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Stocks at 52-week low for June 1, 2020, US stock market
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A choppy trading session for the US stock market with Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 closing higher and Dow Jones lower.The latest stock market news for June 18, 2020. Stock market news The closing numbers for the US stock market on June 18, 2020: S&P 500: 3,115.34,+1.85(+0.06%)Dow 30: 26,080.10,-39.51(-0.15%)Nasdaq: 9,943.05,+32.52(+0.33%)Russell 2000: 1,425.83,-0.70(-0.05%) Stock market volatility The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) closed lower at 32.94-0.53 (-1.58%). Stock movers Urban One, Inc. (UONE) stock was among stock movers with gains of more than 95%, having a stock price of 25.00+12.29 (+96.70%) at the close. Source: Stocks charts Stock gainers Alpine Immune Sciences Inc. (ALPN): 10.95,+ 6.29 +134.98%Urban One Inc. Cl A (UONE): 25.00,+ 12.29 +96.70%Neonode Inc. (NEON):8.62,+3.52 +69.02% Stock losers VerifyMe Inc. (VRME): 3.90, -2.35 -37.60%Atlantic American Corp. (AAME): 1.85 -0.92 -33.21%Art’s Way Manufacturing Co. (ARTW): 2.68, -1.31 -32.83% Most active stocks Ideanomics Inc. (IDEX): 2.06,+ 0.04 +1.98%Urban One Inc. Cl D (UONEK): 3.63,+ 0.98 +36.98%United States Steel Corp. (X): 8.15, -1.23 -13.11% Stock market source: https://www.wsj.com/market-data/stocks Stock Market, U.S. Sectors & Industries Performance The Energy sector was the best performing sector +1.19%, Real Estate sector was the worst-performing sector -1.34%. Source: Fidelity Stock market update All data about the stock market, stocks, stock investing, stock trading is taken from Yahoo Finance, Fidelity, and stockcharts.com. Investing Check this link for stock trading
Stock market live today The US stock market at 12:05 PM, ET time today is moderately higher. Dow Jones is up more than 100 points and Nasdaq underperforms down more than 10 points. The latest stock market live update is the following one. S&P 500: 3,301.37,+6.76(+0.21%)Dow 30: 26,784.23 ,+119.83(+0.45%)Nasdaq: 10,890.57,-12.23(-0.11%)Russell 2000: 1,513.37,+6.56(+0.44%) Stock market data: Yahoo Finance
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Stock market news At 11:18 AM, Friday, May 15, 2020, the US stock market is moving lower. Dow is down more than 190 points. The latest update for major stock indices is: S&P 500: 2,828.59,-23.91(-0.84%)Dow 30: 23,429.12,-196.22(-0.83%)Nasdaq: 8,866.31,-77.41(-0.87%)Russell 2000: 1,240.65,+3.10(+0.25%) Source: Yahoo Finance Economic news “U.S. retail sales dropped by a record 16.4% in April amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Commerce Department said in its Friday report, or worse than the 12.0% decline expected. The drop in retail sales reverberated across all major store categories with the exception of non-store retailers, or e-commerce platforms, which posted an 8.4% increase in April sales.” Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-may-15-2020-221239498.html U.S. Retail Sales “Retail sales in the US sank 16.4 percent from a month earlier in April of 2020, worse than forecasts of a 12 percent drop. It is the sharpest decrease in retail sales ever due to the coronavirus pandemic which forced Americans to stay at home and many businesses to close. Biggest declines were seen in sales of clothing and accessories (-78.8 percent), electronics and appliances (-60.6 percent) and furniture (-58.7 percent). Sales at gasoline stations decreased 28.8 percent after oil prices turned negative for the first time ever in April. Other decreases were also seen in food and beverage stores (-13.1 percent) and food services and drinking places (-29.5 percent). Excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, retail sales tumbled 15.3 percent. Year-on-year, retail sales went down 21.6 percent, also a record drop.” Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/retail-sales The retail sales and their trend is very important to monitor as an economic indicator both for the US seconomy and the stock market. Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of gross domestic product, and is affected by seasonality.
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US stock market futures point to moderate gains today at open for stock indices after the historical selloff yesterday At 9:02 AM, Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Eastern Time (ET) the stock futures indicate a higher open today for the US stock market. This is the latest update for major stock indices: S&P Futures: 2,435.00,+18.75(+0.78%) Dow Futures: 20,413.00,+152.00(+0.75%) Nasdaq Futures: 7,140.25,+82.75(+1.17%) Stock market data: Yahoo Finance
These are the pre-market stock movers today Stock market data: https://edition.cnn.com/business/markets/premarkets Premarket stock trading Pre-market stocks that move today are stocks that should be further analyzed based on the stock market news, stock futures about the stock market today, and having a trading plan and risk management plan should you decide that these are stocks to buy or stocks to sell today, not ignoring their valuation or their fundamental analysis. Investing in stocks is risky and requires due diligence.
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stock futures Latest stock futures report today at 9:04 AM, ET time. Stock futures rise ahead of the US stock market open today. S&P Futures: 3,809.75,+6.00(+0.16%)Dow Futures: 31,058.00,+99.00(+0.32%)Nasdaq Futures: 12,983.75,+11.50(+0.09%)Russell 2000 Futures: 2,122.80,+12.10(+0.57%) Stock market data: Yahoo Finance
Stock futures drop, Dow futures decline more than 170 points The stock futures at 9:10 AM, ET time today June 24, 2020, for the US stock market are falling and point to a lower open for today’s stock market trading session. S&P Futures: 3,102.25,-16.25(-0.52%)Dow Futures: 25,847.00,-173.00(-0.66%)Nasdaq Futures: 10,178.25,-17.75(-0.17%)Russell 2000 Futures: 1,422.30,-11.90(-0.83%) Stock market data: Yahoo Finance
Stock market today The US stock market closed higher today, ignoring another “grim jobless claims report”. “The U.S. Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims report showed another 3.169 million individuals filed new unemployment claims for the week ended May 2. Meanwhile, a record 22.647 million continuing jobless claims were filed for the prior week ended April 25. This brought total new jobless claims recorded since the week ended March 20 to more than 33 million. New reports have continued to shatter records when it comes to measuring the impact of the coronavirus on the domestic economy, and especially the labor market. U.S. employers cut a record more than 20 million private payrolls in April, ADP reported Wednesday.” Source: Yahoo Finance At the close today this is the latest stock market update: S&P 500: 2,881.19,+32.77(+1.15%)Dow 30: 23,875.89,+211.25(+0.89%)Nasdaq: 8,979.66,+125.27(+1.41%)Russell 2000: 1,282.93,+19.92(+1.58%) Stocks today Some of the trending stocks today were the following, all stock quotes, stock prices as of the close: Twilio Inc. (TWLO) with a stock price of 170.89+48.49 (+39.62%), Fastly, Inc. (FSLY) stock at 33.58+10.53 (+45.68%) and Lyft, Inc. (LYFT) with a stock price of 31.78+5.66 (+21.67%). Trading and Investing Check this link if you are interested in trading
US stock market report August 5 2019 Heavy losses for all major US stock indices due to the escalation of trade war between USA and China and uncertainty in the global financial markets. All 3 major US stock market indices closed lower more than 2.5%. This is the summary for US stock market at close on Monday August 5 2019: S&P 500: 2,844.74,-87.31(-2.98%) Dow 30: 25,717.74,-767.27(-2.90%) Nasdaq: 7,726.04,-278.03(-3.47%) Russell 2000: 1,487.41,-46.25(-3.02%) 10-Yr Bond: 1.735,-0.12(-6.469%) Vix: 24.59,+6.98(+39.64%) Stock Market Suffers Worst Day This Year As Dow Dives 3% The stock market today dived at the open and sold off through the session, as China fired the latest shot in the ongoing trade war by slashing the value of its currency, the yuan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average headed toward a test of long-term support. The Nasdaq cratered 3.5%, the S&P 500 plunged 3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed 2.9%. Small caps tracked by the Russell 2000 sold off 2.8%. Preliminary data showed higher volume on the NYSE and Nasdaq vs. Friday. Stocks tumbled early as China let the yuan fallto its lowest level against the dollar in more than 10 years and reportedly suspended purchases of U.S. agricultural goods. That followed President Trump’s latest round of China tariffs announced last week. Source: Investors Business Daily Stocks gainers Allakos Inc. (ALLK) was the stock with bigggest gains closing at $65.26+$34.26 (+110.52%). Stocks losers Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SUHJF) was the stock with largest losses closing at $14.30-$2.03 (-12.43%). Stock investing – Most active stocks Apple Inc. (AAPL) was among the most active stocks closing at $193.34-$10.68 (-5.23%). U.S. Sectors & Industries Performance Utilities was the sector with best performance -1.51%, Information Technology was the sector with worst performance -4.07%. All sectors had heavy losses, Source: Fidelity US stock market earnings today Some of the companies releasing earnings today are Allergan plc (AGN), Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA), Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK), Walt Disney Co (DIS) and SINA Corp (SINA). Stock market news Australian stock market down 2.4% as US-China trade war hits home Trade war fears send shudder through stock markets Here’s how the stock market lost more than $1.4 trillion (and counting) in less than a week Stock market data All data about stocks , stock investing is taken from Yahoo finance and stockcharts.com. Stocks to buy or stocks to sell – stock market newsletter We have a stock market newsletter covering the US stock market. Contact us for more on stock investing and US stocks. This report is written by Stavros Georgiadis, CFA Equity Research Analyst, Investment Strategist
Stocks biggest losers February 28, 2020, US stock market These are the stocks biggest losers for the US stock market on Friday, February 28, 2020: Stock market data: Investing.com Stock market Daily stock news, stocks, stock market news, and a premium stock market newsletter, with stocks to buy, stocks to sell, investing.
stock futures At 9:12 AM ET time today, the stock futures are moving lower, Dow Jones futures are down 133 points, Nasdaq futures are down 51 points. The latest stock futures update follows: S&P Futures: 3,649.50,-11.00(-0.30%)Dow Futures: 29,671.00,-133.00(-0.45%)Nasdaq Futures: 12,401.25,-51.00(-0.41%)Russell 2000 Futures: 1,825.10,-10.40(-0.57%) Stock market data: Yahoo Finance


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Hapag Lloyd has temporarily rerouted a European-U.S. container service through the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT).
The change is part of an effort to “optimize our service portfolio, stabilize schedules and adapt to market needs,” according to the shipping and container transportation company.
Hapag Lloyd’s Atlantic Loop 3 rotation temporarily removed the port of Savannah from its rotation and will begin calling JAXPORT’s TraPac Container Terminal with the arrival of the container ship Hudson Express in mid-November.
The service call will last for at least eight weeks and bring an estimated 1,000 additional containers a week through JAXPORT.
“During this time of unprecedented port disruption, Jacksonville’s efficiencies on both the landside and waterside continue to make us stand out in the industry,” said JAXPORT CEO Eric Green. “With our strategic location — and the efficiencies of our labor, terminal operators, facilities and transportation network — there’s no question Jacksonville is an extremely attractive option for ocean carriers and shippers looking to take advantage of the ease of doing business Jacksonville offers.”
Jacksonville has no container vessels waiting at anchorage and offers shippers two-way river traffic to transit to and from berths.
Major infrastructure investments are under way to prepare JAXPORT for continued growth, including more than $200 million in berth and terminal enhancements at the port’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.
The federal project to deepen the Jacksonville shipping channel to 47 feet through Blount Island is anticipated to be completed in 2022.
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European January oil demand rose by 0.75 mb/d y/y to 14.64 mb/d, following a 0.2 mb/d upward revision to December 2016 data. Euro-5 demand rose by 0.40 mb/d, led by superbly strong growth in France (+0.22 mb/d), as cold weather (HDDs were 32% higher y/y) buoyed heating demand (distillates demand rose y/y by 0.14 mb/d, with heating oil demand up by 15%). German demand rose by 95 thousand b/d, despite consumers continuing to destock—consumer heating oil stocks fell to 57% in January, a 20-month low—limiting end-user buying and as the outage at BASF’s Ludwigshafen complex restricted naphtha demand. The complex is slowly returning to full capacity while anecdotal reports also suggest end-user buying is starting to pick back up as tertiary stocks are depleted. Peripheral European demand rose by 0.21 mb/d, as severe cold weather gripped the Eastern Med causing Med distillate prices to spike. Turkish demand rose sharply y/y by 0.15 mb/d, aided by diesel demand growth of 99 thousand b/d. Across Europe, the main product to have benefitted was diesel, higher y/y by 0.45 mb/d. With HDDs higher y/y by 10% across Q1 17, we expect European Q1 17 distillate demand to rise y/y by 0.26 mb/d, despite significant destocking. And, with end-user demand up, buying should be strong in Q2 17 and Q3 17. Naphtha demand fared well in January, higher y/y by 0.1 mb/d and should post stellar gains in Q1 17, as rising LPG prices encourage crackers to switch to naphtha by 0.2 mb/d.
European refinery runs totalled 13.08 mb/d, higher y/y by 0.42 mb/d but should fall to 12 mb/d this month as spring works peak at nearly 1.8 mb/d, helping to draw products stocks. January diesel stocks rose seasonally (+20 mb); gasoline rose (+3.7 mb) despite high exports to the US.


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- Dish TV and Amazon Prime Video India collaborate for “seamless” video integration
- Upcoming hybrid STB to house all exclusive Amazon content direct to consumers
- “Further extend the reach and access of Amazon Prime Video in India,” says Amazon Prime Video GM
Indian satellite operator Dish TV has collaborated with Amazon Prime Video to bring the Prime Video app to TV and direct-to-home subscribers for its upcoming hybrid set-top box.
The partnership will enable customers to seamlessly access the Amazon Prime Video app on their TV and watch Amazon’s latest blockbuster Hollywood, Bollywood and Indian regional movies, TV programmes, stand-up comedy shows, and children’s series.
Critically-acclaimed Indian and global Amazon originals will be accessible in the hybrid set-top box (STB), in which Dish TV intends to align the linear programming and online streaming content together, transforming the TV viewing experience.
Dish TV India Limited executive director and group chief executive Anil Dua said: “We, at Dish TV, always work on offering innovative entertainment solutions and superlative experience to customers and the association with Amazon Prime Video is a step in the same direction.
“We are delighted to have Amazon Prime Video on board with us to offer its premium content on both our Dish TV and d2h platforms with our hybrid set-top boxes that are going to be launched soon.”
Dish TV has previously introduced SMRT Stick and Magic Stick, which allowed users to stream content from over-the-top (OTT) services through Dish TV as well as D2H set-top boxes.
Its focus on premium short format content this year has seen the company enter the OTT space by launching its own OTT platform, Watcho.
Amazon Prime Video India director and country general manager Gaurav Gandhi said: “At Amazon Prime Video, we constantly strive to offer customers, the best-in-class entertainment across genres and languages, that can be consumed anytime, anywhere and on a screen of their choice.
“Towards this effort, we are delighted to announce our association with Dish TV for their upcoming hybrid set-top boxes.
“With this launch, we will further extend the reach and access of Amazon Prime Video in India, giving more customers the experience of watching our wide selection of critically acclaimed and popular Amazon Originals, blockbuster movies across languages and Indian as well as international shows, on their Television sets.”
- Read more: Dish loses Fox over contract dispute


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Taking over the world, one convenience store at a time, was Couche-Tard’s plan from day one.
There are two types of convenience stores:
- Mom-and-pop stores, often operated by local people or newcomers seeking a better life in their adopted country.
- Stores that are part of enormous multinational conglomerates, which streamline operations by supporting thousands of outlets.
The latter is where Alimentation Couche-Tard comes in.
Most Canadians wouldn’t know that Couche-Tard is one of the world’s largest convenience store chains. Only Japanese-American international chain 7-Eleven Inc. is bigger. Couche-Tard has 16,000 stores, 133,000 employees and generates almost $60 billion in revenues. Most of its stores are in North America and Europe, and include well-known brands like Circle K in North America, Kangaroo and Topaz in Europe.
The company aims to double in size in five years and it intends to start by acquiring Caltex Australia. Caltex has about 2,000 stores across Australia.
Couche-Tard’s bid is worth almost $8 billion, its largest-ever deal. After years of growth through acquisition, a deal in that region would be Couche-Tard’s crowning glory.
Convenience stores aren’t necessarily the most glamorous sector for investors, but Alimentation Couche-Tard is a true Canadian success. It has made a remarkable 60 acquisitions since 2004. Management finds good deals and seamlessly integrates newly-acquired stores into its network.
The company has grown organically by capitalizing on assets of acquired brands. This is no small feat, but the network has gotten too big and now needs to look elsewhere.
Caltex is an interesting target for Couche-Tard, which is known for its focus on high-quality food products. A convenience store is where most of us buy gas, snacks or staple goods that we’ve run out of and are willing to pay a ridiculous premium for. Not for Couche-Tard. The focus has always been to convert fuel dollars and foot traffic into food sales.
Caltex recently partnered with giant Australian grocer Woolworths to enhance its food offering. Couche-Tard can certainly learn a thing or two about working with a grocer to get fresh, perishable food to points of sale.
Couche-Tard, always looking for the next opportunity, wants to expand its network to Australia and Asia.
The offer to buy Caltex is subject to several conditions, including due diligence, financing, Australian Foreign Investment Review Board approval and a unanimous recommendation by the Caltex board. But several analysts believe a deal is possible within weeks.
The mastermind behind Couche-Tard’s success is Alain Bouchard, a self-made billionaire. He’s the 11th richest person in Canada, with a net worth of over $4 billion. He’s worth more than Stephen Jarislowsky and Charles Bronfman combined. And he did it simply by buying convenience stores.
While operating convenience stores at a very young age, Bouchard saw the potential of leveraging retail by providing more convenience than his competitors. His approach wasn’t to manage the sale of cigarettes, alcohol, gasoline or even food in isolation. For him, it was about building synergies between major components of convenience store retailing, and he did that better than anyone.
He also undertook simple but transformational changes that affected grocery retailing:
- A store that was open 24 hours a day was almost unheard of 30 years ago. Grocery chains in turn felt the pressure to open longer hours.
- Food quality wasn’t great in convenience stores, but Bouchard ensured it was good enough to make his convenience stores a legitimate contender to grocery chains. He took food retailing more seriously than any other convenience chains at the time.
Now, Couche-Tard wants to be a key player in the cannabis sector. It’s looking at buying Cannabis NB, which could be a good lab for the company as it tries to expand its cannabis business across the globe.
Selling alcohol in convenience stores has been common in Quebec for years and the company has done well in that area. As other provinces catch up to Quebec, Bouchard’s network is poised to do even better by complementing its offering with cannabis, especially when regulations in the market here and in the United States evolve.
Australia and New Zealand are other places where cannabis could become legal, which makes the Caltex deal even more interesting.
Alimentation Couche-Tard has succeeded over several decades because it saw no limits. Consumers are pressed for time and the company is always there to cash in on this. That isn’t going to change any time soon.
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is senior director of the agri-food analytics lab and a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University.


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Young and dynamic founders of D2C beauty brand Pilgrim, Anurag Kedia and Gagandeep Makker have raised Rs 13 crore from Fireside Ventures, Rukam Capital, and founding teams of Boat, NoBroker, and the founder- CEO of Bewakoof.com. With a rich experience of over 15 years in the industry, the IIT IIM duo aim to make accessible and economic global beauty products for the 400 mn Indian millennial market.
The brand’s focal point is clean beauty, providing 100% vegan products and no animal testing. All products are free from toxins like parabens, sulfates and minerals and FDA approved. The funding will be utilised in boosting brand investments, team expansion and R&D efforts. Pilgrim currently offers 28 SKUs across hair, face and bath-body within the price range of Rs 300 to Rs 800. Speaking of the funding from Fireside Ventures, Rukam Capital, and founding teams of Boat, NoBroker, and the founder- CEO of Bewakoof.com Anurag said “This takes us closer to our vision of empowering the modern millennials with global beauty rituals at the click of a button.”


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In January, the Marriott International hotel chain began accepting applications from job-seekers who apply via their cellphones and tablets. The hospitality giant says it is the first in the industry to offer mobile job applications to would-be employees.
“We recognize that the job hunt is changing rapidly,” says David Rodriguez, executive vice-president of HR, who notes that 70% of job-seekers use mobile devices to research job openings.
“We believe that investing in new mobile technology is critical to attracting talent,” Rodriguez says, “especially millennials and those in emerging markets who depend on their mobile devices more than any other generation before them.”
Candidates can use their smartphones and tablets to learn about and apply for jobs at jobs.marriott.com. They may type in their information or import it directly from their LinkedIn profiles. The app is available in six languages.
Contact: Angela Wiggins of Marriott International, (301) 380-7277.


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On the list of smash hits for Acura, the Japanese luxury brand has but one right now: the MDX.
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Honda's luck is deflating.
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Bahrain - Seef Properties, one of the leading integrated real estate development companies in Bahrain, recently signed a partnership agreement with Al Jazira Group to open Al Jazira Supermarket at Seef Mall – Seef District.
Expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2020 and covering an area of 2,000 sq m, Al Jazira Supermarket’s new branch will be located in the West Wing of the Mall, which is easily accessible through the Fraser Suites’ car park.
“We are delighted to form this partnership, which plays an integral role in the development of the retail sector, one of the most booming and dynamic sectors in the Kingdom of Bahrain and will contribute significantly to the national economy,” said Essa Najibi, chairman of Seef Properties.
“At Seef Properties, we continuously strive to implement a diversified strategy in order to enhance our portfolio of assets through the development of integrated tourism destinations with an aim to increase footfall.”
Ahmed Yusuf, CEO of Seef Properties, said: “The opening of Al Jazira Supermarket by the fourth quarter of 2020 at Seef Mall is part of our aim to continuously provide our customers with unique offerings as we focus our efforts towards elevating our customers’ shopping experience and seek to drive in an increased number of visitors.”
Abdul Hussain Khalil Dawani, chairman of Al Jazira Group said: “We look forward to launching Al Jazira Supermarket at Seef Mall in order to serve our customers in Seef District and the surrounding area. Our expansion plan is a living testimony to the trust we have earned from our customers. Our aim has always been to provide our customers with a unique shopping experience by providing a variety and wide range of exclusive products.”
Al Jazira Supermarket, owned by Al Jazira Group, has been providing its customers with impeccable service since it first opened its doors in 1965 and is one of the leading supermarkets in Bahrain offering a wide range of fresh and high quality products at affordable prices.
Seef Mall continues to enhance its offerings by attracting prestigious brands as it strives to provide a unique shopping experience to its customers. It has been the premier shopping hub and entertainment destination in Bahrain since 1997. – TradeArabia News Service
Copyright 2019 Al Hilal Publishing and Marketing Group Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info).


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NEW YORK — New York City chain restaurants are already required to indicate high salt levels. Soon they could be required to warn customers about high sugar content in menu items.
The city council voted 43–5 on Wednesday to require warning notices next to menu items and on signs for items that contain high amounts of added sugar. The bill now goes to the mayor for his signature.
Council Member Mark Levine of Manhattan first introduced the legislation in 2019.


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Customers have weathered the monthly price increase well, and new car sales are coming in slightly higher than 14 million, which Wunderlich Securities analyst Matthew Harrigan believes could suggest better-than-expected subscriber guidance, currently around 1.3 million. "We still believe SIRI has a superior pipe into the car, especially with non-music content dominance and the augmented Lynx radio capabilities," Harrigan wrote in his research note. He rates Sirius "hold" with a $2 price target.
Now that Sirius is generating significant amounts of free cash, it remains to be seen whether Malone and Liberty Media can exert significant pressure and get Sirius to return some of its excess cash to shareholders.
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AS the country continues to count down towards the October 28th 2020 General Election, ACT – Wazalendo has pledged, if elected, to create a friendly policy environment and invest in cooperatives.
The party believes that several cooperatives will be a tool for members to join social security funds, have decent housing and get access to health insurance.
In its 2015-2020 election manifesto, the opposition party said it will bring together farmers, fishermen and pastoralists before linking them with major overseas markets through their cooperatives and agribusiness traders.
It stated further that its government will ensure that there is competition between traders so that farmers can get the best price for their produce.
An ACT-Wazalendo government, it stated, will focus on further strengthening cooperatives to enable people to own their economy.
Moreover, the party’s government will eliminate exploitation by middlemen in agricultural marketing, by strengthening crop marketing information systems, using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that will enable farmers to sell their produce directly to the consumer online.
It further highlighted that where brokers are necessary for historical, economic and environmental reasons, their government will legalise and formalise middlemen.
The government will also be actively involved in crop protection and establishing a commodities exchange system, which will involve farmers through their cooperatives, according to the party’s manifesto.
According to the document, ACT- Wazalendo has launched the Tabora Declaration, aimed at motivating the people to take the reins of the economy and own the main production facilities.
Cooperatives will enable people to own the means of production, capital, distribution, marketing and profits.
The 62-page document further highlighted that by 2018, there were 10,990 cooperatives with 2.5 million members (equivalent to 5 per cent of Tanzanians).
These associations, especially SACCOS, greatly assist their members in obtaining small business loans, resolving emergency and social problems.
On ocean and ports, the ACT - Wazalendo government will use Tanzania’s geographical position, surrounded by many landlocked countries, to benefit economically and to serve other countries, with the main objective of making the country the main maritime hub in Africa and Trade and Logistics Hub in the Great Lakes region.
In addition, the government will develop and implement appropriate policies that will ensure that Tanzanians benefit from doing business with all the countries around her by eliminating bureaucracy in exporting goods to increase their income and foreign exchange.
In achieving this goal, the ACT- Wazalendo government will revitalise and sustain investment in the Bagamoyo economic zone.
The manifesto further states that the party will strengthen the Port of Mtwara to serve the Mtwara development corridor, which involves the Mchuchuma and Liganga project, and transportation of goods from and to Malawi and northern Mozambique.
Strengthening Tanga Port by completing Mwambani port investment and Kigoma Port to be able to handle cargo coming to and from eastern Congo as well as Burundi, and facilitate investment in fisheries ports to enhance deep-sea fishing to meet the target of $ 1 billion export revenue.


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We can officially declare that summer is upon us – the Maple Grove Farmers Market opens this week. We at Life in the Grove are all regulars at the MG Farmers Market and we can’t believe that it is starting it’s thirteenth year of existence already. Each new season brings new vendors, great fresh fruits and veggies, we are super excited for the opening tonight.
A recent Facebook post from the City of Maple Grove, “Take a fresh look at the Maple Grove Farmers Market!” To celebrate the new season, there will be live music, a kids’ club and a shopper reward program.
Join us Thursday night at in the parking lot between the Cub Foods and the Maple Grove Community Center/hockey rink. The Farmers Market runs from 3:00 – 7:00 PM every Thursday night during the summer months.


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In the ever-evolving landscape of business, staying ahead is not just a goal but a necessity. In the digital era, where information is abundant and attention spans are fleeting, the role of media giants like CNN Business becomes pivotal. This article aims to Thegeorgiabulletin.com/ dissect and analyze the SEO strategies employed by CNN Business, shedding light on how they navigate the dynamic world of online visibility.
CNN Business: Navigating the Digital Terrain
CNN Business, a leading name in global news, has seamlessly transitioned from traditional journalism to digital dominance. The online platform plays a crucial role in disseminating news, and its success can be attributed to a strategic blend of content, user experience, and search engine optimization (SEO).
The Power of SEO at CNN Business
- Content is King
CNN Business understands the importance of relevant and engaging content. Their articles are not only informative but also optimized for search engines. By incorporating trending keywords seamlessly into their narratives, CNN Business ensures that their content ranks high on search engine result pages (SERPs).
- Technical Optimization
Behind the scenes, CNN Business employs technical SEO tactics. From optimizing site speed to enhancing mobile responsiveness, every technical aspect is fine-tuned for optimal performance. This meticulous approach ensures that users have a seamless experience, a factor highly regarded by search engines.
- Strategic Link Building
The digital ecosystem thrives on connectivity. CNN Business strategically engages in link-building activities, connecting their content with reputable sources. This not only boosts credibility but also enhances their search engine ranking.
CNN Business and Social Media Integration
In the era of social media dominance, CNN Business has successfully integrated its SEO strategy with its social media presence. By crafting shareable content and maintaining an active social media presence, they amplify their online reach. Social signals contribute significantly to SEO, and CNN Business capitalizes on this symbiotic relationship.
Future-Forward SEO Approaches
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, CNN Business remains at the forefront by adopting futuristic SEO approaches:
- Voice Search Optimization
With the rise of voice-activated devices, CNN Business ensures that their content is optimized for voice searches. This forward-thinking strategy positions them as a leader in catering to changing user behaviors.
- Video SEO
Video content is becoming increasingly popular. CNN Business leverages video SEO by providing transcriptions, captions, and relevant metadata. This not only enhances accessibility but also optimizes their video content for search engines.
CNN Business stands as a testament to the fact that traditional media can successfully navigate the digital realm through strategic SEO practices. Their commitment to quality content, technical optimization, and adaptability to emerging trends solidifies their position in the ever-competitive online landscape.
In conclusion, businesses looking to thrive in the digital space can take valuable lessons from CNN Business’s SEO journey. By understanding the dynamics of SEO, embracing technological advancements, and staying attuned to user behavior, organizations can enhance their online visibility and, consequently, their success.


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Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it is recalling 878,000 vehicles because some drivers say the rear suspension has failed, causing them to lose control.
The recall includes 760,000 2006-2011 RAV4 SUVs and 18,000 2010 Lexus HS 250h cars in the U.S., and comes less than two months after the government opened an investigation into reports of failures in rear tie rods.
An additional 100,000 vehicles, including 99,000 RAV4s, are being recalled in Canada.
Four drivers reported they lost control while driving at high speeds.
Toyota says nine crashes and three minor injuries resulted from the problem.
The Japanese automaker told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that the problem is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the result of improper tightening of turnbuckle nuts by service technicians.
Toyota said that if the nuts on the rear suspension arm are not tightened properly during a rear wheel alignment, excessive movement may occur at the threaded portion of the arm, followed by rust.
The automaker said it first began receiving reports of the condition in 2008, but didn't detect a "clear trend of failure" and said the failure rate was low. In August 2010, Toyota introduced a new suspension arm on the vehicles.
In August 2011, it inspected 52 vehicles and found that just one, with a history of rear wheel alignments, had loose nuts.
In May, Toyota received a complaint of a customer crash. The automaker inspected the scene of the crash and learned that non-factory applied lubricant had been used, evidence of rear wheel service. The company inspected 25 vehicles in service and found loose nuts on one vehicle.
NHTSA opened its investigation in June.
"Toyota has concluded that this issue is caused by the improper tightening of the lock nut during adjustment of the rear wheel alignment in the field," Toyota told NHTSA.
"However, Toyota decided to conduct a voluntarily safety recall campaign to ensure proper tightening of the lock nuts."
Toyota is developing a fix. Once the remedy is available, the automaker will notify vehicle owners.


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Fintech PrimaryBid has launched in France in partnership with Europe-wide exchange Euronext after a bumper year.
The retail investor platform, founded in 2016 by former Goldman Sachs banker Anand Sambasivan, already has a deal with the London Stock Exchange allowing the app to put its details on announcements.
Since the pandemic hit big corporates such as FTSE 100 catering giant Compass have used PrimaryBid to complete cash raises, and digital-focused firms listing - including fintech Pensionbee and online caterer Parsley Box - have utilised it to allow customers the chance to participate in their IPOs.
The start-up highlighted that retail investors directly own 12% of listed shares in France, and said its service will launch with direct integration across three major French retail trading platforms: Bourse Direct, Boursorama and EasyBourse.
Sambasivan said: "Our overarching ambition is to democratise capital markets, making them accessible to retail investors on equal terms as institutions.
"We launch in France at a time when companies have a strategic need for financing and when French people want to contribute directly to the country's post-Covid economic recovery."
Anthony Attia, Global Head of Primary Markets and Post Trade at Euronext, said: “We believe retail involvement in capital markets is beneficial to the entire financial system."
PrimaryBid allows people to register, go through a vetting process and apply for shares in a company. The app then collates investor applications into a single large submission for each firm.
Last October the start-up secured $50 million (£38 million) in investment from shareholders including the London Stock Exchange Group, OMERS Ventures and Fidelity International Strategic Ventures.


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MENLO PARK, California: Facebook's parent company, Meta, has announced the creation of what it believes is among the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers in the world.
The social media company said it hopes the computer, known as AI Research SuperCluster, will help establish the groundwork for the metaverse, its virtual reality construct intended to replace the internet.
But it has not disclosed the computer's location or cost.
The computer, which, according to Facebook, will be the fastest in the world, is already operating, though is still being built.
Meta says the computer will help its AI researchers build "new and better" AI models that can learn from "trillions" of examples and work across hundreds of different languages simultaneously and analyze text, images and videos.
Tuomas Sandholm, a computer science professor and co-director of the AI center at Carnegie Mellon University, said, "The way Meta is defining the power of its computer is different from how conventional and more technically powerful supercomputers are measured, because it relies on the performance of graphics-processing chips, which are useful for running 'deep learning' algorithms that can understand what is in an image, analyze text and translate between languages," as quoted by the Associated Press.
In a blog post, Meta wrote, "We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together."
According to the company, the computer will incorporate "real-world examples" from its own systems into training its AI, adding that its previous efforts used only open-source and other publicly available data sets.
"They are going to, for the first time, put their customer data on their AI research computer. That would be a really big change to give AI researchers and algorithms access to all that data," Sandholm said.


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What is TTIP & Why Should US SMEs Care?
Ask most US small or medium sized businesses if they’d like to open up their business to the European marketplace and you’ll hear a resounding “yes”. Why wouldn’t they; half a billion citizens, many speak English, good internet penetration, and a desire for US goods. However in practice, the wheels of the great global e-commerce machine can get tangled with the likes of; VAT, payments, currencies, tariffs, customs, duties, shipping, etc. EU businesses face the same issues as they look towards the US market. These issues have not gone without notice amongst the commerce/trade departments of the US & EU. Enter the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or “TTIP”.
President Obama notified Congress in March 2013 of the US intention to enter into negotiations with the EU to finalize TTIP. The second paragraph in this letter includes the economic justifications.
“Transatlantic trade and investment are the ket pillars of the world economy and of American and EU prosperity. Last year the United States exported $458 billion in goods and services to the EU, estimated to support more than 2.2 million U.S. jobs. The stock of the U.S. and EU investment in each other’s economy totaled nearly $3.7 trillion in 2011, and EU affiliates in the United States employed an estimates 3 million Americans in 2010. The EU and the United States together account for nearly half f the global output of goods and services and 30 percent of global trade.”
One of the US stated objectives for this agreement is to “eliminate all tariffs and other duties and charges on trade in agricultural, industrial and consumer products between the United States and the EU, with substantial duty elimination on entry into force of the agreement, transition periods where necessary for sensitive products, and appropriate safeguard mechanisms to be applied if and where necessary”.
The US ships $730 million in goods to the EU every day.
Where TTIP faces the greatest challenge to acceptance:
-In the US the primary concern voiced by those opposed to free trade is American jobs will not be protected. The fear is that economic gains by an increase in exports to the EU will not compensate for a loss in US jobs overseas as tariffs on EU imports are removed making goods imported less expensive.
-The EU has a number of concerns to deal with. TTIPs is being negotiated at a time when EU participation is being questioned in many of the stronger countries. Germans, for example, have stated a desire for greater trade with the US, however, they also believe the deals should be made in Berlin rather than Brussels. Another commonly cited concern centers on the variation in standards and regulations between the US and Europe. Genetically modified organisms(GMOs) are being used in the US whereas the EU does not universally consider them as safe for consumption. 94% of Germans trust EU food safety standards while only 2% of them trust US standards. (only 67% of Americans trust our own standards!)
The following graphic is from a recent post by the Pew Research Center website. The accompanying article and further explanation can be found on their site PewResearch.org
TTIPs has a long way to go before leveling transatlantic playing field for all SMEs. This February the eighth round of talks were held in Brussels. It is expected to be negotiated for 2-3 more years.
Learn more about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) from these websites and publications produced by the EU/US government offices:
“In the European Union and the United States, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-up enterprises are critical motors of growth and job creation. Ninety-nine percent of European and U.S. companies – over 20 million companies in the European Union and 28 million in the United States – are SMEs. In the European Union, SMEs provide two-thirds of all private sector jobs and have a tremendous capacity to create new employment. 85% of net new jobs between 2002 and 2010 were created by SMEs. In the United States, small businesses have provided over half of all jobs and two-thirds of all net new jobs in recent decades. On both sides of the Atlantic, SMEs are an important source of innovation, new products, and new services, and are already benefitting from transatlantic trade. Here are some examples.”
“This report catalogs trade-related barriers that U.S. small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perceive as disproportionately affecting their exports to the European Union (EU) relative to large exporters to the EU. Various approaches were used to gather information directly from SMEs and other interested parties (“respondents”) for this report. “
PEW Research Center: Support in Principle for U.S.-EU Trade Pact (survey)


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It's time for Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Edward Lampert to face an uncomfortable fact: He needs help.
Sears needs leader who knows retail
The hedge fund manager who has been running Sears since he merged it with Kmart Corp. three years ago needs an experienced retail executive to take over the job. Mr. Lampert has shown beyond doubt that he can't do it himself.
By almost any measure, his performance as the top executive at Sears has been disastrous. Sales and profits are sliding, cash is dwindling and the stock is plummeting. Shoppers are abandoning the fading retail giant as Sears stores deteriorate.
For all his talk of new ideas and turnaround plans, Mr. Lampert has done little more than suck cash out of the company through share buybacks.
Now he is busying himself with a restructuring that resembles nothing so much as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Mr. Lampert talks about leveraging the value of brands like Kenmore and Craftsman, hinting that he might sell these signature Sears products in other retailers' stores. But he backpedals when pressed for details.
We suspect Mr. Lampert knows what's become obvious to all: He has no idea how to revive Sears. He admitted at the company's annual meeting last week that spending more than $2 billion on share repurchases last year might not have been the smartest move.
Perhaps it's also dawning on Mr. Lampert that the notion that a money manager with no retailing experience could fix Sears was a delusional ego trip. He has exercised total control over management, appointed a figurehead CEO and refused to give meaningful authority to executives who know something about retailing. The results speak for themselves.
The time for fantasy role-playing is over. Sears is nearing a financial tipping point just as the economy heads toward a recession, testing the survival skills of the strongest retailers.
Only a proven retail executive has a chance of steering Sears safely through the storm. Some months ago, Mr. Lampert launched a search for a new CEO. But no qualified executive will consider the post unless Mr. Lampert gives up all control financial as well as operational and assumes his proper role as a passive investor in Sears.


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Intel has hit a milestone of 10 million quad-core processors shipped. But this time Advanced Micro Devices--with the worst apparently behind it--appears ready to respond. The No. 2 processor manufacturer is about to add Sun Microsystems and IBM to its quad-core customer list.
Intel has shipped more than 10 million quad-core processors to date, including more than 3.5 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2008, according to market researcher Mercury Research. "Intel's 10 million unit milestone reflects the benefits (of) the rapid move to 45nm (manufacturing), allowing quad-core processors to become much more prevalent in … Read more


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People are using their newly granted pensions freedoms to go on expensive holidays, buy flash cars and invest in buy-to-let properties - to do anything, it seems, except buy annuities, demand for which has slumped.
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Sales of Latin music plummeted 21.2% in 2012 compared with 2011, going from 11.8 million units to 9.8 million. Sales of Latin digital tracks grew, but not by much-they went from 10.6 million downloads in 2011 to 12 million in 2012, a paltry 2.1% rise compared with the 9% increase registered overall.
These numbers, of course, don’t take into account other Latin music revenue streams that have shown significant gains, including streaming services.
But CD sales are still a centerpiece of a healthy music business, and their steady and relentless decline is a major cause for concern. Latin suffers from issues that are particular to the genre: The disappearance of retailers like Ritmo Latino, the largest Latin music retail chain, which shuttered in 2010; the disappearance of mom-and-pop music stores, which lost their place to mass merchants; and the dwindling space allotted to Latin music at those mass-merchant retailers.
What can be done to rev up retail? After extensive conversations with many executives, here are a few suggestions.
1. Develop new artists. “It’s simple,” says Jeff Young, president of Venetian Marketing Group, which has helped with the sales and development of acts like Prince Royce, Sie7e and Jen Carlos Canela. “Why would retail space remain the same if there’s nothing to put into it?” Yes, it costs money to develop acts, and money is scarce because sales are down. But if no one takes the plunge, the situation simply will not improve. Boldness is required. Invest, generate interest and give retailers a good story.
2. Create new promotional platforms. Latin radio has become increasingly monolithic (i.e., only uptempo dance fare gets airplay) and hard to break into. Major Spanish-language TV networks recycle from a reduced stable of artists and aren’t generating sales. Develop new shows, like “La Voz,” that can truly develop and promote acts beyond an appearance.
3. Expand into nontraditional retail. Particularly with niche genres like Latin, there exists an opportunity beyond mass merchants and dwindling music retailers. Latin titles aren’t sold at lifestyle stores. Why not? Also, look to Marco Antonio Solis’ successful pairing of albums with concert tickets in Argentina, and Alejandro Sanz’s similar tactic in Mexico.
4. Lower the price. “We need to have physical CDs and we need to keep having good releases at reasonable prices,” says Johnny Phillips, president of indie distributor Select-O-Hits. That means less than $10, and far less for catalog titles.
5. Target iTunes. Easier said than done, but surely a coalition of labels can convince iTunes to regularly promote Latin releases on its home page.


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CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Blackhawks face elimination when they take the ice for Game 5 of their Western Conference Final against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night at the United Center. If you want to see it in person, you may be able to go for a fraction of the ticket’s face value.
Prices are still substantial for front-row seats. Chicago Ticket Connection is advertising a front row seat for $1,800, while Gold Coast Tickets is advertising $1,400 for the front row and $675 for Row 7.
Beyond that, ticket prices fall sharply.
It’s not just that the Hawks lost but the way they lost that is depressing prices for brokers such as Max Waisvisz of Gold Coast Tickets.
“Ticket prices have come down really a lot,” he said.
Waisvisz said he doesn’t want to be stuck with upper-level tickets for Game 5.
“I’m selling tickets at way below face value — and I’ve got tons of them,” he said.


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Rise of Sugar Raises Questions, by Joey Emil Blum
In a recent blue paper, the National Academy of Nutritional Sciences addressed the rise of sugar consumption in the United States. “Main-street America’s food supply is changing rapidly with sugar distribution outlets leading the charge. It seems like every town now has a “Candy” store and a “Bakery,” the terms preferred by sugar industrialists to the previously described, Sugar Dispensaries.
Though initially confined to medical administration in certified professional offices, sugar is now available in all fifty states and US territories. Outlets called, Bakeries and Pastry shops are proliferating alongside more traditional retail outlets for food, sex, and other drugs. Edible sugar is making its appearance in traditional grocery outlets in a myriad of products enticing consumers with names like apple pie, maple bars, cake, cookies, snickerdoodles, bars, hard candy, chocolate, jellies, jams, sparkles, fireballs, ice cream, spreads, preserves, leathers, pudding, sundaes, as well as a growing number of trade named sugar delivery systems directed at youth. Sugar researcher Leslie Green, of Tufts Medical School, said the sugar industry is targeting youth with a wide variety of sugar products with playful names like M and M’s, Junior Mints, Reese’s Pieces, Cherry Garcia, Almond Joy, Licorice, Butterfingers, Pepsi, Coke, Chocolate chips and scores of other child-centered products. Green, who has studied the effects of sugar on children for sixteen years, said in a somber tone, “We feel defenseless against the onslaught of sugar, and hope the public will navigate the health and social impacts of this emerging dietary staple.”
While research raises alarms about sugar’s role the rise in diabetes, heart disease, and obesity-related conditions, the sugar industry is showing meteoric growth. In their January Emerging Industries issue, Forbes said there are over two hundred individual conglomerates selling a new, super-potent sugar product called Donuts, though the lasting health effects of this product remain unclear. The public’s insatiable desire for sugar is pushing demand to unprecedented levels, a trend that analysts expect will increase rapidly.
As concerns about the medical safety of sugar surface, studies evaluating the effect of sugar on human health are proliferating. Industry spokespersons have strongly denied sugar poses any health risk to the public. Dole Sugar Corporation, Vice President Cole Aspenard, who serves as Chairman of the Sugar Board of America, said, “Sugar is God’s ways of bringing a smile to the world.” Asked to comment on health questions about sugar, Aspenard declared, “Attacking sugar is attacking America.”
Additional concerns about sugar consumption raise questions about the product’s effect on youth. The National Association of Teachers issued the results of a poll conducted of the nation’s classrooms, where teachers overwhelmingly declared sugar slows the mental ability of students and increases jittery behavior. Bianca White, the President of Venezuela Sugar Company, speaking from her company’s US headquarters in Miami, Florida said more study is needed but that, “Sugar has less influence on the behavior of a child’s ability than the sweet and life-giving molecules of air that they breathe.”
Even with health concerns mounting, it may be too late to derail governmental hunger for a new source of revenue. Presently, state taxation of sugar averages %15 at the supply level, but with municipalities like Seattle and Louisville, levying local sugar taxes of 10% at the retail level, we should expect similar actions by other revenue dependent municipalities. RBC governmental revenue specialist, Lindgar Jensen, who tracks emerging commodity markets for the financial giant, said, “Historically, the infusion of tax revenue acts as a de-facto barrier about understanding unintended consequences of new foods or medicines. Lindgar, who serves on The United Nations Council of Global Nutrition warns, “Per capita consumption of sugar is driving a rosy economic picture for those benefitting from it.” Shrugging his shoulders, Lindgar said, Sugar is here to stay.”


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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Social and mobile media marketing is shaking up the online portion of advertising spend in automotive, according to Borrell Associates’ 2013 Automotive Advertising Outlook.
As the report highlights, social media has already served as a billion-dollar spending category for car manufacturers. And most of what is spent on targeted display — jumping from $661 million in 2012 to $976 million in 2013 — will flow to social media. By 2018, $2.7 billion is expected to be directed at targeted display.
“Spending has had some effect, as nearly all of the manufacturers now have more than one million Facebook followers,” the report states. Ford, Audi, Chevrolet and Honda are leading the way for highest number of Facebook followers, with 8.7 million, 6.1 million, 6 million and 5.4 million fans, respectively. Those total are two to four times the total followers claimed by any other automotive brand.
But as Borrell’s advertising outlook also highlights, even the brands adapting to social media find it challenging to respond to Facebook posts by users. “As it was with websites in the early stages of the Internet, response time severely lags the exposition,” the report states.
Chevrolet is the quickest to respond to Facebook posts, among other top carmakers, with an average time of 3.7 hours. On the other end, Volkswagen’s fans are receiving responses 29.5 hours later, on average.
Ford, the leading manufacturer in terms of fans on the site, takes 8.4 hours to respond to posts, while Kia takes 9.2 hours. Honda responds in 11.5 hours, Nissan in 12.3 hours and Hyundai in 13.6 hours.
“Social marketing isn’t confined to the manufacturers. ... Franchised dealers will spend $2.1 billion on targeted display this year, most of it allocated to social media,” the report notes.
Apple Chevrolet in Chicago is mentioned in the study as one dealer finding a solid return on investment. With 5,000 Facebook followers and 1,600 YouTube videos uploaded, the dealer reports nine out of every 10 new or used vehicles retailed can be attributed to some form of digital marketing.
Online video is another fast-rising advertising category among manufacturers, with Borrell estimating that online video will grow from an estimated $1.2 billion to more than $1.5 billion. By 2018, marketing online video will cost manufacturers almost $3 billion.
“Social and mobile media are undoubtedly forming the next wave of transformation for the automotive sales process,” the report states. “They play at the lower end of the buying funnel, and manufacturers and dealers are just now beginning to understand their true value. When they reach full comprehension, the automotive advertising landscape as we’ve known it for several decades will be turned upside-down.”


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London 02 November 2022: A landmark app has today been certified for use via Amazon Alexa smart speakers – a move that will dramatically increase accessibility to literature for people with visual and print disabilities.
The solution has been developed as a partnership between EDRLab – an international, non-profit association and development lab working on the deployment of an open, interoperable and accessible digital publishing ecosystem worldwide – and UK based conversational AI company, OpenDialog. It enables access to audio books for everybody with reading disabilities – from blindness to dyslexia – easily delivered to the listener via their Amazon Alexa smart speaker. Deployed from the Cloud, the solution works by connecting OpenDialog, Amazon and the catalogue of recordings available through EDRLab’s partner organisations, in order to simplify access to literature and provide a great listening experience.
This development replaces the outdated approach of individuals with visual disabilities needing to request audio recordings from publishers via CDs – a time consuming and labour intensive process. It also means that individuals can search for books using their Amazon Alexa smart speaker, which will also be able to provide recommendations on other books, authors and potentially interesting new releases.
“Engaging with literature today is a huge problem for visually impaired people”, said Laurent Le Meur, Director and CTO at EDRLab. “There are so many barriers people have to contend with to simply enjoy a book, which means accessibility is a huge issue – one we hope to address with this collaboration with Amazon and OpenDialog.”
At the moment, this technology will be deployed through association for the blind, notably CELA in Canada and AVH in France – both members of EDRLab. Each of these organisations handles around 60,000 audiobooks each year. However, as part of this project, OpenDialog and EDRLab have also created a standard protocol so that every association in the world, if they adopt these standards, can easily integrate its no-code platform, without the need for any developer input. The platform is fully scalable so it can be expanded as more books become available, and it can be deployed in any country and in any language supported by Amazon, which will massively accelerate the rate at which books can be delivered to blind people via smart speakers.
According to IAPB, there are around 43 million blind people globally and an additional 295 million people living with moderate to severe vision impairment. This vast group of people have access to only around 10% of the world’s production of books. Of the 10% of books that have been either converted to braille – something only around 10% of blind people are able to read fluently – or digitised, many are structured so that specialised devices can’t read the text properly. There are also challenges with rare languages, where text to speech and synthetic voice don’t work, and access to books in low income countries.
Commenting on the project, Terry Walby, co-founder and CEO of OpenDialog, said, “Using conversational AI, this partnership is making it possible for not-for-profit organisations working to support people with visual disabilities to create sophisticated conversational solutions that would have otherwise been outside of their means. Through democratising access to complex conversational AI, we are making books instantly available to their members in a way that has never been done before.”
Today’s announcement is the first of many steps to improve access to books for the visually impaired or disabled. It preempts the European Accessibility Act, which comes into force in 2025. This planned directive will impose that every book is accessible and clear enough in its digital version to be read by synthetic voice correctly.
Le Meur concluded, “OpenDialog brings the flexibility of the conversation without having to deploy code or rely on developers, opening a door for greatly improved access to audiobooks without any technical skill. It’s a move that means that we hope to reach 90% of the world’s blind population with literature in the next few years and massively increase the rate at which countries – and everybody involved in the production of books – create digestible, accessible and easy-to-consume books for the blind.”
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OpenDialog AI Ltd. (OpenDialog AI) is a conversational AI platform to design, develop and deploy smarter human-to-machine conversations. It enables enterprises of all sizes and across virtually every industry to have truly engaging interactions. It is a SaaS-based product so is extremely easy and quick to implement, while its no-code conversation designer which enables businesses to create amazing customer experiences that are immediately deployable. Its customers include BDO, Peppercorn Insurance and The Cyber Helpline


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With teas like “dragonwell” and tea parties based on Harry Potter, NoVA tea shops are making the perfect winter comfort drink a lot more interesting.
The Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC was hit hard economically as a result of the coronavirus. Now, the city is considering turning 18th Street into a full-time pedestrian zone to help.
Blend 111 owner shares his passion for sustainability, wine, coffee and far-flung cuisines with Vienna diners.
Rosslyn’s swanky new speak-easy pairs craveable cocktails with not-your-average bar fare.
The new roastery brand is focusing on sustainably sourced, single-origin coffees and plans to open two locations post pandemic.


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Energy bills could increase by double the amount government claims because consumers aren’t buying energy efficient products.
Over the next ten years the increase to energy bills could be £127 rather than the £64 predicted by government, according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research for Global Action plan.
They say that the slow take up of energy efficient appliances is due to a lack of both government policies and support for consumers – such as confusing labelling.
Which? research shows that the cost of running an appliance can vary widely. If you’re planning a new purchase check out our guide to buying energy saving appliances. Not a Which? member? You can sign up to a £1 trial to gain full access to our reviews and Best Buys.
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Rising energy cost and energy bills are consumers’ top concern with each household spending around £300 a year powering their appliances. By swapping to more efficient products by 2030 households could make an annual saving of £75.
When buying a new home appliance it’s not only the upfront cost you need to think about but the running costs too. Our easy-to-use cost calculators allow you to search and compare the cost of buying and running different models so you can find the best option for you.
A 32-inch TV can vary from £8 to £22 a year and the cost of running a fridge freezer can vary by £62 depending on the model you buy.
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The report shows that UK consumers lag behind the rest of the EU countries when buying energy efficient appliances.
In Germany the most energy efficient fridges and freezers accounted for 87% of sales whereas in the UK this number was only 30%.
The group has suggested the government introduces a scrappage scheme which would help consumers replace older appliances with newer, more efficient ones.


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GM and UAW reach tentative agreement that could end strike
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and General Motors have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a monthlong strike that brought the automaker's U.S. factories to a standstill.
The deal was hammered out after months of bargaining but won't bring an immediate end to the strike by 49,000 hourly workers. They will likely stay on the picket lines for at least two more days as two union committees vote on the deal, after which the members will have to approve.
Terms of the tentative four-year contract were not released, but it's likely to include some pay raises, lump sum payments to workers, and requirements that GM build new vehicles in U.S. factories. Early on, GM offered new products in Detroit and Lordstown, Ohio, two of the four U.S. cities where it planned to close factories.
Workers left their jobs early Sept. 16. They wanted a bigger share of GM's profits, job security and a path to permanent jobs for temporary workers.
In Tennessee, the strike idled GM’s two major facilities. These are the 156-employee Memphis distribution center and the 5,000-employee vehicle and engine assembly plants near Nashville at Spring Hill.
GM and United Auto Workers negotiate amid uncertainty
GM and the union have been negotiating at a time of troubling uncertainty for the U.S. auto industry. Driven up by the longest economic expansion in American history, auto sales appear to have peaked and are now heading in the other direction. GM and other carmakers are also struggling to make the transition to electric and autonomous vehicles.
The company offered to build a new electric pickup truck to keep the Detroit-Hamtramck plant open and to build an electric vehicle battery factory in or near Lordstown, Ohio, where GM is closing an assembly plant. The battery factory would employ far fewer workers and pay less money than the assembly plant.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's trade war with China and his tariffs on imported steel and aluminum have raised costs for auto companies. A revamped North American free trade deal is stalled in Congress, raising doubts about the future of America's trade in autos and auto parts with Canada and Mexico, which last year came to $257 billion.
Amid that uncertainty, GM workers have wanted to lock in as much as they can before things get ugly. They argue that they had given up pay raises and made other concessions to keep GM afloat during its 2009 trip through bankruptcy protection. Now that GM has been nursed back to health — earning $2.42 billion in its latest quarter — they want a bigger share.
What's next for GM and UAW after agreement
If approved, the contract agreement will set the pattern for negotiations at Fiat Chrysler and Ford. It wasn't clear which company the union would bargain with next, or whether there would be another strike.
The union's International Executive Board first has to vote on the GM deal, then union leaders from factories will travel to Detroit for a vote on Thursday. The earliest workers could return would be after that.
In past years, it's taken a minimum of three or four days and as long as several weeks for the national ratification vote. Workers took almost two weeks to finish voting on their last GM agreement, in October of 2015. Then, skilled trades workers rejected it, causing further delays.
This time around — with a federal corruption investigation that has implicated the past two UAW presidents and brought convictions of five union officials — many union members don't trust the leadership and likely won't want to return to work until they've gotten a chance to vote on the deal themselves.
In August, the FBI raided the suburban Detroit home of UAW President Gary Jones. He has not been charged and has not commented on the raid. Earlier this month, Jones' successor as union regional director in Missouri was charged in a $600,000 embezzlement scheme, and another UAW official pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from union vendors. Eight other people — including five UAW officials — have been convicted over the past two years of looting a jointly run Fiat Chrysler-UAW training center for blue-collar workers. Another official was charged in September.
There's also no guarantee that the first contract deal with GM will pass. Some workers on the picket lines said they may not vote for the first offer.
"We're not just going to take the first thing that they give us," worker Tina Black said in September from the picket line at an engine and transmission plant in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit's main airport.
But Louis Rocha, president of a UAW local in Orion Township, Michigan, said recently that union bargainers have taken strong positions against the company. "I think we're going to be OK," he said of the ratification vote.
The strike had shut down 33 GM manufacturing plants in nine states across the U.S. It was the first national strike by the union since a two-day walkout in 2007 that had little impact on the company.
Key issues in UAW GM strike
- Temporary workers. GM wanted the ability to hire more temps to save costs and be able to quickly reduce the workforce in case of a market downturn. The UAW wanted to equalize pay for temps, profit sharing and a path to permanent employment. Similarly, it wanted to even out pay for workers hired after 2007, who start at $17 an hour and can reach $28 after eight years.
- Job security. That's code for commitments by automakers to invest in U.S. factories and commit to building vehicles here. Detroit automakers in contracts say, given solid market conditions, they will invest in UAW-represented sites and tie that spending to numbers of jobs created or retained.
- Health care. GM is self-insured and spends $900 million a year on hourly workers' care. UAW members pay just 3% of their costs, compared with 28% for the average U.S. worker. Autoworkers, who argue that their jobs are physically taxing and can lead to chronic injury early in life, won here, with GM agreeing to leave workers' costs unchanged.
- Pay. Autoworkers' pay has eroded 16% against inflation since 2010, according to the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor.


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Trulioo Expands Executive Team with Key New Hire
- Security , Cybersecurity , Data Protection , Fraud Detection
- 08.04.2021 07:56 am
Trulioo, the leading global identity verification company, announced the addition of Garient Evans in a key position of SVP of Identity Solutions. Evans joins Trulioo during a hyper-growth stage, highlighted by the launches of ID Document Verification and Business Verification products to complement its global electronic identity verification capabilities for hundreds of customers worldwide.
With more than 20 years of experience in credit, identity, fraud, document verification and compliance, Evans was instrumental in leading growth strategies at previous identity verification and authentication organizations and advancing innovative solutions in the fraud prevention space.
“Garient’s impressive track record and industry experience will help expand Trulioo’s expertise and industry knowledge,” said Steve Munford, President and CEO of Trulioo. “This appointment comes at a pivotal juncture in the company’s trajectory as we expand our product offerings and continue to innovate. In the current climate, seamless digital identity verification has never been more crucial both for businesses and individuals. Garient’s skill set will help to ensure we continue to provide the best possible solutions to our customers and their users.”
Prior to Trulioo, Evans served as the head of North American Channel Partnerships at Mitek.
Previously, Evans enhanced the portfolio of fraud solutions and was involved in the release of the industry’s first identity fraud detection score that combined machine learning algorithms with personally identifiable information at ID Analytics.
He also draws upon his experience with Deloitte where he concentrated on global, financial services clients specializing in credit, collections and payments. He has a wealth of experience working with banks, credit bureaus and technology companies across the globe.
"Trulioo has set the standard for high-fidelity, global identity verification and I'm thrilled to join the team that will make digital identification possible for everyone," said Garient Evans, SVP of Trulioo.


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Retail Alliance Receives $100,000 Grant to Pilot Technical Assistance Program in Phoebus, Hampton
Retail Alliance has been awarded a $100,000 Virginia Business District Resurgence Grant from the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) of Virginia.
The Retail Merchants Association of the Tidewater dba Retail Alliance has been awarded the grant to implement a pilot retail technical assistance program for existing retailers in Phoebus’ commercial district. This project will partner with Downtown Phoebus Partnership, an initiative led by Hampton Economic Development, and will incorporate individual business assessments and mini-implementation grants of $3,000-$5,000 awarded to five businesses, along with three educational workshops made available to all businesses within the commercial district.
“Retail Alliance has been serving, supporting, and training retailers in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia for 120 years,” Jennifer Crittenden, President/CEO of Retail Alliance said. “It has been identiﬁed within our strategic planning process a growing need for retail technical assistance that could be deployed in a downtown or neighborhood setting. This grant provides us an opportunity to pilot this program with the intent of being able to replicate it in other communities.”
Jennifer Crittenden and Kylie Ross Sibert from Retail Alliance will work closely with Dominique DeBose from Hampton Economic Development and Downtown Phoebus Partnership, along with an expert technical team including Paige Pollard and Katie Yester from Commonwealth Preservation Group, Stephanie Heinatz from Consociate Media, Sara Harris from Sara Harris Photography, Bill Holloran and Jolie Spiers from SBDC Hampton Roads, and Angela Knight from Angela Knight Consulting.
The project will analyze the customer experience of each business from the multi-channel/omnichannel perspective and provide key recommendations to the owners. The goal of the recommendations is to develop a seamless customer experience that blends at all touch points. The project will commence in October 2023 and run through October 2024.
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Bengaluru-based technology company Tata Elxsi Ltd, part of the diversified Tata Group, said on Monday it is developing a smart gateway module for Chinese automaker GAC Motor.
The module will feature in the new range of electric vehicles that GAC Motor expects to launch in the second half of 2020, Tata Elxsi said in a statement.
The module will be compliant with the automotive open system architecture and will be tested at GAC’s research and development centre.
The module consists of multiple controller area networks as well as ethernet and local interconnect network channels. It will act as the communication centre to control inter-bus communications between various electronic control units such as advance driver assistance systems, in-vehicle infotainment system, battery management system and heads-up display cluster.
Tata Elxsi works with various global automotive original equipment manufacturers, suppliers and chip vendors in system and software development for the next generation of intelligent, autonomous and electric vehicles. Some of its clients include the likes of Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Isuzu, Nissan, Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra.
Last week, Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the Tata Group’s main technology services company, had said that it was updating its MasterCraft Transform Plus to version 4.0 by adding new cognitive features for analysis and modernization of legacy application.
In May, TCS had signed a deal with Scandinavian airline SAS to help transform digitally. Also in May, engineering technology services firm Tata Technologies had partnered with Swedish digital innovation firm Annevo for a connected mobility platform.


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China’s first salmon chain store moves into online deliveries
Norway’s salmon sector is getting a boost from an ambitious chain of stores dedicated to selling salmon in China’s wealthiest region but also tapping into online sales channels.
The Guangzhou Xin Bao Salmon Chain Stores Co - a subsidiary of the Guangzhou Jun Hui Export-Import Co (also known as Guangzhou Convergency Trade Co) - has expanded to ten stores across southern China, with shops in Guangzhou but also as far inland as Changsha, the populous capital of Hunan province.
And now the company is making a big push on cod sales for Chinese New Year, tempting consumers to order gift boxes for family, with a promotion strap line: “Healthy, nutritious, easy to prepare, delicious and high end.” Crucially, as well as chain stores Xin Bao also sells through online platforms like Dianping and Meituan, which offer home delivery services.
As well as selling through its own outlets the firm distributes imported fish through the Guang Bai and Sheng Jia supermarket chains in southern China. “The goal is to expand the market for Norwegian arctic cod in southern China…we are presenting this as the freshest and safest seafood product for Chinese consumers,” according a company spokesman reached on the company’s sales line told SeafoodSource.
Seeking to expand the range of its products, Xin Bao recently signed a cooperation deal with the Qingdao Ai Yuan Food Co. (which operates the Ai Yu brand), a large processor which has been seeking to move away from contract processing for reexport while expanding its exposure to higher-yield products and imports. Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) representatives joined the two firms for dinner at the Xin Bao restaurant recently. Ai Yuan will tailor process Norwegian cod to Chinese consumer tastes, general manager Meng Xinghua was one of several speakers at a November conference on Norwegian cod organised by the NSC.
Xin Bao and Ai Yuan executives also together visited also operating through the He Yuan Wanlong Cross-border Online Trade Pilot Zone, an initiative in the southern city of Heyuan that allows
Mainland China’s consumption of salmon is growing by 30 percent a year - indeed at that rate the country may well be the world’s number one salmon market within the decade, believes Sigmund Bjorgo, who heads up the NSC’s office in China. He says Norway expects to sell between 2,000 and 3,000 tons of cod this year in China but wants to hit 20,000 tons within five years.


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It is good to know that in life there are some things that don't change. And that's certainly true of the way Lexus cars impress their owners more than any other brand. The results of the 2010 J.D. Power and Associates/What Car? Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study (VOSS) show that for an unprecedented 10th year running Lexus has achieved the overall top ranking.
This means that the luxury brand has outperformed all others in every year since it became eligible for consideration. This independent recognition is all the more appreciated this year, as it coincides with Lexus's 20th anniversary in the UK
Lexus also achieved the top ranking in three out of the study's four categories: Quality and Reliability, Appeal and Service Satisfaction. Its total index score of 846 was up 12 on last year's results, placing it 57 points ahead of the industry average.
Lexus is a pioneer of hybrid power and the VOSS results demonstrate how Lexus Hybrid Drive technology is delivering the quality, reliability, sophistication and ownership cost benefits premium market customers desire. And Lexus's model range continues to develop in exciting directions, at one of the end of the spectrum with the ultra-exclusive LFA supercar, and at the heart of the premium C-segment with the full hybrid Lexus CT 200h, which will be launched at the end of this year.
The study's findings show the Lexus IS Sports Saloon was top-ranked among all compact executive cars, while the Lexus RX claimed both the SUV category and the distinction of being the top-ranked model overall for a second time.
Belinda Poole, Lexus Director, said: "While everyone within Lexus is delighted with the study results, our focus remains on delivering the service, quality and ownership appeal that our customers expect.
"We are confident that with the expansion of our model range, the further development of Lexus Hybrid Drive and the exceptional commitment of everyone at our Lexus Centres that we can continue to raise the benchmark for others to aspire to."
The J.D. Power and Associates/What Car? VOSS was based on more than 17,000 on-line interviews with UK owners of cars that were on average two years old.
This is a 14-year+ news article, from our Lexus archive, which dates back to the year 2000.
If in doubt check with your local Lexus dealer as car prices and technical data will have changed since 2010.
Although our car news is published in good faith, we cannot guarantee it to be error free or complete or up-to-date.
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At the start of this year, Earnest was an intriguing but small entrant in an emerging field of start-ups using new tools of data and software to analyze credit risk and make consumer loans.
The new financing brings the total raised by Earnest, founded in 2013, to $325 million.
The long-term goal, he said, is to “Build a platform for the next generation of consumer financial services.” The financial service that has carried Earnest so far is refinancing student loans, which it began at the end of January.
It is by far the largest part of the company’s business, and Earnest’s success points to the opportunity in services to ease the burden on the nation’s debt-laden students and recent graduates.
Earnest is focusing on the more indebted recent graduates.
Earnest has made individual loans of more than $250,000.
Mr. Beryl said Earnest has had no delinquency problems on its student refinancing loans.


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Time Inc. is about to pop its newest mass-circulation magazine, Picture Week, onto the market.
According to sources, Picture Week will be introduced to markets containing 10 percent of the nation`s population by midsummer, perhaps by July. This photo weekly will be tested in at least 10 major markets.
Newsstands will be the prime distribution point for Picture Week, which will retail for less than $1 a copy. Different prices will undoubtedly be tested.
Sources close to Time Inc. have described Picture Week as a ``news-driven publication heavy on photos,`` covering news and human-interest stories.
Some observers have described Picture Week as a ``junior Life.`` However, Picture Week will be published in standard Time magazine size at an introductory price substantially less than Life, now a monthly in a much larger format. Life sells at newsstands for $2.50. Life made its debut in 1935 as a weekly. It was terminated as a weekly in 1972 but reappeared as special issues until it was restaged as a monthly in 1978.
``Time appears to be right on the money with Picture Week,`` an industry source said. ``Many people weaned on the tube want information in capsule form, and with pictures so much the better. Priced right, it has a chance at top (circulation) numbers.``
Time Inc. has deployed top resources, perhaps as much as $20 million, to make Picture Week a winner. The diversified communications firm is ready to move the weekly into national distribution in early 1986, if tests prove successful.
The company got burned by its 1983 failure with TV-Cable Week. However, Time Inc. is still strongly committed to magazine publishing, as evidenced by its recent $475 million buyout of Southern Living and other properties of Southern Progress Corp.
Promotion for Picture Week has been assigned to Young & Rubicam`s New York office, sources said. Y&R does promotional work for other Time Inc. publications, including People and Discover, which, with Money, have been introduced since 1972.
-- Procter & Gamble, at the Food Marketing Institute show at McCormick Place, introduced to supermarket buyers five varieties, including oatmeal and peanut butter, of its ready-to-eat Duncan Hines cookies, which have been marketed only as a chocolate-chip line. The new cookies, which confirm a story in this column April 24, will be available at retail nationally in 4 to 6 weeks, Procter said. The new varieties are oatmeal cinnamon, oatmeal raisin, oatmeal chocolate chip, peanut butter nut and peanut butter chocolate chip.
The institute elected Dominick DiMatteo Jr., chairman of Dominick`s Finer Foods, as a director for a three-year term. Dominick`s operates 82 supermarkets.
-- Steve Florio, 36, recently publisher of Conde Nast`s GQ magazine, was named executive vice president of New Yorker Magazine Inc. and publisher of that weekly magazine. As executive VP, Florio will be operating head of the magazine and the firm`s other properties, including Horticulture and Cook`s magazines. Florio and S.I. ``Si`` Newhouse Jr., chairman of Advance Publications, which recently bought New Yorker Magazine Inc., were elected directors of that firm. Jack Klieger, recently associate publisher of California magazine in Los Angeles and previously West Coast ad manager of GQ, will succeed Florio as GQ publisher. Advance is the parent of GQ and other Conde Nast publications. Newhouse, Florio and Klieger are all in New York.
On the move: Mary Martin promoted to an associate creative director at Leo Burnett USA. . . . Gary S. Oppito named director of marketing support at Sunbeam Appliance Co. . . . Sherri Bergman elected a VP at Elrick & Lavidge. . . . V.N. Anderson appointed vice president of sales for Searle Laboratories` U.S. operations. . . . Nancy Lawrence promoted to an account supervisor at Janet Diederich & Associates.
Strictly personal: Birthday greetings to Vic Zast, Michael J. Noone (333 N. Michigan Building) and Dave Seibel.
Robert Pelizza, recently with the Chicago advertising sales staff of Reader`s Digest, is the new Chicago sales manager of the Sunday Magazine Network. He succeeds Don Barrus, who remains associate Chicago manager until retirement at year`s end. Sunday Magazine Network sells advertising for 52 locally edited Sunday magazines, including The Tribune`s Sunday, and comics sections.
Chris Ruys Communications was retained for a communications program, including advertising and public relations, for ``Brava,`` a women`s apparel shop at 46 E. Oak St.


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The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the World Health Organization (WHO)will hold a UN press conference to launch World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, at 10 AM.
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Todd Bates, host of Haunted Voices Radio, has announced that the Haunted Voices Radio Network (HVRN) www.hvrnc.com has a brand new way to stay in touch with the HVRN family and know what is happening.
Ron LeGrand, real estate quick turn expert, comes to Chicago to teach his five-day real estate quick turn school.
Pixels and Policy (www.pixelsandpolicy.com), a new website and blog dedicated to the study of how virtual worlds impact real-world policy, politics, and culture, opened its virtual doors today.
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Mercedes Benz, BMW, Peugeot, Fiat and Renault are the latest big brands to announce advertising deals with InSkin Media.
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NS&I has reported that Briton are now more financially aware, as the challenging economic environment encourages control.
Jacquie Vaux, noted painter of African animals, announces the completion of her latest project, titled "North American Wilderness."
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