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The stock market is experiencing some heavy selling pressure. Quality names such as Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) are trading more than 20% off the highs. Certainly, economic activity will contract as cities, states, and countries around the world mobilize isolation efforts to counter the COVID-19 coronavirus’s spread. That doesn’t mean things will stay that way forever.
As difficult and counterintuitive it may feel, long-term investors should be looking to buy great stocks at their now-lowered prices.
The Cupertino, California company is seeing shares sell at over 15% below the highs. No one is arguing sales are going to be significantly depressed in the near term. In fact, Apple admitted that it will miss earnings estimates for the current quarter.
The pandemic is hitting areas of strategic importance to Apple, impacting both its supply chain and demand simultaneously. Even before the coronavirus caused supply shocks, Apple’s AirPods Pro were sold out in most major retailers, and you had to wait over one month to get your hands on a pair.
However, the fundamental strength of the company remains strong. Demand for its products and services will almost certainly rebound dramatically, and the balance sheet is strong enough to weather short-term declines in sales.
Upcoming catalysts that can lift the stock higher soon after supply chains return to normal include a 5G iPhone and a lower-cost phone. The latter will help it gain market share in emerging markets. The two products raise the potential of a V-shaped recovery to the stock price.
Furthermore, Apple’s services segment could see a boost during coronavirus countermeasures. Many people will be spending more time at home, potentially adding the growth of its Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade services.
Overall, Apple remains one of the highest-quality businesses on the planet, and long-term investors should consider accumulating shares at these prices.
Shares of Alphabet are down more than 20% since its peak. Investors looking for a quality growth company with a pristine balance sheet need look no further.
Google is the undisputed leader of online search. In the aftermath of this crisis, it will likely remain the leader. The top spot in a growing space will allow it to continue generating robust growth in revenue, with excellent profit margins. When investing for the long-run, you want to invest in businesses that have the demonstrated pricing power shown by Google.
With roughly $120 billion in cash and only $4 billion in debt, the company is in a position to get aggressive in the market. It can increase the amount of its share buyback program or look to make acquisitions. Additionally, the steep market sell-off gives its cash more purchasing power should it decide to become more acquisitive.
What’s more, time spent watching YouTube is likely to skyrocket during the pandemic — not to mention all the Google searches for information regarding the novel COVID-19 coronavirus.
Shares of Facebook have not been immune to this broad market sell-off. The 24% drop in price could be a chance to start accumulating shares in this incredible tech company.
The bull case for the company has not changed. Facebook has a swiftly expanding revenue stream with a strong moat, a great balance sheet with over $54 billion in cash and marketable securities, potential in undermonetized apps like WhatsApp and Messenger, and phenomenal profit margins it can sustain while growing the top line rapidly.
As the pandemic encourages people to spend more time at home, the company’s apps will likely be used more often. Increased user engagement and new user signups will boost demand for its services when economic activity returns to normal.
Admittedly, advertisers may look for lower-priced options to get their message across. However, with limited alternatives available, and without the option to market to audiences of sporting events, marketers may reluctantly maintain spending. If you are looking to target a specific group, there is nothing close to what Facebook can offer. Its ability to gather data on individuals is unprecedented, and therefore, incredibly valuable.
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The short run may be painful, but when you are investing over a long time horizon, it usually pays off to buy quality stocks when the market is in panic mode. Since, it is a challenging task to time the market correctly, it is prudent to dollar-cost-average your way into one or all of these high-quality tech stocks.
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One of the scariest feelings when driving a car has to be that blink of a moment when you realize that the car has begun to spin out. Many cars can recognize that they are skidding and are able to utilize anti-skid technology, but Ford is taking it one step further.
The automaker announced new tech last week that will enable vehicles to actually realize when they are about to skid, as opposed to when they are already skidding. The vehicle then applies the brakes in such a way that the car continues to go straight.
The difference in time between traditional anti-skid technology and the new “Enhanced Transitional Stability,” which will be available in the 2015 Ford Focus, is minimal at a mere 100- to 200-milliseconds, but anyone who’s been in a skid-related accident knows exactly what a difference this change could make.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will don the Blue Jersey to pay tribute to the Frontline warriors who have spent the majority of the last 18 months in PPE kits.
The team will don the blue jersey in the opening match of the second leg of the VIVO IPL 2021 against Kolkata Knight Riders on 20th September 2021, at Abu Dhabi.
RCB had announced the Blue Jersey Match in May this year, instead of its flagship ‘Go Green’ initiative, before the pandemic put a pause to the tournament.
The team keeps its promise with its fans and will don the Blue Jersey, which was unveiled by Captain Virat Kohli and Chairman, RCB, Prathmesh Mishra at a virtual press conference on Saturday.
Since the start of the pandemic last year, RCB’s parent company, Diageo India has committed 75 Crores INR towards the program to support the Indian hospitality sector and Royal Challengers Bangalore has provided about 100 units of Oxygen Concentrators to extend support in Bengaluru, and other cities.
The special edition “Blue Jerseys”, which will feature messages to spread awareness in the battle against Covid, will be signed and auctioned to raise funds for the deployment of vaccines in India.
Fankind, an online celebrity fundraising platform, founded by Anshula Kapoor, will be organizing the auction which will go live on the Fankind website.
The auction period which begins on 20th September will last till 2nd October 2021 and will be open to all fans to bid for up to 11 sets of “2 player Jerseys”.
A closed bidding process will take place live on zoom for certain player sets on 4th October 2021. All proceeds from the auction will be directly handed over by Fankind to GiveIndia for deployment towards helping accelerate the vaccination drive for underprivileged communities.
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All-electric battery vehicles (BEVs) have become all the rage, particularly with the political class, who see them as a magical means to combat climate change. We know, of course, there is no such thing as magic. But that won’t stop politicians from making proclamations, followed by policies that bring about bad, even destructive, results.
Climate science is highly complex, as the Earth has gone through many warming and cooling periods over billions of years with widely varying amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere long before man arrived on the scene. I have no reason to doubt the global climate is warming, and that humans are significant contributors. But the crusade to end gasoline-powered vehicles by forcing consumers to purchase BEVs is as simpleminded as it is unscientific.
With respect to CO2 emissions, it is true that BEVs, overall, have a distinct emissions advantage over conventional gasoline-powered vehicles. Yet politicians seeking to ban the purchase of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles, as has become law in California beginning in 2035 and soon to be followed in Washington state, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York, have made the gross mistake of pursuing a policy prescription without thought to the environmental, economic, and logistical issues their policies will create. This is not to say BEVs can’t be a part of combating climate change. But they shouldn’t be the only solution when it comes to vehicle emissions.
In the policy push toward BEVs, little consideration has been given to the benefits of an attractive alternative: hybrid vehicles, which also deliver significantly lower CO2 emissions relative to conventional gasoline-powered vehicles. Hybrid vehicles come in two forms: hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), such as the well-known Toyota Prius, and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs), such as the Toyota Prius Prime. In decreasing order of CO2 emissions, HEVs have lower emissions than conventional gasoline vehicles, PHEVs have lower emissions than HEVs, and finally, BEVs have zero emissions from the vehicle itself. BEVs, however, have a high emissions footprint in the manufacturing process prior to delivery of the vehicle, and then afterward in the production of electricity to charge the vehicle (called “well-to-wheel emissions”). So BEVs are not, as often touted, “zero-emissions” vehicles. They produce, instead, what is called a CO2 equivalent.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, about 2,817 pounds of well-to-wheel CO2 equivalent is produced over the lifetime of the average BEV. The average PHEV, on the other hand, generates 1,884 pounds of well-to-wheel CO2 equivalent from electric operation and 2,939 pounds of CO2 emissions from gasoline operation, for a total of 4,824 pounds of CO2 equivalent. While 70% more CO2 equivalent than a BEV, this is still about 62% less than a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle. Thus, there are considerable CO2 emissions savings with PHEVs, and it shouldn’t be ignored that even HEVs produce 45% lower overall CO2 emissions than conventional gasoline engines. The question is how much CO2 savings is enough? Politicians give us no clear answer while ignoring the environmental impact of their all-BEV push.
As Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Mark P. Mills has documented in his 2020 report, “Mines, Minerals, and ‘Green’ Energy: A Reality Check,” the manufacture of batteries for BEVs is highly destructive to the earth. This environmental impact can’t be ignored simply because BEVs generate the lowest CO2 emissions relative to other types of vehicles. For every single electric car battery weighing about 1,000 pounds, some 500,000 pounds of earth need to be extracted and processed. And for every 1,000 pounds of lithium produced for BEVs, 500,000 pounds of water must be used for processing in some of the most arid regions of the world. Yet politicians turn a blind eye to these realities. Given the relatively small amount of BEVs currently on the road, imagine the environmental impact of scaling up lithium and other rare earth mineral production to 300 million cars in America.
As a BEV owner, I’ve personally experienced the poor state of the public fast-charging network, which creates a serious barrier to electric vehicle adoption, particularly on long road trips. Fast DC chargers are too few, too costly to use, fail regularly, and often don’t deliver at the stated charge rating, which extends charge times. Given the low range of virtually all BEVs, this is particularly problematic in rural areas, where motorists must travel long distances and can be seriously inconvenienced due to a lack of chargers. While I’m certain these problems will be solved over time, it will be a long time before there is a viable business case for the plentiful “mom and pop” gasoline stations to offer electric vehicle charging, as their business model depends on high-margin store purchases during quick, low-margin gasoline dispensing. With the high costs of installation, it will be a struggle to make them a common sight.
When factoring in the environment and the feasibility of an all-BEV fleet of vehicles, PHEVs provide the best practical way forward relative to BEVs, obviating the need for a massive infrastructure shift over the next decade that will cause enormous logistical headaches. PHEVs can take full advantage of existing gasoline infrastructure, whose owners will never be inconvenienced if a charger is unavailable. As more public charging stations are made available over time due to technological advances and lower prices, PHEV owners will enjoy more opportunities to charge their batteries, which will be critical to operating at maximum efficiency, producing the lowest CO2 emissions, and lowering fuel costs.
Additionally, from an environmental perspective, PHEVs have a considerable advantage to BEVs because their batteries can be one-fourth to one-fifth the size. Consequently, the environmental damage caused by a PHEV or HEV would be one-fourth to one-fifth that of a BEV. And again, hybrids attain this dramatic environmental advantage while still providing dramatically lower emissions than conventional gasoline vehicles.
In summary, moving to a primarily PHEV model, along with HEVs and BEVs so motorists have maximum choice, represents a far superior way forward both environmentally and practically to the current drive for government-imposed BEV mandates. Doing so would alleviate the need for a massive shift in infrastructure to serve the 300+ million vehicles in America. Small gasoline providers could continue to operate their business model as they do now, and over time a network of electric chargers could be built at a realistic and sustainable pace to serve the needs of BEV, PHEV, and HEV owners, without the enormous pressure that would be forced on them by an all-BEV model. The time is now for politicians to become more thoughtful in their approach to hybrid and electric vehicles, so we don’t continue down an unworkable, impractical, and unhelpful path.


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Equipment and technology information exchange platform launched in Hanoi
The information exchange platform is a national database system storing thousands of local and international scientific publications by Vietnamese authors, millions of scientific researches in the world via connecting with international science and technology repositories.
An exchange platform of equipment and technical information has been launched in Hanoi by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)’s Information Department in partnership with various agencies, within the framework of an event presenting Vietnam-made scientific products from November 25 to 27.
The information exchange is named Techmartvietnam with a view to supporting innovative start-ups to introduce their products and services.
Former Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan and Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat and Deputy Minister Tran Van Tung witnessed the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement on technology transfer consulting at the event. Photo: Van Ly
At the event, "make in Vietnam" solutions of science and technology enterprises and a database of hundreds of science and technology products have been displayed and offered for sale on Techmartvietnam.vn.
Moreover, it is also a national database system storing thousands of local and international scientific publications by Vietnamese authors, millions of scientific researches in the world via connecting with international science and technology repositories.
The information exchange platform will act as an intermediary of the science and technology business connecting supply and demand, commercializing research results, and supporting the demonstration and promotion of new technological products.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat stressed that the formation of a science and technology market is a major and consistent policy of the Vietnamese Government.
Scientific and technological products are displayed at the event. Photo: Van Ly
“The technology exchange platform will make a substantive contribution to the development of the science and technology market throughout Vietnam. I hope that it will become a reliable address for research institutes, universities, and other scientific and technological organizations to tap into the potential research results, especially those funded by the government,” Dat said.
Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Science and Technology Enterprises Hoang Duc Thao said that opening a technology and equipment information exchange platform is very practical and catching up with the current digitalization trend.
“In the long run, I think online activities on Techmartvietnam.vn will be a useful bridge. When the Covid-19 pandemic is still unpredictable and is causing many difficulties for businesses both at home and abroad, posing obstacles to face-to-face trade activities, more and more customers and partners will make transactions via online channels. Therefore, joining the online information exchange platform will provide businesses opportunities to further expand their trading activities without being limited in space, time, and connection to sell technology products or services. The platform will open up more new cooperation opportunities,” Thao told The Hanoi Times.
The market is located at No.24 Ly Thuong Kiet Street in Hanoi and the online exchange platform is at http://techmartvietnam. After November 27, Techmartvietnam will operate regularly to introduce scientific and technological products, organize business matching sessions, and promote technology and goods transfer.
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Nissan is considering rolling out its Datsun brand in Africa to better compete with Indian and Chinese rivals for lower-income consumers, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
Nissan, which also announced plans to spend more than R1 billion on doubling its South African production capacity over the next few years, sees the fast-growing continent as an increasingly important market.
But winning market share among Africa's cost-conscious new middle class requires a cheap entry-level vehicle.
Toshiyuki Shiga told reporters at a briefing at the company's plant in Rosslyn, outside Pretoria: "The Korean manufacturers, the Indians and Chinese are more aggressive in emerging markets.
"In order to penetrate frontier, growing markets like the African market, we need a product."
Shiga said the company was "considering" rolling out the Datsun in Africa, but that nothing had been decided.
Both India's Tata Motors and China's Geely, which are also targeting Africa, are more experienced in low-income markets than Nissan or its Japanese rivals, including Toyota.
In South Africa, Nissan's Micra sells from about R110 000 (Rs 403 600), compared with Geely's entry-level LC that costs around R95 000 (Rs 348 600).
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Nissan this year announced plans to revive the Datsun brand in Indonesia, India and Russia, to target first-time buyers in emerging markets.
The company ditched the Datsun name in 1981 to consolidate all cars under the Nissan brand. Datsun, which helped symbolise the rise of Japan's auto industry after World War II, is still a well-known marque in several markets, including North America.
Nissan currently produces around 90 000 cars a year in Africa, with about 50 000 in South Africa.
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OSIsoft’s PI System is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company has launched a suite of products to enable industrial players to more easily run and manage its data management platform, which unites data from operational and information environments, on AWS.
These include a set of so-called ‘Quick Starts’ templates, scripts, and reference architectures, designed for quickly spinning up the PI System on AWS, for moving PI System workloads to the AWS cloud, and for providing an aggregate PI System across an enterprise. The OSIsoft ‘Quick Starts’ will be available next year.
It has also introduced a ‘Pi Integrator’ for business analytics to extract, clean and transmit data from PI Systems and reduce data preparation tasks that bog down big data and data science initiatives.
Certain customers have already used the ‘integrator’ solution to reduce the time of data preparation in advanced analytics by over 90 per cent, it claimed. The solution integrates to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Its Pi Integrator is available now.
Under the Hood Quick Starts are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to ease deployments on AWS. “These reference deployments implement key technologies automatically on the AWS Cloud, often with a single click and in less than an hour. You can build your test or production environment in a few steps, and start using it immediately,” said OSIsoft in a statement.
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John Baier, director of integration technologies for OSIsoft’s cloud analytics practice, said: “The information being generated by chemical reactors, transformers and other industrial devices is incredibly valuable. Operations data will be the most valuable asset companies have for moving ahead of the competition in the future.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Dior is cementing its longstanding relationship with Harrods with a holiday event that will take over the London department store’s windows and facade for a celebration of “The Wonderful World of Dior.”
Running from Nov. 10 to Jan. 3, the multipronged happening will involve events on every floor of the store, including a micro-village on the lower ground floor and a pop-up café. The front of the store on Brompton Road will be adorned with a monumental light installation featuring classic Dior emblems like the compass rose, one of the key symbols of the brand’s 2022 holiday campaign.
Dior, which traditionally stages a summer pop-up at Harrods, will take over 44 windows with gingerbread house-themed displays celebrating all its product categories, from ready-to-wear and leather goods to fragrances and home wares. The theme of the tableaux will be exclusive to Harrods and Dior’s flagship on Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
“We have never led a collaboration of this scale with a department store,” said Pietro Beccari, chairman and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture.
“This is an absolute first, and along with the unprecedented exhibition there will be surprises and exclusivities on every floor: from monumental illuminations to entrancing shop windows animating the legendary facade, from two exclusive pop-ups to Café Dior, imagined specially for the event,” he added.
Beccari said Dior’s relationship with Harrods goes back to the beginnings of the French fashion house, with founder Christian Dior attending a show of his collection at the store in 1954.
“Harrods is renowned for its iconic Christmas displays, so it is our pleasure to be partnering with Christian Dior this season to create something truly unique and exceptional for our customers,” said Michael Ward, managing director of Harrods.
“Throughout our history, Dior has been a vital partner for Harrods, with our customers responding well across all categories, so it only made sense that we join forces to bring our clients a most enchanted season,” he added.
Dior will launch a dedicated app to allow visitors to book slots for the exhibition, featuring small-scale reproductions of three key buildings: the Paris flagship, which reopened last year after extensive renovations; founder Christian Dior’s childhood home in Granville, Normandy and the Château de La Colle Noire, the estate he bought in the South of France.
“These have been reproduced, with virtuosity, in reinterpretation of the centuries-old tradition of gingerbread houses. This incredible prowess made possible thanks to multiple ‘métiers’ and savoir-faire expertise — from sculpture to animation — celebrates the excellence of Dior and the magic of its creations in all forms, from haute couture to perfumes,” Beccari said.
The visit, which takes around 15 minutes, is augmented with immersive video projections, micromapping and holographic projections to take visitors on a journey from dawn until dusk.
The store will also carry a number of exclusives and pre-launches. Among the exclusives are square trunks embroidered with gold thread, carrying micro versions of handbags including the Saddle and the Lady Dior. High-end products on offer include the Miss Dior chair designed by Philippe Starck. — JOELLE DIDERICH
GOING, GOING, GETTY: When Christie’s was invited to sell the estate of Ann and Gordon Getty, the auction house was invited to the late couple’s home and “really told to take it all,” according to Elizabeth Seigel, Christie’s vice president and specialist in private and iconic collections. This includes what WWD can reveal is a museum-quality collection of tapestries, handbags and home furnishings that will be available for auction across about 10 sales.
The Getty family, as Seigel described, “is who many people know on the West Coast for the Getty Collection in Los Angeles. They really held court in philanthropic circles in San Francisco. Their home was a beacon of that world and now we are throwing the doors open to celebrate some of their favorite causes. We are selling all the contents of their home from paintings on the wall to furniture and textiles in the basement — all for philanthropic causes.” The family also holds immense political sway in California and has close relationships with officials including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Governor Gavin Newsom.
Mrs. Getty’s basement textile archive, including panels and swatches from France, England and India —many of them dating back to the 1700s — will be the primary focus of six online sales that will conclude Oct. 24. These sales will also include items from Mrs. Getty’s jewelry collection — much of it featuring important pieces from India along with jewelers like Ilias Lalaounis and Tiffany & Co. Additionally, there are handbags from her collection, including pieces from Hermès and Christian Dior.
“Quality is the current thread throughout the collection,” said Seigel. “The handbag collection is really special as well — there are some of the best names and styles, whether its Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton or VBH. They are bags you don’t often see at auction.”
Due to the sheer number of lots in the sale, Christie’s has not placed reserves on any of the online sales lots. Estimates for online sales start as low as $100, to encourage new bidders to enter the ring. Evening sales estimates are, of course, much higher — with a set of Meissen plates expected to realize a minimum $150,000.
“The Getty’s chose their favorite West Cost philanthropic causes to divide the money between — they show two different trajectories,” said Seigel. “Mr. Getty was a composter so some of the proceeds are going to the San Francisco Conservancy, the San Francisco Opera and Symphony. Mrs. Getty trained as an archaeologist, which I think speaks to her collection and how it digs into history. She chose to donate to the Leakey Collection and the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of San Francisco.”
Christie’s estimates that the entire Getty collection will bring in around $180 million for these charities combined. — MISTY WHITE SIDELL
SLOW-WOMEN: Slowear is testing the waters for its womenswear range, currently accounting for between 5 percent and 10 percent of its sales. And for the first time it hosted a Milan Fashion Week presentation to unveil the spring collection.
Welcoming guests at Slowear’s flagship in the arty Brera district — an experiential space called Slowear 18, combining retail space with a mixology bar and café — chief executive officer Marco Bernardini said the company is testing what works best for the female lineup in terms of distribution and communication, acknowledging that the current most relevant market is Italy and there is little international exposure.
“We thought an event was a great start, the range has already received attention and I think it deserves to grow also communication-wise,” Bernardini said.
The lineup on show was a highly curated edit by stylist Tanya Jones, brought on board by the internal women’s design team led by Misa Tesic to distill their vision of urban gear injected with ease and practicality, the same applied to menswear, the company’s forte.
Earthy tones, best exemplified by ivory roomy pants cropped at the ankles and paired with poet-sleeved drop-shouldered coats, as well as fluid linen pantsuits trading blazers for elongated vests, mingled with sorbet-colored attire. A pea green woolen blazer in the same weight of crisp cotton was matched to linen pants in a slightly lighter shade, while a pleated A-line skirt paired with a voluminous utilitarian jacket was done in a light pink.
“The conversation with Misa revolved around the brand’s DNA and its expertise in menswear. We added a feminine touch, never tacky or too coy, it’s all about urban ladies, the ones seen strolling around Brera,” said Jones.
Asked to elaborate on prospects for the women’s range, Bernardini said it’s too early to predict sales volumes but he looks forward to 2023 to jumpstart a dedicated strategy.
An established menswear player, the Venice-based Slowear is parent to Incotex casual pants; Zanone high-end knitwear; Glanshirt casual shirts; Montedoro outerwear, and Officina Slowear accessories and footwear. As reported earlier this year, the company opened its third U.S. retail outpost but first in New York in NoHo. — MARTINO CARRERA
UNLOCKING TIFFANY: Tiffany & Co. continues to refine its image with a new shop-in-shop dedicated to its most recent jewelry launch.
The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-helmed jeweler has set up an immersive experience in its temporary Fifth Avenue flagship in New York City, dedicated to its new “Lock” collection.
The pop-up appears to offer a kind of luxurious, den-like setting — housed inside a sapphire blue cube with matching carpeting and ambient lighting.
The installation could provide a glimpse of Tiffany’s forthcoming renovated Fifth Avenue flagship when it opens in 2023. While the project began before LVMH’s acquisition, plans for the flagship have since changed significantly and are being devised by star architect Peter Marino.
For the “Lock” installation, Tiffany collaborated with artist Francesco Vullo who made sculptures that highlight the bracelets’ proprietary hinge feature.
Pop-up visitors will also be offered the chance to have their “Lock” bracelets hand-engraved by Tiffany artisans. The pop-up will remain on view until Nov. 1. — M.W.S.
GET READY FOR GU: Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing is expanding the reach of its lower-priced, trend-driven brand GU with with a pop-up store in New York’s SoHo. The company told WWD Tuesday that the shop will open on Oct. 7.
As reported, the SoHo pop-up will be open for roughly a year, and will be GU’s first foray into the U.S. market. It will be used by the company to gather opinions and feedback from U.S. consumers. GU said that it aims for the store to be a store “that is loved by and grows together with the city’s SoHo neighborhood, which welcomes people of diverse cultures, values and lifestyles,” in a statement. The theme of the store will be “Tokyo to SoHo.”
In addition to a selection of popular products for women and men, GU will also be bringing its “GU Osharista” style advisers to customers in its new SoHo store. The term “osharista” was created by combining the Japanese word oshare (pronounced oh-sha-ray), meaning fashionable, and the English word fashionista.
GU will also launch an official website and social media accounts for the U.S. market from Wednesday, and it has various promotions planned for the opening day of the SoHo store. These include free gifts to early visitors and the first 3,000 customers to make a purchase. — KELLY WETHERILLE
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Hukkster — which launched in April 2012 — is the “Pinterest for deal-seeking,” allowing users to “hukk” items they see on e-commerce sites, and receive e-mails when the items are on sale.
On a side note, “hukk it” is the most appealing startup verb we’ve heard all year.
Among the site’s upcoming retoolings include a “tastemakers” section for popular fashion figures to share their ‘wishlists,’ and a September redesign of the iPhone and iPad applications.
It should be noted that co-founders Erica Bell and Katie Finnegan are extraordinarily comely young lasses. Typical winning behavior, killing two birds with one stone by finding dates to the Porcellian Club Reunion Ball AND ideal investees for Winklevoss Capital — I raise my glass, good sirs!
But alas, the week saw its share of struggle as well, as Mt. Gox — the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange — was raided by the feds for running an “unlicensed money transmitting business.” Tyler and Cameron describe themselves as proud “Bitcoiners” on their Twitter accounts, and own roughly 1% of all Bitcoins.
Stiff upper lip, boys! The world will come around to the Ol’ Greenwich POV! Peter Thiel already has…


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Destination brands need to address the use of AI and VR across theme parks and resorts to meet growing visitor demands.
Following research by Deloitte, there is now a clear call-to-action for businesses and brands to address the growing significance and use of artificial intelligence. According to the research, 85% of UK businesses plan to invest in AI by 2020.
The report, questioning 51 organisations with a combined market value of £229bn, saw 73% say they will invest in robotics, 63% in AR and VR, 62% in wearables, 54% in biometrics and 43% in blockchain. While current investments remain low, with only a fifth saying they have already invested in the sector, and of this fifth, only a third will spend more than £1m in 2017, 77% of respondents expect AI to disrupt their industries.
One of the industries we at Omnico is sure will be disrupted is the theme park and resort sector. In research we conducted in November 2016, we found that 65% of global respondents from the UK, US and China (who had visited a theme park in the previous two years) expect virtual reality experiences and guides within the next three years, followed by 41% who believe voice-activated mobile apps will be within parks in that time frame. 33% felt augmented reality games would be implemented (increasing to 49% in China), while 31% think robots as personal assistants would be installed.
Following our first Theme Park Barometer report, we conducted a further study in June 2017 and delved further into visitor expectations of these advanced technologies. In the second of our reports we expanded to include respondents in Japan and Malaysia as well, who had also visited a theme park in the previous two years, and found that overall 85% want theme parks to use artificial intelligence for ID verification so their visits are as trouble-free as possible.
Chinese visitors were keenest, with 92% in favour of allowing AI systems to recognise them using physical attributes. Although fingertip recognition is the most popular individual method of verification across the five countries (selected by 32%), China is the exception, with facial recognition being the number one choice among visitors (41%). Palm-recognition was favoured by only 15% overall.
When questioned further on the specific use of VR within theme parks, 37% of overall respondents said they would use the technology to choose which ride across the park to go on, based on a VR test. Too often queues deter people from waiting to go on one ride over another (57% said queuing for rides / attractions was the main frustration they face), so the ability to ‘test’ the ride beforehand via VR would help people confirm if the queue was worthwhile. This was followed by 36% who would use VR to gain a birds-eye view of the entire park upon arrival, to help manage their experience, with 35% even using VR to choose which restaurant to go to. The possibilities of the technology within parks, when not limited solely to the rides themselves, is endless.
Mel Taylor, CEO of Omnico Group commented: “Theme park visitors want to be part of the revolution in technology. Everyone can see how AI and other advances such as virtual and augmented reality will take the hassle out of visits. It’s time for operators to recognise that technology is essential to giving visitors the enjoyable, all-round experience they now demand.”
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Jeanette Horan, IBM CEO, has banned the use of iPhone app Siri in the company.
Siri, the Apple digital assistant that you can talk to for sending e-mails, searching locations, and even sharing jokes, is banned from the networks of IBM because Horan, in an interview with Technology Review, said the company is worried “that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.”
Indeed all the voice queries transfer to a huge data center located in Maiden, North Carolina. It can be read in the Software License Agreement of the Apple iPhone that “when you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text.”
The license agreement further adds, “by using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data, to provide and improve Siri, Dictation, and other Apple products and services.”
As such, privacy advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, were concerned that Siri is getting personally identifiable information from users. According to Edward Wrenbeck, Siri’s lead developer, “Just having it known that you’re at a certain customer’s location might be in violation of a non-disclosure agreement.”
Although he adds, “I really don’t think it’s something to worry about.”
IBM’s primary concern stems from the fact that one can use Siri to send e-mail messages, and if the company continues to use the service, confidential IBM e-mails might find their way into Apple.


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Xiaoshidai learned from Coca Cola China that today the flagship store of Coca Cola clothing officially landed in tmall. The flagship store of Coca Cola clothing, which opened this time, is the first flagship store of Coca Cola clothing category in China. Coca Cola said that the flagship store will continue to provide a wealth of fashion items for Chinese consumers, and bring cross-border co branded items for Chinese consumers in cooperation with global designers and local brands. The company also said that in the future, Coca Cola clothing flagship store will introduce RPET series, that is, clothing products made from recycled beverage bottles, “not only bring fashion products to consumers, but also advocate the sustainable consumption concept of recycling”.
Starbucks’ first sign language store in Shanghai opens quietly (company news)
According to Starbucks today, another Chinese Starbucks sign language store opened today in Shanghai Huangpu Greenland colorful city, which is Starbucks’ first sign language store in Shanghai. In order to realize the barrier free communication between customers and baristas, the store has designed a special order ordering system, including an intelligent voice assistant developed by Microsoft for Starbucks, which converts customers’ order voice information into text in real time to present the order contents and details. In addition, the store is also equipped with hand-held menu, handwritten tablet and double-sided display screen, and reduces the display of food counter and bar counter to reduce visual impairment. At present, Starbucks has four sign language stores in China, which are located in Guangzhou, Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai.
McDonald’s fourth quarter Revenue $5.3 billion (Wall Street Journal)
McDonald’s reported results tonight, with revenue of US $5.3 billion in the fourth quarter, and same store sales in the United States increased by 5.5% year on year, up from 4.6% in the third quarter. However, due to the strict restrictions on business activities and indoor dining, especially in Western Europe, its international market business was affected. In the fourth quarter, its international market sales decreased by 7.4% compared with the same period last year, but improved compared with the 10.1% decline in the previous quarter.
Godiva closes all North American stores without affecting the Chinese market (Forbes)
Godiva, a well-known chocolate producer, announced on Sunday that it would close all 128 stores in North America by the end of March due to the reduced demand for shop shopping during the epidemic, but its products will continue to be sold online, US media reported recently. The company’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and China were not affected. It is understood that the decision was made by nurtac Afridi, the chief executive who took office in December last year. In a statement, she described it as a difficult decision, but stressed that the company focused on consumer needs and meeting their experience.
Yanghe shares announced members of the seventh board of directors (company announcement)
Yanghe shares announced today that the board of directors of the company nominated Zhang Liandong, Zhong Yu, Li Minfu, Wang Kai, Liu Huashuang, Cong xuenian and Zhou Xinhu as candidates for non independent directors of the seventh board of directors of the company, and nominated Zhao Shuming, Nie Yao, Lu Guoping and Mao Lingxiao as candidates for independent directors of the seventh board of directors of the company. It is understood that the term of the sixth board of directors of Yanghe has expired, and Wang Yao, the current chairman of Yanghe, will terminate on January 29, 2021.
Luzhou Laojiao board of directors decides to cancel two subsidiaries (company announcement)
According to the resolution announcement of the board of directors issued by Luzhou Laojiao today, the board of directors of Luzhou Laojiao voted and passed the cancellation proposals of two subsidiaries, Chengdu Tianfu panda baidiao Liquor Co., Ltd. and Luzhou baidiao Tongdao uncle constellation Liquor Sales Co., Ltd. The announcement states that the cancellation of the subsidiary will not have a significant impact on its financial position and operating results.
Mengniu and Huawei join hands to build a “full scene healthy” ecosystem (company news)
According to Mengniu official micro news yesterday, Mengniu officially joined hands with Huawei sports health to create a “full scene health” ecosystem. Mengniu’s official platform “niumengmeng app” will access the sports data of Huawei health platform. With the authorization of users from both sides, users’ rights and interests will be open and shared. Scientific sports and digital health research and development will better meet consumers’ high standard, personalized and comprehensive nutrition and health needs. In the future, we will encourage users to develop healthy lifestyle and exercise habits through online interactive activities, points and welfare sharing, sports, nutrition, health and other star courses.
Liu Xuan’s official announcement to become Yili jinlingguan sennemu brand image ambassador (upstream News)
According to upstream news yesterday, on January 26, Yili jinlingguan officially announced the signing of Liu Xuan as a new brand image ambassador, and will join hands with Yili brand spokesman Malone to escort the nutrition and health strength of Chinese babies.
Yuanqi forest applied for “greasy savior” and “late night savior” trademark (geek)
Yuanqi forest (Beijing) Food Technology Group Co., Ltd. recently applied for a number of trademarks such as “greasy savior”, “late night savior” and “late night savior”, according to geek.com yesterday. The international classification involves “instant food”, “beer beverage” and “wine”. The trademark status is “applying for registration”.
Chuan yuan Forest shares Baijiu enterprise (Latepost later)
According to Latepost news today, Yuan forest has completed a new round of financing for Guan Yun Baijiu, amounting to hundreds of millions of yuan, and 15% of the yuan forest is in the stock market. Sky eye App showed that the venture capital investor of venture capital forest founded by Tang Binsen, founder of the yuan forest, had invested in Baiyun Baijiu and had a shareholding ratio of 5%.
Nuoyunen 3 infant milk rice noodles listed in China (company news)
According to nuoyuneng official micro news, today, nuoyuneng 3 infant milk rice noodles are officially on the market. At present, there are three products in this series, including infant milk rice noodles, fruit grain milk rice noodles and colorful fruit grain milk rice noodles.
Tmall global opens its online “tavern” and launches “taste before buy” service (company news)
Today, tmall global officially launched the “tavern” and launched the service of “taste before buy” for foreign wine. This year’s new year’s festival, tmall global opened an online “pub” for consumers to drink while shopping. In the tavern, consumers can taste first and then buy, and also feel the drinking experience of different scenes. Consumers can buy a sample of foreign wine for 1 yuan, and then decide to buy it after tasting it. Martell Mingshi brandy, Granville 12 years whisky, Royal Salute 21 years whisky, absolute original vodka can be bought after tasting. This Spring Festival, with the online consumption of imported new year goods, more young people choose to “celebrate the Spring Festival on the spot”, foreign wine will become an important role on the Spring Festival table. Tmall global said that this year’s Spring Festival “does not close”, imported drinks continue to supply.
Wal Mart plans to expand its high tech system (CNBC)
Wal Mart said on Wednesday (January 27) that it expects shoppers’ demand for pick-up and delivery to continue to increase, according to CNBC yesterday. The company plans to expand the use of high-tech systems to speed up the picking and packaging of grocery orders. Dozens of Wal Mart stores will become local fulfillment centers, some of which will be converted into small automated warehouses, the company said. To achieve this goal, Wal Mart will take advantage of or increase the existing floor space of the store.
Wal Mart uses UAVs to promote Coca Cola’s new products in the United States (World Wide Web)
Wal Mart will continue to expand the scale of UAV delivery in its new partnership with Coca Cola, chain store age, a US retail media, reported yesterday. In order to promote the debut of “Coca Cola with coffee” and its sugar free version in the United States, Coca Cola and Wal mart are providing UAV delivery service to specific consumers in coffee County, which is provided by droneup. From January 26 (Tuesday), eligible consumers in Coffey county will receive the two drinks delivered by UAVs.
Bentley moves headquarters to New York (Foodbev)
Bentley, the world’s third-largest high-end liquor company, announced that it will move its global headquarters from Chicago to New York in mid-2022, foreign media reported yesterday. Suntory holdings, its parent company, will also work together in New York. New York will provide a unique environment to help speed up its high-end strategy and growth plan, said Albert Baladi, President and CEO of Bentley.
Mirai foods, an artificial meat start-up, received $2.4 million in financing (Foodbev)
Swiss start-up Mirai foods has raised 2.1 million Swiss francs (2.4 million US dollars) in the first round of seed round financing to speed up the commercialization of its laboratory grown meat, foreign media reported recently. The company was founded about a year ago to grow animal cells in the laboratory to produce meat, mainly beef, and its long-term goal is to provide a variety of different types of meat. Investors involved in the financing include the venture capital division of paulig group, a food and beverage company, and team Europe, a technology investor. According to paulig, Mirai is one of the “very few” artificial meat companies in the world that do not manipulate cells genetically or chemically. It is reported that the company will use the money to speed up product development and transform its prototypes into commercial products.
Mars Wrigley launches new Foodbev in the US
According to foreign media reports yesterday, Mars Wrigley launched a new Schlegel peanut Brownie ice cream stick to expand its range of frozen foods. According to Mars, this is the first time that snicker ice cream and snicker chocolate have the same taste. This new product features Brownie ice cream with caramel and peanuts on top and milk chocolate on the outside. The new product will go on sale in US stores in March this year.
Kroger, the US retail group, added former executives from Dell and Unilever to its board of directors
According to foreign media reports yesterday, two new senior executives on Kroger’s board of directors held senior leadership positions at Dell and Unilever respectively. Kevin brown, a new board member, is Dell’s executive vice president of global operations and chief supply chain officer. Another new board member is Amanda soury. She has served as president of Unilever North America for more than 30 years. Her leadership positions include President of global food, executive vice president of UK and Ireland businesses, etc.
Danone Canada joins the Canadian plastics Convention
Danone Canada announced that it has become a party to the Canadian plastics Convention (CPP), foreign media reported recently. Through this commitment, and as a founding member of the circular plastics task force, Danone is strengthening its determination to make its packaging 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025.
According to Xinhua news agency today, recently, the official website of the China Consumer Association released a consumer tip, pointing out that some operators use blind boxes to “clear inventory”, which damages the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, disturbs the market and reminds consumers not to buy blindly. China Consumer Association reminds consumers to have the awareness of risk prevention and keep rational consumption concept: to recognize the risk of rational consumption, moderate consumption, not blindly follow the trend. In order to keep the purchase bills and other related documents, the rights and interests should be protected according to law.
Strengthen epidemic situation monitoring of imported dairy products at Tianjin Port (Tianjin Customs)
According to customs statistics, in 2020, the import of dairy products at Tianjin Port will be 702000 tons, an increase of 16.6% over the previous year (the same below); the value will be 11.53 billion yuan, an increase of 11.6%; the average import price will be 16000 yuan per ton, a decrease of 4.3%. In 2020, Tianjin port imports 288000 tons of dairy products from the European Union (27 countries, excluding the United Kingdom), an increase of 35.6%; imports 228000 tons from New Zealand, a decrease of 8.1%; the two together account for 73.5%. COVID-19 is still in the global trend of proliferation, and it is necessary to strengthen the surveillance of imported dairy products. In particular, the recent epidemic ice cream incident in Daqiao Road, Tianjin, has been preliminarily investigated. It was imported from Ukraine raw whey powder, which fully proves the risk of imported dairy products contaminated by new coronavirus. Dairy products, especially cold chain imported products, need to strengthen epidemic monitoring to ensure safety.
Food safety of dairy products in Jiangxi Province
Recently, Jiangxi provincial market supervision bureau decided to organize a three-year dairy product quality improvement action in Jiangxi Province from 2021 to 2023. Among them, by 2023, the regulation and standard system of dairy product quality and safety supervision will be more perfect, the ability of dairy product quality and safety supervision will be greatly improved, the rectification rate of problems found in supervision and inspection will reach 100%, the qualified rate of supervision and sampling will remain above 99%, and the disposal rate of unqualified food will reach 100%.
Guangzhou has centralized supervision on imported frozen food, advocating merchants to “stay open” during the Spring Festival (China News Network)
Guangzhou municipal government held a news conference yesterday to announce that it will implement centralized supervision on imported frozen food flowing into the city from now on, China news.com reported today. It is reported that Guangzhou’s Spring Festival commodity reserve has increased compared with previous years, and advocates the city’s merchants to “keep stalls and businesses open” during the Spring Festival. Since the 27th, 28 centralized supervision warehouses for imported frozen food in Liwan, Baiyun, Panyu, Huangpu, Nansha and other districts of Guangzhou have been put into operation, and centralized supervision has been implemented on imported frozen food flowing into Guangzhou. It is understood that the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce encourages more than 560 meat and vegetable markets in the city to stick to business during the Spring Festival to ensure that the opening rate reaches more than 70%. In addition, during the Spring Festival, nearly 1000 brand supermarkets and community fresh food stores in Guangzhou were open to the public and operated normally.
2020 Shanghai food safety white paper released (Jiefang Daily)
In the past year, the overall qualified rate of food safety monitoring of main foods in Shanghai was 99.4%, 1.3 percentage points higher than that of the previous year. According to the analysis, there are three main characteristics of food safety crimes in Shanghai in 2020: first, the phenomenon of manufacturing and selling fake and shoddy food still exists. Such as: the manufacture and sale of fake brand condiments, chocolate, milk powder, the manufacture and sale of fake brand bottled drinking water, and the use of low-grade liquor as high-grade liquor. Second, the trend of inter provincial crime is increasingly obvious. Third, the crime mode of network sales is increasingly prominent.


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We are pleased to announce LittWorld 2021 will take place near Budapest, Hungary, October 24 to 29, next year. “This will be the first LittWorld held in continental Europe,” said MAI President John Maust, noting that celebrated author Philip Yancey is confirmed as keynote speaker. “We feel privileged to host Littworld 2021 in Hungary,” said
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By Robin Pippin In the libraries of many theological schools in Africa, most books are very old and dated—and even at that, the collection is very limited. Given the cost of shipping books to and within the African continent, the scarcity of books is not a surprise. In 2012, when staff of Discipleship Resources International
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A firefighting robot rides on two wheels with a stem a few feet high carrying stereo cameras and other sensors. It can record and map thermal data and on a 3D scene constructed from images taken by the cameras.
MEMS Facility Is Open to All
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Gigabit Speed & Power Over Ethernet
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Disc Magnet Motors Hit Sweet Spot
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Aluminum Extrusion Gives Shape Options
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Slideshow: Flying Robots Take Action
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Mobile Machine Monitoring
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An engineering team at Harvard University's Microrobotics Lab has completed the maiden flight of its tiny RoboBee robot. The controlled flight of the insect-sized robot that flaps its wings is considered a robotics first.
Ford Motor Co. announced plans last week to join an ever-growing number of automakers who intend to produce fully autonomous vehicles in the next five years.
Two new technologies from Stratasys, created in partnership with Boeing, Ford, and Siemens, will bring accurate, repeatable manufacturing of very large thermoplastic end products, and much bigger composite parts, onto the factory floor for industries including automotive and aerospace.
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GBP/USD slides as dismal UK inflation suggests negative rates possible
- The GBP/USD declined slightly after disappointing CPI data from the UK.
- The headline CPI dropped by 0.2 per cent in April moving away from the BOE target.
- The market will now focus on BOE governor Andrew Bailey testimony to parliament.
The GBP/USD pair declined slightlyafter the UK inflation declined to its lowest level since February, moving away from the Bank of England (BoE) target of two per cent. This suggests that the BOE will implement negative rates this year.
UK CPI data disappoint
According to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), consumer prices rose by 0.8 per cent from a year ago and declined by -0.2% from March. These figures were below the 0.9 per cent and -0.1 per cent that analysts polled by Reuters were expecting.
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In a statement, the ONS said that housing, water, and fuels contributed to the decrease of consumer prices. These declines were partially offset by an increase in restaurants and hotels, recreation and culture, alcohol and tobacco, and housing and household items. The statement said:
“The introduction of the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets’ (Ofgem’s) initial energy price cap resulted in reduced contributions to the CPIH 12-month inflation rate for January to March 2019.”
The so-called core CPI, which excludes the volatile food and energy prices, rose by 1.4 per cent from a year before and by just 0.1 per cent from March.
Meanwhile, the Retail Price Index (RPI) rose by 1.5 per cent on an annualised basis and remained unchanged from a month before.
Pressure on Bank of England
The low inflation numbers add more pressure to the Bank of England, which recently decided to leave interest rates unchanged. In its meeting, the bank left the current £200 billion quantitative easing program unchanged. Still, analysts expect the monetary policy committee to add into this program in the upcoming meeting.
The central bank’s officials have sent mixed signals on negative interest rates. In an interview last week, Governor Andrew Bailey said that the bank was “not contemplating” interest rates. He said this a few days after his deputy, Ben Broadbent, said that the bank must consider lowering rates to the negative territory. He said:
“We keep under review all our potential policy tools and this is a question that’s been thought about on and off since the financial crisis and it’s a balanced judgment. It is quite possible that more monetary easing will be needed over time.”
Still, there is no evident that negative interest rates can help to contain deflation. For example, in Japan, inflation has been inexistent even after years of negative rates.
It also adds pressure to the British pound (GBP/USD), which has been targeted by short sellers in the futures market.
The BOE chair, Andrew Bailey, will testify before parliament today.
UK removes tariffs
The GBP/USD also moved in reaction to the tariffs news released yesterday. In a statement, the government said that it would remove tariffs on most items in the coming year. The government will remove tariffs on items like dishwashers and freezers. The new tariff regime will affect goods worth more than $36.6 billion.
The UK will leave tariffs on vital industries like agriculture and cars in place. In a statemenr, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Trade said:
“We must avoid any tariffs or barriers that add cost and reduce choice for consumers, and which would result in like-for-like barriers to export, undermining U.K. manufacturing competitiveness.”
In the meantime, the biggest challenge for the British pound (GBP/USD) is Brexit. The country is yet to seal a free trade agreement with the European Union.
The third round of talks will begin in June but there are signs that the two sides will not reach a deal. The UK has said that it wants a free trade agreement similar to the one the EU has with Canada. The EU has rejected this, citing the volume of trade involved as shown below. The two sides have also disagreed on fisheries, with the UK insisting that it wants control for its rich fishing waters.
GBP/USD technical forecast
The GBP/USD is trading at 1.2266, which is slightly above yesterday’s low of 1.2080. On the daily chart, the pair is forming a three white soldiers pattern, which is usually bullish. Also, the price is along the 38.2 per cent Fibonacci retracement level, which is also along the neckline of the head and shoulders pattern. I expect bulls to attempt to test the 50-day EMA and the psychologically-important 1.2400 level.


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What's going on?
On Friday, German chemicals conglomerate Bayer agreed to sell off parts of its crops business in order to ease regulators’ concerns that its $57 billion acquisition of American agri giant Monsanto would create a company that has too much power in its industry.
What does this mean?
A few months ago, regulators highlighted their concerns that Bayer and Monsanto are both major suppliers to the agricultural industry. The proposed takeover could harm the principle of fair competition: fewer companies in a market leads to less competition to push prices down (and is thus bad news for people buying their products). That means regulators could prevent the Bayer-Monsanto takeover in order to protect consumers.
Bayer is responding to these concerns by kickstarting a new competitor in the seeds market and selling some of its crops business to BASF, another German conglomerate. The sale is contingent on the approval of Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto, however.
Why should I care?
For markets: The purchase of Bayer’s crop business would create a crops giant in Europe.
BASF is one of Europe’s largest companies, and the $7 billion acquisition of Bayer’s crop business is the biggest in its history – so this is a major deal! The thinking is that BASF will be able to profitably pair the sale of its own pesticides with Bayer’s seeds, which have been designed for use alongside those chemicals.
The bigger picture: Consolidation has been a major theme in the chemicals industry this year.
Back in March, antitrust regulators in Europe and the US cleared the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont, and just a few months later they agreed on the tie-up of ChemChina and Syngenta. The number of mergers and acquisitions going down in the chemicals sphere has likely made it harder for Bayer and Monsanto to win over regulators as concerns about competition emerge. However, if Bayer sells off enough parts of its business to ensure fair competition (like the others did), they might have a better shot.


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- As stable manufacturing jobs become affected by the global economic downturn, what is the role of international brands in China’s widespread factory layoffs, relocations, and closures, and how can China’s official trade union take advantage of a confluence of stakeholder interests to better represent workers?
- On 14 April, workers at the Jiaxing Quang Viet garment factory in Zhejiang province went out on strike over decreased wages and unclear wage calculations.
- In this investigation, CLB finds that the Jiaxing Quang Viet garment factory has a strong reputation for following China’s labour laws and even offered workers some additional benefits. This engendered a sense of loyalty among workers, who were suddenly let down by pay cuts and went on strike.
- The local union told CLB that it had tried to intervene in the workers’ “misunderstanding,” but CLB stressed that the union should be there for workers in good times and bad, and that more could be done to understand their grievances. In fact, the union could have a role in contacting international brands that the factory produces for and act as an intermediary to represent workers’ interests.
Workers at a garment factory in Zhejiang province that produces for Adidas, New Balance and other major international brands went on strike on 14 April over wages. Workers at the Taiwan-owned Jiaxing Quang Viet Garment Co., Ltd., stopped production for at least five days, demanding that factory representatives give them a clear explanation of how their wages would be calculated.
The Jiaxing Quang Viet (嘉兴广越) factory in Pinghu, about 90 km southwest of Shanghai, employs over 1,200 workers. International orders have been reduced for the factory’s cotton sports clothing and down coats, and the factory began paying workers less than usual.
Workers in an online video preserved in CLB’s Strike Map stated that the monthly salary is typically 5,000 yuan, but in April workers earned less than 4,000 yuan, and some took home as little as 1,500 yuan. According to a job ad from the factory, workers can make 7,000 to 10,000 yuan per month, which includes monthly wages, piece rates, and bonuses.
On Douyin, workers scrawled “Fake!” over the job ad from the Jiaxing Quang Viet factory, calling into question the stated income of 84,000 - 100,000 yuan per year.
This type of incident is not isolated to Pinghu and stems from broader economic changes in China’s manufacturing industry and reduced international demand for manufactured goods from China. However, Pinghu is quite famous for its garment industry, ranking at the top of China’s export areas and producing about 80 percent of down feather garments in China.
Workers protested outside the factory, and the police were called in to mediate. About a dozen police were stationed at the factory, and some workers were reportedly taken away by police.
Workers can be seen in online videos speaking with a representative from management who promised a clear calculation of their payments, but only stated that a computer system calculates their pay based on hours worked. Workers responded that such a calculation system should be able to immediately tell them their salaries, and they wanted more transparency.
Production resumed at Jiaxing Quang Viet later the same week, and workers are awaiting more clarity about their wages.
Jiaxing Quang Viet workers have counted on the company to provide adequate pay and benefits in line with China’s labour laws
The Jiaxing Quang Viet garment factory had long attracted workers with its good salaries and relatively safe production environment, and it has been rated locally as a “model company” for years. Workers would receive 5-10 days of paid annual leave in addition to paid statutory holidays each year, and overtime wages are 150-300 percent of standard wages.
Employees have also been satisfied with the job and benefits. Liu Yanli, who has worked at Jiaxing Quang Viet for over 15 years, told Zhejiang News in February this year that she was confident in the overtime calculations:
For example, if we work overtime until 8:30 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, the company will pay us 1.5 times the salary. If we work overtime on Saturday, it will be calculated as 8 hours a day, and the company will pay 200% of the salary.
The company has a history of quickly implementing local Zhejiang policies. For example, after a local change in maternity leave policies, the company clarified that the new policy extends to those who recently took maternity leave according to the former regulations. One of those workers was Yang Li, who was grateful for the option to take additional leave after recently giving birth:
During the parental leave, the salary is settled according to the normal working day, and there is no loss. If there is a need this year, I will take more parental leave.
After the Lunar New Year holiday in 2023, when other companies had trouble recruiting workers, the return rate of workers at Jiaxing Quang Viet was reported to be about 95 percent, showing the goodwill that the company had established with its workers.
Jiaxing Quang Viet has an enterprise trade union, and in February 2023 Zhejiang News interviewed its chair, Qian Zhiqiang, who referred to the 8,000 yuan earning power of workers at Jiaxing Quang Viet. The company’s employee representative Liu Ruihong was also quoted as saying that all employees support the company’s good annual leave policies that allow migrant workers to spend more time with their families over the Lunar New Year.
The enterprise trade union praised the factory management for facilitating the convenient movement of workers by chartering vehicles this Lunar New Year to send workers directly to their hometowns, saving workers considerable time and expense. One worker, Chen Tianhua, from Yunnan province, rode for two days with 11 coworkers to get home:
If the company didn't charter a vehicle for us, we would have to transfer four or five times to get home. It would cost five to six hundred yuan, unlike this vehicle that sends us directly to our home county. It is really convenient and a New Year gift for our family.
But mere weeks after this series of glowing comments from workers, the worker representative, and the enterprise trade union chair, the situation changed and Jiaxing Quang Viet factory workers were paid significantly less than expected and went out on strike. CLB investigated the role of the local union to find out if this sudden about-face could have been smoothed over well in advance by hearing worker voices, and if there is anything more the union can do to prevent economic difficulties being borne by workers.
Photograph: humphery / Shutterstock.com
Union calls the strike a “misunderstanding of the workers” but sought to intervene
On 17 April, China Labour Bulletin called the local Pinghu trade union and spoke with a Mr. Yu of the union’s rights defence department. Mr. Yu told CLB that his office was aware of the Jiaxing Quang Viet strike and had taken steps to learn more. This is already a much better situation than in many cases CLB investigates, where the union is wholly unaware of incidents in their jurisdictions or refuses to even consider intervening. Mr. Yu explained the union’s understanding of the situation:
We have been following up on this matter, which is basically a misunderstanding of the workers, at least some of the workers. The company has explained the situation, and we have been following up these past few days.
CLB asked whether workers or the enterprise union had contacted the Pinghu union, and Mr. Yu said that they had not. This is not unusual. Workers may have little confidence in the union - or not know of its existence - and the enterprise union is often controlled by company management. At Jiaxing Quang Viet, the enterprise union seemed fairly in touch with workers. But Mr. Yu explained that the Pinghu union was following usual protocol about communicating with the enterprise union, which is under its jurisdiction:
The enterprise trade union is right in the middle of this situation. It is inconvenient for me to ask the enterprise union about this right now. We will follow the relevant work of our party committee and government first, and when the situation improves will deal with the matter.
Mr Yu drilled down further on this idea that his office is following protocol and cannot become more involved. He analogised the strike to traffic accident:
The first step now is to rescue and save. The second step is to analyse why there was such an accident. We have to wait until things stabilise to find out further.
CLB suggested that in the meantime, the union could consider broader ways to play a role in protecting workers’ rights and interests, considering the centrality of garment factories to Pinghu’s local economy.
CLB urges the union to consider the role of brands in the problems at the Jiaxing Quang Viet factory and in China’s manufacturing sector as a whole
In our conversation with Mr. Yu at the Pinghu union, CLB first pointed to new legislation on Europe making companies legally liable for labour rights violations in their supply chains and suggested that the union could leverage this in favour of workers:
Whether it is in Vietnam, Cambodia, Brazil, or China, if workers’ rights are not guaranteed, if those factories do not protect workers’ rights, then the brand will bear legal liability in the European courts. Do you and the trade union understand what this new development means?
Mr. Yu listened with interest but was concerned that the brands would not pay attention to a local union in China. However, CLB’s own experience through a partnership in Bangalore, India, responds to this point. We have observed a small, grassroots union at a garment factory - not unlike Jiaxing Quang Viet - engage with international brands on issues of pay, workplace safety, and other working conditions. In fact, the union in Bangalore succeeded in establishing a worker fund in the event of a factory shutdown due to economic conditions and reduced orders of brands.
CLB also pointed to the official nature of the ACFTU in China, giving the institution inherent advantages over grassroots trade unions such as in India. If the grassroots trade unions in India can grasp the demands of workers and organize them well and present them to brands, then China’s official union at the municipal and local levels should certainly have such capacity. Moreover, the higher-level trade unions in China with greater authority and resources could play the role of communicating with international brands on behalf of China’s workers, factories, and suppliers alike. Further, if work conditions and benefits are improved in China, labour-capital relations will improve, and the incidence of large-scale strikes and protests may be reduced.
CLB also offered a recent Dutch intermediate court decision as an example to the Pinghu municipal union. A Hong Kong supplier brought a breach of contract case against a Dutch brand for cancelling its orders at the supplier’s factory in Vietnam, leading to the factory’s closure and layoffs of many workers. According to a contract with the supplier, the brand had agreed in 2018 to not cut its orders for three years. However the brand cancelled orders in Vietnam and then made similar orders at a factory in Bangladesh. The court found in favour of the supplier and cited the brand’s corporate social responsibility pledges to workers in the decision. CLB raised this case with the Pinghu union to show that there is room for negotiation with brands and suppliers when factories face economic difficulty, and that the Vietnam factory’s situation is quite similar to what factories in China and Pinghu specifically are experiencing right now:
The brand shouldn’t just cancel orders arbitrarily. What about the workers? The factory, the equipment, the purchased materials? All of these have been done, and the brand just left, not because they are going bankrupt, but because they transferred orders to [another country] to reduce costs. So I think this judgement is related here.
At the Pinghu trade union, Mr. Yu’s interest in this topic was piqued and he said that he will report our ideas up the union chain to his superiors. CLB hopes that our way of thinking is forwarded within the union structure and taken up by the ACFTU during this economically challenging time affecting China’s manufacturing sector.
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Focus - Russia's Colourful Beer Market
Russia's beer market has generated way more than its fair share of headlines in 2010. Here's why.
Heineken has emerged as the immediate loser from Russia's three-fold tax rise on beer and is expected to report market share decline in its half-year results next week.
At first sight, Carlsberg would appear to have enjoyed a bumper first half of 2010. Upon delivering a whopping 57% leap in net profits for the period, the Denmark-based company went on to double its earnings guidance for the full-year. It would appear, then, that there is currently nothing rotten in the state of Denmark. But, is the future really as bright as Carlsberg suggests?
Shares in the world's largest brewers, including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Heineken and SABMiller, have dropped amid fears that they face higher costs following Russia's decision to ban grain exports.
Russian breweries produced less beer in the first half of 2010 due to a Government tax rise, according to a report.
Russia's Government has driven through its plan to triple excise tax on beer, despite fierce opposition from brewers.
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Viking Bags Launches Next Generation Motorcycle Saddlebags With USB Charging Dock
By PRN NewsWire
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — It’s been a long standing problem since motorcycles were invented, motorcycles riders just don’t have any way to charge their mobile devices. But not if it’s up to Viking Bags – a Los Angeles based company that will launch a new generation of their hard saddlebags aiming to solve this problem. The new Viking Bags saddlebags will allow riders to attach their phones to a small charging dock inside the saddlebags that will be connected to their battery, allowing them to charge their mobile devices while they ride.
Logo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160202/329038LOGO
It’s a fun and revolutionary new way to upgrade current motorcycle saddlebags. In addition, the saddlebags are key-lockable so that they remain closed if locked, keeping the items inside safe. The Los Angeles based company will release their new hard saddlebags for cruiser riders, starting in February.
Revolutionary USB Charging Technology For Motorcycle Riders
The technology that enables this fundamentally new way to ride will allow anything that has a USB port, or can be attached to one, to be powered via this USB dock that will be available in the 2016 version of the Viking Bags hard saddlebags. An often quoted competitor of this Viking Bags innovation is having a USB adapter attached to the battery’s terminals in a D.I.Y. way, where your mobile device is held somewhere on the rider’s body or on the handle bars using another device that keeps it from falling. Viking Bags has eliminated the need for the handle bar device because they’re not always safe and have been found to drop phones while riding at highway speeds. By having the charging dock in your saddlebags, the device you’re charging will be safely held and ready for use once you reach your destination.
Styling and specifications
The motorcycle saddlebags that will include these USB charging docks will be available in three different sizes: medium, large, and extra large in order to match the need for storage space currently troubling the motorcycle industry. In addition to the innovative USB charging function, the saddlebags include a key-locking feature that keeps all of the contents locked and safe when away from the motorcycle.
Pricing and availabilityThe saddlebag prices will range in prices but will be at most half the price of saddlebags found at the dealerships, allowing riders to not only save money but seriously upgrade from what is available from factory.
“Imagine the possibilities, since the dock will use a standard USB 2.0 dock. You no longer have to worry about having a dead cell phone battery when you’re out for a ride. You’ll never have to cut your ride short either because you know you’ll have that in your bags. This is game changing,” says Viking Bags Marketing Manager, Ramiro Hernandez.
The USB charging dock was developed in order to avoid a dead cell phone in case of an emergency.
With the recent rise of smart phones and GPS enabled devices in recent years it’s no surprise that new services geared to keeping these charged have surfaced. Yet the two options currently on the market will have you either charge it at home, or use a portable power bank that will only give you a small boost of power that likely will not last. The D.I.Y. option can work but the rider is running the risk of their cell phones falling from, often, faulty cell phone holders while they ride.
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/viking-bags-launches-next-generation-motorcycle-saddlebags-with-usb-charging-dock-300214193.html
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One of the many things Promera Sports is known for is its family of creatine HCl supplements better known as Con-Cret. The concentrated creatine certainly got a lot of attention when it arrived on the market, which is something the brand is apparently planning on doing again soon.
Promera Sports has confirmed that it is currently preparing to release a new patented ingredient that is expected to get a good amount of attention. The brand’s more exact words about what it has coming next are that it “will change everything going forward” and will “be a complete game changer.”
Based on what Promera Sports is saying at least, its mystery ingredient will be quite a unique release. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this one to see what it turns out to be, so if you’re interested, stay tuned.


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NEW ORLEANS – Blount Fine Foods spotlighted a new side dish and two new soups at IDDBA ’18.
It’s more common for retail foodservice products to get their inspiration from foodservice, but in the case of Blount’s new Asiago Mac and Cheese with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes, it’s the other way around, company president Todd Blount said at the show.
The new side and the two new soups, Southwest Corn Chowder and Minestrone, all ship under Blount’s Panera at Home line.
The soups are new twists on old favorites, Blount said. The Minestrone, for example, features chickpeas and kale to give it not only a unique taste but also appeal for health-minded consumers.