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Ecosystem of enterprise culinary partners delivers unmatched variety at scale
San Francisco — March 25, 2019 — Zerocater, a leading provider of office catering and snacks, is thrilled to announce its expansion into enterprise catering. Zerocater’s enterprise catering solution connects enterprise-level caterers with the Zerocater Platform to redefine the meal experience for companies with 500 or more employees. With its ecosystem of enterprise culinary partners, white-glove onsite service and food concierge team, Zerocater is able to provide unmatched cuisine and menu variety while consistently executing a seamless delivery and on-site experience at scale.
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Since 2009 Zerocater has fed some of the world’s fastest-growing companies. As these companies grew in size and scale, Zerocater followed suit with the launch of Zerocater Snacks & Kitchens in 2017, Zerocater Pours in 2018 and now Zerocater Enterprise Catering in 2019. With its formal expansion into enterprise catering, Zerocater has built a suite of products for enterprise customers that offers a single-source solution for all their corporate food needs.
“Our goal is to be the single provider for every calorie consumed in an enterprise company’s kitchen,” said Ali Sabeti, CEO of Zerocater. “We’ve spent the last two years listening to the needs of our largest customers, and with our new enterprise catering solution we are able to deliver the unlimited cuisine and meal variety of our core product but at the scale and consistency large headcount companies demand.”
Operating out of industrial-sized kitchens, our Enterprise Culinary Partners prepare all meals according to the highest industry standards of commercial food safety to ensure compliance throughout the supply chain. Meals are weighed to ensure portioning accuracy and then delivered through a temperature-controlled and fully managed delivery fleet. The Enterprise Catering solution also includes a fully managed on-site restaurant experience customized to a company’s office layout, headcount, and culture. Zerocater’s team of dedicated onsite staff is responsible for all aspects of the meal service including presentation, equipment, replenishment, cleanup, and food donation.
With enterprise companies spending millions annually on their corporate food programs, Zerocater has a dedicated food concierge team working to ensure each employee has a flawless experience. Every customer receives a dedicated customer success manager who is responsible for the entire food program including office catering, snacks, and one-off special events. The food concierge team uses proprietary technology to analyze a company’s food program, identify trends and make recommendations for optimization based on each company’s unique tastes and preferences.
In a $130+ billion-dollar industry, Zerocater is redefining corporate food programs for enterprise companies with a single solution that promises unmatched variety and consistency. Zerocater Enterprise Catering is now available in New York and the Bay Area. To learn more, please visit zerocater.com or call (844) 229-9376.
With a mission to help companies build a better culture through food, Zerocater is on a path to becoming the No. 1 food company serving the workplace. Founded in 2009, Zerocater has become a leading provider of office catering and snacks, serving companies including Cisco Systems, Fandango and Salesforce. Technology, people and an ecosystem of culinary partners allows Zerocater to provide the food that employees love. Zerocater’s office catering and snack products serve the Bay Area, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Austin and Los Angeles. For more information, please visit Zerocater.com. Follow @Zerocater on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.


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The latest news and events from Durham Furniture.
in business, Durham Corporate News, furniture, News | Feb. 7, 2017, 1:40 p.m.
DURHAM, Canada – Solid wood case goods manufacturer Durham Furniture has renewed its licensing agreement with the George Washington Mount Vernon estate for another four years and plans to launch a new group within the collection in 2018.
The 12-year licensing partnership currently offers three bedroom and occasional groups that include Architect, Distillery and Rustic Civility. These collections are made with solid maple and offered in custom and casual distressed finishes that give the collections a slightly timeworn appearance that reflects the history of the Fairfax County, Va., estate.
in Durham Corporate News | Dec. 21, 2016, 11:33 a.m.
Durham Furniture 25 Year Club
Durham 25 Year Club members include (some missing from photograph): Gary Ransome, 50 years; Allan Trafford, 45 years; Stephen Morris, 44 years; Karen Hargrave, 44 years; Wayne Rawn, 44 years; Bruce Witherow, 43 years; Walter Dundys, 42 years; Danny Campbell, 41 years; Janet Grierson, 40 years; Debbie McGillivray, 40 years; David Smith, 38 years; Julie Fennell, 38 years; Bradley Hopkins, 37 years; Jim Nixon, 37 years; Allan Vaughan, 37 years; Ruth Ann Bartman, 36 years; Clifford Hastie, 36 years; Murray Grein, 36 years; Jeff Love, 35 years; Brenda Brown, 35 years; Marilyn Campbell, 35 years; Paul ...
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This issue features articles about Durham Furniture product details and a story about the Mount Vernon You Never Knew.
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Durham Furniture recently announced that it has relaunched its website, durhamfurniture.com, with new features, improved capabilities and maximized performance to provide customers easy access to product information. It is the first step in a new strategic plan being implemented by the new management team.
“Our website is now fully optimized for all the devices our customers are using today to access our site, which offers them increased convenience,” says Luke Simpson, Durham President and CEO. “Users can search for furniture by dimension, fabric and finish, in order to narrow the list of potential pieces that suit their ...
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DURHAM, ONTARIO, Jan. 19, 2016 – Durham Furniture, a leading North American solid wood furniture manufacturer, announced today the addition of Josh Alexander to the company's executive team. Josh joins Durham as Vice President of Sales and will focus on all aspects of Durham's North American sales and distribution.
"Josh has had a very successful career in sales, and we are pleased to welcome him to the Durham family," says Luke Simpson, Durham president and CEO. "His expertise in sales and logistics will be key in moving our company forward."
Alexander joins Durham with more ...
- Durham Furniture launches new Solid Accents Catalog
- Durham Furniture showcases styles of their collections in new Video
- Durham Furniture Shows Support for Players, Communities Impacted by Recent Hockey Team Bus Crash
- DURHAM FURNITURE ADDRESSES CASUAL LIFESTYLES WITH ‘ESCARPMENT’ COLLECTION SET TO DEBUT AT APRIL HIGH POINT MARKET
- Durham Furniture makes debut appearance at IMM Cologne
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MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SENSA® Products, LLC announced a settlement in connection with a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent order on the use of certain advertising claims for the SENSA® Weight-Loss System (SENSA®). The settlement involves no admission of wrongful conduct by the company and does not challenge the product's safety.
SENSA® is sprinkled onto foods and designed to help users learn portion control without restricting food choices or feeling deprived. The system empowers people to change their eating behavior over time, while learning healthy lifestyle habits through its community at mysensa.com.
SENSA® is building on over 25 years of research by working with leading experts in the weight loss field to comply with FTC consent order requirements. The company has invested millions of dollars in clinical research. With over 3 million customers, SENSA® helps users engage in proper portion control.
The FTC consent order is focused solely on SENSA®'s advertising claims. SENSA® is incorporating changes to its advertising to comply with the FTC's consent order and continues to support the brand with new advertising and marketing materials.
"We stand behind SENSA® – a leading lifestyle tool that helps customers change their eating habits without traditional dieting, stimulants or pills," said Kristin Chadwick, CEO of SENSA® Products, LLC. "We continue to receive positive feedback from our customers and remain committed to developing products that help our number one priority – our customers – live healthier, happier lives."
The product remains available at sensa.com and select retail stores nationwide.
The SENSA® Weight-Loss System is a leading lifestyle brand that offers a simple way for users to engage in proper portion control. For more information, visit MySensa.com or to order SENSA® visit Sensa.com.
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The Kudelski Group has said that its OpenTV, Inc. and Nagra France SAS subsidiaries have filed a patent infringement suit against Verizon Communications and its subsidiary AOL Inc. in the […]
AOL agrees to acquire Adap.tv
AOL entered an agreement to acquire Israeli online video advertising platform Adap.tv for $405 Million .
84.9% of US internet users watch web video
182 million US internet users watched 38.7 billion online content videos in December, while video ad views totaled 11.3 billion,according to the comScore Video Metrix.
Vevo remains best watched YouTube channel
182 million US Internet users watched nearly 40 billion online content videos in November, while video ad views reached 10.5 billion, according to Comscore’s Video Metrix.
AOL’s video library comes to YouTube
AOL will distribute its entire original video content library across 22 curated channels on YouTube.
Endemol to produce web TV series for AOL
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By Jan Shepel
When a group of students descended on one Montello business last week it was something like “Top Chef” meets “The Apprentice.”
There were business plans and presentations; there were meals and snacks prepared with locally produced fresh ingredients. There was even a ukulele-accompanied business jingle.
It was all part of a class that teaches college students (and interested older non-traditional students) about the business of aquaponics – growing fish and using their nutrient-rich water to grow vegetables, herbs and other marketable plants.
The course is the brainchild of Rebecca Nelson and John Pade of Nelson and Pade, Inc., a world-leader in aquaponics and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point biology teacher Chris Hartleb.


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28 February 2020
Visiongain has launched a new pharma report Global Bioprocess Optimisation & Digital Biomanufacturing Market Forecast.
The Global market for bioprocess optimisation and digital biomanufacturing is favoured by the increasing global population which by 2050 will be predominately 65 years and above. There is also a growing demand for biologics drugs and biosimilar drugs which has compelled manufacturers to introduce technologies that would help bring the drugs to the market at a far more rapid pace than before.
The lead analyst of the report commented "The Bioprocess Optimization and Digital Manufacturing market is expected to witness a robust growth during the years of forecast owing to rise in biosimilars, growing complexity of drug manufacturing and patent expiry of blockbuster drugs coupled with rising cost containment pressure on biopharmaceutical players which is also expected to improve the uptake of digitally advanced products for manufacturing. With respect to the technology market, the analytical and process control technologies are expected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period. The bioreactors market is expected to foresee the highest growth during the forecast period."
Leading companies featured in the report include ABB, 3M Co., Danaher Corporation, Agilent Technologies, Applikon Technology, Sartorius Stedium Biotech, Shimadzu Corp., Siemens Healthcare and many others.
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Visiongain is one of the fastest growing and most innovative independent media companies in Europe. Based in London, UK, Visiongain produces a host of business-to-business reports focusing on the automotive, aviation, chemicals, cyber, defence, energy, food & drink, materials, packaging, pharmaceutical and utilities sectors.
Visiongain publishes reports produced by analysts who are qualified experts in their field. Visiongain has firmly established itself as the first port of call for the business professional who needs independent, high-quality, original material to rely and depend on.
Major investments have been made by companies in the cancer diagnostics industry in the past few years to develop novel tests to capitalize on the opportunities in the untapped market.
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The food for special medical purpose (FSMP) market growth can be attributed to the growing prevalence of metabolic diseases, growing consumer unhealthy lifestyle, and surge in demand from emerging economies such as Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America, and others.
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Growing incidence of chronic diseases; increasing R&D investment for drug discovery research and Growing Adoption of High-Throughput Screening Methodologies are some of the major factors that propel the market growth.
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eBay said the recent removal of seller groups on Facebook was not the result of any official eBay request, but the matter remains a mystery.
On December 29, eBay published a post on its discussion boards stating it had become aware that “a small number of Facebook groups with “eBay” in the name were removed from Facebook a few days ago,” as EcommerceBytes reported.
On Thursday, it published an update informing sellers it was continuing to work with Facebook on the matter:
“Our team has been working with Facebook to understand why these seller Groups were removed – and, most importantly, to reinstate them.
“While we continue to investigate the cause of this action, we have confirmed that it was not the result of any official eBay request.
“We also are pleased to report that groups that shared their complete information with us have already been reinstated. If you know of a Facebook group that remains impacted, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org and provide the group name, the URL to the Facebook Page that administers the group, the group URL, and any other relevant information.
“Finally, we are working with Facebook to improve the checks and balances, and to do everything possible to reduce the chance of this happening again. . We also are reviewing our social media name & logo usage guidelines to be sure they are clear and easy to follow for all of our seller community.
“Thanks for your patience as we reviewed this situation and thank you for selling on eBay.”
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In addition to text messaging, users can exchange images, video and audio media messages. When it reached a user base of 90 million users as of July 24, 2012, Viber launched group messaging and HD Voice service for Android and iPhone. These features were eventually extended to Windows Phone 7 users on Nokia-branded wireless devices as of September 22, 2012. Windows Phone 8 voice was slated to be coming “very soon” on January 8, 2013 before finally being released on April 2, 2013. Due to OS limitations, there is no word yet on when Series 40 devices will get these features.
A Windows 8 version of Viber was released in December. A version for BlackBerry 10 was confirmed with OS version 10.2 but then later scrapped by the company. However, the company decided to release the app in late April 2014. The latest operating system release of the app, Viber for Windows 10, was first unveiled at Microsoft’s Build conference in 2015.
In February 2014, Viber was acquired by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.
Currently, the Viber application is available in 10 languages, including Arabic, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The app reached 200 million users as of May 7, 2013. By the start of 2014, this number had increased to 300 million.


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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A national study suggests Myrtle Beach will be the third most popular travel destination this summer as hotel occupancy along the Grand Strand is already outpacing 2019 numbers this season.
Trip Advisor says Myrtle Beach, only led by Cancun, Mexico, and Orlando, Florida, will be the most popular travel destination this summer.
A recently launched lodging dashboard from the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (MBACC) reflects hotel occupancy along the Grand Strand outpacing that of the same time in 2019, before the pandemic.
According to the MBACC data, on this day in 2019, hotels were 40.8% full and now they are 56.6% occupied. The dashboard also shows a 60-day projection. That is something MBACC President and CEO, Karen Riordan said is not the best indicator of how many travelers will be in town on any given day because people are booking more last-minute trips than ever.
“We have already seen that in March and April where we talk to hotels and see this report on Wednesday one thing, like occupancy is at 45% and then by Friday afternoon the occupancy would jump all the way to 70%,” Riordan explained.
Riordan said this is a new trend for our area, but it’s one they believe will stick around. City leaders believe increased marketing, a pent up desire to travel and rescheduled vacations are creating the perfect storm for a potentially record-breaking travel season.
“We used to come about every other year before COVID started,” said Mike Pawlikowski, a Grand Strand visitor from Delaware. “We had a trip planned for October and then COVID exploded. They told us to reschedule it.”
Increased hotel occupancy means more traffic for local businesses.
“We’ve had a fantastic stretch,” said Justin Plyler, owner of The Gay Dolphin. “We’re up 19% since two years ago, over the best year we ever had and this year we’re well over 30% above that.”
Plyler says one challenge all local businesses are facing right now is the staffing shortage.
“It’s hard to get help because of the stimulus and that is true with everybody that I talk to, but nevertheless we’re doing great and we’re going to take advantage of it while we can.”
Riordan says with the influx of last-minute travelers and shortage of staff at local hotels, restaurants and attractions, employers are having to get creative.
“We need to really double down to do whatever we can to make it a good guest experience,” she said. “Especially for someone that this is their first time. They are proving to be very resilient and very nimble. They are having to change their game plan. They have one game plan on Wednesday and another one on Friday.”
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iPad Mini photo leak before today’s grand event from apple
Apple is expected to launch new iPhone 5 and probably iPad Mini a 7 inch tablet to the world today US time 10 am,( few more hours to go).
But according to a french site http://www.nowhereelse.fr photo of iPad mini is leaked a day before the launch. This looks exactly same like iPad 3 but a mini version and looks like it had a wide HD screen too.
iPad Mini would be competing directly with Nexus 7 and Amazon kindle HD.
check out more photos of iPad mini here
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Farmers dry cacao beans in Uchiza, Peru, a file photo from 2008. Researchers are exploring the wild cacao bounty of Peru's Amazon Basin, part of an effort to jump-start the country's premium cacao industry.
Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary called the chocolate that indigenous people drank "loathsome."
But by the 17th century, chocolate met sugar, and it became a hit the world over — it's now a $93 billion a year global industry, according to market research firm Mintel.
Centuries and countless foil-wrapped bars later, it turns out we've barely begun to sample the many flavors that nature has to offer to satisfy our chocolate cravings. Scientists from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service recently reported discovering three previously unknown varieties of wild cacao in the Amazon rainforest of Peru.
"It's pretty amazing that this crop that we've been growing [for hundreds of years] — we still know so little about it," Lyndel Meinhardt, who led the ARS research team, tells The Salt.
Cacao trees originated in the Amazon. Mesoamericans cultivated cacao for thousands of years, and chocolate was important to both Mayan and Aztec culture. The Spanish introduced the treat from the Americas to the Old World — and added the sugar. Eventually, other European powers wanted in on the action, so they exported cacao trees to their colonies — which is how Africa ended up providing much of the cacao we eat in chocolate today.
But apparently, "some of the fine flavor material wasn't moved in the beginning," says Meinhardt. So the bulk beans grown in Africa represent just a small sampling of the many flavors of cacao. Or as connoisseurs might argue, it's not the really good stuff.
The world's germplasm banks — collections of genetic material that the chocolate industry relies on to preserve cultivars — aren't much help, either. Meinhardt says, "There's not a lot of diversity in the collections."
Meinhardt and his colleagues from ARS aim to change that. So they teamed up with Peru's Instituto de Cultivos Tropicales to document the genetic bounty of wild cacao in the country's Amazon Basin. The haul from expeditions in 2008 and 2009 included 342 wild cacao specimens from 12 watersheds.
Like wine, cacao flavor is influenced by the region where it's grown. The researchers want to catalog Peru's "cacao varietals," analyze their DNA and identify the so-called flavor beans that premium chocolate makers covet. It's all part of an effort to help jump-start Peru's premium chocolate industry (and lure former coca farmers to cacao.)
The big question, of course, is what these chocolate discoveries taste like. Sadly for chocoholics, it will be several years before we get to find out. Cacao is a slow-growing tree; it takes at least five years for a tree to bear pods. So it will be a long while yet before the saplings now growing at a central collection spot in Tarapoto, Peru, yield enough beans to turn into chocolate.
It's possible the taste won't amount to more than a hill of cocoa beans. Then again, several years ago, the Amazon yielded up a wild cacao strain in Bolivia that Swiss chocolate maker Felchlin released in a limited edition bar called Cru Sauvage — or Wild Vintage — for about $60 a pound. Its flavor was apparently so arresting, it inspired one writer to journey into the heart of the Amazon in search of the man who helped bring it to market.


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Microsoft is closer to bringing gamers a more immersive experience through Illumiroom, according to documents released online this week.
Microsoft's IllumiRoom uses a Xbox Kinect and a projector to extend the gaming experience beyond the borders of the television. While a prototype of this was presented at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, documents released on Microsoft's Research hub indicate the project has moved beyond proof-of-concept.
The IllumiRoom first uses the Kinect's camera to get a sense of the player's living room. Then, the wide-field project, which sits behind the player, projects portions of the gameplay onto the surrounding living room landscape to achieve a broader sense of immersion.
The IllumiRoom might just project visual effects outside of the TV space: like lightning bolts or explosions. It can also extend the field of view of the game to encompass the whole wall. The IllumiRoom could also give the player a broader sense of space by showing markers representing other players or items out of their TV's main field of view.
The video above also shows the IllumiRoom using light or sound tricks to distort reality around the TV, like turning the living room into a cartoon world or making it black and white.
Microsoft still has a long way to go with the testing, but it's conceivable that the IllumiRoom could eventually be part of the soon-to-be announced next-generation Xbox.
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GlobalPlatform has introduced a compliance trademark to identify solutions that have met the requirements of the smart card, SIM and NFC secure element standards association’s compliance program. “The program is set to ensure the creation and maintenance of an interoperable, sustainable and trusted end-to-end environment for managing applications on secure chip technology,” says the association.
- Lessons learned from implementing HCE for cloud-based NFC mobile payments — See the webinar now on NFC World
- Cartes Bancaires picks Gemalto to ease member banks’ NFC mobile payments offer
- Alipay comes to more Australian stores
- Australian bank reveals NFC payments sticker use
- Apple Pay adds US and Australian banks


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In what might be the oddest item I have blogged in some time, a bicycle shop in New Berlin was closed after the city revoked its conditional-use permit for allegedly hosting raves.
Brea, Calif. — Bob Weber had a small but simple plan. He wanted to design a safer helmet for dirt bike riders.
The entrepreneur, based in Brea, about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles, ended up disrupting the $250 million-a-year motorcycle helmet industry and igniting a debate over head injuries that could have a much broader impact. »Read Full Article


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Around the world, 211,000 IKEA co-workers have contributed to create a better everyday life for the many people. Together they’ve introduced more than 2,000 new products, tested new store formatsand helped IKEA customers get the products and solutions they need. As a result, IKEA retail sales grew by 6.5% in FY19. Total retail sales, which includes sales of both products and services to IKEA customers, amounted to EUR 41.3 billion.
In-store and online, customers bought 5 million smart bulbs and accessories, 7 million BILLY bookcases and more than 10 million veggie hot dogs! They also re-discovered some old favourites in a collection called GRATULERA – released to celebrate 75 years of the IKEA Brand. And in August IKEA stores unveiled SYMFONISK, a new collection developed together with SONOS. On the first day alone more than 30,000 SYMFONISK lamps and speakers had been sold. “We are pleased to make smart home products more affordable for customers, and we will invest heavily in the years ahead to develop this part of the IKEA range,” says Torbjörn Lööf, CEO at Inter IKEA Group.
This year 12 new IKEA stores opened around the world, including two smaller stores. Together 433 stores in more than 50 markets welcomed more than 1 billion visitors. IKEA franchisees also opened several small test locations. Nine markets introduced e-commerce, and customers in most IKEA markets can now shop online. Around 2.8 billion people visited the IKEA website, and e-commerce sales grew 43%.
Among the new locations was IKEA La Madeleine. Located in the centre of Paris, nearly two million people can reach it by public transport within 20 minutes. “We’re moving closer to our customers to make shopping more convenient,” says Torbjörn.
IKEA franchisees will continue to move closer to people all over the world. During the coming years new IKEA stores and e-commerce will open in Macau, Puerto Rico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Estonia, Ukraine, New Zealand, Slovenia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Behind the scenes, IKEA product developers and supply specialists worked to make healthy and sustainable products more affordable and accessible for IKEA customers. Today 60% of the IKEA
range is based on renewable materials, and 10% contains recycled materials. “We’re on an exciting journey to make IKEA more sustainable for our customers,” says Torbjörn.
“This requires transformational change for our supply chain, how our products are designed and how and where we sell them. We have accomplished a lot this year, and yet we’re still in the beginning to reduce our climate footprint and become a circular business.”
You can read more about IKEA Facts & Figures for financial year 2019 here.
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Rumor mills are heating up about the launch of iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S and yesterday we have reported to you about the leaked iPhone 5 cases and today 9to5mac blog has released some pictures of the iPhone 5 and have posted their hands on experience of the device. The blog claims that they have found iPhone 5.
A tipster has contacted the 9to5mac blog and has sent some pictures which he thinks is the iPhone 5 and even claims that the phone which he saw will definitely fit into the cases which were displayed yesterday. The tipster currently had an iPhone 3GS and currently has an iPhone 4 and believes that he knows his iPhones and iPods and this was like nothing he’s ever seen. He said it would fit perfectly into the case below.
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While many businesses have languished during COVID-19, Yorkville University graduate Samantha Lightfoot has seen her sleepwear company not only survive, but thrive – a pandemic success story that all started with an Instagram shout-out from celebrity influencer Jillian Harris.
The Langley, BC-based Bachelor of Business Administration alumnus, who first launched Riot Theory just a few months after graduating in 2017, said the endorsement from the former Bachelorette and Love It or List It Vancouver host took her by surprise – albeit a pleasant one.
“Last year, Melanie made custom bridesmaid rings for Jillian’s bridal party, and she asked if I wanted to throw some of my pajamas into the package for Jillian. I was so thankful for the opportunity,” she said.
“I truly never thought anything would come of it, because Jillian gets a million things a day in the mail, but she ended up sharing them on her Instagram stories and tagging us.”
From there, Lightfoot said Riot Theory’s website and social media pages immediately ‘blew up’.
“Our site was flooded, our Instagram was flooded – and this was right when the pandemic started in late March/early April last year, so I was worrying, ‘What’s going to happen to my business?’” she laughed.
“It was really amazing, and I truly thought that was going to be it.”
A few months later, however, another unexpectedly pleasant surprise landed in Lightfoot’s inbox – an email from Harris’ agent, asking if she’d like to collaborate on a line of sleepwear to be featured in the style guru’s Spring 2021 Jilly Box.
“When I saw an email come through from her agent a couple of months later, I was, like, ‘Oh my God!’ The Jilly Box is something you dream about as a small business entrepreneur,” she said of Harris’ coveted quarterly subscription box, which filled with products handpicked by her and her ‘Team Jilly.’
Before that happened, though, Lightfoot and her partner, Amy, worked with Harris’ team to adapt two of their already existing designs into the Jilly Nightie and the Jilly Robe – “a super soft and oh-so-cozy” set made from 95 per cent Rayon and five per cent spandex.
Jilly collection designed with sleep in mind
Like all of her sleepwear, Lightfoot said the Jilly collection is likewise “thoughtfully designed with your sleep, the environment, and those who inhabit it in mind.”
Both sustainably and ethically made with inclusion top of mind, Riot Theory sleepwear’s pricing reflects the ethical wages paid by its manufacturing team (15 per cent more than the industry level), sustainable fabrics (rayon from bamboo, the fastest growing tree in the world), and quality that lasts.
“I think that’s what sets us apart from the competition – our deep-rooted desire to minimize our environmental impact,” she said. “Also, being Canadian and female-owned and -operated is are big ones, as well.”
In addition to those factors, Lightfoot attributes much of Riot Theory’s recent success – which, aside from the Harris collaboration, also included signing with two wholesale agencies – to the amount of hard work she’s put into the company since she first built out her business plan for it in her final year of her Bachelor of Business Administration program at Yorkville.
“I try to remember what my expectations were going into this – what possessed me to make this big, expensive leap into the world of entrepreneurship. I must’ve known somewhere in the back of my head that this was the direction for me, but I definitely didn’t foresee it happening this quickly,” she said, noting that Riot Theory sleepwear is now also available on Well.ca.
“This year has been a dream come true. It was very crazy to see all these great things happen, especially so early on. It was a big first year for us – a crazy amount of growth for what was technically year one.”
At the same time, Lightfoot isn’t super surprised at Riot Theory’s success, either – after all, she said, their sleepwear is amazing, and she and Amy have worked hard to make it all happen.
Loungewear line in the works for 2021
Up next, Lightfoot said she’s planning to expand Riot Theory beyond sleepwear into the wider world of loungewear towards the end of the year. They’ll also be introducing new fabrics soon and, after many requests, are toying with the idea of creating some bridal pieces – from matching bridesmaids’ robes to nighties for brides.
“I’m so proud of us and this brand, and I’m so excited to watch it keep growing over the next few years,” she said, noting that Riot Theory just successfully launched its Spring Collection.
“I mean, if this is what we can accomplish in year one, what do the next few years, five years, 10 years look like?”


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Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
This month's patch release is unusual in that it was released the Tuesday following the recent DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, rather than before the black hat event. As Aviv Raff, the CTO of Seculert, a cyber security management company, put it, "Usually, vendors patch for zero day before a security conference in order to block security researchers from releasing them."
This week Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of its monthly patch, which fixes 22 security vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer, Visio, Visual Studio and Windows. Of the releases, two are considered critical updates which should be applied immediately for Internet Explorer and Windows DNS Server.


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Charging is something that is universal for everybody and the reason for that is because we have many devices that require charging. For example, a smartphone is something that most of us use every day and it’s also something that we have to charge every day too. That is why it’s vital to know what […]
Xiaomi is one of the companies, which is really innovating in the real sense. It gives all the premium features at the budget-friendly price. While others are innovating in camera and battery, Xiaomi made a phone which looks unreal and quite fascinating. Xiaomi Mi Mix is a spectacular device with an edge to edge display […]
More often we get to see Smartphone users complaining about their scratched screens, full memory and many more things like out of contact list. These are usual stories of people using Smartphone these days. Most of the smart phones give enough reasons to get pissed off and have a feeling of throwing away your handset. […]
An Indian company has launched what is being billed as the world’s cheapest smartphone. Ringing Bells earlier said their Freedom 251 phone would be priced under 500 rupees (£5; $7.3), but at the launch on Wednesday, it said it would cost just 251 rupees ($3.67; £2.56).
With the advancement in the technological sphere it is so much that is keeping the consumers to catch up. Such that Laptops today have become the utility device by which almost all work can be done with ease. This time it is more about new models which come with some real good features which make […]


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Steve Cook, Solomonov's partner in the restaurant industry, said that they hope to open two new Federal Donuts every year, and that they might have 10 outposts by 2015. The endgame for Solo, though, is much different: "I just want to get big enough where we can have delivery guys in chicken suits scooting around town on mopeds fueled by recycled fryer oil. How awesome would that be?," Solo told Inky critic Craig LaBan.
Serious Eats founder Ed Levine said that FedNuts is part of a growing trend of "vanity shacks," which are high-end chef-driven replicable concepts. The problem is that most never get off of the ground, and homeruns like Shake Shack are few and far between. FedNuts is different than Shake Shack, though, as it challenges diners with unique flavors and ingredients that aren't traditional.
There's no word on where the next FedNuts outpost will pop up, but rest easy knowing that at least one more is on the way in the next year. And while Solo continues to win accolades at his fine dining establishment Zahav, he knows that "this might be what puts my kids through college."


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The results are in for the 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer giveaway and the winner is Blake Ramsey from the San Gabriel Series in Southern California! Blake made a donation to the USASA, entering him in to the giveaway and he won a brand new car, how cool is that?
Thanks to Mitsubishi Motors, the official vehicle of the USASA, Blake is now driving a brand new 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Ralliart. The promotion, which ran from October 1st through November 30th, raised over $15,000 for the USASA which will ultimately help the 32 Regional Series.
On Saturday, January 9th representatives from Mitsubishi Motors, Mountain High Special Events Manager Bryce Maxwell and USASA Executive Director Jason Toutolmin presented Blake with the keys to his new ride at Mountain High Ski Resort in sunny Southern California. The presentation took place on stage as part of the USASA San Gabriel Series double Slopestyle event, in front of a big crowd before the USASA awards ceremony. Mitsubishi Motors had 2 demo vehicles on display and a tent set up giving out bags with vehicle information, frisbees, Cholula Hot Sauce and other swag and had a raffle at the end of the day for iTunes gift cards.


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Our friends over at Restream have just started a new contest for all its users, and it has some really cool prizes for all you streaming gamers out there. In case you are not aware of Restream, it’s a service which allows you to stream simultaneously to TWITCH, YOUTUBE, USTREAM, & over 30 other streaming platforms. For all, you out there hoping to expand your viewer base and multiply your audience Restream is really something that can help. And if that’s not enough to make you check it out maybe this contest can pique your interest. Continue reading Restream Contest: Wanna Win Some Cool Stuff?
TwitchCon 2016 just wrapped up in San Diego and the news coming from the convention has many gamers and viewers very excited about what’s to come from Twitch. From new services to cross-platform integration there seemed to be something for everyone in this year’s keynote address given by Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and Director of Programming, Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham.
Arguably the biggest announcement is that of Twitch Prime, a new premium service available to all Amazon Prime subscribers. Along with discounts on pre-orders and new releases, it also features things like free digital games and in-game loot. To unlock all these premium perks just sign up for Amazon Prime (you can start with a 30-day free trial), or link your existing Prime account to Twitch by going to http://www.twitchprime.com. Continue reading TwitchCon 2016: Noteable News


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Adidas launches take-back platform to reuse and resell sportswear
Global sportswear brand Adidas has unveiled a new trade-in program for old running shoes and sportswear, regardless of brand, with the aim of improving the circularity of the industry a bit.
Adidas has launched the Choose to Give Back program, which enables users to extend the life cycle of athletic and lifestyle clothing and footwear.
Users can send used products of any brand to Adidas through its Creator’s Club app. Products will be managed by thredUP’s Resale as a Service (RaaS) platform to ensure that they are resold where possible or reused in other products.
To participate, consumers can generate a prepaid Clean Out Kit shipping label through the app to return the equipment. Users earn rewards for doing so.
âWe believe that excellent performance should not come at the expense of the environment. This is why we are committed to establishing a circular future for sportswear, and with the Choose to Give Back program, we are helping people see new possibilities to breathe new life into old clothes, âsaid Katja Schreiber. , senior vice president of sustainability at Adidas.
The new program is in line with Adidas’ ambition to use 100% recycled polyester in its products by 2024.
Earlier this year, Adidas and Allbirds unveiled a prototype pair of running shoes with a carbon footprint of less than 3kg, well below the industry average of 13.6kg.
Each pair of shoes has a carbon footprint of 2.94 kg of CO2e. Neither Adidas nor Allbirds have produced a shoe with this small footprint before and the brands claim the shoe is “as close to zero carbon as they could get.”
Adidas and Allbirds first announced that they were working together to develop the low carbon footwear in early 2020, setting an ambition to develop the world’s lowest carbon athletic shoes to date.
Adidas is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 30% by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
However, the company was recently placed in the âred zoneâ for its sustainability claims. A study of the websites of 12 of the biggest UK and European fashion brands, including Asos, H&M and Zara, found that 60% of environmental claims could be categorized as âunfoundedâ and âmisleadingâ.
The Changing Markets Foundation’s âSynthetics Anonymousâ report assessed brands in fast fashion, luxury fashion, and online retail based on their sustainability claims.
In all subjects, none of the brands received an overall ranking as a âpioneerâ. Most of the brands that received the worst overall rating, the âred zoneâ, simply failed to disclose to the Foundation or provide information online.
Adidas, however, revealed that around 90% of the products contain virgin synthetics, with polyester being the most widely used fiber in its clothing line.
âAdidas has a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable solutions globally, and thredUP is delighted to support its latest initiative to encourage more circular habits among consumers,â said Pooja Sethi, senior vice president of thredUP .
âBy enabling large-scale resale with customizable solutions for major brands and retailers, we keep high-quality clothing in use longer and fight the waste of fashion. “


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Brady’s assessment isn’t being totally applauded however. The UK-based GMB trade union organised a worker strike last November, describing conditions for employees at Amazon’s warehouses as “inhuman”. “They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances,” said GMB General Secretary Tim Roache in a statement. “We’re standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay – they’re not robots.”
In response, Amazon at the time said: “All of our sites are safe places to work and reports to the contrary are simply wrong.”
But the firm is making changes in response to pressure. Earlier this year, Amazon increased its minimum wage for warehouse workers to $15 (£12) after considerable pressure from, among others, potential Democratic presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders.
He, along with Californian Congressman Ro Khanna, introduced legislation that would add an additional tax on corporations if their lowest paid employees relied on government programmes, such as food stamps, to make ends meet.
The measure was titled Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or Stop BEZOS, for short – a reference to Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos.
‘Orange nightstand on wheels’
One of the company’s announcements was Pegasus, a new robot that is being used in the firm’s “sortation centres” – the last step before a package is handed off to a delivery company.
“Resembling an orange nightstand on wheels, the two-feet-high, 3-feet-wide Pegasus drive is Amazon’s newest robot designed to create greater efficiency in its sortation process so customers can receive their orders even faster,” the firm said in a blog post.
An accompanying video showed humans placing packages on to the robot, which then carried it, autonomously, to another location ready to be taken out for delivery.
The system is able to work out the quickest route for the robots to take, taking into account the hundreds of other robots moving around at the same time. A “flow control specialist” monitors the movements of up to 800 Pegasus robots at once.
The company also announced it had made Xanthus, an updated version of its pallet-moving robot used in fulfilment centres.
The firm said its robots had to date stacked more than 2 billion plastic storage boxes, known as totes.
But one task robots still struggle greatly with is picking up individual objects of varying shapes and standards – which is still a key job of the human worker, particularly in the areas of Amazon’s business that deal with food handling.
“It’s not humans versus machines at all,” Mr Brady told the BBC.
“It’s humans and machines working together to achieve a task.”


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Major new titles coming this week from: Brian Cadd, New Found Glory, The Black Keys, Kylie Minogue (GH), Julia Michaels, Don Walker (live), Thom Yorke, Mustard, the ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ soundtrack and Woodstock’s 50th Anniversary edition.
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Lana Del Rey sings ‘Blue Velvet’ in a curious new commercial for fashion chain H&M.September 17, 2012
British classic rock band Status Quo have re-recorded their classic 1975 hit ‘Down Down’ for a Coles commercial.July 11, 2012
Gotye has provided the soundtrack to this year’s 40 Hour Famine campaign to prevent world hunger.July 9, 2012
Multi-platinum-selling artist and Grammy-winner Alanis Morissette discusses her long-awaited seventh album, Havoc And Bright Lights.May 3, 2012
The Grammys have put together a frosty commercial featuring Bon Iver and it’s quite lovely.January 31, 2012
Following in the footsteps of every popstar, country star Keith Urban introduces his new fragrance.August 9, 2011


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Fidel received a good response at Pune Manufacturing Expo 2022
Pune Manufacturing Expo 2022 took place from 7th to 9th November 2022 at Auto Cluster Premises, Chinchwad-Pune.
Fidel Softech participated in the Exhibition organized by The Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries, and Agriculture (MCCIA) and received a good response at its booth. The expo was a great opportunity to get insights into the manufacturing industry.
Fidel displayed LangTech Services and Solutions at its exhibition stall. By leveraging this technology proposal, businesses in the manufacturing sector will be able to benefit from these services for local/export operations.
It is a pleasure to be a part of this program and would like to thank the entire MCCIA team.
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August 28, 2011 / ANI, Washington / DC.
Research suggests some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat.
Do you often eat at your home/office desk? You may not want to hear this, but a new study has found that an average desktop has 100 times more bacteria than a kitchen table and 400 times more than the average toilet seat.
The research also found that a whopping 83 per cent of Americans typically eat in their office or cubicle in an effort to save time and money.
According to a new survey by the American Dietetic Association and ConAgra Foods’ Home Food Safety program, a majority of Americans continue to eat lunch (62 per cent) and snack throughout the day (50 per cent) at their desks, while 27 per cent typically find breakfast the first thing on their desktop to-do list. Late nights at the office even leave a small percentage (4 per cent) dining at their desktop for dinner.
“For many people, multitasking through lunch is part of the average workday,” said registered dietician and ADA Spokesperson Toby Smithson.
“While shorter lunch hours may result in getting more accomplished, they could also be causing workers to log additional sick days, as desktops hide bacteria that can lead to food borne illness,” she said.


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PITTSBURGH — WESCO International, Inc. announces its results for the first quarter of 2020.
John J. Engel, WESCO’s Chairman, President and CEO, commented, “In these challenging times, we are committed to super-serving our customers while ensuring the integrity of their supply chains. All of our branches remain operational and we have taken the necessary steps to ensure the health and safety of our employees through implementing increased safety, sanitizing and social distancing protocols. Through the middle of March, our first quarter results were on track with our outlook. We had a strong start to the year with sales growth within our expected range and sequentially improving gross margins. In mid-March, the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and government-imposed shutdowns impacted our customers and suppliers across all of our end markets. Through these difficult times, our top priority at WESCO is the health and safety of our employees and their families, our customers and supplier partners, our shareholders and the communities in which we operate. WESCO has been deemed an essential business and provides mission-critical electrical, industrial, utility and communications solutions that enable our customers to efficiently, effectively and safely operate their businesses. We have provided products to help maintain power to homes and essential businesses, connectors and cabling for broadband services to support virtual and remote work, and essential equipment for data center operations to meet the increased demand for bandwidth. We have also utilized our global scale and supply chain relationships to procure personal protective equipment for our customers and our employees. I would like to recognize and thank all of our WESCO associates for their inspirational dedication, commitment and hard work in managing through this crisis.”
Engel continued, “Integration planning activities for the transformational combination of WESCO and Anixter are accelerating and we are more excited than ever about our opportunity to create the premier electrical and datacom distribution and supply chain services company. Our integration teams, comprising both WESCO and Anixter personnel, are working on numerous value creation initiatives for launch upon closing. We are highly confident in exceeding our three-year cost savings, sales growth and cash generation synergy targets communicated last month. We continue to be on track to close the transaction in the second or third quarter. With the challenging economic cycle we’re facing near term, this strategic combination remains compelling as we’re doubling the size of our company and will transform the new enterprise through execution of the integration plan and delivery of the synergies.”
Engel concluded, “As we have in prior economic downturns, we are aggressively managing the business and have taken a series of cost reduction and cash management actions. We have successfully managed through every crisis we have faced over the last 25 years, and we will do so again. The duration of the current downturn and shape of the economic recovery remain uncertain, and as a result, we are withdrawing our prior guidance for the year. WESCO supports critical infrastructure needs and the essential businesses of our customers around the world, and benefits from the resiliency of our operating model and the counter-cyclical free cash flow generation of our business. We remain focused on what we can control — our strategy, our investments, our team, and our execution, and we are confident that we will emerge an even stronger company through this cycle, as we have in the past.”
The following are results for the three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2019:
- Net sales were $2.0 billion for the first quarter of 2020 and 2019. Organic sales for the first quarter of 2020 declined by 1.7% as the number of workdays and acquisitions positively impacted net sales by 1.6% and 0.5%, respectively. Net sales growth through the first ten weeks of the quarter were offset by declines during the last two weeks of March.
- Cost of goods sold for the first quarter of 2020 and 2019 was $1.6 billion, and gross profit was $376.4 million and $382.5 million, respectively. As a percentage of net sales, gross profit was 19.1% and 19.5% for the first quarter of 2020 and 2019, respectively. Sequentially, gross profit as a percentage of net sales increased 50 basis points from 18.6%.
- Selling, general and administrative expenses were $299.4 million, or 15.2% of net sales, for the first quarter of 2020, compared to $296.6 million, or 15.1% of net sales, for the first quarter of 2019. SG&A expenses for the first quarter of 2020 include $4.6 million of costs related to WESCO’s merger with Anixter International, as announced on January 10, 2020. Adjusted for these costs, SG&A expenses were $294.8 million, or 15.0% of net sales, for the first quarter of 2020.
- Operating profit was $60.9 million for the first quarter of 2020, compared to $70.7 million for the first quarter of 2019. Operating profit as a percentage of net sales was 3.1% for the current quarter, compared to 3.6% for the first quarter of the prior year. Adjusted for merger-related costs of $4.6 million, operating profit was $65.5 million for the first quarter of 2020, or 3.3% of net sales.
- Net interest and other for the first quarter of 2020 was $16.5 million, compared to $17.1 million for the first quarter of 2019. Net interest and other for the first quarter of 2020 includes approximately $0.5 million of interest for borrowings against our accounts receivable securitization facility to fund the $100.0 million termination fee described below.
- The effective tax rate for the first quarter of 2020 was 23.1%, compared to 21.7% for the first quarter of 2019. The higher effective tax rate in the current quarter is primarily due to the unfavorable effect of discrete income tax expense associated with stock-based awards. The effective tax rate for the current period would have been 21.4% without this discrete impact.
- Net income attributable to WESCO International, Inc. was $34.4 million for the first quarter of 2020, compared to $42.4 million for the first quarter of 2019.
- Earnings per diluted share for the first quarter of 2020 was $0.82, based on 42.1 million diluted shares, compared to $0.93 for the first quarter of 2019, based on 45.5 million diluted shares. Adjusted earnings per diluted share for the first quarter of 2020 was $0.91.
- Operating cash flow for the first quarter of 2020 was $31.5 million, compared to $28.9 million for the first quarter of 2019. Free cash flow for the first quarter of 2020 was $15.8 million, or 46% of net income, compared to $18.0 million, or 43% of net income, for the first quarter of 2019.
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Amid coronavirus pandemic, as Indians look to hoard ahead of expected lockdown, foodtech unicorn Zomato is now looking to join grocery delivery industry. The company is reportedly in talks to partner with grocery delivery startups Grofers and BigBasket to sell food products and essentials on its platform by facilitating their deliveries.
Tentatively called Zomato Market, the grocery delivery service is expected to go live by next week. The ET report added that Zomato is currently in the process of optimising deliveries for the grocery section, as well as tackling challenges arising for its delivery partners during the pandemic. Offline stores which work with Grofers will be listed on Zomato’s app and consumers would place an order on Zomato with deliveries fulfilled by the food delivery unicorn.
The company will begin with a pilot in Delhi-NCR with Grofers, and BigBasket is also expected to come on board.
As a result of the self-imposed quarantine in many homes in urban India, both Grofers and BigBasket have noted a hike in their daily orders. Grofers has noted a 5% to 7% hike during weekdays and an 80% increase in demand during the weekend. Meanwhile, BigBasket has noted a 2x growth in their orders, with a 15 to 20% increase in the average order size.
One of the reasons why online sales of groceries have shot up is because of people’s reluctance to go outside with the threat of coronavirus looming over. Both Grofers and BigBasket have ensured that the delivery partners are well aware of the coronavirus pandemic and take precautions.
Both companies claim to have started disinfecting and sanitising their workstations, warehouses, delivery crates and all other equipment used on a regular basis. Besides this, both have now encouraged cashless payments to keep both customers and delivery executives safe from any possible exposure.
With Zomato Market, it is now challenging its arch-rival Swiggy, which launched Swiggy Stores last year. The company is also indirectly into delivery of essentials such as milk, bread, over-the-counter medicines and household items.
Morgan Stanley expects the online food and grocery segment to become the fastest-growing segment in India, expanding at a CAGR of 141% by 2020 and contributing $15 Bn or 12.5% of overall online retail sales. According to another report, the Indian online grocery market is estimated to reach $40 Mn (INR 270 Cr) by FY19, growing at a CAGR of 62% from 2016 to 2022.


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New Dust Tactics releases from Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games has some new units and even some new terrain out for their Dust lines.
First, of course, people are going to want to see the new units. They’ve got the new Rattler/Cobra walkers, and a pair of SSU units, the Specialists and the Rifle Team.
Next, they have a new piece of building terrain to make your tabletop look more interesting.


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Hundreds of jobs could be created in Swindon if plans for a multi-million pound expansion of the Swindon Designer Outlet are approved. Plans have been submitted to Swindon Borough Council for a 50,000sqft expansion of the shopping centre.
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After promotion via Wembley play-off in May, rejuvenated Bristol Rovers are brimming with belief.
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Kaylem Ryan was diagnosed in 2013 with Neuroblastoma. His family are trying to raise half a million to take him to America for treatment.


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Captain Cookie and the Milkman will open its doors Thursday after a five-and-a-half-month-long construction process.
Kirk Francis, the owner of Captain Cookie, said he first noticed the available lease in March and took it in July, with a plan to finish construction in 40 days. After running into unexpected complications with the construction company, the store will have its grand opening Thursday at 11 a.m.
“We’re going to be baking them throughout the day,” Francis said. “So the odds of getting a warm cookie are very high.”
The store has been a long time coming for Francis, whose original goal was to open a bakery. Instead, in 2011 he bought a food truck, which he said was a “rusty, rattling bucket of bolts” at the time, for $2,200 on Craigslist. The Captain Cookie food truck hit the streets in 2012 after Francis spent a year repairing it.
“I’ve been making chocolate chip cookies since I was 4 and obsessively perfecting and working on the recipes for everything,” said Francis, who eats between four and six cookies a day.


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Based in Leicester, Apption Labs’ MEATER is a leader in wireless smart meat thermometers, taking the guess work out of cooking so users can cook meats perfectly every time.
The acquisition comes at an opportune moment for the team. They recently picked up two highly prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for outstanding achievement in Innovation and International Trade – and it’s this stomach-rumbling appetite for disruption and pushing boundaries that makes Apption Labs and MEATER the perfect fit for Traeger Grills.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Traeger has been at the forefront of outdoor cooking technology since the ‘80s. Its wood-pellet grill blazed a trail in the industry and remains a #1 seller worldwide, and through its WiFIRE technology, Traeger has created a connected cooking platform that allows users to remotely control and monitor their grill via a smartphone and other smart devices.
The acquisition of MEATER expands Traeger’s portfolio of home cooking devices, marking a significant step forward in its pursuit of “the ultimate connected grilling experience”.
Niall Chantrill, Director at Cooper Parry Corporate Finance, said:
“We are thrilled to have supported the MEATER team on this landmark deal with Traeger. Working with such innovative, high-growth businesses – like Apption Labs – is what we pride ourselves on. The growth journey the business has been on over the past few years has been nothing short of phenomenal and is testament to the hard work of every member of the Apption team.
“We are incredibly proud to have supported on this transaction and we wish the team all of the success as they embark on the next phase of their growth journey.”


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Researchers at the Norwegian organization SINTEF are working to eliminate the biggest obstacle to selling electric cars – the fear that batteries will run flat before their car reaches the nearest charging station. This groundbreaking new system includes a simple GPS unit that allows electric car drivers to search out and calculate the distance to the nearest charging station.
The key to making drivers feel safer lies in providing precise information on the battery status and its range. SINTEF is creating a technology similar to the currently used GPS systems that can look up charging stations in the vicinity and calculate when the car will reach them. Transport researcher at SINTEF, Liv Ǿvstedal says that a small pilot scheme has been planned in the city of Trondheim. A larger demonstration of the technology is planned for next year when 200 electric cars are planned to travel between Oslo and Kongsberg.
According to Ǿvstedal, Norway has the greatest number of electric vehicles per capita in the world but is behind on goods transport. Last year, the Norwegian company BRING tested electric vehicles for express goods and, after receiving encouraging data, the company decided to buy electric vehicles for permanent use. Several other projects involving electric vehicles for express goods transport are currently under development in Europe, including door-to-door package deliveries.


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In Detroit, local organizers of the 2006 Super Bowl say the game will have a $400 million economic impact on the city.
In Phoenix, which is vying for the 2008 game, Arizona Cardinals officials talk about impacts topping $360 million in cities that already have hosted the game.
The NFL and Houston Super Bowl Host Committee are predicting a $250 million to $300 million economic impact for the Feb. 1 game here.
But many economists say those figures are wildly off the mark. One says the local economic benefit of hosting a Super Bowl is zero. Several others told the Chronicle that there will be some benefit, but only a fraction of the one touted by the NFL, maybe $20 million to $50 million.
The NFL's economic impact numbers, those economists say, fail to take into account the hotel, car rental, restaurant and other business that would have occurred if the game were not held. And the NFL, they say, also fails to consider that corporate-run hotel or restaurant chains make a lot of money during Super Bowl week but send the profits to out-of-town headquarters.
"The people who do these (NFL and host committee) studies are very good at two of the four areas of arithmetic - adding and multiplying. And they're not very good at subtracting and dividing," said University of Chicago sports economist Allen Sanderson. "If a city wants to host a game because it's fun, that's fine. But it doesn't stimulate economic development."
Remarks like that infuriate Jim Steeg, NFL senior vice president in charge of the Super Bowl. Cities, he said, fight for the Super Bowl because it provides a strong boost to the local economy. A study commissioned by the NFL and the San Diego host committee, he says, found that hosting the 2003 Super Bowl in San Diego had a $367 million impact on the local economy.
And, he says, no economist would say the game has little or no impact after spending time in a host city and seeing all the money spent on lavish parties, meals, cabs, golf outings, car rentals, flowers, entertainment, television productions, the half-time show and a long list of other diversions.
"I'm just tired of this crap," says Steeg, who has run the Super Bowl since 1979. "When I retire, I'm going to write a book, and I am going to blow them out of the water. I do hate these guys with a passion."
Past host cities tout strong benefits
Officials in cities that have held the game say it brings a strong local economic benefit. Ky Snyder, president of the San Diego International Sports Council and president of the host committee for the 2003 game, said the San Diego study concluded that there was $194 million in direct spending in the region because of the game.
"If you called any hotel and asked them what it meant to them, you would get positive answers," he said. "I'm around the businesspeople affected by the Super Bowl, and they're saying, `You made our year, thank you.' "
Host committees and the NFL don't have to work very hard to get the message out that hosting a Super Bowl is an economic bonanza. Cities seeking the game do that. And local newspapers - the Chronicle included - routinely quote the numbers cited by local organizers.
Crain's Detroit Business, for instance, reported in July: "The granddaddy of sporting events, the Super Bowl, (is) expected to bring up to $400 million in economic impact."
Economists have tried to measure the impact through their own studies. Some point out that a local economic impact as great as $300 million should be reflected in taxable sales in a city or county. But Stanford University sports economist Roger Noll said research has shown that there is little or no increase in taxable sales during the month when a Super Bowl is played in a town.
"You will not be able to find a single person at a university who will say the NFL figures have any reality to them," Noll said.
Philip Porter, sports economist at the University of South Florida and director of the school's Center for Economic Policy Analysis, studied taxable sales in several cities that hosted the game. When the Super Bowl was played in Miami in January 1999, taxable sales that month in Dade County were about $2.26 billion, Porter says.
But the following January, when the game was played elsewhere, taxable sales were actually greater, rising by $193 million to nearly $2.42 billion, following a two-decade pattern of rising sales tax revenue in the county.
Hillsborough County saw taxable sales rise to $1.4 billion during January 2001, when the game was played in Tampa, Fla. But the total was only $52 million more than in January 2002, Porter says.
Hotel occupancy another key indicator
Hotel occupancy is another way of measuring the economic impact of a Super Bowl. Occupancy rates have risen slightly or stayed the same in Super Bowl host cities the month the game was played compared with the same month the next year, said Porter and the University of Chicago's Sanderson.
The NFL and host committees generate numbers assuming that hotels and restaurants in a particular city would be empty without the Super Bowl, said University of Maryland sports economist Dennis Coates. But economists say "displacement" occurs - travelers avoid a Super Bowl city because of the crowds and extraordinarily expensive hotel rates.
"If the foxes held the convention in the henhouse, (a host committee's) survey technique would attribute positive impacts to the foxes and never notice that all the hens were gone," Porter wrote in a chapter in Sports Economics: Current Research.
Economists also say it is incorrect to assume that money injected into a local economy has enormous benefits for that specific economy if it is transferred to out-of-town corporate headquarters soon after it is paid. They call such transfers "leakages."
"A lot of these (economic impact) figures include money that spends less than 24 hours in Houston," Noll said. "That money doesn't stick. It's just money that goes elsewhere."
NFL and host committees often rely on a "multiplier" in calculating economic impact. According to this principle, a waiter who earns extra tips from Super Bowl customers may buy items locally, thus multiplying the effects of the original expenditure.
But economists criticize the practice of applying a multiplier to most or all of the direct spending by Super Bowl tourists. They also take the NFL and its host committees to task for using far too big of a multiplier in determining economic impact - sometimes 1.8, which means nearly doubling direct spending.
Only money that stays local, such as the tips of a waiter or earnings of a person hired for Super Bowl security, should be subject to the multiplier, and it shouldn't be used on direct spending that turns into leakages, Noll says. The multiplier, he said, should be no bigger than 1.1 - meaning little is added to direct spending when the multiplier is used.
Further, once the multiplier is applied to all direct spending, displacements, leakages and local costs of putting on the Super Bowl (police and fire overtime, sprucing up the city, cleaning up after the game) must be subtracted.
Some economists say little to nothing gained
The San Diego study estimated that the city spent $4.1 million to host the game there. Sanderson and other economists questioned the accuracy of that figure, estimating that it costs local governments about $10 million to put on the game.
So what kind of local economic gain is realized after leakages, displacements and costs are accounted for?
Economists, including Porter, Noll, Sanderson, Coates and Webster University sports economist Patrick Rishe, say little or nothing is gained. The figures on taxable sales, they say, do not lie.
Much of the economic benefit touted by the NFL is being realized by the national economy - corporations with hotels and restaurants in Houston, out-of-town contractors hired annually by the NFL to stage the game and Super Bowl week, Sanderson said.
Several economists said Houston's economy may get a bigger boost from the game than Miami, San Diego, Tampa and New Orleans, because unlike these cities, it draws far fewer tourists. In tourist- dependent cities, football fans displace other types of tourists during Super Bowl week.
During game week, Houston will likely fill many more hotel rooms than it would during the same days in years the game is not held here, and it will see an increase in dining and entertainment spending, Noll said.
He estimated that the net economic benefit for Houston may be as high as $50 million.
Sanderson and Rishe estimated that it might fall between $20 million and $50 million.
Ernest Collins, an administrator in the New Orleans economic development department, said New Orleans has hosted nine Super Bowls because of the economic benefit.
"There is definitely a positive impact. It will provide a positive net gain in the sales tax or whatever other way you want to measure it," he said. "From a public relations standpoint, it does tremendous things for a city. Journalists from around the world will be writing stories about the city. That is invaluable."
Robert Dale Morgan, president and chief executive officer of the local host committee, scoffed at Porter's belief that the Super Bowl has no economic benefit. Porter would think differently if he was part of Super Bowl week and saw the lavish spending that goes on, Morgan said.
"How many Super Bowls has he been to? Call him back and ask him," Morgan said. (Porter lives and works in the Tampa area, which has hosted three Super Bowls.)
Several economists said their attendance at a Super Bowl is irrelevant.
Steeg also portrays critical sports economists as academics so isolated in an ivory tower that they are unable to see the common- sense benefits that a Super Bowl brings.
The scholarly criticism prompted the NFL and the San Diego host committee to hire a company to calculate the local economic impact of the most recent Super Bowl, Steeg said.
Marketing Information Masters in San Diego found the impact was $367 million, with $194 million of that coming from direct spending.
That figure took into account that San Diego spent $4.1 million to put on the event. But Michael Casinelli, Marketing Information Masters president, said he did not lower the figure for displacement and leakages because it was impossible to calculate what they were.
He did find that hotel occupancy rose to nearly 89 percent from Thursday to Sunday of Super Bowl week - about 25 percent higher than the rate for the same four days during the four previous years. Hotel revenues for those four days more than tripled compared with the same four days the previous year.
Casinelli, who holds an MBA, applied a multiplier of 1.8 to direct spending, a figure he says was recommended by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Noll said the multiplier is far too high and should have been applied only to the portion of direct spending that remained after leakages and displacement were accounted for.
The $300 million economic-impact figure put out by the local host committee was not the work of an economist, but an estimate based on the economic impact figures passed on by cities that have hosted Super Bowls, Morgan said. The committee, he said, didn't choose a multiplier and do a calculation.
One projected impact on Houston's economy
Steeg said about 100,000 out-of-towners will come to Houston for at least four days during Super Bowl week. The average game-goer makes $152,000 and spends about $2,500, he said. That translates into a conservative estimate of $250 million in spending, he said.
The host city, he said, also gets invaluable free publicity during Super Bowl week. And the event generates millions for charities in the host city, he said.
Steeg said he feels so strongly that Sanderson and other sports economists are wrong that he may challenge them to a public debate in Houston this January.
"I'm tired of people making careers out of being negative," he said.
Sanderson said of Steeg, "I told him that my colleagues and I are willing to debate. All we want is the NFL's data and methodology a month in advance. And we want the press to be invited because we want to put this issue to bed once and for all."
PRO: `EXCEEDS THE EXPECTATIONS'
"There has been lots of intellectual debate over the Super Bowl's economic impact. Unfortunately, those individuals who have criticized (previous) studies have not offered alternative means of evaluation. The Super Bowl's value cannot be measured by any existing standard. The Super Bowl is unlike any event in this country. We certainly welcome those who have criticized funded studies to proffer new measurement models, but this will take research. They shouldn't be offering opinions without first-hand involvement and research.
"Super Bowl visitors don't spend normally, and they don't act normally. If you don't experience it, you don't know what we're talking about. If anything, the NFL undersells the event. Hotel people and others say it exceeds the expectations we create. How in your rational mind do you say it's not worth anything?"
- Jim Steeg, NFL senior vice president who has been in charge of the Super Bowl since 1979
CON: `NO MEASURABLE IMPACT ON SPENDING'
"The results are shocking. For each of the six (Super Bowls) studied in three different locations, there is no measurable impact on spending associated with the event. The projected spending and spillover (multiplier) benefits of regional impact models never materialize.
"Several sources of error have been discussed in the literature that might tend to moderate the projected impact. These include investigator bias, error in measurement, unanticipated leakages from the region, substitution in consumption, diminishing returns in production, and crowding out (capacity restraints). What we find here is that a combination of these sources, albeit in unique and unanticipated forms, works to eliminate any measurable impacts from Super Bowl events and, it is anticipated, from other mega-sporting events as well."
- Philip Porter, "Mega-Sports Events as Municipal Investments: A Critique of Impact Analysis," a chapter in Sports Economics: Current Research
|Mugs: 1. Jim Steeg (p. 18); 2. Philip Porter (p. 18); Graphs: 3. PRO: 'EXCEEDS THE EXPECTATIONS' (p. 18, TEXT); 4. CON: 'NO MEASURABLE IMPACT ON SPENDING' (p. 18, TEXT); Graph: 5. NOT-SO- SUPER SALES (p. 18, BAR GRAPH)|


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Stephen Piette wasn’t planning on an electric car until he spotted a deal he couldn’t pass up.
“I love the car,” Piette told Target 12. “I think it’s great, and it’s great for the environment.”
Piette said the car was an affordable option because of rebates and tax credits. One of them he was banking on? A $2,500 rebate from Rhode Island’s DRIVE program. (DRIVE is short for Driving Rhode Island to Vehicle Electrification.)
“That $2,500 was going to help me put in a charging station at the house here,” Piette explained. “The car takes about 18 hours to charge on 110 [volts], but it takes four to five hours on the system I’d be putting in.”
Piette got the car on July 8. A couple days later, he was online and spotted a notice alerting consumers that the DRIVE program was suspended as of July 10. For Piette, it was too late to apply for the rebate.
“That surprised me,” he said. “I called the dealer immediately and I said, ‘did you guys know about this?’ Nope. They didn’t know.”
According to state data, as of October 2015, there were 421 electric vehicles registered in Rhode Island. The DRIVE program launched in January of 2016 and originally aimed to add between 80 and 150 electric vehicles.
Because funding dried up within a year and a half, Piette said he’s stuck with a car that’s not convenient.
“Without being able to charge it right away, quickly, it doesn’t make it as feasible to have,” Piette added.
Target 12 reached out to the state’s Office of Energy Resources, which administered the DRIVE program. The office did not make anyone available for an interview, but spokesperson Brenna McCabe sent a statement saying in part, “the OER EV program was historically funded in part through petroleum violation settlement funds, and that funding is no longer available.”
McCabe added, “We remain hopeful that we will be able to obtain alternative funding to restart the program, and are actively engaged in that process.”
In Piette’s case, he admits he missed the application deadline. But because he bought the car before the program ended, Target 12 asked the state if there’s a chance he could receive the rebate.
McCabe said, “We have to be fair to everyone… If we made an exception, it would be unfair to the others who bought vehicles and submitted applications prior to July 10.”
Rhode Island drivers have received $575,000 in incentives through the program, according to McCabe.
In the absence of a state rebate, the Office of Energy Resources is encouraging Rhode Islanders who want to buy an electric vehicle to check with dealerships and manufacturers for incentives.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) also offers a tax credit to qualified consumers who purchase a new electric vehicle.


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Enjin Coin price prediction: bull run to $3 possible as NFT demand rises
- Enjin Coin jumped by more than 10% on Monday.
- The rally happened after Visa bought an NFT for $150k.
- The bullish rally may continue as bulls eye $3.
The Enjin Coin (ENJ/USD) price popped on Monday as interest in the digital coin continued rising. Its price popped to a high of $2.18, which was the highest level since May 12. As a result, its total market capitalization rose to more than $1.6 billion, making it the 70th biggest cryptocurrency in the world.
Why ENJ is rising
Enjin is a blockchain project that was started in 2017, with the goal of helping developers in the non-fungible token (NFT) industry. By then, this was a relatively small industry that not many people knew about.
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This year, the NFT industry took steam as investors and developers took notice. Recently, some NFT marketplaces have received a market capitalization of more than $1 billion. We have also seen many wealthy people spending millions to acquire key digital assets.
The Enjin price rose on Monday after Visa bought a cryptopunk for $150,000. This is a notable thing considering that Visa is one of the biggest financial services companies in the world with a market cap of almost $500 billion. It is also one of the most important firms in the world since its cards are used by millions of people globally.
Enjin Coin is the native currency for the Enjin ecosystem. This is a large platform that allows developers to build NFT products, including games. Some of the most popular NFTs in the ecosystem are Azure Heroes, Lost Relic, The Six Dragons, and Age of Rust.
In the past few months, activity in the Enjin ecosystem has been in a strong bullish momentum. There are more than 42,000 traders who have sold more than 800k assets. This trend will likely keep rising as the decentralized NFT and gaming industry becomes popular.
The Enjin price also rose because of the overall strong performance of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin jumped above $50,000 while Ethereum rose to more than $3,300.
Enjin Coin price prediction
The daily chart shows that the ENJ price bottomed at $0.6477 in April. Since then, the coin has risen by more than 230%. Along the way, it has moved above the key 25-day and 50-day moving averages. It is also approaching its all-time high of more than $3.90. At the same time, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has been on a rising trend and is currently at the overbought level. Therefore, the coin will likely keep rising as bulls target the next key resistance at $3.
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The supermarket can be a classroom for adults, and I implore you to provide along the kiddies to teach them how to find foods that will assist them grow and flourish.] According to Lempert, 2014’s food trends will follow customers’ ever-evolving relationships with merchants, brands and food. Let’s raise a glass and band in a new year of healthy romantic relationships! What tendencies do you think will emerge in 2014? Please share your ideas in the comments. Hungry for more? As a renowned motivational loudspeaker, author, media personality, and award-winning dietitian, Taub-Dix has discovered a method to communicate steps to make sense of science. Her website isBetterThanDieting.com.. As the entire year winds down, it’s time to predict what 2014’s food and nutrition picture will entail.To learn more on this unique, key scientific event, or even to submit an abstract, visit.
The burgeoning field of do-it-yourself biomedical research got a major endorsement this week when the genetic testing heavyweight 23andMe announced it had bought the community health site CureTogether for an undisclosed sum. With CureTogether, a social networking site that allows users to perform their own research studies by sharing and aggregating wellness information, California-based 23andMe appears to be getting serious about expanding its initiatives in the Web-structured, participant-driven research arena. 23andMe shall encounter competition, though.


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It is no longer unknown to many what an emerging superpower China has become, not only to Asia but to the whole world. The Chinese economy is on an upward momentum and is only the beginning of many more good things to come for China. Even Western countries are surprised at how steadily China’s economy kept on going up without showing signs of ever slowing down.
Many of the world’s economies suffered badly over the last few years. The United States is not an exception. The U.S. itself suffered badly from the last recession and is still recovering. While how the U.S. economy will fare is still a mystery to everyone as doubts about Trump’s capability in leading the country to greatness fills the minds of many and his first few policies continue to divide the country, China is stronger than ever and has surpassed everyone’s expectations.
China’s economy stormed back in the first quarter, clocking its first back-to-back acceleration in seven years and bolstering the global growth outlook just as signs of subdued consumer spending have surfaced in the U.S.
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DC United and VW in jersey sponsor deal?
If completed, the arrangement would make United the ninth of 14 Major League Soccer teams to sell the front of its jersey to a corporate sponsor. The Los Angeles Galaxy currently has the league’s top deal, reportedly earning between $3.5 million and $5 million a year from Herbalife through 2011.Since DC released their 2008 shirt earlier this year, speculation has been ripe that a shirt deal was on the way as the entire front of the jersey had little on it.
Volkswagen of America recently strengthened its ties to the Washington area, announcing in September that it was moving its headquarters from Detroit to Herndon. It has announced major sales targets increases in North America over the next 10 years.
If United land VW, it will be a very solid get as they are a well-known international company with a good history in the sport. Also, as you can see in my mock-up of the jersey, their logo would not clash with a DC jersey.


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Beside the Keizersgracht canal in the heart of Amsterdam, inside the 18th-century cultural house Felix Meritis, more than 1,000 total attendees recently packed in to watch a fashion show starring no one.
Attendees of the event, which closed Amsterdam Fashion Week last weekend over four performances, filed into a room featuring a large catwalk bifurcated by a translucent screen.
As the show commenced, lights darkened and six projectors (three on each side of the stage) fired away, simulating the fluid movements of six-and-a-half foot-tall avatars who strutted—and occasionally swam—down the runway, sporting designs from nine digital fashion houses including DressX, The Fabricant, and Code Couture.
Some avatars pranced through surreal fields of glowing orbs and lightning; others performed meticulously choreographed dances set to swooning orchestral accompaniment. By the show’s conclusion, numerous audience members had found themselves in tears, multiple attendees told Decrypt—despite the fact that nothing they had seen, technically speaking, physically existed.
“It was way beyond even the far side of what we expected,” Antonio Talarico, who helped design the experience, told Decrypt.
Talarico and his creative partner Isabelle Udo recently formed Future Front Row, a company dedicated to creating immersive virtual fashion shows. Talarico’s background is curatorial; Udo is a digital artist best known for experiments in augmented reality. Together, the duo sought to redefine expectations for digital fashion, an industry they believe has not yet reached its full potential.
“Digital fashion can sometimes be considered gimmicky,” Udo told Decrypt.
“A lot of screens with a lot of logos—it can all feel very synthetic, and plasticky,” Talarico added.
That’s why the two endeavored to put on a digital fashion event rooted first and foremost in human emotion and the creative spirit. Each segment of the nearly 30-minute show began with a desired mood and a tone, which individual designers could then riff on to best showcase their works.
Shayli Harrison, one of the designers featured in the Amsterdam show, said she received encouragement to lean into otherworldly elements and special effects when presenting her designs.
“They were really looking for storytelling and strong emotive presence, stuff that wasn’t necessarily bound to reality,” Harrison told Decrypt.
So Harrison—who co-founded digital fashion house Mutani—placed her outfits on a humanlike sea creature in a nod to the dire state of ocean pollution, one of her collection’s themes. She and her partners then crafted trancelike choreography for the creature, set to classical music selected by Talarico and Udo, with the aid of the dancer Novaya Shey and the Berlin creative studio IOR50, which digitally captured Shey’s movements.
Today has been a remarkable day for digital fashion! Hologram fashion show in Amsterdam during Fashion Week featuring incredible artists 💔
— Svetlana Yakunina (@svetlanayakuni_) September 2, 2023
The cumulative effect of the piece was described by numerous attendees as particularly powerful, and moved several of them to tears, according to text messages between audience members seen by Decrypt.
“I’ve been in this space for the past two and a half years,” Harrison said. “This was the most accessible way I’ve seen for people to see the value in digital fashion, something I think has been heavily questioned as [the industry] has developed.”
DRESSX starts September’s Fashion Weeks season with FUTURE FRONT ROW holographic runway in Amsterdam 🇳🇱🤍
It is our privilege to bring 4 talented DRESSX designers curated by our Head of… pic.twitter.com/mCSmwbaglq
— DRESSX (@dressxcom) September 6, 2023
Udo and Talarico spent almost a year crafting the event. At first, they just wanted to put it on during the run of Amsterdam Fashion Week, as an unofficial side event, to capture as many interested visitors as possible.
When representatives for the event found out about those plans, though, they were intrigued—and invited Future Front Row to feature in Amsterdam Fashion Week’s main programming and take advantage of its resources and venues. The show ran four times, to around 300 attendees each go; every performance sold out.
Though digital fashion first burst onto the scene in 2021 with flashy drops from luxury fashion houses and a teeming start-up ecosystem, the nascent industry has since struggled to attract mainstream consumers and move beyond highly limited, headline-grabbing one-offs.
Udo and Talarico are emphatic that tangible live events that focus on experience, not technology, can remedy this issue. They see the success of the Amsterdam show as proof of an extant path forward for the industry as a whole.
“There is more demand than we make it look like there is in the digital fashion industry,” Talarico said. “It seems like a niche, but just because we have walled-gardened it into this niche. If you open it up to a wider audience, people really want to see this kind of stuff.”


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Kristy Caylor, founder of Maiyet, has announced the launch of For Days, a new direct-to-consumer membership model based on a circular economy with an environmental focus.
For Days gives customers access to 100 percent organic t-shirts made in L.A. starting at a price point of 4 dollars. If customers rip, stain, or wear out a shirt, they can swap it out for a fresh one in pre-paid, recycled packaging, and For Days will upcycle the used shirts to create new product.
For Days aims to reduce waste in the fashion industry
“Our current retail model of produce, purchase, pollute doesn't make sense, and isn't sustainable or efficient," Caylor said. "About 85 percent of clothing donations get thrown into landfills, and in t-shirts alone, the average American buys 10 and throws away six each year. It’s clear that the fashion industry is massively damaging to the planet, and I knew there had to be a better way. It’s time to shift the verbiage from consumer to user, from ownership to access, to create real progress in retail.”
The company, which officially launched this week, offers 12 styles for women and 9 for men, including tanks, short and long sleeve tees, and sweatshirts, each available in four to six colorways in sizes XS-XXL. Members have access to unlimited exchanges, so all they have to do is decide how many shirts they want and how often they want to exchange them. The company stresses that they don't do forced deliveries either.
Although For Days is just starting off with t-shirts, they are hoping to expand to more product categories. Currently, they offer three membership plans: 3 shirts for 12 dollars a month, 6 shirts for 24 dollars a month, or 10 shirts for 36 dollars a month. Members are incentivized to accumulate impact, rather than closet clutter, by earning impact points over time that can be exchanged for credit and eventually gifted. This personal impact score is based on each member’s water, landfill waste and energy savings, which can be accessed through their individual account.photo: courtesy of the brand


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African air carriers post the largest year-on-year increase in demand
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that African carriers’ posted the largest year-on-year increase in demand of all regions in May 2017 with freight volumes growing by 27.6%.
Global air freight demand increasesd by 13% in May. Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), grew by 5.2% year-on-year in May2017. Capacity increased by 14.7% over the same time period.
Demand has been boosted by very strong growth on the trade lanes to and from Asia which have increased by nearly 57% so far this year. However, seasonally adjusted growth has leveled off in recent months.
Demand is measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), grew 12.7% in May compared to the year-earlier period. This was up from the 8.7% annual growth recorded in April 2017 and is more than three times higher than the five year average growth rate of 3.8%.
The continued growth of air freight demand is consistent with an improvement in world trade. This, in turn,corresponds with new global export orders remaining close to a six-year high in May. There are, however, some signs that the cyclical growth period may have peaked. The global inventory-to-sales ratio, for example, has started rising.
This indicates that the period when companies look to re-stock inventories quickly, which often gives air cargo a boost, has ended. Regardless of these developments, the outlook for air freight is optimistic with demand expected to grow at a robust rate of 8% during the third quarter of 2017.
“May was another good month for air cargo. Demand growth accelerated, bolstered by strong export orders. And that outpaced capacity growth which should be positive for yields. But the industry can’t afford to rest on its laurels.
With indications that the cyclical growth period may have peaked, the onus is on the industry to improve its value proposition by accelerating process modernization and enhancing customer-centricity,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO.