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Indian smartphone OEM Kult introduced the Kult Gladiator smartphone to us back in September.
Now the company has unveiled another smartphone in India and its called the Kult Ambition. In terms of specifications the Kult Gladiator smartphone comes with 5 inch HD display on the front. Inside the device we get
Taiwanese smartphone maker Asus has now come up with another offering in the Asus Zenfone series. The new product from Asus Zenfone series is called the Asus Zenfone Max (M1).
The Asus Zenfone Max (M1) is first Asus smartphone to come with a full view display having an aspect ratio of
WhatsApp has now pushed yet another update to its app. The latest update is headed to WhatsApp for iOS platform.
The new update has a large size of 105MB in the Apple App Store. The update brings two new features to the app. One of such is longer voice messages that
Chinese OEM Oppo has now officially unveiled the Oppo A79 smartphone in its home ground China.
The Oppo A79 is company's another offering with a full view display having an aspect ratio of 18:9. It has got an OLED display with the size of 6.01 inch with full HD+ resolution. It comes
Hong Kong based OEM Infinix has now officially unveiled a new smartphone in India and the new smartphone is called the Infinix Zero 5.
In terms of specifications, the Infinix Zero 5 smartphone comes with 5.98-inch full HD (1920x1080p) display on the front. The display in Infinix Zero 5 is covered
Vivo has now silently unveiled another smartphone in the Vivo V series. The latest occurring offering from Vivo is the Vivo V7.
The Vivo V7 comes with 5.7-inch HD+(1440x720p) display on the front. The display is covered with 2.5D curved glass. On the performance front, the device comes with 4GB+32GB of internal storage. The
We have previously reported that OnePlus has an event on 16th November. It was already made clear that the OnePlus 5T will be announced on 16th November.
Now the company has finally unveiled the smartphone at an event in Brooklyn, New York. In terms of specifications, the OnePlus 5T is nothing
A new smartphone from Japanese OEM Panasonic is here and it's called the Panasonic P91.
The Panasonic P91 is nothing but an entry level product in India. The smartphone comes comes with 5-inch HD (1280x720p) display on the front. It has got 1GB +16GB of RAM and storage combination for starters.
Samsung India has now silently unveiled the 2017 Variant of Samsung Galaxy J2 (2017) in India. The Samsung Galaxy J2 (2017) doesn't come with any big change.
For starters, the Samsung Galaxy J2 (2017) comes with 4.7-inch qHD (960x540p) display on the front. The display used in Samsung Galaxy J2 (2017) is Super AMOLED panel.
As expected and scheduled, Motorola India has now officially unveiled a new smartphone in India. The new Motorola smartphone unveiled today in India is called the Motorola Moto X4. The Motorola Moto X4 was unveiled back in IFA this year.
The 4th gen Moto X smartphone is made official as Moto X4.
Alcatel has brought not just one, but two smartphones in India. The second product introduced today by Alcatel is the Alcatel A7.
The Alcatel A7 seems to be the big brother of Alcatel Idol 5. The A7 from Alcatel comes with 5.5-inch full HD (1920x720p) display on the front. It comes
Alcatel has now officially introduced a new smartphone in India. Latest product from Alcatel is called Alcatel A5 LED. It was introduced earlier this year in February at MWC.
Now the company has finally brought the Alcatel A5 LED smart phone in India. The device comes with same specifications AS level


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Ofo, a leading bike sharing startup in Beijing, just got an edge over its rival, Mobike, a Shanghai-based bike maker and sharing app – at least in the race for financing.
Ofo on Monday announced its total USD 130 million in Series C financing, beating its rival Mobike’s record of USD 100 million in its own equivalent round of Series C financing.
Contributions to the financing include the tens of millions of dollars of strategic investment included in the initial part pumped in by Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing platform, two weeks ago.
The second part of financing was from a group of investors that include Coatue, Xiaomi, CITIC Private Equity Funds Management Co., Vision Capital, and Yuri Milner. Investors from ofo’s earlier rounds, including Matrix Partners China and GSR Ventures, invested again.
Founded in 2014, ofo enables bike sharing in hundreds of universities in China.
With the new funding, ofo will push its operations from college campuses to cities, consolidating its claimed position as the leader in bike sharing in China.
Ofo is adding bike plates and standardized locks to bikes to make them ofo bikes.
To move from universities to cities, ofo will refit the bikes to make them appropriate for sharing in the city. The refitting measures include replacing the bicycle tyres with more solid tyres that won’t be punctured as easily. The cost of refitting is RMB 300 per bike.
The startup is also going to change its relatively complex billing methods. Ofo previously charged users according to usage time, distance, and supply of available bikes. In the future, it will charge city dwellers one RMB (15 cents USD) per hour; university teachers and students will only need to pay 0.5 RMB.
Here is a quick comparison of the bike rental fees between ofo and Mobike. A user needs to spend one RMB per hour on ofo, or two RMB on Mobike, for one hour of bike riding. Deposits on ofo and Mobike are RMB 99 and RMB 299 respectively.
The city trial bike rental service by ofo starts today in Shanghai, and will expand to Beijing tomorrow in areas where many white collar workers gather. The official launch in the city is scheduled for next month.
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Documents Kandit received from the Mayors Council of Guam today show Guam businessman Bic Sobti had at least 19 separate open purchase orders with each mayoral office for the sale of exponentially-marked up face masks, face shields, hand sanitizers, latex gloves, toiletries, cleaning supplies, safety apparel, safety supplies, and "any supplies needed for the upkeep and maintenance" of senior centers and mayoral facilities.
No procurement documents indicating how Mr. Sobti's company, International Royal dba Royal Bics, was selected to provide these sales was provided in response to Kandit's Freedom of Information Act request for documents.
There were no price quotes, requests for price quotations, or other documents disclosed except for the purchase orders and invoices.
The invoices show several mayors offices utilized the open purchase orders to buy boxes of 50 generic face masks for $100 a box, thermometers for $85 a piece, face shields for $5.99 each, hand soap for $6 each, and boxes of 100 nitrile gloves for $20 a box.
Mr. Sobti sold the same box of generic face masks to the CNMI government for $150, thermometers for $90 each, face shields for $9.95 each, and boxes of nitrile gloves for $22.95 a box.
Royal Bics has a business license on Guam to sale clothes.
The open purchase orders occurred at the start of the public health emergency. It is unclear how either the Mayors Council, the Guam Homeland Security agency, or the Governor's Office thought to call Mr. Sobti to provide these personal protective equipment and medical supplies, considering that Mr. Sobti's company has never been in this business prior to the public health emergency.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the start of the national public health emergency in March warned merchants throughout the country that the Justice Department's priority at the time was to crack down on price gouging.
Senators Sabina Perez and Therese Terlaje also have introduced legislation, Bill No. 386-35, that will limit the governor's emergency procurement authority during public health emergencies.


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Omi Velasco is originally from Colombia. She started her career working with Deloitte in their consulting practices in Canada and the U.S. Afterward, she worked with a Canadian Family Office that had operations in Mexico in the hospitality industry.
She and her partner started to do angel investments in technology companies about five years ago. “We were very fortunate that some of those investments worked very well for us. So we decided to formalize the process and we started a venture capital fund,” she told LABS.
Co-investing with leading investors in Seed stage companies in Canada, she started to look for companies to invest in Latin America when the pandemic started as everything went virtual.
“A relative started a restaurant in Colombia and I was looking for a solution to her business. A lot of the solutions were very archaic, like very old systems that you had to install in your computer, or they were very expensive, so I was looking for something easy, cool, and inexpensive.”
After trying several SaaS platforms for restaurants, Velasco met Pirpos, a 5-year old platform for the food and beverage small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America to manage their restaurants. “We liked the team operating in Colombia and I decided to approach the founder [Luis Fernando Avila Manjarrés].”
Velasco’s fund was the first one to invest in Pirpos. After she joined the company’s board, she got so actively involved in the startup that she decided to come to the other side of the table and join Pirpos as a co-founder.
“It was a pretty seamless move because I was already so involved with the previous team. We basically restarted the company with a new strategy, new vision, we grew the team and our client base.”
That happened between April and June, and now the startup has 1,500 restaurants using its platform mainly in Colombia, but Velasco says the plan is to start selling in other countries such as Mexico and Ecuador.
For that, the company is seeking financing and thus, human capital as well to add on to the 33 employees. Fabian Gosselin, the CEO at Alsea, a Mexican multi-brand restaurant operator, recently joined Pirpos as a mentor.
“We’re trying to help the small and midsize businesses, the ones that are in a very informal industry, that lack financial resources,” says Velasco.
Pirpos’ management plan covers products with a digital menu, inventory management, and reports, and offers integrations with delivery apps such as iFood and Rappi for another $2 for each integration. It is also launching a website to connect “the front end with the back-office operations”, as Velasco says. “Our clients are kind of using Wix or another solution, and then putting it [the menu] manually, so that doesn’t make sense. We are very excited to launch that front-side of the business.”
As the pandemic hit, the number of dark kitchens – that sort of co-working of restaurants – soared. “It has been very interesting because we have a lot of clients that come in and they say, this is my restaurant, however, I sell three different brands.”
Pirpos says it has been able to adapt to those changes in the industry and help the customers so that they can have more control over the inventory. Pirpos’ platform is proactive, since it shows if restaurants are running low on ingredients, and notifies if they should order anything.
“In the last couple of months as the restrictions started to ease, especially in Colombia, some things started to grow faster for us as well.”


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Farmers have been digging in the dirt to grow produce for centuries and history tells us that it was their success in sustaining human populations that led our ancestors to abandon their nomadic ways for a more communal lifestyle, giving birth to villages, towns and later cities like Kent.
A lot has changed through the centuries but local farmers are still digging in the dirt and sustaining us, contributing to a more modern community lifestyle — they’ve just been re-branded to become hip Farmer’s Markets.
These days it seems that nothing shows your community green colors better than all the greens you can buy at the Farmer’s Market. Farmer’s Markets are in and overalls are trendy, so communities are racing to have a Farmer’s Market to showcase their commitment to sustainability. Oh yeah, and to sell some home grown food as well.
Whatever the motivation behind the recent proliferation of shiny new Farmer’s Markets, I’m really proud of Kent’s Haymaker Farmer’s Market that remains true to its grass roots. The Haymaker Market was serving the Kent community long before Farmer’s Markets were cool and that grass roots vibe continues to be a central theme to what they do today.
When it seems like so many of the newer Markets are using their popularity to charge more and cater to a higher end crowd, Kent’s Haymaker Market is actually stepping back and making sure that no family gets left behind in the local foods movement.
And thanks to a new $38,000 grant award announced last week, the Haymaker Market is reaching out to the other end of the socio-economic demographic that doesn’t look like they’re straight out of a trendy outdoor magazine arriving at the Market with their black lab and a supersized sport utility vehicle.
The Haymaker Market is taking the rather unhip step of offering low income families a way to purchase healthy, fresh produce using government assistance cash.
In partnership with the Haymaker Farmer’s Market, the City of Kent received a grant award of $38,855 for its “Expanding Use of Existing EBT in Kent Food Desert” proposal. EBT translates into electronic benefits transfer, which is a politically correct way of saying it’s a debit card that draws from government funded programs for low income families. It’s a bit like a digital version of food stamps.
Thanks to the grant funds, the Haymaker Farmer’s Market will be able to expand low income food options to include items available for purchase at the Farmer’s Market using an EBT card. The grant will enable the market to promote and expand the use of the EBT card so that low income families can buy healthier foods that were grown locally.
Operating on a belief that healthy foods shouldn’t be limited to high income families, the Haymaker Market is making sure that their Market keeps its strong sense of social conscience. Maybe that’s not cool yet, but its definitely the right thing to do — and that’s what the Haymaker Farmer’s Market does best.


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It was us: BlackBerry-maker RIM admits panned Apple flashmob was a marketing stunt
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has admitted its role in organizing an anti-Apple flashmob outside a Sydney, Australia Apple Store last week.
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The stunt, which saw dozens of black-clothed people arrive outside the Sydney store in a coach bus and wave “Wake up” signs at Apple customers inside the shop, drew criticism in the blogosphere as an “embarrassing” marketing attempt.
A number of tech-focused websites first pointed the finger at Samsung, the smartphone company known for its Apple-targeted campaigns. But Samsung denied their role in the guerrilla marketing campaign.
MacWorld Australia revealed on April 29 that they found a Double Click URL on a ‘Wake Up’ webpage that had ties to RIM Australia.
The Waterloo-based company issued a statement Monday evening taking ownership for the protest. The campaign is said to be part of RIM’s promotion for BlackBerry OS 10, the company’s next major release of the BlackBerry operating system.
“We can confirm that the Australian ‘Wake Up’ campaign, which involves a series of experiential activities taking place across Sydney and Melbourne, was created by RIM Australia,” the company said in a statement.
The stunt comes at a difficult time for the BlackBerry maker. A recent Ipsos Reid poll found that BlackBerry’s share of the Canadian smartphone market fell to 33 per cent this January, down from 41 per cent a year earlier.
Though RIM has been criticized for last week’s anti-Apple flashmob, Toronto-based social media strategist Patrick Gladney said the marketing ploy was a success in that it garnered widespread attention.
“The strategy was successful in getting peoples’ attention, which is probably what they hoped to accomplish anyway,” said Gladney, director research and insights for Social Media Group.
“I think it’s interesting the way they’re trying to leverage off of Apple’s brand equity to disrupt peoples’ attention,” he added. “For a company that has been suffering from certain challenges, they’re going to need to do things differently in a way that captures peoples’ attention.”
The company released a sneak peakof its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system at a conference in Florida on Tuesday.
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With just two weeks until the early bird offer ends, Get Global, is encouraging exhibitors who are considering attending the unique one-day MICE trade event dedicated exclusively to outbound product, to register soon.
Get Global Directors and Founders, Gary Bender and Donna Kessler, “There are several packages exhibitors can choose from, all with great early bird discounts. But only until Friday 29thDecember. There will be no deadline extension! We also have a ‘buy and save’ offer, and encourage companies to book together and save.”
By taking advantage of the buy and save offer, attendees could receive a discount of up to $860 (inc. GST) each.
Shelley Eastwood, Director of Sales, Conference & Incentives, Heritage and CityLife Hotels, “After attending Get Global in 2017, we were definitely keen to register early and ensure we took advantage of the great early bird offer. Get Global proved to be a key sales event for us. We were able to secure a new, large piece of business directly from our attendance at Get Global and we’re looking forward to securing even more. We wouldn’t miss Get Global 2018.”
With over 1320 connections made at Get Global 2017, the 2018 event is set to really deliver on its promise – Where the World Meets and attract even more decision makers from around the world.
The full 2018 Get Global Exhibitor Prospectus can be viewed here, including details of exhibitor packages and early bird offers: getglobal.com.au/Prospectus2018
Get Global – Where the World Meets, will be held at the International Convention Centre, Sydney on Friday 20th July, 2018. The VIP Press Conference will be held the afternoon prior to the event, Thursday 19 July from 4pm, at a secret location and followed by a welcome cocktail reception.
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Now that Volvo announced their ambitious goal of going electric by 2019 and leading countries like France are banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040, several questions about electric vehicles (EV) are put into light.
The industry has been reinvigorated by this new emphasis on a more sustainable lifestyle; automotive companies are looking for opportunities to minimize environmental impact both up and down the supply chain, while minimizing waste. Although the move to electric vehicles is opening up new opportunities, the emerging environmental management challenges that companies face when EV batteries reach the end of their life cycle are prominent.Considering the value associated with the materials that can be recovered from the batteries themselves, there are major benefits for companies looking to make their manufacturing process the most sustainable, even before regulations have been put in place.
As the automotive industry continues to further explore the frontier of electric vehicles, a new set of environmental challenges is coming to the forefront. Questions about EV batteries are emerging, and manufacturers will need to find some answers soon.
What should happen to EV batteries at the end of the car's life cycle? What environmental regulations are related to these batteries? What role will equipment and part will manufacturers play in the life cycle of EVs?
At the End of the Life Cycle
Recycling electric vehicle batteries at the end of the product life cycle is seen as the greenest option. Many of the components of the standard lithium ion EV battery - like nickel, cobalt, copper, and lithium - can be salvaged and reused. These materials can be resold at a high market value, making dumping EV batteries into landfills a poor environmental and economic policy.
However, only as much as 5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled in the European Union. And in some cases, damaged lithium-ion batteries can let out toxic fumes, which are severely harmful to humans. Elements like lithium and cobalt, essential to the production of these batteries, are becoming increasingly in demand and their difficult extraction pollutes the surrounding environment.
As the demand for EVs is growing, the lack of companies providing recycling services presents an escalating challenge. The bigger problem about recycling these lithium-ion batteries is the cost. More often, the cost of recycling is greater than the actual value of the lithium retrieved. So, while the possibility of recycling the lithium is available, manufacturers who are responsible for the proper disposal of these elements are struggling with this imposing barrier.
Instead, some automotive companies find ways to repurpose the lithium ion batteries for home or industrial use since the batteries still have some life left in them after being too deteriorated for EVs. The individual cells inside may still be usable, even if the battery may seem dead. In that case, the cells can be pulled and reused for a new EV battery or in another application like a portable energy unit.
Being one of the most sustainable forms of transportation, electric cars produce a very low negative environmental impact. In some cases, it is even possible to be 100% sustainable through the use of renewable energy. And the green appeal of these cars does not pass unnoticed under the radar of governments.
With governments pressing automakers to increase sales of electric vehicles, companies are definitely feeling the heat. But, there are still little regulations concerning the life cycle of EV batteries. As the industry grows in the next years, laws and regulations will surely be put in place to protect users and the environment. Although there are no clear regulations put in place for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries, manufacturers should proceed with caution and be ready for any legislation on the horizon.
Role of Manufacturers
Although industry standards have not been set for manufacturers for the recycling of batteries, this does not stop automakers from taking big leaps. Tesla, leading company in the EV industry, took the matter into their own hands and introduced their closed loop battery recycling program. This program consists of a closed loop in which all the material from manufacturing and assemblage of the battery cell is reused when it is at the end of its life cycle. In this way, they can assume the ever-growing demand of battery recycling. Tesla partnered with the Kinsbursky Brothers in North America and with Umicore in Europe to recycle these EV batteries.
With this new industry picking up momentum, manufacturers will have no choice but to adapt to the forthcoming changes and plans for this promising business. As gas-running vehicles become upstaged, electric vehicles set business standards to surpass and innovate continuously.
Due to the complexity and recency of EVs and their mechanisms, a special eye must be kept on environmental reporting concerning all the processes of these cars. Recycling electric car batteries is an important approach to sustainability that will become crucial in the upcoming years as their presence increases on the market place. Take a look at ERA’s environmental management software which includes built-in tools to track recycling, emission reporting and supply chain data.
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(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc's HD.N profit and revenue topped Wall street estimates for the sixth straight quarter as more shoppers visited the No.1 U.S. home improvement chain and, on average, spent more in an improving housing market.
Shares of Home Depot, which raised its quarterly dividend by 15.7 percent to $1.03 per share, were up about 1.4 percent at $189.55 in morning trading. They rose more than 4 percent premarket.
The U.S. housing market has been on a winning streak, helped by rising employment and higher wages. That has encouraged homeowners to buy new homes or remodel existing ones, benefiting Home Depot and smaller rival Lowe's Cos Inc LOW.N.
“The U.S. economy is strong and tax reform is net positive for the housing industry,” Chief Financial Officer Carol Tome said on an earnings call.
“We expect higher job growth, higher income growth, and higher mortgage rates. But with that comes higher home price appreciation and rising housing demand, which should drive home improvement spending,” she said.
However, Home Depot’s comparable store sales growth forecast for its current fiscal year was shy of analysts’ estimates. But that did not deter Wall Street’s expectations.
“The outlook will prove conservative given continued momentum in housing and the company’s ability to execute,” Telsey Advisory Group analyst Joseph Feldman said.
Home Depot's results are in contrast to that of Walmart Inc WMT.N, which on Tuesday reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and posted a sharp drop in online sales growth during the holiday period.
Home Depot said sales at its stores open for more than a year rose 7.5 percent in the fourth quarter ended Jan. 28. That beat analysts’ average estimate of a 6.5 percent increase, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Customer transactions rose 2 percent, while the average check value rose 5.5 percent.
The company expects comparable store sales growth of 5 percent in the current fiscal, while analysts were expecting a 5.4 percent increase.
The retailer’s quarterly net sales rose 7.5 percent to $23.88 billion, beating estimates of $23.66 billion.
Home Depot’s profit rose 2 percent to $1.78 billion, or $1.52 per share, though growth was curbed by a $127 million charge related to the U.S. tax law changes.
Its adjusted earnings of $1.69 per share beat analysts’ estimate of $1.61.
Reporting by Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza and Sayantani Ghosh
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A recent study by researchers at the University of Oxford found that the price for bitcoin fell from a peak of $13,000 to $5,000 on June 3, 2016, and the price dropped further in August.
The authors noted that the decrease in the price could be due to a number of factors, including a drop in the number of bitcoins traded in the global economy, as well as increased regulation around the cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin’s recent fall could be partly attributed to the rise of digital currencies such as Ethereum and Litecoin, which have had a dramatic impact on the cryptocurrency marketplace.
In addition, the rise in interest in Bitcoin from institutional investors is likely contributing to the drop in value.
However, the researchers also noted that there is a silver lining in the bitcoin price decline.
They wrote that there may be a future where the price will return to its current level.
In a statement, the university said the study is the first to demonstrate the correlation between the value of the bitcoin and the value held by a specific subset of investors.
The researchers said their findings are consistent with recent research suggesting that investors in crypto-currencies have greater returns than their counterparties in the stock market.
The study also found that a greater number of bitcoin holders hold bitcoins as investments than holders of other cryptocurrencies, with approximately 20% holding the currency as a hedge against a future decline in value, while 10% hold it for speculation.
The number of people who hold bitcoins has grown substantially since the beginning of the year.
The amount of bitcoins currently held by people in the U.S. has increased from approximately $3 billion to $14.5 billion in the last six months.
At the same time, a significant portion of those holdings have been held for speculative purposes, with some bitcoin investors even investing in bitcoin as a means to make a quick buck.
While the value and performance of bitcoin is influenced by the market’s perception of the cryptocurrency, the study’s authors wrote that the bitcoin’s rise is due to the popularity of digital currency.
“In recent years, digital currencies have emerged as a powerful instrument for financial inclusion, and digital currencies are currently undergoing an unprecedented phase of adoption, with the majority of users now actively using the blockchain technology to make payments and secure digital assets,” they wrote.
The research paper also found the correlation could also be a result of bitcoin’s rising value as a form of payment, as digital currency can be used as a store of value, as opposed to a currency.
The value of bitcoin has continued to increase as the number and value of cryptocurrencies in circulation have increased, and there are already a number that have increased in value significantly in the past few years.
In the past year, the price rose more than 10 times from $2,000 in January 2017 to $4,000 at the end of June, according to CoinMarketCap.
In 2018, the bitcoin traded at $541, the highest in a year.
However as the market price has decreased, investors have begun to shift their investment strategies towards cryptocurrencies, which is helping to support the market as a whole.
Bitcoin prices have continued to rise since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, and continue to do so.


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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated sold approximately $3.9 billion of equipment at 328 unreserved auctions around the world in 2012. This represents a 5 percent increase in gross auction proceeds over 2011 and the highest gross auction proceeds in company history. The company achieved gross auction proceeds of $1 billion in the fourth quarter alone. Ritchie Bros. attracted record online bidder registrations and sold approximately $1.3 billion of equipment, trucks and other assets to online bidders in 2012, an 18 percent increase over 2011 and the highest amount ever sold online by the company in one year.
Ritchie Bros. conducted its final unreserved auctions of 2012 (Dec. 20) in Los Angeles, Calif., and St. Louis, Mo. and plans to release its full audited annual financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis for 2012 on Feb. 26, 2013.
Peter Blake, Ritchie Bros. CEO, commented: “Against the backdrop of market turbulence through the year, we are pleased with our 2012 results as we emerged well positioned to continue the growth of our core unreserved auction business and we are ready to begin a new path that will introduce a new customer base to our brand. In 2012, we saw the intense competition for quality low hour used equipment recently transition to a less competitive and more familiar environment for our business to grow over the long term. These changes in the evolving equipment market contributed to our performance in the year where we saw significant gains in our online presence and bidder portal, with over 5 million unique visitors to our 21 language website and $1.3 billion in annual online equipment sales. Our auctions in Canada recorded over $1 billion in gross auction proceeds for the year, an amazing feat from our network of 10 permanent auction sites within Canada.
“We are realizing benefits, from prior investments in capital and strategic initiatives, ranging from our continuing improvements in operating leverage to the expansion of our global auction site network with our new Donington Park, UK, yard and the opening of replacement sites in Chehalis, Wash. (replacing Olympia, Wash.) and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. (replacing Statesville, N.C.).” “2013 is shaping up to be a great year of milestones, with the impending launch of our new online, non-auction marketplace as a result of our AssetNation acquisition. We also will be conducting our first unreserved auction in Beijing, China, as well as our upcoming six-day auction in Orlando, Florida, and grand opening auction in Geelong, Australia — all demonstrating the breadth in our mission statement to deliver compelling business solutions that enable the world’s builders to easily and confidently exchange equipment.”
The World’s Largest Heavy Equipment Auction
Ritchie Bros. held the world’s largest heavy equipment auction in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 13 to 18, 2012, and, in the process, broke multiple company records. New records were set for gross auction proceeds ($203 million), number of lots sold (more than 10,000), total number of registered bidders (8,670), number of sellers (830), online gross auction proceeds (more than $47 million) and number of online bidders (4,070).
New Canadian Sales Record?
The company achieved a historical milestone in its Canadian auctions in 2012. A new record was set at the Ritchie Bros.’ unreserved public auction in Edmonton, AB, on Dec. 13 to 14, 2012. Other 2012 highlights from Ritchie Bros. Canadian auctions include:
• Largest Canadian auction in Ritchie Bros. history: Edmonton, AB, on April 24 to 26, 2012 — $110+ million
• Largest Saskatchewan auction in Ritchie Bros. history: Saskatoon, SK, on Dec. 4, 2012 — $30+ million
• Largest Quebec auction in Ritchie Bros. history: Montreal, QC on Dec. 5 to 6, 2012 — $43+ million
First China Auction Announcement
On Nov. 28, 2012, Ritchie Bros. announced it will be holding its first unreserved public auction in China during the first half of 2013. The company will bring the certainty of unreserved auctions to Chinese equipment buyers and sellers now that the company’s wholly owned foreign enterprise application has been approved by the Chinese government.
Ritchie Bros. has formally leased land in the Tianzhu Free Trade Zone (Shunyi, Beijing) in preparation for this first unreserved public auction in China. Strategically located within minutes of Beijing Capital International Airport, the Tianzhu Free Trade Zone is connected to one of China’s largest roll-on, roll-off ports in Tianjin.
Other auction site records broken and milestones reached in 2012
Ritchie Bros. set a number of other records in 2012, including:
• Tipton, Calif. - $17 million: new regional record and most agricultural lots ever sold at a U.S. auction (Feb. 17)
• Brisbane, Australia — $54 million: the largest single-day auction in company history (March 20)
• Caorso, Italy — $17 million): the largest Italian auction in company history (March 8 & 9)
• London, Ontario — $3 million: new regional record (March 28)
• Polotitlan, Mexico — Nearly $19 million: the largest Mexican auction in company history as well as most bidders registered for a Mexican auction (March 28 & 29)
• Regina, Saskatchewan — $9 million: new regional record (March 29)
• Toronto, Ontario — $28 million: new regional record (Sept. 25 & 26)
• Raleigh-Durham, N.C. — $76 million: new regional record and first time selling more than 60 D11 crawler tractors in a single auction (September 26 & 27)
Auction Site Network Expansion?
Ritchie Bros. conducted grand opening auctions at four new or replacement permanent auction sites in 2012:
• Las Vegas, Nev.
• Donington Park, United Kingdom
• Chehalis, Wash. (replaced Olympia, Wash.)
• Raleigh-Durham, N.C. (replaced Statesville, N.C.)
Ritchie Bros. increased its quarterly cash dividend in 2012, and paid out total dividends during the year of approximately $50 million compared to $46 million in 2011.
Online Bidding Statistics
Ritchie Bros. sold more than $1.3 billion of equipment, trucks and other assets to online buyers in 2012, representing a 18 percent increase compared to $1.1 billion in 2011 and more than any other company in the world. Internet bidders comprised over 60 percent of the total bidder registrations at Ritchie Bros. industrial auctions in 2012.
Web Site Statistics
The Ritchie Bros. Web site (www.rbauction.com) attracted more than 5.5 million unique visitors in 2012 (a 38 percent increase compared to last year), and they had over 12.8 million visits to the Web site (28 percent more than 2011).
There are currently 77 unreserved auctions on the 2013 Ritchie Bros. auction calendar at, which commences with a two-day auction in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 6 & 7, to be followed by auctions in Las Vegas, Nev. (Feb. 8), Donington Park, UK (Feb. 12), Phoenix, Ariz. (Feb. 12 & 13), Tipton, Calif. (Feb. 15) and a six day auction in Orlando, Fla. on Febr. 18 to 23. 2013.
For more information, visit www.rbauction.com.


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St. Paul’s Bazaar in Manchester
The Manchester Catolic Daughters are hosting a Bazaar on Saturday, June 24, at Saint Paul’s Church on Bonnet Street. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and feature a number of events, including a bake sale, a raffle, a silent auction and white elephant sale with a little bit of everything. Lunch items and cold beverages will be available. Your raffle ticket offers an opportunity to win a ladies’ watch from McWayne Jewelers, a Rose Bouquet quilt and shams from the Vermont Country Store, or a painting from Once Upon a Rooster Gallery. Silent auction items include a variety of gift certificates from area restaurants and businesses and items donated by local vendors.


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According to the latest IDC numbers, Android took a whopping 79.3% share of smartphones shipped in the second quarter with iOS managing 13.2%. Common wisdom holds that third place is the critical spot — carriers want a strong alternative to keep the top two platforms from gaining too much power. Drop below third place, though, and the future is bleak with shelf space and visibility becoming much tougher to pull off.
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Phone has officially wrested that coveted third place spot from BlackBerry (BBRY), which has now dropped below 3% market share. However, the battle for third may turn into a three-way fight. It’s possible that Windows and BlackBerry could be facing a challenge from another alternative — Firefox OS.
But wait, isn’t Firefox a web browser?
Yes it is. Firefox the web browser is a free, open-source product developed and maintained by Mozilla, a nonprofit organization. Firefox started at zero marketshare in 2002 (when it was released as “Firebird”) to challenge Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which commanded nearly 94% of global web browsing traffic at the time. Firefox’s web browser now holds more than 20% market share, despite competition from Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari web browsers.
When Mozilla made the decision to release a Firefox mobile operating system for smartphones — Firefox OS — the news was a blip on the radar in North America, at least outside of the software development community. However, it’s entirely possible that Firefox OS might just show up on that next IDC report thanks to a confluence of factors.
First, mobile carriers are tiring of paying costly subsidies to carry the latest Android smartphones and iPhones. Ending the Android/iOS stranglehold is held up as a key way to lower smartphone prices and break that pattern.
Second, in emerging markets, a mobile platform that eschews a closed-app ecosystem (like Google Play and Apple’s App Store) for an open, web-based one has appeal for a customer base not yet invested in those proprietary apps. Firefox OS leverages its use of open standards like HTML 5 to offer users web apps that can be used even on competing platforms by running the Firefox browser.
With Western smartphone markets maturing, the biggest potential gains in market share are found in these emerging markets. That’s why Apple is scrambling to be competitive in China, and why BlackBerry points to Latin America as a core market.
With smartphone penetration at just 16%, Latin America is a perfect spot for Firefox OS to establish a beach head. And that’s what is happening, thanks to Spain’s Telefonica (TEF) which is launching Firefox phones in Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. Besides the Latin America launches, Telefonica is already selling Firefox OS smartphones in Spain. Deutsche Telecom (DTEGY) began selling them in Poland in July, announcing that the devices will be available in Germany, Hungary and Greece this fall.


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NEW YORK, Mar 12, 2014/ — Naomi Campbell is once again on center stage. Spotted last Wednesday, March 5th at “Extra” where she wore a Roberto Cavalli dress, the supermodel will once again be on the hot seat as sits down for an intimate Q&A session with a select group of listeners, moderated by Diane von Furstenberg, for the SiriusXM “Town Hall” series.
“SiriusXM’s Town Hall with Naomi Campbell,” will feature Campbell answering fan questions about her career, including her philanthropic efforts and the second season of The Face, which premiered on March 5 on Oxygen.
“In the world of fashion and beyond, few people define legend like Diane and Naomi. Connecting these two icons with their biggest fans in such a uniquely personal and intimate way as part of a SiriusXM Town Hall is sure to create can’t-miss radio and a one-of-a-kind experience for our subscribers,” said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SiriusXM.
“SiriusXM’s Town Hall with Naomi Campbell” will air on Friday, March 21 at 11:00 am ET on SiriusXM Stars, via satellite, channel 106 and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.
For rebroadcast times, please visit www.siriusxm.com/townhall.


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The inflation rate in Laos hit 23.6 percent year-on-year in June, the highest since May 2000, amid a surge in energy and consumer goods prices. source: Bank of the Lao PDR
Inflation Rate in Laos averaged 16.84 percent from 1989 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 167 percent in March of 1999 and a record low of -2.26 percent in August of 2009. This page provides the latest reported value for - Laos Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Laos Inflation Rate - values, historical data and charts - was last updated on August of 2022.
Inflation Rate in Laos is expected to be 20.50 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Laos Inflation Rate is projected to trend around 3.20 percent in 2023, according to our econometric models.


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Payment disruptions in digital banking - Entrust report
With the global transformation of banking and payments accelerating, the industry has caught disruption from many angles due to web trends and the global pandemic.
"Consumers are digitally connected in almost all facets of their lives, and it's evident they expect the same from their banks and payment experiences," says Entrust. "Consumers are expressing an overwhelming preference for digital offerings from their financial institutions."
In a recent study, 'The Great Payments Disruption', Entrust looks to uncover how this disruption has impacted consumer sentiment, preferences, and habits.
The company surveyed 1,350 consumers from nine countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States, who have made or received digital payments in the past 12 months. The results paint a picture of where the banking industry stands in 2022 and what the future holds.
"This study highlights how now, more than ever, consumer banking is about digital interactions, and that they must create that digital experience with security at its foundation," says Entrust vice president of product marketing, Jenn Markey.
"We found an overwhelming preference for online banking and significant concern about fraud. More than two-thirds of consumers in our survey changed their bank or credit union after receiving a fraud or privacy alert. Financial institutions must meld rich digital experiences with proven security measures such as biometric security solutions to increase consumer trust and loyalty."
A new banking landscape
Each section of the study considers a different aspect of the banking and payments industry transition as more digital and contactless options become available for the consumer.
Some key findings include:
Omnichannel touchpoints are increasingly crucial in digital banking: In Australia, 93% of respondents say they prefer to bank online in some form. Evidence that digital banking is the new norm. However, it is still essential to provide various digital options, as 62% say they prefer using the app from their bank or credit union, while 31% prefer their desktop web browser.
Some people still prefer in-person banking at a branch (7%). Overall, this is aligned with global trends, and Entrust says it's essential for banks to offer omnichannel, digital-first solutions to resonate with today's consumers.
Customers are security-conscious, and lack of security can have damaging consequences: 95% of respondents from Australia say they were concerned about the potential of banking or credit fraud as banking and credit become more digital. 23% of respondents had personal experience with these fraud risks, having received notification of a personal banking or credit fraud in the past 12 months. These incidents harm customer loyalty, as 43% of respondents notified of fraud changed their bank or credit union as a result.
Fee structures and flexible payment options give banks an edge: Consumers are most likely to consider lower fees, digital solutions and security when choosing or changing their bank. Consumers looking for high-quality, low-cost digital banking, new entrants, or neobanks, could add to their current disruption by offering things like fee-free overdraft protection and unlimited foreign exchange. There is widespread interest in the digital banking atmosphere, with 66% of respondents from Australia saying they would consider using a branchless online banking service for their banking.
More digitally issued cards could further fuel the rise of mobile payments: 63% of respondents from Australia listed contactless credit or debit cards as their most preferred payment method, while 28% listed contactless mobile payments. Digital cards can be an effective selling point as 56% of survey respondents from Australia indicated their preference to open a bank account digitally.


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God of War Ragnarok to Launch in Late 2022 But Might Get Delayed
God of War Ragnarok to Launch in Late 2022
Recently, rumours started to surface about God of War Ragnarok being delayed to 2023, with there also being mentions about the game being targeted for a November 2022 launch. Now, Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier has confronted those rumours.
According to him, he heard 3 different sources familiar with the game’s development claiming that God of War Ragnarok is still on track to be launched in 2022. The official release of the game is expected to be revealed later this month. With that being said however, he doesn’t deny that there is always a chance of the game being delayed 2023 given how turbulent games development is.
Unlike its predecessor, this project isn’t being helmed by Cory Barlog as he is working on a different AAA game being developed at Santa Monica studios. Previous reports indicate that the game would launch in September 2022 but it’s clear that the limelight for that belongs to The Last of Us Part 1 remake.
God of War Ragnarok will be launched exclusively on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. A PC release of the game is very likely given the success of its predecessor, but it’s not expected to happen anytime soon.
Pokdepinion: Better late than never, but most importantly, better late than to receive a broken game early. That would just be money better spent elsewhere.


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The iconic jeweler Bulgari has found its new headquarters at 625 Madison Avenue. The luxury retailer has signed a 23,933-square-foot sublease at the corner of 59th Street.
The company–which was entrenched in contemporary culture after Richard Burton said of Elizabeth Taylor, “The only word Liz knows in Italian is Bulgari”–used to house its U.S. headquarters on two non-contiguous floors at 730 Fifth Avenue.
Studley brokers Michael Goldman and Kunihiko Otomo represented Bulgari.
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Bell Potter thinks that an A2 Milk Company Ltd (ASX: A2M) share price recovery could be taking place in the short to medium term
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The longstanding market darling status of the A2 Milk Company Ltd (ASX: A2M) share price is likely causing many investors to feel frustrated and trapped.
The company’s history of strong earnings growth has made its shares look like good value. Previously at $16 back in September 2020, at $14 levels in November 2020, and $10 levels in January. Now, here we are, at $8 in April.
As the A2 Milk share price continues to grind lower, Bell Potter has emerged with a report on Tuesday upgrading its shares from hold to buy. At the time of writing, the A2 Milk share price is trading at $8.24, up 4.17%.
Why there could be long-term value in the A2 Milk share price
Bell Potter has taken a more positive view on the A2 Milk share price. This is due to the belief that issues causing its recent downgrade cycle are reversing.
The report first highlights A2’s move to materially scale back its Australian infant milk formula (IMF) deliveries to address excess stock.
It notes that exports from Synlait Milk Ltd (ASX: SM1) to Australia were down 72% in the past 6 months since September 2020, relative to the 6 months to August 2020. Bell Potter said that “inventory infill appears to have materially contracted, addressing one element of the inventory build”.
In terms of Australian exports to China, the report highlights two sequential monthly gains in finished infant formula exports since the December 2020 lows. Interestingly, the broker did not expect an uplift to occur so early on, calling this an early sign of life.
A2 has increasingly pointed to its China-labelled infant nutrition growth to compensate for challenging daigou channels. In its half-year results, it noted that its offline distribution footprint had expanded to 22,000 stores, up from ~19,100 at the end of 2H20. Its rapid offline expansion has translated to a 2.4% market share in China. That is up from 2.0% at the end of FY20.
Bell Potter believes its offline distribution points are approaching the ~30,000 mark in March. While this may represent a significant uplift on 1H21, it is still below leading Chinese infant brands H&H and Feihe. These have a respective ~80,000 and ~110,000 stores.
The broker believes the uplift in offline stores will attempt to mitigate the headwinds of declining births in China, which is down approximately 15% year-on-year in 2020.
Share price finally receives an upgrade
The report upgraded the A2 Milk share price from hold to buy with a $9.50 12-month target price. With the A2 Milk share price currently trading at $8.30, this represents an upside of 14%.
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Perhaps one of the most exciting features of Bethesda’s games is how users can add to them via mods, changing many aspects of games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or Fallout 4 by releasing user modifications for them.
Maryland-based game creators Bethesda have always allowed players to tinker with their games, releasing a “construction kit” application for both Skyrim and Fallout 4 which allows players to make changes and even add new quests, characters or weapons to the games.
Thousands of mods have been released for Skyrim since the game came out in 2011, from simple ones that beautify the game’s world, to full-blown overhaul mods like Enderal by the German team SureAI, and even a few that can be considered a bit weird…
Fallout 4 has gotten its own fair share of mods too, which is not surprising taking into account that it was one of 2015’s top games, and Bethesda made Xbox One players very happy this year when it announced that they would be able to play many of the user mods released for PC, with mods now being a standard feature of the Xbox One version of Fallout 4.
Bethesda also announced that mod support for its games would too arrive on PS4, and actually the special edition of Skyrim scheduled to be released this fall was going to support mods on both the Xbox One and PS4.
This might no longer be the case as far as PS4 mod support is concerned though, as Bethesda’s talks with Sony over the matter have reached a deadlock, with the American dev blaming Sony for the matter. “We have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4”, said Bethesda on its website, adding that “Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition”.
So basically this means that user mods are unlikely to be available for Fallout 4 or Skyrim on the PS4 anytime soon, which is a sad state of affairs for those players looking to try them out on Sony’s console. And the Japanese company’s denial might have to do with its strict certification process, as every game and even new DLC and patches must be approved by Sony before it can be played on the PlayStation 4. So presumably Sony wanted to approve every single user mod before it became available on PS4, something which was obviously not practical for Bethesda and Fallout 4 players.
But still, perhaps Bethesda and Sony can work out a deal and finally make mods available on the PS4 sometime in the future, although Fallout 4 is still a great game to play without user mods, and despite the lack of mod support, the upcoming special edition of Skyrim is still a game to look forward to on PS4 when it comes out this fall.


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Sky Media’s €250,000 ad production pot to support Irish advertisers using AdSmart has no time frame. Michael Cullen reports
At the end of last year, Sky Media launched a €250,000 ad production fund in an effort to urge Irish advertisers get their brand on TV through its AdSmart technology. With AdSmart, different ads can be shown to different households watching the same programme. It allows brand owners advertise during A League of Their Own, Tin Star and on Sky Sports.
AdSmart homes are selected on precision factors like lifestyle and location, derived from Sky’s customer data and information from Experian consumer profiles. Malcolm Murray, sales director, Sky Media Ireland, borrows a phrase infamously synonymous with former Communications Minister Ray Burke to describe the tech: “it levels the playing field”.
Small businesses, which normally shy away from TV advertising, are targeted with the pot. “We want to help advertisers utilise the power of TV to build their brand,” Murray says, “but the cost of making an ad can be an obstacle. We also want to raise awareness of AdSmart so that more Irish businesses and brands consider targeted advertising as a medium.”
TV for large and small: Malcolm Murray, sales director, Sky Media Ireland, says AdSmart allows advertisers to cherry-pick audiences using geographical and lifestyle targets. TV can be used to better effect by existing advertisers, while becoming an option for the first time for niche brands, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and location-specific advertisers.
The AdSmart story so far? Murray says 55 advertisers have signed up, across almost 200 campaigns. Nearly one in two advertisers are new to TV and one in three of them have returned to buy another campaign. He points to case studies that have used AdSmart, from major advertisers like AIB and Harvey Norman to TV newcomers GoCar and 3Dental.
The topline summary for AIB showed that the AdSmart sample was four per cent more likely to recall the ad when prompted by the creative. “AIB is a bank I like” was up by a quarter compared to those in the non-exposed sample. AdSmart scored higher for brand advocacy and the sample was 50 per cent more likely to recommend the bank to family and friends.
For those who saw the AdSmart campaign, three per cent went on to speak to an AIB advisor or opened an account, compared to zero per cent in the unexposed group. With GoCar, whose media is handled by Mark Lynch at Open Communications, those exposed to AdSmart were found to be 71 per cent more likely to recall the ad when prompted by the campaign creative.
When asked if respondents thought GoCar was a good alternative to car ownership there was a 25 per cent uplift. Those exposed to the ad through AdSmart were twice as likely to consider using Go Car compared to those who had not seen the ad. There was a 50 per cent uplift in visiting the website and brand advocacy doubled in the AdSmart exposed group.
Sky Media claims there a 100 per cent increase in those recommending GoCar to friends and family. Murray has held agency workshops and he and his team are selling the production pot idea North of the border. Any advertiser availing of the €250,000 pot is subject to a cap of €20,000. Lawrence Fee’s Yard Media is Sky Media’s production company of choice.
California dreamers: Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman share their stories in Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies. Season two is set to start on Sky Atlantic in June.
Marie Collier, marketing communications manager, VHI, says she used AdSmart to advertise the launch of the company’s new paediatric clinic. “With AdSmart,” Collier said, “we were able to achieve the emotional connection of using TV as a platform but in a highly targeted way, as it enabled us to select location-specific audiences.” She was pleased with the results.
GoCar sales and operations manager Daragh Genockey chose AdSmart as he wanted to increase brand awareness and service membership. But with a limited budget, he found it hard to access offline channels. Digital channels were delivering well, but GoCar felt extra channels were needed to give a deeper insight into how the service actually worked.
Genockey chose AdSmart as it accessed the right customers and could deliver greater volume in tandem with digital platforms on a budget GoCar could afford – with an opportunity to scale as activity grew. The brand saw a significant lift in website visits and roughly 400 sign-ups were attributed to the campaign, a strong return-on-investment for the media spend.
Network Security monitored alarm systems was one of the other advertisers new to TV. The company sought to increase brand awareness, support the opening of a new Dundalk store and generate leads for its sales team. Managing director Derek Ramsey said AdSmart proved successful in achieving the goals, so much so that he plans to go with another campaign.
The ad script is presented to and signed off by the client. Casting, VO, music and final edit are approved by the client. The client owns the ad copy but the ad – or any edited version of the ad – can only be used on Sky Media and third party client channels, including its website. There is a minimum ad spend expressed as a multiple of the agreed production budget.
Who controls the budget and what about signing off? There is a consultative three-way process, but with Sky having the final budget sign off. Murray says the process is designed to avoid any shift from agreed scripts which, in turn, ensures that commercials are delivered to a pre-agreed budget. Clients are only charged if 75 per cent or more of the ad is seen.
How does AdSmart actually work? Well, household data is stored on the Sky box. Relevant ads for that household are sent to the Sky box by satellite. When an AdSmartable opportunity is identified during an ad break, a hint code tells the box to choose the most relevant stored ad to play. The ad is then served seamlessly into the ad break to the targeted audience.
Some 30 geographical locations around Ireland and 14 fixed lifestyle segments are available. The 14 segments comprise established wealth, urban starters, local families, rurban lifestyle, country choice, suburban success, diverse renters, industrious workers, senior owners, distant views, city achievers, family focus, budgeting families and practical pensioners.
Sports stars, comedians and thespians from across the water showed up at the Westbury Hotel for the recent launch of Sky 2019 – ‘What to Watch This Year’. Sky Ireland boss JD Buckley got the formalities underway as Moone Boy star Deirdre O’Kane (above) MC’d fireside chats with Jamie Rednapp, Yasmine Akram, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Beckett and Juliet Stevenson.
As Sky competes for audience-scoring content with streamers Netflix and Amazon, a number of popular dramas are back soon, not least the final eight season with six episodes of Game of Thrones from April 15th, along with the Paul McGuinness-inspired Riviera and Britannia.
Season two of Big Little Lies, complete with Meryl Streep, returns to Sky Atlantic in June.
Another HBO drama comes later in the year in the shape of the four-part Catherine the Great, with Helen Mirren in the title role. Brassic is a black comedy starring Joe Gilgun and Aaron Heffernan. The title comes from Cockney rhyming slang and the term boracic lint. It is when all anyone has in their pocket is lint – meaning they are completely and utterly skint.


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- California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) Crispy Thin Crust White®, UPC 71921 98745; production codes are 3062525951, 3062525952 and 3063525951.
- California Pizza Kitchen® Limited Edition Grilled Chicken with Cabernet Sauce, UPC 71921 00781; production code is 3059525952.
- DiGiorno® Crispy Flatbread Pizza Tuscan Style Chicken, UPC 71921 02663; production codes are 3057525922 and 3058525921.
- DiGiorno® pizzeria!™ Bianca/White Pizza, UPC 71921 91484; production code is 3068525951.
All the pizzas being recalled were produced during February and March of this year. Nestlé has already instructed their direct store delivery team to begin removing pizzas affected by this recall at retail locations nationwide.
Nestlé USA also is reaching out to consumers to ask that they examine their freezer inventory for the specific packages of DIGIORNO and CPK varieties affected by this recall.
Consumers who may have purchased the recalled CPK and DIGIORNO pizzas with the identified production codes should not consume the pizza, but instead should contact Nestlé USA Consumer Services at 800-456-4394 or email@example.com for further instructions.


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The 20-participant Minneapolis Solar Co-op today issued a request for proposals (RFP) from area solar installers. The group participants created the solar co-op to save money and make going solar easier, while building a network of solar supporters. The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association (LHENA), Whittier Alliance, and Environment Minnesota are the solar co-op sponsors.
Joining the solar co-op is not a commitment to purchase panels. Solar co-op participants will select a single company to complete all of the installations. They will then have the option to purchase panels individually based on the installer’s group rate. By going solar as a group and choosing a single installer, participants can save up off the cost of going solar and have the support of fellow group participants and solar experts at Solar United Neighbors.


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There’s no official brand, no logo, no one-liner that sums up all that Sidney has to offer — yet.
Sidney’s business improvement area (BIA) board held a public branding session Wednesday, May 15, offering only a glimpse at some of the concepts they are delving into as they formulate a vision to market outside the Peninsula. BIA board member and its chair of communications and marketing, Angus Matthews, says it was a session held to share the basics of the branding effort to date.
Drawing on a combination of public survey results and board brainstorming sessions, consultants Eclipse Creative and Intuition Brand Planning have put together three pillars of why Sidney can be considered remarkable: its setting; its people, and; its goods.
Goods is not just what is sold in local businesses, says Intuition’s Hugh Ruthven, a Parkland Secondary graduate. He said the term covers a broad spectrum of what Sidney has to offer — arts, events, the shops and more.
Ruthven gave a presentation on the information that has been gathered so far, telling a small crowd at the Mary Winspear Centre that Sidney’s eventual brand must exist in people’s heads — as knowledge or as an experience.
“A brand is the promise of value,” he said, quoting branding gurus. “It’s a collection of experiences.”
He said, this time quoting Peter Grant’s book, The Story of Sidney, Sidney has a history of reinventing itself again and again, on the same site. Under the BIA and a new brand, the community will need to lead the next change and be able — as ambassadors for their town — to live up to people’s expectations of their community.
“People want authentic, realistic, artisan experiences,” said Ruthven, adding many people feel disconnected to their worlds in these days of mass technology.
He encouraged people — whether they run a business or run a special event — to tell the stories of their success. Doing that, he said, will help manage customers’ and visitors’ experiences in Sidney.
“Brands are about visions,” said Matthews, “figuring out what’s real and then measuring its success later.”
The May 15 meeting also offered people another venue for input into the process but its doesn’t stop there. The public survey online at www.sidneybiz.ca is still open this week. It’s cut off at week’s end, however, as the BIA board will take all of the input and develop a final marketing plan.
“We can’t keep planning, we need to start doing,” Matthews added.
The consultants working on the BIA’s branding effort conducted a SWOT — an exercise that identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. In this case, they asked people in the community how those apply to Sidney.
Issues like focus, curb appeal, relevance, transportation challenges and service levels and hours were identified as weaknesses. Threats to a prosperous Sidney include a perception as stale, online competition and the cost of retail space, among others.
Yet there is hope Sidney’s opportunities and strengths can help lead a new marking effort, designed to attract new visitors and customers.
Sidney’s location close to the Salish Sea and transportation hubs, its small town vibe, safe atmosphere, variety of shops and markets and its potential in arts and culture, are seen as positives in the BIA exercise.
Building on those strengths and more, the consultants identified opportunities ahead to create a brand for Sidney that demonstrates its authenticity, its accessibility, affordability and its many great shops and events.


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Newsboys have released their lyric video for ‘One Word’, track 9 from Restart, their latest album released in 2013. Check out the video below.
Newsboys have released the music video for their song ‘We Believe’, 11th track on Restart and one of the standout songs on My Hope: Music Inspired By The Message and Mission of Billy Graham. Check out the video below.
Newsboys have released their brand new lyric video for ‘We Believe’, track 11 on their most recent album Restart and track 1 on the forthcoming album My Hope: Songs Inspired By the Message and Missions of Billy Graham. Check out the video below, and be sure to take a look at both Restart and the Billy Graham compilation coming out next week. What do you all think of the video?
Newsboys have released their brand new music video for their current radio single, ‘Live With Abandon’, from their latest album Restart. Check out the video below, and be sure to take a look and listen to Restart: Deluxe Edition on Spotify or any other streaming online service. What do you think of the video?
Newsboys have just released their brand new simple lyric videos of ‘Fishers of Men’ and ‘Disaster’, both from their latest album Restart just released to iTunes and Amazon on the 10th September. Check out the videos below.
The Newsboys are back with their highly anticipated 2013 album ‘Restart’ releasing September 10th, featuring the hit single ‘Live With Abandon’ and other standouts like ‘One Word’, ‘That Home’, ‘We Believe’ and ‘Man on Fire’. Check out the review.
Newsboys have released their lyric video for their current radio single ‘Live With Abandon’ from their full length album ‘Restart’, releasing on September 10th. You can check out the lyric video below, and also check out their single on iTunes and Amazonmp3. What you you all think of the song and video?


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The French Government decided to suspend the use of E171 in food in France from 1 January 2020. The European Commission is still to put a measure before the Member State Committee to decide whether the suspension is a justified national interim protective measure as required by article 54 of the EU’s General Food Law. The Titanium Dioxide Manufacturers Association (TDMA) calls on the European Commission to stand behind the repeated opinions of its own agency, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and to dismiss the French suspension which is not justified as a precautionary measure in view of the current scientific evidence.
On 17 April 2019, the French government published a decree suspending the placing on the market in France of foodstuffs containing E171/titanium dioxide (TiO2) from 1 January 2020 as precautionary measure.
The French Government’s decree comes despite EFSA having now reviewed the safety and other aspects of E171 four times: in 2016, 2018 and May and June of 2019. In all cases they have repeated the safety of E171. This sends a clear signal that the suspension is not justified as a precautionary measure.
If the European Commission does not enforce the repeated EFSA opinions, it would deal a significant blow to the trust of consumers and businesses in the EU food safety standards. The E-number system has ensured the safety of products while providing for the free flow of goods in the EU for decades. Allowing the suspension to proceed would call into question this system as well as the integrity of the Single Market for food products.
Despite the decree entering into force on 1 January 2020 and discussions at a number of EU meetings with Member States, the European Commission is still to decide its approach on the matter. TDMA calls on the European Commission and the EU Member States to move forward and to oppose the suspension as soon as possible to reaffirm EFSA’s scientific authority. TDMA is committed to E171 and is aligned with EFSA’s findings. TDMA is working with the EU Authorities and will keep stakeholders informed regarding the next steps.
Further information about the safety of TiO2 in food is available here. TDMA stands by the safety of its product in all known applications and will work to ensure its continued safe use.
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Standard Chartered Bank has facilitated the first end-to-end automated trade finance transaction with the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) through its Straight2Bank platform. It was carried out between BP’s petrochemicals business for Oman-Based OCTAL and a global leader in the packaging industry.
This transaction heralds a new era of greater efficiency and paperless trade settlement. Launched by SWIFT, the BPO is an effective payment undertaking between banks that payment will be made on a specified date after a successful electronic matching of data according to industry-defined ISO 20022 message flows.
Gary Slawther, corporate treasurer, OCTAL, said, “This is a very exciting development for OCTAL as it is in complete alignment with our business objectives of maximising efficiency in all areas of our operations and creating true partnerships with our suppliers and customers for the benefit of all involved in the supply chain, right from raw material producers to end-user consumers. As a knowledge-based and technology driven organisation, leveraging the benefits of BPO is both a core aim and competence of OCTAL.”
BPO can be particularly useful in the commodities industry (such as oil, gas or petrochemicals) where the dependence on documents is not intrinsic to conducting trade.
David Vermylen, global credit manager, petrochemicals, BP said, “The BPO programme offers us a number of efficiency benefits through reduced document handling and lower confirming costs, and by conducting business with less paper compared to traditional letters of credit.”
Using BPO, Standard Chartered Bank clients can benefit from assurance of payment and risk mitigation but through a much faster, paperless and fully-automated process – thereby, bridging letters of credit and open account transaction. The result is a less complex and more cost-effective trade settlement tool that accelerates the payment cycle.
Farooq Siddiqi, regional head of transaction banking, MENA, Standard Chartered Bank said, “We have been at the forefront of trade finance innovation and we are glad to execute a first-of-a-kind transaction for our client in the Middle East. This transaction is a clear indicator of our commitment to continue deepening our client relationships in the region and introducing best international practice in the industry.”


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Speculation about “Tesla Model Pi”: is a Tesla smartphone coming soon?
Tesla is no longer just about modern electric cars. Now rumors are piling up about a possible smartphone from the Musk group.
• Apple enters the e-car market
• Rumors of a smartphone solution for Tesla users
• Fan designs surfaced
Apple is pushing the e-car market – is Tesla turning the tables?
With almost 500,000 deliveries in 2020, the US electric company Tesla secured the title of largest manufacturer of electric cars by a large margin. Nevertheless, the market is competitive: not only traditional car manufacturers such as Volkswagen or BMW are entering the market for electrically powered vehicles, with companies such as BYD, Xpeng and NIO, competition from China is also increasing. In addition, technology companies such as the iPhone manufacturer Apple or the smartphone giant Xiaomi are working on corresponding counterparts to Tesla’s successful models – even if it will take some time before models like the “iCar” can be found on public roads. Conversely, if smartphone manufacturers want to complete their range with e-cars, the question arises as to whether Tesla will venture into the mobile phone business.
Tesla’s business has long gone beyond electric cars
Tesla has long since committed itself to more than just electric vehicles. The main business of the group, headed by Elon Musk, also includes the production of battery storage systems and solar systems. In addition, the CEO always brings products outside of the usual range to the online shop. For example, Musk temporarily sold shorts with the Tesla logo – an allusion to the shortsellers he did not love, which predicted a disastrous future for Tesla shares. In addition to the “Tesla Tequila”, the entrepreneur recently also offered the “Cyberwhistle” in his own shop – a whistle whose design alludes to Tesla’s much-criticized Cybertruck. The collector’s item is said to have been sold out within a very short time.
App users complain of connection problems
With this, Tesla has proven several times that there is no fear of adding to the product portfolio. And so the idea of a smartphone would possibly be an advantage for many users of the vehicles. Recently, numerous Tesla drivers complained about connection problems with the smartphone application, as reported by “Electrek”. For example, users could not connect to the Tesla vehicle in the app and thus no status data, such as the charge level, could be called up. After an affected Twitter user contacted Musk personally with the support request, he promised to take care of the failures and shortly afterwards announced that the problems had now been resolved.
Should be coming back online now. Looks like we may have accidentally increased verbosity of network traffic.
Apologies, we will take measures to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2021
Would Tesla users with their own smartphone from the electric car brand possibly be immune to such failures in the future?
Powerful QULACOMM chip
According to the tech portal “TechNewsWorld”, this would be quite possible. Rumors about a possible Tesla phone have been piling up on the Internet for some time, as they know. The smartphone should have a powerful Snapdragon 8 chip from QUALCOMM and appear in colors that Tesla fans are already familiar with from the paintwork of their favorite models. Not only could the cell phone function as a key for one’s own car, but with an interface to the high-speed Internet Starlink from Musk’s space company SpaceX, connection problems could be a thing of the past. Compared to common smartphone models, the Tesla cell phone could also be equipped with additional buttons that quickly trigger actions in connection with the vehicle, such as the locking mechanism or finding the vehicle.
Competition with Apple’s ecosystem?
According to the portal, Tesla could also target Apple’s smartphone business. This is because there is an intersection of consumers who use products from both companies. So if the iCar is announced soon, numerous Apple disciples could migrate from the Musk group. Furthermore, Apple is also known for its extreme customer loyalty and its expensive marketing campaigns. If Tesla now brings a smartphone onto the market itself, you can use it to keep customers in the Musk ecosystem, can be read in the tech blog.
Tesla fans are happy about unofficial designs
Tesla fans have already given a lot of thought to a possible design since the first rumors. In the summer, the concept designer Antonio De Rosa published an unofficial draft for the device on his Twitter channel, which he called “Tesla Model Pi” as an allusion to the mathematical constant.
– Antonio De Rosa (@ aderosa75) July 10, 2021
However, this is in no way related to Tesla’s actual plans, but only serves as an illustration of what is possible.
Musk speaks out against smartwatch and cell phone
According to TechNewsWorld, a Tesla smartphone could also shine in combination with a company’s own wearable. However, Tesla itself has currently not announced a corresponding smartphone. In 2020, Musk denied rumors about a possible smartwatch, with which Tesla vehicles can be unlocked at the push of a button, on his Twitter account.
Definitely not. Smartwatches & phones are yesterday’s technology, Neuralinks are the future.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2020
“Definitely not. Smartwatches and phones are yesterday’s technology, neural links are the future,” the technology expert dismissed the reports. Although Musk’s comment was more than a year ago about the E Group’s intentions to launch its own smartphone on the market, nothing official is known. So it remains to be seen how the rumors about Tesla’s mobile solution will develop.


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China’s International Cigar Expo (ICE) returns in early November 2021 and scheduled to be held at the Tianfu International Convention Center in Chengdu from November 8 to 10. The previous Expo in 2019 was held in Shenzhen.
Hosted by China Cigarette Sales Corporation and China Tobacco International Group Limited, organized by China Tobacco Sichuan Industrial Co., Ltd., and co-organized by China Tobacco Anhui, Shandong, Hubei Industrials Co., Ltd., China Tobacco Hubei, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan provincial companies, and Shenzhen Tobacco Import and Export Co., Ltd., 2021’s Expo will again focus on the exhibition of premium cigars and related products of Chinese and foreign brands, cigar culture and lifestyle experience, with a total exhibition area of over 10,000 square meters.
According to a media release, Habanos S.A., Davidoff, and Scandinavian Tobacco Group have confirmed their presence to display products and communicate their latest achievements together with other international enterprises that produce cigars and cigar-related products. ICE expects more than 150 domestic and overseas enterprises to be present, with over 10,000 exhibitors and industry professionals participating.
“Various products and services will be exhibited, including premium cigars, tobacco, accessories, pipes, drinks pairings, lifestyle, auxiliary materials, cigar machinery, and cigar media,” said Mr Ma Ji, Secretariat of the Organizing Committee of the 2021 International Cigar Expo (Chengdu). “As well as the exhibition floor, ICE will feature a Cigar Night Welcome Party, Cigar Industry Development Forum, Cigar International Academic Forum, professional seminars, and cigar tasting seminars to facilitate mutual development in terms of trade, technology, and project cooperation in the cigar industry.” A virtual exhibition platform will be showcased during the Expo and offer a creative space for display, communication, and interaction.
Chengdu, located in Sichuan Province, was chosen as a host city as it is one of the largest markets in China, with a solid industrial base and huge potential for the cigar industry. Sichuan Province is also China’s base for premium air-cured tobacco.
Prospective exhibitors are welcome to register online at the official website www.intercigarexpo.com


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Candle Lab Closes Downtown Location
The Candle Lab’s newest storefront has closed its doors. After just 15 months in business, the shop across from the Convention Center at 459 N. High St. has poured its last candle.
A sign posted on the door states:
We have made the difficult decision to close our Convention District location. We’ve been open here since July 2018 and have made every attempt to make this location work but haven’t been able to get enough traction here to continue to operate this store.
The note encourages patrons to visit The Candle Lab’s three other Central Ohio locations, including Grandview, Worthington and the Short North store which is just 0.4 miles north at 751 N. High St.
The Candle Lab offers nearly 150 scents of its soy candles, and has also expanded its product line to include reed diffusers and oil, as well as body care products like bubble bath, lotion and brown sugar scrubs.
Additionally, the candle maker operates three stores outside of Central Ohio, with two shops in Cincinnati and one in Pittsburgh.
For more information, visit thecandlelab.com.


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The average price of petrol rose by 5.4p to 128.06p per litre in April, according to the RAC. Apparently, that’s the second-biggest monthly increase since the year 2000.
That seems a shockingly big rise, although I have to admit that prices in my local town haven’t risen by this much. Of course, the reason for this may be that they didn’t fall as low as in some more populated areas of the country.
Whatever. The unfortunate reality is fuel retailers have jumped to pass on a 5% rise in the price of a barrel of oil. Rocket and feather, here we come…
There wasn’t much mercy for diesel drivers, either. The average price per litre for oil burners rose by 3p to 133.7p.
Supermarkets weren’t much help either. Although these big retailers have traditionally competed hard to offer the lowest fuel prices, RAC figures show that supermarket petrol prices rose above the UK average in April.
The average price of a litre of supermarket unleaded jumped 5.6p to 124.2 in April. Diesel burned 4.1p higher to 131.6p. It seems that these big fuel sellers are no longer keen to push prices down. I guess it helps their profit margins.
Motorway petrol remains an utter rip-off, to be avoided at all costs. The average price of a litre of unleaded on a blue road rose by 3.6p to 145.5, while diesel motored 2.8p ahead to 154.1p. Ouch.
Will prices fall in May?
Is there any hope for lower petrol and diesel prices in May? Perhaps.
RAC Fuel Watch analysis suggests that petrol prices are likely to stay flat over the next couple of weeks.
However, diesel prices are “very likely to come down “ according to the motoring organisation.
A lot depends on the price of oil. A big move in the exchange rate between the pound and the US dollar could also affect prices. Unfortunately, there’s little that motorists can do about it. We can’t buy fuel in advance and stock up when it’s cheaper. And we can’t delay buying it when we need it.
The only answer is to find the cheapest fuel and use as little as possible by driving efficiently. Plus — avoid short journeys. Cold engines tend to burn through a lot of extra fuel. If it’s under a mile, walk!


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Londonderry, New Hampshire Police: “Apple Theft Is a Crime”
Police in Londonderry, New Hampshire have a seasonal message for the public, picking apples without paying is considered theft.
Officers caught a number of people from Everett, Massachusetts on Tuesday, who almost made off with hundreds of dollars in apples from a local orchard.
“As apple picking season ramps up here in Londonderry, we just wanted to issue a reminder that apple theft is a crime,” police said in a statement.
“Our officers are routinely checking our orchards and working with the orchard owners to help prevent this crime, which results in the loss of thousands of dollars in inventory every year.”
So as apple picking season ramps up, remember to do it the right way and pay for those apples you pick. No word on if liberties are taken around the apples you eat while picking them, though.


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Cannabis beverages are one of the popular forms of cannabis products in high demand nowadays. The surge in the cannabis world has seen the rise of different types of products and canna-beverages has been on the benefiting end. The year 2020 has seen a lot of cannabis beverages come to the limelight. Fortune Business Insights in a report projected that the market will increase to about $8 billion by the year 2027.
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text: Adipurush has been released on more than 6000 screens across the world and out of these around 4000 screens are in India. Trade experts have predicted a bumper opening of Rs 40 to 50 crores on the first day of the film’s release on June 16. However, the film got leaked online just hours after its release. According to the report, Prabhas and Kriti Sanon’s film is available in HD print on Filmyzilla, 123movies, Filmywap, Onlinemoviewatches, 123movierulz, Telegram, Tamilrockers. The film is available for free download in 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p and HD on some portals like 123movies, 123movierulz, Filmyzilla, Onlinemoviewatches, Filmywap and Tamilrockers.


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|August 22, 2014 05:11 AM EDT||
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- If NASCAR drivers raced in production versions of their cars, 57 percent of KBB.com visitors think the Chevrolet SS would perform best in the Sprint Cup Series, according to a recent online poll from Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the only vehicle valuation and information source trusted and relied upon by both consumers and the automotive industry.
KBB.com Quick Poll: If NASCAR Drivers Raced In Everyday Cars Sold at Dealerships, Which Model Would Perform Best in the Sprint Cup Series?1
Percent of KBB.com Visitors
"Nearly 60 percent of consumers polled believe the everyday version of the Chevrolet SS would take home first place if a NASCAR driver was racing it, demonstrating that the Chevrolet brand resonates for performance both in the racing realm and in the real world," said Arthur Henry, analyst for Kelley Blue Book. "When NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. recently raced his Sprint Cup Series Chevrolet SS to victory lane for the third time this season alone, he helped increase the model's perception as an attainable performance vehicle."
Kelley Blue Book is a sponsor of Earnhardt and his Hendrick Motorsports team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for 2014 and 2015. So far this season, Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 and both NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Pocono.
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1 Online poll fielded July 9-14, 2014, among 587 respondents on Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com
About Kelley Blue Book (www.kbb.com)
Founded in 1926, Kelley Blue Book, The Trusted Resource®, is the only vehicle valuation and information source trusted and relied upon by both consumers and the automotive industry. Each week the company provides the most market-reflective values in the industry on its top-rated website KBB.com, including its famous Blue Book® Trade-In and Suggested Retail Values, and Fair Purchase Price, which reports what others are paying for new cars this week. The company also provides vehicle pricing and values through various products and services available to car dealers, auto manufacturers, finance and insurance companies, and governmental agencies. Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com ranked highest in its category for brand equity by the 2014 Harris Poll EquiTrend® study and has been named Online Auto Shopping Brand of the Year for three consecutive years. Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc. is a Cox Automotive company.
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