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Country Junction, a home decor and gift store on Southside Oneonta, is closing, owner Kelly Gell said Friday.
“We will be open as long as we inventory,” said Gell, who owns the business with her husband, Lary. The business’s candle-making operations closed in October, she said, and the decision to close the gift store was “a long time coming” but finalized this week and announced Friday.
The expenses of doing business, including supplies, rent and electricity, were too high to continue, she said, and customers also have been affected by the economy.
The business has existed about 15 years in various retail and wholesale modes, she said, and at the busiest time, there were 18 employees. She said she will miss her associations with suppliers, employees and customers.
“I had a lot of great people to work with,” Gell said. Customers who found out about the store closing after a notice was posted Friday on Facebook have expressed disappointment, she said. Readers of The Daily Star recently had voted Country Junction as the Best of the Best gift stores, she said, expressing disappointment that she won’t be able to hang the plaque in the store.
Country Junction has been located at 4987 State Highway 23 at the Community Bank Plaza for almost two years after three years across the highway in Southside Mall, she said.
The store will be recognizing gift certificates and “punch cards,” Gell said, and she encouraged customers to stop in.
DEC: BROOKS’ WAS FIRST TO SUBMIT SELF AUDIT
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has reported that Brooks’ House of Bar-B-Q in Oneonta is the first businesses in the state to be covered under an environmental audit policy.
Brooks’ self-reported to authorities that it lacked the proper waste-water permit for its business, signed an environmental audit policy in January and took steps to reduce the amount of waste-water generated, a DEC media release issued this month said. Under the policy, Brooks’ paid $500 in back regulatory fees, committed to obtain the proper waste-water permit and to install a new waste-water treatment system by Jan. 1.


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The major supermarket chains in Ireland have all decided to cut the price of milk for its customers.
Reducing the price of milk
Lidl Ireland has announced a €0.10 reduction in the price of its two-litre bottle of milk.
Supervalu reduced its price this morning.
Tesco will cut the price of milk from tomorrow.
Milk will cost less at Aldi from Tuesday.
The price of milk has risen by 24 per cent over the past 12 months, according to the Central Statistics Office.
Own-brand two-litre milk used to cost €1.69 in February 2022 but had risen to €2.29 in just over a year. A two-litre, supermarket own-brand bottle of milk will now cost €2.19.
The reduction of €0.10 in the price of supermarket's own-brand milk has been described as a 'price war' by the Irish Farmers Association.
The cost of milk for farmers
The IFA has warned that supermarkets reducing their milk prices for customers will have a knock-on impact for farmers.
IFA warned that a low price for milk will risk the medium to long term sustainability of fresh milk produce.
Keith O'Boyle of the IFA said that history shows that when retailers drop the price of milk the financial hit gets back to the primary producer.
"Unfortunately, it is the farmer that milks cows all year round that is ultimately going to be the loser in this," he said.
In a statement on the IFA website, he said: "There has been huge inflation in production costs for all farmers. However, those who specialise in fresh milk produce all year round, including over the winter months, have even higher costs. If these farmers do not get a return to cover the extra costs involved, they will change to producing milk for manufacturing".
Price of food is rising
Prices have risen by 6.3 per cent year on year to April in Ireland according to Eurostat.
According to the CSO, food prices have risen by nearly 13 per cent in the last 12 months up to April.
Last week, Labour TD Ged Nash called on the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to investigate potential price gouging among supermarkets as the cost of food rises.
In relation to the announcement of a drop in the price of milk, Nash said: "We see today a race for good publicity between Irish supermarkets as they announce price reductions for milk.
"This is good news for shoppers, and it essentially confirms what I've been saying for weeks - price gouging is endemic throughout the grocery sector in Ireland.
"Government must now commit to working with the CCPC to stamp out this 'greedflation' once and for all. These big and brave supermarkets must also commit to meaningful price reductions across the range of other products that they are using to cream it in."
He added that butter has increased in cost by 21 per cent year on year, vegetables are up by 10 per cent and eggs are up by 20 per cent.
The Louth TD added: "A trip to the checkout is now as dreaded as a trip to the dentist."

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Zander is a Venture Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. Prior to joining the firm, Zander was an Associate at Greycroft Partners where he served as a Board Observer to a number of portfolio companies, including Elite Daily (sold to Daily Mail), BetterCloud (also a TVP portfolio company), and JW Player. Zander sourced Greycroft’s investments in Button, TheSkimm, and Expel. Zander has been recognized by Business Insider as a 30 under 30 Rising Star in Venture Capital.
Zander started his career at Bain & Company. In addition, Zander was an early employee at CityMaps (acquired by TripAdvisor), where he led Corporate Development, and at Earnest Research, where he was Chief of Staff to the CEO.
Zander holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Georgetown University Sailing Team and won two national championships during his tenure.
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P.F. Chang’s released more details about the ongoing investigation into a security breach saying data may have been stolen at 33 locations including Florida.
Some of the nation’s largest retailers are teaming up in hopes of preventing cyber-crime.
Michaels Stores is investigating a possible company data security breach that may have affected its customers’ payment card information, according to the company.


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PayPal president Scott Thompson has revealed a sneak peek of upcoming technologies from the online payment company. The new payment options center around smart phones, and allow tricks such as paying in a store via phone and bypassing the checkout line, or entering a PIN and phone number at a register instead of a credit card number. Payment through phones took off long ago in Asia, and has been gaining increasing acceptance in the United States. PayPal’s concepts are notable because they avoid new gadgets or the near-field communication technology used by alternative offerings such as Google Wallet.
Let’s be clear about something–we’re not just shoving a credit card on a phone. PayPal is reimagining money and making it work better for merchants and consumers–whatever device you’re on, wherever you are in the world, and however you prefer to pay (whether that’s cash, credit, or installments).
The company released a concept video that outlines the new payment systems.
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With the new iPhone on the way – as is the same with any Apple release – a bunch of rumours and supposed features have surfaced, too.
According to insider reports, the iPhone XR‘s older brother will hold the “bilateral” charging software. With this feature, the phone will be able to mimic a power pad by wirelessly charging any other device placed on top.
Also utilising the same bilateral charging feature is Apple’s upcoming “AirPower”; a charging mat for any Apple product, which can charge more than one device at a time. First rumoured to be released in 2018, the mats have apparently been moved for release in 2019 and will also be compatible with the new AirPods case coming soon, too.
A reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says AirPods 2 will support wireless charging and upgraded Bluetooth connectivity. He says AirPower will ship during the first half of 2019.
Bilateral wireless charging on the 2019 iPhones would allow you to charge other devices wireles… pic.twitter.com/8eCcCAtUSm
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The new iPhone is going to have the highest quality of battery life in an Apple product yet, alongside features like a triple-lens camera and superior facial recognition.
Just watch our older iPhones mysteriously decay and break down as the new release happens…
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Ronnie Cohen, a partner at Vision Import Group LLC, River Edge, NJ, said the firm’s mango volume from its South American suppliers will be greater this year and will follow the company’s strategy of steady growth in that space.
“Currently we are bringing mangos in from Brazil and our Brazilian deal is larger than it was last year,” he said in early September. “And we expect to double the volume we had last year from Ecuador.”
Mr. Cohen said the collaboration among Vision Import Group on the East Coast and its sister companies — Vision Produce Partners of Texas LLC, Pharr, TX, and Vision Produce Co., Los Angeles — in the middle of the country and on the West Coast has allowed the firm to increase its overall mango volume significantly. “For the Mexican deal, our sister company in Texas helped a lot,” he said.
Mr. Cohen explained that Ben Brittain, the group’s principal partner in Texas, knows the Mexican mango deal very well and was able to secure additional volume from that point of origin. Likewise, the major partner of all three organization’s, Bill Vogel, as well as the two Vision Import principals, Mr. Cohen and Raul Millan, have great contacts in South America. With the three sales points stretched across the country, the combined firms can offer great service to a large array of customers. “Service and our good looks are the keys,” quipped Mr. Cohen. “We can offer a full package of services regardless of where the customer is located. The quality we deliver is also very important.”
Since last season, the Texas operation has been launched and the California operation changed its name from the longstanding Tavilla Sales Co. of Los Angeles to the Vision Produce Co. moniker. Mr. Cohen didn’t want to overstate the importance of the name change, but said it does give instant visibility to the collaboration that exists among the three firms. He said customers are now instantly aware that these three operations work together because of the common name. “It has definitely had a beneficial impact,” he said.
As the three firms continue to work together, Mr. Cohen said they will strengthen their collaborative efforts and continue to grow the program. He is especially expecting significant growth in mango imports from Mexico next season.
For this season, Mr. Cohen said the three Vision companies will have Brazilian mango supplies into November before transitioning to Ecuadorian fruit. “For the foreseeable future,” he said on September 6, “we are going to have ample supplies and I expect the market to remain steady [pricewise].”


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For one very brief moment Saturday, there was no line at Panther City BBQ.
But it didn’t last long.
With the sun still rising over South Main Village, customers began turning from Interstate 35W for owners Chris Magallanes’ and Ernest Morales’ Central Texas-style oak-smoked brisket, sausage and morning breakfast sandwiches or tacos.
By lunchtime, the line grew past the front gate of Panther City, a patio restaurant at 201 E. Pennsylvania Ave. in the same landmark location where Heim Barbecue began five years ago.
Every day when the coronavirus cases stay down, the lines grow longer for Panther City, with its safe open-air dining area and lots of breeze and sunshine.
“We’ve still been doing the carryout [business] all along, but we’re just now starting to see more sit-down diners come back,” said Magallanes, co-founder of Panther City six years ago as a caterer and then as a food truck.
“Any news story can change our business in a single day — case numbers, new orders, a new mandate,” he said.
This weekend, the news story that can change business is the return of a half-full college and pro football schedule.
“When sports went out, that affected us, so we’re anxious to see what happens,” Magallanes said.
Panther City BBQ opens at 11 a.m. on Sunday, so it gets plenty of pregame orders and the Sunday barbecue crowd.
It also opens at 7 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday for brisket breakfast sandwiches with sausage and egg ($10.50), carne guisada tacos ($8.50) or “Flaco’s tacos,” griddle-fried corn tacos with brisket or barbacoa (three/$10).
“People were looking for breakfast tacos, so we decided to work up a menu,” said Magallanes, a southwest Fort Worth product who grew up eating chopped beef at Cousin’s Bar-B-Q.
Morning customers can buy pounds of brisket, sausage or anything else that’s ready that day.
Then comes lunch.
Panther City is known for its black-peppery Central Texas brisket, either at lunch ($17.50 plate, $10.50 sandwich) or on the breakfast sandwich.
That sliced beef might be even more popular in a cup as “brisket elote,” with slices layered atop creamy Mexican grilled corn ($10.50).
The other smoked meats include ribs, pulled pork, turkey, pork belly “burnt ends,” bologna and either cracked-pepper or jalapeno-cheese sausage, all $17.50 as a plate or $21.50 for a three-meat combo platter.
Panther City’s barbecue style is very Tex, with a bit of Mex.
For example, the menu includes not only the typical smoked meats and sides, but also brisket tacos (three/$12), borracho beans and the breakfast carne guisada.
On an episode of the Eats Beat podcast last year, Magallanes said Panther City relies on a craft-barbecue style with an offset-smoked, “100% post oak” smoker.
“We don’t use any other smoker,” he said. When each day’s batch is sold out, they hang up the “closed” sign.
Two years ago, when Panther City filled Heim’s old location, Main Street Village near the hospital district was still a dream and the cross street was still named East Hattie.
The stand opened first as a food truck, then moved alongside Republic Street Bar.
Now, South Main Village is busy, the street has been renamed East Pennsylvania Avenue and Panther City is a small craft barbecue restaurant.
The La Pantera late-night taco menu will resume when restaurants and bars fully reopen, Magallanes said.
It’s open for breakfast and lunch Wednesday through Saturday, lunch Sunday; 682-499-5618, panthercitybbq.com.
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** Canadian beverage maker's shares rise as much as 10.6 pct to C$11.06, near 2-year high; U.S.-listed shares rise as much as 10.7 pct to $8.80, 1-1/2 year high
** Company, which reported losses in previous 11 quarters, reports profit in Q4, helped by acquisition of Aimia Foods and DS Services
** Says profit also helped by Calypso soft drinks business, bought in 2013, and inclusion of an extra week in the quarter
** Revenue rises nearly 13 pct to $543.5 mln
** Up to Monday's close, Canada-listed stock had risen 24 pct in six months, while U.S.-listed shares had risen 8 pct
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Koi CBD is hit with a class-action lawsuit.
Koi CBD, LLC has been hit with a class action in which 2 customers claim that the California company’s products are illegal given their “prominent systematic” mislabeling for purposes unapproved by the FDA.
Class-action lawsuits filed against Charlotte’s Web & Infinite CBD
CBD product manufacturers Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc. and Infinite Product Company, LLC, better known as Infinite CBD, are named as defendants in class action lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California.
A class-action lawsuit against Green Roads, Terpene product shows no terpenes
A team of attorneys from Kopelowitz Ostrow Ferguson Weiselberg Gilbert in Fort Lauderdale compared the cannabidiol, or CBD, market to the Wild West,
Hemp Bombs is being sued in a CBD class-action lawsuit
Recent CBD hemp oil class-action claims that Hemp Bombs CBD products are mislabeled and fail to contain the advertised CBD levels.
CBD class-action lawsuit in the works against JustCBD, HempBombs, YiLo, and Strength of Hope
CBD Class action lawsuit in the works against JustCBD, HempBombs, YiLo, and Strength of Hope from Bursor & Fisher.


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A small three-wheeled car, with a small price tag, is making its rounds in Portland.
The car will sell for $6,800 and it gets 84 miles per gallon on the highway, said Elio Motors VP of retail sales Jerome Vassallo.
It looks like a cross between a motorcycle and a car, with two wheels up front and one in back. The company expects to start production in Louisiana at the end of 2014 and already has several thousand pre-orders according to Vassallo.
Vassallo said Elio Motors expects to get a five-star crash safety rating.
“Crash tests are all about physics. It’s about the momentum we carry into an incident,” he said. “So we’ve engineered this with five air bags, one for each window, and one comes out of the steering wheel. We have a roll cage, complete hardened steel, and that roll cage is kept under tension kind of like a spring; it bows out a little bit.”
He said the car’s light weight will help too. “We’re a thousand pounds, so any time you can dissipate some momentum, that helps. So the fact that this vehicle will move rather than stay planted is a big advantage.”
The car touring Portland is the third version of a prototype and Vassallo said the company would put out one more before beginning production.
The Elio will be available for viewing at Washington Square on Thursday between 1 p.m and 7 p.m. It will be at the Lloyd Center Saturday from 10 a.m until 9 p.m.


text: Despite a weak fourth quarter, global shipments of foldable phones rose 62% in 2022. Samsung remained on top of this space with a market share of 83%. Samsung Display remains the top foldable display supplier with a vise-like grip on the market. Shipments of foldable phones worldwide was weak during the fourth quarter, but overall foldable panel shipments rose 53% in 2022 to 15.2 million units. Further growth is forecast this year with DSCC calling for such deliveries to exceed 20 million units in 2023.


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Selfridges is the first retailer in the UK to offer DECORTE’s latest makeup colour extension
KOSÉ Corporation announced that its leading luxury skincare and makeup brand, DECORTÉ, is launching new colour cosmetics exclusively at Selfridges London. Selfridges will be the first partner outside of Asia to offer the new makeup extension to the brand’s innovative skincare line. The makeup brand hopes to strengthen its relationship with the UK by giving Selfridges’ customers this special opportunity to experience these new items before anyone else in the world, including consumers in Asia.
Selfridges London will be the first to launch three new and exclusive products – Dip In Glow, Eye Glow Gem and Lipsticks, available online from 15 January. The makeup brand will take over the Selfridges Mary Site for one week from 25 January – 1 February, with expert makeup artist’s on-hand to apply the new range to customers, giving them the opportunity to experience and explore the exclusive makeup offering.
“We are excited to launch our most unique make-up range, first & foremost at Selfridges in London, a place where women embrace new cosmetics trends and appreciate high-quality products,” said KOSÉ Corporation‘s Managing Director, Masanori Kobayashi.
“We are extremely excited about Selfridges being the first retailer here in the UK to offer DECORTE’s latest makeup colour extension where our customers will be able to experience these new products before anyone else in the world, including those consumers in Asia. We admire the brand for its future-gazing approach to skincare and colour innovation; making it an unmissable addition to our Beauty Hall,” said David Legrand, Selfridges Director of Beauty.
The brand’s makeup philosophy mirrors its skincare counterpart, to enhance and emphasise healthy, glowing skin. All products in the range work in perfect harmony with the body, with luxury textures and soft-focus colours that allow women to truly embrace their natural beauty from the inside out.


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Sony’s PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, its next-generation game console without a Blu-ray disc drive, will cost $399.99, the company announced Wednesday as part of its PS5 price reveal live stream event.
That’s $100 less than the standard PS5, which will match Microsoft’s Xbox Series S at a price of $499.99 but cost $100 more than the less performant Xbox Series S. Both devices will ship in the US, Japan, and other territories on November 12th, with a worldwide availability on November 19th. We don’t have any info on preorder dates just yet.
It was an open question just how much of a price reduction Sony would offer with its digital edition PS5, considering the lack of a Blu-ray drive could have translated into anywhere from a $50 or more price cut over the standard version of the next-gen console. Now fans have a clear idea of the cost comparisons both between Sony’s devices and Microsoft’s two-tier Xbox Series X / S offering.
Sonos sues Google for infringing on five more speaker patents
Just one day before Google’s Pixel 5 reveal, Sonos has filed a new lawsuit against the search giant, alleging it has infringed five more patents. The patents cover technologies that form the basis of some of Sonos’ best-known features, including its Trueplay tuning tool.
The new lawsuit is the latest development in the ongoing legal spat between Sonos and Google. Sonos first sued Google at the start of 2020. It alleged at the time that the company had violated five of its speaker patents, including one that details a technology that allows wireless speakers to sync with one another. In June, Google countersued Sonos, claiming the speaker company had been using its search, software, networking and audio processing technologies without paying a licensing fee.“While Google rarely sues other companies for patent infringement, it must assert its intellectual property rights here,” Google wrote in the complaint.
Demon’s Souls PS5 remake will include new items, weapons, and armor
Bluepoint Games’ remake of Demon’s Souls looks to be a mostly faithful recreation of the PlayStation 3 original, based on recently released gameplay footage. But Demon’s Souls for PlayStation 5 won’t be a strict one-to-one remake, based on new details from the game’s digital deluxe version — it will have new items, armor, and weapons that weren’t previously available in the game.
We’ve known about one of those weapons, the Reaper Scythe, which is available as an exclusive pre-order bonus. While that scythe was in the original game — the Reaper in the Shrine of Storms wields it — players couldn’t earn it for themselves. On the PlayStation Blog, Sony Interactive Entertainment creative director Gavin Moore explains that the Reaper Scythe is “a pole weapon with a curved blade on one end that is so sharp that they say it can sever your soul from your body. It can mow down many targets in a single blow, but is difficult to handle and requires both strength and dexterity to use.”
Demon’s Souls’ new additions go beyond that new weapon, however, based on the PS5 game’s listing on PlayStation.com.
Included as part of the Demon’s Souls digital deluxe edition are the following new items:
- Red-Eye Knight Armor
- Boletarian Royalty Armor
- Ritual Blade
- Hoplite Shield
- Ring of Longevity
- Preservation Grains
- Phosphorescent Grains
- Bearbug Grains
Some of those new items appear to be new drops from existing enemies, including the Red-Eye Knight’s armor and what appears to be clothing based on Old King Allant’s garb. The Ritual Blade appears to be the giant cleaver used by the Gold Skeleton, while the Hoplite Shield would conceivably drop from Hoplites.
An item called the Ring of Longevity does not exist in the original Demon’s Souls, but one could infer it might act like the Wood Grain Ring from Dark Souls and bolster weapon durability. The three grains are something of a mystery, but the latter two appear tied to the Phosphorescent Slugs and Bearbugs found in Demon’s Souls.
Demon’s Souls will launch day and date with the PlayStation 5 on Nov. 12.
Internal documents show automated Amazon warehouses have higher injury rates
Amazon’s warehouses with robots, which the company has claimed would help reduce worker injuries, actually have higher injury rates than warehouses without automation, according to internal Amazon records obtained by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. The stunning fact comes as part of a broader report investigating rising injury rates at Amazon warehouses across the country.
Amazon’s warehouse robots are apparently so efficient that quotas have increased substantially, requiring workers to do repetitive motions over long shifts that can eventually lead to injuries. For example, workers who grab and scan items had their quotas increase from about 100 items an hour to 400 items an hour in the automated warehouses, according to the report. The rise in injury rates suggests automation could actually be creating a more dangerous environment for the workers, despite hopes that robots would take on the most dangerous tasks.
Amazon piloted specific measures recommended by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to help reduce injury risk, such as an extra rest break or rotating workers to other jobs during the day. But the measures have not been widely implemented, and Reveal’s documents indicate that injury rates have continued to rise.
Amazon, in a statement to Reveal, said that “the use of robotics, automation and technology in our fulfillment centers is enhancing our workplace, making jobs safer and more efficient.”
The report shows unusually high rates of injury across the board, even compared with equivalent warehouses run by other companies. Amazon warehouses counted 14,000 serious injuries in 2019 (meaning injuries that require days off or job restrictions), and “the overall rate of 7.7 serious injuries per 100 employees was 33% higher than in 2016 and nearly double the most recent industry standard,” according to the report.
And injury rates spiked during Amazon’s Prime Day and Cyber Monday sales extravaganzas, with the weeks surrounding them having “the highest rate of serious injuries for all of 2019,” Reveal reported.
Reveal has also put together a site where you can browse the injury rates of more than 150 Amazon warehouses from 2016 through 2019, pulled from internal Amazon records. Two sites — one in DuPont, WA and one in Eastvale, CA — reported more than 16 serious injuries per 100 workers in 2019, quadruple the industry average from 2018.
Reveal’s report follows an investigation from November claiming that Amazon attempted to dodge workplace safety regulators for years. And Amazon’s warehouse safety practices have come under particular scrutiny this year as workers have continued to staff the warehouses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight known workers have died from COVID-19, and Amazon has declined to say how many warehouse workers have contracted or died from the disease.
Amazon has not responded to an inquiry from The Sports Grind Entertainment about the claims raised in Reveal’s article.
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Chilly Black Friday in N.H.
Black Friday got off to a chilly start yesterday in New Hampshire and stayed that way, but consumers didn’t seem to mind.
Temperatures stayed in the 20s throughout the day. It wasn’t as windy as Thanksgiving.
Some businesses got into the spirit of “Plaid Friday,” instead, promoting shopping at local and independent businesses. One farm in Harrisville, the Mayfair Farm, was holding a bazaar featuring a variety of local crafts and baked goods.
In Concord, the “Green Concord” business alliance offered discount gift cards at a number of member retailers.
Some businesses got off to an early start and opened on Thanksgiving.
At the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, manager Jack Toscano told WMUR traffic has been steady since Thursday. He said families have been coming to shop.
Nicole Scrimgeour was outside the Best Buy in West Lebanon about 4 a.m. Thursday. She told the Valley News she’s camped out to get a jump on Black Friday deals for years, but changed her schedule to accommodate the store’s earlier opening at 6 p.m. Thursday. She said on the one hand, she didn’t have to camp overnight, but on the other, she missed her entire Thanksgiving.
“I do what the stores tell me,” she said.


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The 11th edition of IoT Week was held in Dublin, Ireland, from 20 to 23 June 2022 at the Croke Park Stadium.
The conference, organized IoT Forum and Keynote PCO brought together more than 380 speakers from the worlds of research, industry, business, technology, and science. Among them were representatives of the world’s largest companies that are developing IoT technologies. Participants explored the status of Internet of things technologies, applications, and challenges ahead, including a contribution of IoT solutions to the UN’s sustainability goals. The comprehensive program included around 115 sessions, workshops, panel discussions, a Hackathon, a Startup Competition, and 5th edition of the Global IoT Summit.
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos from NTUA represented NEPHELE in this event as technical coordinator even before the project started as it was a great opportunity to make this big community aware of our scope and objectives.


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Webkul Once Again Honoured with Top Selling Extension Award at Magento Imagine 2019
Wynn Las Vegas, NV – May 13, 2019 – Webkul – the hook for enterprise businesses, received Magento Solution Partner Award for the Top Selling Extension of 2018 for Multi Vendor Marketplace at the ninth annual Magento Imagine conference.
Also read when Webkul received the 2017 Best Selling Extension Award at Magento Imagine 2018 event.
Magento Partner Awards were held at Imagine 2019 in Las Vegas to recognize technology partners and solution integrators that made significant contributions to the commerce industry in 2018.
The companies that show exceptional leadership within the diverse Magento ecosystem in driving the future of online retail forward through creativity and innovation got awarded.
These awards celebrate the tremendous achievements in leadership, innovation, teamwork, and business impact that our merchants, developers, and partners have accomplished over the past twelve months.
“We are honored to be a Magento Solution Partner Award Winner at Magento Imagine 2019 event. It is an absolute pleasure getting the Best Selling Extension award two years in a row.”
The award was presented at the ninth annual Magento Imagine Conference. Which brings together 3,000+ eCommerce experts, including merchants, agencies, and technology providers across 60+ countries to inspire, advance, educate, collaborate, and enjoy a unique Magento experience.


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As the day’s online gossip would have it, electronics manufacturers Acer and Lenovo are both planning launches of tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows 8 powered by the new Medfield processor on Intel’s Clover Trail platform; both tablets will reportedly hit the open market in third quarter 2012 and will be geared toward the business market.
Further rumor has it that Nokia could release a Windows 8-based tablet PC in the first half of the year, and Microsoft is also said to be developing its own device for a launch sometime after June 2012.
As previously noted at Tablet2Cases, the Medfield chips reportedly perform very well in terms of speed but are currently quite energy-demanding. Windows 8 itself will see a beta version launched in February and the OS is slated for a June release.


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PURE-ELECTRIC cars are on track for cost parity with petrol and diesel cars by 2024, the financial advisory firm Deloitte has claimed.
Costs for plug-in vehicles are expected to become significantly more affordable to buy due to factors such as economies of scale, reduced technological costs and government incentive programmes.
Deloitte forecasts that the cost of petrol and diesel vehicle ownership in the UK “will converge with electric” over the next five years. Other estimates have suggested this crossover point could occur in the UK as soon as 2021, and globally by 2022.
As the upfront cost is “the biggest barrier” to buying a new car, according to Deloitte, the price parity with pure-electric and conventionally-powered cars will mean “cost will no longer be a barrier to purchase”.
From 2018’s combined global total of 2m hybrid and pure-electric models, it’s estimated demand will double to 4m electric cars worldwide by 2020, and up to 21m by 2030 (of which 14.7m are anticipated to be pure-electric).
If these projections are accurate, conventionally-powered cars will still prove more popular than hybrid and pure-electric vehicles for the foreseeable future. Though data for global car sales in 2018 isn’t yet available, figures for the previous year from the data analysis firm Jato Dynamics showed 86.05m new cars were sold worldwide.
And despite the boon in sales of hybrid and electric cars over the coming years, Deloitte says the electric car market risks becoming “unsustainable”. Based on projected production increases, it’s estimated the car industry will have the capacity to produce 14m more hybrid and pure-electric vehicles than are needed over the next decade — meaning supply could vastly outweigh consumer demand.
Michael Woodward, Deloitte’s UK Automotive Partner, said: “This gearing up of EV production is driving a wide ‘expectation gap’ and manufacturers, both incumbent and new entrants alike, will need to adapt towards this new competitive landscape.”


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Facebook is on the verge of launching a native app for Apple’s iPad more than a year after the device went on sale.
Nick Bilton of The New York Times reports that Facebook will soon release an iPad app. Yes, finally.
We had also heard in recent weeks that despite Facebook’s seemingly anti-iPad stance, such an app does exist internally, and has for some time. But we hadn’t been able to find anyone who had actually seen it. Well, until right now. We can now confirm the app’s existence with someone who has actually seen it.
“It looks pretty slick. Photos are fullscreen & really nice UI,” says a person who has played with the app.
The new app is also said to overhaul Facebook’s Chat and Groups features and utilize the iPad’s front and rear cameras for both shooting and uploading photos and videos, according to the sources.
Many people have complained about Facebook’s lack of iPad support, which has forced them to use either the iPhone application on the tablet or a third-party app like Friended or Facely HD. However, the company can hardly be accused of laziness.
More importantly, third-party Facebook apps have been flying off the virtual shelves since day one of the iPad (including a few that have tricked people into thinking they were official apps). Facebook needed to get on top of this situation, to ensure that they own their own brand on the device, not some third party. And now they are.
We have not heard a specific date the app will be released, but NYT says that it will hit the App Store in the “coming weeks”.
The iPad app is just one of several different projects reported in the last few days that’s kept the social media giant busy. Earlier reports indicated that Facebook is working on an HTML5-based web app for mobile Safari designed to circumvent Apple’s App Store — code-named: Project Spartan. There’s also Facebook’s big photo sharing project for the iPhone and the company’s partnership with Comcast on an enhanced TV watching experience.
But now we’re getting too far into the weeds. I’m just happy Facebook is finally releasing an iPad app.


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You might not have plans to visit Cuba under the newly eased travel restrictions just yet, but now, there's a good chance you'll be able to stay at an American-run hotel sometime in the near future, despite the longstanding embargo. Starwood Hotels and Resorts announced Saturday it has signed deals with Cuba to renovate and operate hotels in the Caribbean nation, becoming the first US-based hotel company to do so in almost 60 years, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Specifically, Starwood has received US government approval to rebrand three existing hotels in Havana, Cuba -- the Quinta Avenida, the Santa Isabel, and Inglaterra hotels -- and reopen them by the end of the year as part of its Luxury Collection and Four Points by Sheraton brands. As explained in the report, the deals were likely unimaginable prior to recent rule changes under the embargo, especially seeing as all Cuban hotels are run by the government and the tourist branch of its military. But as evidenced by President Obama's visit to Cuba on Sunday and his administration's moves to further lift restrictions on travel and trade (think Cuban cigars and booze) in recent days, times are changing.


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Chairman of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, speaks during the launch of the Tata Nano car in Mumbai.
Nano is here:
Tata Chairman Ratan Tata, left, and Tata Motors Managing Director Ravi Kant pose with a Tata Nano at its launch in Mumbai on Monday.
Nano is displayed during its launch in Mumbai. The Nano will hit Indian roads in July, four months after its formal launch on Monday, and demand is expected to far outstrip supply as the price tag of around $2,000 draws legions of new buyers.
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At 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, Pascal Stansfield, who is as stand-up as they come, who always props the other guys instead of himself, who always makes it easy for everyone else even if he's the one under pressure, finally feels his patience slip from him like a commuter stuck at a green light as a pedestrian slowly inches across an intersection.
It's the board shorts. He's standing in a factory south of Los Angeles waiting for samples of board shorts — surf trunks — the ones that are late, the ones the factory was going to have ready last week. And no one seems to know what's going on. Nothing other than, no, they're not ready, a status communicated wordlessly, with a shrug, as he's been walked through row after row of workers on sewing machines stitching clothing that is not his, until finally he's parked in the factory's office to wait, as two men talk in a language he doesn't understand about office lights that aren't working right.
Flicker, flicker, flicker. The lights dim and dip and pop and the men ignore him as they troubleshoot.
It's not the heat that makes Stansfield's insides wilt. Tomorrow is the annual L.A. stop for Agenda, the trade show for action sports–related vendors — clothing and equipment companies that cater to the surf/skate/snowboard markets and lifestyle. Freedom Artists, the independent company that 34-year-old pro surfer Stansfield co-owns with Patrick Jensen and Tom Reese, has a booth. So, yes, he needs those spring 2014 board shorts samples now.
The plan was to pick up them up by 4 p.m. and be back on the road with a fighting chance of missing the worst of rush-hour traffic, to get back out to Freedom Artists' factory in Westlake, where, even now, Jensen awaits the batch of specially manufactured, soft-cotton tees Stansfield picked up earlier from the dye factory. Because Agenda is important, yes — but the company excels at rapid turnarounds. They have orders that need to be silk-screened and shipped starting Monday.
A factory supervisor finally arrives. “Come and see the progress we've made,” he says. And so Stansfield goes.
Stansfield has been moving in that easy, loping, relaxed gait of his, which gives away nothing of what has been going on inside since 7 a.m., an hour at which, for most of his life, he might have already finished a long drive or overnight flight and gotten in the water, paddling out to beautiful Indonesian reef waves on someone else's dime, or waves in Iceland, Norway, Ireland — countries he chose because he wanted to see them as much as explore the surf. Enjoying the sweet life of a “free surfer,” a pro who goes not the competition route but is paid to land images in surfing magazines. A man who could be out in the water right now at First Point if there were waves near his old-school Malibu apartment, or if there wasn't Freedom Artists.
But in 2007, a friend he'd surfed with since he was a kid, Patrick Jensen — who'd been designing, silk-screening and running a company since he was 16 — asked Stansfield if he was interested in starting a clothing company. He said yes.
Then Stansfield and Jensen, kicking it in a pedicab, of all things, outside another industry trade show, had run into Tom Reese, who slayed at the sales and operations end. The three hit it off, and Freedom Artists came to life: all three recruiting and working with artists who developed the company's visuals, with Jensen handling design and production, Reese running the company and sales, and Stansfield heading marketing and sponsorships. The endeavor was growing, sure, the silk screens always running, their lines expanding, but they were still very much hands-on.
So Stansfield is not out on a wave but driving around town to feed the dream, even as his immediate dream — beating traffic — is wrecked. From his apartment to the factory in Westlake; then on his first long run of the day, ET Surf in Hermosa Beach; then to the Long Beach Convention Center for the load-in, to set up the booth by himself, as Jensen and Reese keep things going in the factory; to sitting in traffic among the big rigs on the 710; to a quick in-and-out to pick up completed, button-up shirt samples for Agenda; to three circles around a block in another section of industrial L.A. because the dye factory he's looking for is so camouflaged that it reads as an abandoned property; to, finally, the board shorts samples run — the land of flicker, flicker, flicker — where he follows the supervisor who has come to get him, only to find that, basically, there has been no progress.
As he looks down at the pieces of three different board shorts, he sees that the solitary man assigned to the job is not even close on the waistband of the first pattern. That's the hardest part.
When you're a small, quality-focused business in America circa 2013, your board shorts samples might get bumped to the back of the line by a big order. That's life.
Stansfield's stomach sinks even as he figures out the solution: It'll be the next day; he'll drive back the next morning, he'll get there a couple of hours before Agenda opens and he'll pick them up. The man promises him, assures him, they'll be ready.
Yet the next morning, on the day of the show, at 7 a.m., he is there and they are not. What Stansfield finds instead is the factory padlocked shut, an arriving worker who takes him around the side, and the board shorts samples left abandoned, still in pieces from the night before. “You've got to be kidding me,” he thinks.
Across the city, a couple of hours later: Agenda has opened and is already rolling with the rumble of a trade show — thousands talking among tricked-out, fantastical branded spaces. There's a big surf company with a faux altar that creates a wall of privacy for those doing business within. The skateboard company that, during the height of the show, will feel more like a college kegger party than anything resembling a trade show that can make or break you. The entity that has positioned a perfectly restored, vintage VW bug under a stack of surfboards, a sculpture at the heart of a booth that itself has been tricked out to look like an art gallery. Showtime.
It is around 9:30 a.m. when the first appointment arrives at the Freedom Artists booth to hook up with Reese and Stansfield. They're ready.
The button-ups hang at the front of the booth's racks. The tees are behind, hats above and, centered on the table, three evocative designs — the board shorts. A photo negative of a palm tree blowing in the wind haunts the black fabric of the first. The second employs a bouncy, Keith Haring–influenced, cartoony style — lines radiating from brightly colored surf-world iconography — while the third is a dreamy, sexy, blue-and-white pattern. Picked up on a final last-minute run by one of the company designers, pried from the jaws of flicker, flicker, flicker land.
Stansfield leans in to welcome the buyers — Blue Tomato, a European retailer — with a smile that makes it easy for everyone else, even if he's the one under pressure.
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E-News : October 10, 2006
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Time to fill your digital prescription
Learn how to use digital media to reach doctors, healthcare executives and providers this Wednesday, October 11,when ABM's "The Digital Prescription: Delivering a Healthier P&L," comes to Scholastic International in New York.
With panels discussing how to expanding the brand through digital offerings, the ins and outs of partnering with digital providers, organizational change and a technology solutions showcase, "The Digital Prescription" will feature expert speakers from WebMD, VNU Business Media, the New England Journal of Medicine, Advanstar Communication and About.com, among others.
Healthcare is still a relatively untapped online market - be among the first to explore this new revenue opportunity at "The Digital Prescription: Delivering a Healthier P&L," this Wednesday at Scholastic International in New York. Click here for complete agenda and registration details, or for more information, contact Jane O’Connor.
"The Digital Prescription: Delivering a Healthier P&L" is sponsored by PERQ/HCI Research.
Eileen Roper Ast named executive director for BPEF
American Business Media (ABM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Eileen Roper Ast as executive director for the Business Press Educational Foundation (BPEF), a non-profit educational foundation supported by ABM. Ast will be responsible for encouraging and nurturing the next generation of publishers and editors, by focusing on promoting business media to students and faculty in U.S. colleges and universities.
"I am thrilled to have Eileen onboard as our new executive director for the BPEF," commented Gordon T. Hughes II, president and CEO of American Business Media. "Her professional experience, knowledge of the business press, and contacts within several related industries will serve the Foundation well in moving it forward. Eileen will be conducting research in the coming months, particularly around the internship program, which is an important source for encouraging our future publishers and editors to start their careers in the business media industry."
Ast brings an extensive background of New York-based senior communications and management positions in magazine and book publishing, as well as advertising to the BPEF, which included stints as director of communications at the NY Times Group and senior vice president at Bozell Worldwide. More recently, she has served as executive director and foundation president of a number of national not-for-profit educational associations, including the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, American Montessori Society, and NY Women in Communications. Ast graduated with a B.S. in English and Education from Spring Hill College, AL.
The Business Press Educational Foundation (BPEF) Internship program gives college students the chance to work at business media companies, in either editorial or non-editorial roles. BPEF offers summer internships as well as year-round positions. To learn more about the BPEF and how your company can make a difference, visit www.bpefinternships.org, or contact Eileen Roper Ast directly at email@example.com.
Surviving Postal Pricing
Postage. A little thing that for the publishing industry can get pretty expensive. We know - and now we can help. This week, American Business Media is releasing "Surviving the Next Postal Rate Case… and Beyond," a DVD to help media members navigate and take advantage of current postal regulations and incentives.
Prepared by ABM Washington experts, including postal counsel David Straus, this postal video was shot this summer in Louisville, Kentucky, and features Steve Ennen, ABM vice president of digital media and information, discussing ways members can use postal regulations and incentives to save copious amounts of money in mailing and sorting.
"Surviving the Next Postal Rate Case... and Beyond" will be distributed to all ABM media member accredited representatives this week. Additional association members who would like to request a copy of this invaluable postal guide should email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Rich Data Council increases reach through business information
Rich Data Council chair Bill Pollak, president & CEO of ALM, and the rest of the Council members have opted to change the name of the group to the Business Information Council. A key objective for the Council in the coming year is to move the rich data discussion away from the theoretical and strategic realm and toward a more practical and tactical approach; this name change seems to reflect this approach as well as their goal of working more closely with the Digital Media Council.
The change to Business Information will "make what our council is doing simpler for our members to understand, broaden out our coverage of what’s happening in the information marketplace, and make it easier for traditional business information companies to become involved with us," explains Pollack.
While rich data is generally viewed as an ABM term, those in the business media marketplace tend to be more familiar with business intelligence or business information. Viewed by some as a nebulous concept, a label of rich data might discourage participation of a larger, more relevant audience. As links between rich data and digital offerings like social networking, e-commerce etc. increase, business information has become more reflective of the intent of rich data.
Essentially, the term business information is broader and sounds easier to implement and understand than rich data. Council members agree that business information may allow the group to broaden their focus to include syndicated research previously untapped speaker selection for future conferences.
Digital Media Council tackles the tasks at hand
As new media continues to increase its prevalence, American Business Media's Digital Media Council (DMC) has formed 10 discipline specific taskforces to discuss the impact of digitization on the future of the publishing industry. Chaired by VNU Business Media eMedia & information marketing president Toni Nevitt, the DMC has broken into groups focused on Human Resources, Organizational Structure, Content Development, Publishing/Sales, Research, Audience Development, Technology Tools, Trend Spotting, Web site Analytics, and Content Licensing.
Led by Eileen Long, director of brand marketing for VNU eMedia and Laura Anger, chief HR officer for Crain Communications, the Human Resources taskforce will focus on jobs as they relate to shifting skill sets created by increased demands for digital presence. The Organizational Structure taskforce, chaired by Howard Roth, vice president of eMedia for Ascend Media, will focus on organizing companies to best embrace the offerings of new media using results of a recent Outsell Inc. research initiative. The Editorial/Content Development Taskforce, led by Michael Lavitt, senior content producer at the McGraw-Hill Companies, will tackle issues related to the creation of digital content with particular emphasis on examining strategy and execution.
Guided by co-chairs Michael Azzara, vp/group director of Internet business at CMP Technology and Jennifer Collins, managing director of Law.com, the Publishing/Sales taskforce will revolve around challenges stemming from organizing and training sales staff to sell in an online environment. The Research taskforce, led by Bill Glasgall, vp/content management & development for Standard & Poor’s, will both compile existing industry research as well as identify areas where research needs to be conducted. The Circulation/Audience Development taskforce, co-chaired by Robert Adams, group vp technology, manufacturing-circulation at Crain Communications Inc. and Christine Oldenbrook, director of marketing & e-Media for Bobit Business Media, will discuss issues relating to search engine optimization, search engine management, database marketing and audience development.
The Technology Tools & Platforms taskforce, led by Rick Treese, chief technology officer at Advanstar Communications, will focus on content management, audience development and the development of a directory of vendors used by ABM member companies. Led by John Blossom, president of Shore Communications Inc., the Trend Spotting taskforce will develop forward-thinking trend analysis of new technologies, organizational changes and market shifts that could potentially impact business media in significant ways. The Web site Analysis/Metrics taskforce, chaired by Dennis Carpenter, Internet business manager for Stamats Business Media, will find ways to educate people about standards and conduct a survey to better determine needs. And finally, the Licensing Content taskforce, led by Nancy Cohn, special accounts representative for GCN Publishing, will focus on revenue generation, best practices and digital rights issues.
All taskforces will meet this fall and report back to DMC chair Toni Nevitt to determine the best way to release the resulting information to ABM members. Stay tuned to our weekly e-newsletter for taskforce updates. For more information on ABM's Digital Media Council, visit the DMC Web page, or contact Mark Flythe.
Face-to-face with CEOs at Top Management 2006
How do senior executives adapt their companies to the ever-changing media environment? American Business Media will explore this question during Top Management 2006: BRANDSCAPE - No Boundaries, Just Edges with a CEO Roundtable led by Peggy Walker, president of Vance Publishing Corporation.
As president and CEO of Vance Publishing Corporation, Walker oversees more than 20 magazines, a host of newsletters, Web offerings and data and custom media products. She has held management, publishing, editorial, operations and circulation positions at leading companies such as Putman Media and Gorman Publishing. Prior to assuming the leadership role at Vance, Walker served as vice president and group publisher for The National Underwriter Company, a diversified media company serving the insurance and financial services industries.
As host of the Top Management 2006 CEO Roundtable, Walker will lead Robert Krakoff, president/CEO of VNU Business Media, Inc.; Jeffrey Lapin, president of Farm Progress Companies; and Neal Vitale, president/CEO of 1105 Media, Inc., in a panel discussion focused on leadership in the changing media environment. But before the panel kicks-off, they'd like to hear from you - if you have questions you'd like to see addressed in this discussion, submit them to email@example.com with the subject line "CEO Roundtable."
Top Management 2006: BRANDSCAPE - No Boundaries, Just Edges. Be a part of industry transformation when ABM's Top Management Meeting hits Chicago's Westin River North this November 14-16, 2006. View a complete agenda and register now.
American Business Media has secured a limited room block with the Chicago's Westin River North. Call (877) 866-9216 or visit www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/ABM06 by October 23, 2006 to secure the special group rate.
Top Management 2006 is sponsored by AdMedia Partners, the Audit Bureau of Circulations, BPA Worldwide, Folio:, FosteReprints and the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.
Travel Guard International serves the global community
Travel Guard International’s work through the Make a Mark Foundation has helped improve communities around the world. Established in 1993 by John and Patty Noel of the Noel Group, Travel Guard’s former parent company, the Make a Mark Foundation aids in the construction of clinics, schools and orphanages in developing countries.
Currently, the Make a Mark Foundation is working with its partners to construct self-sustaining villages for children, orphans and elders affected by the AIDS crisis. Travel Guard employees are encouraged to raise/donate money and volunteer for this, as well as other charitable causes.
For its generous efforts, Travel Guard International (nominated by Northstar’s Travel Weekly) was the second runner up and recipient of $750 donation at the 2006 William D. Littleford Awards. Dan McGinnity accepted on behalf of Travel Guard, and encouraged attendees to be more active in drawing attention to the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa: "I would strongly urge the members of the media to shine light on this tragedy which has the potential to create mind boggling consequences."
Established and named after the chairman emeritus of BPI Communications Inc., The William D. Littleford Awards for Corporate Community Service recognize companies, organizations or individuals that are involved in active community service programs aimed at alleviating critical social problems. Littleford established this award for a number of purposes: to raise the visibility of the business media editorial product; to encourage increased coverage and recognition of community service success stories; and to motivate other organizations to apply such solutions in their own communities.
Keep the Littlefords in mind when laying out your fall issues. Just a small mention of a worthy charitable organization can garner much attention – you never know whose life you might change. To find out more about ABM’s Littleford Awards, click here.
Peter Duchin Orchestra to perform at ABM100 Gala
American Business Media is pleased to have the Peter Duchin Orchestra as the musical entertainment for its Centennial Gala, December 7, 2006 in New York City. Performing for over three decades, Peter Duchin leads one of the most versatile and popular bands of our time. Gala attendees will be delighted by his talent and persona, which have captivated clients around the world, including White House state dinners and inaugural balls, the openings of museums and arts centers, movie premieres, charity galas, debutante dances, New Year's Eve parties, college proms and weddings.
Join American Business Media and the Peter Duchin Orchestra in celebrating a century of moving business forward at this December’s Centennial Gala. ABM members, industry VIPs, clients and colleagues will gather together for a special evening to commemorate the strength of business media and the publishing industry at the notable American Museum of Natural History. Click here to reserve your table today, or for more information, contact Debbie Humphreys.
American Business Media has reserved accomadations throughout New York City for Gala attendees. Make your reservations now to take advantage of special room rates and blocks available at the On The Avenue Hotel, Hotel Beacon, Union League Club and Jumeirah Essex House before they fill up for the holidays. Click here for detailed hotel information.
The Centennial Gala is sponsored by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, BPA, Communications Data Services, DeSilva & Phillips, FOLIO:, FosteReprints, the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Outsell and Prism Business Media.
History of B-to-B
This Week in History
As part of our Centennial Celebration, ABM will be showcasing member companies through "This Week in History," a date-specific outreach initiative spotlighting key moments of business media history. For more information, or to submit materials for inclusion in ABM's 100 year initiative, contact Gail Hoffer.
October 10, 1907: The Federation of Trade Press Associations (the precursor to American Business Media) holds its first official convention as an organization.
October 1923: Medical Economics publishes its first issue. Launched by H. Sheridan Baketel and Lansing Chapman, who recognized that physicians were ill-prepared to run a small business, the inaugural issue states the magazine's mission "to aid physicians in making medical practice pleasanter, easier and more remunerative."
October 1960: Simmons Boardman debuts the International Railway Journal. The issue is subsequently introduced at the International Railway Congress in London, the Pan American Railway Congress in Rio Di Janeiro and the Asian Railway Congress in Tokyo.
Top Media Moves
Google has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion. The company has also unveiled a literacy Web site that combines books, video, mapping and blogging services, giving educators multimedia resources.
VNU has announced plans to acquire the 39.5 percent stake in online audience measurement service NetRatings that it does not already own. VNU Group B.V. will be exploring strategic alternatives for its Business Media Europe (BME) group, including a possible sale of the business.
Summit Publishing Company has launched Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum, a new conference produced by Healthcare Packaging and Packaging World that will take place in March, 2007.
QuadData Solutions, a division of Quad/Graphics, has expanded its data-driven marketing services.
Nielsen will begin counting college students in 2007.
Yahoo has started testing mobile paid search in the United States and the United Kingdom after launching its mobile search service in Japan.
Unstrung Insider,a paid research service of Light Reading Inc., released a new report on the latest round of mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships involving some of the world's biggest suppliers of wireless infrastructure equipment makers.
Crain Communications has promoted Tony Merpi to publisher of AutoWeek and K.C. Crain to associate publisher.
David Korse, president and CEO of IDG World Expo, has announced that he will be leaving the company, effective November 3.
Platts has appointed Kathleen Tanzy to the position of director, strategic industry communications.
SourceMedia's Bruce Morris, a senior executive, has left the company, and will be succeeded by Jeff Scott.
New Member Profile
On November 30th, American Business Media will debut an integrated sales training program for sales, publishing and business media development professionals. Led by Jeff Liebowitz, CEO of the Laredo Group, "Sales Training: Integrated Media Selling" will offer attendees the tools to improve revenue potential through cost-saving techniques including online advertising buying and selling, search engine marketing, and site optimization. Prepare your sales team for new media - find out more now.
The following is a list of upcoming ABM Committee and Council meetings. For more information, contact Mark Flythe. All meetings are at ABM offices in New York unless otherwise noted.
Committee/Council Date/Time (EST)
Custom Media Committee Friday, October 13, 2006 10:00 am
Research Committee Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:00 pm
Agri Council Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:00 am
Media Promotion Committee Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:00 am
Strategic Finance Committee Monday, November 6, 2006 3:00 pm
Circulation Committee Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:00 pm


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"Sony has confirmed that Final Fantasy IX, recently dated for the Japanese PlayStation Network, will be coming to the West in the near future."
I've been wanting to play this game for 10 years!
Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, and FFT all on the PSN, good times!
Not bad but their are other rpgs besides final fantasy that I would like but still nice.
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There’s a common idea that things get better with age. It’s true with red wine. It’s true with bourbons. And, it’s true with breweries. In 2013, 33 years after its founders met, Enki Brewing was officially open for business.
The Minnesota Vikings announced Tuesday that MillerCoors has been named the founding partner of the new U.S. Bank Stadium and will continue to be the official beer partner of the team.
Since Total Wine stores entered the Twin Cities market, full out price wars have been underway in the local beer, wine and liquor markets.
Pabst Brewing Co. is returning home to Milwaukee. The Los Angeles-based beer company said Wednesday it will open a new brewery on the site of its original Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee.
For many runners, it’s the sense of accomplishment that they get as they cross the finish line keeps them going. For the rest of us, it’s the beer.
How much is it worth it to you to have an unlimited supply of beer for the rest of your life? How about one grand?
On the first Sunday breweries in Minneapolis could sell growlers beer, Rep. Eric Paulsen appeared on WCCO Sunday Morning, saying he wants an excise tax cut for small breweries.
From a creamery to a hardware store to a brewery, the building that is now home to Maple Island Brewing has had quite a history. And so have its owner and brewer.
With summer kicking into high gear, we thought it would be fun to mix up some summer beer cocktails on the ‘CCO Rooftop. Stephanie Shimp from the Blue Plate Restaurant Company and bartender Colin Weaver from The Lowry visited WCCO Mid-Morning with some recipes.
A single pint of beer can often lead to a much bigger sale in the craft brewery business. The 64-ounce growler allows customers to bring home a sampling of their favorite brew.
Tin Whiskers challenges Urban Growler to the first ever brew-off and they invite you to try their beers made with ingredients chosen by Twin Cities locals.
Food, beer and live music — sounds like a pretty good way to spend a Saturday! Minneapolis’ Harriet Brewing is holding an edition of the Minnesota Food Truck Associations brewery series, which features 17 food trucks in one location.
Moo-ve over, Colorado. Minnesota is taking over your beer. Local restaurant, Red Cow, is teaming up with Colorado’s Odell Brewing Co. to create a one-of-a-kind IPA: COWlaboration.
Sunday turned out to be a bit disappointing to some eager Bloody Mary drinkers.
From Disney to beer, it’s a transition many of us make. But for Ethan Applen, co-founder of the new Minneapolis brewery Lakes & Legends, it was a little bit more challenging, and a little bit later in life.
The last time the Minnesota Wild scored a hat trick at the Xcel Energy Center was November 2014. Nino Niederreiter scored three goals against Buffalo. So, Lindsey from Maplewood asks: What happens to the hats people throw on the ice after a hat trick?
Next up for Tap Talk is Shakopee’s Badger Hill Brewery.
We’re traveling a bit south for this Tap Talk. In fact, we’re going all the way down to Rochester to visit its first taproom, Kinney Creek Brewing.
Already seeking a new brew to excite your taste buds? Good news, you won’t have to wait too long! A new craft brewery, Lakes & Legends, announced it plans to open its doors in summer of 2015.
When co-founders Deb Loch and her partner, Jill Pavlak, decided to make a major life change they had no idea they’d be making history in Minnesota. Truth is they just wanted to bring people together at a turbulent time in United States’ politics.
Supporters of legalizing Sunday liquor store sales in Minnesota may have to put a cork in it this year.
Minnesota residents may soon be able to take home their favorite craft brews in 64-ounce growlers on Sundays due to a labor union’s reversal on the issue, a top legislative backer of repealing the state’s Sunday liquor sales bans said Monday.
Lift Bridge Brewing Company moved into their Stillwater location five years ago, but began conceptually almost 14 years before that. In 2001, co-founder and CEO Dan Schwarz became part of a small poker league that consisted of neighbors and friends. As the group played they learned a number of them used to home brew.
We decided to help you – and your livers – keep up with the taproom trend by stopping by some of these Twin Cities brewhouses. Next up is St. Louis Park’s expanding tap room, Steel Toe Brewery.
Every Friday, Mike Augustyniak picks up a new cocktail recipe from a local mixologist. This week, he headed over to The Lowry Hill Dunn Brothers to check out another one of their “micro” cocktails.


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Sometimes Apple holds an event in the early part of the year where they announce hardware refreshes for existing products. In a new report from Bloomberg, it seems that Apple will indeed be hosting such an event this year, but this time it could be a slightly different event as it will be quite a star-studded one.
According to the report, Apple is set to host an event on the 25th of March where we could see the likes of Hollywood elites such as Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner and director JJ Abrams attend. Apparently this event will be where Apple will officially launch their long-rumored video and news subscription service.
This seems to contradict an earlier report which claims that Apple’s video service could be launching in April. However it is possible that the event might see the service officially announced, while its availability might only arrive in April. The news service is also one that’s worth keeping an eye out for following Apple’s acquisition of Texture.
The acquisition led to rumors that Apple could be planning to launch their own news subscription service, and if this report is true, we should find out soon enough. No word on whether the event could see Apple refresh existing hardware, like the iMac, or if it could see Apple announce new products like the second-gen AirPods or the AirPower charging mat.


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The mid-range phones Xperia 10 and Xperia 10 Plus were made official at the 2019 tech trade show Mobile World Congress (MWC), which was held in February. Fresh information reveals that the Sony is already working on the Xperia 20 and Xperia 20 Plus successor models. Reliable tipster @OnLeaks has collaborated with PriceBaba to share the renders of the Sony Xperia 20 smartphone to reveal its appearance well ahead of its launch event.
The Xperia 20 smartphone renders show that it will be identical to the Xperia 10 smartphone predecessor. Like the Xperia 10, it is expected that its successor will come equipped with a 21:9 tall aspect ratio display. The Xperia 20 renders show that its side bezels are quite thin, but its upper and lower bezels are very thick.
The Xperia 20 ‘s top bezel contains a front-facing camera, an earpiece and several extra sensors. The top portion of the phone’s rear shell features a dual LED light and a dual camera setup. The firm’s brand name can also be seen on the Xperia 20’s backside.
The fingerprint sensor is located in the power button that can be found at Xperia 20’s right edge. On the left edge of the phone has a flap that conceals the SIM and microSD card tray. The bottom edge of the phone is fitted with a microphone, a USB-C port and an external speaker. Another microphone and a 3.5mm audio jack can be found on the edge of the Xperia 20.
The Xperia 10 has a full metallic body but it’s expected that the Xperia 20 will come with a metal frame and a glass or plastic back. The Xperia 10 has at its bottom two line of speaker holes, but the Xperia 20 can come with a single line of speaker grills. The predecessor phone has a dedicated power button, but a fingerprint sensor will be built into the same key on the Xperia 20. These are three design changes that are expected to be available on the Xperia 20.
The tipster has revealed a 6-inch screen would appear on the Xperia 20. It measures 157.8 x 68.9 x 8.14 mm. There are currently no further details on the Xperia 20 specs available. Sony is known for announcing its phones at the annual IFA tech expo held at the end of August. Thus, Xperia 20 can go official at IFA 2019 later this year with Xperia 20 Plus.


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The launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s second cloud region in Melbourne, Australia, has been announced. The brand-new Asia-Pacific region, also known as ap-southeast-4) will have three Availability Zones and should assist customers in meeting regulatory and data residency requirements.
In December 2020, AWS made its initial plans to open the new Melbourne region public. By 2037, the company intends to invest $4.5 billion in the nation. More than 25,000 full-time job opportunities for locals are anticipated to be created annually in this AWS cloud region, which is expected to propel economic growth. Storage, compute, networking, developer tools, business applications, data analytics, security, and other services will be offered by it.
“Since we launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region in 2012, the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region adds to our ongoing infrastructure expansion and investments in Australia. Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of Infrastructure Services at AWS, stated, “We are proud to deepen our investment by driving local job creation, building cloud skills, and creating opportunities for growth and collaboration with our local customers and AWS Partners.”
Additionally, AWS has committed to going carbon-neutral by 2040. In addition, the business highlighted three projects that will support 115,000 Australian households by producing 717,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy annually.
Since 2017, AWS has announced a number of programs, such as AWS Academy, AWS Educate, and AWS Industry Quest, to train more than 200,000 Australian citizens in cloud computing skills. A new program called “Victorian Digital Skills” has been announced by the company to help people in the area get into higher-paying jobs.
In the meantime, in order to better compete with rivals like Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, AWS continues to invest in data centers. The new cloud region in Melbourne will join the Asia-Pacific region’s existing cloud regions. These include the Ningxia, Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Sydney, Seoul, Osaka, Jakarta, and Beijing regions.
AWS now operates 99 availability zones in 31 regions, with the Melbourne region now open for business. However, the company is constantly expanding its cloud footprint, with plans to establish 12 additional availability zones worldwide and four brand-new AWS regions for Thailand, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada.
AWS has confirmed that it will invest $35 billion in Virginia by 2040 to expand its current US-EAST-1 region, in addition to those plans. The company has stated that it will create approximately 1,000 new jobs as a result of the construction of multiple data centers throughout the state.
Plans of $4.5B investment
The infrastructure region, which is in Melbourne and consists of three availability zones, runs alongside another Sydney region, which has been operational since November 2012. In December 2020, plans for the Melbourne area were first announced.
AWS now has 99 availability zones across 31 countries, 12 of which are in Asia-Pacific, thanks to its addition. Thailand, New Zealand, Israel, and Canada are in the process of receiving 12 more zones and 4 more regions.
According to the US cloud vendor, each availability zone has its own power and cooling to meet business continuity needs. Infrastructure regions are in “separate and distinct” locations.
As part of the anticipated costs associated with the construction and operation of the Melbourne region, it was mentioned that the $4.5 billion investment would be used to support more than 2,500 full-time positions at external businesses annually. Construction, engineering, and telecommunications jobs, as well as the cost of utilities and facilities, would all fall under this category.
AWS stated that the new region’s construction and operation are anticipated to contribute $10.6 billion (AU$15.9 billion) to Australia’s GDP by 2037. ANZ Bank, Kmart, Pizza Hut, Ticketek, the University of Melbourne, and Victorian Land Registry Services are among its local customers.
AWS stated that it was on track to completely power its operations with renewable energy by 2025. The company as a whole has a goal of going net-zero carbon by 2040.
It has invested in three Australian initiatives that use renewable energy, including a wind farm in Victoria and two solar farms in New South Wales. The projects are expected to produce 717,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy annually when they are all operational, or enough power for nearly 115,000 local households.
In this region, Amazon is involved in 57 renewable energy initiatives, one of which is a ground-mounted solar system in Singapore that is anticipated to produce 80,000 megawatt hours of energy annually.
As part of a global rollout to add 22 locations, AWS announced plans in February to establish 10 local zones in Asia-Pacific. It said that the move to push cloud capabilities to the edge was in line with the growing demand from businesses for distributed service delivery and ultra-low latency. Auckland, Bangkok, Brisbane, and Bengaluru are among the six markets in the Asia-Pacific that would be covered by local zones.
Biggest Cloud Service Provider
Amazon Web Services is the global leader in terms of scale for Amazon.com’s cloud computing business. AWS had a 34 percent market share in the cloud infrastructure service market in the third quarter of 2022. This gives it a lot of economies of scale and lets it make pretty good margins.
AWS’s sales of $20.5 billion in the third quarter of 2022 represented 16% of Amazon.com’s total sales. The division made $5.4 billion in operating income, and its operating margin was 26.3%. Even though AWS’s Q3 results were lower than some estimates, many people still think the company has a lot of room for growth given the industry’s expected growth over the next few decades.
Indeed, Amazon Web Services is making significant investments for the future. The company recently announced that it will spend $35 billion by 2040 to expand its data centers in Virginia, which will result in the creation of 1,000 jobs.


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Watch out Harvey Nichols - Teesside is ready to psyche you out.
After six months of negotiations, retailer Steve Cochrane is about to put pen to paper to take his award-winning lifestyle store Psyche nationwide.
He wants to open six new stores in major cities within the next five years.
Mr Cochrane is close to signing a deal with SKG Equity Finance, which is expected to take a major stake in the Middlesbrough company.
He said: "They are the finance house who bankrolled Philip Green's purchase of BhS and have just completed the sale of women's clothing chains Mark One, Karen Millen and Pilot.
"I really want to take on Harvey Nichols and put Middlesbrough on the map."
Last month Psyche beat competition from Harvey Nichols and Selfridges to win the Drapers Award for Best New Store 2004 and the Retailer of the Year award.
Mr Cochrane has invested more than #3m into creating Psyche in the former art deco Uptons store.
Plans to open up a street cafe and rooftop restaurant are beginning to take shape.
The plans are still dependent on the outcome of a consultation period which gives residents and local businesses the chance to air their views, and that ends on December 24.
"It would be a fantastic Christmas present if there were no objections," said Mr Cochrane. "However, if there are any we will have to overcome them."
The plans include a huge glass lift on the corner of the building that will take shoppers up to the #2m rooftop restaurant, which will cater for 420 people.
The restaurant will be run by Sean Parkinson, of Metropolitan Brasserie and Barluga at Newcastle, and will be called Metropolitan Psyche.
The Cafe Murano, which is inside the store, will spill out onto Garnet Street.
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Although we have used our cards more than ever what is interesting is that our debt has dropped. In March 2019, we owed to the banks $40 billion, today it's a third less about $27 billion. It appears that we have been since March 2020 banking our extra money. They have not been eating out, driving less, not going on vacations, no casinos, etc. Maybe also using buy now and pay later (BNPL) cards more although that would be enough to make such a dent on this debt.
What it does show is that the Australians do have the money and credit, now are they going to spend it on Christmas or keep spending it on real estate?
Still, the reason most retailers are positive that it will be a good Christmas is that early sales from Black Friday are good, people do want to make up for the disappointment of 2020, people have big savings in the family and our workforce participation rate is good.


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Consumer spending on legal cannabis worldwide reached $10.9 billion in 2018. This number is especially significant considering the variables at play: the California market transition from lightly regulated medical-only to fully regulated adult-use; the maturation of first-in, adult-use markets in Colorado and Washington; and the lackluster rollout of legal adult-use cannabis in Canada. As legalization continues to spread, the global market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24% between the end of 2018 and 2024, reaching $40.6 billion. So yes, the worldwide cannabis market will hit a staggering $40+ billion within 5 years.
The cannabis market, however, is about far more than just the legal cannabis and derivative products sold through the regulated dispensary channel. The compound makeup of cannabis — cannabinoids, like Cannabidiol (CBD) — have broad applicability. What is now referred to as the “Total Cannabinoid Market” (TCM) includes cannabis products sold in the dispensary channel as well as prescription cannabis pharmaceuticals and a multitude of products containing CBD and other non-psychoactive cannabinoids sold through the general retail channel.
In the U.S. alone, BDS Analytics predicts the TCM will reach $44.8 billion in 2024, with the largest percentage of that anticipated spend in regulated cannabis dispensaries across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories.
Another contributing factor of the projected $44.8 billion is the expected sales spike in hemp-derived CBD products across general retail. The market has already seen significant growth since the first of several ongoing hearings and approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding CBD on May 31. The FDA approval of GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex (a naturally derived CBD-based drug treating epilepsy) has further contributed to the rise of CBD sales and overall interest among consumers and non-consumers alike.
Detailed forecasts for the worldwide legal cannabis markets and U.S. TCM are presented in The State of Legal Cannabis Markets, 7th Edition, published June 20, 2019 by Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics. Some other key findings from the publication include*:
- Total legal cannabis spending in regulated dispensaries in the U.S. topped $9.8 billion in 2018 and is projected to grow to $30 billion in 2024, a CAGR of 20%.
- A total of 13 state markets will pass the $1 billion mark in total annual legal cannabis spending by the end of 2024.
- Canadian spending on adult-use cannabis is expected to grow from just under $113 million in the partial year of reported sales in 2018 to $4.8 billion in 2024. Medical cannabis will decline as the market shifts to adult-use access without the requirement of medical registration, sales falling from nearly $457 million in 2018 to just over $381 million in 2024.
- Growth in markets beyond North America is characterized by expanding access both through liberalization of existing medical markets and legalization of medical cannabis in new markets. Global growth in legal cannabis spending is accelerating, forecasted to swell from $517 million in 2018 to $5.4 billion in 2024.
- Money is flowing ever more freely into the cannabis industry. Investment capital raised by cannabis companies quadrupled to $14 billion in 2018, according to Viridian Capital Advisers. The five largest Canadian licensed producers—Canopy Growth, Tilray, Aurora, Cronos and Aphria—closed out the first quarter of 2019 at a combined market capitalization of $48 billion.
*BDS Anaytics’ GreenEdge™ Platform is the source for U.S. legal cannabis retail data
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (AP) — The Treasury Department ruled today that sulphur imported from Mexico was being sold in the United States at less than fair value.
The decision now will be studied by the United States Tariff Commission to determine whether an American industry is being injured by Mexican sulphur imports. If the Tariff Commission upholds the Treasury ruling additional duties will be assessed on Mexican sulphur.
Mexico exported about $14.8 million in sulphur in a 13‐month period ending December 1971, the Treasury said.
Under Federal law, imports cannot be sold in the United States at prices less than in their home countries.Continue reading the main story


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The Frankfurt YouTuber Thomas Panke, the critically with Lego products, and got himself in Trouble with the Danish toy producer. Among other things, for his YouTube channel “Hero of the stones” he used, until Recently, a Logo that contained a symbolized studs-block. Because of this Logos, he received, according to their own information at the beginning of the year, a solicitor’s Letter on behalf of Lego.
In the letter, he had been prompted to delete the icon, what he had done, stated Panke in a YouTube Video, in which he reported on the a lawyer Write. His previous Logo was shown next to the words “Hero of the stones,” a blue block with three studs. Now, the new Logo shows a meerkat with a Cape.
In his channel Panke discusses in 2014, including Lego products, his Videos have been a total of click 35 million Times, almost 180,000 YouTube users have subscribed to the channel. While Pankes Videos usually have 50,000 to 80,000 calls, his Video of the Lego-lawyer writing in the first two days after the publication of more than 600,000 Times, clicked. In social media such as Twitter and Facebook, the incident has brought the toy manufacturer plenty of criticism.
fear of “dilution of the brand,”
Without directly on the “Hero of gems”, the group has published on Facebook an opinion. In the States, we take the protection of trademark rights very seriously, and wants to ensure “that third parties bring any characters for the registration, the could the LEGO brand dilute, as this would be, in our view, in the case of a sign with a Similarity to our brands.”
Lego also stated that the company appreciate the opinion and Feedback of the Fans: “the feedback to our products, we get, for example, in the Form of video posts on YouTube, are valuable for us”. In addition, you said “clear for freedom of expression” and respect “therefore, of course, also critical voices.”
YouTuber Panke expressed disappointment over the action of Lego. He ended, therefore, the direct business relationships. He will continue to sell Lego products, but only those of which he was convinced, said Panke, operates in Frankfurt am Main, a small Shop for so-called terminal block-models as well as Lego making them.


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The team at Sassi PR have a wealth of experience between them in working with an array of different clients including those in the beauty industry and they are all extremely delighted to be working with Nice Nails Baby.
CEO of Sassi PR, Sherece Rainford said: "We are excited to be working with such an amazing salon. This is an exciting time in the company’s life cycle, we’ve got so much news to share!”
Michelle Duberry, founder of NNB decided to appoint Sassi PR and has said “We are so happy to have appointed Sassi PR as our PR agency.”