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London / UK. (hg) The EU has approved funding for the United Kingdom´s first generic promotional campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of organic food and farming, giving a boost of two million GBP to the organic industry in the UK over the next three years.
According to the British Soil Association the campaign will kick off later in 2010 for three years and will aim to give consumers a better understanding of the benefits of organic food and farming. The objective of the programme is to reverse the decline in the sales of organic foods and farming, through a high profile media campaign to reignite consumer interest. The campaign will stress the many benefits of organic food and farming and comprise press advertising, a digital campaign and Public Relation.
More than 75 organisations have pledged money to the campaign including leading retailers Sainsbury´s, Tesco and Waitrose, as well as big name organic brands such as Green + Black´s, Organix, Rachel´s and Yeo Valley – Soil Association said in a press release.
Catherine Fookes from Sustain, who co-ordinated the EU bid, said: «As the proposing body, we are extremely pleased that several years of hard work has paid off. It is a great achievement which would not have been possible without the support of all our industry pledgors, the Soil Association and the Organic Trade Board. We are delighted that we will have substantial funds to promote the benefits of organic food and farming over the next three years. We would still welcome contributions from companies who have not pledged yet so we can amplify the campaign».
Huw Bowles, Chairman of the Organic Trade Board: «We have worked on this bid for several years and it is a fantastic boost to our industry. It will give us a great chance for growth in all organic sectors so sales start to increase again».
Matt Peach, Tesco organic brand manager: «As a pledgor, we are really pleased that funding has been secured for this generic campaign. It is great news for the industry and will allow retailers to help promote the many benefits of organic food, making it easier for people to understand what organic means at the point of purchase. Currently Tesco helps millions of people buy organic every week and we are committed to continuing to provide the best value, quality and range of organic food for these customers».


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The regional gastronomic festival “Onion-onion” was held for the 13th time in Luha. By tradition, an agricultural fair was launched for the guests of the festival, a large entertainment program, a concert, a tractor show and other activities were prepared. A special guest of the festival was Konstantin Ivlev, a chef and a popular presenter of cooking programs on radio and TV.
At the onion festival Konstantin Ivlev, the governor of the region Stanislav Voskresensky and his wife Svetlana Dryga visited the shopping and culinary ranks. The famous chef said that he was pleased to take part in such gastronomic events. Now, with the new Gaztro Tour project, Konstantin Ivlev and his team are visiting cities in central Russia to get acquainted with the peculiarities of local cuisine and local specialties, to look at farmers' productions and city festivals.
Stanislav Voskresensky and Konstantin Ivlev also addressed the topic of agritourism. According to the famous chef, this direction is now actively developing. And one of the main conditions is the presence of a particular gastronomic brand, the same food gift that you can bring with you as a keepsake of a visit to a region or event.
In Luha, Konstantin Ivlev prepared soup from the most popular vegetable in these places. Among the ingredients are onions, potatoes, chicken and herbs. He held a master class in preparing soup for the guests of the holiday and said that he was giving the city of Luh his recipe. “I would be proud if at this festival every year they cook such a soup”- said Konstantin Ivlev. After that, the festival guests were able to try the cooked dish from the chef. Stanislav Voskresensky and Svetlana Dryga also appreciated the dish from Konstantin Ivlev.
The traditional gastronomic fair, which unfolded at the festival, delighted the inhabitants of Luh and guests with both unusual and traditional dishes: onion jam and onion tincture, onion muffins, onion marmalade and pancakes with onions, as well as hot oven dishes and farm products. In addition, performances of artists took place at the Onion festival, the headliner of the holiday this year was the group of "Hot Peppers" from Kostroma, who presented the button accordion show. Competitions on weaving onion braids, workshops of folk crafts were held, everyone was able to ride a tractor, watch the demonstrative battles of the military-historical club "Monomakh", and visit excursions. The malls with various types and varieties of onions were very popular.
As the head of the Luhsky region, Nikolai Smurov, noted, this year the regional gastronomic festival was held under the motto: “Russian is unusual. People’s is not boring. ” The festival "Bow - onion" is a good example of an event that combines the traditions of the past and the present, creating an attractive image of the Russian hinterland.
The tradition of holding onion festivals began in 2007 with an ordinary harvest festival where residents of the region sold gifts of gardens and kitchen gardens, the main of which from time immemorial was considered to be onion. In the early years, the Onion Onion festival gathered several hundred people, but in 2018 it was visited by 12 thousand people, including guests from different regions of Russia and some foreign countries, more than 20 tons of onions were sold. In 2018, the Onion Festival took third place in the national event tourism award Russian Event Awards.
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Freight going through the Suez Canal has plunged by nearly half since Iran-backed Houthi militants began attacking vessels in the Red Sea as a show of support for Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war.
UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which supports developing countries in global trade, says that 39% fewer ships than at the start of December transited the canal, leading to a 45% decline in freight tonnage.
Container shipments through the canal tumbled 82% in the week to January 19 from early December, while for liquified natural gas (LNG), the decline was even greater. The drop-off for dry bulk was smaller, and crude oil tanker traffic was very slightly higher, the agency said, according to Reuters.
UNCTAD has warned of risks of higher inflation, uncertainty about food security and increased greenhouse gas emissions due to the sharp decline.
"We are very concerned," Jan Hoffmann, UNCTAD's head of trade logistics told a briefing late on Thursday. "We are seeing delays, higher costs, higher greenhouse gas emissions."
The Suez Canal is a critical shipping lane, given that it offers vessels a direct route between the North Atlantic and northern Indian oceans via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
About 15% of world shipping traffic, including 30% of global container trade, passes through the Suez Canal. But to avoid being attacked or having their cargo stolen, many ships are instead sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, which is a much longer way around the continent of Africa.
Container shipping giant Maersk suspended use of the Red Sea and Suez Canal at the start of the year after one of its vessels was attacked by the Houthi militants, and it warned of "significant" consequences for global growth as a result of the disruptions.
The U.S. and the U.K. have responded with strikes against the Houthi, which the U.S. recently relisted as a terrorist group. The U.S. and the U.K. on Thursday announced sanctions leveled at four senior Houthi officials in Yemen.
Hoffmann said there were now three key global trade routes disrupted, also including flows of grain and oils since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the Panama Canal, where low water levels from drought meant shipping last month was down 36% year-on-year and 62% from two years ago, according to Reuters.
UBS has estimated that routing ships around Africa – which increases the journey length by about two and a half weeks – reduces an Asia-Europe trip's effective capacity by about 25%. Hoffman said the longer routes and vessels traveling faster to compensate for detours means emissions are also rising.
Spot container rates recorded their sharpest weekly increase of $500, affecting not just Asia-to-Europe shipments but also the non-Suez route to the U.S west coast, which has more than doubled. However, rates were still only about half of the peak hit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hoffmann said that food prices could feel the impact, too, although end-consumers in developed countries may take some time to see an effect. He said that about half of the increases in food prices seen since the war in Ukraine were due to higher transport costs.
"Passing on these higher freight rates to consumers takes time, up to a year until . . . we would really see them in the shop, whatever shop - Ikea, Walmart or something," Hoffman said.
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POWER TO CHOOSE: The UK consumers surveyed expressed mixed feelings about using AI smart wallets
Just over one in two (51%) UK consumers would consider making payments using a chip implanted in their hand provided it met certain criteria including medical safety and privacy protection, a new survey reveals.
Of these, 8% said they would be comfortable using a payments chip implant “if its privacy measures were water-tight”, 23% if it was “proven to be medically safe” and 20% “simply said they would be comfortable using this payment method”.
“The vast majority (83%) think a microchip implant would make them ‘feel like they are in a sci-fi movie’ and nearly half (48%) feel the chip would be useful if they were caught without cash or card,” the researchers say.
“However, invasiveness and security issues remain major concerns.”
The survey forms part of research published in The European Payments Landscape in 2030 report and also covers other existing or potential payment technologies, including cashierless shopping and AI-powered smart wallets or smart bank accounts.
It found that 30% of survey participants have used cashierless stores such as Amazon Go, 37% have not yet done so “but would like to” and 22% think the technology “is cutting edge”.
Trust in AI
On the subject of AI-powered solutions such as smart wallets that “can decide in an instant what the most sensible payment is for any given purchase” and smart bank accounts that “could automatically move surplus funds to savings, or put the brakes on overspending”, the survey reveals that, while 44% “would not feel comfortable with AI making automated purchasing decisions on their behalf”, a third (34%) would “trust AI to choose the most affordable method to pay for goods or services, 22% to select the most ethical way to pay, and 21% to choose which currency to pay in”.
Based on the results of the survey, the researchers predict that “consumers’ love of convenience could see purchasing power handed over to AI”, that “payments will become increasingly invisible as cards and even devices begin to disappear from the transaction” and that “cash will give way to digital, but is unlikely to disappear entirely”.
The survey of 2,037 consumers from across the UK was conducted on behalf of card and payments services provider Marqeta.
One in two UK consumers would consider a payments chip implant was written by Tom Phillips and published by NFCW.


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Texada Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble Iron Inc., has been chosen by Milton Rents Inc., an affiliate of Milton Cat, as its equipment rental software provider. Milton Rents is a New England-based rental services company that offers a comprehensive inventory of equipment and products to its customers. Milton Rents will be deploying Texada’s SRM (Systematic Rental Management), FleetLogic mobile field service and logistics application and GateWay e-commerce suite in all of its rental locations.
“Texada continues to strengthen relationships with Caterpillar dealerships and rental companies across North America with customers such as Toromont, Battlefield, ERS Cat and now Milton Rents,” said Nabil Kassam, CEO of Noble Iron. “We are proud to serve Milton Rents’ rental management needs with a completely integrated platform that combines a suite of software solutions to empower the team and transform their digital and remote working capabilities. We find that the rental industry continues to search for an all-inclusive software solution that combines back office, equipment maintenance services, dispatch and logistics, inventory management, e-commerce, analytics, and payment processing capabilities. Texada serves that sweet spot of integrated solutions and we are excited to partner with Milton Rents to unlock more revenue potential and productivity.”
“We chose Texada Software because they offered a full suite of products needed to manage a rental company from start to finish,” said Pete Laurie, director of rental services, Milton Rents. “Texada’s software will provide us with the opportunity to rise to the next level in the rental industry and allow us to continue to provide the customer with an exceptional rental experience. Additionally, their years of industry experience was critical to our decision along with their expertise in implementing and serving enterprise customers. One thing that is very important is our ability to consult with our technology partner on best practices and processes needed to run a rental services business. The expertise Texada has in the rental industry is as valuable as their technology.”
Texada Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble Iron Inc., offers cloud or client-based software applications for equipment rental companies, equipment dealerships, construction companies, general contractors, and equipment operators, including mechanics, logistics and service technicians.


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A few months ago, it turned out that LG developed a T-type phone. And now this phone has been born through a leak video. Although something unknown on the phone, it seems that the launch is close.
A few months ago, we talked about the fact that the South Korean technology giant is working on a new smartphone similar to the letter “T.” Despite little-known details about this smartphone, which should soon be launched, a leaked video shows what LG Wing will look like.
The video, which merges the Android Authority website, also shows that Wing has an interesting design that can rotate with a small screen. A small and rotating phone screen with a large screen measuring 6.8 inches, measuring 4.0 inches. Users can activate the second screen when using this smartphone while requiring different applications. It seems that this phone attracts the attention of users and publishers who need constant navigation.
This is how LG Wing looks in the leaked video
LG Wing has several unknown points. For example, it is not known where the second screen of this smartphone is and how the camera installation works. In addition, all applications work on the second screen, among unknown details at the moment. But the event that LG will host and the explanations he will make will reveal all the details on the phone.
LG’s dual and rotatable screen phone may also have been seen on Geekbench
It appears that the approaching LG dual-screen phone was recently spotted on Geekbench. The company recently delivered a phone with the code “LGE LM-F100N” to Geekbench tests. This will be LG Wing, which can rotate the second screen. And what do the phone data on Geekbench say?
According to the description of the phone with LGE LM-F100N Geekbench code, this smartphone is powered by the Qualcomm 765G Snapdragon processor. If the operating system of the smartphone, which supports this power of at least 8 GB of RAM, goes to Android 10. When we look at the results of the phone tests on Geekbench, we see that LGE LM-F100N receives 601 points in tests of single-core processors and 1.843 points in tests of multi-core processors.
The South Korean tech giant has not yet made any statements on this phone. But the likelihood that the phone was spotted in Geekbench suggests that there is little time left before the launch. The event that the company will hold will have enough details about this phone.


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Tesla, in the latest of a series of price breaks it started after the new year, has introduced less expensive versions of its models X sports-utility vehicle and S sedan.
The models are $10,000 under the originals’ sticker prices in the U.S., starting at $88,490 and $98,490, respectively, according to news reports.
A key difference is that the new versions get you approximately 75 to 85 fewer miles of range between charges, depending on the model. The X has a little faster acceleration speed.
The EV-only maker has sacrificed margins for sales volume, cutting prices on its lineup as the industry faces the pressures of inflation and the high interest rates intended to dampen it. The reductions have moved some other automakers to follow suit as brands jockey to grab share of a growing electric-vehicle market, which is still led in the U.S. by Tesla.
The Texas-based automaker is facing increasing competition from legacy automakers that are filling out their EV lineups with more and more models.
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A partnership between the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative and reusable wine bottle company Revino is hoping to bring more refill infrastructure to the state.
Pacific-Northwest-based Revino was founded in 2021 and runs a reusable glass bottle program for Willamette Valley, Oregon winemakers. Its bottles can be refilled up to 50 times, according to a local news outlet.
Starting in 2024, Revino will send its bottles – about 2.4 million, by its estimation – to about 30 wine brands across Oregon. Those brands will then fill the bottles with their products and sell them using their own labeling.
After purchasing, consumers can return the bottles to any Oregon BottleDrop location, just like they could with any other containers covered by the state deposit return system (DRS). Wine is not covered under the DRS.
The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC) administers the state DRS program and also has its own reusable beer bottle program it’s been running for several years.
Just like the beer bottles, Revino’s bottles will be pulled out and sent to a washing facility before being reused. The company estimates that it will send out about 2.4 million bottles in 2024.
Morgen McLaughlin, executive director of the Willamette Valley Wineries Association, said the program “will fill a crucial hole in Oregon’s wine industry by introducing a sustainable solution for glass bottle reuse.”
Eric Chambers, OBRC vice president of strategy and outreach, said consumers’ familiarity with BottleDrop will increase the chances that Revino gets its bottles back.


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Visa, the world’s largest credit and debit card network, has snapped up South African mobile financial services company Fundamo for $110-million in cash.
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The Cape Town-based Fundamo is a privately-held company which has more than 50 active mobile financial services deployments across 40 countries, including 27 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The company has been operating since 1999 and has a number of funders which include Cape Town venture capitalists and emerging market investment group PoweredByVC, investment company Remgro and financial services corporate Sanlam. PoweredByVC is also linked to dot.com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth.
Fundamo’s deployments currently have a base of more than five million registered subscribers, but Visa believes there is “potential to reach more than 180-million consumers”. Mobile prepaid payments provide affordable transaction capabilities to merchants and consumers in emerging market regions.
Visa says the investment will “accelerate the execution of Visa’s global strategy… to provide the next generation of payments solutions, enabling consumers to transact wherever and whenever they choose…”
“Mobile network operators and financial institutions will now be able to take advantage of Fundamo’s trusted mobile financial services platform backed by Visa’s high standards for security, reliability and scale,” says Hannes van Rensburg, CEO of Fundamo.
Hannes van Rensburg and the Fundamo management team will continue to manage current and future Fundamo implementations as valuable members of Visa’s mobile product organisation.
In a related deal, Visa announced it would also acquire Monitise plc, a UK-based mobile banking network which provides mobile financial services to more developed world economies.
“The combination of acquiring Fundamo and expanding the relationship with Monitise will enable Visa to deliver best-in-class mobile financial services and payments capabilities to consumers across the full spectrum of uses, geographies and mobile environments from basic services on simple handsets to more advanced services for smart phone owners,” said Visa in a statement.
The mobile wallet
Fundamo’s main product is its “mobile wallet” — a complete ‘standalone’ banking solution with a functional and secure account which customers can use to make convenient and secure payments, amongst other things, from their mobile phone. The account is managed and maintained on the mobile phone as well as through the use of the internet or a branded payment card.
Fundamo says its wallet “delivers the fully integrated solution; the consumer friendly interface on the handset, the robust transaction and security engine for secure, efficient processing, and the fully functional value store (transactional account) with all the robust administrative functions and processes required to manage the back office.”
Delivering to the unbanked
Visa believes Fundamo’s platform enables the delivery of mobile financial services to unbanked and under-banked consumers around the world—including person-to-person payment, airtime top-up, bill payment and branchless banking services.
Visa reckons that the combined Visa-Fundamo platform will add “enhanced functionality and new services to existing mobile financial services subscribers across Africa, Asia and Latin America for safe, reliable and globally accepted payments solutions”.
“It will expand the utility of closed-loop systems, enable them to be interoperable, make financial services available to more consumers and offer merchants access to new customers. This has the potential to connect billions of unbanked and under-banked consumers to each other and to the global economy,” Visa said in a statement.


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Real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran didn't mince words when asked about Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's recent behavior.
Yahoo Finance legal reporter Alexis Keenan breaks down the new lawsuit levied against Elon Musk and Twitter following Musk's takeover bid of the social media platform.
With inflation still stubbornly high and the Federal Reserve poised to continue raising rates, investors have shunned stocks in nearly every sector. Airbnb's unique booking platform for short-term and long-term stays hasn't been a great market performer since it went public last year, but even as a shareholder, I'm not worried. Not only is that proof of a travel rebound, but it also marks the first time that Airbnb surpassed 100 million nights and experiences booked in a quarter.


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In the past few weeks, I am sure you have heard lots of news about Bitcoin, Amazon Coins and the like. It appears that in the future we may not need tangible dollars and cents to buy our clothing!
I was on the phone the other day with a girlfriend talking about virtual currency and value exchange. As I have discussed in the past, I am a big believer in value exchange in terms of digital marketing and getting your message in front of your consumers and I really see the value in virtual currency.
That said, what many people don’t seem to know is that virtual currency actually has real world value.
Think about it.
When buying Kindle Fire game apps or making in-app purchases on Amazon, you can now use Amazon Coins instead of your credit card to finalize that purchase.
And while at first Amazon is giving some of that away, in the long run, consumers are going to have to purchase or earn that currency like any other virtual currency including air miles, credit card points or Farm Cash.
At one point, Facebook even launched their own currency called Facebook Credits.
So, what is the point of all of this digital currency?
First, it allows the creditor a direct connection with the consumer as the consumer racks up credits or points. It also makes consumers more loyal to that particular brand as they are now invested in earning more of their favorite brand’s virtual currency.
If you play FarmVille, aren’t you going to keep playing in the hopes of earning more Farm Cash? Do you have a favorite airline or credit card that you use in order to rack up miles or points? I know I do.
Virtual currency also has no borders. Amazon Coins will likely be accepted globally over time (though it is currently only available in the US).
It also makes the purchase process simple and seamless. No worrying about entering credit card information or concerning yourself with your credit limit. If you have enough Amazon Coins, you are all set to make a purchase.
And over time, it is speculated that virtual currency like Amazon Coins and Facebook Credits will be redeemable for tangible items just like you airline miles currently are.
Do you have any thoughts regarding digital currency? Like it? Hate it? Tell us your opinion in the Comments.


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published: Sunday, August 25, 2013
Real estate agent introduces mobile app to Highlands County
Special to the News-Sun
SEBRING - "Apps are considered the New Internet," said Jeanny Campbell, Broker-agent at RE/MAX Realty Plus, a 34-year veteran in the real estate business. An app is a very common term for a web-based application, that can be downloaded cheaply or even free for mobile devices, which allows you to access information easily and quickly.
Ninety-one percent of all people have their mobile phones within arm's reach 24 hours a day seven days a week.
According to an ABI research survey of U.S. consumers, respondents who said they had downloaded a retailer-branded app said 45.8 percent had visited the facility more often, 40.4 percent bought more products and services, 71 percent of smartphone users found it useful to download mobile apps to their phones, 35.8 percent told a friend.
"This is powerful, respected advertising at no additional cost to the consumer," Campbell said. Of those who have downloaded apps, nearly 2 in 3 said they use their apps daily, 1 in 4 use their apps more than 30 minutes per day.
Between 2010 and 2011 there was a 91 percent increase in time users spent on apps. The average smartphone user currently has about 41 apps downloaded on their smartphone. The study shows that 81 percent of mobile phones will be smartphones by 2015.
Being the first one in the area, Campbell designed her own app a few months ago and she encourages other Realtors to consider this new technology as a service for their buyers, sellers and even other Realtors who don't want their own app. By downloading the "Jeanny Campbell" app, buyers, sellers and Realtors are able to look up listings by criteria, address or MLS numbers, can call, e-mail or access her website. A buyer or seller can even upload pictures to her app.
"While showing a home to a couple who wanted to make a lower offer, by using the mortgage calculator on my app, I was able to quickly show them the difference in their monthly payment and encouraged them to make a higher offer; the deal was done - buyers are sellers are happy," and Campbell says "that's the name of the game."
Campbell's number one commitment to this business is to give "outrageous customer service and to meet and exceed customer's expectations."
Anyone encouraged to learn more about apps can contact Jeanny Campbell at RE/MAX Realty Plus located at 809 US 27 S., Sebring and can be reached via her app "Jeanny Campbell" or by phone 381-1848.
(by: Wanda - 8/26/2013)
Thanks for updating the article :)
(by: Wanda - 8/25/2013)
Does anyone proof read articles before they go to print??
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UAAGI has announced that it will be extending support for its Foton customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
United Asia Automotive Group, Inc. and Autohub group open its Davao City showroom for Chery and Foton vehicles.
Chinese cars are coming up in popularity, and filling in a gap in the market that other brands can’t, here’s the data.
Chery re-enters the Philippines with 12 shared dealerships with Foton, further expanding the brand in the country.
The Chery brand gets a revamp thanks to UAAGI, the company also in charge of the Foton brand in the Philippines.
United Asia Automotive Group, Inc (UAAGI) is bringing in their second brand for the Philippine market, Chery Automobile.
Foton Philippines gives you another option when choosing a people carrying vehicle.
Here is a review of one of Foton’s biggest offerings for consumers, the Toano minibus.
In the market for a small commercial vehicle? Heed this list to be informed.
A zero downpayment option is one of the best deals offered to local car buyers.
Foton offers buyers the chance to see and drive its vehicle lineup up close and personal on September 12-13, 2019 at the Big AtTRUCKtion event in Megatent Libis
Foton PH recently showcased its F-Jeepney and joined a DOTr and LTFRB run caravan event that helps the public understand the importance of jeepney modernization
Foton Philippines has re-openned its Cagayan De Oro facility with more space, and better ambiance for clients.
The Foton Gratour was initially launched back in 2015 with a 1.2L engine, but Foton decides to beef it up with 1.5L mill.
Midsize SUVs in the Philippines are best sellers because of their high ground clearance, frugal diesel engines, and space for seven or a lot of cargo.
Foton Motor Philippines, Inc. is proud to announce that its Metro Clark dealership in Pampanga is now open and ready to serve clients.
The Foton Hurricane is a capable truck that features notable additions to help businesses run smoothly without a hitch.
Foton showcased its lineup of vehicles available for the government’s modernization program, and for its other PUVs.
Foton partners with BPI Family Savings Bank to offer more flexible bank financing on heavy-duty trucks.
Safety and technology meet public transport in the form of the FOTON F-Jeep. The company is eager to bring its CV into the light of day.


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Listen the article here: GLC INC. · Los Angeles Container Ports Lessen Congestion Records are being broken at one of the nation’s biggest Ocean Ports. According to the Port of Los Angeles, July 2022 was a record month for them in processing containers. On Aug 17, 2022, a press release was announced by the Port, claiming they processed an estimated 935,345 Twenty-foot TEUs in July. … Read More
Long Beach takes First Steps Towards 24/7 Supply Chain Operations
Sept. 17th, in the thick of peak season with roughly 50 vessels anchored in San Pedro Bay, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles announced sweeping reforms in an attempt to improve fluidity and reduce delays during what continues to be unprecedented volumes at our nations largest ports. Among many of the measures being taken, is a much-needed move towards 24/7 operations. Both ports are extending … Read More
GLC Opens Three New Distribution Centers
It is with great excitement, we announce the addition of three new distribution centers to the GLC network.
GLC Distribution Invests $80,000 in Additional Racking for L.A. Warehouse
With online sales skyrocketing during the pandemic, GLC Distribution’s L.A. warehouse has seen a year over year increase of 60% in e-commerce related warehousing and distribution services.


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Samsung camera lovers received some good news via Dropbox today. According to Dropbox’s head of mobile business development Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen, future Samsung smart cameras are going to come packing Dropbox and 50GB of free storage for 2 years.
The news is nothing new for Samsung Galaxy Camera owners, who already had the service and 50GB built in. But the fact that they’re putting Dropbox on all cameras means you won’t have to pony up $500 to get the automated cloud storage benefits.
If you’re a Flickr user, you can currently snag and open a Christmas present from the service a few days early. The photo sharing service — which has been undergoing a renaissance as of late — is currently handing out three free months of Pro membership. Simply log in to find a link to the present on your home page, or visit the Holiday Gift page directly.
In the world of cloud data storage, Dropbox is one of the 800lb gorillas fighting for your files. In recent days, it has been making big moves to become more of a player in photo storage and sharing. After all, everyone needs a safe place to keep their digital images, right?
The company’s latest play came today in the form of an acquisition: Dropbox has acquired fellow cloud-storage company Snapjoy — a business based around aggregating photos from around the web and from your various devices.
One chapter in the saga of Kodak’s escape from bankruptcy has come to an end. The company announced today that it has completed the sale of its valuable imaging patents for $525 million to a group of Silicon Valley companies. The deal involves more than 1,100 patents related to the capturing, manipulating, and sharing of digital photographs.
If you’ve recently purchased a Nikon D600 at its standard body-only retail price of $2,000, you might want to stop reading this post lest you suddenly find yourself filled with manufacturer-induced buyers remorse. If you’re a budget-conscious photographer in the market for a new full-frame DSLR, today might be your lucky day.
Nikon has launched a brand-wide fire sale of the Nikon D600. While the body-only price hasn’t changed, retailers around the web are selling the camera with a bundled lens and pricey accessories for the same price as the body itself.
Last week, New York City-based photo retailer Adorama launched a new VIP program to reward regular customers with some sweet perks. If you regularly buy your gear from the company’s website, you’ll be glad to know that membership in the program is currently free. It’s a $149 value that’s available for a limited time.
If you’ve been jostling with crowds today over Black Friday deals and are heavy laden with shopping bags, take a look at this sweet deal that won’t be any extra hassle: Amazon is currently selling the full boxed version of Adobe Lightroom 4 for just $79! It’s regularly priced at $150, and sometimes dips down to $100, but $79 for one of the most popular image editing programs is quite an attractive offer. No word on how long this pricing will last, but we’re guessing that it’ll go back up after today or the holiday season.
You can also find the complete list of camera- and photo-related Black Friday deals offered by Amazon on this page.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 [Amazon]
Update: The deal is now over.
If you’re in need of an extra memory card or two, check out the Gold Box Deal of the Day over on Amazon. The company is selling Transcend brand SD and CF memory cards for up to 60% off their regular prices.
Today only—and just in time for the holidays—get up to 60% off memory and storage from Transcend Information. Boost the performance of your camcorders, digital cameras, and other devices with Transcend Information Class 10 SDHC memory cards and store files and photos on Transcend JetFlash retractable USB flash drives.
64GB SD and CF cards cost just $40 and $85, respectively, providing savings of 50% and 60%. The one-day offer will expire at the end of the day today.
Up to 60% Off Select Transcend Memory and Storage [Amazon via Photography Bay]
Leave it up to Samsung to hold crazy promotions for its mirrorless cameras — at least in the UK. The company recently offered to give a NX1000 mirrorless camera to anyone named David Bailey; 142 David Baileys came forward to claim their camera. Now the camera maker is doing another unique promo, and this time it’s open to the general public: it’s giving away tablet computers with its mirrorless cameras.
Looking for a cheap fog machine or fog juice for your photography? Hurry out to your local pop-up Halloween store today: David Hobby of Strobist reminds us that these seasonal stores often offer deep-discounts of those things once All Hallows’ Eve has come and gone.


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February 2011 Dalton, GA-At Yellowstone National Park, another sight that’s as predictable as the park’s famous Old Faithful Geyser are recycling bins stuffed with food wrappers, plastic bottles, and other items generated by the park’s three and a half million annual visitors. In recent years, Yellowstone Park has been the leader in recycling innovation with programs that have significantly reduced the park’s dependency on area landfills. A new and unique recycling partnership, forged with Universal Textile Technologies, Four Corners Recycling, CPE, Inc and the United Soybean Board (USB), will reduce and ensure the reuse of the amount of plastic bottles that go into landfills, create and protect jobs for the American workforce and help Yellowstone National Park meet its recycling goals
Universal Textile has committed to purchase the recyclable plastic bottles Yellowstone collects each year and convert them into a non-woven fleece material that is used to manufacture high-performance backing for carpet and select synthetic turf products. This process will promote the reuse of discarded plastic bottles, while demonstrating the unlimited potential organizations can realize when they work towards a common goal. The Georgia Tech Research Institute has provided third-party verification for this innovative project. USB helped forge the partnership through its longstanding relationships with both Universal and Yellowstone National Park. Universal is a leader in the use of soy to reduce the petroleum content in its backing. Yellowstone is a nationally recognized trailblazer in the use of biobased products as well as recycling.
Like many recyclable materials collected in America, most of the plastics collected in Yellowstone had previously been sold overseas, where they were used to produce plastic products that were later sold in the U.S. “Yellowstone was created as the world’s first national park in 1872. We have an obligation to set the example for promoting sound environmental stewardship practices that will serve as a model for future generations. This new partnership not only diverts plastics from landfills, it protects and creates U.S. jobs and dramatically decreases the fuel and other resources used to transport materials around the planet,” stated Jim Evanoff, an innovative and nationally recognized speaker on the Yellowstone Eco-System, an Environmental Protection Specialist with Yellowstone National Park and instrumental in the implementation of this exciting program.
Universal Textile incorporates the use of recycled bottles to manufacture BioCelTM and EnviroCelTM environmentally friendly polyurethane backing systems for carpet and synthetic turf. Both BioCel and EnviroCel utilize recycled plastic bottles combined with naturally renewable soybean- based polyols, derived from domestically grown soybeans. The use of soy-based products helps to support the U.S. economy, create American jobs and is another way Universal Textile products contribute money back into the U.S. economy. Universal Textile is a member of the Biobased Products Coalition.
The partnership represents a model system that can help increase the demand for recycled content in American-made products. For example, Yellowstone will have the ability to purchase carpets featuring recycled content from the park combined with Universal’s soy based polyol technology, bringing the recycle story full circle.
Both BioCel and EnviroCel assist in LEED® certification. BioCel and EnviroCel are resistant to moisture, insulate against energy loss, reduce ambient noise and increase the structural integrity of carpet and synthetic turf. BioCel and EnviroCel also use CelceramTM, a highly refined material recovered from coal combustion in electric utility power plants.
“We are told on average 3 or 4 bottles out of 10 are recycled in America today. Our objective is to increase the number of bottles recycled. We believe this amazing program will increase awareness of the many opportunities for Americans to participate. We ask you to recycle your plastic, by doing so you will help our great country, additionally creating jobs and growing our economy. These benefits will be shared by everyone for generations to come. If we don’t address these issues today our children and grandchildren will certainly be forced to,” said Doug Giles, director of marketing for Universal Textile Technologies. “We are excited to be a part of Project Yellowstone and are looking forward to working with the National Park Service.”
Universal Textile Technologies supplies the carpet industry with multiple backing systems manufactured for use in mid to high-traffic commercial, hospitality, residential, corporate, healthcare, education, and lodging markets. Additional markets include synthetic turf for sports fields and synthetic grass for landscape applications. For more information, contact Universal Textile here.
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New York: Targeting brown people as potential Taliban sympathisers in America is as old as the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks. However, 50-year-old Surjeet Bassi, an Indian national is tired of racial profiling and is suing a New Jersey car dealership for $1.26 million for allegedly refusing to sell him a Mercedes Benz for fear that he might ship it to the Taliban.
When Bassi, 50, who runs a successful medical transport company, and his business partner Deepak Kumar approached Prestige Motors Inc in Bergen County, New Jersey, at the beginning of June, he intended to trade in his old Mercedes-Benz for a newer Mercedes Benz GLS550 SUV with the black interior he desired.
Bassi went through all the hoops: He spent five hours at the dealership choosing a vehicle, then negotiating a price with the salesman. He passed a credit check, paid a $1,000 down payment, and showed the dealership his bank statements. Finally, a deal was reached. Just as Bassi thought the hardest part of the process was over, his day took a turn for the worse.
The manager called Bassi into his office and said he couldn't sell him the car. According to Bassi, the manager told him that he came from a “high-risk area” where people often buy cars and send them to the Taliban.
A startled Bassi, who has lived in New Jersey for 30 years explained that he is originally from India, and is in no way connected to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The lawsuit says a search of Bassi's name on a federal database of those banned from exporting cars turned up nothing, but the manager still refused to sell him a new car. Bassi even offered to sign a waiver stating that he wouldn’t sell the car to anyone for three years. “I said, ‘Give me the paper, I’ll sign it’,” Bassi said, adding, “I have a Mercedes already, if I wanted to export it I would sell that one.”
But the Mercedes car dealership still refused to sell Bassi a new car, which the lawsuit says is "racial stereotyping, premised on the plaintiff's race and appearance" and it wouldn't have happened if he'd been "a white citizen of the United States".
When contacted by Firstpost on Tuesday, the dealership's manager declined to comment.
"Prestige Mercedes Benz values its relationships with customers and prospective customers," spokeswoman Theresa V Boylan later said in a statement, "As a company, we do not condone discriminatory practices or conduct. Out of respect for the process and all parties, it is our policy not to comment on pending legal matters."
Bassi, who said the entire experience left him “rattled" and heartbroken, is now suing the car dealership for $60,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages. His lawyers filed a lawsuit on 5 July in the US District Court in New York's Southern District.
Bassi's civil rights attorney, Michael Sussman, described the appalling incident as “blatant racial discrimination”.
“This is an instance of the madness we’ve come to,” Sussman told the US media.
The law firm said the dealership had violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act by refusing to extend credit to Bassi.
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It’s only natural that a motorcycle brand idled for almost 60 years might take a little while to get up to speed. But early customers don’t appear to be clamoring for the three new Indians, a motorcycle brand born in 1922, shut down in 1954 and resurrected in August by Polaris Industries.
Polaris, a Minnesota company known for its snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, reported a six percent slide in motorcycle sales for the three months ended Sept. 30, which includes more than month in which the new Indian models had arrived at dealerships. Marketing probably wasn’t the problem, as Polaris had scattered tchotchkes and peppered potential customers with Indian ads for months before its big reveal. And when the unveiling came, the bikes looked pretty smart and won some throaty praise from critics.
What sent Indian skidding a bit was Harley-Davidson, which craftily lined up its biggest product launch in more than a century just days after the Polaris announcement in motorcycle-mad Sturgis, S.D. This morning, meanwhile, Harley said its new Project Rushmore line fueled a 15 percent increase in the number of bikes sold in the recent quarter.
Almost 71,000 Harleys rolled out of dealerships in the period, and the company’s share of the U.S. heavy bike market revved up slightly to 56.5 percent. “The results at retail speak for themselves,” Harley CEO Keith Wandell said on a conference call this morning.
This is not what Polaris was hoping would come from its Indian marketing mantra: “Choice is here.” Bikers definitely have more options this fall, but they appear to be choosing the new Harleys over the Indians or Polaris’s other motorcycle brand, the 15-year-old Victory line. Winning customers who never thought to buy a motorcycle might be a lot easier than convincing Harley fans to switch hogs.
What’s more, Harley gets a bit of a turbo boost from the accessories market. Some five percent of its total revenue comes from selling Harley gear, a type of brand equity that Indian might have trouble tracking down after being more or less mothballed since 1954. Polaris is giving the souvenir market a shot, but it doesn’t yet have Indian-themed Christmas ornaments ($18), piggy banks ($45), or napkin rings ($35).
What it does have, however, is some fuel to burn. Thanks to solid financial engineering, Polaris is pretty balanced and well-tuned. Sales of off-road vehicles—almost three-quarters of its business—increased by 23 percent in the recent quarter. Its snowmobiles were seeing similar momentum thanks to demand in Russia and Scandinavian countries. All told, the company posted a 24 percent increase in profit and beat expectations despite its sputtering motorcycles.
And executives still expect the new bikes to get momentum. “I think of this as the calm before the storm as the Indian business is poised for rapid growth,” Polaris CEO Scott Wine said on a conference call this morning. “It occurred to me that bringing this business back to life is quite similar to the birth of a child: tremendous excitement and anticipation, followed by great joy and adulation and then years of really, really hard work.”
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New Food Economy: Walmart’s new patents will allow it to track you in its stores—with or without your consent
by H. Claire Brown | June 25th, 2018
The company’s increasing ability to harness in-store data may be its most important competitive advantage over Amazon.
Ten years ago, a wheel broke on a space rover exploring Mars. As the rover inched along, dragging its stiff wheel through the red dust that coats the planet, it scraped through the dirt and uncovered a deposit that shocked scientists back on Earth: The chemical analyzer at the end of the rover’s arm detected 90 percent pure silica, a concentration of the compound that can be formed only in the presence of water. It was some of the best evidence yet that there was once water on Mars.
Meanwhile, back on terra familiar, in sprawling parking lots across the country, Walmart may be planning to use a similar method to extract granular shopping data from the people in its stores. According to a patent issued earlier this month titled “Methods and Systems for Monitoring a Facility,” the company plans to coat its floors with various invisible substances (“oil-based, wax-based, and flecks- or flakes-based, among others”) designed to rub off onto shopping cart wheels. As customers wind their way through the aisles, their carts will accumulate layer after layer of these markers. A (presumably hidden) camera at the checkout counter snaps a photo of the wheels while the shopper is distracted with payment, and poof: Walmart has captured a map of your movements forever. It’s not water in space, but it might make some money for the Waltons.
Why is this information valuable? Well, Walmart can cross-reference data gathered from your cart wheels with line items on your receipts to figure out all kinds of other details: Whether you tend to pick up candy bars in the grocery aisle, for instance, or if you buy them impulsively at the checkout counter, instead. It could also use aggregated information to draw out subtler clues. If shoppers are browsing the electronics section without buying anything, it might amp up its promotions in that aisle.
For Walmart, the benefits are obvious. It can use cart path data to tweak its store layouts and place high-margin products in places where its customers are most likely to take the bait. For us shoppers, however, the consequences are less clear. We’ll be tracked around the store without having granted our consent—and all we get in return is a bit of extra junk on our shoes.
Privacy implications aside, the plan seems like a lot of effort on Walmart’s part for relatively little return. The company already has a lot of data on its hands. It analyzes about 200 billion rows of transactional information every couple of weeks, cross-referencing them with other sources of information like weather reports, Nielsen data, social media trends, gas prices, and even local events. It can extract most of that information with relative ease, so why waste time and money smearing chemicals on its floors?
The real value in a system that tracks shoppers’ every movement might have less to do with selling more soda and more to do with selling ad space to the brands that make the soda. For the last decade or so, the company has quietly been amping up its efforts to sell advertising real estate—both in stores and online—to the brands that hope to move their products through its stores.
Back in 2008, Walmart launched a program for selling digital real estate on screens inside its stores. Dubbed the SMART network, the ads were displayed on welcome screens that greeted customers as they entered the store, “category screens” a few steps away from the products in question, and “endcaps” which are within reach of the products they hawk. This system was basically a digitized version of traditional grocery store promotions, which typically involve placing attractive product displays at the ends of aisles. In 2010, trade magazine Digital Signage reported that Walmart had released figures for the first 18 months of its SMART network program, and they showed success by pretty much any metric: advertisements on the in-store digital screens increased sales of food products by 13 percent, beauty products by 28 percent, and electronics by 7 percent.
As of 2010, when the Digital Signage story was written, Walmart was tracking SMART network sales based on a system that cross-referenced the timing of its digital display advertisements with the sales of the items they promoted. Fast forward eight years, and Walmart’s new patent shows that its sales tracking system may get even more sophisticated. Rather than present Coca-Cola with data that correlates ad timing with beverage sales, wouldn’t it be better to show Coca-Cola exactly how many people walked past its ads, which of them grabbed a Sprite off the endcap instead, and which of them saw an ad four times before finally purchasing a Coke on their way out? That way, Walmart could raise prices on the highest-performing pieces of in-store real estate or make money by convincing brands that they’ll sell more crap to more people if they purchase ads on 30 in-store screens rather than 10.
The patent’s implications for Walmart’s e-commerce ad sales might be an even bigger deal. Walmart sees its in-store data collection as a major component of its competitive advantage over Amazon and any other encroaching e-tailers that are vying for its customers. The company is selling more and more advertisements on its website and app, which range from digital product suggestions at the end of an online transaction to search ads on its home page. “In-store data is Walmart’s secret sauce,” senior analyst for Forrester Research Susan Bidel told Digiday in 2017. The data allow brands hoping to advertise on the store’s website to target their audiences with a high degree of precision. “For instance, a shoe brand that targets 25- to 40-year-old women with a household income of at least $50,000 a year can exclude people who bought shoes at Walmart over the past six months, so the brand won’t serve ads to this newly shoed group,” wrote Yuyu Chen in the Digiday story.
To wit, another new Walmart patent issued in March provides a glimpse into how the company may be planning to combine in-store data with its growing online platform. The premise is simple: Users write a shopping list on their phones and then head to the store. Once inside, the company can track their movements in a few different ways. It can use Bluetooth beacons if they’ve downloaded the company’s app, or wi-fi information if they log into the store’s network, or—perhaps most invasively—facial recognition through its security camera systems.
After the computer system has identified the “guided” shopper’s location within the store, it scans through security camera footage to identify which aisles are the most crowded. According to the patent, the system can categorize customers based on their predicted velocity. Customers with children are likely to move slowly, for instance, while customers without carts are likely to move quickly. Once the system has compared your list to its congestion map, it re-orders your path to whisk you through the path of least resistance.It might save customers a bit of time, but the guided shopper system will be a much bigger boon to Walmart if it takes off. Think of the advertising opportunities. It could guide customers past in-store display ads, ensuring an additional “impression” for the brand that pays for the space. It could offer name brands the opportunity to undercut the competition by pushing a coupon through the app that offers a Bounty discount on those paper towels you’d planned to buy generic. It could identify the items you’ve splurged on before and charge advertisers to walk you past them again. Perhaps most significantly, it could aggregate every shopping list you write over the course of years and years and hone its ad-serving platform to target you based on your income level, the things you like, and everything you’ve ever bought that wasn’t on your shopping list.
Of course, most of us probably assume companies are able to track our every movement on their websites—how many times we look at a flower pot before we buy it, whether or not we re-order sunscreen from the same place twice in a row, whether or not we respond to ads that follow us around the internet after we glance at a pair of sneakers online. But it’s not yet a widely accepted given that we’re also tracked as we walk around inside stores and wander through their aisles. Most companies still need at least a thin layer of consent before tracking our locations—an app download, a wi-fi login, a blind signoff on a “terms and conditions” screen. But Walmart’s new patents show that the company is looking for new ways get its hands on our in-store whereabouts, whether it be through facial recognition on security cameras or chemical footprints on our shoes.
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ARK update 2.29 patch notes for PS4 and Xbox One is now available for players. According to the official ARK 2.29 patch notes, the latest ARK Survival Evolved update resolves various issues and added gameplay changes. In addition, ARK version 2.29 also includes performance improvements.
Previously, a big update was released which added ARK Genesis part 1 DLC with new features, bug fixes, and quality of life improvements. Players can now discover, utilize and master new creatures, new craftable items, and new craftable structures.
Unfortunately, many players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game online. Today’s ARK version 2.29 is expected to fix a few of these errors. Check out more details here.
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In a statement Anish Shah, the CEO of Indian auto major Mahindra and Mahindra group said, it will explore sourcing more components from other companies to boost its electric vehicle (EV) portfolio.
While earlier Mahindra had focussed on developing EV components in-house, it is now changing tactics to forge partnerships to achieve faster growth in the segment.
Last week, Mahindra signed a partnership agreement with Volkswagen it will explore equipping its electric cars with motors, battery system components and cells made by the German automaker.
“The world is moving towards a lot more partnerships. It’s better to source the best that’s out there, rather than do everything ourselves,” said Shah in an interview at the World Economic Forum summit at Davos. “It’s VW (Volkswagen) at this stage and as we see similar strengths in other areas, we are open to looking at various components that we would bring in, and do what we are very good at in-house as well”.
Mahindra faces a tough competition from its peer Tata Motors in India where the clean mobility sector is increasing market acceptance at a rapid pace.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is offering companies billions of dollars in incentives to build EVs as India is pushing ahead to meet its climate change and carbon reduction goals.
Currently, although India’s EV market represents just 1% of the country’s annual sales of about 3 million vehicles, there is a rapid shift in consumer behaviour.
In 2021, Tata, which dominates India’s EV market, raised $1 billion from TPG for MG Motor India, which is owned by China’s SAIC Motor. It also plans on raising funds to develop its EV business.
“Mahindra will use significant funds for EVs. We always will be open to value creation opportunities,” said Shah.
While Mahindra has developed a portfolio of EV commercial vehicles in India, its latest push is focussed on passenger cars, and more particularly, sports utility vehicles (SUVs). “Our strike zone has been authentic SUVs, that’s where we are going to stay … we are not going to make EV sedans, no hatchbacks,” said Shah.
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Instagram is reaching into influencers’ pockets. The platform has now cut the amount it pays for short videos as it faces competition from TikTok.
Last year, Instagram introduced an invite-only program to some platform users, paying based on how many views a Reel receives. Influencers are given payouts within this program based on their specific view target. Their money is capped at a maximum fee every month.
Creators have revealed that their payments for Reels are down as much as 70 percent per view and the threshold to get paid is ten times higher. One influencer said their maximum payout per month is $35,000, but their views target raised from 58 million to 359 million.
TikTok became the world’s fastest-growing social media app in 2020, forcing rivals to compete for revenue-generating short-form clips. Instagram was quick to move towards video-based content since TikTok’s rise to fame.
Last year, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said, “Video is driving an immense amount of growth online for all the major platforms right now, and it’s one that I think we need to lean into more. We are no longer a photo-sharing app.”
Although Instagram saw a boom, the platform is quickly going downhill. Not only is pay decreasing, but so is the engagement. The number of views, likes, shares, and comments has dropped drastically, even for major influencers.
Instagram has not given any information about why they’ve decreased the pay, and with a lack of transparency, influencers are becoming more uncertain about the platform.


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Every year, Samsung launches Exynos and Snapdragon versions of its high-end phones, and India gets the Exynos version. Due to the inferior performance of Exynos chipsets over the past few years, Indian consumers have been demanding Samsung to launch Snapdragon versions of Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series smartphones, and it looks like they will get their prayers answered this year.
According to a new report, tipster Ishan Agarwal has confirmed that Samsung will launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 versions of Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and Galaxy S22 Ultra in India. This would be the first time Samsung is launching the Snapdragon version of a Galaxy S flagship phone in the Indian market. Last year, the South Korean firm had launched the Snapdragon 865 version of the Galaxy S20 FE 5G in India after high demand.
Going by a previous leak, Snapdragon versions of Galaxy S22 series smartphones will be launched in China, Japan, Latin America, North America, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. Exynos 2200 variants of the smartphones will be available in Africa, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
Both Exynos 2200 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 are fabricated using Samsung Foundry's 4nm process and feature ARM's v9 CPU cores. They also feature 5G (mmWave and sub-6GHz), GPS, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2. However, the Exynos 2200 uses the AMD RDNA 2-based Xclipse 920 GPU with hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and VRS. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 uses the new-generation Adreno GPU.
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Cashaa, a London-based Cryptocurrency exchange says it has lost 336 bitcoin, worth around $3.1 million to hackers.
The platform has ceased all crypto-related transactions, including withdrawals and deposits, as investigations into the breach begins.
Cashaa, via a tweet dated 11th July 2020 claimed that the hacker attacked one of its Blockchain.com wallets, which is used to store bitcoin (BTC) and make transfers from the exchange.
The attacker must have implanted malware into one of the exchange’s computers and the hack and transfer happened between 1:23 pm and 1:26 pm.
Cashaa chief executive officer Kumar Gaurav said “We are still investigating the damage caused by the incident and suspend all the withdrawals for 24 hours,” “We have called the board meeting to decide whether the company will bear all the losses,” he added.
The exchange said the funds were sent to the bitcoin address: 14RYUUaMW1shoxCav4znEh64xnTtL3a2Ek.


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A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.
Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the second quarter ended June 30 were $665.5 million, up 35% from the same period a year ago.
The San Mateo company reported a net loss of $140.1 million on revenues of $454.1 million (up 127%) for the second quarter. The results fell short of expectations.
Roblox has done well among its target audience of children and teens during the pandemic, as players turned to it for remote, socially distanced play with their friends at a time when they couldn’t meet in-person.
Roblox previously raised $520 million at a $29.5 billion valuation in a financing round ahead of its direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company. It opened on March 10 at a valuation of $41.9 billion a share and has hovered around that value. Investors greeted the results positively, with Roblox trading at $78.58 a share, down 1%, in after-hours trading.
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“Our continued growth demonstrates the importance of our mission and the power of our platform,” said David Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, in a statement. “These results are fueled both by our creator ecosystem and by the millions of people around the globe who want to connect and share new experiences every day on Roblox.”
Analysts expected a profit of 23 cents a share on bookings of $689.2 million. Most video game companies emphasize non-GAAP bookings, or the total value of virtual currency purchases by players during the quarter, instead of revenues, which under accounting rules are limited to those purchases that are expected to be fully resolved within a certain time period. For instance, a player may buy Robux currency in the first quarter, but spend it over 10 months. That revenue has to be recognized over time, as it is spent inside the platform’s games.
Roblox’s quarterly revenue came in at $454.1 million, up 127% from a year earlier. The GAAP net loss for the quarter was $140.1 million, or 25 cents a share. But operating cash flow as positive, and so that means cash is coming into the business.
Roblox gets a 30% cut from the bookings generated by sales of Robux, the virtual currency used by players to play user-generated games, the company’s bookings for 2020 were $1.9 billion, double what they were the year before. Roblox’s games have become so popular that people have played the best ones billions of times. For the year 2020, on average, 32.6 million people came to Roblox every day. More than 1.25 million creators have made money in Roblox. In the year ended December 31, 2020, users spent 30.6 billion hours engaged on the platform, an average of 2.6 hours per daily active user each day.
“In the quarter ending June 30, 2021, cash from operations and free cash flow continued at record levels. The third quarter is off to a strong start with our highest levels of users and engagement to date,” said Michael Guthrie, chief financial officer of Roblox, in a statement. “We will continue to invest in our developer community, hire top engineering talent, and build out the infrastructure required to scale Roblox globally.”
Roblox currently has 1,234 employees.
Net cash provided by operating activities increased 64% to $191.2 million in the second quarter.
Average daily active users (DAUs) were 43.2 million, an increase of 29% year over year driven by 42% growth in DAUs outside of the U.S. and Canada and 46% growth in DAUs over the age of 13.
Hours engaged were 9.7 billion, an increase of 13% year over year primarily driven by 27% growth in engagement in markets outside of the U.S. and Canada, and 29% growth from users over the age of 13. Average bookings per DAU (ABPDAU) was $15.41, a slight increase year over year.
Rather than make forecasts about how its upcoming quarter is expected to go, Roblox is not making a forecast. Rather, it is disclosing the actual results for the month of July, which is part of the second quarter.
For the month of July, Roblox’s DAUs were 46.6 million, up 28% from July 2020 and up 8% from 43.3 million in June 2021. Hours engaged were 3.8 billion, up 22% year over year and up 16% compared to 3.3 billion in June 2021.
Bookings were between $221 million and $224 million, up 19% to 21% year over year and up 10% to 11% sequentially from June 2021. Revenue was $161 million to $163 million, up 111% to 113% year over year and 2% to 4% sequentially from June 2021.
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Of the state's 179 insurers, 62 of them had zero consumer complaints upheld against them by state regulators. The largest carrier with a perfect record was Erie Insurance Co. The company had 18 complaints against it, 15 of them were withdrawn or rejected while three of them had "questions of fact." Erie had an average of $64.1 million in premiums during the same period.
Check out our roundup of real estate transactions in Erie County and Niagara County for the week ending Sept. 2. There were a total of 300 sales in Erie County, 75 in Niagara County.
Erie County's highest-priced property went for $6.05 million, while Niagara's priciest was $2.12 million. The median property price in Erie County was $118,500, while Niagara's was $95,500. Transactions are compiled from each county's clerk's office.
That's up 35 percent over what was expected and $405,101 more than its own projections. The success was attributed to its move from Lafayette Square to the Central Wharf and the summer's great weather, as compared to last year's rainy season.
The United Auto Workers Local 774 will meet Monday about an upcoming contract vote. Members will hear the details of a tentative contract the UAW reached with General Motors before they are scheduled to vote on it next week.
GM's Tonawanda plant, which employs 800 workers, is getting a boost from the addition of two new engine lines. The four-year pact would add or keep 6,400 jobs in the U.S. and offer buyouts to longtime workers. Most workers won't get annual pay raises, but will get at least $12,500 in bonuses, profit sharing and other payments over the life of the contract.
Travers Collins has opened a new office in Rochester. The advertising and public relations firm has parterned with Rochester-based PR veteran Mike McDougall to open McDougall Travers Collins. Collins said he had been wanting to break into the Rochester market for 10 years. He hopes McDougall's local and global contacts will bring new clients from Rochester and around the world.
Car sales are up in the region. Local new car sales rose 10 percent last month over August 2010. In fact, August saw the region's second-best totals of the year with sales of 4,919 for the month. Ford had the leading sales, selling 1,106 vehicles. That's up 22 percent from a year ago. Toyota's sales came in second, but were down 32 percent from last year. In third place was Nissan, with a 52 percent increase, according to data from the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association.
M&T Bank chairman and CEO Robert Wilmers spoke at a regulatory symposium sponsored by American Banker Monday. In his opinion, the financial reform law goes too far in some ways but not far enough in others. Worse, it will do nothing to prevent a future financial crisis.
Wilmers said the regulations fail to reform credit-rating agencies, government mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and risky bank activity.
Owner William Collins criticized the way they handled the split in a letter to the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. He said they never raised concerns, moved out secretly and quietly notified clients in advance. The team owed its success to Travers Collins, he said, which gave three of the individuals their first job and gave them all the tools to succeed. There were no non-compete clauses binding, so Travers Collins has no recourse to take in regards to the lost clients, but the owners said they would rebuild the firm's investor relations business.
A study of border crossings has recommendations for improving things at our Canadian border. The study by the Binational Economic and Tourism Alliance recommends that getting better information out about border crossing status along with adding workers during the bridges' busiest times would ease congestion. Better signage to navigate the borders would help, too, as would better planning around special events, the report said.
The IDA also approved $583,000 in breaks for Gemcor II, a West Seneca automatic fastening equipment maker, to build a $3.1 million addition. Sleep Inn Buffalo Airport in Cheektowaga got $38,000 in sales tax breaks for a $550,000 renovation.
Perry's Ice Cream got an $800,000 low-interest loan from the Buffalo and Erie County Regional Development Council. Perry's is spending $6.4 million to increase its distribution and to begin distrubting snacks by other makers, including Little Debbie.
The Route 5 facility made stamped metal parts for an assembly plant near St. Thomas, Ont. That plant is scheduled to close in two weeks, and the reduced workload calls for fewer employees. About 500 salaried workers will be left at the Hamburg plant.
Buffalo Games is looking for game testers. The Buffalo-based maker of puzzles and party games is launching an official Play Laboratory at its James E. Casey Drive headquarters. The purpose is to test new game concepts throughout their development and before they go to market. Game testers will be observed by designers--sometimes playing with them--and answer questions. They'll be provided pizza, drinks and snacks while they play and be given some free games to keep. To sign up, click here.
The plant started as Harrison Radiator Corp. in 1910 before being bought by GM in 1918. That plant became Delphi, a division that was spun off into a separate company in 1995. In 2009 it returned to GM as General Motors Components Holding.
Prime 490 is known for its extensive wine list and has banquet rooms and an outdoor covered patio. Owners, including Cozumel founder Christian DiFiglia, are selling in order to concentrate on other ventures.
- Franchised firms upbeat on growth - Matt Glynn/The Buffalo News Buffalo Niagara's economy may not be booming, but a number of franchised companies see opportunities to grow here and are searching for suitable franchisees to open more locations. ... Among the expanding companies is AAMCO, which plans to open four additional auto service centers in the area in the next three to five years. Snap Fitness wants to grow from its six area locations to about 20. Pump It Up, which hosts children's parties and other events, wants to open its first area location, and Cartridge World plans to add several more stores. Their expansion plans might seem to run counter to Buffalo's reputation as a steady, slow-growth market. But looking in from the outside, they say the region's demographics suit them and they see a chance to capitalize on trends in their respective industries. ... J. Randy Steiner bought his first AAMCO franchise in 1999. Today he has four ... Steiner said a "middle market" like Buffalo makes sense for AAMCO to target for expansion. Residents have enough money to maintain their vehicles, he said, but aren't so affluent that they are constantly replacing them. "People around here aren't foolish with their cars." ...
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- Customers return to auto showrooms - Matt Glynn/The Buffalo News U.S. auto sales rose in October as buyers grew slightly more confident in the economy and new models drew them into dealerships. Duane Paddock of Paddock Chevrolet in Kenmore said his October sales were robust, led by the Cruze, Equinox, Silverado and Malibu. ... General Motors, which is preparing for an initial stock offering expected later this month, saw sales rise 3.5 percent in October. [GM's press release stresses a 13 percent increase in sales for its four remaining brands -- Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac -- which it can do when it ignores brands that have either been sold or closed -- Saturn, Hummer, Pontiac and Saab.] Ford Motor Co.'s sales rose 19.2 percent, led by big increases in trucks and small cars. Sales of the redesigned Edge crossover were up 24 percent, while Ford Escape sales rose 17 percent. Ford says sales of the F-Series pickup rose 24 percent, thanks in part to a monthlong truck promotion. ... Chrysler Group LLC's sales were up 37 percent from last October, partly on the strength of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee, which saw sales more than triple. Ram pickup sales rose 41 percent. New products also gave a boost to Honda Motor Co., whose sales climbed 16 percent. October was the first full month on the market for the Odyssey minivan, which saw October sales jump 52 percent. Wagons were also hot at Honda, where CR-V sales climbed 19 percent. Automakers are expecting to sell around 11.5 million vehicles this year, up from a 30-year low of 10.4 million in 2009. Consumer confidence rose slightly in October, according to a report released last week by the Conference Board. That, and a rebounding stock market, may have spurred buyers to invest in a new vehicle. Analysts are expecting last month to be the best October for the industry since 2007. ... * Hyundai said its October sales jumped 38 percent as sales of the new Sonata midsize sedan more than doubled. * Subaru sales rose 25 percent for the month on strong sales of the Outback and Forester wagons. * Volkswagen sales rose 18 percent with a boost from sales of the new Jetta. Jetta sales were up 32 percent over last October. More from The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The Washington Post, USA Today and - General Motors Can Fly Again for Stock Sale - The New York Times The automaker has met federal guidelines to use chartered aircraft as early as Thursday to ferry managers on a “road show” promoting G.M.’s public stock offering, according to government and company officials who declined to be identified. ... The use of private jets by the Detroit automakers to fly to Washington for Congressional hearings on an auto bailout in November 2008 was harshly criticized by lawmakers, who saw the jets as symbolizing the industry’s need to cut unnecessary costs. G.M. and other executives drove to the next hearing.
- National Grid finds support for rate hike - David Robinson/The Buffalo News The Buffalo Niagara region’s business groups lined up Wednesday to voice their support for the infrastructure improvements that are part of the $361 million rate increase that National Grid is seeking. National Grid, which has spent more than $1.4 billion since 2002 to upgrade its upstate transmission and distribution network is proposing to spend $1.8 billion on transmission and infrastructure improvements from 2011 to 2013. ...
- Region’s manufacturing jumps - David Robinson/The Buffalo News ... A report by a local purchasing managers group released Tuesday found that activity at the region’s factories jumped sharply in October after declining for the first time in 11 months during September. A sharp jump in production and a strong flow of new orders combined with growing inventories to offset continued weakness in employment and soaring commodity prices. “The index paints a somewhat uncertain, although maybe slightly optimistic, outlook,” said Mikhail I. Melnik, a Niagara University economist. “We will continue to expand during the course of 2010, although at a decreasing rate,” Melnik said. “2011, however, is shaping up to be a complex year. We are likely to see continued slowing growth in the first half of the year, followed by a rise in inflation in the second half of the year.”
-Stalemate in Congress might not be bad for economy - AP/Buffalo News On its own, the economy is showing slow but steady improvement. Consumers and businesses are spending a bit more. Some companies are hiring. And most economists expect those gains to continue. For both Democrats and Republicans, the inability to do much for the next two years may not be such a bad policy for the economy. ... "If the economy sticks to the script, (gridlock) is not a major problem," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. The danger, Zandi says, is if the economy should take a turn for the worse. "If the economy doesn't cooperate and starts to backtrack, then this will become a problem," he says. "Policymakers will not be able to respond, and they'll need to."
From a couple of days of Business Today: Find a place for the local plant within the new Ford Motors; being happy that M&T Bank got left at the altar; and catching up with a guy who sells you T-shirts made for two.
- The transformation of Ford - Matt Glynn/The Buffalo News Ford Motor Co.'s stamping plant in Hamburg faces a significant challenge about a year from now, when an assembly plant it supplies in Ontario is shut down. ... James Tetreault, Ford's vice president of North American manufacturing, said securing replacement work is a task that lies ahead for the Hamburg plant to overcome. He declined to discuss what new products might be assigned to the plant. ... Tetreault will offer insights into Ford's corporate transformation plan, known as "One Ford," when he is one of two keynote speakers at World Trade Celebration on Oct. 20. The other speaker is Jon Luther of Dunkin' Brands.
- Good news! M&T will stay single - David Robinson/The Buffalo News M&T Bank Corp. is staying single, and that’s the best thing that could possibly happen for the Buffalo Niagara region. Allied Irish Bank, M&T’s biggest shareholder, said last week that it will hold a stock offering by Nov. 15 to sell its 22.4 percent stake in M&T, mainly to big, institutional investors. That result, while painful to M&T’s shareholders in the short term—the bank’s stock has fallen 15 percent since Sept. 24—is probably the best thing that could have happened for the region. It keeps M&T in Buffalo, under the control of a locally based management that has long shown its commitment to the region. And it sprinkles Allied Irish’s shares among a number of investors, rather than leaving such a large block of stock concentrated in the hands of a single owner. In other words, we all can breathe easier today. “Everybody in the region should,” said Andrew J. Rudnick, the president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. “It’s exactly what you want.” ... We’ve already been down that path with companies like Pratt&Lambert and Varity, which were based here until new owners from out of town took over and shut down all local operations.
- New business suits him to a 'T' - David Robinson/The Buffalo News Buffalo entrepreneur Dan Gigante is trading in his computer for T-shirts. Gigante, one of the co-founders of Web services provider Clevermethod, is selling his stake in the Elma firm to start a T-shirt company with a charitable twist. Gigante's new venture, called You and Who, is an online business that sells T-shirts designed either by the company or local artists. But here's the twist: For every T-shirt that You and Who sells, it promises to donate a second shirt to someone in need through homeless shelters and other community organizations across the country. ... To drum up artists in the Buffalo Niagara region, the company is holding a "Call for Artists" event from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth St. The theme for the initial batch of artist-designed shirts is "New Beginning." SoCorp Inc., a Buffalo screen printing business, will produce the T-shirts.
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Empowering Companies to Increase Profit through Better Buying: Our Investment in LogicSource
Today, we’re proud to announce our $180 million investment in LogicSource, the leading provider of procurement services and technology solutions. LogicSource has been performing very well over the past few years and our investment will support the company in enhancing its services, technology, and data offerings, entering new verticals, and further investing to support their clients.
It’s become common knowledge that there’s a global supply chain crisis – we’re confronted with this reality on a daily basis. These constraints, coupled with record levels of inflation are further raising the complexity and cost of doing business. Whether we’re feeling the hit of ballooning grocery bills or enduring months-long delays in furniture orders, these challenges have put pressure on businesses and consumers alike. As a result, now more than ever, business leaders are seeking solutions to reduce costs and purchasing complexities within their organizations.
Fortunately, there’s an answer: LogicSource, a company that’s ideally positioned to help businesses address these challenges through tech-enabled services that empower companies to remove costs and increase profitability via better buying. LogicSource specifically focuses on the sourcing and procurement of indirect goods and services, which typically amount to ~20% of a company’s revenue, thereby addressing the area of greatest spend inefficiency within most organizations.
Through its 100+ ready-to-deploy category experts, $60B+ of indirect spend and pricing data, on-site procurement management, and network of world-class suppliers, LogicSource drives increased supply chain continuity and significant bottom-line improvements for its customers. Its proprietary technology solutions and pre-built tools accelerate time-to-value so that customers begin seeing the path to improvements and tangible ROI from day one.
Many customers see cost savings equating to greater than 3x their investment in LogicSource’s services, not to mention the value that LogicSource provides beyond cost savings. LogicSource is often able to help customers procure hard-to-find goods. For example, when one customer was having difficulty finding paper, a critical part of its finished goods, LogicSource was able to contact a supplier within its network and have multiple rail cars of paper delivered to that customer on the same day. Similarly, at the beginning of the pandemic, LogicSource helped one of its retail clients find enough PPE to keep its 1,500 stores open and operating safely. These capabilities have allowed LogicSource to serve an impressive roster of blue-chip customers including companies like Big Lots, Deluxe, Lululemon, and Rite Aid.
While we’re excited to invest in a business so well positioned to address this set of challenges, we’re equally excited by the opportunity to partner with LogicSource’s founder and CEO, David Pennino. We met David last year and were immediately impressed by his vision for the business and his commitment to the company’s mission. David’s passion for serving customers through driving process improvement and increased profitability was clear to us from the start. This commitment and passion permeate throughout the LogicSource organization and management team. In our conversations with customers, we consistently heard incredible comments about the quality of the LogicSource team and their ability to drive tangible ROI and deliver on the commitments made to each customer. One customer told us they will come in at 180% of their savings goal for the year, just one example of the multiple customers that shared that LogicSource always meets or exceeds its targets.
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Apple Pay is reportedly launching in Switzerland next Monday, June 13 — the same day that WWDC kicks off, potentially signaling that an expansion throughout Europe could be announced.
The country's CornÃ¨r Bank will be one of the first participating card issuers, Swiss site Finews claimed on Tuesday. It's not clear if other banks like Credit Suisse and UBS might be joining in. If they're not participating at launch, they could sign up later on.
In any case the possibility of Apple Pay in Switzerland has been public record since February, when Apple filed a trademark with the country's intellectual property office.
If Apple Pay does launch in Switzerland next Monday, it's possible the debut could be tied to a larger series of announcements related to the mobile transaction service. Apple is set to hold a keynote presentation to kick off its annual Worldwide developers conference that same day at 10 a.m., which would be an opportune time for Apple to announce expanded Apple Pay availability.
The service's footprint in Europe has so far been restricted to the U.K., as even a promised 2016 launch in Spain has yet to take place. In fact the only other regions with Apple Pay to date are Australia, Canada, Singapore, mainland China, and the United States. Hong Kong is also due later this year.
Rumors have hinted that Brazil, France, and Japan will get Apple Pay in the future. Apple itself though has only promised that it is "working rapidly" to launch in Asia and Europe, and eventually reach "every significant market" the company is in.


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KUCHING: The Association of Malay Importers and Traders of Motor Vehicles Malaysia (Pekema) Sarawak has urged the federal government to slash the sales tax on vehicles by 50% to help them reduce mounting stock of unsold vehicles in the state.
The association’s president, Abang Khalid Abang Marzuki, said almost all association members faced a problem of huge stock of unsold vehicles involving imported vehicles.
“If the tax exemption could include these vehicles, I believe the stock can be sold, thereby reducing the existing stock of vehicles and thus, Pekema members can re-import their vehicles,” he said in a statement here.
Abang Khalid said with this tax exemption, more affordable vehicle prices could be offered to buyers and further boost the local automotive industry.
The association hoped that the government can introduce more specific tax exemptions that can impact businesses, including incentives in the form of reduction in import and excise duties.
The federal government has fully waived the sales tax for locally-assembled vehicles for a six-month period to help the local automotive sector recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Sales tax on fully-imported vehicles will be cut by 50% from June to December.
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Ocean carrier Maersk Line says it has not yet received court judgment pertaining to the arrest of the containership by Iranian authorities.
Non-MSP carriers worry they could lose more business under a new deal that would allow more local sourcing of food aid.
Oil executive quoted as saying ship will be sold unless $10 million paid.
“Every participant in the supply chain will have a role to play” in solving congestion issues, according to a new report from carrier group World Shipping Council.
The first of seven groups will meet early next month to discuss issues surrounding the upcoming peak season.
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DHL makes Pakistan investment
Published: May 05, 2010
Pakistan - DHL is planning to pump US$9 million to strengthen its freight forwarding and supply chain operations in Pakistan.
The investment will go towards the upgrading of warehouses, fleet, offices, IT systems and employee training and development programmes.
"DHL Global Forwarding in Pakistan has grown exponentially over the last few years and the US$9 million investment reflects our continued confidence and commitment to the market," said Amadou Diallo, CEO of South Asia Pacific, DHL Global Forwarding.
Diallo made the announcement during the opening of DHL Global Forwarding Pakistan's new 15,000 sq ft building. The company added that in addition to air and ocean freight services as well as supply chain solutions, DHL Global Forwarding Pakistan will provide other services including integrated domestic warehousing, inventory management and distribution solutions, spare part logistics, records management services and in-house customs brokerage services.
Imran Shaikh, MD of DHL Global Forwarding Pakistan said: "We are confident business in Pakistan will continue to grow driven especially by imports and exports of apparel, footwear, chemicals and life sciences. In order for local businesses to compete effectively, it is important for Pakistan to have a comprehensive range of logistics service, to facilitate the movement of goods efficiently."
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