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Cities like Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit are shaking off the Rust Belt moniker — or, in some cases, embracing it in a new era. But in some Midwestern, mid-sized cities, recovery is lagging as the memory of high quality manufacturing jobs remains wishful reminiscing.
While some cities are hoping to expand their tech and medical industries to pave the way forward, the process of deindustrialization still has an impact on regional communities — even those distanced by generations from the industrial peak of the Midwest.
“People were still writing about the industrial histories and the experience of deindustrialization in those places decades after the major mill closing and plant closings,” Sherry Linkon, English professor at Georgetown and former co-director of the Working Class Studies program at Youngstown State University, said.
Today, after decades of deindustrialization, there are fewer quality manufacturing jobs, ineffective development strategies and a struggle to retain workers with necessary training — all of which are problems that policymakers and communities are looking to address.
Understanding the future of manufacturing in the Midwest and beyond requires revisiting the region’s decline. And so we start, as a case study, a few hundred years back in the small town of Toledo…
After the Civil War, Toledo was a small but up-and-coming city that had been built on the back of the Miami and Erie Canal — and later, railroads — as a major trade hotspot. By 1880, Toledo was one of the largest cities in Ohio and one of the largest railroad hubs in the country, second only to Chicago. The easy access to transportation allowed multiple industries to spring up, including furniture, carriage and wheel makers, foundries and breweries.
Over the course of the next century, small towns across Ohio would root their identity in manufacturing. Youngstown was a steel city. Akron was renowned for its rubber industry. Toledo was the Glass City.
The glass industry arrived in Toledo through Edward Drummond Libbey’s relocation of his New England Glass Company to Toledo from Cambridge, Mass. in 1888. Libbey and one of his employees, Michael Owens, pioneered innovations in glass-making, including a method of producing flat glass suitable for use in automobiles, just in time for the auto industry to start booming around 1920. Toledo glass companies Owens-Illinois and Corning also trademarked fiberglass in 1936. Owens Corning, the result of a merger of the two glass giants, is still a leading fiberglass manufacturer headquartered in Toledo.
In addition to glass manufacturing, by 1890, Toledo was the top producer of bicycles in the U.S. The market for bicycles, however, was overridden by the automobile industry in the early 1900s, when several automobile companies popped up in Toledo, including the Willys-Overland Company. In 1941, Willys-Overland won a bid to design a reconnaissance vehicle for the U.S. military, ultimately leading the military to order 18,000 Jeeps for use in World War II. Willys-Overland changed hands multiple times over the years and is currently owned by Stellantis, a multinational automobile corporation. The Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Gladiator are still manufactured at the Toledo Assembly Complex, which includes the original plant where the Jeep was manufactured during the 1940s.
A variety of other industries, such as auto parts and scales, called Toledo home during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Toledo continued in its industrial success after World War II, when consumer demand for cars was strong. Ohio’s manufacturing jobs not only provided workers the money to participate in America’s post-war prosperity, but also gave them the prestige of creating the boom; industry had become their identity.
“Working class people, industrial workers in particular, had a very strong sense that their work mattered and that they were rising in the world,” Linkon said.
Toledo’s manufacturing collapse stems from unique structural problems with the region’s economy. Today, the city remains industry-driven, but numbers show a severe decrease in the jobs available within those industries. In 1977, Lucas County had almost 40,000 production manufacturing workers, with nearly 36,000 in Toledo alone. According to the Economic Census, in 2017, Lucas County had just over 17,000 production workers. Today, the Jeep Toledo Assembly Complex, one of Toledo’s largest manufacturing employers, employs over 6,000 workers, a little over a third of the 17,000 workers Jeep employed in 1950 in Toledo.
While other Ohio cities like Cleveland lost more jobs than Toledo in raw numbers, the impact of deindustrialization in Toledo, as in many smaller cities, was much more pronounced.
“They feel bigger when they happen in Toledo because there's less for Toledo to fall back on,” Bradley Sommer, a historian at Carnegie Mellon University who studies deindustrialization in Toledo, said. “There's less margin for error in a place like Toledo. And that is a Toledo thing, but it's also a smaller city thing.”
World War II had sustained Toledo’s manufacturing sector. The military constantly required Jeeps, automotive parts, bulletproof glass and fiberglass insulation for warplanes. After the war, glass companies advertised their products for suburban construction. Owens Corning pitched fiberglass insulation for housing, while other companies pivoted from bulletproof cockpits to storm windows.
But as the post-war housing boom ended, Toledo’s glass manufacturers found themselves producing goods most consumers would purchase only once, limiting possible profits. Some even argue that Toledo products were maybe just a little too reliable; at the peak of Toledo’s manufacturing industry, the city produced a wide variety of goods known to be durable, rarely needing replacement.
“[O]ne of the things that Toledo companies prided themselves on was how good their products were. And they were,” Sommer said. “And you could argue maybe they were too good.”
The city’s industrial fate was also tied to deindustrialization in Michigan. Toledo’s automotive plants like Electric Auto-Lite and Doehler-Jarvis built car parts and frames for Michigan GM and Ford plants. When Michigan assemblies decreased output, relocated or shut down, Toledo parts manufacturers suddenly lost buyers.
Supply chain issues still impact the remnants of Ohio’s automotive industry. When the Lordstown Cruze plant closed in 2018, supplier plants like Lordstown Seating System also closed. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the semiconductor chip supply in the U.S., which led to hundreds of job cuts at GM Toledo Powertrain and caused Stellantis to temporarily halt some production at its Toledo South Assembly Plant, both in the summer of 2021.
By the postwar era, Ohio’s manufacturers were seeking a cheaper source of labor in response to unionized workers demanding better pay. Toledo’s Electric Auto-Lite and GM strikes in the mid-1930s propelled the United Auto Workers Local 12 to fame as one of the most powerful unions in the nation. Throughout the ‘40s and ‘50s, thousands of workers went on strike annually in Toledo, Cleveland, Akron and Dayton.
“Toledo, in the decades prior to World War II and the post-war boom, had multiple large-scale violent strikes, which for a city that had only recently become kind of a bigger industrial city — a bigger city in terms of its impact and its influence on America's economy — was unique,” Sommer said.
Manufacturers found a new workforce in former farmhands displaced by tractors and mechanization, Sarah Low, professor of regional economics at the University of Missouri, said.
“Factories started moving out of the city to rural America because land was very inexpensive, there was lots of labor, and the labor that was available was farm people,” Low said. “They were used to fixing things with their hands, they had good work ethic, they were used to getting up at three o’clock in the morning to milk cows.”
Displaced farm workers also had no union experience. The National Labor Relations Act — the New Deal law providing the right to organize and collectively bargain — excludes agricultural workers.
Manufacturers also turned to outsourcing component production to other firms, domestically and internationally. Manufacturers of consumer goods, like cars, don’t build the entire product at one facility. Other plants manufacture individual components, and historically, they were owned by the lead firm. The Powertrain Toledo plant, for example, is owned by GM.
Today, however, parts manufacturing is increasingly outsourced to other firms, where competition is higher and wages are lower, since the produced parts and components could be made anywhere, Shields said. By only purchasing parts — as opposed to paying workers to produce the parts — manufacturers could increase profits.
“We start to see other kinds of job quality problems creeping into the supply chain that we didn't see before,” Shields said. “We see more wage theft, for instance, in these lower tier supplier firms.”
Starting in the ‘90s, manufacturers turned to contract and temp workers, who aren’t provided benefits, Low said. Plants with enough contract workers or who have outsourced component production can cut down the number of full time hires, which decreases workers’ bargaining power to set wages and benefits. Meanwhile, companies are not required to negotiate with temporary workers under a 2017 NLRB decision.
For manufacturers looking to maximize profits, the southern U.S. became more attractive than the Midwest, as the region had less union density. In 1985, Youngstown attempted to recruit GM’s Saturn brand, but was passed up for Spring Hill, TN.
“This 2001 recession was like, ‘Things are really changing in U.S. manufacturing,’” Low said. “U.S. manufacturing became a lot less oriented around places like Ohio, which are union shops. Manufacturing that had to be domestic was really moving to the South.”
In the early 2000s, under a new international trade reality marked by the North American Free Trade Agreement and China’s ascension to the World Trade Organization, labor became even cheaper abroad, as these agreements lacked requirements for good working conditions and wages.
The Impacts of Deindustrialization
Declining unionization, declining wages
The turn to contract and temporary work in manufacturing emerged over a decades-long process of declining union strength. Between 2000 and 2020, union representation of Ohio’s manufacturing workers fell by over 50 percent. Ohio’s manufacturing workers are now less likely to be represented by a union than other workers in Ohio. In 2020, 12.4 percent of manufacturing workers were represented by unions compared to 14.2 percent of all Ohio workers.
“When we think about what has made manufacturing traditionally a very high quality job and a well-paying job is that the manufacturing sector has had a lot of union density,” Shields said. “That is something that we're losing.”
Manufacturing wages are not as competitive with other sectors, either. Manufacturing holds a wage premium, meaning workers in manufacturing are paid higher wages than in other industries, even for those without any college education. But this wage premium is decreasing in the Great Lakes region. From 2000 to 2019, the wage premium for all manufacturing workers fell by over 26 percent.
Fluctuations in wage premiums are not felt equally, according to a Policy Matters Ohio analysis. The premium for Black manufacturing workers with a high school diploma or less fell by nearly two thirds from 2016 to 2019, and while the premium for Latinx workers rose, it is less than a third of the premium for white workers. The wage premium for women in manufacturing with a high school diploma or less fell by nearly 75 percent compared to a 22 percent decrease for men.
Wage premium decreases arrived in the context of subpar wages in other industries, too. On a state-wide level, wages have not kept pace with production, Shields said. As of January 2022, the minimum wage is $9.30 an hour in Ohio.
“We've had a breakdown between productivity growth and the wages that folks are taking home, even as they are becoming more productive than ever. That's a bargaining power breakdown,” Shields said. “It's not an economic problem. It's a policy problem.”
By the turn of the century and throughout the 2000s, manufacturing also became a larger proportion of employment and pay in rural areas than in cities. This was in part due to manufacturing moving to rural areas, but also because rural areas lacked large medical and service sectors as in bigger cities.
Some rural areas became dependent on a single plant and lost large proportions of their manufacturing workforce when the plant closed. Trumbull County lost nearly a quarter of its manufacturing jobs from 2018 to 2019 when the Lordstown Cruze plant closed.
The drain of urban manufacturing residents disproportionately hurt the Midwest’s Black residents. Black midwesterners found manufacturing employment only after World War II labor shortages and court orders against hiring discrimination. When manufacturers began to shed jobs, Black workers were often the “last hired and first fired” due to seniority rules.
So-called “urban renewal” programs in partnership between cities and the federal government razed Black neighborhoods for infrastructure or “mixed-income” housing, Sommer said. In Toledo, the Dorr Street corridor, an economic, social and cultural hub for Black Toledoans, was demolished for a street expansion.
“There's a one-to-one relationship between access to housing and access to work, and access to work and access to housing,” Sommer said. “So if your housing is destroyed your chances of maintaining your job are pretty slim, and conversely, if your job is lost you're probably not going to be able to afford your house.”
Narratives and news coverage of Ohio’s cities has changed over the decades, as well.
“When these places did not bounce back — the standard American narrative, you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you make everything okay, you attract some other industry to come in — when that didn’t happen, those places then became symbols of failure,” Linkon said.
After the first waves of plant closures in Ohio, national news stories focused on the shock of the loss. But as companies continued moving out of the region, “Rust Belt” became a commonplace term synonymous with urban decline.
“The internalization of all of this is the way the story becomes, ‘What's wrong with those places?’” Linkon said. “‘What’s wrong with Ohio?’”
Meanwhile, working class communities that anchored their identities in manufacturing were in crisis.
“When all of that stopped, it was like, who are we now?” Linkon said. “If we’re not a steel town, and we don’t define ourselves by work that matters, why do we matter? Who are we?”


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An elderly woman from Cheshire was 'distracted' by thieves as they stole her purse in a shop in Northwich.
On Wednesday, October 27 police were called to reports of a theft at a retail store on Witton Street in Northwich.
The caller, a 73-year-old grandmother, reported she was distracted by two females as they stole her purse.
The incident happened at around 4.30pm on Tuesday, October 26 and the Northwich woman's confidence has been 'knocked' by the incident according to her granddaughter Vicki Bebbington.
Read more of the top stories from across Cheshire here.
Vicki says that her nan was followed from the Halifax cash point to the shop and two women started a conversation with her nan but she thought 'nothing more of it'.
She also claims that one of the women pointed to the top shelf and asked her nan a question, before stealing her purse.
The 35-year-old says the incident has 'knocked' her grandmother's confidence and that her response to the theft has 'broke' her heart.
She said: "She's OK, it has just knocked her confidence a bit and what has broke my heart is she said to me that if the woman had no money she would have given her some money if she would have asked.
"It's a different generation and I think older people don't expect that to happen when they go into their little town.
"She's just a bit shook up, she goes into town twice per week and my grandad drops her off and she potters around on her own while he has a sleep in the car.
"Probably now, grandad will end up going around with her so she isn't on her own."
A spokesperson for Cheshire police said: "At 11.12am on Wednesday, October 27, police were called to reports of a theft at a retail store on Witton Street, Northwich.
"The caller reported that they were followed by two unknown females and believes that they stole her purse after distracting her while she was shopping.
"The incident occurred at around 4.30pm on Tuesday, October 26."
Enquiries in relation to the incident are ongoing and anyone with any information should call Cheshire Police on 101 quoting IML 1118126.


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Not that very many people with any common sense really believe that cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy would really jump-start the North Carolina economy, but here’s some additional info that places this patently absurd idea in its proper light.
“Even as American corporations are raking in record profits, the largest among them are shifting larger amounts of money away from the United States and into offshore tax havens that allow them to pad their bottom lines even more, according to multiple analyses of legal filings made since the beginning of 2013.
The Wall Street Journal found that the 60 largest companies moved $166 billion offshore in 2012, shielding 40 percent of their earnings from American taxes and costing the U.S. billions in lost revenue.”
Got it? The problem is not lack corporate profitability; it’s lack of demand from cash-strapped, debt-strapped consumers. Generally speaking, businesses generally have plenty to invest, but are holding back or squirreling money away because they don’t perceive a demand for the products and services they might produce. Cutting taxes and public spending further just perpetuates the vicious and destructive cycle in which we are already stuck.


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Ad-supported Samsung TV Plus now available in UK and Europe
Samsung's ad-supported video service, Samsung TV Plus, has now been made available to brands and agencies in a number of European markets, following a series of advertising technology partnerships.
Samsung Ads Europe, the media and advertising division of Samsung Electronics, has partnered with SpotX, Wurl and Amagi to enable programmatic advertising across the service in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Austria.
Samsung TV Plus is a pre-installed, free service on Samsung 2016-2020 model Smart TVs. The business claims it is one of the top OTT services on Samsung's Smart TV platform across Europe, with "millions" of monthly active users and "billions" of viewing minutes per month.
“With our scale, technology and proprietary data, we’re uniquely placed to offer this free, OTT video service across millions of Samsung Smart TVs in Europe," said Alex Hole, vice president at Samsung Ads Europe.
“It provides viewers with the ability to discover and access high quality content for free and gives advertisers new and innovative ways to connect with audiences that are shifting their viewership behaviours between linear and OTT.”
According to Samsung, agencies including Publicis and Omnicom Media Group UK are already utilising the video service to reach audiences that are using ad-supported video on demand services to access content.
Martin O'Boyle, managing director, partners at Publicis Media Exchange, said: “Samsung TV Plus provides our clients with the opportunity to engage with a hard to reach heavy OTT audience programmatically in the Samsung Smart TV environment.
“With the first party deterministic data Samsung Ads has available, we can now start to understand the impact OTT/VOD is having, but more importantly, how we can engage with this new type of TV watcher.”
The service delivers access to over 47 channels in the UK, with plans to expand the line-up to over 70 channels by the end of 2020.
Samsung TV Plus is also set to expand into more markets this year, featuring content from local and relevant channel partners such as Endemol Shine, Rakuten TV, Pluto TV, Studio 71, Jukin Media, VOD365 and Insight TV.
According to Digital TV Research, 17 countries are expected to exceed $1bn in over-the-top (OTT) revenue by 2023.
The UK is predicted to be the world’s third largest OTT market with a revenue of $6.8bn, followed in Europe by Germany at $3.8bn.
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Seamus Mullen, award-winning New York chef, cookbook author and health and wellness expert will share his own personal healing journey during Viva Fresh Expo’s Keynote Luncheon on Friday, April 26 at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas.
Mullen grew up on an organic farm in Vermont. He first rose to national prominence in 2006 with Boqueria, one of the first critically acclaimed and highly successful Spanish restaurants in New York, where he became known for his inventive and enticing modern Spanish cuisine.
In 2009, he was one of three finalists on the Food Network’s “The Next Iron Chef.” Today he is often featured as a guest judge on the popular Food Network series “Chopped” and “Beat Bobby Flay,” and is a frequent guest on programs such as The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, The Martha Stewart Show, and CBS This Morning.
Mullen was diagnosed in 2007 with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease, that forced him to rethink his relationship with food, and led to his first cookbook “Hero Food,” published in 2012. “Through diet, exercise and lifestyle changes, I was able to successfully turn my health around and overcome what is commonly considered to be an incurable disease,” stated Mullen. “Fruits and vegetables played a key role in my journey and are vital for my continued health which is why I’m excited to share my story at the Viva Fresh Expo and provide valuable tips for how the produce industry can share the message of eating healthy and energize consumers to make changes in their diet.”
Mullen has been featured in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago-Tribune, and The Guardian. He has written about his experience for The New York Times and through his bimonthly column in Men’s Journal. In August of 2017 he released his second cookbook “Real Food Heals: Eat to Feel Younger + Stronger Every Day.”
“From the beginning, a core mission of the Viva Fresh Expo has been to create a platform to bring attention to the importance of the health and nutritional benefits of fruits and vegetables,” said Dante Galeazzi, President and CEO of the Texas International Produce Association. “Seamus works directly with a number of leading brands in the food industry to help them better align their products and services with his principles of wellness. These insights will be an incredible asset to our industry in spreading that message, and we’ll provide these ideas in the form of a handout as well for the audience.”
For more information, visit VivaFreshExpo.com.
About the Viva Fresh Produce Expo
The Viva Fresh Produce Expo was established in 2015 by the Texas International Produce Association (TIPA) in order to create meaningful networking and educational opportunities for its members while shining a light on the importance of the Rio Grande Valley as an emerging trade corridor and production zone for healthy and nutritious fruits and vegetables available all year long. In just four years, the Viva Fresh Produce Expo has catered to sold out crowds and increased buyer attendance by over 110%.


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Sales tax is the only fair tax we have," wrote a reader. "Can you find out how long it would take for a 2 percent sales tax increase to fund restoration of our highways and bridges?"
Let's quantify the issue. The MEC/Blueprint Mississippi report entitled "Ramping Up Mississippi's Economy Through Transportation" identified what's needed to restore our highways and bridges:
"Mississippi currently has 24,591 lane miles of state-owned highways in need of preventative maintenance, minor rehabilitation, or major rehabilitation. The estimated cost of this work is $2.23 billion. As of June 2015, the state owns 936 bridges that are in some state of disrepair, of which 191 are posted, meaning they can no longer handle the weight and traffic they were designed to carry. The estimated amount to repair these bridges is $2.63 billion. At the county and municipal level, the cost to repair just the 13,192 locally-owned roads and highways that are in very poor condition is $607 million. Finally, there are 2,989 local substandard bridges, including 2,200 posted bridges that cannot carry the weight they were designed to handle. The current cost to replace these bridges is $1.14 billion."
All that adds up to a little over $6.6 billion.
Let's look at sales taxes. Mississippi's general 7 percent sales tax plus other special sales taxes pulled in $3 billion in revenue for the last fiscal year. It's hard to calculate exactly, but upping the general sales tax by 2 percent to 9 percent could pull in an extra $800 million a year.
Simple arithmetic ($6.6 billion divided by $800 million) says it would take 8.25 years of the extra sales taxes to generate $6.6 billion.
The MEC/Blueprint Mississippi report says the Mississippi Department of Transportation already spends an average of $234 million a year on repairs. It wants to count that as a source of funding to catch up on road and bridge repairs. The reality, though, is every year new repairs are needed. For simplicity's sake, let's say the $234 million is needed for ongoing annual repairs and the full $6.6 billion must be generated to restore our road and bridge system.
So, dear reader, it would take 8.25 years for a 2 percent general sales tax increase to provide the money needed (not counting inflation).
However, even if the Legislature agreed with you that the sales tax is the fairest tax, it's not going to happen. But your idea was worth a look.
Another idea that is not going to happen is for the Legislature to ensure Mississippi gets an economic boost from the lieutenant governor's plan to eliminate business franchise taxes. Rather than just eliminating the tax and hoping that will generate business growth, the Legislature could take a different approach. Giving businesses a franchise tax credit for each new job created (and maintained), with extra credit for hiring unemployed people, would ensure employment growth while offsetting franchise tax liabilities.
Any more readers have ideas to share?
Write Bill Crawford, a syndicated columnist from Meridian, at email@example.com.


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Monthly average inflation rate reaches 0.6 pct in four months
The consumer price index (CPI) climbed by 0.35 percent from March. According to the INS, the overall average increase in prices in the last 12 months (May 2009- April 2010) as opposed to the previous 12 months (May 2008-April 2009) set on the basis of both the CPI and the harmonized index of consumer price (HICP) is 4.9 percent.
The non-food commodities registered in April as opposed to March the highest price increase, 0.56 percent, while tariffs of services rose by 0.47 percent and food commodities prices by 0.02 percent. In April 2010 as opposed to the same period of time in 2009, the food commodities prices dropped by 0.21 percent, while the non-food commodities prices went up by 8.50 percent and services by 3.32 percent.
The National Bank of Romania (BNR) has revised upwards the analysed inflation forecast (December to December) to 3.7 percent in 2010 and to 2.8 percent in 2011.


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This Week's 5 Dumbest Stock Moves
Stupidity is contagious. It gets us all from time to time. Even respectable companies can catch it. As I do every week, let's take a look at five dumb financial events this week that may make your head spin.
I wasn't blown away by executive director Greg Smith's op-ed piece. It fell somewhere between the Peanut Butter Manifesto and Jerry Maguire. However, those two memos merely pointed out how their companies had lost their way. They were cries for focus. Smith's piece touches on the degradation of the culture at Goldman Sachs, but the real meaty tidbits are when he calls out how clients are dismissed and belittled by its investment bankers and brokers.
Smith points out that several of his now former colleagues call clients Muppets -- and I'm sure more than a few prized accounts will go Gonzo about it and bolt.
This vocal resignation isn't going to get Goldman Sachs back on track. All it will do is make it harder for any of the people still working at Goldman Sachs to get another job.
2. PacSun goes back some
Things aren't as bright as Pacific Sunwear of California's (NAS: PSUN) name suggests.
Shares of the once-trendy surf-and-turf apparel retailer took a hit this week after posting another wipeout of a quarterly report. The mall chain has now topped off 13 consecutive quarters of losses. Sure, comps during its fiscal fourth quarter were flat, but it's all relative. Check out how the past few holiday quarters at PacSun have played out.
- Fiscal 2010: -7%
- Fiscal 2009: -19%
- Fiscal 2008: -10%
- Fiscal 2007: -8%
In other words, the average store is selling less than two-thirds as much as it was ringing up five years ago.
Oh, and the closures will continue. After shuttering 119 stores last year, PacSun is eyeing another 110 stores that it will close this year. It will continue to wiggle its way out of mall leases until it's down to 550 to 600 stores.
From gnarly waves to waving goodbye, things aren't looking good for PacSun.
3. In the Knick of time
I was shocked to see shares of Madison Square Garden (NYS: MSG) nearing fresh highs even though the New York Knicks were winless through March and close to falling out of the eighth and final playoff spot in its conference.
Jeremy Lin's Linsanity was wearing thin. The team was sputtering since the return of its injured stars. As the owner of both the Knicks and the namesake venue where the team plays its home games, why was there the disparity between the stock and the sporting reality?
Well, Madison Square Garden shares did take a small hit after Knicks' coach Mike D'Antoni resigned.
Season ticketholders may be excited to see playoff ticket information going out this week, but the team is going to have to play some Linsane basketball if shareholders are banking on some playoff games at Madison Square Garden.
4. Something borrowed
Now let's ignore the mad scramble of folks at Apple Stores trying to secure the new iPad to shake our heads at a bizarre analyst suggestion.
Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi turned heads by suggesting that Apple (NAS: AAPL) take on about $50 billion to $100 billion in debt so that it could shell out a substantial dividend. Since only a third of its nearly $100 billion in cash and marketable securities is accessible domestically, Sacconaghi argues that Apple can get a killer low interest rate on borrowed money that it can then redistribute to shareholders.
Maybe it's just me, but the reason Apple could get such a low interest rate is because it wouldn't do something that silly. Outside of investment bankers that would make a mint off issuing the debt and investors that don't understand how capital appreciation trumps dividends, this would be a silly move.
Apple obviously can already pay a reasonable dividend from its steady cash flow alone. The country's most valuable company chooses not to.
5. Secondary offerings with friends
Zynga (NAS: ZNGA) has filed for a $400 million secondary offering.
The stock naturally slipped on the news.
Zynga doesn't need the money. It's flush with $1.9 billion in cash after its recent IPO. This is just giving existing investors a way to get out in a somewhat orderly manner.
Some analysts are in favor of this move. Instead of opening up the floodgates to unleash insider selling when the lock-up period expires in late May, participants in this early exit will have to likely extend the lock-up periods for the shares that they do not sell.
I'll tell you why I'm not in that camp. You see how the stock ticked lower on the news. Just wait until the shares hit the market. A neat trick to keep IPOs buoyant early is to offer only a sliver of shares outstanding so demand exceeds the public float. This move will increase the float on a company that's valued pretty dearly to begin with. If the stock is already lower than it is now by the time the lock-up period comes, who wins?
I'm not a fan of the move.
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Iceland is launching a nationwide festive recruitment drive as it prepares to face the Christmas rush.
The food retailer is aiming to fill more than 500 part-time and full-time positions across the country, both in store and on the road.
In store there are two roles available–Retail Assistants and Online Picking Team members.
Retail Assistants will serve customers, delivering the high standards and great service that Iceland is known for. The Online Picking Team will be tasked with accurately and efficiently fulfilling customers’ online shopping orders.
There are part-time and full-time roles available and a variety of shift patterns (Online Picking shifts can start between 1am and 1am).
For anyone who prefers life out on the open road, there are Delivery Driver roles available around the country. This role involves delivering customers’ shopping to their doors and helping out with the wider store operation by working on a till or packing out stock when it’s needed.
No experience necessary–drivers just need to have had a current driving licence for at least three years with no more than three points.
It’s a great time to join Iceland, one of Britain’s fastest growing and most innovative retailers who regularly appear in the top 10 list of best biggest companies to work for.
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Uber Eats is closing down its business operations in eight markets including Egypt, Ukraine, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Honduras and Czech republic. the closure is pegged on stiff competition in said markets as they did not offer a clear route to become among the top online food delivery operator.
In a statement on the exit, Uber said: “We have made the decision to discontinue operations in the eight countries and to wind down the Eats app and transition operations to Careem in U.A.E. This continues our strategy of focusing our energy and resources on our top Eats markets around the world.”
According to Uber, the discontinued and transferred markets represent 1% of Eats gross bookings. And 4% of Eats adjusted core earnings losses accrued in Q1 2020. “We are Consistent with our stated strategy. We will look to reinvest these savings in priority markets where we expect a better return on investment.”
It’s also transferring its Uber Eats business operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Careem, its wholly-owned ride-hailing subsidiary in the Middle East.
“Consumers and restaurants using the Uber Eats app in the UAE will be transitioned to the Careem platform in the coming weeks, after which the Uber Eats app will no longer be available,”
Operations in the markets will cease by 4th June. The move will affect about 50-full time jobs. Uber Rides operations in the countries will not be affected.
Additionally, the statement confirms that the changes are not related to the coronavirus pandemic. But rather related to an ongoing “strategy of record” for the company to hold a first or second position in all existing markets. Which means it’s leaning into investment in some countries while exiting others.


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Now that the fight over the healthcare bill is over and the election-cycle fight over its repeal is just beginning, I decided to step away from the politics and try to decipher the business impact of the changes to the healthcare ecosystem. “Follow the money,” advised Deep Throat, and so I recently attended a conference to find out what the healthcare private equity and M&A firms had to say about winners and losers in this new world. What I found surprised me.
I had expected a negative reaction to the bill, and what I found was that from lenders to investors to pharma M&A executives, everyone was happy that the fight is over, the bill is done and we now have a comprehensive roadmap that takes into account the entire spectrum of providers, payers, services, and pharma. According to Anne Phelps from the Washington Council Ernst & Young, while the bill is complicated, it represents a lot of opportunities for growth.
The industry cut its deal with the government early on, and the 32 million Americans with new access and coverage will deliver a 10% surge in patient volume. Although the industry agreed to new fees and to a 50% discount for Part D beneficiaries during the “donut hole,” the expanded Part D coverage will discourage pill slicing and encourage compliance, leading to better outcomes and increased revenue, a net positive for the industry.
As long as pharma remains solely focused on product volume and pricing, it will continue to walk around with a fat target on its back. A renewed focus by Congress and the states on bending the cost curve will eventually make its way back to pharma. If we can show we are helping to bend the “wellness curve” then we can show we are part of the solution, not the problem.
While the bill has been a popular punching bag for the last year, now that it is law, it represents an opportunity for leadership. Pharma, with its culture of innovation and its reach to millions of consumers, can be part of the solution. Those companies and brands that broaden their vision of wellness to consider disease management partnerships, explore new models of consumer engagement and invest in integrated approaches to patient care will be the winners not only in terms of financial success but better outcomes and reputation.
David Ormesher is CEO at closerlook, inc.


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November 19, 2008 - Street Fighter II was nothing if not a phenomenon. And when a game explodes like Street Fighter II did, the clones follow like clockwork. Naturally, not all imitators are bad news. For example, SNK's King of Fighters and Midway's Mortal Kombat carved pleasant niches of their own in Guile's wake. But beyond a select few rivals, the field is littered with broken brawlers like Primal Rage and Time Killers. Gametek's Brutal, though, is a special failure because despite a heavy advertising push and an effort to publish it on every console imaginable in 1994, it just landed with a terrific thud. Make that a deserved terrific thud.
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UK parcel delivery company Yodel is risking angering its retail customers and consumers by hiking its prices for the delivery of e-commerce packages.
The loss-making company said today that it will be making changes to its services and pricing so that operations could be “sustainable and profitable”.
Prices will rise, while services will be altered to a six-day-a-week service, except for the Christmas peak when deliveries will be made every day of the week.
The UK’s second largest parcel carrier after Royal Mail, Yodel is one of a number of companies that has struggled with “explosive growth” in Internet shopping volumes in recent years, particularly around Christmas.
With major retail clients like Amazon, Tesco, ASDA and Littlewoods, Yodel has found itself targeted for public criticism on the Internet and in the media in the last year.
Today, chief executive Jonathan Smith insisted his company had reviewed its performance and listened to consumers.
But, he said improvements would come at a price.
Smith said: “Inevitably these changes will come at a price and we must pass on our reasonable costs. We believe that all parties, once they recognise the benefits that this will provide, will accept the changes as a necessary shift for all involved.”
Exact price changes will be discussed with specific retailers individually, although one positive on pricing will be the removal of premium charges for weekend deliveries.
In return for higher prices, promised customers it will improve its service with extended training for staff, remove premium fees for weekend delivery, and is also pledging to begin its seasonal recruitment of temporary staff for the Christmas run-up much earlier.
Email or text message alerts for consumers receiving parcels will become standard, while Yodel is also looking to expand its joint-venture network of collection outlets, known as CollectPlus, from 4,700 to 8,000 within the next three years.
Yodel said it needed more flexibility in its business model to cope with the fast-growing seasonal parcel volumes, which can be up to 11 times higher than normal days.
“In order to ensure best customer service while maintaining a scale of flexibility, which no other carrier is currently able to offer, we recognise the need to change the way we work and invest more in the aspects of our business that impact the consumer,” said Smith.
Yodel, formerly known as the Home Delivery Network, now delivers more than 170m parcels after taking over the domestic UK operations of DHL Express in 2010. Despite stating its need to invest millions in its network, the company has been closing dozens of depots since buying the DHL network, stating that as many as 45 were “duplicating” its existing network.
Other delivery companies in the UK have also had difficulties with the growth in e-commerce demand and the need to be flexible for the Christmas period and in dealing with more business-to-consumer business rather than just the traditional business-to-business market.
UK Mail Group said this week in a pre-close trading update that internet shopping had driven a 10% growth in its parcel volumes but it was finding it difficult to take advantage of the volume uptick.
“The change in mix towards B2C did restrict the level of revenue growth and the challenging pricing environment continued to put pressure on margins,” the firm said. Like Yodel, UK Mail Group has been closing depots this year to reduce its fixed cost base.
Leeds-based home delivery company Hermes UK, which delivers around 140m items each year, said today that the parcel industry “probably needs a price increase” since rates had been going down for the last few years.
With price increases at Royal Mail and Yodel, Hermes UK commercial director Jon Tobbell said he believed the rest of the industry would be likely to follow suit.
“It’s got to an unsuitainably low level,” he said of delivery rates. “Prices, I think, will go up across the industry.”
Tobbell said there were delivery companies operating in the UK home delivery market that were profitable, such as his own firm, which grew 22% last year and saw its profits remaining at a similar proportion of turnover compared to 2010. The key, he said, was having the right model in place and not “playing on too many pitches”.
He explained that delivery companies were having to say to certain very big or very seasonal e-commerce clients that they will only take a certain volume during the busy Christmas period.
“If you take too much volume in December, and you built your network for December, it’s empty most of the rest of the year, then you can’t make any profit because you’ve got your assets unused the rest of the year,” he said.
Tobbell said Hermes was already starting its planning for this year’s peak season, and that its use of independent courier staff – “lifestyle couriers” – to provide the last mile helped his company to be more flexible than others in the market.
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Spend and Send: The Growing E-commerce Delivery Dilemma – Global Freight Solutions director Simon Veale looks at the current e-commerce delivery challenge in the UK.
Source: James Cartledge, Post&Parcel


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Incorporating social media into a brand activation is not a new concept. But the way we are approaching marketing through these platforms has changed. Only a few years ago, a social media component meant a single touchpoint, often a photo-booth, where people could take a photo and move on. But recently, according to this Adweek article, there has been a shift towards full “Instagram optimization,” thanks to activations like The Color Factory and The Museum of Ice Cream.
As the article puts it, “good experiential marketing is taking Instagram optimization to the next level: it’s giving people a dynamic, fully-Instagrammable space in which to actually do something.” Which translates to more engagement and a wider word-of-mouth amplification of the event. Additionally, by creating an entire footprint that is photo-ready keeps consumer attention, thus lengthening touch points and generating a higher-impact experience.
Millennials and Gen Z are a hot topic for marketers. Together, these two generations have changed the way that brands approach and interact with consumers. They have set a new precedent in marketing due to their resistance to traditional marketing tactics. They have grown up online, which has caused them to be hyper-aware of when they are being marketed to. Instead, they have demonstrated a preference for brand transparency and authenticity, which has contributed to influencer marketing gaining in popularity. When brands align with influencers, they can reach consumers on a “more personal level.”
But the ways that brands approach and interact with influencers matters as well. Influencer marketing recently came under scrutiny when consumers caught on to the fact that brands were compensating influencers for their endorsements. Instead of pay-to-play, brands are realizing that they need to convince influencers to love their brand based on merit, not money. For some brands, meeting this new expectation means creating experiential events that appeal to influencers to capture authentic content. Check out this Adweek article for how these brands are achieving this.
The Human Connection: Empower a Brand Through Experiences and Interaction
One of the most significant unintended consequences of technology is the increase in human isolation. As we have built methods by which to connect with others online, we are forfeiting ways to connect interpersonally. And most people see this as a negative thing. The structure of society is to be intertwined with others, which makes us hardwired to seek connections with other humans. In marketing, there is an understanding among marketers that if they can connect with consumers on an emotional level, the campaign is strengthened. And through research, we know that emotions are connected to memory.
That impact that comes from an emotional connection gave rise to the popularity of experiential marketing. In the digital age, brands have realized quickly that today’s better-informed consumers are open to marketing as long as it is authentic, which plays to those human connections. From creating an engaging event to having the right brand ambassadors, experiential has and will continue to be a powerful tool to create a lasting impression.
We frequently discuss the high-value returns that experiential marketing provides, which has led to a rise in the popularity of brand experiences. Many companies are committed to incorporating an experiential component into their marketing plan, and many see that the response from consumers is positive both in engagement and revenue. And these stories of results are not anecdotal. In fact, Harvard recently partnered with event marketing software company, Splash, to conduct a study on the measurable effect that events have on marketing ROI.
In the past, there was a belief that experiential events provide “soft” returns. These are composed primarily of vanity metrics and don’t show a direct return in terms of revenue. But, times have changed, and technology tools are helping companies track consumer behavior and show the clear impact that in-person engagement has on sales. As a result, this study shows that more brands are able to calculate financial ROI from their events.
Twice a year, the fashion industry comes together to behold the latest collections from the biggest names in fashion. New York Fashion week (NYFW), which began in 1993, has become one of the largest, most popular Fashion Week destinations in the world. According to the New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYFW generates $532 million in direct visitor spending, and draws over 100,000 people annually.
It should be no surprise that brands want to get in on its success and make meaningful connections with its crowd. And with NYFW’s global reach, there is immense opportunity related to brand visibility. For the full week, all eyes are on New York, from celebrities and influencers showing off the designers’ creations to a multitude of shows and events that amplify the festivities. And the best brand activations appeal not only to those in the fashion industry, but to a global audience.
Pepsi Pivots from TV and Modernizes with Experiential Tailgate Tour
In the US, September indicates the start of many things. Cooler fall weather, school back in session, and, most importantly (for some), the start of football season. Whether you are a college football fan, a professional football fan, or enjoy a healthy dose of both, it is the best time of the year. Not only because of the sheer excitement that accompanies watching the games, but because of all things that are a part of the football ecosystem.
For brands in everything from food and beverage to laundry detergent, football season is a prime marketing target. And companies have found success reaching consumers both in and outside the stadium, the latter most notably during tailgates. One big brand in particular that is focused on reaching fans while they prepare for the game is Pepsi. This year, they are launching an experiential tailgate tour. The campaign provides NFL football fans with a memorable live experience, all with a focus on capturing and airing video content.
Connecting with Millennial Moms and Tapping Into Their Spending Power
When it comes to consumer targeting, Millennials are the audience de jour for brands large and small. Yet, for decades there has been another “M” group that has consistently been lucrative for brands of all kinds. And that group is moms. Often, moms do the majority of decision-making as it relates to home purchasing decisions. And that decision-making results in tremendous spending power: in the U.S. it’s $2.4 trillion to be exact. When you combine the two, Millennial moms can be an exciting group to court.
With this kind of leverage, smart brands are keen to understand how moms, Millennial and otherwise, make their buying decisions. Because 64% of moms ask other mothers for advice before they buy a new product, brands can leverage this group’s word-of-mouth inclination through experiential marketing. Face-to-face experiential interactions provide share-worthy experiences that can keep moms talking and buying.
Inside the US Open: Five Brands that Scored with Tennis Fans
A few weeks ago, 700,000 U.S. tennis fans watched the biggest names in the sport compete for the title at the U.S. Open. This year marked the 50th anniversary of the New York tournament, and brands were out in full force to provide attendees with an extra special experience, which is no easy feat in 100-degree weather.
Wilson, the official ball of the tournament, created an onsite retail store where attendees could not only buy their favorite tennis equipment, but also watch official Wilson stringers create professional players’ racquets. Meanwhile, IBM showcased Watson, their famous artificial intelligence, and his many impressive capabilities. Check out these and other notable brand activations that won at the U.S. Read on here.


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A new Web browser from former Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich is promising to make browsing safer — in part by substituting different ads and sharing revenue between ad networks, users, publishers, and the browser company itself.
Firefox isn’t the go-to browser for the nerdy crowd anymore, but that hasn’t stopped Mozilla from working hard to improve the internet on the whole. Earlier this week, Mozilla released Firefox Developer Edition — a web browser with an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) built right in. If you’re in the web development business, this means that Firefox just became relevant again.
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Opened in early 2014, Revolution Spirits is best known for its Austin Reserve Gin that incorporates a blend of six botanicals including juniper, rosemary, lavender, lemongrass, pink peppercorn and Texas grapefruit peel. Now, the local chain has plans to introduce a single barrel reserve gin series.
Always experimenting, Revolution Spirits recently decided to age their locally inspired Austin Reserve Gin in French oak barrels, previously used in winemaking, for six months to create a richer, more flavorful spirit. While the first batch was an incredibly limited production as the brand produced a minuscule 27 cases, Revolution Spirits plans to create the aged gin twice a year, with each batch aged in different type of oak barrels. Currently, the Austin specialty spirit can be found in bars and retailers across Texas. Read More


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Telstra, Telefónica, Itochu Technology Ventures, Macnica, DST Global, Coatue, and Mitsui have jointly invested US$100 million into DropBox file-sharing rival Box to help the company grow its presence in Europe, Latin America, Japan, and Australia.
Overnight, Box CEO Aaron Levie announced that the cloud-based file-sharing company had secured new strategic partnerships and investments with the companies to expand out into other markets, after first expanding into London in 2012.
He said that Japan would be the first cab off the rank, but said that partnering with telecommunications companies Telefónica and Telstra, would help Box grow in Australia and Latin America.
"These communications companies serve millions of individuals and businesses that are embracing the cloud and mobile, and we're eager to provide the platform where businesses in these regions manage information and collaboration," he said.
Telstra's investment is coming through its new Ventures group, which targeted Box for Telstra's enterprise cloud offering. The company's Ventures Managing Director Mark Sherman said the Box product would be offered to business and enterprise customers "in the coming months".
"Customers are harnessing the power of cloud, social and mobility in their desire to increasingly collaborate not only within their own business, but also with vendors, business partners, investors and other 3rd party providers. In the past, the challenge was maintaining control of file access and user privileges through the collaboration process," Sherman said in a statement.
"With Box, we will have the tools to overcome those issues. Additionally, using Box on Telstra's mobile network means customers can enjoy a faster and more reliable experience when accessing and collaborating with files on smart phones and tablets."


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SEMAP to host its fifth
SEMAP to host its fifth
'Farm to Table Dinner'
The fifth annual "Farm to Table Dinner" presented by the Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership is a sell-out, Program Director Sarah Cogswell announced Tuesday morning.
For the event Friday evening at Silverbrook Farm in Acushnet, locally sourced ingredients have been woven into a menu to delight both vegetarians and meat eaters. Cuttyhunk Shellfish Farm oysters, Shy Brothers and Martin cheese, goods both sweet and savory from Artisan Bake Shop, the talents of Green Gal Catering and Harriet's Catering, and drinks from Just Beer, Travessia Winery and Westport Rivers Vineyard & Winery are just some of the components that go into making the event a success.
The evening, which includes an auction and raffle, benefits the work of SEMAP, which preserves and expands access to local food and sustainable farming in our region.
For more about SEMAP's mission and other events, visit SEMAPonline.org.
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A Scituate Harbor kitchenware store, The Roman Table will host the first of the edible South Shore Magazine event series from 4 to 6 p.m. July 8. The event, titled "Sea to Tablescape, Organic Entertaining," will include a design demonstration by educator and floral designer Kelly Dolloff of Artistic Blossoms Floral Design Studio. Dolloff will show attendees how to design a tablescape using items found in nature.
Fisherman Captain Frank Mirarchi will be providing fresh caught local fish that chef and owner of The Roman Table, Cynthia Gallo-Casey will prepare and serve. Local farm Sweet Georgia P's will supply fresh produce that Chef Cynthia will transform into a summer side dish.
Along with the local cuisine, attendees will be able to sample a variety of organic wines provided by Front Street Gourmet. The Roman Table is at 164 Front St., Scituate Harbor. The event costs $15 per person and space is limited. For more information on registering, visit www.ediblesouthshore.com.
effort to boost recycling
The Massachusetts Beverage Association and the Massachusetts Food Association announced last week that they will launch a two-year initiative aimed at increasing recycling in Massachusetts communities. The Massachusetts Recycling Challenge — building upon past investments in recycling — is designed to enhance residential recycling programs, while also increasing the presence of "on-the-go" receptacles to encourage recycling in public places.
"While Massachusetts has built up its infrastructure for recycling over the past several years, there is still much work to be done as far as increasing our state's recycling rate," said Chris Flynn, president of the Massachusetts Food Association and spokesman for Real Recycling for Massachusetts, a coalition of citizens, businesses and community organizations that support a comprehensive approach to recycling. "Our industry is committed to playing a leading role in increasing recycling in our state."
A number of pilot programs will be established to help target communities improve their recycling rates. A new nonprofit will engage outside consultants to provide technical advice to targeted communities looking to institute "pay as you throw" programs, through which residents can save money on trash collection by recycling more. In addition, the organization will purchase approximately 200 "on-the-go" recycling receptacles to be deployed in high visibility locations in target communities.


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CHICAGO — Two Chicago area students score some “wings” that’ll take them to college.
Johnny Brown and James Jackson were surprised with the Jordan Brand Wings Scholarship on Sunday.
The two they were attending an event required by Link Unlimited Scholars, but they actually received the scholarships from basketball star Michael Jordan’s charity.
The scholarships, which come in shoe boxes, helps young people pursue their dreams.
Brown will be going to Stanford University to major in bioengineering, while Jackson plans to study marketing at Northern Illinois University while overseeing his own clothing brand.


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Globoplay app for Philips and AOC TVs via partnership with ZEASN
Nov 2, 2021 – ZEASN has announced a partnership with Globo. As part of the deal, the biggest Brazilian streaming service, Globoplay, has been made available via a native solution on the latest Philips and AOC smart TVs.
News categories: ZEASN, TPV, Globo, Jason He, Eduardo Brunoro, Fernando Ramos, Apps, Brazil, Smart TV, Streaming
DIRECTV GO now available in Brazil
Dec 1, 2020 – Vrio has announced the launch of DIRECTV GO in Brazil. The platform combines live national and international programming with streaming content. DIRECTV GO is already available in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
News categories: Vrio, DIRECTV GO, Estanislau Bassols, Brazil, Digital TV, Streaming
Rohde & Schwarz supports 5G Broadcast trial in Brazil
Oct 16, 2019 – At the Rock in Rio festival, Grupo Globo launched the first 5G Broadcast field trial in Brazil with equipment from Rohde & Schwarz. The objective of the project is to validate the operability and market opportunities of the technology.
News categories: Rohde & Schwarz, Grupo Globo, 5G, Brazil, Content Distribution, Digital TV
Piracy-enabling STB supplier closed down in Australia
Nov 28, 2017 – Following a joint investigation in Australia by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and CASBAA's Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) into a large supplier of IPTV set-top boxes, pre-loaded to play pirated movies, television shows, sports programming, and other content has had these operations closed down in Australia.
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Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment formed to reduce online piracy
Jun 13, 2017 – Thirty content creators and on-demand entertainment companies from around the world have launched the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition dedicated to protecting the legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy.
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Globo.com selects Elemental to deliver 4K VOD
Feb 20, 2017 – Elemental Technologies has announced that Globo.com has selected its video processing to power its new 4K video-on-demand (VOD) services. The agreement expands the broadcaster’s existing Elemental deployment.
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Toyota Boshoku America
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(Erlanger, KY) August 28, 2007 – Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour joined Junichi Yoshikawa, Chairman of Toyota Boshoku Corporation, and Kiyoshi “Nate” Furuta, Chairman and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America, today at Itawamba Community College to announce that Toyota Boshoku America will build a new plant in Itawamba County, Miss., to supply seats, door panels and carpet to the Toyota Highlander Sport Utility Vehicle plant in Tupelo, Miss.
“We in Mississippi are excited to have been chosen by Toyota Boshoku as its partner. The company selected north Mississippi for its quality workforce and the leadership offered by the state, the county and the local communities,” said Governor Haley Barbour. “When we announced Toyota in February, I stated that we would be aggressive in recruiting all of the Toyota suppliers we can to Mississippi so that many towns and counties would benefit from the jobs created by those suppliers. With today’s announcement, Toyota Boshoku, the first supplier to choose its site, has already begun to make a difference in the state and in Itawamba county.”
“We are very proud to join our fellow Toyota companies in Mississippi and locate our newest plant in the United States in Itawamba County, Miss., for many reasons, including the region’s talented and dedicated workforce and its proximity to the Toyota Highlander SUV plant,” said Kiyoshi “Nate” Furuta, Chairman and CEO, Toyota Boshoku America, Inc. “Toyota Boshoku America is a growing company and we plan to continue to meet customer demand by expanding our presence and sales in the U.S. We look forward to becoming an active member of the Itawamba County community.”
To demonstrate Toyota Boshoku’s commitment to the community of Itawamba County, Toyota Boshoku will make a ,000 donation to the Itawamba Community College workforce training and development programs via the College’s Foundation. “I look forward to working with Toyota Boshoku on workforce preparation and training. This donation will allow Itawamba Community College to enhance our student employment opportunities within the county,” said Dr. David Cole, President, Itawamba Community College.
The Toyota Boshoku America Mississippi plant will employ approximately 500 workers and be operational by 2010. The plant will manufacture seats, door panels and carpet for the Toyota Highlander vehicle. A wide range of employees will be needed for the plant, from material handling to production workers, engineers and plant administration personnel. Hiring is expected to begin in 2008. The plant will become the largest manufacturing employer in Itawamba County.
The Toyota Boshoku America Mississippi plant will be 341,000 square feet and located on 40 acres in an industrial park off of Highway 78 that is 24 miles east of the Toyota Highlander plant in Blue Springs, Miss. A new access road to the plant will be constructed by October, 2008, to ensure smooth traffic flow.
Toyota Boshoku Corporation and Toyota Boshoku America, under the direction of Dr. Shuhei Toyoda, the President, are active contributors to the communities where their facilities are located. The companies are also dedicated to operating plants in an environmentally friendly manner. Toyota Boshoku America will use state-of-the-art technology to minimize the use of water, electricity and natural gas in the Toyota Boshoku America Mississippi plant.
Toyota Boshoku Corporation pioneered the use of the Kenaf plant, a fast-growing annual plant that absorbs carbon dioxide, in manufacturing door trims for vehicle interiors. Toyota Boshoku now supplies Kenaf-based boards to interior parts factories all over the world.
The Toyoda (now Toyota) Boshoku Corporation was founded by Sakichi Toyoda in 1918. The Toyota Motor Corporation was founded as an automotive department of Toyota Industries in 1928. Toyota Motor was made an independent company in 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda. In 2004, Toyota Boshoku merged with Araco Corporation and Takanichi Co., Ltd. to become Toyota Boshoku Corporation.
About Toyota Boshoku America, Inc.
Toyota Boshoku America, a Toyota Boshoku company and member of the Toyota Group of businesses, was established in 2001 and recently opened its American headquarters in Erlanger, Ky. TBA is a premier manufacturer of automotive interior systems which include seats, door trims, headliner sub-stratas, carpets, fabrics, straps and round recliners in addition to air and oil filters and power train systems for a variety of customers such as Toyota Motor Corporation and General Motors. Toyota Boshoku is based in Kariya, Japan, with 2006 revenue of .5 billion and operations in over 20 countries and one of the fastest growing automotive suppliers worldwide. For more information,


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US consumers will now be easily able to recycle anything from coffee capsules to old lightbulbs following the arrival of “zero-waste boxes” to the US market. Recycling specialists TerraCycle’s zero-waste boxes are now available on the US website of office … Continue readingSolid Waste & Recycling · Feb 19, 2016
While some electronics manufacturers will allow for the salvaging of certain reusable parts from their used products, Apple insists they be destroyed, an effort to thwart the production of fake Apple products. That’s according to Tim Culpan writing for Bloomberg.com, which … Continue readingResource-Recycling · Feb 18, 2016
Office workers across North America know that a lot of their daily waste is recyclable—those leaky pens that don’t write, reams of office printouts, plastic bottles from rushed lunches—but it’s been a hard sell to get near full sustainability. Landlords … Continue readingWaste 360 · Feb 18, 2016
TerraCycle has announced it will sell “zero-waste boxes” in the US via retail chain Staples’ website, which will store household and office waste that curbside haulers will not typically handle, such as cleaning supplies, electronics, coffee capsules, and light bulbs.WasteDive · Feb 17, 2016
Terracycle has partnered with www.Staples.com to offer recycling solutions to US consumers. Terracycle’s Zero Waste Boxes have now been listed on Staples website. Consumers can order Zero Waste Boxes online through the site. The program aims to achieve zero waste by encouraging … Continue readingScrapMonster · Feb 16, 2016
Recycling company TerraCycle and Staples are expanding their zero-waste recycling option for household and office waste to the US. The recycling program launched in Canada in 2014. The program allows customers to recycle a range of items, including candy and snack wrappers, cleaning supplies and accessories, writing utensils, e-waste … Continue readingEnvironmental Leader · Feb 16, 2016
After a successful launch in Canada, TerraCycle is giving U.S. consumers the chance to recycle anything from coffee capsules to light bulbs. TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Boxes are now listed on Staples.com website, meaning customers have the opportunity to recycle more household … Continue readingConsumer Goods Technology · Feb 15, 2016
US customers can now purchase ‘zero-waste boxes’ from office supplier Staples, to fill with assortment of household and office waste for recycling. US consumers will now be easily able to recycle anything from coffee capsules to old lightbulbs following the … Continue readingBusinessGreen · Feb 12, 2016
Consumers are steadily becoming more conscious of environmental issues, and more eager to reduce waste at home and work — but are these enough to translate into action? Moreover, will consumers pay to live up to ‘green’ standards and aspirations in their … Continue readingSustainable Brands · Feb 11, 2016


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Rockstar dev boss Jeronimo Barrera has confirmed that GTA IV DLC The Lost and Damned - releasing tomorrow - is at the limit of Live's file-size restriction, and should be considered a full game.
"There's nothing ever been out like it," Barrera told Major Nelson in the first section of a two-part audio interview.
"We've done a full game in my opinion, in terms of the production quality and the new gameplay mechanics.
"We've literally reached the maximum memory size that we can do for DLC with Microsoft.
"You're going to get a lot of game."
Barrera, however, refused to put a play-time estimate on the content, saying only that players can expect "hours and hours and hours" of bang for their buck.
The exec also took the opportunity to snipe at other premium DLC, saying Rockstar had pushed the concept further than anything else yet available.
"That's not to say there hasn't been good downloadable content: obviously, there has been, but I find a lot of the time the stuff you can download to be more of an appendage to a game in terms of, you know, a new area opens up, or you can travel to another island, or something like that," he said.
"You know, it's cool, and it keep fans coming back, but [there's] nothing that's crossed story arcs and that's what we're trying to do, to push this, to deliver... a new experience, and I think we've hit it right out of the ballpark."
The full thing's through the link. Well worth a listen.


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Marc Beer Became LumeNXT’s Board Of Director Chairman
Marc Beer is a renowned professional when it comes to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. He is known for his 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having created multiple successful companies in the past. Just this April, LumiNXT, which is a company that provides illumination products, announced that Marc Beer will be the new Chairman of its Board of Directors. Beer also holds leadership in a company called Renovia.
As the newest chairman of LumiNXT, Marc Beer expressed his happiness after he was trusted the position. Beer also mentioned how working with a group of dedicated surgeons and engineers is something that he is proud of. The company’s products are known for their proprietary technology, which helps surgeons perform their surgeries safely. According to Beer, LumiNXT has a bright future and believes that the company will be more involved when it comes to minimally invasive approaches.
LumeNXT offers surgical lighting which is self-powered and mountable to allow more customization during a procedure. With the company’s advanced technology, it is able to emit light directly in the wound to improve the visualization. However, as one of its important features., LumeNXT products have a technology in them that reduces the generated heat in order to avoid overheating. This way, the products of the company will promote safety and efficiency. Learn more: https://gazetteday.com/2018/10/marc-beer-funding-renovia/
LumeNXT co-founder Paul Rhyme is also positive in Marc Beer’s influence in the company. Rhyme believes that with Beer’s impressive track and high success in handling startups, he will also be able to help LumeNXT in the global commercial rollout. Rhyme is also announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of LumeNXT last April, and Beer has been one of the persons who made expressed their support to Rhyme.
Marc Beer is also currently one of the main driving forces of Renovia, which is a company that he co-founded in 2016 with Ramon Iglesias and Yolanda Lorie. The company received a successful Series A financing to support their goals. Renovia aims to develop products which help in the diagnosis and treatment of a condition known as Pelvic Floor Disorders. This affects a lot of women in the world, with a lot of cases left undetected because of no available diagnosis devices available. Renovia now released its first main products out of four. The product is called the Leva, which has been in the market.
As one of the most recognizable names in the industry, Marc Beer handled a lot of companies before. One of his ventures in the last decade is becoming the founding chairman of the Minerva Neurosciences, which is a company that focused on developing a treatment for the central nervous system diseases. Beer is also the former CEO of ViaCell before it was acquired by PerkinElmer in 2007. Follow Marc Beer on Facebook


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Amazon Founder And CEO Jeff Bezos To Step Down From CEO Role
In something of a surprise announcement today, Amazon said that founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO this summer, handing off the retail giant to Andy Jassy who runs the cloud computing business.
Bezos said in a statement, “If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. When you look at our financial results, what you’re actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention. Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition.”
According to USA Today, Bezos will stay with the company in the role of executive chair. Bezos is one of the world’s most powerful business figures and also one of its wealthiest.
The announcement came as Amazon reported record fourth-quarter sales that topped $100 billion for the first time.
In a letter to employees, Bezos said he would focus on new products and early initiatives. He said Jassy, who has led Amazon’s Web services business since he joined the company in 1997, has his “full confidence.”


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The annual report of the European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net) published yesterday showed that more consumers are being fleeced as a result of the rise in cross-border e-shopping, with its Irish office revealing customers here are also being stung.
Ireland has its own European Consumer Centre office in Dublin, and the ECC-Net report showed that, last year, the number of complaints here linked to culture and recreation was higher than the average across all the European Consumer Centres.
Caroline Curneen of the ECC in Dublin said many of those complaints were linked to transport issues such as airline fees and package holidays, and to television companies who may have an office in the North but were offering services in the south.
But she said the Europewide trend of pharmaceutical and, in particular, slimming products was reflected in the experience of Irish consumers contacting the ECC.
“It is a huge problem,” she said, adding that the companies are usually based overseas and the method of sale — which typically advertises a free trial but which triggers a deduction from credit and debit cards unless stopped, meant the companies involved were operating in “a grey area”.
“It is difficult to take any enforcement action because they are difficult to trace,” saod Ms Curneen.
One company currently selling a slimming product has an address in Shannon, Co Clare, but is understood to be based overseas.
Overall, the ECC-Net had more than 72,000 contacts with consumers across Europe asking for advice about their rights or for help with cross-border shopping problems and handled more than 32,000 complaints.
Nearly two-thirds of complaints lodged related to online purchases (60%), reflecting the growth in online sales and a doubling in the proportion of internet shoppers since 2005.
Cross-border e-shopping is less frequent but another growth area and one in which the ECC-Net has advised high customer vigilance. According to the report: “One sector that generated considerably more complaints in 2012 than the previous year is the health sector, in particular when related to the purchase of non-pharmaceutical medical products, therapeutic appliances and equipment.
“This reflects a growing trend to sell products over the internet with misleading or unfounded claims – slimming pills for example.”
*72,000 consumer contacts.
*32% of complaints concerned transport sector.
*60% of complaints related to online purchasing.
*More than 50% of complaints resolved amicably or passed on to other organisations.
*Level of complaints in Ireland linked to recreation and culture far higher than European average.


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Daytona Beach store clerk locks suspected robber in store
Store clerk calls 911 on gunman behind bulletproof glass, authorities say
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A Daytona Beach store clerk foiled a robbery after authorities say he locked the gunman inside of the store.
The clerk at the MLK Grocery store made a 911 call to authorities during the Wednesday night robbery behind bulletproof glass, saying that when a man tried to rob him, he hit a button that locked the doors.
"How you going to leave? You tried to shoot me, man," the caller told the robber while on the phone with dispatchers.
When officers arrived on scene, they found Kenneth Kirkland trying to shoot the locks out on the door.
Kirkland was arrested.
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Special committee on foreign exchange set up in Iran
BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 21
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A special committee on foreign exchange has been set up to develop Iran's non-oil exports, said said Hamid Zadboum, Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade of Iran and Chairman of the Trade Development Organization, Trend reports citing official website of the organization.
According to the report, the committee includes Acting Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, deputies of the Trade Development Organization of Iran and representatives of the Central Bank of Iran.
According to Zadboum, Iranian Trade Promotion Organization, Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, National Development Fund, Planning and Budget Organization, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, Ministry of Agriculture Jihad and the Central Bank of Iran will cooperate for providing currency import and on barter (import in exchange for export).
Zadboum added that a support package has been developed in this regard, which envisages increasing exports to 15 countries around Iran, members of the Eurasian Economic Union, China, India, Syria and Lebanon.
The official said that the support package envisages the provision of 1 billion euros from the National Development Fund of Iran as a loan by banks for 2 years to facilitate exports.
Iran exported 5.34 million tons of products worth $1.65 billion, excluding crude oil in the first month of current Iranian year (March 20-April 19, 2020).


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This past week BC health officials announced the province’s phased re-opening plan with the goal of lifting almost all restrictions as early as September. The plan included a re-opening of indoor dining this past week (still at reduced capacity) as well as an accelerated delivery of second doses of the vaccine (reduced from a 16 week gap to 8). Cautious optimism is forefront as we continue to cover how food and beverage is fairing through eased restrictions both here and abroad.
As outlined by BC health officials: timelines for reopening are contingent upon decreasing case counts and increased vaccinations rates. A good reminder to roll up the sleeves!
“Indoor dining is such a precious privilege. House parties, local vacations, late-night drinking and long-table dinners are on the horizon….But the provincial restart plan is not unconditional. The next steps are aggressively tied to decreased case counts and increased vaccination rates.”
A glimpse into the future: As the US lifts restrictions at a much faster rate, some restaurant workers are feeling more hesitant to toss the masks and social distancing.
“Eater communicated with more than a dozen Boston-area restaurant operators and workers, and, unsurprisingly, got more than a dozen different impressions about the state’s decision to lift the remaining pandemic restrictions. Some are ready to get back to some version of pre-pandemic normal, while others prefer a slower transition, whether that includes keeping everyone masked or just staff.”
From the owners of Minami comes Aburi To-Go. The new Japanese speciality food market just opened in Yaletown and Scout was there to watch them set up.
Good news burger-lovers: Between2Buns will be setting up a permanent shop in the old Bestie location in Chinatown.
Catch it if you can: This cereal milk donut from Mello is a must-try but the daily change in menu means you’ll need to pop by frequently to find it.
Lifting some restrictions doesn’t mean all licensed establishments feel it’s worth it to reopen just yet. In Britain, for example, a quarter of restaurant, bars and other venues have yet to reopen despite the return of inside service.
As restaurants move towards resuming full operations, some are revisiting the no-tipping model, including Zuni Cafe in San Francisco.
New York City will lift its indoor curfew on restaurants and bars today, allowing establishments to “return to the closing times that their liquor licenses or other regulations allow.”
The flaming hot controversy: NPR explains why the popular Cheetos flavour and questions around its origins have been making headlines this past week.
The new Irish Heather is almost finished in Chinatown. Take a look inside.