by Médiamétrie, 30% of French online users aged six years and older used an SVOD service during the past 12 months, which is 10 points higher than in December 2017.


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Quanzhou, Fujian – China’s footwear maker Peak Sport has launched what it claims is the world’s first fully 3D-printed shoe, using TPU.
Named Future Fusion, the model is priced at CNY1,299 ($189). The latest Men in Black movie inspired the design, according to an announcement from Peak.
The upper of the shoes is crafted via fused deposition modelling, or filament fabrication. The outsole is made with selective laser sintering technology. The reflective shoelaces are also 3D printed.
The mesh structure for the upper makes the shoes 'breathable in 360 degrees', the company claimed. A pair in EU size 41 (US 8.5) weighs 520g. This makes it the lightest of 3D-printed sneakers, it said.
The first Chinese producer of 3D printed footwear, Peak made the debut of its partially 3D-printed sneakers in 2017. It has supplied such shoes to runners at several marathons in China.
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Acer has launched a new gaming laptop in its Spin series that come with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics and fast GDDR5 VRAM. Nitro by Acer is a gaming series and the Nitro Spin 5 is a convertible gaming Notebook. The Notebook starts at INR 79,990 and is available on Flipkart and retail chains and Acer Exclusive stores across India.
The Acer Nitro 5 Spin flaunts a 15.6-inch FHD IPS display, it is powered by 8th Generation Intel Core i7 or i5 processors, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics and GDDR5 VRAM for faster operations. It comes with 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD. The Notebook houses two front-facing speakers, a subwoofer and delivers audio for gaming or movies in any of the four modes. The keyboards on the Nitro 5 Spin are backlit keyboard. Also, it comes with a fingerprint scanner with Windows Hello support. Acer’s omnidirectional ExoAmp Antenna optimizes the antenna position to ensure a stable wireless signal, regardless of the antenna being located beneath the notebook’s metal cover and the direction the device is facing. It also includes MU-MIMO (Multi-User Multi-Input Multi-Output) wireless technology for up to three times faster downloads, smoother streaming, and a better browsing experience. The device is Paired with Dolby Audio Premium, Acer true harmony, and Acer Smart Amplifier. In addition, the audio and video will automatically reverse based on screen orientation; this ensures that the speakers are never blocked and the audio and visuals are always facing the viewer, no matter which way the display is positioned.
Commenting on the launch, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO, and Consumer Business Head said,
“We are extremely excited to launch the 1st convertible gaming Notebook- Nitro 5 Spin in India. Nitro 5 Spin’s convertible design and 8th Gen Intel Core processor with NVIDIA 10 series graphics card makes it a versatile gaming device that opens up exciting new usage scenarios for enthusiast gamers and creative professionals on the go.”
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During these restricted times, models and fashion brands are having to get creative in order to adapt.
Bella Hadid, who, like many of us, is working from home at the moment, has starred in the first fashion campaign shot via FaceTime.
For the Jacquemus spring/summer 2020 campaign, designer Simon Porte Jacquemus and photographer Pierre-Ange Carlotti worked with Hadid entirely over the phone, in order to shoot a series of images.
Aptly titled “Jacquemus at home”, the campaign sees Hadid modelling pieces from the spring 2020 collection that was shown last June, in celebration of the designer’s 10-year anniversary.
Hadid took to Instagram to share her latest work, writing: “Best few hours… reconnecting.”
The 23-year-old showcased a chic white suit worn with a green bra and statement sunglasses; a lilac bodysuit; a sunshine-yellow ensemble; and also posed nude with signature Jacquemus bags.
While fashion shoots are one of the biggest – and most obvious – areas of fashion to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, it’s by no means the only area of the industry affected. The vast majority of brands have been forced to close stores and ateliers – with many donating factory spaces to produce hand sanitiser and personal protective equipment for NHS workers. Live events and catwalk shows have also been put on hold for the foreseeable future and it was announced this week that London Fashion Week would show digitally this season.
The British Fashion Council confirmed that the men’s and women’s collections will be merging onto one digital-only platform for the very first time. It will launch this June with interviews, podcasts, designer diaries, webinars and digital showrooms. For the first time it will be an event open to the public as well as industry insiders.
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US denim brand Guess? is relaunching in the UK, four years after closing shop.
The brand will open a licensed store on Neal Street in London's Covent Garden in September.
Peter Gold, director of client strategy at property firm Dalgleish, said he has worked closely with Guess? to help find the right store. 'This will be a strengthening of the Guess? brand in the UK,' he said.
The shop will be controlled by a joint venture with Italian manufacturer and distributor Fingen.
Guess? used to have two London stores - on Brompton Road and New Bond Street - but they closed down after a joint venture with retail entrepreneur Christina Ong broke down.
In 2003, Guess? swung into net earnings of US$7.3 million (£4 million) compared with a loss of US$11.3 million (£6.2 million) a year earlier.
The retailer has 265 own-managed stores in the US and Canada, as well as 232 licensed stores around the world. Guess? will launch its first own-brand fragrance in mid-2005.


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The entertainment congloms and major wireless carriers may be entering the CTIA confab Wednesday still very much in the courtship phase.
But they’re already fighting over money like an old married couple.
At February’s 3GSM convention in Barcelona, Warner Bros. rocked the harmony of the mobile content biz — both domestically and abroad — when the conglom announced that it will start its own mobile Internet site to distribute TV, video and even films to mobile phone users — a move that lessens the company’s reliance on wireless carriers.
Warner officials plan to launch this site in time for the June release of “Superman Returns,” with games, ringtones, wallpaper and clips themed around the film on offer.
Other congloms are being coy about their off-portal plans. But they’re undoubtedly anticipating the outcome of Warner’s autonymous approach.
The biggest challenge to the fledgling U.S. mobile content market may come with a cultural and economic clash between mobile carriers and content providers.
Carriers are accustomed to receiving large chunks of a transaction; when you mainly traffic in voice, after all, there aren’t a lot of partners you usually need to share with.
But the game changes when content comes into the picture. Nets and studios incur costs from production, talent and rights clearances. And they generally have a sense of ownership. Many entertainment execs tend to believe that mobile carriers are essentially distributors, entitled to low double-digit fees but not much more.
So far, content companies have been acquiescing. The margins for carriers have been so prosperous that one major mobile company boasts that it earns $6 dollars in monthly mobile revenue per subscriber from downloadable content.
A typical business transaction looks something like this. Say a company sells a clip of a TV series or news program for a dollar. If a network is working with a carrier, that carrier will collect as much 60 to 70 cents.
That leaves a content company with only about 10 or 20 cents for the dollar transaction — not bad for a new business, but not thrilling when you’re used to new platforms, like DVD, which offer margins upward of 50%.
“If people are going to go to the phone instead of the cinema or DVD, we want to maintain a return on this,” said Justin Richardson, Warner’s director of European wireless business development.
For now, the studios and carriers are publicly maintaining civility; entertainment companies say they’re happy to have a new partner, and mobile carriers say they couldn’t sell any services without content.
Privately, though, they’re lining up their arguments.
Carriers say they merit the large chunk because it’s their expensive networks that shoulder increasingly bandwidth-heavy products like games and video. What’s more, without their phones and service, customers would have nowhere to watch these programs.
Carriers also say they bare more of the customer satisfaction burden. “U.S. customers tend to blame the carriers if it doesn’t work out,” notes Sprint director of data product marketing John Burris.
Content companies, meanwhile, say that if they’re building a nascent market using original entertainment and expensive production models, they can’t do it on threadbare margins. “There are a lot of thorny issues,” says one entertainment exec. The telcos “don’t always understand the investment (content creation) takes.”
And the content firms are doing more than just talking about it.
Increasingly, entertainment congloms are attempting end-runs through off-portal or direct-to-consumer efforts that will allow customers to buy content from independent portals instead of using the carriers’ portals, or decks.
These off-portal moves can take a number of forms — a credit card transaction off content providers’ own site, a purchase from a traditional Web aggregator like Yahoo, or so-called shortcodes that allow purchases directly from phones.
Whatever the method, the idea is the same: Let customers still use their phone to view content, but limit carriers’ involvement — and profit participation.
Congloms are buoyed by Asia — and to a lesser extent, Europe — where off-portal transactions are thought to account for nearly 75% of the market.
Of course, these end-runs have limits. Even startup off-portal plays like Zingy.com, which work directly with talent, use the carriers for billing purposes. (Execs say customers are more likely to buy content services if they appear as simple line items on their monthly carrier bill.)
And entertainment firms can widen their margins without going off-portal by simply keeping production costs lower. (This may explain why, unlike Europe and Asia, the U.S. has less original content, which tends to be more expensive.)
Meanwhile, some carriers are beginning to realize that off-portal deals may result in more business overall, even if they’re getting a smaller piece of every transaction. So the carriers are showing some flexibility of their own, setting up deals where customers can use outside sites, like a recent T-Mobile pact with Google.
There’s hope that, if nothing else, content providers and carriers will be united by a common enemy — apathy.
Last month, a depressing study by consulting firm KPMG found that, unlike in Europe and Asia, more than a third of North American consumers say they wouldn’t pay extra for mobile content, no matter what was on offer.
So congloms and carriers might be getting a little ahead of themselves in terms of worrying about U.S. market share when there isn’t yet much of a market.
“As we grow we’ll find we move together,” says Jim Noonan, senior veep and general manager for Warner Bros. Online. “What’s clear to both of us is that if it’s good for the consumer it will be good for both of us.”


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Today, Apple held an event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York titled “There’s more in the making.” It is interesting that Apple chose to hold the event away from its new Apple Park campus and the Steve Jobs Theater. But it was clear that Apple wanted to focus on creative professionals and wanted that kind of energy. They kicked off the event with a video montage of Apple products in New York, set to Cole Porter’s I Happen to Like New York, sung by Bobby Short. The New York crowd was very enthusiastic, and Tim Cook even joked, “I am moving to New York!” The full video is available on Apple’s site. Here is a recap of today’s announcements.
MacBook Air Apple led with the computer that Mac users love to take everywhere. This redesigned MacBook Air brings the design and specs in line with the rest of Apple’s notebook lineup with a Retina display, Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C ports (2 of them!), Touch ID, a Force Touch trackpad, and upgraded processors. And it’s one of Apple’s greenest products, with the enclosure made from 100% recycled aluminum.


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Niantic have been busy bees with Pokemon Go in the run up to Christmas.
It was announced on December 15th that the legendary Ground-Type Pokemon Groudon will be appearing in Raid battles, but that seems to be the tip of the iceberg for new content this Christmas.
Watch out, Trainers! Groudon, the Ground-type Legendary Pokémon originally discovered in the Hoenn region, is now appearing in Raid Battles around the world. https://t.co/mXvoyIrXIG pic.twitter.com/ZMJf8GR6Er
— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) December 15, 2017
The new Pokemon Go EX Raid passes have been sent out to a selection of different people, while providing the usual 45-minute windows.
It’s expected that these new Raids will include MewTwo as the opponent, although the Pokemon Go Hub team have raised the possibility of another boss taking its place.
“We have no information on whether Delibird will be making an appearance for the raid, but we sincerely hope not, Releasing Delibird via the EX Raid system would be basically be the same like having Grinch steal your presents for Christmas and tossing them in a furnace in front of you.”
PoGo Hub report
The new Pokemon Go Christmas event is expected to be announced in the coming days and will likely shed light on what could be released next.
Dataminers have been busy digging around in the game– They have found moves connected to one of Pokemon’s more obscure Pocket Monsters Delibird.
Delibird is a Gen 2 Pokemon that has one very unique move; it’s signature Present, allows for special items in its tail that can cause damage or heal its opponent.
With potential issues incorporating the mechanic into the gameplay it will be interesting to see how the battle system works with this particular Pokemon.
However, dataminers say the Present move was part of a recent Pokemon Go update, leading many to believe it could be launched as part of a new Christmas event.
Niantic have confirmed that they will be launching a Holiday celebration this year, which they hope to make bigger and better than in 2016.
An array of Pokemon were available to catch at increased rates, as well as new bonuses to grab and boxes to buy with Pokecoins.
It’s expected that will see the return of the Festive boxes, as well as a special Pikachu, but fans are also hoping that some new Gen 3 Pocket Monsters will also appear.
More news to come as Niantic drip feed us more information!


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And just like that, they were gone.
Officers who found a broken window when they responded to a 3:48 a.m. March 23 burglar alarm at the westbound Route 4 exchange kept the area secure until the landlord and detectives arrived, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said.
Investigators retrieved video that showed the bandits in dark-colored clothing, masks and gloves entering the building, smashing display cases and stuffing as much as they could from various vendors into a white plastic bag before fleeing.
Took them all of 66 seconds, the same as most jewelry store heists, Guidetti noted.
"In a typical year, 70% of the burglaries recorded by the Jewelry Security Alliance are three-minute burglaries, with millions of dollars in merchandise stolen," the deputy chief said.
This comes nearly three weeks after a traveling jewelry salesperson leaving the exchange was victimized by diversion thieves show swiped $120,000 in merchandise, he said.
ANYONE who might have seen something, or has information that could help investigators, is asked to call Paramus police detectives: (201) 262-3400.
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Apple likely to launch iPads, Macs on Oct 30
Apple sent at least two versions of its invite. One, colourful with sketched of images of people, buildings and other items, possibly indicating a new Apple Pencil or other artistic features, CNET reported on Thursday.
The tech powerhouse has been soaring over the past few years and in August became the US` first trillion-dollar company. Image courtesy: Reuters


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Via Nijimen: In a press conference held on Monday, Kyoto National Museum (http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/) announced the line-ups in the Japanese sword exhibition it will be hosting in autumn of this year. Titled “Special Exhibition: Swords of Kyoto – Master Craftsmanship from an Elegant Culture” (特別展「京のかたな 匠のわざと雅のこころ」), museum spokesperson said this exhibition is the first ever large-scaled display of Japanese swords in the museum’s 121 years’ history since its founding in 1897.
The exhibition will run for an-almost two-month’s duration from 29 September to 25 November 2018. With assistance from The Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords, it will be displaying 200 prized Japanese swords – including well-known National Heritage Treasures and Important Cultural Artefacts – from throughout the country’s history, featuring works from swordsmith clans dating back as early as the 11th Century.
The press conference also mentioned a major collaboration with popular browser and mobile game “Touken Ranbu” by DMM Games and Nitroplus. Characters in the game are spirits of demigods inhibiting within historical Japanese swords, given corporal human physiques through the spiritual powers of the ‘Saniwa’ (i.e. the Sage) – a role assumed by the game-player.
As many as 23 out of the 200 Japanese swords going on display at the exhibition will be of the characters/swords that have appeared in the game:
Kyoto Museum will sell originally-designed tickets to commemorate this collaboration. The special ticket comes in a 2-piece set; customers may choose from two different character versions: Mikazuki Munechika, or Heshikiri Hasebe.
The commemorative tickets-set are limited at a total of only 1000 sets. Each set is priced at JPY 2,600 and will go on sales on 29 June 2018. Fans who are unable to get these may be thrilled to know that normal museum admission tickets for the exhibition (at JPY 1,500 for adults; JPY 1,200 for tertiary/university students; JPY 700 for high-school/below students) will commence sales on 30 July 2018.
If you are a fan of Touken Ranbu, or even a fan of Japanese history and cultural artefacts in general – and happen to be going to Kyoto during the period of late-September to late-November this year, why not use the opportunity to pop in to Kyoto National Museum and visit this exhibition? This may be your once-in-a-lifetime chance to view so many historical Japanese swords on display in one location!
Fans may find out more details of the “Swords of Kyoto” special exhibition from its special website katana2018.jp. You can also follow updates on its official Twitter account twitter.com/katana2018kyoto.


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“We have received very encouraging responses from the International as well as domestic buyers and they all are equally excited about this show ” says Sandeep Agarwal, who is the head and organizer of the Denimsandjeans Show India.
“Being that this is going to be our first show, we are targeting all the major retailers and inviting them for our show and may of them have already confirmed their visit.” he observes further.
Retailers like VF, Target, H&M, Inditex, Gap, Killer Jeans, Spykar, Max Fashion, Lifestyle, Shopperstop, C&A, M&S, Levis, Li Fung, and many more including important buying houses and garment factories from Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi etc, will participate at the show Mega distributors – some of which sell up to 5 million meters per month, have also confirmed their presence.
India has been growing by leaps and bounds when it comes to Retail Market, more than 50 International retailers are coming to India in this quarter and will open 3000 stores. The existing International retailers like H&M , Gap, and Zara are making big margins and planning to expand their business in the coming years.
Recently Zara has announced their upcoming launch of E-commerce segment which will start as of October this year. Apart from that Many Italian retailers like Massimo Durati, opened their stores in India and many are expected to coming by the end of this year. The recent development in Indian Retail Apparel Market is very encouraging.
All the major retailers are looking forwards to this show as this is going to be the best platform them to source and to see the latest collections of major denim suppliers.
Companies from Turkey, Switzerland, Bangladesh, Italy, China, Germany, India, and many other countries are going to participate, thus creating an International Denim Event.
On a recent visit to India, Levi Strauss &Co. CEO, Chip Bergh, discussed the company’s plans to grow the business here, open their own Levi’s® stores and launch an e-commerce platform.
Although India currently commands a relatively small slice of the LS&Co. business, the country’s large population means there is massive untapped market potential. The country’s growing middle class and robust economy make it an increasingly attractive market for retailers.
Therefore this Indian Denim Show is going to be an important event for everyone . To visit the show , you can register here.


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|Industry and trade minister Trần Tuấn Anh (middle) seen at the opening of RCEP's last round of talks in Đà Nẵng on September 23. — VGP Photo.|
ĐÀ NẴNG — The final round of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – a trade agreement between the ten member states of ASEAN and its six partners: Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea – will focus on resolving issues and reaching mutual ground on market openness, trade freedom for goods and services as well as investment.
More than ever, the closer the deal gets to the finish line the greater political will required from RCEP’s sides to find solutions to remaining obstacles, said Vietnamese Minister of Investment and Planning Trần Tuấn Anh at the opening ceremony of the last round of talks for the partnership on Monday in the central city of Đà Nẵng.
He said the talks will focus on finding ways to overcome technical barriers before submitting the draft of the trade partnership to leaders of respective countries. As the host of this round of talks and the Chair of ASEAN in 2020, Việt Nam will strive to support a deal which ensures a harmonious balance between RCEP countries, as well as the region.
ASEAN General Secretary Dato Lim Jock Hoi has expressed optimism over the likelihood that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between 10 ASEAN member countries and six partners will be finalised by the end of the year, reported Việt Nam News at the ASEAN Media Forum held in Bangkok on July 29.
Dr Hoe Ee Khor, Chief Economist of ASEAN+3 Macro Economic Research Office, said if ASEAN countries and dialogue partners can finalise the RCEP, it will be a very strong signal of commitment to rules-based multilateral trade amidst the rising trend of protectionism and nationalism.
RCEP’s final round of talk, also its 28th round since the trade deal’s initiation in 2012, will conclude on September 27.
Once in effect, RCEP is expected to become the world’s largest regional trade agreement as it covers a market the size of almost half of the world’s population, 30 per cent of global gross domestic product, 29 per cent of global trade and 32.5 per cent of global investment flow.
Countries have pledged to open their doors to goods and services, investments and to simplify custom protocols as well as to demolish barriers and facilitate trade in the interest of developing value chains that spur the growth of the global economy and RCEP’s members. — VNS


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