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2010 was a banner year for street food any way you look at it. High-quality food trucks and carts (we hate the phrase “gourmet food trucks”) went mainstream in a big way. Eating from a food truck is no longer a niche activity only for foodies – or at the other end of the scale, construction workers.
So how and why did street food explode in popularity in 2010?
There are many reasons why street food has gotten so popular. In our estimation, the main reasons are:
- It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to open a restaurant, and the vast majority of new restaurants close within 1-2 years. With the recent banking crisis and recession, raising capital for a new restaurant is exceedingly difficult. Food trucks and carts allow talented chefs to open their own “mobile restaurant” for a fraction of the cost of opening a “brick-and mortar” restaurant. If the food truck is successful, it has become increasingly common for a restaurant to follow. We have seen this numerous times, with successful food trucks and carts being parlayed into restaurants by Calexico Carne Asada, Cupcake Stop, Dessert Truck, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Artisans, NYC Cravings, The Taco Truck, QBA Cuban Kitchen, and just this week, Souvlaki GR and Schnitzel & Things announced they are opening restaurants within the next few months.
- Food trucks have also been a popular way to expand an existing restaurant’s “brand”. We have seen restaurants such as Rickshaw Dumpling Bar, Taïm and Maffei’s Pizza open food trucks after having “brick-and-mortar” establishments. Food trucks add another source of revenue for a restaurant and are a much smaller investment than opening a 2nd location
- People increasingly want their food fresh and local. When you order street food, it’s prepared while you wait, so it’s always fresh, and often local. For example, Frites ‘N’ Meats gets their meat from DeBragga & Spitler, bread from Balthazar Bakery and cheese from Murray’s – all local, high quality NYC purveyors.
- Mobile technology and social media such as twitter, facebook and foursquare make it easier for people to find food trucks that move locations every day. These tools have helped street vendors build followings faster than was possible in the past by “word-of-mouth”.
- Once food trucks started building followings and became “trendy”, many companies have used them to promote their own goods and services. In 2010, Schnitzel & Things had a promotion with free schnitzel courtesy of Austrian Airlines, Cupcake Stop had one with Victoria’s Secret (including VS models giving away cupcakes in the truck), and Sweetery NYC (formerly Street Sweets) often has 2 or 3 promotions for different companies within the space of a month. You don’t even need to sell food to promote your product with a truck on the street.
- Some vendors have also entered the business because their jobs have been eliminated. Unfortunately, this will probably occur more often in the coming years.
Now that street food became “mainstream” in 2010, check back later this week for our favorite street food developments of 2010, and what we are looking most forward to in 2011.Souvlaki GR


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Families are hitting the road for what’s traditionally known as the busiest summer travel holiday – the Fourth of July — and eight in 10 of those travelers will hop in their cars to get to their destinations (according to AAA), the highest level since 2007.
A few weeks ago, I ran into an old friend in the produce section of the local grocery store. He was buying one of those pre-packaged salad mixes and a tomato. He said he'd been trying to eat healthier to lower his cholesterol.
A suspected gunman was in custody on Wednesday after police and a witness said he casually walked up to a suburban Detroit home, fatally shot a 2-year-old girl at close range and injured two more people including a 12-year-old girl.

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Local UPS Store Prepares For Christmas Rush; Offers Tips To Shippers
COLUMBIA - As we get closer to the Christmas holiday, folks at local packing and shipping stores are getting busier.
KOMU-8 News visited the UPS store on Nifong Blvd. Wednesday evening. While it wasn't very busy, store manager John Kadlec says that will soon change.
Kadlec has worked at that store for 22 years and says December is hands down the busiest month of the year. Normally, he ships around one thousand packages a month. This Christmas, he estimates his store on Nifong will ship between 4,500 and 5,000 packages.
"Cheery, joyful, exciting, crazy, tense. On edge," Kadlec said of his store's work environment around Christmas.
He offers a few tips for people shipping Christmas presents.
- With Christmas on a Tuesday, Kadlec says you need to ship earlier this year. If it's going to the west coast, he says to have it mailed by Tuesday, Dec. 18.
- UPS will deliver all packages up until Christmas Eve but he says play it safe and have your package mailed by Friday, Dec. 21.
- If you pack items yourself, he says to use a good, sturdy box with no wiggle room for the item.


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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Do those annoying robocalls seem to be getting worse? That’s probably because they are. Although they’re illegal, everybody gets them. So what can you do?
The pandemic combined with the holidays is creating prime pickings for scammers looking to get your personal information and often your money.
“Americans were hit with 58 billion robocalls last year. That’s billion with a B. On a population of 350 million people, that’s a pretty astonishing number,” said Jessie Schmidt with the Better Business Bureau in Sioux Falls.
Schmidt says there are things you can do to stop robocalls. Here are the top three.
No. 1, and most importantly, don’t answer. if you answer your number will make it onto more lists that are created and sold to other scammers.
If you don’t answer eventually your number will fall off those lists.
“Because it will show as an unanswered phone call, what they want is for you to answer and engage at some level, any level,” said Schmidt.
The second thing you can do to discourage robocalls is install an app, if you have a cellphone.
Robo Shield, Robo Killer, No Mo Robo are just a few examples. Phone companies like Verizon and AT&T have their own blockers that can alert you to spam calls.
The third thing you can do is continuously block the numbers. Eventually, scammers may realize you are not an easy target.
And by now you know that just because an unfamiliar number comes up as local, doesn’t mean it is.
In fact, Schmidt says more than likely the caller is a scammer from out of the country.
“They’re looking to get all sorts of information, personal information mostly, to put you in a compromising situation to get you nervous and off your game, many of these robocalls are government imposters, so they claim to be it was from the IRS, then it was the Social Security Administration and they’ll be another one this next year, you know the more savvy we get, the savvier they get,” said Schmidt.
If you do answer for some reason and it turns out to be someone you don’t know, don’t be afraid of being rude. Just remember this, if you’re on the Do Not Call Registry, what the person on the other line is doing is illegal, so hang up.


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Only 5 of 85 seafood processors in Kerala meet EU standards
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Only five out of nearly 85 seafood processing units in Kerala have achieved the quality standards stipulated by the European Union for exports to Europe. These units were cleared by the Supervising Audit Team appointed by the Union commerce ministry to monitor the health standards following the ban on Indian seafood by the European Union.
The SAT is also understood to have given no-objection certificates to three more units -- two in Maharashtra and one in Andhra Pradesh. The names of all the units will be forwarded to the European Union shortly.
A team of veterinary experts from the European Union is expected to visit the country by the middle of November to inspect the units. Fifty more units in Kerala are preparing for the SAT inspection, whose certificate is mandatory for finding a place in the commerce ministry's list.
The sat is mainly concerned at the cleanliness of the surroundings and sanitary conditions, the hygiene and health of the workers, provisions for monitoring sanitation, waste disposal, effluents treatment system, and source of raw materials. Several existing units were finding it difficult to upgrade the facilities as per the EU standards which are very of a high level and costly.
The investment required for the purpose is in the range of Rs 50 million to Rs 80 million. To make matters worse for the exporters, banks and financial institutions are reluctant to fund these units following the EU ban and the Indian government's curbs on aquaculture in the coastal areas.
An Indian Seafood Exporters' Association source said the processing industry needed more than Rs 10 billion to upgrade their factories. He said that only a handful of the processors were able to mop up the required funds from their internal sources.
Some exporters feel that the conditions laid down by the European Union were "textbook rules" which are hard to implement. These exporters favour a one-to-one talk with the EU to reach an agreement on what norms they can possibly meet. They have urged the government to send a delegation of exporters to Europe before the Union undertakes its review on the ban.
The exporters also suspect that EU action of slapping a total ban on Indian exports was politically motivated. The exporters see little reason to impose a ban on the products from the entire country when cholera germs were found only in one consignment.
"The reports about the Indian factories poor condition are highly exaggerated," said Elias Sait, an exporter. He claimed that a number of factories in India were better than those in other developing countries. He claimed that a veterinary team of the European Union, which had visited some of the units in the country, had expressed satisfaction with the existing facilities.
India has been exporting to the EU for over 25 years and it never had faced a total ban on the entire industry. The EU ban is likely to affect exports this year, which had earned Rs 42 billion in 1996-97.
The Union minister for food processing is due to visit Cochin shortly to study the problem.
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Razorfish promoted several in New York and Boston. New York appointments include Pete Stein, president and general manager, Northeast region, and two SVPs, Domenic Venuto and Barbara Ward Thall. In Boston Ryan Alderman and Patrick Frend were both boosted to SVP positions.
Chip Reingold was named global chief creative officer at Blast Radius. He spent the bulk of his career with Digitas. As part of the Digitas acquisition of Modem Media, Reingold assumed the role of executive creative director in Europe and was most recently executive creative director for Publicis Modem in San Francisco.
Great Works won a global marketing assignment for rum distiller Malibu. The digital branding campaign is scheduled to roll out in early 2009.
Specific Media promoted three. Craig Benner was promoted to senior sales manager, Southwest. Benner joined Specific Media in January 2007 to concentrate on the Texas market and surrounding states. Josh Hare and Kevin Sauer were both promoted to regional sales manager positions.
MRM Worldwide named David Shearer executive creative director. Shearer will work in MRM’s San Francisco office, where he will be responsible for driving the overall creative product for the digital and direct marketing arm of McCann Worldgroup. He spent the past decade working in global senior creative positions for Ogilvy. Additionally, Rob Bagot was named chief creative officer; Josh Denberg and Paul Hirsch were promoted to SVP and ECD posts; Brad Cohn was appointed ECD; and Alastair Green was named executive creative director, digital.
Chris Chinn joined Watercooler as VP of sales. Chinn, former head of sales at Bebo, will lead advertising sales and monetization strategy across Watercooler’s suite of online sports and TV communities.
Horizon Media created a campaign for Polish vodka brand Sobieski. Still building a presence after its U.S. launch roughly 15 months ago, Sobieski had Horizon develop an integrated digital campaign that ran throughout the second half of 2008.
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The European Union has accused China of restricting exports of rare earth metals essential for the production of mobile phones and other high-tech gadgets.
After months of lobbying from Brussels, Washington and Tokyo, China released new quota figures on the 14 July 2011 which would keep exports of the strategic materials on par with 2010 levels.
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De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) has spoken out against the possibility of a "cashless future" in a bulletin posted on its website.
The Dutch central bank said it is committed to maintaining cash as a "universally usable" payment option and a "smoothly functioning" cash chain.
DNB acknowledges in its latest research that the use of debit cards continues to grow but that cash remains the dominant means of payment.
Its research found that the year 2012 saw 3.8bn cash payments made at Dutch counters, against 2.5bn card transactions.
In a claim that is sure to be disputed by contactless aficionados, the bank finds that a cash payment requires 20% less time than card.
The bank further defends cash saying it is anonymous, private and always available.
In order to make cash payments safer DNB intends to strengthen its supervision of market parties that re-circulate Euro banknotes through on-site ATMs.
DNB has also developed a banknote checking app for use by the public to check the authenticity of Euro bank notes.


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A 38-year-old Meghan Markle's makeup artist Daniel Martin has shared beauty hygiene tips amid the coronavirus pandemic, Daily Mail reported.
“Honestly, people don’t realize how much bacteria is in their brushes, let alone on their hands,” he said adding that he uses a small bottle with a spray with 99% alcohol to disinfect his palettes.
He also revealed that he washes his brushes with dishwasher detergent every week, as the product contains bacteria- and virus-killing chloroxylenol.
Martin also dry washes the brush, using a special cleaner formulated with isododecane to remove oil-based products.
12:07, June 3Virgil Abloh slammed for donating $ 50 to fight racism
15:39, June 2Jennifer Aniston to sell her nude photo to help fight COVID-19
14:53, June 2Victoria Beckham paid £1 million not to sing on Spice Girls reunion tour
13:11, June 2John Cusack attacked by police during US riots
12:06, June 2Kim Kardashian and Kanye West threaten ex-bodyguard with $10 million lawsuit
20:07, June 1Meghan Markle and Prince Harry hire security for up to $8 thousand per day
19:39, June 1Mango introducing face masks and sanitizers to its collection
16:06, May 31Prince William and Kate Middleton to sue Tatler
14:16, May 31'I am infuriated and I am disgusted': Kim Kardashian comments on George Floyd's death
12:14, May 31Irina Shayk stars without makeup and filters
11:02, May 31The last photos of John Lennon signing autograph for his killer
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The official gymnastics festival closing ceremony in the Mannheim Carl-Benz Stadium on May 24th, 2013, was the end of a week full of highlights and top performances in gymnastics at the Gymnastics Festival 2013. Even rainy weather couldn’t stop visitors from filling up the Gymnastics Festival venues.
A diverse programme of sports competitions, workshops, interactive events, shows and entertainment programmes was on offer at the Gymnastics Festival trade fair, as well as the possibility to discover new trends. There were around 70,000 visitors according to the German Gymnastics Association and organisers. In the hall events more than 100,000 sports enthusiasts filled the event locations and over 163,000 visitors were counted on the festival mile in town. In total more than 8,000 volunteers worked at the event.
TOGU, official outfitter of the International Gymnastics Festival 2013, made it possible for the visitors to the Gymnastics Festival to test various TOGU products in a space of 130 m², and to buy them. It also organised shows with the KNS-Move “Jumper Crew” using the products, and held extremely popular workshops at the Gymnastics Festival Academy, where visitors could try our Brasils, Aero-Step and many other TOGU products.
Many curious visitors used the opportunity to get new ideas and suggestions from top experts such as Gabi Fastner and Michael de la Cruz.
You can get an impression of the Gymnastics Festival in the 2013 picture gallery.


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It's all about ready access to a captive — and wealthy — audience.
Travelers on fledgling, single-class premium Eos Airlines are the audience for a new quarterly magazine, Club 48 Lifestyles, scheduled to be launched in February. The audience, mostly business owners and executives on the current 36 flights a week between New York and London, is also to be the subject of the magazine's stories and regular features.
The idea, said Douglas Gollan, founding editor in chief of Club 48 Lifestyles, is to create a clubby sense of community not unlike the environment on the flights themselves, where the passengers regularly see one another on board and interact during their travels in the 48-seat 757s, originally built for 220 passengers. (The 48 in the magazine's title refers to the number of seats in the aircraft.)
Regular features will include The Buzz, about an Eos traveler; Startups and Launches, profiling new businesses; Passion, illuminating passengers' lifestyles; Collecting and Connoisseurship, and Parties and Entertaining.
The pool of potential readers is 42 years old, on average; three-quarters of them are men; 60 percent are business travelers, and 20 percent have annual household income of at least $1 million. Nearly six in 10 have household income of at least $250,000.
Round-trip fares on Eos range widely, from a bare-bones $2,500 to $7,500, if booked just a day ahead, with frills such as limo service. The average round-trip fare for travel between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and London's Stansted Airport runs $3,200, according to Carolyn Meyer, director of brand experience at Eos, which affords each passenger 21 square feet of personal space, a six-foot, six-inch flat bed (with cashmere blanket and Tempur-Pedic pillow) and china and linen dining service, among other amenities.
Gollan said he's getting the first issue off the ground for "under $1 million." Only full-page ads and two-page ad spreads will be sold, for a respective $5,500 and $25,000. Advertisers will likely include some of those found within the covers of Elite Traveler, a slick, bimonthly magazine distributed free in private jets and megayachts, which, like Club 48, is edited by Gollan and published by Universal Media Inc. About 30 percent of Elite Traveler's advertisers stem from fashion, jewelry or watch companies, said the magazine's editor in chief, who also is president of Universal Media.
Issa Rae stopped by WWD's NYC headquarters to talk about season two of "Insecure," which premieres this Sunday on HBO. Click link in bio for all the details. #wwdeye (📷: @jgreenery; Styled by @mayteallende)
A Stella McCartney sketch of a custom dress made from protein-based silk in partnership with biotech lab Bolt Threads. The dress will be displayed at The Museum of Modern Art's upcoming design exhibition, "Items: Is Fashion Modern?"


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The Ashland Petroleum Co. will sell all 14 of its gas-and-go service stations in Maryland as a result of the implementation of the state's service station divestiture law, the company said.
The law, upheld recently by the U.S. Supreme Court, prohibits oil refiners or producers from operating service stations in the state, but the stations must be operated by lessee dealers or chain retailers who are not refiners.
The law was passed after an investigation by the state comptrollers office into the availability of gasoline supplies before and during the Arab Oil embargo in 1973 and 1974.
"At that time we found that company-operated stations were being supplied with all the gasoline they could sell, while dealers who leased stations or bought gasoline independently were being discriminated against."
According to a statement from Ashland, the oil company "would not be economically viable under the conventional lessee dealer mode of operations."
The company also said dealer operation was undesirable because the stations do not use credit cards, they have no service bays or sell tires, batteries and other accessoriers, a fair rental would be impossible for the typical lessee dealer to assume and the company could not guarantee a prospective dealer "that present allocation levels could be maintained . . ."
"Our properties in Maryland were acquired, planned, designed and constructed solely to accommodate high volume, low margin unbranded marketing where the owner of the properties can constantly monitor and control standards, hours of operation and prices," the company said. "The Maryland divorcement law simply precludes successful operation of these units by independent refiner/marketers committed to the high volume, low margin gas and go unbranded marketing system."
Ashland's stations in Maryland operate under the names of BiLo, HyFy, Payless and Red Head.


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The world's largest online retailer on Wednesday announced Amazon Key, a lock and camera system that users control remotely to let delivery associates slip goods into their houses. Customers can create temporary passcodes for friends and other services professionals to enter as well.
The old private sector lender, which reported a deterioration in its asset quality in the second quarter, will look at pulling itself up in the next two years as it aims to raise Rs 800 crore this year.
While the deal value, prima facie, looks muted, Shoppers Stop gets rid of a pain point. An expansion in Future Retail's store count and retail space will enable it to position its offerings in a premium format, thereby paving the way for a speedier turnaround of beleaguered Hypercity.
Amazon's 'Global Selling Program' was launched in India in 2015. It offers global access for Indian sellers including entrepreneurs and large brands to sell their products to consumers across markets.
Shoppers Stop and Amazon appear to have taken the correct step by integrating the advantages of physical and digital platforms, with neither dictating the way the other operates.
The Navi Mumbai store, on which construction had started in May this year, was earlier expected to open in January 2019 with an investment of around Rs 1,000 crore.
With this expansion, Amazon now has 350 Service Partner nodes across 320 cities, a 40 per cent increase from 250 Service Partner nodes that were set up for Diwali last year, it said.
Consumer prices were forecast up at 3.20 percent in August from a year ago, jumping from July's 2.36 percent, according to the poll taken September 5-8 of nearly 40 economists.
Lack of interoperability, inadequate smartphone penetration pan-India, and unviability/unwillingness of use for most merchants and consumers are the primary causes for subdued growth of e-wallets in the country.
Online and offline stores will continue to hold their own despite the growing competitiveness between them in India's changing retail climate.
The proposed residential project 'Sports Village' will be launched during Diwali this year and will be completed in four years. The 62-acre project will be developed in Sector 27 of Greater Noida (west), known as Noida Extension.
Paytm Mall has also introduced a retailer inclusion programme, under which the company will invest USD 5 million and has set up a dedicated team of 500 personnel to address the unique needs of these retailers, he said.
Dilip Asbe will be the CEO-in-charge till a new incumbent assumes charge. Hota was the first MD & CEO of NPCI since August 23, 2010.
"In India, online sales contribution is 8 per cent whereas on a global scale, approximately 9 per cent is the online sales contribution. It is expected to grow to 25 per cent in the next five years with the help of eBags, an e- retail platform specialising in luggage. We intend to launch eBags in India in 2018," Samsonite President, Asia Pacific, Subrata Dutta told PTI.
The company wants to take advantage of the liberalised policies that allow foreign single-brand retailers to sell through their own stores as well as franchisee outlets.
Industrial output growth stood at 1.7 per cent in May. Before the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST), destocking was triggered largely owing to a steep fall in demand from consumers as they delayed purchases on expectation of getting better price post the new indirect tax regime, the report said.
The consumer price index likely rose 1.87 percent last month, after dipping to an historic low of 1.54 percent in June, according to the median forecast of nearly 30 economists.
According to the report, the retail and consumer goods industries will change more in the next 10 years than they have over the past 40.
The facility would give retail investors an avenue to participate in the government securities market, the BSE said in a statement.
GST regularisation and festive season sales pick-up will lead to a marked and appreciable recovery in India's consumer discretionary space in the second half of FY18 as opposed to a comparatively weaker first half.
Retail tomato prices have gone through the roof for more than a month now in most parts of the country and are still ruling high up to 100 per kg, as per the data maintained by the consumer affairs ministry.
The company had posted a net loss of Rs 44.55 crore during the same period of the previous fiscal, NDTV said in a BSE filing today.
According to the Japanese financial services major, although inflation has bottomed, in the medium term it is expected to see a significant uptrend and rise above the RBI's target.
FMR LLC and FIL Ltd and their subsidiaries, which had 5.40 per cent stake earlier, brought down its shareholding in the company to 2.97 per cent by selling shares on July 20, V- Mart said in a filing to BSE.
Valuations seem stretched, but lower-than-expected growth momentum in future could give investors some room to identify price corrections before clicking the ‘Buy’ button.


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As important as the holidays are for celebrating with friends and family, they’re also a good opportunity for people to show off their creativity. And if you’re not into holiday crafts, try your hand at creating some incredible photographs like these people on Imgur and Reddit did!
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Decorating Christmas tree with our family is probably among the best childhood memories we have. However, not everyone likes the idea of cutting down the trees, so people came up with an idea to replace them with artificial ones. And now, as the boundaries of imagination are only expanding, the most recent trend is the DIY Christmas trees!
About a week ago Design You Trust wrote about an amazing 13 meters tall Christmas tree “made of 40 thousands ‘SPRITE’ plastic bottles” in Kaunas, Lithuania. However, according to the original sources like Delfi and Lrytas, there are “only” 32,000 recycled plastic bottles, but the tree will have 40,000 Christmas lights. That’s why you should never trust anyone, even if they have a word “trust” in their name. Nevertheless, the Christmas tree looks really great, and it’s especially beautiful at night when it’s lit from the inside and the green bottles start to sparkle.


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In his foreword to the Government’s new Innovation Strategy this week, Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State, BEIS, is right to state ‘Innovation is central to the largest challenges the world faces from climate change and the ageing society to global pandemics.’
He goes on to say that, post Brexit, the UK is well placed to be in the vanguard of the response to these challenges. Indeed, ‘the UK can look back on a proud history of changing the world through innovation. From the Industrial Revolution to the vaccine development of the past year, the impact on our everyday lives is undeniable’.
Clearly, the ambition is in the Strategy, with talk of making the UK ‘a global science superpower’ but where is the detail? We value a report which highlights the importance of science and innovation in enhancing our economic prosperity and addressing societal problems but where is the time-bounded action plan? The Government has committed to investing £22 billion a year in R & D but what will be achieved by 2024/5? How will we evaluate impact?
For 140 years, the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) has been the place ‘where science meets business’, helping drive innovation at pace and scale and getting products to market. So we are surprised to see chemistry only alluded to once in the Innovation Strategy - by way of a quote by Nobel prize winning chemist Marie Curie - “nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” If we are truly to become a science superpower, we must not forget the chemical industry underpins the majority of science and therefore most of all innovation. In 2019, the DIT valued the aerospace sector at £33bn whereas the chemistry industries was at £53 bn.
Most importantly, chemicals and chemistry enable supply chains. Without these, there can be no ‘science superpower.’ This week, the House of Lords recognised the importance of the battery supply chain in the drive towards the electrification of cars. Resilient UK manufacturing will need vital local supply chains to be successful so the absence of this supply chain consideration in the Strategy is worrying.
The UK has led the world with its vaccine rollout during the Pandemic so let’s embed the vital supply chain – and the chemistry from which it is derives – at the heart of this Innovation Strategy. We will be following the Strategy’s progress over the coming months. Marie Curie called for ‘understanding’ and so do we – an understanding of the detail needed to ensure this Innovation Strategy supports UK manufacturing to Build Back Better in the coming months - and years.
David Bott, Head of Innovation, SCI


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The company has announced it will host the delivery of its own accounting and e-business management solutions – following months of discussions with parent company CA.
Officials said the company was able to launch itself as an ASP due to its link with CA’s technology and expertise. Other mid-market vendors have tended to establish ASP partnerships with companies such as IBM.
It is understood the company has no plans to scrap its packaged products, but it expects a 5-10% migration rate to the ASP over the next two years.
‘Within five years most of our customers will work within the ASP environment and ultimately it will replace the packaged system completely,’ said ACCPAC president and CEO David Hood.
The division has also launched ACCPAC Online – its ASP and e-business vehicle for SMEs. The site hosts the company’s accounting and e-business solutions – ACCPAC Corporate Series and ACCPAC eAdvantage Suite – as well as office productivity solutions including Microsoft Office 2000.
ACCPAC Online has been built based on Computer Associates’ own ASP and e-business infrastructure software, including Unicenter TNG and the eTrust security suite.
‘We are the first mid-market ERP vendor to become an ASP. No other mid-market ERP vendor can boast the technology and technologists available to us as part of Computer Associates,’ added Hood.
‘By ‘renting’ applications instead of buying them, SMEs can now receive secure, dependable access to the latest technology for a fraction of what it would cost to purchase hardware and software, implement network infrastructure, and maintain and upgrade these complex systems themselves’, he added.
Harrison Beale & Owen will (HB&O) have a new chairman and managing director at the helm for 2017
Satvir Bungar promoted to managing director in the mergers and acquisitions team
Carolyn Brown appointed as the first head of client legal services practice RSM Legal
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Is the ship of sustainability finally altering course so decisions are based on data and science? If we head the advice of Kent, we may just make some progress.
The 2018 Future Smarts Conference brought forth some eye-opening topics, not the least of which was the presentation by Muhtar Kent, Former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company, who surprised many attendees by calling on the industry to take action on sustainability by creating biodegradable bottles and collection systems.
“We have got to do a lot better in waste, we have got to do a lot better in innovation, we have got to do a lot better in social value creation,” Kent said. “I plead to the industry to do a lot more in these areas.”
With the current state of recycling and environmental issues surrounding plastics, Kent isn’t the only one looking beyond traditional recycling as a solution to this looming problem.
- Switzerland is no longer pushing plastic recycling,
- China, the largest user of recycled plastic implemented Green Fence effectively banning the import of recycled plastics,
- just last month, Malaysia banned imports of plastic waste,
- US cities are pulling back recycling programs to include far fewer items, and
- the largest recycler in the US, Waste Management, has proclaimed that ‘combining effective recycling with landfill gas recovery provides the best bang for the buck’.
Overall the use of biodegradable plastics that are proven to biodegrade effectively in our current collection system (which is a landfill), just makes sense. We have a very effective collection system that keeps plastics out of our oceans. And, landfill biodegradable plastics increase the production of biogas in the landfill. These landfills have already built the collection system to capture the biogas and are returning the biogas to our communities for powering vehicles, homes and businesses.
So, Kent has it mostly right. We, as an industry, need to put more effort into using packaging that is landfill biodegradable.
Actually, let’s put all our effort into using landfill biodegradable plastics because the collection systems are already in place and the conversion systems for the biogas to energy are also already in place.
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Company cafeteria workers who make an average of $426 a week at some of the world's most successful companies will begin a campaign Jan. 29 aimed at bringing attention to what they see as their second-class status.
Ultimately, the San Jose-based Local 19 of the union UNITE-HERE wants to organize the workers in company cafeterias in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
But as its first step, it is putting the spotlight on one cafeteria service contractor that serves mostly high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The contractor is Guckenheimer Enterprises, which runs the cafeterias of Genentech Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Applied Materials Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Gilead Sciences Inc., some of the shining stars of Silicon Valley. Guckenheimer, based in Redwood Shores, got its start selling sandwiches at the Stanford Medical School courtyard in 1963. It is now a national company with 4,500 employees preparing food in cafeterias as far away as Cornell University in upstate New York. It says it treats its employees well.
Like the Service Employees International Union local 1877, which sought better conditions for Silicon Valley janitors earlier in the decade, UNITE-HERE will focus on the big-name tech companies, whose contractors employ the hourly workers.
Putting the widely known tech companies in the spotlight puts pressure on the contractor, they believe. UNITE-HERE will ask the tech companies to sign a code of conduct ensuring that their cafeteria workers are treated well and offered health insurance at a reasonable price.
But the tech companies may use as their first line of defense that they merely hire the contractor.
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Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Truck demand is holding up amid the global economic slowdown as Brazil, Russia, India and China continue to drive growth, Scania AB’s sales chief said.
While customers of the Swedish truckmaker controlled by Volkswagen AG are increasingly nervous about economic uncertainty, that has yet to translate into a decline in orders, Martin Lundstedt said in an interview yesterday at the company’s headquarters in Soedertaelje.
“Everyone is thinking especially about how the EU’s problems will affect the global economy the next few quarters,” Lundstedt said. As emerging-market orders grow, the truckmaker’s share of sales from western Europe has steadily decreased. Scania generated 52 percent of its revenue in western Europe last year, down from 65 percent in 2006.
Daimler AG, the world’s largest maker of heavy-duty vehicles, said Sept. 19 that it expects truck sales to keep growing even as economies show signs of cooling. “The trend is unequivocally positive,” said Andreas Renschler, head of Daimler’s trucks division.
“A lot of the turmoil with the truck stocks over the summer was due to fears about us heading into a new crisis situation where we see a sharp decline in orders,” Morten Imsgard, an analyst at Sydbank A/S with an “underweight” recommendation on Scania stock, said by phone.
Scania’s shares recovered from a 1.9 percent decline and were up 0.2 percent at 103.1 kronor as of 12:38 p.m. in Stockholm. Swedish rival Volvo AB, the world’s second-biggest truckmaker, pared a 1.8 percent decline and was down 0.1 percent. The OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 0.4 percent.
“This is a pretty solid comment from Scania and it’s in line with what we’ve heard from other companies,” Imsgard said. “The demand situation isn’t that bad at the moment.”
Still, Scania is preparing to better tackle another slowdown after it “learned the lesson” from the crisis in 2008, when demand plunged about a third, said Lundstedt, who also leads the company’s marketing efforts.
Scania implemented a new agreement with Swedish unions this year that lifts the share of factory workers that can be temporarily employed to 30 percent from 20 percent. It has also cut truck delivery times to six weeks to eight weeks, from 10 months in 2008, Lundstedt said.
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“We’re asking ourselves, how can we retain maximum flexibility to be as prepared as possible for a downturn,” the executive said.
Scania expects to meet a goal to double sales in China to about 1,000 trucks this year, and aims to reach about 5,000 vehicles in three to four years, Lundstedt said. The manufacturer may try to produce trucks in China when it hits about 10,000 sales a year in the country, he said.
Scania plans to start selling buses in India in the next year or two, Lundstedt said, reiterating comments he made in March. The truckmaker probably will establish an assembly plant in the country in “the next few years,” he said.
Lundstedt also reiterated that Scania aims to sell 150,000 trucks and buses by the next “peak in demand,” up from 63,712 deliveries in 2010.
In Europe, the truckmaker is having “fine development” in the northern portion of the continent, while southern Europe is struggling, the executive said.
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Telecom will offer its new DSL products to competitors at wholesale rates and plans to introduce a new wholesale environment in the middle of the year whether the government forces it to or not.
However Telecom will be deciding which offerings it brings out, and consequently offers for wholesale, says Bruce Parkes, Telecom's manager for government relations.
Telecom this week launched a new DSL suite consisting of three products all running at 256Kbit/s download and 128 Kbit/s upload speeds. The first two offerings are capped at 1GB a month and 3GB a month, with excess traffic billed at 5 cents per megabyte instead of Telecom's usual 20 cents per megabyte. The third offering is capped at 10 GB a month but throttles the connection speed beyond that, rather than charging the user extra.
Parkes says Telecom is already offering these services to other ISPs at a discount rate.
"We've said that if we change our retail products, that will flow straight through to what we offer at a wholesale level. So that covers the new services we're offering and there'll be no mucking around about going to the [telecommunications] commissioner and adding that service and that kind of thing."
In addition, Telecom will offer a wholesale DSL service based on the retail plans outlined by the Telecommunications Commission in its final report on unbundling.
"It'll be based on those plans, so it'll be a 256Kbit/s [download] 128Kbit/s [upload] service. The principle we've adopted is whatever our product retail offering looks like we'll offer that as a wholesale service."
TelstraClear chief executive Rosemary Howard says she fails to understand the distinction between the two.
"Those are resale services, not wholesale".
Howard says without the ability to go to Telecom and ask for a service at a specific level all that's on offer is the ability to sell Telecom's product on behalf of Telecom.
TelstraClear has made a submission to the Minister of Communications, Paul Swain, on this matter seeking clarification of the service on offer in the commission's final report.
"It should be made clear that this is a 'Layer 2' access service and not a resale service. There is already regulated access to resell Telecom’s 'JetStream' services. The commission’s definition of the new designated 'internet grade ADSL bitstream' should clearly distinguish how this new service is different from the existing wholesale services".
Access to layer two switching would allow TelstraClear and other competitors to control the quality of service of the connection. Without access at that level, the control lies with Telecom.
Parkes says Telecom wouldn't rule out negotiating with an ISP to offer the service levels they would like to sell but that Telecom's current thinking "is not focused on that" approach.


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OSSINING, N.Y. – Ossining residents will no longer see their friendly neighborhood postal carrier coming up the walkway on Saturday to deliver a bundle of mail.
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The U.S. Postal Service announced on Wednesday plans to halt Saturday mail delivery beginning in August. The Postal Service expects to generate cost savings of $2 billion annually once the plan is fully implemented. USPS Representatives said packages and express mail would be delivered to both homes and businesses on Saturdays, but not regular mail.
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Each time Americans visit retail websites on their phones, they’re spending less time but more money.
The amount of money people spent per visit to online retailers has increased 27 percent since the beginning of 2015, according to new data from Adobe Analytics. Meanwhile, the length of smartphone website visits has actually declined 10 percent.
That means people are getting more comfortable spending on mobile — as long as the experience is quick and easy. Retailers have been making their websites faster, and have in general made online purchasing simpler.
Sales have increased on desktop and tablet, as well, but they’re being outpaced by the growth in mobile sales:
Adobe expects that faster cellular connections through 5G will increase mobile sales — to the tune of $12 billion a year in 2021 — since people are more likely to complete purchases on faster connections. In the meantime, faster, simpler websites could help.
Mobile sales still accounted for a minority — 23 percent — of the $108 billion in online sales Adobe measured last holiday season, but they’re growing much faster than desktop or tablet revenue.
Note that even though smartphone users are spending less time on each website visit, they are spending more time online overall. Since January 2015, there’s been a nearly 90 percent increase in smartphone web visits in the U.S., while traffic from tablets and desktop has declined. Overall web traffic was basically flat in that time.
Adobe Analytics based its data on analysis of a trillion visits to more than 5,000 websites from January 2015 to December 2017.
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The new owner of the shuttered Wyndham hotel near the airport now plans to tear down the hotel and add retail space in addition to an off-site airport parking facility.
L&R Group of Companies, Los Angeles, originally said it wanted to find an operator for the former Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel and Convention Center and open the parking facility through its subsidiary, WallyPark. But its plans changed when it couldn’t find a suitable hotel operator, said Gilad Lumer, a partner with L&R.
“We didn’t have really any (success) finding an operator who was in line with what we wanted for the site,” he said.
L&R bought the property, 4747 S. Howell Ave., Milwaukee, for $3.3 million in December from Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust, which acquired the property last year through foreclosure. The 54-year-old hotel is the second-largest in the city of Milwaukee with 508 rooms and 35,000 square feet of exhibition space, but it’s considered outdated and in need of significant repair.
L&R plans to use the interior part of the site for its WallyPark operation and lease the lots along South Howell Avenue and East Layton Avenue to retailers, Lumer said. It plans to make about five lots available for ground leases, and the retailers would build their own buildings.
“Economically speaking, retail makes more sense for this site,” he said.
The company hopes to complete demolition in mid-July and open WallyPark in fall. The ground leases would probably become available around the same time, Lumer said. It has not presented plans to the city yet.
Ald. Terry Witkowski, whose district includes the hotel, said he hadn’t heard anything about L&R’s plans and would wait to comment until he knew more about the plans. Jeff Fleming, a spokesman for the Milwaukee Department of City Development, said the city has been in touch with L&R but has nothing to share about the discussions.
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TAXILA:Poultry dealers in Hassanabdal continued their strike for the third consecutive day on Friday, reaffirming their decision not to resume the sale of chicken unless the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) stopped imposing heavy fines on them.
A spokesman for the poultry dealers’ association said officials of the PFA visited bazaars and markets on the pretext of checking hygiene and cleanliness in the poultry shops and imposed fines on the dealers ranging from Rs5,000 to Rs8,000.
Lal Khan, a poultry dealer, said the officials imposed heavy fines on them on the pretext of “not observing hygiene and cleanliness.”
Sherzada, another poultry shop owner, said: “We earn Rs2,000 to Rs3,000 daily and if we pay Rs5,000 to Rs8,000 fine, it will not be possible for us to provide bread to our families.”
Saleem Khan, another shop owner, said the PFA wanted the dealers to observe cleanliness condition as per the international standard which was not possible in a small city such as Hassanabdal.
On the other hand, the residents suffered due to the unavailability of poultry products, especially chicken meat.
Besides domestic consumers, marriage hall and hotel owners also faced hardship and had to purchase chicken from other cities such as Attock, Kamra, Taxila and Haripur.
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The boss of the travel industry’s main trade association, Abta, has warned that holidaymakers cannot expect refunds for cancelled trips due to them in the statutory 14 days.
Mark Tanzer, Abta’s chief executive, said: “If companies are obliged or forced to provide cash refunds which they don’t have, then that is going to push them towards failure.
“Companies are trying to deal with repatriation at the same time as new bookings have dried up.”
If a travel firm cancels a holiday, the Package Travel Regulations insist that the customer can get a full refund within two weeks of the cancellation being known.
“They are not getting cash in, and they are being forced to push cash out,” said Mr Tanzer. He was speaking to Lucy Huxley, editor of Travel Weekly, towards the end of the most difficult month in the history of modern travel.
“This is a national emergency,” he said. “This is not an easy place to be for Abta to be: between customers who want their money now and businesses that can’t provide it within 14 days.”
Package holidays are not operated contrary to Foreign Office travel advice. On 17 March the FCO warned against travel to all destinations abroad until 16 April at the earliest.
In theory all customers who require a refund are due the cash by 31 March. But Mr Tanzer said: “Because of these extraordinary circumstances we need to buy some more time – to extend it until the end of July.”
Abta has proposed a system of “refund credit notes” that are effectively IOUs travel firms can hand to customers. They can be used for future bookings or, at the end of July, be converted to cash.
The association stresses that the refund credit note is financially protected in the event that the travel business fails, unlike holiday vouchers issued by some companies for gifts or by way of compensation.
The Abta boss added: “Once we’re through the peak of this it will take a while for consumer confidence to come back.
“We’re looking at a very difficult 2020.”
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In addition, there will be “microbusiness licenses” that allow the holder to cultivate, produce and retail their own cannabis products but with significant size limitations. There will also be “on-site consumption licenses” for retail locations that will allow people to use cannabis products at the location.
In Israel, Krueger said, where medical research on medical marijuana is allowed, scientists have had breakthroughs using marijuana extracts to treat children with severe autism.
The legislation signed by the governor immediately decriminalized the possession of less than three ounces of marijuana — or less than 24 grams of concentrated cannabis — for anyone 21 and older. Possession of amounts higher than that remains a violation and escalates to a felony charge when someone possesses more than 10 pounds of marijuana, or more than four pounds of concentrated cannabis.
Although stigmas remain, the marijuana industry has evolved significantly in the past half-century, and become much more than a vehicle for someone to get “stoned.”
New York State Senators Pete Harckham, left, and Liz Krueger, right, hold a press conference on marijuana legislation on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, to at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Sen. Harckham, who opposed legalization last year, announced support for Krueger’s cannabis bill. (Will Waldron/Times Union)
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Unlike some states where a few large dispensaries are spread out geographically and customers drive sometimes long distances to make purchases, New York’s plan is a statewide framework of relatively small retail shops with a focus on awarding licenses in many of the communities where convictions for marijuana-related offenses have been the highest.
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Any sale or delivery to a minor is punishable by one to two and a half years in prison and a fine up to $5,000.
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So, what does this new normal translate to? And how can Indian IT services deal with it? ET on Sunday spoke to a bunch of analysts to figure out how things have changed. Brian Robinson, research director for HfS Research, a global services advisory, says that competition and pressure on all service providers have increased due to three factors.
One, pricing alone does not differentiate providers anymore. "Nearly all the global majors including IBM, Accenture, CapGemini, have established or are establishing their footprints in India," he says. Two, cost savings (and therefore labour artbitrage) is now just one of the many expectations that customers have from service providers.
Finally, increasing competition not just from the likes of IBM and Accenture but also from a new breed of ambitious service providers in Latin America (who are tapping the US and European markets) and the likes of Google, Amazon and Salesforce which are offering services like "software as a services" (SaaS) or "platform as a service" (PaaS, where hardware or storage can be rented over the internet).
Competition is also being fuelled by the fact that deal sizes and tenures have shrunk. "Deal sizes are getting smaller. A few years ago, $100 million deals were in play. Now deals are more in the $25-50 million range. Moreover, even the smaller deals are being fought out by not just the Tier II companies but the large MNCs which have a presence in India," says Amneet Singh, India country head for global sourcing advisory firm, Everest Group.
Deal tenures too are being crimped. "The tenure of outsourcing contracts is coming down. The contracts which were 8-10 years in tenure are now being renegotiated to 3-5-year-long contracts," says Sanjoy Sen, senior director, Deloitte, a consultancy. "Indian IT services companies can actively seek contract renegotiations with clients," he adds.
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So, how are Indian companies dealing with this new environment? Most Indian companies are pushing for non-linear growth (where revenue growth is not related to manpower addition proportionally) a lot more seriously.
"Several have instituted non-linear growth models as a response, restricting their business models to stimulate innovation in their organisations," says HfS' Robinson. "We believe that the largest Indian providers [Infosys, Wipro, TCS...] have strong enough balance sheets to make this transformation. We are less confident that smaller providers will be able to make this transition," he adds.
Infosys is betting big on its platforms and products business. As Shibulal pointed out: "Our revenues from platforms was $25 million for the quarter but at the same time we exited the year with $350 million of booked business." TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran says that non-linear is among the biggest areas of focus for the company. "We really want to drive that very aggressively from this quarter... More than 10% of our incremental revenues definitely will be from nonlinear," says Chandrasekaran.
Wipro has been showcasing client wins in new areas like analytics and cloud. "The company's keen focus is to grow its new focus areas like Analytics (35 new accounts in the year), Cloud (40 new wins in this quarter) and Mobility (50 new customers added in FY13)," reads a recent report from brokerage house Prabhudas Lilladher.
In a recent conference call with analysts, Kurien also mentioned that the company was investing in sales capabilities and had divided its sales teams into hunting (new client acquisition) and farming (mining existing customers) teams. Consequently, Wipro's sales and marketing expenses were the highest since the fourth quarter of 2003-04, adds the Prabhudas Lilladher report.
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Deloitte's Sen believes that Indian companies which are able to offer a global delivery model as compared to an India-centric delivery proposition are likely to fare better than those who don't. Infosys plans to hire 1,200 people in the US this year.
TCS and Wipro also have stated their intentions to hire in this market. Part of this could also be to assuage some of the shrill criticism that Indian companies get from American politicians on outsourcing related job losses around American presidential elections.
So, what lies ahead in the next year for Indian IT? Is it just slower growth and uncertain times? One can't be sure. Most analysts ET on Sunday spoke to said they expected growth momentum to pick up later this year. However, it's not going to be anywhere close to the robust growth the industry witnessed before September 2008. Growth for the industry is mostly likely to be in its early teens, with a few exceptions.


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‘How to own a car through vehicle financing’
Despite the average price of used cars in Africa standing at $5,000 (almost three times the current GDP per capita of $1,720), with credit penetration in the auto market
Experts decry low knowledge of lubricant among vehicle owners
Engine oil is one product that many vehicle owners use often to sustain the life of their automobiles but some individuals lack the knowledge about the products’ composition.
Innoson Vehicles gaining momentum despite challenges, says Chukuma
Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Co. Ltd, the first indigenous vehicle manufacturing plant in Nigeria, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, spoke on how he has been able to weather the storm in the industry and the prospects.
Hyundai unveils first CVVD engine
Hyundai Motor Group has developed the world’s first Continuously Variable Valve Duration (CVVD) technology to feature in future Hyundai vehicles.
Auto industry gets three-year hit in profit, stocks
The nation’s automobile industry has been reeling under the pangs of harsh operating environment, just as the bottom-line of the sector’s listed equities, since 2015, remained subdued, with gloomy outlook, due to policy challenges. Indeed, most hit, within the period, were the share prices of these companies on the trading floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange…
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At Mercedes Benz, it is their belief that the secret to success and keeping their top spot as the best automobile manufacturers in the world, is providing state of the art luxurious vehicles to customers and exceptional customer service in all areas of their operation. Mercedes Benz has partnered with World PR Media on the…


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IKEA Furnishes Parisian Subways
IKEA has demonstrated creativity in a recent guerrilla marketing initiative by furnishing Parisian subway stops.
IKEA have demonstrated originality and creativity in their guerrilla and experiential marketing initiatives for some time now – from a 20X20 box to promote their Brooklyn, NY store opening (bigger than the respective 10X10 they could fit in a Manhattan studio), to the Oval Office they furnished for Obama’s then-new office last year. The international retailer’s most recent effort to get on customers’ minds and in their hearts – where they least expect it – entails furnishing Parisian subway stops.
Ikea has furnished Paris’ St. Lazare, Champs-Elysées Clémenceau, Concorde, and Opéra subway stations with sofas and lamps for two weeks. Metro commuters will be waiting for their train on couches from Ikea’s new Ektorp and Karlstad collections. The key idea behind the stunt is to demonstrate the quality and durability of IKEA products via the ‘bum test’ of thousands of Parisians; particularly since IKEA is oftentimes embraced for its contemporary yet affordable (and disposable) furniture.
Additional photos of the furnished metro stops can be viewed here.


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BASF opens AgSolutions Farm in Tien Giang, Vietnam 15th January 2018
BASF recently opened its AgSolutions Farm, a new agricultural solution research farm for crop protection products, in Cai Lay district, Tien Giang province, Vietnam. Located in the Mekong Delta region, a major production area for rice, vegetable and fruits, the facility will serve as a technical and training hub to help farmers and industry players increase yields and profitability, and to promote food safety and environmental protection. Demonstration plots and field trials at the center will also complement the work of BASF research farms around the world.
“Vietnam is a major rice exporter to the world and one of the most important agricultural centres in Asia Pacific. However, while societal expectations for high quality food are increasing, Vietnamese farmers are facing challenges such as a lack of arable land, as well as the challenges of climate change, weeds and diseases,” said Gustavo Palerosi Carneiro, Senior Vice President, Crop Protection, Asia Pacific, BASF. “With our AgSolutions Farm, we aim to bring our crop protection innovation and technical knowledge to the farmers and other industry players, so that they can increase their productivity in a sustainable manner.”
The new BASF AgSolutions Farm will showcase the latest technology and best practices from around the world to drive further innovation in farming in Vietnam, as well as sharing innovations with neighboring countries, including Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. The facility will also cultivate partnerships between BASF and local universities and institutes to provide training and develop customized products and solutions to meet local growers’ needs.
Tanachart Ralsiripong, Managing Director, BASF Vietnam added, “Vietnam is one of the fastest growing markets in Asia Pacific. By establishing the AgSolutions Farm in Tien Giang province, we will get closer to farmers, work to provide better services and contribute to sustainable agricultural development in Vietnam.”
BASF Crop Protection launched its direct business model in Vietnam in 2013 and has been active in major farming centers including Mekong Delta. It works with farmers, distribution partners and agriculture industry players to offer innovative solutions and product stewardship training to help them boost productivity and profitability. For example, Headline 100CS is an effective fungicide to help rice farmers protect their plants from disease, while preserving the aquatic environment. The product is also part of BASF’s AgCelence portfolio to increase yields and improve grain quality, resulting in higher revenues for farmers and better quality rice for consumers. In the next three years, BASF will launch a broader range of innovative products to effectively support the country’s sustainable agriculture.


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Roewe has released the first photos of their new Roewe RX5 SUV, looking fresh and somewhat dignified. The Roewe RX5, not to be confused with the new Fengshen AX5, will debut on Monday on the Beijing Auto Show and launch on the Chinese car market in the second half of the year.
The spectacular Roewe Vision-R Concept was unveiled today on the Guangzhou Auto Show in China, looking sleek and sporty and swooping, and she is is very pretty too. Roewe says the Vision-R previews the future design direction of the brand, and we add that this is essentially the next generation Roewe 950, which will be based on the 2017 Buick LaCrosse.
The new Roewe 360 was unveiled today on 2015 Chengdu Auto Show in China, looking very speedy and sporty in red. The Roewe 360 is the successor of the Roewe 350, it stands on a new platform and is the first all-new car for the Roewe brand in three years. The 360 will be launched on the Chinese car market late this month.
This is the new Roewe 360, the successor of the Roewe 350, looking all the speedy in red with sporty five-spoke alloys. The Roewe 360 stands on a new platform and is the first all-new car for the Roewe brand in three years. It will be launched on the Chinese car market later this month.
Not only Geely is improving in the interior department, Roewe is moving up the ladder too. This is the dashboard of the new Roewe 360, the successor of the Roewe 350. Most eye catching aspects are the new eight-inch LCD display for the infotainment system and the new steering wheel.
The Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) has released the first official images of the new Roewe 360, the successor of the Roewe 350. The Roewe 360 will be launched on the Chinese car market in August, price will range from 80.000 to 150.000 yuan.
Spy Shots showing a brand new variant of the good old Roewe W5 SUV. This is a typical Chinese open police patrol car. Vehicles like this are used within big cities for regular police patrols, especially in city centers and around important locations. And an open police petrol can also be used as a parade car.
The very first Spy Shots of the all-new Roewe 360, the successor of the Roewe 350. The Roewe 360 will be launched on the Chinese car market in August, price will range from 80.000 to 150.000 yuan. The 360 features a sporty design with large headlights, a shiny chrome grille, and tiny wheels.
The facelifted Roewe 950 sedan has been unveiled on the 2014 Guangzhou Auto Show. The 950 is the slow-selling flagship of the Roewe-brand owned by Shanghai Auto. The 950 is based on the Buick Lacrosse that is made in China by the Shanghai-GM joint venture. The facelift includes new headlights with LED strips, some smaller changes at the rear, and a new 2.0 turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine.
The Roewe W5 Urban Concept debuted on the 2014 Beijing Auto Show. The Urban Concept previews the upcoming facelift for the Roewe W5 SUV, and design elements of the concept will also be applied on other future Roewe cars. The facelifted Roewe W5 will hit the China car market late this year.


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According to a new report, Taiwanese touch screen manufacturer, eTurbo Touch Technology will reportedly supply large size projected touch screen technology to Wistron Corporation which is a major original design manufacturer(ODM) in Taiwan.
eTurbo Touch is planning to further co-operate with Wistron in manufacturing large size touch screen display and a new touch screen is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
It is also further reported that the co-operation will be helpful to bring mutual benefits in their intellectual property rights including their patents and in introducing a more vertically business model for the manufacturers.
Market observers says that the cooperation between the two manufacturers will most likely be helpful to meet the huge demands of touch screen for products compatible with Windows 8.
You can note that Samsung was reportedly working on new pixel layouts for its upcoming small sized AMOLED panels in order to improve resolution. They are working on developing hexagon and diamond-shaped pixel layouts for small size devices to increase the resolution above 440ppi. The upcoming hexagon and diamond shaped pixel layout will be packed on Samsung’s purported device, Galaxy S IV which is expected to be unveiled at a Special Mobile Unpacked event in March.


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SINGAPORE - Massage chair and lifestyle products company Osim is relisting as V3 and has submitted a preliminary prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Osim was delisted from the Singapore Exchange on Aug 29 last year, after Mr Ron Sim, through his vehicle Vision Three, launched a takeover offer in March that year. The final offer price valued the company at S$1 billion.
V3's initial public offering (IPO) has not been priced yet.
Among other things, proceeds from the IPO will be used to repay a S$321.9 million loan obtained by Osim, and the acquisition of a 69 per cent equity stake in Futuristic, a Singapore-based manufacturer of store fixtures for some of the world's leading retail brands.
V3 will be best known for its two luxury brands, Osim and TWG Tea.
Osim operates 35 stores in Hong Kong, 55 in Taiwan, 172 in China, 26 in Singapore, and 46 in Malaysia. It also has 93 franchised stores in 15 countries.
Last year, 76.8 per cent of Osim's own-store revenue came from the Greater China region.
TWG Tea was established in Singapore in 2008, with core markets in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore.
Credit Suisse, Bank of China International and Jeffries are the joint sponsors for the IPO.


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Facebook has ended its more than three years relationship with Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Marketing has learned.
The social media giant hands its PR duties to Weber Shandwick Hong Kong, and the partnership has been effective starting from 1 September 2016.
Rumours have circulated about the change in recent months, and it was confirmed when some media outlets received an event invitation from the new PR agency on behalf of Facebook.
The agency will be working on a retainer basis to provide media communications and event managements.
“Facebook is one of the world’s most dynamic brands and we are very excited to have the opportunity to support its mission to connect the world and bring people together,” said Albert Shu, Weber Shandwick’s Managing Director in Hong Kong. “We look forward to working with the team here in Hong Kong.”
Spokesperson from Hill+Knowlton Strategies “respectfully declines to comment”.


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Tech Nation (formerly Tech City UK) have released their comprehensive annual report on the state of UK tech.
The report found some of the following headlines:
- Tech is expanding 2.6 times faster than the rest of the UK economy
- The Digital tech sector is worth nearly £184bn to UK economy, up from £170bn in 2016
- The UK’s digital suburbs and tech towns are booming, with 16 towns showing a higher proportion of digital tech employment than the UK average
- Diversity in digital tech has an improving trend: figures show more black, Asian and ethnic minority workers employed in tech than across the UK in general (15% v 10%)
- 72% of UK digital tech workers are over 35, in line with the whole UK workforce
- London ranks as second most connected place for tech on planet, after Silicon Valley
- London beats Silicon Valley when it comes to proportion of overseas customers
The online report includes in-depth data visualisations for exploring the digital tech sector in all parts of the UK, as well as recommendations for tech businesses, policymakers and corporates for further accelerating the growth of UK tech.
The report worked with data partners including Beauhurst, PitchBook, Meetup, Github, Eventbrite, Startup Genome, Streetbees and the ONS to look at the UK digital tech sector’s international competitiveness, digital businesses, jobs and skills,and connectedness and collaboration, as well as community perceptions based on a 3,428 survey responses from the UK tech community.
To read the Worcester and Malvern cluster section of the Tech Nation report, read it here.
To join the conversation on Twitter, use the hashtag #WeAreTechNation
For more information on the findings on UK tech, visit the Tech Nation website here.


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Generac Holdings Inc. has purchased Country Home Products Inc. in a deal that closed Aug. 1, according to a report in the Milwaukee Business Journal. Country Home Products manufactures products sold under the DR and Neuton brand names. Country Home is based in Vergennes, Vt., and has more than 200 employees at its headquarters and two other facilities in Vermont.
Country Home's management team will continue to lead the company and the DR and Neuton brands will join Generac's lineup.
Aaron Jagdfeld, Generac president and CEO, said the deal fits with the company's strategy of diversifying its end markets with new products and services, according to the report. "This acquisition dramatically expands our chore-related products line-up and will provide additional scale to our residential engine-powered tools platform," Jagdfeld said.


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When Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony founded Aptera Motors in 2006, they wanted to create the world’s most fuel-efficient car. To do that, they had to ditch all conventional notions of car design to make the most aerodynamic vehicle possible.
The result is the Aptera 2e, a two-seater powered by an electric motor that delivers 100 miles of driving on an 8-hour charge from a standard outlet. The company says 4,000 people have already put down a deposit for the car, which is slated to hit driveways later this year.
But the design that makes the Aptera so efficient also disqualifies the car from the Department of Energy’s $25 billion loan program for ultra-efficient cars—the same fund from which GM has requested more than $8 billion. The company wants the low-cost loans to develop other models, such as a plug-in hybrid with a gas-powered generator. So Aptera Motors went to Washington to show the feds why the reg needs to change.


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Place: Westin Great Southern Ballroom
Bob Evans Farms Inc. is being accused by an Oregon food manufacturer of ripping off its proprietary baking method when Bob Evans began pulling its side dish production in-house last year, the Portland Business Journal reports.
Reser’s Fine Foods Inc. is suing its former business partner for breach of a nondisclosure agreement and misappropriation of trade secrets for allegedly infringing on its baking technique used to make macaroni and cheese and scalloped potatoes, among other things. Reser's could be compensated triple its damages of $100,000.
Columbus-based restaurant and food products company Bob Evans (NASDAQ:BOBE) issued a statement Thursday, denying the allegations.
"We are aware of this complaint, believe the allegations to be without merit, and intend to defend this matter vigorously," it said. "As this is a matter for litigation, we have no further comment at this time".
Beaverton, Ore.-based Reser’s has more than $1 billion in annual sales, according to Columbus Business First's sister publication.
Morning Call is compiled from news reports originated by other media organizations and Columbus Business First staff.
Evan Weese is web coordinator for Business First.
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