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It seems unlikely the city will consider anywhere outside of Marwell just yet for retail cannabis sales.
At Monday evening’s council meeting, Melodie Simard, the city’s planning and sustainability manager brought forward a recommendation that council move forward with second and third readings of a zoning change.
That modification would limit the sale of cannabis to the Marwell neighbourhood after it becomes legal late this summer or early fall.
The recommendation comes following a public hearing and other input opportunities on the zoning. That process saw a number of residents raise concerns and opposition to the proposed location.
Critics argued it would inconvenience customers who may have to transfer buses.
They pointed out that Marwell has a lack of roads, parking and pedestrian/cycling infrastructure.
Council was warned there could be issues with noise, security and the like.
They also heard that limiting the pot shop to one area could encourage the illicit drug market, and it would be unfair to prospective retailers hoping to run an outlet downtown.
As Simard highlighted last night though, the territory has jurisdiction over cannabis sales.
The first phase of implementation on cannabis sales in the territory will see the government as the only retailer.
During future phases of implementation, other areas of town may be considered for retail sales, Simard recalled the government as having said recently.
“The proposed bylaw implements the initial phase of legalization, but YG’s framework for cannabis legalization acknowledges the need for additional time to develop regulations for private cannabis retailing,” Simard noted in her report to council.
“Once further details are finalized on the privatization of cannabis retailing, the city will work with the public on identifying suitable areas, including potential downtown locations.”
It was confirmed that Marwell was selected because the government had initially indicated it wanted its cannabis location connected to its liquor warehouse in that neighbourhood.
It has since decided it would rather have separate locations for cannabis sales.
“YG is currently developing the foundation for the legislative and regulatory framework for cannabis legalization,” Simard highlighted in her report to council.
“There are many considerations that need to be addressed and finalized by YG, including regulations for licensing of private retailers.
“Once these details are finalized, the zoning bylaw can be amended to accommodate these changes including proposed new locations.
“In the interim, identifying Marwell as the location for YG operations, fulfills a precautionary approach, while recognizing that the system will adapt as new lessons are learned about the proper management of cannabis in Yukon.”
As Coun. Samson Hartland pointed out during council discussion, while he would like to see private retailers eventually open, the Yukon government has decided it will be solely responsible for sales at this point.
Consequently, the city does not have much of a role to play outside of the zoning change, Hartland pointed out.
“Unfortunately, we’re a creature of territorial legislation,” he said.
Similarly, Coun. Dan Boyd suggested the area around the intersection of the Alaska Highway and Robert Service Way as another option for eventual retail sales of the drug.
He acknowledged at this point though it’s a bit “late in the game to consider” for August or September, now the federal government’s target time frame for legalizing cannabis.
Council is set to vote on the final two readings on the bylaw limiting sales to Marwell next Monday.
The following day is the closing day for the territory’s request for proposals to lease or buy a 415-metre space in the neighbourhood that would serve as the warehouse and retail space for cannabis sales.
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OnlyFans is trying to distance itself from being known as the “paywall of porn” with plans to ban its rudest content.
The platform, which charges customers a subscription to see raunchy content from influencers, models and pornstars, is moving to stop “sexually explicit” content on its platform.
The ban will start on October 1 and is the result of requests from banking partners and companies that handle financial transactions, a spokesperson said.
While many who have made millions from the site will be horrified at the move, the site says nudes will still be OK if “consistent” with the company’s policy.
It’s not clear what that policy is, and the company did not reply to questions. OnlyFans insists it will share more information in “coming days”.
OnlyFans has become famous as a space for celebrities to interact with people on a personal level, as well as a place where sex workers can post and get paid in a relatively safe manner.
It’s not available as an app via the Apple and Google stores, which ban pornography.
OnlyFans has tried to distance itself from its association with porn, recently announcing an OFTV streaming app, which is available for download from the major tech platforms, and features content around categories like fitness, cooking, comedy and music.
OnlyFans says it has 130 million users and two million creators who have collectively earned $US5 billion ($A7 billion).
One of its most popular models earns a whopping $40.3 million a year on the site.
Research from online casino MrQ shows many of the biggest earners are women, with brunette model gem101outed as one of the most popular stars.
She earned an eye-watering before-tax income of $3.4 million a month, which she has earned by charging her 102,800 subscribers just over $40 a month to see her content.
Second on the list was porn star Mila Mondell, who not only lays claim to having “prettiest p***y on Onlyfans”, but also rakes in $25.3 million a year — or $3.4 million a month.
And Brie Nightwood was the third highest earner, netting more than $16 million a year from charging just over $20 a month for her raunchy content.
Those behind the study say some of the incomes may even be much higher, while some of the site’s stars have opted to keep their number of subscribers private, meaning some could be making even more.
Closer to home, Perth-based OnlyFans star Jem Wolfie is believed to have earned millions of dollars on the site, charging $9.99 a month for each of her more than 10,000 subscribers.

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Failing to secure a free trade deal after Brexit will be “disastrous” for Britain’s £28bn processed food and drinks industry and must be avoided at all costs, a committee of MPs has warned.
In a new report they claimed that without access to European Union markets after the end of the transition period, in December 2020, exports of processed foods such as chocolate, cheese, beef, pork and soft drinks would suffer while UK consumers would face higher prices and less choice on the supermarket shelves.
The stark warning comes from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, with MPs also saying that reversion to World Trade Organisation rules after withdrawal from the bloc would have a “seismic impact” on the country’s largest manufacturing sector.
“The sector would undeniably suffer from reverting to WTO tariffs in the event of a ‘no deal’ scenario,” the MPs’ report states.
The committee added British participation in the single market and customs union had led to an “over reliance” on EU markets, which accounted for 60 per cent of the £22bn in processed food and drinks exports in 2017.
They said during their inquiry the committee did not hear any evidence that moving away from the current customs arrangements could be beneficial to UK manufacturers or consumers.
It echoes a similar warning from Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe, who last month said the supermarket would have to increase prices if any barriers to imports were introduced after Brexit.
Rachel Reeves, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said: “The success of the industry has been highly dependent on participating in the single market and customs union.
“To ensure the continued success of our food and drinks industry, the government must provide clarity and certainty on our future relationship with the EU and seek continued regulatory, standards and trading alignment with the EU in the processed food and drink sector.”
The report added that the industry, which employs 400,000 people – a third of them EU nationals – would “undeniably suffer” if Britain left without a trade deal and was forced to fall back on WTO rules.
“The EU’s most favoured nation tariffs under WTO rules would be disastrous for UK exports and must be avoided at all cost,” the committee said.
“A no deal scenario would be unviable and unacceptable to the sector as, at least in the short term, the EU is the UK’s main trading partner. It would also have serious repercussions for importers of UK products in the EU and the rest of the world.”
The committee warned that if the UK tried to lower or remove tariffs on imports after Brexit, the consequences for British farming could be “extremely serious” while the impact on prices in the shops was likely to be “very limited”.
It said that Britain should remain “as close as possible” to EU regulations, warning that UK consumers “would not tolerate any lowering of standards”. It also urged the government to seek a deal on immigration to allow the industry continued access to EU labour – both skilled and unskilled – on which it is heavily reliant.
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Environmental sustainability and net-zero emissions targets are the key change drivers in dairy packaging and processing right now, according to Bengt Eliasson, category manager for dairy ambient at Tetra Pak. In this wide-ranging interview with PackagingInsights, Eliasson discusses the Swedish-Swiss food packaging and processing giant’s latest low-carbon circular packaging and processing equipment technologies.
A panel of industry experts selected Chr. Hansen’s FreshQ concept at this year’s Fi Europe Innovation Awards in Frankfurt, Germany. The Food Tech Innovation Award was presented to the company’s range of next-generation food cultures, which are pegged as a “game-changer in terms of low impact on post-acidification” in fermented dairy.
In a move to scale cage-free egg regulations to market behest, the China Chain Store and Franchise Association (CCFA) and the China Animal Health and Food Safety Alliance (CAFA) have set a formal standard to define which eggs and egg products are to be marketed as cage-free.


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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort paid for real estate, house renovations, expensive clothing, and cars using international wire transfers or foreign shell companies, witnesses told jurors in the second day of Manafort’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia. CNN reports that Manafort’s friend Wayne Holland testified that he helped Manafort make a real estate deal and was told Manafort paid through a company called Lucicle Consultants Limited, which prosecutors claim is a shell company based in Cyprus. Manafort also told a boutique store manager that he would be paying for his custom-made apparel through a company called Leviathan, another alleged shell company. He paid for over $740,000 in men’s clothing, home renovations, and a 2013 Mercedes-Benz through off-shore wire transfers, as well, witnesses testified. At one point, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III insisted that prosecutors not make their case all about Manafort’s expensive lifestyle. “All this document shows is that Mr. Manafort had a lavish lifestyle,” Ellis told a prosecutor at one point. “It isn’t relevant.” Prosecutors said that Rick Gates—who worked with Manafort and is considered a key witness—may or may not testify in the proceedings, as Judge Ellis expressed a desire to “move [the case] along.” This comes as prosecutors have charged Manafort with bank fraud and tax crimes, and as he soon faces money-laundering conspiracy charges in a separate case.
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Norbain SD, Europe's largest distributor of electronic security solutions, has announced its commitment to sponsor the Security Research Initiative, an industry-wide research project that aims to shed new light on industry trends and end user perceptions.
As a 'member' of the Security Research Initiative Norbain will have the opportunity to help shape the research as well as benefit from early access to its findings. Professor Martin Gill of the research consultancy PRCI which is a 'spin out' company from the University of Leicester, the British Security Industry Association, ASIS International and The Security Institute launched the Security Research Initiative in January 2005.
Dermot Grace, Managing Director of Norbain SD, is enthusiastic about the SRI's objectives:
"Most research in the security industry is focused on broad trends within the industry and, in particular, the economic value of the industry and its constituent sectors. The SRI takes a quite different approach with its focus on end user perceptions, the structural nature of the industry and the effectiveness of security equipment and services. Unique research such as this has our wholehearted support, as the results will undoubtedly help pinpoint issues within the industry or opportunities for further growth and development.
Business is all about knowing your market-place and the SRI is dedicated to helping the industry understand this with ever greater clarity."
Professor Martin Gill is delighted to welcome Norbain as a member of the SRI:
"Norbain's commitment to the SRI is a tremendous boost to the project. We hope it will give many other organisations in the industry the confidence to support this initiative which has the potential to help everyone in the security sector refine their focus and improve the quality of their delivery to the end user."
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"We plan to increase our market share in this segment to 10-15 per cent with the launch of the 8 series," Realme Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer (India and Europe) Madhav Seth said on sidelines of launching the new series.
The company unveiled two new models, Realme 8 Pro, first smartphone with 108 megapixel ultra quad camera and Realme 8 with 64 MP AI quad camera.
Realme has launched two variants of Realme 8 Pro priced at Rs 17,999 and Rs 19,999 which will start selling on March 25 at the company's website, e-commerce portal Flipkart and mainline channels.
Three variants of Realme 8, which comes with Mediatek Helio gaming processor, priced in the range of 14,999 and Rs 16,999 will also start selling the same day.
According to market research firm IDC, Realme recorded the highest year-on-year growth of 19 per cent in the smartphone category in 2020 with shipment of 19.2 million phones amounting to 13 per cent market share in India.
Seth said that the company is looking to sell 25-30 million smartphones in 2021.
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Media headlines about Leading Brands (NASDAQ:LBIX) have trended somewhat positive on Thursday, according to Accern Sentiment. Accern rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Leading Brands earned a news sentiment score of 0.21 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave headlines about the company an impact score of 46.1688899058256 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next several days.
Shares of Leading Brands traded down $0.02, reaching $1.19, during midday trading on Thursday, MarketBeat Ratings reports. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 142,885 shares, compared to its average volume of 108,255. Leading Brands has a fifty-two week low of $0.74 and a fifty-two week high of $3.75.
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A supermarket retailer who released its own take on the BLT sandwich ahead of London’s Gay Pride weekend (the LGBLT) was used as an example of how not to market content to consumers during Sunday Morning’s Business of Marketing Content session.
Speaker Tom McDonnell, chief executive of audience interaction platform Monterosa added: “It was a nice sandwich, but it couldn’t have been more insulting – how is a sandwich in any way contributing to equality?”
Authenticity, agreed Joe Media executive creative director James Wilking, plays a crucial part of the content marketing experience, and he added that brands should pair up with appropriate partnerships rather than just cynically exploiting causes to promote goods.
“I know of one fashion brand who insinuated that the riots in the Arab Spring were caused by their midsummer sale! You should only tap into calendar moments if it’s right for the brand.”
However, content marketing – which McDonnell defined as “content that provides something of value to a user in exchange for some kind of indirect commercial business value” is one of the few growth areas in the sluggish advertising market.
The panel agreed that such marketing includes social media campaigns, sponsored articles or experiential marketing stunts. The content usually exists online or has something which has ‘shareable’ online value.
Session’s chair Havas’s Maria Garrido pointed out that consumers increased appetite for this form of advertising was, in part, because over 420m people now have ad blockers on their phones, forcing brands to look towards less traditional forms of advertising.
Although Garrido quoted research that indicated that 90% of consumers want content from their brands, the panel stressed the importance of approaching it in the right way and not expecting too much from users on social media channels.
“We’re dubious of UGC if the audience is not already doing it,” Wilking added.
“A couple of years ago we ran a World Cup campaign for a brand which would have granted the winner access to all the games in the tournament. But it required users to upload clips of their favourite goals so we only received six entries. The barrier to entry was too high.”
While Monterosa’s business relies on audience interaction, McDonnell acknowleged that asking too much of an audience “can create anxiety”.
He added: “You need to pick your moment. We created an AR feature with Unity for the Kids Choice Awards for voters to collect virtual stickers of their favourite kids shows, but only at the point where they had already interacted with the voting process.”
Unity is also expanding into the content marketing space, according to the gaming engine’s head of global advertising sales Agatha Hood, now that more people (around one billion) have AR-enabled devices.
How ROI is measured with content marketing is still a contentious subject with Jamie Bolding, CEO of social first commerce business Jungle Creations, arguing that sales conversions are “not part of the evolution of social”. He added: “The main goal should be whether you have managed to have an impact on culture or on people’s opinions.”


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But privateness advocates are raising problems about the implications of the tech giant — which by now is familiar with what tens of millions of shoppers have purchased and questioned Alexa — having access to patients’ wellness-care information. And some of Amazon’s overall health-care initiatives have stumbled in the past.
Amazon will be equipped to partner its new buy with its other well being-care initiatives, like an on line pharmacy, mentioned Daniel Grosslight, a health-care tech exploration analyst at Citi.
“They obtained an asset right here to supercharge the place they had been by now headed,” he claimed.
In a release announcing the offer, Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Wellbeing Services, mentioned health care is in need of reinvention. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Write-up.)
One particular Professional medical is a membership-dependent most important treatment provider that utilizes a method of planting workplaces near to where by individuals work, and it has billed alone as more of a tech company by allowing for members to use an application to e book appointments and keep track of wellbeing documents. Headquartered in San Francisco, the organization operates 188 workplaces in important metro places together with Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and the District.
It has 767,000 associates, and patients are typically billed an once-a-year subscription fee of $199. But the firm is not rewarding, in accordance to its most current quarterly report.
Amazon’s supply of $18 a share represents a 77 percent premium for 1Everyday living Health care, A person Medical’s father or mother organization.
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Currently, even so, some patients are wary of Amazon’s shift into their doctor’s workplaces.
Megan Broderick, a reserve editor who life in the Bronx, has been a affected individual with A person Professional medical for quite a few many years. Her employer pays for the membership cost and she has been satisfied with the care she has gained, she reported.
But “Amazon is not fantastic at staying a retailer with out significant harmful consequences on modern society,” the 29 12 months-aged stated. “The thought that they are trying to get into the professional medical house is terrifying.” She’s unsure of irrespective of whether she’ll stick all over less than the new ownership.
Other tech giants, which include Google, Microsoft and Apple, have also manufactured forays into wellness care in latest many years, drawn to the industry’s enormous dimensions and relative deficiency of specialized prowess. But the moves have also drawn scrutiny from regulators and privateness advocates, who fret about the growing accessibility to sensitive information the corporations wield.
Which is been heightened in new months, pursuing the Supreme Courtroom selection overturning the landmark abortion legal rights ruling Roe v. Wade, boosting issues about how personalized data could be utilized by point out companies to surveil and punish people seeking reproductive well being providers, including abortions.
In a letter Wednesday, six Dwelling Democrats demanded to know irrespective of whether important cloud computing players Oracle and Amazon World-wide-web Solutions are having actions to “protect the privacy rights of these trying to get to exercising their reproductive legal rights.”
“Data collected and marketed by your firm could be made use of by regulation enforcement and prosecutors in states with aggressive abortion limitations,” the lawmakers wrote, with specific issue about the assortment and use of locale facts.
Since of the deal’s sizing, Amazon will be required to report the merger to each the Federal Trade Fee and Justice Office for antitrust evaluate. Amazon is not a person of the foremost gamers in the wellbeing-care area, so typically the offer would not have captivated antitrust scrutiny. But it declared the offer as FTC Chair Lina Khan has promised to address the at any time-expanding tentacles of Major Tech into several industries.
Khan (D) ascended to the helm of the FTC past yr with large anticipations that she may well go after a lawsuit from the firm, pursuing her groundbreaking academic operate that argued the business violates competitiveness rules. When questioned about Amazon’s increasing expansion into health treatment all through a June job interview, Khan told The Write-up that “our existing solution to contemplating about mergers continue to has a lot more operate to do to entirely understand what it means for these enterprises to enter into all these other markets and industries.”
Amazon, which received its begin in the 1990s as an online reserve retailer, has grown its enterprise around the previous 20-plus many years to encompass a shipping community approximately the measurement of UPS, a dominant cloud company that enables organizations to retailer facts remotely and a wide ecosystem of Alexa-powered products. And it has grown its Primary membership software to a lot more than 200 million globally.
The firm often takes a spaghetti-in opposition to-the-wall tactic to developing its firms — and at times fails.
Amazon in the earlier has turned to acquisitions to quickly increase its reach and abilities, which include with its practically $14 billion buy of Entire Food items in 2017 and much more not long ago its $8 billion bid for motion picture studio MGM. The corporation for several years experienced labored to construct each its grocery business enterprise and studios, and people acquisitions delivered a fast way for Amazon to get a bounce-commence.
The acquisition of A single Medical — which is thought of some thing of a boutique assistance and by now follows a subscription business enterprise model — is most likely to give a equivalent improve to Amazon’s current well being-care enterprises.
“To me, this acquisition currently is as suitable to well being treatment as what the acquisition of Total Foods was to the grocery business,” mentioned Tom Andriola, chief electronic officer for University of California at Irvine.
Acquiring 1 Health care is just the newest move in Amazon’s decades-very long push to break into the health-care market.
Just one of its initially major moves floundered, on the other hand. Regarded as Haven, it was an ambitious hard work by three of America’s most prominent businesses — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — to tackle soaring overall health-care expenses and enhance patient outcomes. But it shuttered very last year after only two several years.
Amazon bought on line pharmacy PillPack for $753 million in 2018, which it eventually turned into Amazon Pharmacy. The company’s cloud computing division, Amazon World-wide-web Products and services, provides particular items for health treatment and a overall health-treatment accelerator for begin-ups. The company has also utilised its Amazon Organization e-commerce offering to target hospitals, in accordance to experiences.
And the firm built Amazon Treatment with the aid of but one more acquisition of smaller sized healthcare tech start off-up, Overall health Navigator. The assistance gives telehealth visits and in-dwelling visits for workers of selected providers like Hilton in some metropolitan areas.
Amazon’s assault on the pharmaceutical field has started
In leaked audio of an all-hands conference in November, Amazon main govt Andy Jassy informed staff that Amazon Care is just one of the company’s leading innovations, highlighting that the division is aiming to increase by partnerships and new services, Insider reported this 12 months.
Citi analyst Grosslight mentioned Amazon could use the A single Professional medical acquisition to even further more integrate its businesses, for example pointing men and women to acquire dietary food items at Whole Food items or getting prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy.
“It’s definitely the entry place for Amazon,” he claimed. “And then it’s about what else can Amazon do with a client.”
Technology in the overall health-treatment field accelerated by about a decade of development throughout the pandemic, mainly by requirement, Forrester investigate director Natalie Schibell stated. If Amazon’s acquire can be used to further establish technological know-how to lessen the stress on companies and improve obtain to care, it could be superior for clients, she mentioned.
But some critics have presently lifted worries about Amazon acquiring as well near to individual health and fitness-care info.
“Amazon’s takeover of Just one Professional medical is the newest shot in a terrifying new phase in the business enterprise model of the world’s largest organizations,” Barry Lynn, the government director of the still left-leaning Open up Markets Institute, said in a statement. “The deal will broaden Amazon’s capacity to collect the most intimate and particular of info about folks, in get to track, focus on, manipulate, and exploit men and women in ever much more intrusive means.”
Amazon mentioned in a statement Thursday that the offer will not modify the reality that 1 Medical has to comply with HIPAA.
“Both 1 Professional medical and Amazon have stringent procedures shielding buyer privateness in accordance with HIPAA and all other applicable privateness legal guidelines and laws,” Amazon spokeswoman Angie Quennell stated in a statement. “Customers’ Secured Wellness Information (PHI) is safeguarded by Amazon’s practices and by legislation, which include HIPAA, and we will keep our target on this as we go on to increase our health care enterprises, which include the acquisition of One particular Health care.”
She declined to comment on no matter if Amazon would combine A person Healthcare companies with any of its own expert services.
Substantial-profile overall health-care undertaking backed by Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway shutters
Schibell pointed out that people today are now much more accountable and concerned than at any time about who has access to their wellness info, particularly as a lot more health and fitness treatment moves into a virtual planet.
“This is really likely to bring about higher seems and scrutiny into medical data, HIPAA regulations and really the implications for individuals when more and a lot more wellbeing care is on the internet,” she mentioned.
Cat Zakrzewski and Christopher Rowland contributed to this report.


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Raley’s launches grocery price comparison program
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. Raleys and Northern California partner stores, Bel Air and Nob Hill Markets, have launched a program called “Your Ticket to Savings,” a program that helps communicate to shoppers how much they save on each visit, Raley’s president and chief executive officer, Bill Coyne told press outlets this week.
Multicolored tags and tickets have been added to Raley’s shelves with a system of color coding the demarcates ad specials (red) bargain buys (green), store brand deals (yellow) and other specially priced items that can help shoppers meet their budgets, the company said.
Furthermore, Raley’s, Bel Air and Nob Hill have added special “Did You Know?” signage that carries the point-by-point price differences between the three brands for better price-point shopping comparisons, the company said.
General Mills sees boost in cereal sales for Q1
CHICAGO General Mills has reported booming first-quarter earnings, with a strong leader in sales of cereal. The company attributed its strong sales to an increase in people eating breakfast at home to save money, and General Mills’ successful cereal marketing strategies.
The maker of Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Trix and Wheaties, has said that increased efforts to market its breakfast cereal brands in the first quarter have paid off. Even though General Mills saw a slight decrease in its overall net earnings, due to drop in worth of some of the company’s commodity positions (down 4 percent to $279 million), not including those commodities, other total net earnings increased by 19 percent. Furthermore, the company reported that sales in the United States were up by 13 percent.
Reports showed that General Mills increased its advertising spending in the first quarter ended Aug. 24 by 17 percent. This increase came in addition to an 11 percent increase at the same time last year.
Celestial Seasonings introduces teas to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
BOULDER, Colo. Celestial Seasonings teas has announced the release of two new specialty green teas in designer boxes to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Cranberry pomegranate and tropical grapefruit green tea varieties are being released in boxes designed by artists Dagmar Fehlau and Heidi Kummli who are both breast cancer survivors, the company said. The new boxes are part of Celestial Seasonings’ ongoing support effort of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Both green tea flavors are available at U.S. grocery stores and natural foods markets. They retail for around $2.99 per 20-count box.


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Above: the historic Barolo castle in the center of Barolo, the village.
According to a report published this week by the Turin edition of the Corriere della Sera, the Union of Communes of the Langa Hills and Barolo has commissioned a study of a potential ban on tourist traffic between the villages of Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, and Monforte d’Alba.
The proposed plan would also provide for an electric shuttle that would ferry wine lovers throughout the appellation. The shuttles could also be employed to take children to school each day.
The author writes that 500,000 people visit the appellation each year. On weekends, the traffic in villages like Barolo, with a total population of 650, has become unsustainable.
“We have already invested in electric bicycle routes,” says Roberto Passone, president of the communes association in the Corriere article. “We don’t want exclude anyone but we want to make our landscape more enjoyable.”
Tourism is what drives the local economy, notes Barolo mayor Renata Franco, “but we also need to consider our residents and our children.”
The proposed plan would also repurpose industrial zones as large parking lots where tourists could leave the cars while visiting.
One top producer, Ernesto Abbona, owner of the historic Marchesi di Barolo estate, has even proposed charging tourists admission to the appellation.
But others feel such a step would be too much.
“We don’t want to become an elitist destination just for the rich,” says Monforte d’Alba Livio Genesio. “There are alternative solutions and we are looking at every one of them so that we won’t have to issue tickets and take reservations.”
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TVS, one of the efficient two wheeler manufacturers, is trying to adapt to the demand supply chain. According to the latest news, TVS is all set to scale up its production facility at Hosur in Tamilnadu to meet the high demand of their two wheeler Wego.
Wego was introduced by the company in November 2009 and since then the scooter is doing good in Indian markets. In recent times, TVS battled huge demand for Wego and thus the company has decided to increases the production capacity at their Hosur plant. Accordingly TVS plans to operate the plant at the maximum possible capacity such that they could capitalize on the demand supply ratios and gain from the increased demand.
TVS Wego is not available in Tamilnadu and some of the eastern regions of the country. TVS motor’s President of Marketing and sales, Mr. H.S Goindi said that Tamilnadu is one of the largest markets for TVS and thus the company will be launching Wego in the state as soon as January or February 2011.
Goindi further said that TVS is trying to meet the demand by utilizing the existing facilities and updating the products. The company expects that after the rise in the plant production capacity, it will be able to satisfy the demand of the consumers not only as regards quantity but also quality. The current capacity of the Hosur plant is 12,000 and the company plans to increase it to 20,000 units.
Goindi also said that the capacity will be increased for their model Wego exclusively. News has it that TVS sells 12,000 to 15,000 units per month (excluding Tamilnadu) and thus the capacity increment could add to the revenue of the company. TVS officials said that the market for scooters is on a rise and TVS doesn’t want to miss the opportunity to capitalize on the scooter market. If we analyze, Yamaha will also jump in to the battle field with their scooter soon and thus TVS may have a competitor in making.


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The Sky Gallery, the new luxury shopping centre under construction in Luanda, is scheduled to start operating in June. It will offer customers goods from prestigious brands that will be on sale in Angola for the first time, Angolan newspaper Expansão reported.
The shopping centre, located near the Escom tower, in Kinaxixi, Luanda, represents an investment of US$50 million, according to its chief executive and shareholder, Rahim Ahamad.
The CEO said that the investment made in design and construction of the project does not include what will be invested in individual shops. This figure is expected to be over US$30 million and Ahamad added that the 40 shops would all be taken by the end of the year.
The luxury brands that will be sold in the shopping centre include Prada, Gucci, Ermenegildo Zegna, Armani and Hugo Boss, which will all have their own stores in Angola for the first time.
The project is owned by Angolan and Portuguese investors, said Ahamad, and will be a “driver of trends in Angola.” (macauhub)


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General Motors’ largest China joint venture will establish a new plant in Indonesia, in the latest example of an automaker in the world’s biggest car market venturing overseas.
SAIC-GM-Wuling, a joint venture between GM, Shanghai-based SAIC Motor and Wuling Motor, confirmed on Monday that it would begin building a new factory this year to manufacture Wuling brand vehicles for Indonesia and other Southeast Asian markets, challenging Japanese carmakers’ grip on the region.
Construction of the new facility near Jakarta is targeted to begin in 2015, subject to relevant government approvals. Vehicles will be sold primarily in Indonesia, with the potential to export to other ASEAN markets in the future. Additional details about the new facility and its products will be announced at a later date.
At the weekend, Indonesia’s minister for industry said that Wuling would invest $700m in an assembly plant with an initial annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles. According to the state Antara news agency, production is expected to begin in 2017.
Wuling declined to confirm the value or scale of the investment, saying only that the facility’s “vehicles will be sold primarily in Indonesia, with the potential to export to other [Southeast Asian] markets”.
With growth slowing in China’s car market, the world’s largest with more than 19m passenger vehicles sold last year, Chinese automakers are eyeing export opportunities and beachheads for overseas manufacturing facilities.
After state-owned Dongfeng Motor paid €800m for a 14 per cent stake in France’s Peugeot last year, the two companies said their strategic partnership would focus on Southeast Asian markets.
Chinese carmakers led by private sector groups such as Geely and Great Wall have traditionally targeted export and assembly operations in developing markets, such as Russia, Ukraine, Iran and Chile.
The more recent push by large state-owned groups such as SAIC Motor and Dongfeng represents a new stage in the evolution of China’s auto industry.
Indonesia is Asia’s third-largest country with a population of 240m. GM and SAIC Motor’s Wuling joint venture already sell minivans in India.
By investing in Indonesia in co-operation with SAIC and Wuling Motor, GM will have a lighter capital expenditure burden as it attempts to gain a foothold in a market dominated by Japanese automakers, which account for more than nine out of every 10 vehicles sold.
But as multinational carmakers such as GM and Peugeot begin to target developing markets via their China joint ventures, they will have to guard against competition with their own brand cars. GM already sells Chevy vehicles in Southeast Asia’s largest market.
Wuling, based in the southwestern province of Guangxi, is GM’s largest China joint venture. It was the first vehicle manufacturer in China to sell 1m vehicles a year — in 2009 — and in 2014 increased sales 13 per cent to almost 1.8m units. GM’s overall China sales reached 3.5m units last year
In addition to Wuling’s ubiquitous minivans, the joint venture manufactures the popular Baojun sedan.
Separately, GM and SAIC operate another 50-50 joint venture based in Shanghai.


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IMAGINE turning 25 and seeing that your bank account had been boosted with a birthday present of £10,000. It’s the stuff of dreams, right? Well, if The Resolution Foundation had its way, this wouldn’t just be every young person’s fantasy - it would actually happen for real. The independent think tank says all 25 year-olds, no matter how rich or poor, should receive a lovely little £10k nest egg from the government to help with tuition fees, buying a home or caring costs. Supposedly, this would balance out inter-generational unfairness to help young people, already priced out of the housing market and struggling with insecure jobs, to stand on their own financial feet. But, if this were to happen in reality, would anyone really look after the handout in a sensible way and invest it wisely in their future? Or would they head to the nearest travel agent and splurge it on a one-way trip to Bali? We take a closer look at the bank accounts and spending habits of … [Read more...] about Can you guess who has £10,000 and who has £24? What’s really inside these 25-year-olds’ bank accounts
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Clean renewable energy is a growing success story. A recent report on the electric power industry from the federal Energy Information Administration showed that non-hydro renewable energy grew 13.4 percent year-over-year in 2017. Of that, solar power grew at an impressive 46.9 percent. While clean energy was growing, fossil fuels were in a slump with coal generation down -2.5 percent and natural gas generation dropping -7.7 percent.
This trend shouldn’t be surprising. A recent study shows the cost of generating solar electricity from large solar farms dropped 11 percent last year, and the cost of rooftop solar dropped 26 percent. For those of us in Pennsylvania who want to install a solar system, the drop in prices is good news. At least, it is good news if you are lucky enough to live in a location where you can buy or lease a solar system for your rooftop.
Unfortunately, this still isn’t an option for many Pennsylvanians. The cost of solar systems is certainly a factor, but many families lack a good location for solar power. Families who rent or live in multi-family units face particular challenges, but even those who own their own single-family homes need property that isn’t in the shade, that has suitable wiring, and a roof that is both big enough and strong enough for the installation. As a result, maybe 50 percent or more of Pennsylvania families lack meaningful access to solar generation during the present time. Some states have “community solar” laws that allow customers to buy a share of a solar system and have the generation deducted from their bill, just like they would if the panels were on their roof. Unfortunately, the legislation in Pennsylvania hasn’t progressed that far and most families also lack this as a viable option.
It’s not surprising that Pennsylvania consumers may feel trapped into buying energy from dirty fossil fuel companies. But, there is still an option for many of us: Pennsylvania is one of the 17 states and the District of Columbia that has a retail electric choice program.
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A fresh approach to a local delicacy dish has resulted in rising living standards for residents of a remote Miao village. Cao Yin and Feng Zhiwei report from Jinsha in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, Hunan province.
Series shows how village found its way out of privation using traditional Hunan cured meat.
Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of special reports China Daily will publish in the coming weeks focusing on efforts to eradicate poverty and raise living standards in the rural areas, especially among members of ethnic groups.
As a child, Liao Yanfei’s greatest pleasure was eating meat once a month. Now, as the owner of a successful cured-meat factory, the 34-year-old is no longer as keen.
“When I was a kid, I loved eating meat, but my family was unable to afford it very often. My life improved greatly after I set up my business, but the desire to eat meat has waned because I package and sell meat products every day,” he said.
In addition to his business interests, Liao, a member of the Miao ethnic group, is head of Jinsha village, Fenghuang county, in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, Hunan province, Central China.
His father died when Liao was 4, so he lived with his mother and elder brother. Without their main breadwinner, they were the poorest people in the village, living in a shabby stone house on virtually no income.
“My mom once picked up a piece of meat in the street. She came home, cooked it and called us to eat. I was so excited to see the meat, but when I took some she suddenly changed her mind and stopped me eating it. She said it might have been rotting and had been thrown into the road to poison stray dogs,” Liao recalled, adding that the experience left a deep impression on him.
The family’s impoverished status meant that his schooldays were not happy.
“I was afraid to talk with the other kids because I lacked confidence,” he said. “But I was eager to do everything well, so I made the decision to become the outstanding person in my village.”
In 1999, Liao dropped out of school, and a year later he traveled to South China's Guangdong province in search of work. At first, he worked in the electronics processing industry, but later became a waiter.
He wasn’t the only villager to head to the city in an attempt to break out of the poverty trap — even in 2014, Jinsha was home to 84 households that earned less than 2,800 yuan ($400) a year, which meant they were officially designated as poverty stricken.
Despite his new, higher income, Liao still wasn’t satisfied. “I was earning 3,000 yuan a month, but that didn’t signal any real improvement in my life, plus my mother was elderly and I had to leave her on her own,” he said. “So, after working ‘on the outside’ for about six years, I decided to return home and start my own business.”
The move not only improved Liao’s life, but also those of many other villagers.
Although he was determined to start his own business, Liao didn’t know what he wanted to do until he realized that every family in Jinsha produced cured meat, a dish traditionally eaten by Miao people during the last month of the lunar calendar.
The curing process is dis- tinct — the meat is salted and then slowly baked to reduce moisture.
Liao decided to make the dish, but with a twist. “I wanted to produce it as a kind of packaged snack,” he said. “The idea hit me when I sold packaged betel nuts in a store in the county. I found that packaged food was convenient because I could eat it anytime, anyplace. So I thought, ‘Why don’t I present our cured meat in the same way?’ I always wanted my own business, and that was the best opportunity.”
Starting the business proved problematic, though: “I didn’t know how to obtain an operating license and was unaware of the State hygiene and sanitary standards.”
Lacking business experience and capital, Liao and his wife, Wang Yinhua, were lucky to meet Tian Yunguang, thendirector of the county’s quality supervision bureau, who encouraged the young couple to concentrate on their business and escape the poverty trap.
“Tian helped me a lot by explaining how things worked and the government policies that applied to the food business,” Liao said. “With his help, I got a business license and ensured that hygiene was a top priority.”
One day, while selling their home-cured meat in Fenghuang, a tourism hot spot, a visiting businessman expressed an interest in the product.
“Luckily, he was willing to loan us 100,000 yuan to expand our business,” Liao said. That loan, plus some savings donated by Wang’s family, saw the couple officially open their factory in 2010.
A better Life
“Producing cured meat in packets was an experiment, and I never thought it would be as successful as it has been. Now, my factory can brings us about 8 million yuan a year,” Liao said
A sales assistant at a food store in the county confirmed the soaring sales. “In the past two years, packaged meat snacks have become very popular. Almost every day, the tourists come to us to buy two or three packets each,” she said.
Even better, Liao’s factory also provides work for more than 30 villagers, helping them to climb out of poverty too.
Liu Xiaodong, an official at the civil affairs department in Fenghuang, praised Liao’s initiative, saying people should not rely solely on government subsidies to improve their circumstances: “Instead, real poverty alleviation is finding a way to become richer and free our minds from poverty.”
A guide to wealth
As a result of the factory’s growing revenue and importance, Liao was elected head of Jinsha village. “We wanted him to show us how to become rich,” said villager Liu Menkao, whose son works at the factory.
“Liao has a good business brain. He is young and finds it easy to learn new things. The economic burden on my family has been alleviated now my son earns about 2,000 yuan a month in Liao’s factory.”
Ma Xiaoying, 46, has worked at the factory since 2013. “In the past, our income depended on whether our land was fruitful. We were at the mercy of nature, but now we rely on our own labor,” she said.
“I can earn more than 1,000 yuan every month. Added to my husband’s income from building houses, we can feed our two children and pay for their education, while the short distance between the factory and my home is convenient because it allows me to look after my 80-year-old mother.”
Liu said Liao’s efforts have benefitted every resident of Jinsha. Last year, 20 households were lifted out of poverty, and by June, the entire village was living above the national poverty line.
One of eight counties in the prefecture, Fenghuang had a population of about 420,000 in 2012. Last year, just 23 percent of the population was still classified as officially poor, he added.
“Under a series of povertyrelief policies and thanks to Liao’s factory a further 10 percent of the population has escaped the poverty trap,” Liu said. He estimated that the prefecture will achieve the government’s goal of eradicating poverty by 2020 by the end of next year.
Liao is keen to see his fellow villagers succeed on their own terms. “One man’s poverty alleviation doesn’t equate to real poverty relief — our lives will only be turned around for the better if all of us become rich,” he said.
A night view of Fenghuang, a tourist hot spot in Hunan province that is dominated by the culture of the Miao ethnic group.
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Left: Liao Yanfei stands on a street, where he and his fellow villagers sell their products. Right: Liao fries cured meat in the factory he owns in Jinsha village.


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For creators who were more active on TikTok, getting the same number of followers on Reels won’t be easy. The ban has caused an estimated dent of ₹120 crores for the top 100 influencers, according to findings of Indian Institute of Human Brands
Gaurav Jain, a TikTok influencer with over 1 million followers, hasn’t been getting the same traction for his educational short videos on any of the Indian social media apps that have shot into limelight after the ban on 59 Chinese apps.
“TikTok had a section called edu talk where creators published educational content in an entertaining way. I was creating content on mental health. Many creators were teaching English, life hacks, and skincare. Views on new platforms aren’t the same,” said Jain.
Geet, another TikTok influencer with 11 million followers, has now started using Instagram Reels but misses the exposure that TikTok provided. Geet is a social worker who works with youth and at-risk teens in India and creates motivational and educational content. “TikTok was an extension of the work I was doing. It allowed me to connect to teens on a larger scale. The underprivileged kids I worked with, they were using TikTok more than any other platform,” she adds.
For creators who were more active on TikTok, getting the same number of followers on Reels won’t be easy. Even the top influencers like Riyaz Aly who had 42.3 million followers on TikTok had 8.4 million followers on Instagram.
Geet explains that on a lot of other social media platforms aesthetics is very important. On TikTok that didn’t matter. The community was more accepting and supportive compared to other platforms. Even if you didn’t look like a typical influencer, you could be successful.
After the TikTok ban, other social media networks in the space have been trying to attract influencers to their platform with lucrative deals. Homegrown platform Chingari has announced a talent hunt show which can help top content creators earn up to ₹1 crore from a prize pool of ₹2.8 crores.
US-based short-form video platform Firework has started a creator challenge offering contracts worth ₹5 crores and 25 lakh in cash. Firework also shares 33% of its stream share with its creator community.
Instagram is reportedly in talks with some influencers too.
However, Jain feels that the money-making potential on other platforms is less considering the reach and brand deals. Brands are also in the ‘wait and watch’ mode so that they can also figure out their strategies to fully utilize their marketing budgets.
“Brands will not be looking at Reels the way they are looking at TikTok, as the brand story won’t come out in 15 seconds. TikTok had a humongous reach that still hasn’t been matched by any other platform be it Reels, Roposo, or Chingari,” said Sanjay Vasudev, founder & CEO, BuzzOne Influencer Marketing.
As far as revenue is concerned, the ban has caused an estimated dent of ₹120 crores for the top 100 influencers, according to findings of the Indian Institute of Human Brands (IIHB). Influencers with 1 million followers could easily make up to ₹35,000 per month and with twice the following up to ₹50,000. Some of the top influencers like Riyaz Aly was making ₹5-6 crore in annual earnings from TikTok and was expected to make ₹8-9 crore in 2020, according to IIHB.
“It will take a long time before any of the new platforms would be able to allow influencers to make the same kind of money. Even in the case of TikTok influencers making money is a phenomenon that started only a year and a half ago and the platform is five years old. Going to Roposo or Reels won’t get them the same viewership or money for the next 9 months to 2 years,” adds Vasudev.


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Bangladesh came to the world’s attention in 1971 when, after a bloody, atrocity-filled nine-month civil war, the country of East Pakistan seceded from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and established itself as a sovereign nation. At the end, there were 10 million refugees and a displacement of 30 million.
Westerners first took notice when George Harrison organized the Concert for Bangladesh at New York’s Madison Square Garden in August 1971. Followed by a live album, a boxed three-record set and concert documentary, the effort eventually raised $12 million in relief.
Harrison also wrote and performed the song “Bangladesh,” with the opening lyrics: “My friend came to me with sadness in his eyes/He told me that he wanted help before his country dies.”
Bangladesh still is a troubled country and Westerners absolutely know what it is, following a number of fires and the April 24th eight-story Rana Plaza complex collapse that killed more than 1,120 people (it housed at least five garment factories). For those clothing manufacturers who chose to outsource, the risk was apparent—those cheap clothes come at a high price.
Risk management is too often reaction rather than action—and that’s dangerous. We can talk all day about supply chain risk and often do, but what I’m talking here about are human beings. I’m talking here about Bangladesh but the lessons can be applied to any low-cost manufacturing country.
Bangladesh has about 5,000 garment factories that employ more than 4.5 million people—80 percent of them women. Many come from rural villages and have little education. They work for about $37 a month. Think about that when you’re staring at your closet tomorrow morning, wondering what to wear.
Action, not reaction
Once again, disaster struck and what should have been preemptive became response. On May 13th, less than three weeks after the Rana Plaza disaster, several of the world’s largest apparel companies agreed to a plan to help pay for fire safety and building improvements. At the same time, the Bangladeshi government pledged to raise wages for garment workers and change labor laws to make it easier to form trade unions.
Both of those moves are 180-degree shifts. Manufacturers often said the issues weren’t their problem but those of the factory owners. And the government had shown little interest in protecting worker rights.
Among those signing the agreement were Swedish retailer H&M, the largest purchaser of Bangladeshi-made garments, as well as Dutch retailer C&A, Spanish giant Inditex and British firms Primark and Tesco. In the U.S.?—Only PVH, the parent company of Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Izod signed on (as I write this in mid-May). It also promised $2.5 million to underwrite factory safety improvements as part of the plan. Admirable, but late.
What about the Gap? Walmart? The Gap did not sign because it objected to the agreement being legally binding. Really Gap? Way to accept responsibility. The company also said it hired a fire inspector and pledged $22 million in loans for factory improvements. Loans? How noble.
And how many lives would that $22 million have saved with action instead of reaction?


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Can the lithium-ion battery save the auto industry?
Honda unveils its first car with a lithium-ion battery pack, other manufacturers follow suit.
Gas prices and consumer reaction have increasingly driven automobile producers to change their philosophy. It has taken a while just to change the mindset of these companies. However, with the recent start of production of Honda’s FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle, plants are getting their first taste of manufacturing true alternative-energy vehicles.
Although the vehicle is being produced only in Japan, if the technology becomes popular it will not take long for American automotive companies to seize the opportunity. The first of the Honda vehicles in the United States are to be leased out to Hollywood, Calif., celebrities. Hitachi has announced that it has received an order from GM for more than 100,000 of lithium-ion batteries which are supposed to be installed in GM vehicles starting in 2010.
If the consumer demand for these vehicles increases there could be a potential for some of the jobs that have been lost to be regained back by the automotive industry.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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European Union regulators have cleared the buyout of the WhatsApp mobile messaging service by Facebook, despite opposition by telecom companies afraid of the growing power of US technology giants.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said Facebook and WhatsApp were "not close competitors" and that consumers would continue to have a "wide array of choices".
The commission explained its approval of the $19bn deal in a statement.
"We have carefully reviewed this proposed acquisition and come to the conclusion that it would not hamper competition in this dynamic and growing market," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.
Facebook, the world's biggest social network, announced the buyout of the WhatsApp messenger service, used by 600 million people, in February and US authorities approved the deal in April.
The European Commission only automatically reviews deals where each company involved has sales of over €100m across at least three EU states, which was not the case for this deal.
But the powerful European telecom lobby had argued that Facebook and Whatsapp together would have access to an unfair stock of user data and gain an unfair competition advantage in the crucial data and consumer habit market used by advertisers.
But the commission turned down this argument concluding that, regardless of whether Facebook would start collecting WhatsApp user data, "the transaction would not raise competition concerns".
After the merger, "a large amount of internet user data that are valuable for advertising purposes are not within Facebook's exclusive control," the commission said.
The decision comes as Google faces intense scrutiny from the commission over accusations of unfair advantages the search engine gives its own services in search results.


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Indigenous landowners have found a new way to make a living out of bush tucker. Gubinge (Gabiny) is a West Kimberley name for a tree more broadly known as the Kakadu Plum. And the small green fruit has been an important bush food for northern Australian Indigenous people for millenia.
With more than 100-times the vitamin C of levels of an orange, the Gubinge, (Gabiny) has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world.
For many years Gubinge (Gabiny) extract has been used as a health food supplement, especially on the North American market. But a new cooperative of Indigenous landholders has formed to try to develop the industry further.
Indigenous Harvest Australia is made up of seven extended Kimberley families who want to make a living while carrying out their traditional harvest. Pat Torres from Mayi Harvests is the chairwoman and has been picking Gubinge (Gabiny) for as long as she can remember.
Pat describes how all the kids would pile into the car and drive out to the nearest Gubinge (Gabiny) trees. She says the fruit would be eaten straight off the tree until their bellies were full to bursting. Then, whatever else could be picked would be taken home to be stewed up and eaten with custard.
The new cooperative hopes to keep the cultural and community importance of Gubinge (Gabiny) alive while developing an industry that can provide an income to local families. A contract to supply the little fruit for a gourmet food manufacturer will see West Kimberley Gubinge (Gabiny) in products like sweet chilli sauce on supermarket shelves throughout Australia.
Ben Collins joined Pat, Valerie and Marion in the shade of a Gubinge (Gabiny) tree to try juice and jam. The juice is like a cross between pear and apple with an incredible Gubinge (Gabiny) zing of vitamin C. It's the perfect refreshment for a hot Kimberley day.


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Rabobank’s Rural Confidence Survey shows the global economy continues to create headwinds for farmers.
The latest quarterly Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey has shown that while New Zealand farmers remain more optimistic about the performance of their own farm businesses relative to the wider agricultural economy, both confidence indicators fell this quarter. Both indicators are now in negative territory, showing that more New Zealand farmers expect conditions to worsen, rather than improve. . .
Rabobank New Zealand CEO Ben Russell said the further fall in confidence reflects the uncertain global economic environment that New Zealand farmers are operating in, which has placed downward pressure on commodity prices.
“For many, coming out of a season where the planets aligned in terms of climatic conditions and commodity prices, many are pragmatic in their outlook that these conditions are unlikely to be repeated. Farmers have also seen commodity prices come back off their more recent highs, while the New Zealand dollar has remained very strong,” he said.
After a couple of years of high prices there’s no surprise in predictions of softening prices, particularly when the global economy is still depressed.
New Zealand and Australia are generally doing better than our traditional trading partners and we can be grateful for the efforts put into opening trade opportunities in Asia. Growing demand there will off-set some of the fall in demand from Europe and the USA.
Farmers are expecting lower prices this season but the longer term outlook is still good. The growth in the world population and growing demand for protein from developing markets should both ensure good markets for our produce.


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SEOUL - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc , the world's No.2 TV maker, reported its lowest quarterly profit for 2013 on Thursday as its mobile business slipped into the red due to the cost of marketing its latest smartphone.
LG tried to strike a blow against mobile industry leaders Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc in August with the lavish launch in New York of its G2 handset, and plans to follow up with a curved phone in the coming weeks.
But earnings may remain under pressure for the remainder of the year thanks to slow TV shipments, even though the G2 phone will contribute more to the company's bottom line in the October-to-December period after a full quarter of sales.
Third-quarter operating profit rose 27% to 218 billion won ($214 million), below a consensus forecast of 306 billion won by Thomson Reuters. The July-to-September earnings compared with 171 billion won a year ago and 479 billion won in the second quarter.
The world's third biggest smartphone manufacturer said its handset operation made an 80 billion won loss, versus a 4 billion won loss a year ago and a 61 billion won profit in the second quarter.
In the television business, LG said profits improved to 124 billion won compared with 29 billion won a year ago. Margins stood at 2.5%, their highest since the second quarter of last year.
The profit growth was attributed to tight marketing expenditure, which helped iron out a fall in revenues from a year ago largely due to the weak Chinese market.
Global television manufacturers are battling slumping demand growth in China as well as in developed markets where households have replaced cathode ray tube TVs with flat-screen models.
They are betting bigger-ticket products such as ultra high-definition (UHD) models and organic light emitting diode (OLED) lineups help counter slowing TV shipments, even if high production costs price them beyond reach for many consumers.
LG has slashed the price of its 55-inch UHD a couple of times this year. Even so they still sell for some 5 million won ($4,900), around double the price of standard LCD TVs.
Shares in LG have fallen nearly 4% over the past three months, lagging the wider market's 7% gain.
They were trading down 0.4% after the result in a flat market.
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CPP (Canada Pension Plan) Investments Board has invested $205 million as an anchor investor in a new real estate fund of India’s leading investor, developer, and operator of grade A industrial real estate, Indospace. With earlier investments, this will bring the combined assets of the CPP investments and Indospace cooperation to above $1 billion. It marks the 1st close for ILP IV (Indospace Logistics Park IV) the company’s fourth development vehicle, which aims to raise $600 million of total equity commitments.
Over the past years, CPP investments have made numerous investments in India’s industrial space, where they see strong demand as the manufacturing sector continues to grow and the e-commerce sector matures. According to Hari Krishna V, MD, Head of Real Estate India, CPP Investments, the company is happy to be working with its persistent partner Indospace to further capitalize on opportunities in this space and believes this investment will deliver strong risk-adjusted returns for Canada Pension Plan contributors and beneficiaries.
CPP investments have made numerous investments in India’s industrial space
This is Indospace and CPP investment’s latest business venture. Their 1st joint venture, Indospace Core, was launched in 2017 and now acquired the largest portfolio of stabilized modern logistics assets in India. CPP investments have also invested in ILP III (Indospace Logistics Park III). The CEO and MD of Indospace Capital Asia said ILP IV will enable Indospace to continue to expand its distinctive national network so it can better serve its customers. Logistics infrastructure and Industrial is an important enabler of economic growth. He added Indospace is excited to extend its partnership with CPP investments. CPP investments’ commitment to Indospace Logistics Park IV is a testament to Indospace’s leadership in the industrial and logistics real estate space in India.
Indospace Logistics Park IV will increase its portfolio by 25-30 million sq ft, furthering its leading position in the Indian market. Indospace Logistics Park IV will focus on the country’s largest logistics real estate markets including Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, and Chennai. The establishment of Indospace Logistics Park IV follows from the first 3 development funds, which hold a total of 56 million sq ft of modern logistics real estate in India.
Due to increasing consumer demand and accelerated industry investment, industrial and warehousing have become a high-growth asset sector in real estate. The government’s newly announced NLP (National Logistics Policy), is expected to give a further boost sector’s investment. Due to the aggressive rise of e-commerce and the expansion of 3PL (3rd party logistics) businesses, the warehousing industry is expected to record the highest-ever absorption of space this year.
Against this backdrop, numerous estimates show that around $13 billion funds are required for the development of new warehousing capacity in India over the next ten years. Given the market opportunity, a strong warehousing and logistics infrastructure that meets global standards can benefit to attract investment in the country and facilitate greater trade in the region, driving competitiveness.
Indospace Logistics Park IV will increase its portfolio by 25-30 million sq ft, furthering its leading position in the Indian market
The CPP investment board is a reputed investment management company, which manages the fund of nearly 21 million contributors and beneficiaries of the Canada Pension Plan. To create a diversified portfolio of assets, it invests globally in real estate, private equity, public equity, fixed income, and infrastructure.
Indospace is a Joint venture between Everstone Group, a Southeast Asia and an India – focused private equity and real estate investor, GLP and Realterm, a worldwide industrial real estate group with headquarters in the United States. It has the largest national network of fifty logistics parks with 56 million square feet and is under development across Ten important cities.


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