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Free after 3: Bishop's Stortford BID offers free parking for shoppers in Causeway car park from 3pm on Tuesdays
Bishop’s Stortford BID is giving the town centre a new year boost with a free parking offer for shoppers.
The business support organisation, to which traders pay a levy, is funding spaces in the short-stay Causeway car park from 3pm every Tuesday for three months, starting on January 11.
The aim is to encourage people to come into town on their way home from school or work or to stay a little longer.
As an added incentive, the BID will, subject to Covid-19 restrictions, be hosting a series of mini-events on Tuesday afternoons including performances by street musicians, character visits and free classes.
BID manager Gina Thomas is also collating discounts, special offers and promotions from shops and services as part of the efforts to drive footfall to the high street.
The provision of free parking has been central to the BID’s business plan since it launched in October 2018. The latest 'Discover and Save' offer follows a month-long trial from April 12 last year, as the third national lockdown, imposed on January 6, eased and non-essential retailers were allowed to reopen.
The latest 'Free after 3' scheme follows tricky negotiations with East Herts Council to find a way to accommodate the parking offer alongside the authority’s sustainability aims.
However, the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on Bishop’s Stortford’s commercial heart have only strengthened the BID's resolve to help.
Gina said: “By funding car parking on a Tuesday afternoon for three months, we hope to encourage more visitors to our town centre. With the extra time, we hope it will be an opportunity to discover and enjoy a little more what’s here.
"Whether it’s to enjoy a film at the cinema, visit the gym, shop, have a coffee with a friend, tea with the kids, have your nails done or more, there’s plenty to do.”
The BID board ruled out funding long-stay car park places and decided that offering free bays in Jackson Square multi-storey could exacerbate congestion.
Shoppers who use the Causeway payment machines to check in for a flexible visit will be automatically checked out at 3pm on Tuesdays to ensure they benefit from the free parking offer along with those who would normally buy a pay-and-display ticket. The machines will be bagged during the offer period.
The Causeway, with 241 spaces, offers drivers free parking for up to 30 minutes at any time of the day and overnight from 6.30pm to 7.30am. Charges begin at 80p for an hour and continue at £1.60 for 2 hours, £2.20 for 3 hours, £2.90 for 4 hours and £3.60 for 5 hours. Shoppers could save up to £2.90 if they park for the BID-funded maximum of 3.5 hours.


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Samsung, Sprint, and Under Armour have joined forces to announce the Galaxy S5 Sport, a ruggedized smartphone that will play host to the new Sprint Fit Live fitness ecosystem.
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Milwaukee Tool Corp. is expanding its research and development center in Brookfield with a $6 million investment and a commitment to create 128 new jobs.
The new jobs will include mainly project leaders, design engineers, electrical engineers and technicians.
The company announced its plans with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC), which has approved up to $2.1 million in tax credits to assist with the expansion.
“We are committed to our Brookfield facility as a critical component of delivering solutions to our core end-users and distribution partners with greater innovation and faster speed than any of our competitors,” said Ty Staviski, chief financial officer of Milwaukee Tool. “With this commitment, we will continue to invest in and expand our workforce in Southeastern Wisconsin as we pursue new product and research opportunities.”
As part of the investment, Milwaukee Tool has established a global rotary hammer advanced development center as well as an advanced motor development and prototyping center. In addition, Milwaukee Tool is expanding the breadth of its accessories product line and has introduced a Hand Tool line to meet the growing demand of its business channels.
The company has also expanded its accessory test lab and battery research capabilities.
“Milwaukee Tool’s commitment to southeastern Wisconsin speaks to the assets the region and state has as the foundation for this investment in Wisconsin,” said Reed Hall, WEDC secretary and interim chief executive officer.
“The Milwaukee 7 is pleased that Milwaukee Tool continues to grow its employment base in southeastern Wisconsin. These are precisely the kind of high-skill, family-supporting jobs that we want. We know the company could have placed these jobs in another locale. We appreciate Milwaukee Tool’s investment in our region,” said Jim Paetsch, vice president of corporate expansion and attraction for the Milwaukee 7.
“Building capacity that helps our businesses constantly innovate their products and services is critical to competing in the global economy. Waukesha County and the Waukesha County Economic Development Corporation are pleased to have partnered with Milwaukee 7, WEDC and the City of Brookfield to support Milwaukee Tool’s commitment to innovation,” said Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas.
Milwaukee Tool is the Wisconsin-based subsidiary of Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. (TTI) of Hong Kong. Milwaukee Tool currently employs approximately 1,300 people in the United States.


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Dark Kak, a Bangladeshi tech startup that works with Augmented Reality (AR) with the Internet of Things (IoT), has won an award for their upcoming project ‘Smart Jewellery’. The award, titled ‘Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship Award’, was presented by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) at the She Loves Tech 2023 conference held at the Fairmont Hotel in Singapore. Dark Kak was entitled to a 15,000 USD cash prize from UN ESCAP and She Loves Tech.
She Loves Tech is a global platform that is committed to closing the funding gap for women entrepreneurs. Since its inception, the platform has assisted over 13,000 women-led tech startups in over 70 countries.
When asked about her project, the Founder of Dark Kak, Nourin Haque Ridi, told The Daily Star that ‘Smart Jewellery’ is a disguised GPS tracking system that looks like any regular ornament. The user first needs to set up the GPS tracker on the ‘Smart Jewellery’ with their phones, and once set and activated, the device can run on its own.
The ornament has a hidden switch mechanism inside which can be pressed when in danger. After pressing the switch a call will be sent to the emergency contact of the user. The emergency contact will also receive an SMS with the location of the user.
With UN ESCAP looking over into their product’s implementation, Dark Kak will now work on developing similar products for children that can track locations for parents.


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Bottom Line Up Front: Dylan Gilligan, owner of Upstate Merch, is using his technical expertise and his commitment to starting authentic conversation to put together a podcast. Upstate Podcast will feature different industry experts — and a whole lot of unfiltered real-talk. We break it down below.
Upstate Merch is a screen printing and merchandising company located in Upstate New York — Whitney Point, specifically — and believe us when we say, they’re one of the best.
From their commitment to staying on top of the most innovative screen printing techniques to their obsession with excellent customer service and community building, the whole Upstate Merch team knows their way around delivering the goods.
So, when owner (and InkSoft customer) Dylan Gilligan decided to put together a podcast specifically targeting the decorated apparel industry, we didn’t waste any time getting involved.
Gilligan founded Upstate Merch back in 2009, and since then he’s been performing — and impressing customers — at top speed.
His team is known for everything from their screen printing and embroidery skills to their killer graphic design capabilities — and their use of fundraising stores, especially in current times, have been getting quite a bit of attention to.
Since Gilligan opened up shop, his biggest aim has stayed the same: to deliver the highest quality at the most reasonable price points, and to make sure his customers are thrilled with the results — every time.
Those customers, ranging from bands, Youtube celebrities, and comedians to businesses, schools, and nonprofits, are all (obviously) looking for different designs and goods. But for Upstate Merch, a screen printer that’s known for its versatility, that’s never been a problem.
When it comes to the decorated apparel industry, Gilligan was never interested in keeping his expertise of and passion for the craft to himself. He wanted to share with his screen printing peers — and he wanted to learn from them, too.
When he first joined Instagram — his favorite social media platform — he was struck by how easy it was to build community. He followed other print shops and some current customers — in about an 80/20 split — and he didn’t shy away from starting conversations.
In an article teaching newcomers how to use Instagram to their advantage, Gilligan wrote: “Say something constructive. It’s called social media for a reason. Become part of the community.”
If you ask us, Upstate Merch reaching 23.9k followers was all but inevitable. With the team’s insight into the craft and Gilligan’s penchant for opening dialogues and connecting with those around him, it was a sure bet.
Which is exactly what we think about the podcast, too.
We know, we know, every guy and his cousin has a podcast these days. They’re everywhere, and most of them are pretty lame. But this podcast — Upstate Podcast — is not.
At the baseline of everything Gilligan does is authenticity. From his printshop to his Instagram presence, his leadership to his products, he’s always been dedicated to cutting through the bull. That’s how he’s built his business and his social media — because customers (and followers) can feel it.
They can feel his commitment to keeping it real, and they can feel how he’s genuinely interested in helping them out. Teaching them something new. And inviting them into the conversation.
The Upstate Podcast is a continuation of that authenticity — but pulled onto a stage where other industry leaders are present. And not just present, but sharing with and learning from each other, in one giant, easygoing, funny conversation.
Each podcast episode is an easy listen, a fun listen, but also an important listen. Because you won’t just feel like you want to be friends with Gilligan and his guests — you’ll feel like you want to learn from them.
And this industry is nothing without us learning from each other.
That’s why InkSoft is such an excited sponsor of the show. We’re of course anxiously awaiting the technical topics discussed by all the screen printers, graphic designers, and other industry professionals that stop by — but we’re also anxiously awaiting the authenticity.
The unfiltered conversations.
And the community building that is bound to come of it.
We’ve been fans of Gilligan for a long time, so we can’t wait to become fans of his podcast now, too.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we know we will!
Listen to the first episode featuring the hilarious and talented Grizzly Wheeler! We’ve commissioned Grizzly to create pins and patches for our team so we can vouch for the killer merch he creates!


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grow steadily in the upcoming years. Statista3 is expecting Singapore’s eCommerce market
value to hit US$ 3.9 billion in 2024. This is a 9.1% CAGR from 2020’s expected value of
US$ 2.7 billion.
The majority of Singaporeans are already connected to the internet. The number of internet users in Singapore has reached 4.9 million in 2019 out of a 5.8 million population. That’s an internet penetration rate of 84%. Of the 4.9 million users, 3.5 million of them - that’s 73% - have bought items online, which means a sizeable number of them are digitally savvy enough to navigate the realms of eCommerce.
Singaporeans also tend to spend more when shopping online, compared to its other
Southeast Asian neighbours. The average revenue per online shopper in Singapore stands
at US$675.715, which is higher than Malaysia and Indonesia’s combined.
Additionally, retail shops that have dotted Orchard Road are seeing fierce competition by not only new malls appearing in suburban Singapore, but also online stores. This signals changing times for traditional brick-and-mortar retail models.
To top it off, Singapore is home to popular eCommerce platforms that are dominating
the Southeast Asian region, such as Carousell and Shopee.
These factors definitely signal the rise of eCommerce in Singapore.
Some major factors driving Singapore’s surge in eCommerce activity include:
1. Better bargains and convenience for consumers
2. Popularity of cashless payment methods
3. Low barriers to entry
WHAT COULD HINDER SINGAPOREANS FROM BUYING ONLINE?
Even with eCommerce booming on the island, Singaporeans don’t always choose to buy online. Some reasons include:
1. Accessibility to nearby malls and grocery shops
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T-Mobile data breach, the most recent one
The reason I say most recent is because, well, T-Mobile have had this happen to them several times already over the past couple of years. Oftentimes it’s nothing too serious but this time the apparent breach includes customers’ sensitive data being sold on the dark web. On the weekend there were reports that some data may have been found of the dark web being sold for around 6 bitcoins (around $280,000) for a subsect of 30 million customer data sets. Vice, known for its unorthodox way of reporting, managed to liaise with the seller who had claimed they had millions of records, without directly saying the data came from T-Mobile customers.
On Sunday, before the public were aware of the potential breach, a self-proclaimed hacker had posted in a hacker forum and boasted on social media that he possessed sensitive information that had been stolen from 100 million customers, and that the mass number of customers that had data leaked from a company like this had never been over 30 million before. Hackers will often make their claims a bit exaggerated, or post things on forums that they haven’t done to have their peers think they are decent hackers, but T-Mobile had said that they were taking the claims seriously either way and they will be investigating, which of course was the best choice of action. They are currently unaware of how many of its customers have been affected and will be alerting them to the issue as soon as they have more information.
The data that was found to be on the cybercriminal site wasn’t just names and numbers, it was also personal information such as Social Security numbers, drivers’ license information and IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers, which can be used to identify and locate the cell phone user. Names and numbers are easy to come across, even social security numbers, but the IMEI should be private information, and having those leaked could end up with the users being exposed to online abuse and spamming, or even real-world consequences. Malicious actors could use this sensitive data in a variety of ways, phishing text messages, mass spam to offer “upgrades for T-Mobile customers” would probably entice users to take the bait and leave them in debt or leave their phones open to new vulnerabilities. Sometimes malicious actors will use the data from a specific person, possibly they have a grudge, or the person has a lot of sensitive information that could be leaked for money such as secrets, or they could be a very rich person and have their accounts drained.
As mentioned in the beginning, T-Mobile have had a fewbreaches, 5 that have been caught by the public eye thus far. In January this year, they had a data breach where around 200,000 call records and subscriber data were stolen. Last year there were two incidents, a breach on their email systems where hackers accessed employees accounts and access customer data, and a breach of a million prepaid customers’ billing information. And going back a bit further, in 2018, T-Mobile had said around 2 million customers could have possibly had their personal information stolen.
T-Mobile has said the entry point that the hackers gained access through has now been resolved, and they are carrying out a thorough reviews of their security systems to identify how it happened, and how much has been stolen.
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VIETNAM: Garmex Sets Sights On US With New Garment Factory
Authorities have approved in principle a project by Garmex to build its fifth export garment factory in HCMC 's Hoc Mon District, the Saigon Times Daily reported yesterday. Work on the factory is scheduled to start early next month to ensure that it can be completed by March next year, a company source said, adding that it will produce four million garments per annum to begin with. "The operation of the new factory will enable us to raise exports to Chile and the US," the official said. Garmex Saigon, which is based in Ho Chi Minh City, has set a target of achieving VND50bn turnover this year.He said that the company now exports 97 per cent of its output, with 65 per cent of this for Japan, 15 per cent for Europe and the remainder for Taiwan, Australia, Chile and Singapore. An official at the HCMC Service of Planning and Investment said the factory would cover 1.5 hectares (16,000 sq m) in the Hoc Mon District and have an invested capital of VNMD33.4bn ($2.4m, £1.6m), VND26.7bn ($1.9m, £1.3m) of which is from the city economic stimulus programme.Garmex already runs four factories and employs around 2,000 workers. Its customers include Nike, Umbro, Ellesse and CK Khakis and it is well established in the Japanese non-quota market.
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“More than a makeover”: BT TV user interface gets update
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BT TV is updating its user interface this month, giving customers “more than just a makeover”.
The upgrade will apply to YouView boxes and the user interface on the previous BT Vision service. It will make the service “simpler and faster” for viewers to find the programmes they want to watch, improving BT TV Player in line with customer feedback and research.
New features include more intuitive navigation, quicker links to recent activity on the homepage and a new colour palate.
The all-new interface is being rolled out to YouView box customers in July and to customers with a BT Vision+ box in the autumn.
Alex Green, director of BT TV, said: “Our update is more than just a makeover. It will improve the performance of BT TV for customers, making navigation easier and faster. This follows our move from the BT Vision brand to simply using the BT master brand to cover our TV services.”


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I mean. Fifty four and a half billion dollars. I went ahead and did the math: that’s an annual run-rate of $218 billion dollars (yes, I know Q1 is the holiday quarter, so it tends to be much larger than the others — but don’t underestimate the possibility of a new iPhone earlier in the year pushing Apple towards the $200 billion mark). Apple generated more revenue in one quarter than Google (GOOG) did in all of 2012. Hell, Apple is getting close to generating as much revenue in one quarter as Microsoft (MSFT) does in an entire year.
Perhaps even more incredible is that Apple made over a billion dollars in profit a week for the first time ever. Profit
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Darksiders studio Vigil Games may never produce another game due to their owner THQ going bankrupt. However, the developer had something to share with fans this week: a new piece of art from Darksiders 2 inspired by Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's box art.
"During the launch of Darksiders II for Wii U, we crafted tribute art around the Darksiders franchise as a tip of the hat to one of our favorite games," Vigil said on the official Darksiders Facebook page. "We felt the community and fans of both Vigil and Darksiders should get to see these awesome pieces of work."
Earlier this week, THQ sold off many of its assets including Saints Row developer Volition and Company of Heroes studio Relic Entertainment. No buyer was found for Vigil Games, though. Vigil's employees were forced to clear out their office.
It's possible that someone could swoop in and buy Vigil. For example, Platinum Games recently expressed interest in a purchase. It seems possible that they might just acquire the Darksiders IP and not the studio, though.
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Facebook's big new effort is a search function that works only within the social media. Could "graph search" actually be a game changer? Perhaps -- and the idea that it could may be the reason Yelp's stock took a dive yesterday. Meanwhile online security experts have discovered a form of malware that's been operating for five years. Its name? Red October.


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PARMA, ID - And they’re off to the races! Tearless and sweet onions by Sunions™ are stepping out of retail locations and into consumers’ baskets, as the company makes headway into this inaugural season for wide retail availability.
“I was absolutely amazed with Sunions and now I am cooking them up like crazy,” said consumer Jeanie R., according to a press release. “They seriously taste like candy when caramelized!”
USA-grown, the product has taken three decades of research, development, and natural hybridization of Bayer Crop Science. The long-day sweet onion becomes sweeter and more tearless in storage, and most other sweet onion options during Sunions’ availability—November to April, typically—make their way stateside from South America.
This inaugural year has proven to be one for the books, with 1.2 billion media impressions in print, radio, web, and television media, including ABC’s The Chew and Good Morning America. In addition to these heavy-hitting media highlights, the company’s tearless, sweet onions enjoyed the spotlight from The Daily Meal, which told readers, “Onions that don’t make you cry are finally here and we’re crying tears of joy.”
The Huffington Post also reported on the company’s new-to-the-game variety, saying, “Put your goggles away, people!”
The company has teamed up with popular consumer sites like Buzzfeed Food, as well as YouTube influences The Brothers Green Eats. It has also put out a series of videos posted to Facebook and Instagram to get as many people in the know on what the variety offers, reaching almost 4 million viewers.
Other consumers raved over their experiences with the product.
“I want to compliment you on the best onions I've ever eaten in my life,” said consumer Rick S. “I can eat them like an apple.”
If consumers are wanting to incorporate your children into the meal-prep process, this item is making waves with families. Consumer Andrea D. said, “Because they are tearless, my children can help me chop, dice, and slice them.”
Other consumers are finding in Sunions’ product what they always hoped for in sweet onions. Consumer Shirley I., for example, stated, “Just tried your onions and they are the best. I have bought ‘sweet onions’ before and was always disappointed—I couldn't believe the taste of Sunions.”
A sensory panel authorizes the ship dates that follow a tightly-controlled protocol, which consists of both flavor and tearlessness. Sunions made it onto the retail scene in November of 2017, and the season ended in late April.
For more information on Sunions comprehensive marketing plant, point-of-sale materials, produce manager education, social media content, and consumer advertising and public relations campaigns, check out the company’s website at www.iheartsunions.com.
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Changes Make it Easier to Pay Parking Tickets in Erie
It's now more convenient than ever before to pay your parking tickets in the City of Erie.
The Erie Parking Authority entered into a contract with a new company to use handheld devices for ticket enforcement.
Instead of receiving a green ticket with an envelope, parking violators will now receive a long piece of weather-proof paper that has the citation and a picture.
There's a website and phone number on the bottom where you can now pay with a credit card.
"Instead of going to the parking office at City Hall between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., now you can go 24 hours a day credit card online or via phone," said Christopher Friday, deputy director of the Erie Parking Authority.
You don't want to wait to pay your parking ticket.
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Carlyle Group, the world’s second-largest private-equity firm, is close to signing investment deals in sub-Saharan Africa to tap into rising consumer spending in Africa, reports Bloomberg.
Carlyle came to the region two years ago and has opened offices in Johannesburg and Lagos amid plans to invest $500 million. It was part of the group that invested $210 million in Export Trading Group, a Tanzanian agricultural commodity company, last year, the only African deal it’s concluded to date.
“We have other investments that are either on the verge of being completed or in the pipeline,” David Marchick, Washington-based Carlyle’s managing director, told reporters in Cape Town weekend. “We have a very broad pipeline of deals. We are active in a number of sectors in a number of countries.”
Global buyout companies are paying increased attention to Africa as they seek to diversify away from western economies to earn higher returns. Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy grew 4.7 percent last year and is projected to grow 5.5 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Private-equity transactions in the region jumped by 19 percent to 43 deals in the first nine months of last year compared to a decline of 17 percent in China to 179 transactions, according to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association.
Carlyle wants “to tap into the growth that we have seen in Africa over the last few years,” said Marlon Chigwende, Carlyle’s managing director and co-head for sub-Saharan Africa. “We like the quality of the growth. We think that is sustainable over the medium to long term. We think there are incredible opportunities to help fast-growing medium-sized companies grow even faster.”
With Africa holding some of the world’s largest reserves of minerals including gold and tin and with fast expansion in the use of technology including mobile phones, private-equity investments in the region have focused mainly on natural resources and telecommunications.
Carlyle is interested in “anything that touches the consumer, fast-moving consumer goods, agriculture, mobile telephony, financial services,” Chigwende said. Two-thirds of recent growth in Africa “has been consumer related.”


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Tim Sweeney made Fortnite a phenomenon by doing something that sounds crazy: He gave it away.
This strategy has made him a billionaire.
In an industry with monster hits like Candy Crush and Pokemon Go, Fortnite's popularity is not surprising. His revenue is. Between the release of the current release in September and the end of May, Fortnite raised more than $ 1.2 billion, according to SuperData Research. In early June, it was played by 125 million people.
an, which has led to a jump in sales at Epic Games, Sweeney, founded 27 years ago in his parents' basement. Fortnite alone is on track to generate $ 2 billion this year, making the Cary, North Carolina-based playmaker worth $ 5 billion to $ 8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Sweeney, 47, is the controlling shareholder.
Fortnite is a global phenomenon that is obsessively played by kids, rappers, professional athletes, and middle-aged accountants. It's a cartoon battlefield that deals with battles in which players fight each other in the battle for weapons, resources and survival on a shrinking, storm-ravaged island.
Instead of shooting upwards of $ 40 for the game, players buy online V-Bucks, a virtual currency that they can use during the game for outfits, called skins, festive dances, or special missions that can cost as much as $ 20 , change.
"On the revenue side, you've done something that's truly unique, which goes along with a sense of exclusivity," said Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities. Many accessories in the Fortnite store are limited, so players need to buy before coveted items disappear from the virtual shelves.
"If you see another player in a leopard skin and see him in the store, he is no longer available, they think," Shoot, I have to go back next time. "
All of this trade leads to the highest conversion rates per industry user and operating margin north of 50 percent
"Epic's rating has exploded alongside Fortnite's success," said Timothy O & # 39; Shea, who covers the game at Jefferies Financial Group.
Based On the trade multipliers of competitors Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, Epic could be worth as much as $ 14 billion, though potential buyers would demand a rebate based on questions as to whether Fortnite could sustain sales growth, said O Shea.
Self when sales should drop to $ 1 billion a year – half of its current estimate
This is a bonanza for Sweeney and the Chinese In ternet giants Tencent Holdings, which bought 40 percent of Epic in 2012 for a valuation of $ 825 million. It is still unclear what influence Fortnite had on Tencent's record. Three analysts covering the Shenzen-based company said they had not yet factored the game into their sum-of-parts ratings.
While most games gained popularity shortly after launch, Fortnite still attracted millions of new users six months later, thanks to a pleasing aesthetic that is more of a weird nonsense than graphic violence. Celebrity fans like rapper Drake and Josh Hart of the Los Angeles Lakers have pushed him further into mainstream consciousness. The French football star Antoine Griezmann celebrated this year in the World Cup final with the "Take-the-L" dance a goal.
As a social game, easy to play and difficult to master, it has been a particular success for schoolchildren who have voiced concerns from teachers and parents who report obsessive play during class.
Fortnite is not a bolt of lightning for Epic. The developer's biggest hit so far was Gears of War, a bestselling franchise for Microsoft's Xbox 360. Epic also owns Unreal Engine, one of two popular operating systems that developers rely on.
First, Epic requested customers to use the software. The sale increased when Sweeney released the product and instead collected a license fee for software games that included Mass Effect and Batman: Arkham.
Fortnite also started as a paid product. Launched in July 2017 as a $ 40 version, where players built forts to fight off zombie hordes, the game really got off the ground after Epic recreated it and added the multi-combat style
The Success even surprised Epic. At last year's E3, the industry's largest trade show, Epic showed reporters the game in a meeting room. At this year's convention, the Epic booth was dedicated to the Fortnite, with a replica of the bus that players enter at the beginning of the game, and opportunities for fans to dance in videos and hang-gliding.
This week, Epic hosted its first Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am, where guests like comedian Joel McHale and professional gamer Ninja (real name Tyler Blevin) competed in a football stadium. In May, Epic announced it would provide $ 100 million to fund prize pools for Fortnite contests.
At Epic's office, in Raleigh, North Carolina, just around the corner from a mall, employees have their choice of free ice and hot pockets. There's a game room, a two-story slide and huge sculptures of some of the company's video game characters.
Sweeney grew up in a suburb of Potomac, Maryland, and started out early in Game Design and Business. At age 11, he taught himself programming with the family's Apple computer and made a hobby of disassembling electronics.
At age 15, he ended his job in a hardware store after realizing that everyone was earning the same hourly wages, no matter how hard they worked. Instead, he borrowed his father's tractor and, after interviewing the gaming website Kotaku, began cutting neighbor lawns and undermining professional landscape gardeners.
Sweeney began designing his own games at the age of 21, packing them on floppy disks and sending them through the mail.
"Tim Sweeney is a legendary figure," said Joost van Dreunen, CEO of SuperData Research Holdings, who provides market intelligence for the gaming industry. "He is a hard-working, outspoken person with a clear vision of what he wants to do."
Although Sweeney captivates millions of players, he is not a big player himself. He is an avid conservationist and one of the largest private landowners in North Carolina. After the financial crisis, he bought thousands of hectares of land, mainly in the mountains, to create nature reserves.
Sweeney often wanders through the Epic office, leaving behind large sodas. He prefers a homemade mix of 60 percent water and 40 percent Coca Cola from the company's fountains.
Sweeney tours his sprawling home in a 10-year-old video released online. The lifelong bachelor says he has never eaten in the elegant dining room and prefers to take away from Burger King. He once owned several sports cars, including a Lamborghini, but he sold most of them. He drives a Corvette 2019.
"It turns out a fast car is a great hobby if you're a workaholic, because even if you do not have spare time, you can always drive to work," he said. 19659032]


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Appleâ€™s giant complex, Apple Park, is almost ready and the finishing touches are being given at the Steve Jobs Theater. In this new space the Cupertino company, of course, the tech giant Apple will present its next keynote where the iPhoneâ€™s tenth anniversary will be shown to the world.
iPhone 8: Apple Park Drone Video Shows Steve Jobs Theater
The tech giant Appleâ€™s giant complex, Apple Park, is almost ready and the finishing touches are being given at the Steve Jobs Theater. It will be in this new space where the Cupertino company, of course, the tech giant Apple will present its next keynote where the iPhoneâ€™s tenth anniversary will be shown to the world.
During the construction of the tech giant Appleâ€™s Apple Park, Duncan Sinfield, a drone pilot, was authorized by the company to collect images and thus has shown the evolution of the iconic work. Now, the latest video shows how everything is already â€œdressedâ€ with the gala costume for the feast of the Apple which will take place on the 12th of September.
Steve Jobs Theater, the home of the iPhone 8
The theater will be surrounded by a garden, as we have seen in the models that were shown us the project, this building is composed of large glass with 6 meters in height, cylindrical in order to receive lots of natural light.
Moreover, it has the largest coverage in the world, a single piece of carbon fiber with an area of 36,500 square meters and an underground auditorium with capacity for more than 1000 people.
This building was named after the tech giant Appleâ€™s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs who imagined the design of Apple Park before his death in 2011.
However, if we talk about the interior then we will be able to see that on the 12th of this month on the presentation of the keynote that will present what they say is the most advanced smartphone today and some analysts even say to be a turning point in the smartphone market.
So, what do you think about this revolutionary Apple Park? Simply share your views and thoughts in the comment section below.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Pending sales of existing homes likely rose 1.4% in January, rebounding somewhat after plunging in December to the lowest level in more than two years, according to economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires. Dropping affordability and poor weather have curbed pending sales, economists say. The National Association of Realtors will release the pending home-sales report at 10 a.m. Eastern. Elsewhere, economists polled by MarketWatch expect that a gauge of consumer sentiment ticked up to 81.8 for a final February reading, compared with 81.2 earlier in the month and at the end of January. The University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters will release the report at 9:55 a.m. Eastern.
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The Central Bank of Kenya has issued a new condition to banks regarding the issuance of the new Kenyan currency coins to customers.
New coins to be issued to customers on 1 condition
Getting the new-look coins more challenging
A circular to bank chief executives states that a customer shall not be issued with coins exceeding Sh 100.
The notice explains that the measure is due to a hitch in public awareness.
"Since CBK is in the process of undertaking a public awareness campaign, the distribution is being limited to Sh 50 and a maximum of Sh 100 of the new coins equivalent per customer," stated the acting director for currency operations Mr Paul Wanyagi.
Point of Clarification on Old Coins
Wanyagi clarified that the old coins still remain in circulation as legal tender and bank requests for coins remain as was.
"The new generation coins will circulate alongside the coins previously issued and not withdrawn.
"We welcome commercial banks to place their coin orders using the already existing mechanism," he explained.
The coins were launched on December 14, 2018 in adherence to a Constitutional requirement that currency should not bear the image of an individual.
The Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek) filed a lawsuit against CBK arguing that there should have been public participation on the images to be used.
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“It’s the last major market in the world where you can see a free for all between Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance on the one hand, and companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix on the other,” said Joe Ravitch, co-founder and partner of Raine.
Ravitch, a former Goldman Sachs banker for 16 years before co-founding Raine in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, expects cross-border transactions to increase in the region, home to around 650 million people.
“The scarcity of capital at a time of volatility, rising interest rates and inflation, will create investment opportunities and require companies to be more strategic,” Ravitch told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines. the Forbes Global CEO Conference.
Ravitch oversaw the sale of Premier League football club Chelsea in May.
Global media, entertainment and gaming giants are strengthening their presence in the rapidly growing economies of Southeast Asia.
Tencent bought Malaysian video streaming platform Iflix in 2020 and companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime and TikTok are boosting their presence and local content.
Raine is looking to add five to seven Singapore bankers within the next two years, said Deborah Yupin Mei, who heads Raine’s business in Asia and recently moved from Shanghai to Singapore.
Raine specializes in media, sports and technology related transactions and also oversees $4 billion in growth and venture capital. She advised Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-sharing company, on its purchase of Uber’s regional business in 2018.
Reuters reported last week that Raine had recruited Jonathan Pflug, head of Southeast Asia mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, to lead its regional coverage.
Mei said the trend of Chinese entrepreneurs setting up Singapore as a beachhead for Southeast Asia was likely to bring in capital and new business opportunities in sectors such as digital media and gaming.
“It’s another generation coming, and it remains to be seen whether they will bring models they have tested in this part of the world or whether they will launch something new,” she said.


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With Disney’s enormous acquisition of the bulk of Fox’ assets still fresh in mind, the launch of streaming service Disney+ is poised to further fuel the changing television landscape. Among this recent slew of streaming launches, mergers, and acquisitions, advertisers need to understand how these headlines will affect the Television media industry moving forward.
MediaRadar took on the task of answering this daunting question and came up with a distilled answer for you.
The Shape of TV Mergers and Acquisitions: It’s AT&T, Comcast & Disney vs. the Tech Giants
In the past year we’ve seen AT&T Comcast and Disney collectively spend $215 billion on acquisitions. For a brief recap:
- AT&T purchased Time Warner for $104 billion
- Disney purchased most of 21st Century Fox for $71 billion
- Comcast purchased European broadcaster Sky for $40 billion
The rash of purchases come as three of the largest media companies position themselves to compete directly with three of the largest tech-turned-media companies: Netflix, Amazon and Apple. Each have plans to launch their own streaming platform, and everyone but Disney has some catching up to do with the content they provide.
“All six companies embarked on a series of massive investments that will reshape the landscape of media: who makes entertainment and how people consume it,” according to an article in The Economist.
The acquisitions of this past year may not have all had the same substance, but they do have a shared end goal: to reshape both traditional and streaming television, and to come out ahead with the biggest piece of the pie.
M&A Implications for National TV
It’s tempting to focus solely on the streaming wars and the dramatic headlines that come with it. But the M&A activity of the past year has also dramatically transformed the national traditional TV landscape.
For a visual representation of the change, see the chart below signifying the breakdown of total ad revenue in 2018 and the estimated market share for the current year.
For an even more detailed breakdown, consider the following insights from an analysis of MediaRadar data:
- Disney, with its acquisition of various networks bought from Fox, should become the #1 company in terms of national ad TV dollars captured.
- If advertiser behavior remains consistent, Disney & NBCUniversal will take in over 4 of every 10 dollars spent on national TV advertising.
- Between AT&T buying TimeWarner and Disney buying major networks like FX and Nat Geo, approximately 13 percent of the market has switched hands over the past year.
If the merger between Viacom and CBS goes through, the newly formed network would become the third largest player in the market, alongside Disney and Comcast NBCUniversal. And it would push the newly formed Fox Corp, which is still holding its own despite selling most of its assets to Disney, right to the bottom.
However, we can’t completely extricate the discussion of national TV from the consideration of streaming TV. Each of the major national players are adding their own streaming services to directly compete with Netflix and Amazon (and now, potentially, Apple). “There’s been a drastic change among legacy media company executives the last two years,” writes Alex Sherman at CNBC. “Their CEOs won’t say it publicly, but they’re saying it privately: The pay-TV bundle, the lifeblood of the U.S. media ecosystem for decades, is dying.”
Agree or disagree with this view on the exact nature of this relationship between Television and streaming services, the fact remains that that as streaming grows, the shape of national TV changes along with it.
M&A Implications for Streaming
Currently, Disney, AT&T, and Comcast (among other household name corporations) are all working to build out streaming platforms to compete with established streaming services provided by tech giants, like Netflix & Amazon Prime, as well as the upcoming release of Apple+.
Stay tuned to the MediaRadar blog for an upcoming post diving deeper into these services, from the role these mergers and acquisitions played, to the challenges and implications of these new streaming services fighting for dominance in the streaming and OTT landscape.


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Industry backing and lower component prices led to Ubuntu Edge reduction, but project risks failure
Canonical has cut the minimum pledge required for an Ubuntu Edge smartphone to $695 thanks to “major industry backing” and lower projected manufacturing costs, but still faces a huge task to raise the required £20.5 million necessary to get the project up and running.
Yesterday, Bloomberg because the first major corporate backer of the Ubuntu Edge, signing up for one of the $80,000 enterprise bundles and Canonical believes more businesses are willing to follow suit. To encourage them to sign up, the number of smartphones included in the package has been increased from 100 to 115.
Canonical also says the reaction to the crowdsourced funding campaign has allowed it to contact component suppliers who are keen to see the Ubuntu Edge achieve its funding goal and have agreed to supply materials for less money.
Ubuntu Edge funding
“The huge support the Ubuntu Edge has been receiving from all corners of the world has really sent a message to the mobile industry – and that message has been received loud and clear,” said Canonical. “This is one of the key benefits of keeping some of the core specifications open: as a result of these negotiations, we can now produce the same state-of-the-art device for less than we originally estimated.”
Anyone who has paid more than $695 will be offered a refund of the difference at the end of the campaign, but at the time of writing, just $9,168,254 had been pledged with only 13 days remaining. Canonical is adamant that if the ambitious funding target is not reached, the smartphone will not be made.
“There will be no further price reductions, and we must reiterate that the Ubuntu Edge is exclusive to Indiegogo,” it said. “It will not be available to buy anywhere outside of this campaign, even at launch.”
The company told TechWeekEurope the target was deliberately ambitious to show other manufacturers the demand for Ubuntu mobile and what was possible with the operating system. However it is confident that even if it doesn’t raise the money, it will have generated enough publicity for other manufacturers to build handsets using the platform.
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On-Demand Scooter Rental Hits Streets Of Berlin
Electronic sharing service Coup partners with Gogoro to bring inexpensive and smart rides to tourists
New Yorkers have Citibike, Parisians have Vélib’, and the Danish have GoBike. Now, Berliners have an even greater—and faster—way to get around their city thanks to a new partnership between transportation provider Gogoro and a smart, electronic scooter sharing service named Coup.
Launching with an initial fleet of 200 Gogoro Smartscooters, Coup will be available in several Berlin neighborhoods like Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, and Kreuzberg. The electric scooters can be rented with an accompanying Coup app that lets anyone 21 and older locate, book and pay for a scooter from their mobile device. The scooters are also very affordable and well-suited for exploring Berlin, costing 3 euros for half an hour or 20 euros for an entire day. The scooters have batteries that need to be replaced after approximately 50 miles of travel, a task that the Coup team will be responsible for.


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After thieves made off with $6,599 in weapons earlier this month, Joel Caplan vowed to beef up security at his Lake Barrington gun shop so it would never happen again.
He never had a chance.
Late Friday, thieves broke through the front door of the Plainesman Gun Shop and made off with 23 handguns, valued at about $6,000.
The robbery came nine days after a similar break-in in which thieves stole 10 handguns and a shotgun. It is also the third robbery at Caplan`s store in about a year; the first occurred last summer.
Police believe the robberies are related, said Lt. Chester Iwan of the Lake County Sheriff`s Office. He said sheriff`s police are still searching for suspects.
Caplan, whose store was closed Monday, could not be reached for comment.
The Plainesman Gun Shop may be targeted because of its location, Iwan said. It is in a small, somewhat isolated strip mall on Hillview Drive, a short street of shops and warehouses that juts off Northwest Highway.
``It`s out in the middle of remote land,`` said Iwan. Even so, he said a squad car arrived at the store two minutes after an alarm sounded at 10:15 p.m. Friday, but the thieves were gone.
Iwan speculated the thieves kicked in the front door, which was boarded up Monday. There were no other details available, he said.
Some of the guns from the first robbery at Caplan`s shop are turning up at gun stores in Cook County, Iwan said, but he would not provide specifics.
After the Sept. 2 robbery, Caplan vowed to install bars on his front door and ``to do whatever it takes legally to make sure handguns are never taken again.`` It was not known what security measures Caplan added.


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Economy Watch: As Northern Ireland tourism enjoys boom, retail close to hitting panic button
Two important sectors for our city economy - retail and tourism - are experiencing vastly contrasting fortunes at the moment.
These performances are worth highlighting, as both raise crucial questions about what our city centre will be in years to come.
Starting with positive news, the tourism industry is enjoying a bumper period.
Figures just released for 2017 show a record-breaking year of close to £1bn of tourism revenues. All the tourism statistics for 2017 point towards a continuing upward trend.
There were more than 2.1 million hotel rooms sold, giving our hotels an occupancy rate of 73%.
Tourism spend from out of state visitors, which is in effect an export and of real importance in terms of economic growth, and a particular focus for developing the sector, reached £657m in 2017, up 7% from £613m in 2016.
Employment in the sector now accounts for about one in 10 of all jobs in Northern Ireland and employment levels are around 5% higher than during the lowest point (during 2012) of the most recent recession. This buoyant performance has come on the back of a period of heavy government focus, which has supported delivering new or improved tourist attractions and in delivering high profile global events such as the Giro d'Italia and prestige golf tournaments.
This strongly supportive policy environment, and subsequent success has given hoteliers the confidence to invest heavily in new and improved product.
The investment in projects under way, and likely to complete by 2020, is around £0.5bn.
Half of this is in new developments in Belfast - the recent opening of the AC Marriott in Belfast and soon-to-be-opened Grand Central Hotel are just two recent examples we can cite.
So, the good news for our city economy is that we are getting record levels of tourists staying in hotels and spending more money here than ever before.
The bad news is that this tourism spending boost doesn't seem to be buffering the retail sector from one of the worst periods it has endured.
We've reached a point of real concern for retail, and by extension commercial property, I fear.
When even Marks and Spencer and House of Fraser are scaling back their UK property footprint, it could be time to hit the panic button.
We are heading for the worst year in retail since 2008 and the Woolworths collapse in 2009, according to the Centre for Retail Research.
It has tracked that in the first 100 days of this year 18 large and medium-sized retail companies collapsed, six retailers are using Company Voluntary Arrangements to close nearly 300 stores and others are implementing partial retreats. The research estimates that by the end of 2018, 10,000 stores will have closed across the UK.
This is a dire prediction and should strike fear into anyone with an interest in seeing town and city centre success.
To place retail in some context, there are 130,000 retail jobs in Northern Ireland. That is close to one in every five jobs here.
While it may not always gain the attention of the 'high value' sectors such as ICT and cyber security, it is the largest provider of jobs in the NI economy.
In addition to the unfortunate human cost in jobs and wages, recent store closures are prompting a flow of retail units coming onto the market.
With a lot of sites coming to market, owners and agents will have to give serious thought to how best to market them.
This may require bold thinking in seeking and allowing for changes of use - might leisure, office or residential work better in some locations than retail?
Obviously, agents and owners will wish to get their properties let as soon as possible.
This current retail malaise shows no sign of abating.
Policy makers and planners should be deep in thought on what we want our places to be.
Front of mind in those thoughts should be whether there will be sufficient demand for bricks and mortar retail to sustain city centres and out of town, big box format shopping centres.
The shift in retail trends feels seismic and irreversible.
My view is that our town and city centres now need the same level of policy focus and action that the tourism sector has had over the past decade to survive and thrive.
Look what happened in that sector when we pursued success with a coherent strategy.
Policy needs to come out strongly for 'town centre first' and back it up with action.


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Southfield-based Telemus Capital Partners LLC has hired Lloyd Perlmutter, the former CEO of Gap Canada Inc., to be COO as the wealth management firm embarks on an ambitious expansion to grow from $2.3 billion under management to $10 billion over the next five to 10 years. The strategy calls on both geographic expansion and reaching out to new types of customers.
Travelers passing through Detroit often get their first or only taste of the local culture at the airport. Soon, Detroit Metropolitan Airport mainstays like Gayle's Chocolates, Hockeytown Café and National Coney Island will be joined by other Detroit favorites, ranging from Andiamo to the Eastern Market Dining Experience, a food court that will offer made-in-Detroit foods like corned beef from E.W. Grobbel Sons Inc., sausage from Corridor Sausage Co.
Birmingham Kroger to close for remodeling; Sherer to leave as THAW CEO
The East Maple Road Kroger store in Birmingham will close for about three and a half months next weekend for a $5.5 million remodeling – part of a potential $137 million investment The Kroger Co. of Michigan has planned for the state.
Retail — both stores and restaurants — is coming back in Michigan. Only a handful of companies are looking for big box sites, but the hunt is on for 'fast casual' locations, real estate brokers say.
An investigation of Hatch Detroit
co-founder Ted Balowski’s role in the organization’s finances is underway while Hatch’s annual contest awarding fledgling businesses cash prizes and support services continues as planned.
An abandoned Hazel Park lumber yard will be home to a vodka, rum, gin and whiskey distillery in a few short months. Thumb Knuckle Distillery LLC is expected to open in 12,000 square feet at 24310 John R Road north of East Woodward Heights Boulevard in October, said brewery founder Doug McElroy.
Michigan's penchant for outdoor activities is bringing yet another national outdoor sporting goods store to the state. Field & Stream is coming to a former Circuit City site at Oakland Mall in Troy and is expected to open in March.
The exceptionally cold and snowy winter pushed street and infrastructure repairs in Eastern Market into summer — prime months for restaurants and retailers in the district. Now, the work is further behind schedule due to unforeseen problems involving sewers, power lines and natural gas feeds.
The Rockford-based footwear maker Wolverine Worldwide is ending its licensing agreement for Patagonia Footwear, part of the Patagonia clothing and equipment line started by fervent environmentalist and "green business" backer Yvon Chouinard. Other statewide news: Medical marijuana bills pass state Senate committee; Conflict over finances may send Flint into bankruptcy, EM says.
It might seem an off time of year to be ripping up sidewalks and parking lots at Eastern Market, but it wasn't planned this way. Extreme winter weather and infrastructure problems have delayed work on the project, which will result in a more pedestrian-friendly area that is better connected to its surrounding neighborhoods, officials say.
Detroit-based Shinola/Detroit LLC is branching out to Chicago, signing a lease for an 1,800-square-foot store in the city's Bucktown neighborhood, said Jacques Panis, the company's president.
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This spring and summer, the Village of Rochester Hills
retail plaza is welcoming a half-dozen new stores and restaurants to northern Oakland County. The new businesses include celebrity chef Michael Symon’s B Spot
(gourmet burgers, brats, beer and bourbon), Paper Source
, Lane Bryant, J. Barbaro Men’s Clothiers
and Taylor & Colt Men’s BarberSpa
Wolverine World Wide Inc. of Rockford, the maker of Stride Rite, Keds and Merrell shoes, said it plans to shut down the stores over the next 18 months and focus on selling more of its footwear online.
Peter Wege, the son of the founder of Grand Rapids-based Steelcase Inc., used his office furniture fortune on philanthropy throughout Grand Rapids for decades, a civic altruism that continues even after his death July 7 at age 94. Other statewide news: Whirlpool to buy $1B stake in Italian appliance maker.
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit
is steadily re-establishing a chain of thrift stores in Southeast Michigan. The Detroit-based nonprofit plans to open its fourth and largest thrift store in a 17,322-square-foot space in Woodhaven on July 19.
In the home appliance industry, local retailers have struggled in recent years to survive in a market rife with competition like Home Depot, Lowe's and Best Buy.
Dominic Pangborn is returning to his roots, with a retrospective of his art, titled "Evolution of Arts and Design Through Revolution," being shown at the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, his hometown.
Some retailers in Southeast Michigan say they are losing customers and revenue, and will have to cut jobs, after finding out in recent weeks they can no longer be part of the Women, Infants and Children program, popularly known as WIC.
The Fretter Inc. founder was known for his zany advertisements that included phrases like, “I’ll give you 5 pounds of coffee if I can’t beat your best deal.”
Bill Clinton's April visit to Shinola/Detroit LLC received a new round of publicity last week when the national media picked up on his love of the watches to contrast wife Hillary Clinton's much-quoted remarks about being broke and in debt when the couple left the White House in 2001.
Meijer Inc. will break ground Monday on the Grand Rapids retailer's second Detroit location, at Grand River Avenue and McNichols Road, at the site of the former Redford High School.
The Michigan Strategic Fund today approved a tax capture that will help with the redevelopment of part of Macomb Mall in Roseville.
Hugh Rosenthal was marketing director at Detroit-based Faygo Beverages Inc. when he lost his job at age 68 in 2012, and he says there was no legitimate business reason to let him go.


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The launch of Microsoft's Xbox in Japan started on the wrong foot when company chairman Bill Gates' speech at the 2001 Tokyo Game Show slipped from talk of the industry to a sales pitch for the console, according to Eurogamer.
In a story compiling interviews with Xbox staff members, the switch in Gates' keynote angered listeners and drove away much of the console's audience.
"That turned a lot of developers and publishers away," former North American publisher Hudson Entertainment president John Greiner told Eurogamer. "He was supposed to be talking about the industry but he was really just plugging the Xbox. Of course! That's America."
Greiner called the Japanese market a "unique iconic" one, stating that most of the Xbox team's decisions come out of America and are "hard for the Japanese to work with."
Team Ninja lead developer Yosuke Hayashi explained that Sony and Nintendo are successful in Japan because they are native companies, while Microsoft roots make it a difficult sell in the country.
"There's just something about the hardware that gets made in each region that works for that particular region, and the people there just know it and they get it," he said. "It's a natural evolution of being created there. That's one of the things which might have hampered Microsoft or made it one of the challenges to reach the people over here."
"Of all the countries in the world, the more we understood Japan the more we understood it was going to be difficult," added Xbox co-creator Ed Fries. "About Japan culturally, about their long history in the video game business. There's a cultural conformity that happens in Japan. All those things conspired to make it hard for an American product to come in and compete head to head with entrenched Japanese competitors."


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Cyprus Parliament passed a bill recently according to which all consumers will be charged a minimum € 0.05 for plastic bags as of July 2018, in an attempt to raise awareness about the plastic waste that pollute the environment. Cyprus already has introduced various legislations about recycle and reduce of waste and landfills.
Parliamentarians said that the legislation was long overdue and assured that they will closely monitor the implementation of it.
Environment Committee Chairman Adamos Adamou said that plastic bags should have been banned altogether but added that the Legal Service of the Republic reacted , arguing that a study had to be in place before that to examine the consequences on Cyprus society.
He added that there are clauses in the bill which provide for the money to be collected from the consumer fee to be used for the manufacture of reusable bags to be supplied for free to consumers and to various environmental awareness programs.
Adamou mentioned that the aim is to reduce to almost half the amount of plastic bags each person uses in Cyprus but the Parliament will be monitoring how the implementation goes and will discuss the issue again at a later stage.


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On April 1, the transcripts of the new cars arrived as scheduled.
In the past three months, it was the traditional off-season for sales, coupled with factors such as the epidemic and the increase in raw material prices. The report card has not yet been released, and the bosses of car companies have been complaining, predicting that this will not be easy to fight. Monthly sales battle.
However, judging from the results, each company still achieved a lot, and the seat ranking of new cars has changed again. Among them, Xiaopeng ranked first in new car sales with 15,414 units. Nezha, which announced its results early, entered the top three again with 12,026 units. The last seat was won by Ideal with 11,034 units.
It is worth mentioning that there is one more member in the camp of 10,000 newly built cars. Leapmotor vehicle deliveries increased by 193% month-on-month to 10,059 vehicles, ranking fourth.
Although the manufacturing side in March was under supply and cost pressure,TeslaAfter the rhythm of a week and three consecutive price hikes kicked off a new round of price hikes, almost all new energy vehicle companies followed suit and completed this round of price hikes. Potential car owners also staged a price hike at the end of the month. There is a wave of order grabbing of “buy down but not up”.
This also means that in the new January, the more intense qualifying matches are worth looking forward to.
Bad March sales battle
As the first player to submit homework, Ji Krypton’s transcript is not very eye-catching.
Affected by the epidemic and the supply of chips, the delivery volume of Ji Krypton 001 in March was 1,795, a decrease of nearly 40% from the previous month. However, Ji Krypton said that with the arrival of a new batch of core components at the end of March, it is expected that production and delivery in April “will be significantly improved.”
Big Brother who has lost the championship position many times since the second half of 2021NIOhas not fully recovered.
Compared to February,NIOThe delivery volume in March improved, reaching 9,985 units, a year-on-year increase of 37.6%, but it was still not as good as Xpeng and Ideal. Q1 2022,NIOThe number of deliveries was 25,768, which is still a gap of 5,948 units compared to the ideal.
“2021 is the window period for NIO’s new products, and most users with purchase intentions will give priority to ordering new products,” a NIO sales told Future Auto Daily. Official data shows that 163 cars have been delivered in four days after the first sedan ET7 was delivered on March 28.
However, among the new car-making forces, Weilai is the first to approach the 200,000-unit mark. As of the end of March 2022, Weilai has delivered a total of 192,800 electric vehicles, followed by Xiaopeng with more than 170,000 vehicles and an ideal of 155,800 vehicles.
However, in terms of monthly delivery, among the three “Wei Xiaoli” brothers, Xiaopeng and Ideal have always played relatively stable.
During the 2021 earnings call,Xiaopeng MotorsChairman He Xiaopeng once revealed that in late February and mid-to-early March this year, new orders have quickly returned to the peak season level in December last year, and “delivery volume in March was close to last year’s peak.”
The results are also as expected. In March this year,Xiaopeng MotorsWith 15,414 vehicles, it took the throne of qualifying champion. Among them, the P7 is a well-deserved pillar, with 9,183 units delivered in March, accounting for nearly 60% of the total sales; Xiaopeng P5 delivered 4,398 units in March.
“In order to speed up the delivery of orders in hand, as well as new orders this year, we completed the technical transformation of the Zhaoqing factory during the Spring Festival.” Xiaopeng said.
ideal carThe ideal ONE continued its strong explosive product strength, and the delivery volume once again exceeded 10,000, reaching 11,034 units, a year-on-year increase of 125.2%. Q1 2022,ideal carA total of 31,700 vehicles were delivered, a year-on-year increase of 152.1%.
Even if the performance of more than 10,000 vehicles in a single month is considered excellent, butideal carCo-founder and president Shen Yanan still said, “The epidemic in the Yangtze River Delta has led to a shortage of some parts and components, and production has been implicated.”
On March 26, while participating in the event,Xiaopeng MotorsChairman He Xiaopeng also suffered a lot. “The epidemic has affected many key towns in the automotive industry chain, and local blockades have occurred in many parts of the country, which is a huge blow to the automotive industry chain.”
In the difficult supply chain environment, there are also “dark horses” who have staged a counterattack.
In March of this year, Leapmotor also joined the camp of more than 10,000 vehicles per month, with deliveries reaching 10,059 vehicles, a month-on-month increase of 193%. This is also the best result in the history of Zero Run.
At present, Leapmotor mainly has three models on sale, including the coupe S01, the minicar T03, and the mid-size SUV S11. Among them, the T03, which is priced at 69,000-85,000 yuan after subsidies, is the “sales responsibility” of Leapmotor. In 2021, T03 sales will account for nearly 80% of total sales.
Regarding the increase in sales, Xiao Lei, the manager of an experience store of Leapmotor, explained to the Future Auto Daily, “It is mainly because of the increase in production capacity, and the monthly orders are not to worry about, but the order cycle is too long.”
According to the prospectus of Leapmotor, as of the end of 2021, Leapmotor had a total of 22,536 C11 orders, of which 3,965 were delivered that year, and at least 20,000 to 40,000 C11s were not delivered. “By adjusting the production line and expanding the production capacity of the Jinhua factory, the Jinhua factory’s production capacity exceeded 10,000 vehicles in March. Before that, the monthly production capacity was about 60% of the current one.”
In terms of the supply chain, since Zhu Jiangming, the founder of Leaprun, left Dahua in December last year, “the boss personally took charge of the production”. In the face of chip shortage, “Leaprun’s self-developed chips also have certain advantages”, Xiao Lei believes.
Following the delivery of more than 10,000 vehicles in January, the delivery of Nezha, which focuses on “building cars for the people”, continued to climb.
In March, the delivery volume of Nezha vehicles once again crossed the baseline of 10,000 vehicles, reaching 10,059 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 270%. As early as 2021, Nezha Auto won the runner-up position for many times, and Wei Xiaoli was surpassed by it to start a counterattack.
According to Zhang Yong, CEO of Nezha Automobile, the main reason for the sharp increase in sales is the price/performance ratio. “In the range of 60,000 to 80,000 and 100,000 to 150,000 pure electric SUVs (market), we have achieved the first price-performance ratio.”
However, regarding Nezha’s sales counterattack, Zhang Yong’s performance was particularly sober. “It is meaningless to surpass it for a short time. (Nezha’s delivery volume) can only be said to be better than it if it is three times the ideal.”
Will the second quarter be good?
Now standing at the starting point of the second quarter of 2022, many problems do not seem to have improved.
Following the closure of Changchun for more than 20 days, Shanghai has also recently announced that it has entered a “shutdown” state. As two cities that gather many parts companies and car companies, the large-scale closure and control will undoubtedly have a great impact on the auto industry. This point is also deeply touched by Qin Lihong, president of Weilai. “The Shanghai delivery center has been out for several days, and it will continue until the Qingming Festival.”
“The supply chain of the factory is currently tense, and there has been a certain reduction in production in the past four days. It is expected to resume in three days.” On March 31, a source close to Weilai’s Hefei factory told Future Auto Daily.
On the manufacturing side, efforts are being made to minimize losses. In contrast, the sales side has fallen into a state of complete stagnation, and almost all offline stores in Shanghai are closed for management.
More than that, the core shortage crisis that began in 2020 has not yet been resolved. “The chip is still a depression,” Qin Lihong described it. In the earnings conference call on March 25, Li Bin, founder of Weilai, explained that Weilai is currently facing the problem of fundamental chip fluctuations, “If these chips are lacking, we will not be able to produce cars, and of course there will be alternatives. It can be done in a way that is expected, but it will make it a little more complicated.”
The impact of the increase in raw material prices has directly caused car companies to “break the bones”, and almost all new energy car companies have completed this round of price adjustments.Ideal CEO Li Xiang once said, “In the second quarterBatteryThe rate of cost increase will be very outrageous.” Li Bin called on upstream raw material manufacturers to “start from long-term interests and not make personal speculative price increases.”
Even if there are many difficulties, starting from the second quarter, the new car has entered the most critical moment of the year. From the perspective of product planning, many new cars will launch new cars this year in April this year.while inTeslaThe year of 2022, which is in the window period, will undoubtedly provide new car builders with an opportunity to catch up.
After selling 100,000 life-and-death cars, new car builders are looking for new breakthroughs and starting to enter each other’s tracks.
On March 28, with the delivery of ET7, NIO’s “Product Year” officially kicked off. In addition to releasing the 2022 facelift models of ES8, ES6, and EC6 in May, by the third quarter of 2022, NIO will deliver two other products, ET5 and ES7, based on the NT2.0 platform.
NIO ET7 and ET5 are positioned as sedans, ES7 is positioned as a five-seat SUV, and the new product portfolio undertakes the important task of opening up new markets. Among them, the price of ET5 has dropped, which is the cheapest model of NIO. The price of ET7 (starting from 366,660 yuan) using the BaaS solution also came to the price range of Xiaopeng P7 (239,900-429,900 yuan).
brokerageIt also gave NIO higher expectations.West China SecuritiesIt is estimated that NIO will sell 193,000 units in 2022, and the replacement of existing models and ET5 will enter the market. It is expected that NIO is expected to enter a stronger product cycle in 2023.
Xiaopeng will head to the medium and large SUV market, and this is the field where the NIO ES6 and the ideal ONE are located.
As the fourth model of Xpeng Motors, the Xpeng G9, which will be unveiled at the 2021 Guangzhou Auto Show, shoulders Xpeng’s determination to take a high-end route. According to the plan, G9 will start delivery in the third quarter of this year. “In the short term, the delivery volume of Xpeng G9 is expected to be close to the level of Xpeng P7.” Gu Hongdi, president of Xpeng Motors, predicted at the 2021 earnings conference call.
“Intelligent driving, high battery life and market-competitive pricing are the keys to Xpeng Motors’ mid- and long-term sales growth,” Huatai Securities said. In 2022, Xiaopeng will continue to strengthen this label. According to He Xiaopeng, in the second half of this year, Xiaopeng will open the city NGP function.
As the only car company that only relies on one model to “conquer the world”, Ideal also has a new plan. The second new car, the Ideal L9, will debut on April 16, with deliveries starting in the third quarter. With the arrival of the Ideal L9, the ideal sales volume is expected to expand further.
The second-tier new forces have also planned new models. Weimar’s first sedan, the Weimar M7, will be mass-produced and delivered in 2022. The new car is equipped with three solid-state lidars and has a NEDC cruising range of 700km. Nezha S will be mass-produced in the third quarter; Leapmotor’s code name is C01 The sedan is also expected to debut in the first half of 2022. Together, these three vehicles will challenge the high-end sedan market.
With the gradual enrichment of the product series, each company has also put forward higher goals. Xiaopeng Motors plans to deliver 250,000 new cars in 2022, with an impact of 300,000. Relying on the delivery of the ideal car approaching the 100,000 mark in 2021 with a single model, although no specific sales target was proposed, it also stated that “2022 will be a very important year for the overall growth of the ideal car”.
But it’s not easy to win. Taking Xiaopeng as an example, in Q1 2022, Xiaopeng Motors delivered 34,600 vehicles, accounting for only 13.84% of the minimum sales target for the year. To complete the target of 250,000 vehicles, Xiaopeng needs to maintain a delivery level of over 20,000 vehicles in the remaining 9 months, which is not easy.
From the perspective of the entire market, the new energy vehicle market in 2022 is still worth looking forward to. According to the estimates of the Passenger Federation, in 2022, the sales of new energy vehicles will exceed 6 million, and the penetration rate will reach 22%. “Let’s fight and go”, Qin Lihong sighed.
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June 26, 2009 at 4:31 pm
The penetration of Solid State Drives in notebooks and netbooks will not be as high as expected in 2009 due to their high price according to DRAMeXchange. It claims that the ratio of SSDs used in notebooks and netbooks continues to decline, resulting in “sloppy overall SSD shipments”. SSDs are generally more power efficient, faster and less prone to shocks like HDDs are, although the flip side is that these advantages come with a big price premium.
The report suggests that the SSD penetration rate in notebooks will be as low as 1.0 to 1.5 percent in 2009, and below 10 percent in netbooks. The higher penetration rate seen in netbooks is due to the fact that many of the original models shipped with low capacity flash drives.
SSD price points shot up in the first half of the year, which hampered SSD adoption rates. A solid state drive costs four times higher than a hard-disk drive when looking at cost per gigabyte. The report said that SSD demand forecasts have been tailed back over previous expectations. NAND flash price is expected to decrease once 30nm and 20nm fabrication processes become mainstream and SSDs become more popular in the market.


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A rather important change at the top of 343 Industries emerged in these days: the creative director Tim Longo left the development of Halo Infinite and the company.
Tim Longo, the creative director in charge of Halo Infinite, left the project and 343 Industries this week, according to reports from Kotaku and confirmed by Microsoft.
Apparently, the release of Tim Longo from 343 Industries and his role as creative director for Halo Infinite is part of a change at the top of the company that reaches a very advanced development, even if there is still a good deal of it ‘time before the launch of the game, scheduled for the fall of 2020.
Longo was also the creative director of Halo 5: Guardians and had moved to a rather different role a few weeks ago, only to abandon completely343 Industries these days. Microsoft confirmed the issue to Kotaku explaining that “the roles and responsibilities of various team members evolve regularly to meet the needs of a game, through development. We recently had two chances at the Halo Infinite development team”, he said. explained Microsoft. “Our executive producer, Mary Olson, will now lead the Halo Infinite Campaign team as lead producer, using her many years of experience in 343 to help build a great campaign. Also, Tim Longo recently left. our team and we are very grateful to him for his contribution to our games, our studio and the Halo universe. We wish Tim only the best for his future commitments “.
So according to reports from Microsoft it falls into a rather normal situation in terms of rotation in the roles within the team, even if in fact the role of creative director is rather central in the process of developing a video game, so it cannot be said that Longo’s exit from the scene is to be taken very lightly. In any case, “the entire creative vision and production of the game remain in the hands of Chris Lee, the Head Studio of Halo Infinite”, as reported by Microsoft itself. Furthermore, “These changes will have no impact on the release date of Halo Infinite, ” the company explained, meaning that there will be no delay in launching the game due to the change in question.


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The British heartthrob, Harry Styles, has taken the fashion as well as the music industry by storm in the past couple of years of his solo career. The former boy bander has shown his love for gender-fluid clothing in a lot of events making bold and impressive moves to break gender norms. In this article, we shall take a look at a few instances where Mr Styles shook the world with his norm-breaking fashion choices.
- Met Gala 2019
Harry Styles in his 2019 Met Gala look, sported a sheer frilled black blouse and high-waisted tailored trousers. He paired them with an elegant pearl earring, high heeled boots, painted nails and numerous rings. The see-through blouse embroidered with frills and the entire clothing itself added magnificence to his attire.
- Saturday Night Live 2019
Earlier this year, a series of photographs from the promo for SNL that Harry guest hosted in 2019 was leaked. These photographs, where Styles dressed up as Disney’s Ariel, a ballerina and a series of other characters sent his fans in a frenzy. His comfort and boldness in wearing these clothes that are routinely considered highly feminine has had a huge role to play in creating awareness about gender fluidity.
- Beauty Papers (Summer 2020)
Harry went full bold and beautiful for his cover of the 8th issue of the Beauty Papers Summer 2020 edition. From dark smokey makeup to fishnet tights and heels, he wore it all with grace.
- Vogue 2020 cover
Styles’ cover for Vogue 2020 became a topic of controversy minutes after its release. Him, being dressed in flowy gowns on the cover page was acclaimed as well as ridiculed. While the first half appreciated him for using this global platform for a noble cause, the other half criticized him for not having been ‘manly’ enough. Nonetheless, the cover served its purpose as it drew the attention of the world towards acceptance.
- Pearls, Purses, Polish and everything Pretty
For over 4 years now, Harry has been constantly sporting nail polish, purses, handbags, makeup, blouses, pearls, jewels and so many more elements that come under gender-bending fashion.
In an interview for ‘The Face’ in 2019, he said, “What’s feminine and what’s masculine, what men are wearing and what women are wearing – it’s like there are no lines anymore,”.
Talking about his inspiration for clothing he said, “I didn’t grow up in a man’s world. I grew up with my mother and sister. But in the last two years, I think I’ve become more satisfied with what I am …. Being vulnerable and allowing myself to be a woman is very masculine. I think, and I make it very comfortable.”, in an interview with actor Timothee Chalamet for iD magazine.
For this generation and forward, Mr Styles, irrespective of having been admirable or provocative, has drawn the attention of the world towards the much-needed topic of gender fluidity and acceptance of all genders in our society.


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A pair of Web sites geared for women received some positive comments from analysts Tuesday as both Women.com Networks (Nasdaq: WOMN) and iVillage Inc. (Nasdaq: IVIL) were started with "buy" recommendations.
Merrill Lynch started iVillage with an intermediate-term "accumulate" rating and a long-term "buy" recommendation.
"We believe iVillage has a real market opportunity, and that a women's portal could develop a very large and loyal user base," Merrill said in a research note. "If the company's marketing campaign works as planned, and over the next 12 months iVillage exceeds our expectations for organic growth in traffic and revenues, we believe the stock will go up."
iVillage shares were up 5/16 to 25 1/4 Tuesday afternoon.
In its latest quarter, iVillage posted a loss of $28.4 million, or $1.12 a share, on sales of $10.7 million.
Merrill expects iVillage to report fourth-quarter sales of about $15 million based on 133 million average monthly page views on the Internet site and revenue per page view. Merrill said iVillage's average monthly page views should start to increase by about 100 million a year.
Women.com Networks, which enjoyed a strong initial public offering in October, was started with a "buy" rating by both Saloman Smith Barney and Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown. Both investment houses served as underwriters of the IPO along with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Women.com shares fell 1/4 to 19 3/4 Tuesday afternoon.
It also debuted its e-commerce site, www.shegetsdressed.com, which helps customers buy a variety of designer clothing brands.
Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown set a 12-month price target of $32 a share while Salomon Smith Barney set a target of $35 a share.
Salomon Smith Barney analyst Lanny Baker said the growing number of women going online combined with their substantial purchasing power makes Women.com an attractive investment.
"Looking forward, we believe Women.com will be one of the key players capturing a significant share of this market's audience and ad dollars," Baker said in a research note.


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Buick has made no small effort the past couple of years to appeal to an increasingly younger demographic.
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Not terribly surprising, the 2013 Buick Encore has earned good marks in a recent wave of both government and private safety testing.
Announced earlier this week, General Motors will be recalling select 2012 and 2013 model year Buick LaCrosse and Regal vehicles, as well as the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco equipped with eAssist.
Sorry, but your Aunt Ethel's LeSabre didn't make the cut of Buick's 10 most collectible cars.


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Cell Antenna’s CEO contested that cell phones do not interfere with airplane navigational equipment, and cell phone use during takeoffs and landings cannot crash airplanes. FAA rules dictate that airlines force passengers to turn off mobile phones during takeoffs and landings because of interference problems with navigational equipment. This ruling went into effect when tower operators complained that mobile phone use on airplanes was generating havoc on systems, as mobile phones contacted more than one tower and caused interference.
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Producer blames new EU rules for horsemeat scandal
3:26pm Friday 1st March 2013 in Farming
A NORTH Yorkshire company which produced desinewed meat before EU regulations banned it last year has told an investigating MP this directly led to the appearance of horse meat in UK food.
The owners of Newby Foods, near Northallerton, used to supply beef and lambto allthemajor supermarkets and food processing companies such as Silvercrest and Dalepak Hambleton.
But in March last year the European Commission ruled that desinewed meat – meat removed from the bone – must be reclassified as mechanically separated meat.
The EC banned it with seven days’ notice, despite the UK Government making it clear there were no health risks associated with the product.
The ban left many food manufacturers with a very tight deadline to source an equally cheap source of meat for their products.
DougManning, operationsdirector of the Newby Wiske-based company, said the vast majority of companies his firm supplied prior to the ban, have now been found to have been selling products containing horse meat. He said: “We produced pork, chicken, lamb and beef. We’re still producing pork and chicken, but it is just 50 per cent of the business we had.
“I would say 90 per cent of the companies that had a problem with horse meat, we used to supply.”
Theban wasdevastating for the company, which had to lay off more than a third of its staff – 40 people – a month later.It now has £2m worth of meat extraction machinery lying idle.
The company met MP Anne McIntosh, head of the commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, as part of her investigation into the horse meat scandal.
In a meeting with farmers in Thirsk on Thursday of last week, she said there was a direct correlation between the hastily-introduced ban on desinewed meatin March last year and the appearance of horse meat in products.
When her committee questioned the Food Standards Agency abouthow long beef products were likely to have been contaminated with horse meat, they were told the contamination was likely to go back to March 2012, when new supplies were sourced.
The committee’s investigations are ongoing and on March 4 and 5 will question local authorities including those from North Yorkshire on food testing.
The MP for Malton, Filey and Thirsk recently called for a ban on EU imports of meat until they were found to be free from contamination, but the Government said such a ban was illegal unless the meat posed a safety risk.
MrManningsaidallthe companies they had supplied with meat wanted to audit the factory.
“All the major supermarkets Tesco, Morrisons, Asda came and saw the produce and approved it,” he said, and the Food Standards Agency licensed it.
He said: “When they talked about banning imports of EU meat until they were found free from contamination, they were told it was illegalto ban anything in Europe without a health risk.
“The Secretary of State for Environment said there was no health risk associated with desinewed meat. How could they do this to us?”