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In May, Wal-Mart's latest financial results took the eye, although in some ways the numbers prompted as many questions as answers. In the US...
Multinational grocery retailers demonstrated a various different strategies to grow their sales and expand their consumer reach over the pas...
Global retailers have continued to expand into emerging markets, in spite of the political and economic turbulence seen in many of these countries and the challenges to profitability.
In such a price-focused environment, manufacturers will need to find innovative ways to grow in 2015. Data, IRI's Anne Lefranc argues, will be central to these strategies.
Against a backdrop of weak consumer confidence and falling prices, four of France's leading four retailers have, in two deals, decided to team up on purchasing. And the country's food manufacturers are not happy.
China's grocery market has been growing at a rapid pace for several years. Representing one fifth of the world's population, this emerging market has become a significant opportunity for foreign investors seeking overseas growth. Michelle Russell reports.
Dixy significantly beefed up its presence in Russia's food retail sector when it acquired local peer Victoria Group two years ago. While the company still has its foot on the throttle, with some ambitious plans to expand over the next three years, Dixy's attention has now turned to a lower-capital intensive organic growth phase. Katy Askew spoke to Dixy's head of investor relations Natalya Belyavskaya to find out more.
How to source palm oil is vexing the minds of many in the food industry. Growing consumer awareness of the links between palm oil, deforestation, the threat to wildlife and products on supermarket shelves is encouraging manufacturers and retailers to look for sustainable sources. However, only a few have grasped the nettle and, as Adam Harrison, senior food and agriculture officer for the WWF tells Dean Best, the industry needs to do much, much more - and quickly.
French retail body, the La Fédération des Entreprises du Commerce et de la Distribution, has unveiled its own voluntary labelling scheme, which it is planning to test by the end of the year before a full roll-out in 2016.
French retailers are lining up to show their support for the introduction of a national charter for responsible supplier relations.
United Biscuits is set for a new owner - Turkey's Yildiz Holding. The UK-based snacks maker announced this week brands including McVitie's and BN would join Godiva chocolate in the Yildiz portfolio. The M&A spotlight was firmly on the UK last week, with German giant Müller striking a deal to buy Dairy Crest's liquid milk assets - competition approval pending.
The French competition authorities today (6 November) announced two distinct lines of inquiry into the planned purchasing partnerships between Casino and Intermarche and between Auchan and Systeme U.
A busy week in the food industry calendar, with the SIAL exhibition in Paris, ended with a shock announcement: Chiquita Brands International's shareholders rejected the company's plan to merge with Ireland's Fyffes. Elsewhere, we heard third-quarter updates from Unilever, Premier Foods and Mead Johnson.
Major suppliers operating in France will lose money from the two buying partnership deals announced by four of the country's largest grocers, a senior executive at dairy group Bongrain has said.
Auchan, the French retail giant, has reported higher annual sales and earnings for 2013 but saw domestic sales fall.
Sun Art Retail Group, the Chinese retailer, saw its profits climb more than 15% in 2013 as new stores boosted sales and the company's buying negotiations helped margins.
Sales growth at Hain Celestial fell slightly short of expectations, prompting the question of whether the natural and organic group is trying to run before it can walk. Elsewhere analysts picked up on Wal-Mart's failure to impress with its quarterly figures. Kellogg results also fell short and CEO John Bryant insisted the initial start-up costs of Project K will pay off in the long term.
Auchan has confirmed it will cut 300 jobs at its hypermarkets in France by 2017 as part of moves to shake up the way it staffs its stores.
Auchan has signed an agreement with two local businesses to open eight stores on Reunion Island off east Africa.
French retailer Auchan has sought to play down speculation it is to open its first hypermarket in Belarus in 2015.
Poland's competition watchdog has ordered Auchan to sell a clutch of Real hypermarkets in the country as part of its approval for the French retail giant's acquisition of the business from Metro Group.
Auchan has outlined plans to open ten to 14 stores in Russia in 2014 across its three different formats.
French retail giant Auchan is understood to be anticipating a doubling of sales in Romania between 2012 and 2015 following the opening of its first rebranded Real store.
Metro Group has remained tight-lipped over reports it has held discussions to sell its Real operations in Turkey to local retailer Begendik.
French retail giant Auchan saw its earnings climb in the first half of the year boosted by a one-off gain and continued growth in Asia and central and eastern Europe.
Chinese retailer Sun Art Retail Group has booked an increase in first-half profit and said it will continue its store expansion in the back half of the year.
Chinese hypermarket operator Sun Art Retail Group, the local venture of French retailer Auchan, has booked a jump in first-quarter earnings.
Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprungli has launched a fondue product in France.
French retail giant Auchan has recorded a drop in full-year profit due to one-off items as well as unfavourable comparisons and warned 2013 will be another "difficult" year.
Chinese hypermarket operator Sun Art Retail Group, the local venture of French retailer Auchan, has recorded an increase in profits for its full-year.
Just weeks after announcing a purchasing tie-up in France with local rival Systeme U, Auchan has outlined an international agreement with Germany's Metro Group.
France's fifth- and sixth-largest retailers, Auchan and Système U, are to team up on buying - with the companies to work together when dealing with international brands.
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The ability to import stickers should be available to users of WhatsApp for Android version 220.127.116.11 and WhatsApp for iOS version 18.104.22.168, according to the report
WhatsApp’s developers may be working on features like true multi-device support, but that doesn’t mean the messaging platform can’t add smaller, quality-of-life enhancements like animated stickers. According to reports, the company will now start carrying out the ability to import animated sticker packs globally.
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HindustanTimes reported on March 2 that the company was bringing animated sticker packs into the app, but that it was only available in three countries: Brazil, Iran, and Indonesia.
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The animated sticker import feature will be rolled out globally over the next 24 hours, according to renowned WhatsApp feature leaker WABetaInfo.
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The feature will appear on your WhatsApp version within 24 hours.
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Because of WhatsApp’s ability to import third-party static photos as stickers, multiple sticker pack applications have appeared on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. Other apps that enable users to create their own sticker packs have grown in popularity, and according to WABetaInfo, these apps will be able to import animated images as stickers on WhatsApp as well.
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The ability to import stickers should be available to users of WhatsApp for Android version 22.214.171.124 and WhatsApp for iOS version 126.96.36.199, according to the report. Users can import a video or a GIF into the Sticker Maker app on the Google Play Store or the App Store to create an animated sticker pack.
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According to WhatsApp’s guidelines, users must add at least three stickers to a pack before they can be imported, and a pack can contain either animated or static stickers, the report states.

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The follow originally appeared in the Times as an article for Red Box.
Today I’m bringing together major office employers from the City and West End to look at how we bring workers back to offices as safely and as soon as possible — reviving the central London economy as a result.
If we want the country’s economy to recover from coronavirus, we need central London to lead the way. It’s good to see Lloyd’s of London reopening this week, at 45 per cent capacity and with strict safety procedures in place. It’s a positive shot in the arm for the City. More broadly, however, the West End and the City are suffering, and a big part of this is down to a lack of office workers. Some 600,000 people commuted to Westminster alone every day before the lockdown and we need them back this year if we are to save the central London ecosystem — the thousands of pubs, independent coffee shops and sandwich bars, theatres and retailers — that rely on them.
The business organisation New West End Company predicts a 70 to 80 per cent fall in annual turnover of West End shops and hospitality, expected to result in 50,000 job losses (around a third of West End retail jobs in total) by 2020. The knock-on effect for the hospitality and cultural sectors would be devastating.
We must work urgently to give people the confidence to travel to work, and make it easy for them, even if just for part of the week. I would like TfL, commuter rail operators and the Mayor of London to seriously consider the following three-point plan.
First, I would like TfL and the train companies to investigate regular swabbing of our tubes, trains and buses for Covid-19. Regular random testing of our seats, handrails and doors will give people the confidence that travelling on our public transport is safe. If coronavirus is detected anywhere we can respond quickly with measures such as closing and deep cleaning the immediate area in question. Swab testing has already taken place on the New York transit system and will go a long way in giving passengers the confidence that their commute to and from work is safe.
Next, station staff should temperature-check passengers as they enter our tube and overground stations or at ticket barriers. It’s already happening in many of our shops and gyms across the country, and it takes a couple of seconds — well worth it if it gives people a bit more reassurance about travelling on public transport. There will obviously be logistical issues around taking the temperature of a million plus commuters, but even random testing at key stations could offer confidence and comfort to concerned travellers
Finally, while we are encouraging people to use public transport, cycle and walk where they can, the mayor should temporarily remove the congestion charge at evenings and weekends and undertake a proper study to understand present traffic flow into the capital. The congestion charge has been a vital tool in improving our air quality, and we must never neglect this important task. However, the £15-a-day seven-days-a-week charge is hurting our small independent businesses and large employers alike at a time when many of them are fighting to recover from the lockdown and struggling to survive. It has simply become a tax on economic recovery and is likely to cost thousands of job losses.
Our tradesmen, pubs, cafes and shops are forking out £100 every week just to be able to get to work and make a living. A Covent Garden weekend stallholder recently told me that she now has an extra £1,500 a year extra costs to her already tight margins. The charge is a barrier for visitors and shoppers coming into London to support our businesses at this challenging time. Removing it at evenings and weekends even in the short term will encourage more people to come into the centre of London to visit, shop and work. It will give our businesses a chance to get back on their feet and survive.
I look forward to sitting down with major employers in central London today and working out what more we can all do practically to encourage people back to work. Meanwhile I hope TfL, the train operators and the mayor of London consider these measures with urgency. We must work together to rescue our economy, and central London must bounce back quickly for it to happen.


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Washington, D.C. (July 28, 2017) – Outdoor recreation and its impact on the American economy took center stage at the U.S. Department of Commerce on July 27. Members of the Outdoor Recreation Industry Roundtable (ORIR), including Archery Trade Association President and CEO Jay McAninch, met with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and other administration officials to discuss outdoor recreation’s importance to the American economy, how increased partnerships can grow jobs, and how trade agreements impact the outdoor recreation industry.
Outdoor recreation is vital to the economic and healthful well-being of America. The industry generates $887 billion in direct spending and supports 7.6 million jobs across all 50 states, including jobs in bowhunting and archery. Many of the jobs supported by the industry are in rural communities and small businesses, making outdoor recreation an essential part of American life.
ORIR urged that the new Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account – created as part of the recently enacted Outdoor Recreation Jobs and Economic Impact (Outdoor REC) Act and managed by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis – be expedited and measure all outdoor recreation economic activity, not just the economic impact of recreation on federal lands and waters. ORIR offered to provide expertise, data and more to assist in the development of ORSA and urged that it then be used to influence public-sector budget and policy decisions.
“It was a pleasure to meet with Secretary Ross and thank him for the ‘sea change’ he has already implemented at the Department of Commerce,” McAninch said. “The Secretary has installed a culture that understands business challenges but is working to remove obstacles to job creation and support actions that sustain economic growth.”
Members of the Outdoor Recreation Industry Roundtable (ORIR), including Archery Trade Association President and CEO Jay McAninch, met with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and other administration officials to discuss outdoor recreation’s importance to the American economy, how increased partnerships can grow jobs, and how trade agreements impact the outdoor recreation industry. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Commerce | Office of Public Affairs | Owen Burgess
Additionally, ORIR members highlighted the economic importance of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the outdoor recreation industry, noting key trade partnerships with Canada and Mexico and recommending that the overall framework of NAFTA be retained but important “harmonizing” provisions be added.
Millions of international and domestic tourists visit America’s public lands and waters each year, spending money at local businesses that provide lodging, dining, retail and outdoor recreation experiences like archery and bowhunting. Increasing international and domestic visitation to federal lands and waters and surrounding towns can help stimulate the economy and create jobs in both urban and rural America. Partnerships between the outdoor recreation industry and the Department of Commerce can help ensure that America’s Great Outdoors welcomes visitors – new and returning alike – for years to come.
McAninch explained: “In addition to embracing outdoor recreation as a critical segment of the U.S. economy, I was pleased that Secretary Ross was actively engaged on many important trade issues important to outdoor recreation companies. ATA’s archery manufacturers are gratified to hear that protecting the intellectual property rights of American companies and dealing with the flow of counterfeit products – especially in ecommerce – was something the Secretary and his team not only were aware of but were on top of as a priority business problem.”
The Secretary showed interest when ORIR explained the importance of delivering the benefits of international tourism to all 50 states with the proven and growing allure of parks and other special places and was encouraged to change the focus of marine sanctuaries and marine fisheries policies to support recreational enjoyment.
ORIR told Secretary Ross that it seeks to partner with the Department of Commerce to keep America’s recreation economy strong by ensuring that the American people and their international guests have access to healthy, active outdoor fun on their public lands and waters and outlined assets ranging from major communications channels to trade shows to fresh ideas.
To see ORIR’s presentation to Secretary Ross, click here.


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A photo posted on Facebook over the weekend shows big, colorful signs covering the doors and windows of the future burger-and-milkshake joint’s prime, 3,300 square foot space on Crystal Drive’s restaurant row.
This will be Good Stuff’s second location. Its original location on Capitol Hill opened in 2008.
Washingtonian reported earlier this year that Good Stuff Eatery was hoping for a January opening. So far we’ve been unable to reach anyone associated with Good Stuff for confirmation, but a review of permit applications for the restaurant’s location at 2110 Crystal Drive reveals that it’s still without a building permit. That means an opening would likely be at least a couple of months away.


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Trump Lauds Trade, Economic Wins in Davos Victory Lap
Be honest. If someone in January 2017 had told you that three years after Donald Trump’s inauguration, he would sign a trade deal with China before a roomful of approving CEOs, watch Congress ratify a rebranded Nafta the next day and head to Davos the following week to hail it all, you would have raised a skeptical eyebrow. That an impeachment trial in the Senate would begin the same day as his Davos address would have seemed more likely.
But here we are. The most prominent man in the Swiss Alps this week is the leader of a populist movement that in 2016 sent political shivers through the World Economic Forum. With top billing as the celebrations opened on Tuesday, he arrived bearing trade deals. This year he is Davos Man, a designation given only partly tongue in vintage champagne-swilling cheek.
“Just last week alone the U.S. concluded two extraordinary trade deals,” Trump declared on Tuesday. His deal with China and the renamed Nafta (now the USMCA) “represent a new model of trade for the 21st century, agreements that are fair, reciprocal and that prioritize the needs of workers and families.”
The global economic order has changed a lot over the past three years. So it’s hard to look around and conclude that Trump failed to live up to his promise to be a disruptor.
Yet one feature of the trade wars, ironically, has been the willingness of the global business elite and investors to bend to the president’s will and, at least publicly, happily brush off the tariffs and turmoil.
The biggest feature of Trump’s “phase one” deal with China is that it leaves tariffs in place on $360 billion, or two-thirds, of American imports until a second phase that few experts (and some within the White House) doubt will ever get done. Beijing, too, is showing no signs of dropping its retaliatory tariffs. The deal may be labeled a truce, but don’t tell that to the companies that are still taking bullets in the form of tariff bills every day.
On the eve of Trump’s return to Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a peace had been reached after a phone call with Trump in a dispute over France’s digital services tax. That’s a relief, temporarily at least, for Davos devotees worried that tariffs might start flying across the Atlantic this week.
Let’s be honest, though. The willingness of the world’s business elites and investors to look beyond that reality and hail Trump while pushing financial markets to record highs has to do with how the president manages expectations more than anything else.
Most economists will tell you that Trump’s trade deals are far from history-shifting economic victories and point to the remaining duties as a continuing drag on growth. The pacts also hang on promises — such as that China will buy $200 billion in additional U.S. exports (over 2017 levels) over two years — that look improbable.
The fact is that Davos is embracing Trump for opting to not make matters worse through escalation. But that embrace ignores that things are getting worse.
The U.S. and China may have signed a truce but in Davos this week you’d be brave to predict anything other than a future of grinding economic conflict between them. Transatlantic trade tensions remain high. The IMF on Monday cut rather than raised its global growth forecasts, even after the China deal was sealed. It predicts the U.S. economy will expand by 2% this year. That may be faster than the rest of the G-7 and give Trump some bragging rights. But it’s hardly the “spectacular” comeback and “profound economic resurgence” that Trump just took credit for at Davos.
Charting the Trade War
The International Monetary Fund predicted the world economy will strengthen in 2020, albeit at a slightly slower pace than previously anticipated amid threats related to trade and tensions in the Middle East. It also sees growth in the global trade volumes recovering this year and next, though forecasts of 2.9% and 3.7 % were reduced from previous estimates.
Today’s Must Reads
- First look | Early South Korea trade figures for January show the country’s chip exports may be headed for the first monthly gain since late 2018 in another sign of a recovery.
- Passage to India | Ships hauling everything from coal to iron ore and consumer goods on domestic routes along India’s coast may run out of fuel as the nation struggles to meet new environmental standards.
- One fine day | The European Union wants any agreement with the U.K. on post-Brexit relations to include possible fines for violations of the pact, a new document shows.
- I dreamed of Africa | Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the U.K.’s burgeoning trade links with Africa as “the future” in a thinly disguised warning to the EU ahead of the start of new negotiations with the bloc.
- Let me in | EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan said China must improve an offer to scale back barriers to foreign money if the two sides are to reach a long-sought investment agreement this year.
- Heading sideways | The tailwinds pushing up the Chinese currency recently are starting to face.
- Turning the corner | German business expectations surged in January, adding to signs of a turnaround.
- Jan. 23: Japan exports
- Jan. 24: Monthly release of the CPB World Trade Monitor
- Jan. 21-24: Business and government leaders meet at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Stay on top of all of the action via Bloomberg’s Davos Diary newsletter. Click here to subscribe.
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It’s truly a blessing if we can just wake up naturally before we go to work or have places to be. The daily struggle that almost all of us are going through is getting out of bed. The same goes for this chicken rice stall owner in Cheras.
If you ever feel the need to satisfy your chicken rice craving at his stall, be mindful to wait first until he wakes up and is ready to serve you.
A Facebook post of the chicken rice stall recently went viral as users found it hilarious after reading the owner’s “business hours”. The business hours read: Wake up – 10 pm and even the name of the stall is 训醒鸡饭 which translates to, “Wake Up Chicken Rice”. The stall is currently located at LM Food Court in Cheras Lembah Maju.
Not only do they sell chicken rice, but they also sell crispy Beancurd Roll (腐竹卷) that has fish paste on the inside. Another name for it is Gold Ring.
“You can’t find it anywhere in KL, except for my stall. It’s also one of the signature dishes in my stall”
The owner of the stall, Heinrich, shared with WORLD OF BUZZ that initially he and his partner made a gimmick regarding the concept of the stall. However, they didn’t realise that many have been supportive and receptive to their scheme.
Prior to this, Heinrich and his partner used to have a stall in Johor Bahru, selling steamed fish and yong taufu. However, due to the pandemic, they had to close down the business and moved to open the current one in Kuala Lumpur.
The post has now garnered over 9,600 shares because of their unconventional way of marketing their food service. Many Facebook users have shared their hilarious thoughts on this in the comment section.
“Sleep is more important than anything”
“Off day → I can’t sleep”
“Can’t wake up until he wakes up”
Heinrich and his partner loved the reaction they’ve been seeing online and will continue focusing on their dish to satisfy their customers. Make sure to wait for them to wake up first before ordering.
Share your thoughts on this in the comments below!
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After the car was previewed at a selection of motors shows around the globe, Lexus has finally confirmed that the stunning Lexus LF-LC Concept will hit the production line in the coming years.
The decision to produce the car comes after it received such an great response when previewed in concept form, and despite it only ever being intended as a concept car, Lexus’ has reversed this decision and the Lexus LF-LC should make a fitting replacement for the Lexus LFA.
The news comes from Lexus’ vice-president of marketing Brian Smith while being interviewed by Wards Auto.
“That was (intended as) a concept car, and I think it surprised everybody, including us, when Japan said due to overwhelming response they decided to do it,” Smith told the publication. “It’s a huge win.”
Despite this announcement, Lexus has yet to reveal any technical specifications about the car, but when it debuted as a concept car it featured a gasoline-electric hybrid system producing an impressive 499hp.
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The Federation of Europe IFAs, FEIFA, announced today (22 November) that it has partnered up with Fidelity Worldwide Investment.
The federation said this will make Fidelity’s funds and services easily available to the member companies of the trade association.
FEIFA said it believes this is a “very good indication” of the “growing importance and relevance” of the federation.
Ben Waterhouse, UK head of retail sales at Fidelity, said: “Fidelity is delighted to have the opportunity to work with FEIFA during this next year and I look forward to developing relationships with the member firms.”
Paul Stanfield, chief executive at FEIFA, added that the partnership was a “further example” of the federation’s stated aim to encourage major industry institutions to support and develop retail business in Europe via licensed IFA businesses.
FEIFA’s partnership programme was launched in March last year and has now been closed to new partnerships until the New Year at the very earliest.
Mr Stanfield said: “The programme has attracted a large number of well-known industry heavyweights in combination with a good range of more specialist and boutique providers.
“We feel that further expansion of our affiliates at this stage would be counter-productive for our members, and also to both existing and would-be partner companies.
“This strategy now also allows us to focus on two major research projects that have recently commenced; one relating to platforms and the other to an assessment of whether FEIFA should offer its services in other areas of the world.”
The federation is a non-profit trade association for English-speaking IFAs who are based or operating on the continent and now represents in excess of 300 advisers operating across Europe and further afield.


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The price for a gallon of milk is over four dollars and experts say it might not be coming down anytime soon. They also say it's a supply and demand situation that has hit at the same time.
"We're in a world market for dairy products just like we are in a world market for oil and other countries are starting to demand things that we have taken for granted and that is what is affecting the price," says Richard Kilmer a Agricultural Professor at The University of Florida.
We took a look at milk and this is what we found for a gallon of whole milk at some stores in our area.
Winn Dixie had the highest price at $4.39. Publix at $4.29 and CVS and Walgreens had the lowest both at $3.89.
Experts say they expect the prices to drop later this year and even then the price will closer to four dollars then three for a while.
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CDC Discourages In-Person Holiday Shopping
Due to risk of infection from COVID-19, the CDC warns about the risks of shopping this holiday season.
Black Friday, one of the nation’s largest shopping days of the year, usually brings thousands of Americans to crowd big box stores and purchase items for dramatically low prices.
But you might want to rethink your Black Friday plans this year as the Center for Disease Control warns Americans about the health risks associated with shopping in-person this holiday season.
The CDC released a series of risk levels that rate the dangers of holiday activities including Thanksgiving dinner and Halloween trick-or-treating. These recommendations come as coronavirus cases are spiking across the country. Among the many risk-filled activities, the CDC repeats the dangers of shopping in-person.
“Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others,” the CDC’s website reads. “Shopping online rather than in person on the day after Thanksgiving or the next Monday.”
Black Friday is not the only annual holiday event to be discouraged. The CDC also released a number of ideas for parents to take trick-or-treating indoors. Among these ideas include hiding candy throughout the house or holding a Halloween movie night.
Other events such Thanksgiving and Día de los Muertos received the red flag from the CDC. These holiday festivities iconically bring thousands of Americans onto the roads traveling across the country to carve a turkey with family. Due to the risk travel brings to the spread of COVID-19, the CDC is discouraging it this year.
“Celebrating virtually or with members of your own household poses low risk for spread. In-person gatherings pose varying levels of risk,” the CDC’s website states.


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Amazon India manager Amit Agarwal countered Flipkart’s remark that seemed to jab fun at the Seattle-based organization for offering little ticket things like “churan and hing” to make up the numbers in the as of late finished up bubbly season deals.
“Individuals not just purchased.. cell phones, updating through a trade offer or the machine that they couldn’t access in their city or a TV… or furniture they couldn’t or the home apparatus or the design they were hoping to purchase yet they additionally purchased churan and hing,” Agarwal said.
Flipkart had guaranteed triumph on Friday in the business sweepstakes with 15.5 million units against Amazon’s 15 million. The ecommerce organization made the point this was without offering basic needs or Prime enrollments.
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“Our attention was on portable, way of life and substantial machines, and that is the thing that we trust clients need to purchase amid this time,” Flipkart Chief Executive Officer Binny Bansal had told ET.
“You can run deal on hing, churan, besan and bournvita at whatever time.” Agarwal told ET and included that ecommerce in India was at an enunciation point with the online buy of things of day by day utilize turning into a propensity. “That is a crucial move that equivalents fine disclosure online,” he said.
“That is the way that ecommerce in India needs and not only the way of offering cell phones as it were.” Amazon, with its new concentrate on basic need, was along these lines all around situated to exploit this pattern.
The move in the purchasing conduct is clear from Prime memberships becoming essentially inside two months of dispatch, Agarwal said. One out of three shipments was for Prime individuals amid the deal time frame.
“This is finished exposing of the myth that individuals don’t pay for comfort,” he said. “These are crucial movements that the US took 10 years to reach.” In the US, Prime was propelled in 2005, 10 years after Amazon started operations. In India, it took three years, he said.
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Not at all like created markets, online retail in India has for the most part developed on the back of rebates and free conveyances instead of accommodation. Deals development for online retailers started abating this year as the most recent rules on outside interest in ecommerce constrained organizations to eliminate marking down.
In the second quarter of 2016, the aggregate estimation of merchandise sold on online commercial centers dropped to $13 billion from $14 billion in the first three months, as indicated by research firm RedSeer.
In the comparing time frame a year ago, deals had grown 21% to $11.5 billion from $9.5 billion. Be that as it may, Amazon saw a development of 135% in the January-September period from the year prior — 150 for each penny, 125 for every penny and 133 for every penny over the seventy five percent. This is respectable given the business wide abating, Agarwal said. “As an open recorded organization, we are exceptionally legitimate in reporting numbers,” he said.
We are taking a gander at all the numbers and I am lowered that client has picked us as the default shopping goal. What’s more, I am sure that we are the pioneer.” He additionally released net stock esteem (GMV), the metric took after by Indian adversaries Flipkart and Snapdeal, as “false.” Amazon is the main ecommerce organization as far as determination, unwavering quality, accommodation, cost and accessibility, he said.
“It took Amazon only three years to achieve where officeholders have taken 10+ years and various acquisitions to reach.”
Amazon India was unaffected by controls on marking down forced by the remote direct speculation (FDI) rules on ecommerce. “Clarity is superior to anything uncertainty,” he said. Agarwal invited 100 for each penny FDI being permitted in sustenance retailing.
“It will go far in acquiring proficiency how nourishment is prepared and circulated in India and the organization is amped up for it,” he said.


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- Ottawa's newest interior design software company is ready to take the city by storm.
- Ontario is following British Columbia's lead, promising to introduce a tax on foreign homebuyers that the province hopes will help cool the frantic housing market, easing concerns about a
- WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) will launch a new discount carrier later this year in a bid to offer travellers a no-frills, low-cost option, the company said on Thursday.
- Union says the new laws are unfair and that the city acted in bad faith
- Fresh of a countrywide “Innovation Nation” tour, Microsoft Canada’s John Weigelt was feeling nostalgic for the early days of confederation.
- Kelly Santini LLP partner nominated in professional category
- On May 17th, Ottawa’s business and technology leaders will have an opportunity to meet some of Canada’s brightest young minds at the presentation of the first ever STEAM Horizon Awards at the Natio
- In just its second year, a new degree offered through Carleton University’s Technology Innovation Management program is attracting significant interest, though its explosive growth may lead to tough…
- Statistics Canada says wholesale sales fell 0.2 per cent to $58.9 billion in February, led by lower sales in the personal and household goods and the food, beverage and tobacco subsectors.
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Tbilisi is about to become an Internet city by the end of 2012. Free Wi-Fi network named “Tbilisi Loves You” is already available in some of the central areas as the National Tourism Agency and Tbilisi City Hall inform. IT progress in Georgia has become visible for the last years but some flaws also remain.
Internet in Georgia
According to Georgian National Communication Commission the number of Internet users has passed 1.5 million in 2011 which is an impressive 49 percent rise from the previous year. More and more Georgians opt for high-speed Internet with DSL or fiber-optic connections taking the lead, while dial-up has apparently become a history for Georgians. Georgian Internet took the start in the early nineties with all websites tied to Russia. In later years, couple of local providers emerged offering low speed connection for 300$ per month. Naturally, very few if anyone used the service. The turn was made in 2003 when ADSL connection was introduced and prices fell down; the number of Internet cafes fell sharply as individual households became provided with Internet connection. By 2007 Internet became the second fastest-growing segment in the sphere of communication after mobile connections. After the merger of few companies the market eventually ended up mostly divided by two – Silknet (once state-owned and now privatized) and private provider Caucasus Online.
New Internet fashion
The two are in hostile relations, but it hardly bothers those Georgians for whom Internet has managed to become indivisible part of lifestyle for the last five years. People are increasingly keen on number of new services that now became available. Thea Zerekidze, an executive director of Camex, a company working on transportation of online purchased goods to Georgia reports that the number of online shoppers has increased significantly for the last four-five years. – People who shop online once than spread the trend across the friends and the habit becomes permanent, Thea says.
Online shopping is, of course, not all. Public figures and politicians have commenced a fierce competition for Facebook likes and comments perceiving social networks as a public platform, while few years aback the same networks were perceived as a teenage entertainment. Government tries to quicken the pace of IT revolution surprising Georgians by number of high-tech projects one of the latest being a virtualized government web portal with 3D ministers.
In Cities yes, in villages rather not
However, reaching out via Internet does not mean reaching out to all. According to the Caucasus Barometer 2011 recently presented by The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC Georgia), a whole 45 percentof Georgian citizens report they never use Internet with another 5 percent saying they don’t know what the Internet is. However, 28 percent of citizens seem to be using Internet on the daily basis and another 10 percent use Internet at least once in a week. Most part of daily Internet users expectedly come on the capital residents. A whole 63 percentof rural citizens never use the Internet while only 5 percent of rural citizens use it daily.
Tutana Kvaratskhelia, a resident of the village Jgali in western part of Georgia, reports that though most of the families with young people own a computer in the area, people do not spend much time on the Internet. High-speed connection, an ordinary service for the capital residents, has not reached other regions so far.
According to CRRC, Georgians also name lack of access to the computer as the major reason for not using Internet. “Society for the distribution of computer knowledge” was founded this May to tackle the problem. The ceremony of foundation took place in the Eastern region of Kakheti in the museum-residence of famous Georgian public figure Ilia Chavchavadze who, in the late nineteenth century founded the society with the similar title, but that one was for spreading literacy. As the Ministry of Justice press center informs, this was a symbolic act, not a coincidence.
President Mikheil Saakashvili, being present on the foundation ceremony assessed the knowledge of English language and computer skills essential for the modern society and encouraged all Georgians to take effort. The foundation document was also symbolically signed electronically. There is a joke among Georgians that the two things you need to know in the whole world now are English and computer. But as the country takes steps forward in IT there seems to be little fun for those who do not manage to keep up.


text: Twilio is adding a twist to its MMS service, which lets developers embed picture, video and other multimedia messaging into their apps. It’s now adding MMS support for regular 10-digit phone numbers, wherever that number happens to terminate. That means companies can now use a single phone number for all of their customer communications, whether its voice calls, text messaging or multimedia messaging. The capability isn’t entirely new. Companies like Zipwhip and Bandwidth already offer SMS-and MMS-to-landline services to their business and telecom customers and carrier like Frontier Communications have already starting offering offering it to local businesses. But this could be a very powerful tool for Twilio’s core developer customers because it lets them set up visual two-way communications with their customers, said Jeff Lawson, CEO and founder of Twilio.


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he pandemic has dented United kingdom revenue at upmarket bag maker Longchamp, not too long ago filed accounts show.
The British isles division of the non-public French accessories business had to short term near stores for chunks of 2020 owing to lockdowns. The retailer stated it shed some expert staff with distinct language techniques, which “severely impacted” the small business when branches could welcome again prospects.
Accounts filed this month exhibit turnover very last 12 months dropped 54.7% to £8.2 million. It recorded a £1 million pre-tax loss, in contrast with a £565,075 earnings a year earlier.
Longchamp has a few standalone branches in the British isles, and is stocked by office shop corporations such as Harrods and John Lewis.
The firm’s strategic report reported: “Covid-19 has negatively impacted 2020 figures but not influenced continuity of operations. Management actions have been executed to reduce Covid financial impact.”
It extra that a 5 calendar year business prepare has been well prepared to recuperate profitability at the most current in 2023.
The report by Longchamp (British isles) said: “We be expecting 2021 to be in the exact route as 2020 and count on 2022 to get back total business enterprise exercise.”
The enterprise could not be achieved for comment now.


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THE wait for the 30-hour cheeseburger just got a little longer. The dish, which takes more than a day to prepare, calls for a short-rib patty to be slow-cooked in a vacuum pack, then dunked in liquid nitrogen before it is deep fried. It is among more than a thousand recipes in “Modernist Cuisine,” a cookbook whose publishing delay, announced on Sept. 15, set off a collective sigh among gastronomes.
Proofreading and packaging concerns pushed back the release of Nathan Myhrvold’s six-volume, 2,400-page, $625 book from December to March. But that merely sweetened the anticipation among chefs and the type of home cooks unafraid to make almond cream with a homogenizer.
Dr. Myhrvold is a former chief technology officer for Microsoft who had his first Ph.D. at age 22 and later studied quantum theories of gravity with the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. “Modernist Cuisine” grew out of Dr. Myhrvold’s passion for science and food; he trained as a chef at LaVarenne in Burgundy, France.
He has spent three years in a laboratory in Bellevue, Wash., testing and adapting the increasingly complex cooking techniques emerging at restaurants like El Bulli, the Fat Duck and WD-50. Where other cookbook writers use whisks and graters, Dr. Myhrvold, who amassed hundreds of millions of dollars at Microsoft, wields vacuum sealers, colloid mills and rotary evaporators, and ingredients like agar and methylcellulose.
Expectations are enormous for what Dr. Myhrvold and his team of seven full-time chefs have put into a set of books that weighs 48 pounds with its acrylic case. Last month, Bill Gates plugged its “amazing photos” in a Twitter message to his more than 1.5 million followers. Ferran Adrià of El Bulli has said, “This book will change the way we understand the kitchen.” David Chang, the chef and owner of Momofuku, called “Modernist Cuisine” “the cookbook to end all cookbooks.” As Mr. Chang explained, “Only someone like Nathan could do something this comprehensive and rigorous, and we will probably never see another cookbook like it again.”Continue reading the main story
Still, not even Dr. Myhrvold, who started his own publishing company for this book, has seen a final copy. More than 65,000 lines of text and 3,500 photographs and illustrations are being checked (the ink alone for each copy weighs four pounds). The book’s custom-designed box-within-a-box container, meant to protect the heavy volumes during shipping, failed a series of drop tests and is being re-engineered.
None of this appears to disconcert Dr. Myhrvold, who was ebullient during a telephone interview last week from the headquarters of his company, Intellectual Ventures, which invests in technology and inventions. Asked about the delays, he laughed and said, “There’s an awful lot of moving parts.”
In 2004, Dr. Myhrvold started a thread on the culinary Web site eGullet.org asking for advice on sous vide, a method of cooking at steady low temperatures in sealed vacuum bags. “There was no book in English on the subject, and over time the thread became one of the main resources in the world on sous vide,” he said. “People started bugging me to write a book.”
In order to write about sous vide, Dr. Myhrvold felt he needed to write about food safety and the physics of food, heat and water. “One thing led to another, and it took me to this,” he said. “There are dozens of books that give you a sense of classic cuisine, but none of those cover all aspects of modern cooking or the science of cooking with step-by-step photos, the way we do.”
Dr. Myhrvold’s team sawed apart pots, pans and other gear to show, for instance, how an ultrasonic bath can make crispier French fries. “We realized there was an opportunity to produce an encyclopedic book that covers the vast body of work chefs have created over the last 10 or 20 years,” he said.
Dr. Myhrvold consulted with 72 prominent chefs, who shared techniques and recipes, though were not paid for their contributions.
Wylie Dufresne, the chef and owner of WD-50, said, “I jumped at the opportunity to help spread knowledge about the modern pantry.”
Many recipes will be listed as “adapted from” or “inspired by,” including a few updates of culinary classics. Poulet au feu d’enfer, a chicken breast recipe inspired by Fernand Point, considered the father of modern French cuisine, was “cooked sous vide with a very high-tech sauce,” Dr. Myhrvold said.
Earlier this month, Scott Heimendinger, the blogger known as Seattle Food Geek, attended a reception and nine-course tasting hosted by Dr. Myhrvold at his lab as part of the International Food Blogger Conference.
“It was not unlike going into Willy Wonka’s factory,” Mr. Heimendinger said. “He fed us everything from deep-fried watermelon slices to a plate of glistening bright red cherries that actually turned out to be foie gras.” Of the cookbook itself, Mr. Heimendinger added, “I have not been this excited for anything since the release of the second ‘Star Wars’ movie.”
Becky Selengut, a Seattle chef who blogs at www.chefreinvented.com, was more skeptical after tasting pea soup prepared in a centrifuge and beef marrow mousseline blasted out of a carbon-dioxide charger.
“I’m wary of intense manipulation of foods when it involves chemicals, expensive tools and gadgets that only .002 percent of the population has access to,” she said. But when asked how the foie gras cherries tasted, Ms. Selengut gasped and said, “Out of this world.”
Dr. Myhrvold insisted that 80 percent of the recipes be achievable for the home cook, albeit a well-equipped one. “We didn’t want to dumb down these techniques,” he said. “We wanted to show the real way modern food is made, and that sometimes means creating gels or using liquid nitrogen.”
The cheeseburger, for instance, requires the meat to be cooked sous vide for several hours. Freezing with liquid nitrogen ensures that the crust will stay crispy while the center stays perfectly medium rare once it is deep fried. The heirloom tomato is vacuum compressed. The cheese must be melted first, then restructured. The bun is made from scratch and toasted in beef suet. The crimini mushroom ketchup includes honey, horseradish, fish sauce, ginger and allspice.
“Not everybody will make their burger this way every day, but I think it’s so cool to show you can take it to that level,” Dr. Myhrvold said. Perhaps, but is any recipe worth 30 hours of prep time? Again, Dr. Myhrvold laughed. “Let me assure you, this burger tastes really good,” he said.Continue reading the main story


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The owner of Creamery Restaurants plans to auction the chain of seven south suburban ice cream shops.
William A. McEnery acquired the shops for just over $3 million in 2011 from his father, William J. McEnery. The stores, open seasonally, specialize in soft-serve ice cream and serve other food.
Bids can be placed on one or multiple stores. McEnery said he does not have a set price in mind.
“There are a lot of different ways to value the properties. We've envisioned maybe owners coming in and expanding the brand or franchising,” McEnery said. “The auction process does a good job of winding up the entire market and seeing more people place their value.”
Frank Diliberto, president of Palos Heights-based Diliberto Real Estate Services, which is running the auction, said the top Creamery locations generate about $600,000 in revenue a year. Homer Glen is one of the best-performing locations.
The auction is scheduled for 7 p.m. April 7 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago-Alsip. All of the stores' assets and operations will be covered in the bid, including the ice cream equipment and one to two acres of land each store sits on, Diliberto said.
The McEnery family is best known as the former owner of the Gas City gas station chain, which was led by William J. McEnery. The business wound up in Bankruptcy Court in 2010, and Speedway took over most of its gas stations in 2011, when the younger McEnrey bought the Creamery.
McEnery recently accepted a new position at an investment bank and said he is selling the stores because he no longer will have time to run them. He plans on keeping the stores open until the new buyers come in and take over.
FIRST STORE OPENED IN '81
“We want to get them out of our hands before ice cream season gets rolling and I think any buyer would kind of want them as well before your knee-deep in 90-degree weather,” McEnery said.
The first Creamery shop opened in 1981 in Frankfort, McEnery said. His father acquired the business in 2001 and built it to a seven-store operation, adding locations in Homer Glen, Mokena, Manteno, Orland Hills, New Lenox and Manhattan.
Beth Franczyk, who assists with property management accounting at Frankfort-based Olivieri Real Estate, said her company has seen businesses moving into Frankfort and surrounding areas such as Mokena and New Lenox as the residential market builds back up.
“A lot of businesses went in with the idea that those areas were growing,” she said. “People are out spending money in the area.”


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HENDERSONVILLE, TN (WSMV) - A masked man was caught on camera robbing a Hendersonville store and its employee at gunpoint.
Saturday morning a man with a gun walked into Soho Gallery on West Main Street.
“Some of these shoes can cost over $1,000 easily,” owner Leo Montalvan said. ‘I’m sure they knew that we had expensive shoes and stuff like that. They probably did research us, I mean we post all the new products on Instagram and social media.”
The masked man is seen walking into the store and showing a gun to the manager behind the counter. You then see the robber ask the employee for his phone and then takes him into the back of the store to get some shoes.
As the two men come back into the shop a customer comes in and the robber sends him to the back of the store.
Montalvan says Saturdays are busy at the store and more customers pulled up as the robbery was happening.
"I believe it was a couple, they were coming to the door as he was locking the door,” Montalvan said.
Montalvan believes they were the ones who called 911, but before police got there the suspect took off in a dark SUV.
Montalvan expects the merchandise he stole to pop up somewhere else.
“You don't come rob a store at gunpoint just for the shoes. You're clearly coming for the money for the value of the shoes,” Montalvan said.
Montalvan is now telling other local shops to be on the lookout for the stolen merchandise.
“I let them know heads up if this comes in the store let me know,” Montalvan said. "I just hope the guy is brought to justice. I mean you just can't be running around pulling guns on people, that's not cool at all."
No one was injured during the robbery.
Montalvan says they taking steps to try and prevent this from happening again.
Police are still looking for the robber.
Police would ask that anyone with information on this case please call and report that information to the Hendersonville Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at (615) 264-5303 or the Hendersonville Crime Stoppers at (615) 573-5400. Tips may also be submitted using the P3 Tips Mobile Application.


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LONGMONT -- Making toys is no longer the job of Santa's helpers.
Kiwanis Club of Longmont began making handcrafted toys for donation about 21/2 years ago, and Saturday is their Christmas Eve.
The club, which is focused on serving children, is planning to make 500 toys Saturday as part of the global organization's annual One Day of Service.
Organizers said they expect about 25 volunteers, including a group of Boy Scouts, to help trace, assemble and pack toys.
Project coordinator Marvin Van Peursem said five to 12 volunteers have been gathering every week to make old-school toys as part of the Toys for Kids project since November 2010.
The toys are mostly wood, made from scraps donated by local stores like Woodley's Fine Furniture and Home Depot. Trucks, trains, airplanes and even Smart cars made from the smallest scraps, are cut and sanded before axles and wheels are added.
Doll cradles and strollers are made for girls, and some members have started crocheting skirts and dresses for stuffed animals, as well.
Some toys have a black grain from beetle-kill wood, which has a dark design when it's dipped in the vegetable oil the volunteers use to stain the toys.
Chuck Everitt, a Kiwanis member and former shop teacher, lends his garage and tools to the group, which makes 50 to 100 toys every Thursday.
Since the project began, the group has donated more than 7,000 handmade toys to organizations all over the world that help children, such as Boys and Girls Clubs of America, pediatric centers and shelters, Van Peursem said.
"Kiwanis serves kids and we wanted to do something to help the kids, so toys seemed like the thing to do," he said.
The toys made Saturday have not been claimed yet, Van Peursem said. Some of the volunteers will be writing letters on Saturday to organizations that might be interested in some donations, he said.
The Kiwanis members have different reasons for participating in the toy project. One member says it helps with his arthritis. Everitt said it puts all of his tools to good use. Another said it's just fun making toys.
But every volunteer agreed that the driving force behind everything they do is the kids.
Whitney Bryen can be reached at 303-684-5274 or email@example.com.


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Stock Recommendations: Domestic equity market is reeling under severe pressure, leading to a steep meltdown in benchmarks. BSE Sensex and Nifty50 hit their new 52-week lows last week. The last week is said to be the worst one for the benchmark indices where Sensex dropped close to 3,000 points and Nifty50 tumbled about 1,000 points. Both the indices are just inches away from the bear grip.
The looming fears of global recessions and stagflation are among the major nightmares for the markets as the inflationary worries due to geopolitical worries are now spooking the world and central banks are aggressively looking to tame it.
As market experts predict more volatility ahead, they suggest that investors should look for a pool of good stocks, which can do well in the next two-three years, particularly in the bear market.
“The next two-three months would be a transitional phase for the economy and we need to brace for higher volatility, need to stick to quality stocks, and not to panic and exit,” says Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
So, here are a few stocks whose valuations are significantly down from their respective 52-week high, and hence, Amarjeet Maurya, AVP – Mid Caps, Angel One Ltd, recommend buying these stocks.
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Ashok Leyland Ltd (ALL) is one of the leading players in the Indian CV industry with a 32 per cent market share in the MHCV segment. The company also has a strong presence in the fast-growing LCV segment. We believe that the company is ideally placed to capture the growth revival in the CV segment and will be the biggest beneficiary of the Government’s voluntary scrappage policy and hence rate the stock a BUY.
HDFC bank is India’s largest private sector bank with an asset book of Rs. 11.3 lakh crore in FY21 and deposit base of Rs. 13.4 lakh crore. The Bank has a very well spread out book with wholesale constituting ~54 per cent of the asset book while retail accounted for the remaining 46 per cent of the loan book. Given best-in-class asset quality and expected rebound in growth from Q2FY22 we are positive on the bank given reasonable valuations at 3.0xFY23 adjusted book which is at a discount to historical averages. We value the stock at3.7xFY23 adjusted book and arrive at a target price of Rs. 1,859.
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PI Industries is a leading player in providing Custom synthesis and manufacturing solutions (CSM) to global agrochemical players. The CSM business accounted for over 70 per cent of the company’s revenues in FY22 and is expected to be the key growth driver for the company in future. The company has been increasing its share of high-margin CSM business driven by strong relationships with global agrochemical players.
HCL Tech (HCLT) is amongst the top four IT services companies based out of India and provides a vast gamut of services like ADM, Enterprise solutions, Infrastructure management services, etc. At CMP the stock is trading at a P/E multiple of 21.5xFY23 EPS estimate which is at a significant discount to the other large-cap IT companies like Infosys and TCS and offers tremendous value at current levels given market leader status in Infrastructure management.
Marico is one of the major FMCG companies present in the hair oil, edible oil, foods & personal care segment. Marico’s products have strong brand recall coupled with an extensive distribution reach of more than 5mn outlets and a direct reach of ~1 million outlets. Marico has a strong balance sheet along with free cash flow and higher profitability. We expect Marico to report a healthy bottom-line CAGR of ~11 per cent over FY2022-24E due to better volume growth on the back of a strong brand, and wide distribution network.
The views and investment tips by experts in this News18.com report are their own and not those of the website or its management. Users are advised to check with certified experts before taking any investment decisions.


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Global nutrition company Herbalife has announced a multi-year sponsorship deal with three-time All Star and former Kilkenny hurling captain, TJ Reid.
The company also announced a team sponsorship deal with top League of Ireland club Shamrock Rovers Football Club.
The sponsorship deal with Mr Reid, lasts until January 2018.
As part of the sponsorship agreement, Herbalife will provide the full range of Herbalife24 products to aid them with their demanding training regimes.
TJ said the use of sports nutrition products was a vital part of his training regime and overall nutrition.
“Herbalife products have played a significant role in my performance, they have been a part of my life for the past few seasons.
“The products are specially designed to meet the need of players throughout the season and I would recommend them to athletes from any sport,” he said.
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Comstock Park, Mich. – Perrin Malted Milk Ball is back. On Saturday, September 9th Perrin Brewing released Malted Milk Ball and it is available at the Perrin Pub on draft and 22oz bottles.
Perrin Pub Club members had the opportunity to purchase their bottles an hour early. Members had to bring their Pub Club Membership card to gain access an hour early. Malted Milk Ball was released in 22oz bottles and on draft for 8oz pours inside of the pub.
When the Malted Milk Ball was first released in 2012, the RateBeer online ratings were a high score of 98 for Overall and 90 for Style categories.
Malted Milk Ball, a 12% Imperial Porter is brewed with lactose and spiced with vanilla and cacao nibs then laid down and aged in Woodford Reserve Oak bourbon barrels for 9 months. Michigan distribution in the market for Malted Milk Ball is set for Monday, September 25th.
Paying homage to one of Perrin’s favorite treats, they are pleased to offer a malt beverage crafted to fulfill the chocolatey, sweet flavor profile of a malted milk ball.


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Momentive (Leverkusen, Germany) chose the Fakuma trade show in Germany this week to launch a new liquid silicone rubber formulation in its Silopren portfolio of materials that helps to solve a sticky problem for medical device manufacturers, among others. Silopren LSR RSH significantly reduces so-called self healing in silicone rubber valve slits, which can cause the opening to partially or fully seal shut. Mini-valves and multi-slit designs are prone to this, according to Momentive, and it can be especially problematic in medical device applications, as this can lead to dosing variances and even device failure in needle-free infusion systems, for example.
“The valve can stick when exposed to harsh conditions,” Tina Wei, Global Marketing Director, Life Science, told PlasticsToday from the Momentive booth. “This can occur during storage or special processing. In the past, self-healing has been addressed by applying a non-stick surface treatment to the part or adding release agents or oils to the material,” adds Wei, “but those processes increase the risk of contamination.” They also may increase the cost to manufacturers.


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A coffee startup in China that’s gunning for Starbucks has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2.2 billion, according to a report.
Luckin, which soft-launched in January, also raised $200 million in July. The company has been fast-tracking the opening of shops and burning through $150 million within six months of operation.
Luckin currently has stores in 21 major Chinese cities, with a total of more than 1,700 shops. The company says there’s a Luckin location within a 500-meter radius of anywhere in downtown Beijing and Shanghai.
Starbucks has roughly 3,300, but it’s been in the country for 20 years. The main difference between the two shops is that Luckin stores are a cross between a sit-down cafe and pick-up booths, which are also delivery hubs for staff to take orders to customers in 30 minutes. This service has helped the fledgling company grow popular with office workers stuck at desks.
The rapid expansion didn’t go unnoticed. Starbucks, for its part, teamed up with Alibaba delivery company Ele.me in August for coffee delivery in China. The company was seeing a slump in sales in the country, which it blamed on third-party delivery services. It also saw a slide in third-party companies placing orders for delivery, resulting in longer lines in the store.
“I think it was driven by the government wanting to stop having third parties do that, because it was creating annoyances,” said Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson on a call with analysts.
Starbucks wants to bring delivery service to 30 cities in China by the end of the year.
Luckin’s Co-founder and CEO Qian Zhiya said the company will use the capital to continue to invest in technologies, products and business development practices to improve its customer experience.


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People who score highly for materialism tend to turn to shopping -- and compulsive spending -- in the face of stress, according to a small new study from Michigan State University.
"When the going gets tough, the materialistic go shopping," study researcher Ayalla Ruvio, an assistant professor of marketing at the university, said in a statement. "And this compulsive and impulsive spending is likely to produce even greater stress and lower well-being. Essentially, materialism appears to make bad events even worse."
Ruvio and her team measured participants' materialistic tendencies using a standard test called the Richins’ (2004) attenuated 9-item Material Values Scale. The study, published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, involved two parts. For the first part, 139 residents of an Israeli town who had been exposed to rocket attacks in 2007 were surveyed on their post-traumatic stress symptoms and impulsive and compulsive buying habits. One hundred and seventy residents from another Israeli town not affected by the rocket attacks were also interviewed.
Researchers found that people who scored as materialistic had an increased likelihood of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms, and they were more likely to compulsively or impulsively shop, versus those who were less materialistic.
For the second part of the study, researchers sought to see how self-esteem factored into spending behaviors as a method of stress relief among materialistic people. "Because materialistic individuals typically exhibit low self-esteem, they may be especially likely to experience higher levels of stress and seek to resolve this stress via maladaptive consumption activities," they wrote in the study. "Thus, we examine the role of self-esteem as a possible underlying driver of the effects observed in our Israeli study."
For this part of the study, researchers commissioned a survey of 855 people, about half of whom were female, with an average age of 36. The survey examined the materialism levels, impulsive buying and compulsive consumption of the study participants, as well as their responses to a statement that addressed their own mortality: "I am frightened by the idea that my thoughts and feelings will stop when I am dead." They also measured the self-esteem of the study participants.
Researchers similarly found that materialism seemed to intensify stress's effects, and that the stress could be a more broad, encapsulating stress -- such as general fear of death -- and not just a specific stressor -- like the rocket attacks from the first part of the experiment.
The findings supported the observations of the first study, the researchers wrote. "[The result] suggests that this effect appears to be a generalized response to global mortality concerns rather than a localized reaction to a specific mortal threat. Thus, this study extends the generalizability of our findings beyond the context of a particular traumatic event," the researchers wrote in the study.
"In brief, it appears that this effect is likely driven by low levels of self-esteem rather than by a lack of social support," they added.
Recently, a study in the Journal of Economic Physiology showed that compulsive shoppers turn to shopping because they believe the purchases will boost their moods. "We … found that these individuals keep on buying because they are looking for that 'buy high,' hoping their purchases will lift their mood and transform them as a person," the researcher of that study, Ryan Howell, of San Francisco State University, said in a statement.
Plus, a recent online poll commissioned by HuffPost showed that nearly one in three Americans uses shopping as a stress-reliever, with women being more likely than men to turn to this method of stress reduction.


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According to a recent research report, cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions market is estimated to have grown 21% in 2014 to $6.1 billion. It is further expected to grow to $10 billion by 2019 at a CAGR of 10%. SAP is the leader in the market with 11% share and Workday (NYSE: WDAY) is the second largest player accounting for 9% of the market, followed by Ultimate Software with 7% share and Oracle with 6% share.
For the recently reported third quarter, Workday’s revenues grew 42% to $305.3 million, and exceeded the Street’s forecast of $303 million. This was a break-even quarter for them, exceeding the market expectations of a loss of $0.04 per share.
Subscription revenues grew 48% over the year to $242.7 million and professional services revenues grew 23% to $62.57 million.
Their recent performance may have surpassed market expectations, but their outlook does not appear as promising. For the current quarter, Workday is projecting revenues of $317 million-$320 million while the market was looking for revenues of $320 million.
Workday and Oracle’s Bitter Rivalry
Everyone knows there is no love lost between Workday’s founders and Oracle after the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft by Oracle. But their relationship continues to sour even now. During the year, Oracle has been offering heavy discounts to customers who want to sign up for their HCM products. What is particularly worrisome for Oracle is that Workday’s applications do not rely on any of Oracle’s offerings – neither Oracle’s database nor its high-end servers. To counter this competition, Workday is offering billing model changes that are hurting its revenue outlook. According to Wedbush analysts,
“WDAY has been offering more flexible payment terms to new customers to counteract ORCL’s aggressive pricing tactics with its HCM Cloud. We believe the impact from more flexible payment terms on WDAY’s subscription revenue was minimal in 3Q, although WDAY’s new sales tactics are expected to result in a three point headwind to 4Q subscription revenue and five points next year, then normalizing by FY18.”
Workday is also countering Oracle with several product upgrades. It has already entered the financial management market and last quarter announced continued investments in global capabilities for Financial Management, including the addition of new language translations for French and Spanish.
During the last quarter, Workday released Workday Learning, a new application that will deliver a more personalized learning experience for organizations to help and encourage employee career development. The application will feature collaboration and social learning technologies including the ability to share content on any device, personalized training modules, support for diverse learning experiences that will be able to support various developmental experiences, and a built-in measurement and insights tool to help organizations get an insight into the learning effectiveness. Workday Learning will be integrated into Workday’s unified suite of applications and will be generally available to the customers during the second half of next year.
Workday has also released its latest feature release Workday 25, which includes additional financial management solutions including Workday Inventory and additional reporting and analytics capabilities, and expanded product translations and localizations.
Besides its own efforts, Workday is also benefiting from other acquisitions in the industry. Last quarter, IBM announced the acquisition of Workday’s leading service partner Meteorix. Meteorix has over 200 certified Workday consultants delivering Workday’s solutions to multi-national companies across a wide range of industries. With the acquisition, IBM could become one of the leading, most qualified, and experienced Workday service providers in the world. The move will help Workday expand their reach to new clients and also rely on IBM’s might to rapidly implement their solutions.
Its stock is trading at $80.48 with a market capitalization of $15.45 billion. It touched a 52-week high of $95.17 in February this year.
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Garden centre protests road closure during peak season
A small business owner on Queen Street East is worried that city-scheduled maintenance will prevent customers from accessing the store during its busiest season of the year.
It's spring planting season at East End Garden Centre at 1395 Queen Street East, a family-owned business that has been in operation for 30 years.
But this spring, the city has also chosen to rip up the stretch of road between Coxwell and Greenwood to repair streetcar tracks and water pipes.
The detour sign will go right in front of the garden centre, preventing customers from driving in. The repairs will also disrupt traffic at varying levels from next week until the end of the summer.
"If people can't get in here, and there's no place for them to park, they're going to go somewhere else. You would, so would I," said owner Theresa Tate.
The owners are extra worried because, unlike other big box stores in the area, East End Garden Centre sells only plants and garden equipment and it relies on its spring sales to survive.
They've asked the city for permission to add their own sign, but were told it would cause too much congestion.
Other business in the area, including a pizza shop and a butcher shop that is new to the neighbourhood, are also expressing concern about the closure and road work.
Local coucillor Mary-Margaret McMahon said she understands the concerns, but said the work needs to get done.
"We need to fix, it's part of living in the city, it's maintaining your infrastructure. It's the nature of transit, of using water. It has to be done," McMahon said.
McMahon said the majority of the work is scheduled for later in the summer.
But, even loyal customers say they may find it difficult to shop for flowers and other gardening supplies during the road closure.
"You need the car," said one customer who was shopping on Tuesday. "I can't imagine. Every time I come here, I come home with trays of stuff, I can't take it home in the street car. I'd have to be able to bring a car here."
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As well as being able to drive the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway in current IndyCar machines, Project Cars 2 players will also have some historic cars available to drive.
The 101st running of the Indy 500 takes place on the 28 May and ahead of the famous race, Project Cars 2 has announced some cool new details about the up-coming game.
We already knew the current Dallara DW12 raced in IndyCar this year will be included in PC2, and we got the chance to try it at a recent preview event.
But now, it’s been revealed that three classic Indy 500 cars will also be available to drive in the game – which is pretty cool news.
Riding in the current Indy 500 hype (mainly thanks to some bloke called Fernando), one of the cars will be the Lotus 38 raced by the legendary Jim Clark to his one and only Indy 500 win in 1965.
The green and yellow beauty is joined by Parnelli Jones’ Watson-Offy ‘Ol’ Calhoun roadster, which he controversially won the 1963 Indy 500 behind the wheel of.
Joe Leonard’s incredibly innovative Lotus 56 turbine car from the 1968 Indy 500, which he almost won before retiring painfully close to the finish, is also in the game.
PC2 looks at the hugely competitive Indy 500 era in the 1960s and the cars that will appear in the game in great depth in the announcement post, which can be seen here.
There’s still no firm release date, but we know the game is coming late in 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.


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Do I hear a billion? Sotheby's sales surge as art market bucks downturn
Rob Hastings is Assistant News Editor at The Independent. He has served on the news desk since 2010. While working as a freelance reporter and feature writer he was also published by The Guardian, The Times and the Financial Times.
Monday 19 March 2012
It might seem like everything is crashing down around us in Austerity Britain, but judging by the bumper-billion-pound sales figures disclosed by one London auction house, it appears now is the perfect time to cash in on those artistic masterpieces you've left gathering dust in your attic.
Sotheby's in London's upmarket New Bond Street sold nearly £1bn of fine art in its sales during 2011, according to results filed at Companies House. And with global sales of fine art estimated to have hit £35.8bn last year, it appears Britain is taking a significant chunk.
The biggest sale of the year was Francesco Guardi's Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon, which yielded £26.7m. It was later subjected to an export ban by the Culture minister, Ed Vaizey, in order to give potential British buyers the chance to raise enough cash to keep it in the country. Nevertheless, it helped to boost total sales at the London auction house to £931m, up more than £50m on 2010.
One private collection broke several records when it fetched £93.5m last February, including the £23m sale of Francis Bacon's triptych of studies of fellow painter Lucian Freud, and Salvador Dali's £13.5m portrait of French poet Paul Eluard.
Among the other highlights of the year were Austrian artist Egon Schiele's rare cityscape Häuser mit bunter Wäsche, Vorstadt II (Houses with Colourful Laundry, Suburb II), which took £24.7m, and Pablo Picasso's £25.2m La Lecture.
The London auction house's sales were particularly striking given that it faces competition not only from local rivals such as Christie's, but also scores of sister houses overseas. Indeed, two of the group's forthcoming headline lots are to be sold in New York: Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream, which could fetch up to $80m (£50.5m), while bids of up to $50m are expected for an Elvis Presley portrait by Andy Warhol.
A Warhol screen print portrait of Brigitte Bardot will be included in a London sale of 300 works formerly owned by the German playboy Gunter Sachs, which is expected to harvest at least another £20m from the buoyant market in May.
Although Sotheby's is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it was founded in London by bookseller Samuel Baker, who held his first auction – the sale of a library – in 1744. The group now operates 90 auction houses in 40 countries, from the US to South Korea, and the increase in auction sales in London was also seen worldwide – up 14.5 per cent to $4.9bn.
"We have now reached the point where the three geographic engines driving our auction business – the Americas, Europe and Asia – are contributing to our success in roughly equal proportions," said president and chief executive Bill Ruprecht.
The success of fine-art sales figures could not prevent a slight fall in revenue and pre-tax profit at the 368-year-old auction house, which were £152.6m and £50.6m respectively.
However, Sotheby's managing director for Europe, Patrick van Maris van Dijk, insisted in his report that the "directors are encouraged by the level of auction sales to date in 2012 and remain encouraged by the strength of the global art market".
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After a prolonged introduction from the Barcelona Opera House’s chamber orchestra, Samsung launched its latest smartphone, the S5, to a packed crowd at the Mobile World Congress.The company said it had “decided to go back to basics” with its latest device, and indeed, there were few surprises.
To date, Samsung has sold over 200 million Galaxy S smartphones. It’s a hugely popular product line, so for the Galaxy S5 it’s not a huge surprise to find that Samsung hasn’t strayed too far from the successful formula defined by its predecessors.
While the back of the device is certainly different – Samsung has opted for a dimpled, soft-touch back rather than the glossy plastic used for the Galaxy S4 – the Galaxy S5 is still instantly recognisable alongside its precursors. It’s a similar size to the Galaxy S4 and the button placement, curved corners and faux-metal plastic sides all feel rather familiar.
Languishing at 1 percent of a global phone market it helped create, Google subsidiary Motorola is planning to unveil the Moto X, a customizable phone, this summer. And to support its launch, Google is planning to spend as much as $500 million. If that doesn’t move Motorola’s dial, nothing will.
When it comes to hardware most people agree that Nokia makes good handsets, just look at the new Nokia Lumia 1020. But the problem is Nokia’s smartphones run Windows Phone which is still playing catch-up in terms of consumer acceptance. The question that is often asked is this, why didn’t Nokia use Android?
A survey has found that one in three Australians don’t bother, or don’t know how, to change their mobile phone ring when they buy their phone.
The 8-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is the latest example of the company’s weird pricing decisions. At $300, the Tab 3 is expensive for a small tablet that — aside from its 1.5GB of RAM — has fairly modest specs and hardware features.
TouchWiz does a lot of things better than stock Android. Sure, some don’t like the bloatware that comes with it, but it’s an easy trade-off for the value that Samsung’s offering adds to your smartphone. Stock Android is nice, but it feels like a bare bones Android skin. The camera features aren’t the best, and stock Android doesn’t really try to offer handy features like Smart Pause or Multi Window. That said, here are the five reasons why I love TouchWiz over stock Android.
Sony’s liquid-loving Xperia Z just got a bit of extra competition: Samsung just announced a waterproof version of the Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 Active shares many specifications with the regular model: a Full HD 1,920×1,080-pixel five-inch display, a 1.9GHz quad-core processor, two-megapixel front-facing camera, 4G LTE, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and the same 2,600mAh battery.
The much-awaited Galaxy S4 mini has arrived. Samsung Electronics has announced the Galaxy S4 mini, a compact version of Samsung’s flagship smartphone, Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 mini has a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display and weighs 107g. The pint-sized version of the Galaxy S4 is powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core processor and has 1.5GB RAM. It runs Android 4.2.2 OS.The phone has an 8 megapixel rear camera and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera. The Galaxy S4 mini has an internal memory of 8GB (user-accessible is approximately 5GB). Its memory can be further expanded up to 64GB using a microSD card. The smartphone comes packed with a 1,900mAh battery.


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Tesla's first quarter 2019 financial results were not at all positive, on the contrary: $702 million in losses. Although Elon Musk already predicted this fall, we did not expect these figures. According to the company, the difficulties in delivering the Model 3 is partly to blame for this situation.
Tesla ended the quarter with 2.2 billion in cash on hand, a decrease of 1.5 billion from the end of 2018. Of that total cash, 768 million are deposits made by customers for their vehicles. In addition, Elon Musk said that they do not expect gains for the second quarter, which should come in the last third of the year.
Looking at the number of vehicles sold, Tesla delivered 63,000 in the first quarter, down significantly from 90,000 in the last quarter of 2018. Tesla attributes this decline to difficulties in distributing Model 3, which is already available in Europe and China. In Musk's own words: "this has been the most difficult logistical problem I've ever seen in my life, and believe me I've seen many difficult ones.
Added to this is that from January 1, 2019 ended the government support of a $7,500 tax break for the purchase of an electric car, which made the Tesla more expensive, with a consequent curb on demand.
It must be borne in mind that 2018 was an extraordinary year for Tesla, which went from delivering 1,550 Models 3 in 2017 to approximately 140,000, in addition to some 100,000 Model S and X vehicles. This translated into a third and fourth quarter with positive results. In addition, Model 3 also became the world's best-selling electric vehicle.
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BRADFORD — It’s a garage sale with a ripple effect and one the community does not want to miss starting at 5 p.m. today — June 26 and running through Friday — at the Oakland Church of the Brethren.
This year will be the seventh garage sale for the Oakland Church with proceeds going to the Brethren Disaster Ministries (BDM) to aid volunteers in disaster recovery projects and relief efforts.
Southern Ohio BDM volunteers have recently been assisting survivors of the tornadoes that hit the Miami Valley on Memorial Day. Assistance included the removal of trees, tree limbs, and debris along with helping individuals move belongings to storage units or moving donated furniture for those starting over.
Last year, the Oakland Church raised over $14,000 from their garage sale.
“There are so many good people out there, willing to help and do things,” said Betsy Nisonger, Oakland Church member and coordinator of the garage sale.
Nisonger explained all items are available by monetary donation (buyers determine the price) and will have a variety of items to choose from including (but not limited to) toys, clothing, furniture, books, décor, and crafts. The church will be offering something new this year, too, a “collector’s corner,” which will have priced unique items.
The ripple effect begins with those wanting to donate items to the church sale. For many individuals, the task of a garage sale may be too cumbersome, or they want an opportunity to help others. The church collects those items over the spring, offering items that meet the needs of any individual during the garage sale. Since the items are not priced, buyers may give what they are able or want to give.
Items not sold by the end of the sale will be donated to the Friedens Lutheran Church in Bloomer where they will be available free to the public. Anything remaining from that point will be given to reservations. Nothing is thrown away.
The Oakland Church youth will also have a meal deal during the garage sale that will include a hot chicken sandwich.
“It’s a lot of work but a lot of fun,” said Nisonger, asking everyone to share the news on the sale and help support disaster recovery projects.
The Oakland Church of the Brethren garage sale runs 5-8 p.m. today, June 26, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, June 28 at 8058 Horatio Harris Creek Road, Bradford.
For more information on the garage sale or how to donate call 937/448-2287.


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India has launched an unique outdoor promotional tourism campaign in Japan, one of the key inbound markets, by draping Japanese auto drivers in Incredible India T-shirts and colourful Rajasthani turbans.
Amidst fanfare, 10 Velo Taxis wrapped in images of India’s tourism products were flagged off by Indian Ambassador to Japan H K Singh at Ginza, the prime area of Tokyo.
These Velo Taxis will be plying for two months and Japanese drivers will be dressed in Incredible India T-shirts and Rajasthani turbans.
The promotional campaign was undertaken on the eve of Japan Association of Travel Agents’ Travel Fair 2008 in which India Tourism (Tokyo) and the Ministry of Tourism participated, a press release said.
Velo Taxis were specially chosen for the campaign as an ecologically friendly mode of transportation which is very popular in tourist areas of Japan. It is also reminiscent of the ubiquitous three-wheeler rickshaw, India’s commonest mode of public transport.
India Tourism, Tokyo will continues its innovative promotional efforts by launching an Incredible India campaign in public bus later this year.
Japan is among India’s leading and fast growing markets for inbound tourism. Amid growing bilateral ties, around 150,000 Japanese tourists are expected to visit India this year, the statement said.


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Lost and Found opens for business in Grass Valley
Frank Callozzo and Micha Grainger, co-owners of new Grass Valley vintage store Lost and Found, have been friends for over a decade and decided to turn a shared interest into a business.
“Both of us separately have sold at flea markets and been in the resale culture of secondhand objects, thrifting, and vintage for a long time,” said Callozzo.
Lost and Found, described by Callozzo as “a living room that’s for sale,” includes a variety of categories, including not only vintage clothing but textiles, decorative objects, and furniture.
They opened their doors Jan. 15, after about a month of set-up in the small South Church Street retail space.
Callozzo said that, while there has been a learning curve associated with opening a new business — in particular, amid a pandemic and outside of peak retail dates — the learning curve has been “generous” to them.
“It’s probably been slower than it would have been in other circumstances, and because of that, we’re kind of able to absorb the lessons, move slower, and learn,” said Callozzo.
Grainger, who has done interior decorating work in the past, said curating this space has involved creativity in a similar way, although with more freedom.
“It varies very much,” said Grainger, on his and Callozzo’s sourcing of the items for sale at Lost and Found, although he gave some examples — estate sales and flea markets, both local and in the Bay Area, as well as “people bringing interesting things by.”
“We’re always looking around,” said Grainger. “That comes pretty naturally to us.”
Victoria Penate is a staff writer for The Union. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
What: Lost and Found Showroom and Studio
Where: 107 S. Church St, Grass Valley
Hours: Noon to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday
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Tiger Woods’ new mini-golf and entertainment center PopStroke is expanding beyond Florida, with plans to open in Arizona next year.
PopStroke Entertainment, now open in Port St. Lucie and Fort Myers, Florida, said it has signed agreements for new locations across the South and Southwest that will open over the next 12 to 18 months, including near Scottsdale and in Glendale. The company is co-owned by Tiger Woods and Greg Bartoli.
“PopStroke is a technology-infused golf-entertainment concept featuring Tiger Woods and his TGR Design team’s 36-hole putting facility, coupled with an outdoor dining area with a full menu, expansive variety of craft beer, wine, signature cocktails, ice cream, outdoor games and a playground,” a press release from the company said.
The two 18-hole putting courses will look different at each facility, with synthetic turfs “incorporating fairways, bunkers and rough as seen on traditional golf courses.” A mobile app allows players to order food and drinks from anywhere on the course and have them delivered.
Woods said in a statement, “Each new location will have a different course design and layout, giving players unique putting challenges as they travel across the country.”
On May 6, PopStroke announced four new Florida locations, one in Texas and two in metro Phoenix.
Westgate Entertainment District in Glendale and the Pavilions at Talking Stick on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation near Scottsdale were chosen. The company is working locally with YAM Properties and De Rito Partners Development Inc., respectively.
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Graphic t-shirts have without any doubt lost relevance in recent years. Simple black t-shirts, striped tees and such, are everybody’s favorite these days it seems. Nevertheless there are still a few brands that produce very strong graphics, every season, and FUCT is one of them. The new range of tees has just released for Spring/Summer 2012 and is now available at Union.
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