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IBC2018: Content owners can breathe new life into traditional broadcast brands like SpongeBob and Cribs by partnering with social media platforms, says the President of Viacom Digital Platforms.
Viacom has ‘done the math’ and to reach new audiences the future is social - it’s worth the revenue share, according to Kelly Day, President, Viacom Digital Studios.
Speaking at a keynote session which looked at how traditional broadcast brands can evolve to reach new audiences, Day eschewed the idea of content owners developing and operating their own websites and platforms.
“Feeding your own platform is expensive and requires investment. Distributing across the social landscape on channels like Facebook is such a huge opportunity it’s worth the revenue share component – if you do the math it works out in your favour,” she said.
Day added that it has allowed Viacom’s digital offshoot to be nimble and repackage its linear TV brands across new platforms.
As a case in point she highlighted the revival of iconic MTV programme brand Cribs for the Snapchat generation. It has been reinvented as a three-minute series and it is now shot vertically for social network which distributes the show via its Discover platform.
“It’s been seen by tens of millions of people and we were able to hold onto the sponsorship rights,” she revealed.
The former MCN exec added that it was Snapchat that approached Viacom, rather than the other way around. “These platforms really understand the power and strength of our brands.”
“Every platform is different and you have to programme to the platform and to the audience”
According to Day, repackaging old SpongeBob clips to feed the nostalgia of Facebook Millennials is another example of how Viacom is leveraging its linear brands in a digital context.
Distributed on Facebook, Bikini Bottom Mysteries takes thousands of hours of old SpongeBob footage and develops a short story around the property for a generation of 18 to 34-year-old fans.
“The first mindset is that every platform is different and you have to programme to the platform and to the audience,” Day added.
Day admitted that Viacom Digital Studios – which was spun out to attract new digital-first audiences and comes with its own P&L – blurs the lines between the marketing and brand extension of existing linear properties and new revenue opportunities.
“We will continue to ensure that these brands are relevant and exciting but the intention and desire is to build a real business as these platforms evolve,” she said.
Viacom is one of the companies in talks with Jeffrey Katzenberg about distributing content from his new $1bn short form fund and Day is excited about the creative opportunities that this will offer.
“In the early days of online video there was a perception that short form was all about cats on skateboards. The truth is that it has evolved to a place where you are not really on the mercy of a linear clock. But you really do need a clever combination of amazing production and the right IP to cut through the noise.”
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Trump ratchets up tariff talk as key week looms for trade
18 September, 2018, 03:14 | Author: Regina Silva
The United States is set to impose another raft of tariffs on China, targeting roughly $200 billion Dollars in imported goods from China as US President Trump tail-chases his way into an even deeper trade war with the Asian superpower.
Economists at UBS Group AG say even a 10 per cent tariff would slow the USA economy in the fourth quarter by enough to stop the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates again in December.
Sohn said he thinks that China will retaliate against every USA tariff and that the back-and-forth sparring will escalate until the U.S. is taxing all Chinese imports - US$524 billion (NZ$798 billion) a year ago. He is expected to announce this week that the United States will impose tariffs on another $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, a move that people familiar with the negotiations say could scuttle trade talks that are planned with the Chinese next week.
The U.S. had already imposed tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports.
Trump has demanded that China cut its $375 billion trade surplus with the United States, end policies aimed at acquiring USA technologies and intellectual property, and roll back high-tech industrial subsidies.
China wants talks based on 'mutual trust, ' said a foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang. "My administration will not remain idle when those interests are under attack".
China's yuan currency CNY=CFXS has weakened by about 6.0 percent against the USA dollar since mid-June, offsetting the 10 percent tariff rate by a considerable margin.
If China doesn't make concessions, the new tariffs will then jump to 25 percent, a senior administration official said.
"If the United States launches any new tariff measures, China will have to take countermeasures to firmly ensure our legitimate rights and interests", foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters during a regular press briefing.
The tough talk follows reports China is deliberately reducing exports to the USA by slowing down customs approvals and stepping up environmental and other inspections.
"Tariffs are a tax on American families, period", said Hun Quach", RILA's vice president for worldwide trade.
Trump has also complained about the US' gaping trade deficit - US$336 billion (NZ$511 billion) a year ago - with China, its biggest trading partner.
In May, in fact, it looked briefly as if Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He had brokered a truce built around a Chinese offer to buy enough American farm products and liquefied natural gas to put a dent in the trade deficit.
"We have been very clear about the type of changes that need to be made, and we have given China every opportunity to treat us more fairly". But Trump quickly backed away from the truce.
'Only knowing the pain of fighting will stop the war and cause (the United States) to negotiate seriously, ' said Lou.
Kudlow laid out general demands for China - whose economic reforms, he said were moving in the wrong direction.
Trump's tariffs on China raise costs and create uncertainty for companies that have built supply chains that span the Pacific Ocean.
It is just wonderful to be back in OR , and over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States". President Trump's son, Donald Jr., will also be in the state on Thursday, campaigning for Brown's GOP opponent Rep.
The author of the profile , Daphne Merkin , admits within the piece that she's "been friends with Allen for over four decades". However, Allen did join Previn for a portion of her profile and opened up about the impact the allegations had on his career.
The other housemates and moderators will decide who impressed the most and their decision will affect this week's nomination. The Bigg Boss 12 will surely bring back excitement on Indian Television, especially with the new concept of vichitra jodis.
Coca-Cola Co . spokesperson Kent Landers issued a statement on the reports confirming the company's monitoring of CBD. The drinks would aim to relieve pain with CBD rather than give the "high" associated with inhaling marijuana.
President Donald Trump said federal emergency workers, first responders and law enforcement officials were "working really hard". The whir of generators could be heard throughout the city, a sound not expected to dim soon as crews work to restore power.
A massive fire is raging through a parking garage in Brooklyn , leaving at least 21 firefighters and civilians injured. Nigro said the fire was confined to the second level of the parking garage and did not extend to stores at the mall.
Everything is in place for that to happen, the player just needs to make 2018/19 into the second "breakout season" of his career. Asked if Hazard can win the Golden Boot, Sarri said: "I think so". "He has to improve some things, but he can do it".
The hurtling storm then skirted south of Hong Kong and the neighbouring gambling hub of Macau, before making landfall in China. Rescue workers said previously that up to 50 people, including children, were believed trapped in the wreckage.
After the Grande revelation, a chain of Twitter users ended up tipping off Chrissy Teigen to the name debate. Taxi going to the wrong airport? Teigen is known for her jokes, so no word on if this is one, too.
Burnett has not publicly responded to Arnold , the report said. "I'm filing a police report & suing you for defamation". The duo were entering the Evening Before the Emmys event in West Los Angeles when Arnold ran into Burnett.
Vikings sign Dan Bailey, waive Daniel Carlson
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Low dose aspirin risks overwhelm benefits in healthy elderly
Big changes have occurred in preventive medicine since the original aspirin research was done, Michos told NBC News in an email. Anne Murphy, co-principal investigator of the trial and director of the Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research.
Neymar smart to protect himself from injury - Klopp
Big-spending PSG have so far failed to deliver in the Champions League but Klopp rates them among the best sides in Europe. Should Firmino be unable to take his place at centre forward, then Daniel Sturridge is the most likely to take his spot.

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Foreign companies can use emerging technology to build a reputation as a strategic partner in solving local problems.
There is a lot of excitement for the big Chinese technology companies. The world seems intimidated while Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (the "BAT") move from success to success in China. In recent years, some of these large Chinese technology companies have entered foreign markets, particularly in Southeast Asia. The most important examples were the WeChat of Tencent, the investment of Alibaba in the e-commerce trade of Southeast Asia in Lazada and the successful Ttedtok and Musical.ly apps of Bytedance in the United States. United and elsewhere. More recently, large Chinese technology companies have adopted corporate technology solutions for multinationals, an arena that US providers (Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, etc.) and Europeans (SAP, Siemens, etc.) have so far dominated , thanks to their enormous technological capabilities and strong relationships with customers.
Cloud services are an area in which large Chinese technology companies are willing to raid internationally. Comparing the world market share of the major cloud players, Amazon is in a separate league with a market share of 33 percent, but also Microsoft, IBM and Google are doing well. So, in fact, some may say that self-satisfaction has crept into US technology, giving rise to a monolithic approach: a strong sales force chasing the succulent multinational accounts of this world, offering generic solutions with a minimal amount of customization. Meanwhile, Alibaba's market share is a single figure (4%), but it is growing faster, fueled by an entrepreneurial mindset.
For geographical, cultural and strategic reasons, Chinese companies have always had an eye on the Southeast Asian market. In particular, Alibaba has shown a keen interest in the region. Just think of Lazada, the Singapore-based e-commerce retailer where he has Alibaba invested US $ 2 billion since 2016. More recently, Alibaba, through its subsidiary Ant Financial (formerly Alipay), has used the blockchain to enter the global remittance business, which is currently worth $ 600 billion. My case study, "Alibaba and Blockchain", examines the lessons we can learn from the use of this emerging technology as much publicized by the great Chinese technology.
Making lemonade with lemons
Many years ago, the co-founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma promised Filipino friends who one day could have used a service like Alipay to send money home and save on high bank remittance fees. While his original idea was to acquire MoneyGram and revise it, he had to come up with another plan after Trump's administration. Nixed the deal, citing national security reasons. But he turned and told the CEO of Ant Financial that they should only have built something better than MoneyGram. In June this year, Alibaba, in partnership with Standard Chartered and Globe Telecom, launched GCash, a blockchain app that allows Filipino workers in Hong Kong to send money home quickly, safely and economically .
Blockchain is a distributed ledger, which means that it is a way to permanently record transactions on a shared network, using a consensus process to eliminate the need for third party verification. Its association with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin – and by extension the dark web in the early years – has not done any favors in terms of public relations, but many companies are paying close attention to its development and potential for disruption.
For example, while blockchain could effectively destroy traditional proprietary clouds, the GCash app illustrates how technology could complement the cloud services of large technology companies. For example, a company on Alibaba Cloud may, one day, be able to offer blockchain-based payments in supply chains or trade at the touch of a switch. Compared to normal payment solutions, blockchain-based services may prove to be advantageous in terms of speed, security and costs. A semi-public blockchain could exploit the distributed computing power of a proprietary cloud. The central challenge is the creation of an ecosystem that encourages third parties to use the system and allows them to find the right business model to make it profitable.
How GCash creates value for all stakeholders
A fundamental lesson is that Alibaba created value because it focused on how technology could be used to solve a local problem (the high cost of remittances) while cutting dominant intermediaries, namely MoneyGram and Western Union. Its initial target market is the 200,000 Filipino workers in Hong Kong, who put over $ 550 million a year to their families. With taxes reduced by about half, you save 20 million dollars a year, in addition to the convenience of not having to queue at a physical counter. Looking ahead, the service also adapts to the profile of Alibaba's domestic customer base, as more and more Chinese are traveling or living abroad.
GCash offers Alibaba a wide range of opportunities. First of all, it allows Alibaba to build capacity and experiment with new cross-border technology. There are some precious examples of blockchain applications distributed on ladder. With an initial solution, Alibaba puts a stakes, which could give an edge to the first move in the future.
The partnerships with Standard Chartered and Globe Telecom that were needed in this first GCash launch are also a demonstration of Alibaba's willingness to collaborate effectively with large companies. Ironically, multinationals in foreign markets could offer more alliance potential than companies in China where BATs are already quite powerful. GCash serves as a proof-of-concept, demonstrating that at least two different types of key partners – a bank and a telco – can successfully participate in a system designed and managed by Alibaba.
More important, GCash is an opportunity for Alibaba to build its reputation as a partner focused on the problem that can handle strategic alliances with multinational companies. It is probably no coincidence that he chose a fair market as the first test case: a large percentage of targeted Filipino workers are poor foreign domestic workers. This could allow Alibaba to achieve an excellent relationship with public relations, fighting the negative image that many Chinese technology companies face when they go abroad.
Like Ma He said when he accepted an honorary doctorate at the University of Hong Kong at the beginning of this year, "real businessmen make money by solving social problems for others". If the great Chinese and Western technological companies will become a real force for good, they could also achieve this by using technology to solve problems for all of us.
Jason Davis he is associate professor of entrepreneurship and family business at INSEAD. He is an expert in digital transformation and innovation in large companies and start-up strategies in ecosystems of digital platforms.
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She's becoming something of a Scottish style icon.
And Glasgow-based influencer Jilly Cross has set pulses racing once again thanks to the latest laid-back look she's shared on Instagram.
Jilly, known as Jilly Isabella to her 84.2k followers on the social media site, puts us all to shame with her stunning outfit suggestions for a day of binge-watching Netflix.
Posting the on trend 'lockdown 2.0' sizzling snaps as an advert for clothing range Miss Pap, Jilly said she couldn't get enough of psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing.
She said: "Currently watching The Undoing and highly recommend!!! Yous watching anything good the now? also linked outfits from my reel including this cute wee pj set on stories."
But there's no need for people to feel bad if they're sitting about in something a bit less glam.
The girlfriend of ex-Rangers ace Andy Halliday is known for her sense of humour and down to earth nature, and quickly revealed the gorgeous images did not depict how she usually spends her days in front of the box.
After a fan questioned why she wasn't sitting comfortably on a sofa as she caught up with her show, Jilly replied: "Cos I’m not actually sat with a curly blow dry and full make up watching it. This is aesthetic."
Fans were in awe at the snaps.
One said: "Wowowow."
One added: I wanna look like this whilst I watch it pls?"
One said: "Looking beautiful Jilly."
And another said: "I can confirm I 100 per cent do not look like this watching Netflix."
One said: "Can I just be you. thanks
One added: "Andy is one lucky dude
And one said: "I wish I looked like that during lockdown."
Last week we reported Jilly was among a lucky group of celebrities modelling a River Island feather loungewear set that was taking the internet by storm.
The luxury spot co-ord is being hailed as the 'essential' winter lockdown must-buy and is proving to be a big hit with fashionistas.
Styling it up with a camel coat and chunky boots, the stunning redhead posted the outfit on Instagram with the caption: "Dressing up for the coffee run is the new going out."


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Masks are here to stay to save people from viruses and pollution: Hemant Sapra, President, SAMA
In the past ten years, we have witnessed novel new viruses hitting the globe now and then, making masks a necessity. Masks are the saviours that will permanently protect people from these uncertainties.
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Hemant Sapra, President, Safe Appliances Manufactures Association (SAMA) to know about the recently introduced OSH Code and the challenges associated with face mask manufacturing in India.
What are your thoughts on the recently created Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions (OSH) Code? Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions code is a wonderful initiative by the government. I laud the government for taking this outstanding initiative of revamping the safety standards for all the workers of India. There are many old redundant factories taking care of the health and welfare workers in the Indian industry. The government has scrapped the Factory Act subsuming with it 13 other acts that took care of the health and welfare of workers in the industry. These have been brought under a single code called OSH Code, passed in October 2020 by the Lok Sabha. Right now, the government is in the process of creating rules, regulations and laying down standards under these codes for all the workers in India.
What will the Role of PPP be with the advent of OSH code? The Ministry of Labour, responsible for drafting the rules and regulations under this code in India, has taken this excellent initiative of making private entities a part of formulating this code. It is a welcome initiative as the industries are now a part of forming rules and regulations. It is the first time the government has taken such an initiative where the Government officials and the private industry people will sit together to create the standards for Indian industry. One side has the lawmakers, and the other side has the people who have to implement the law. This initiative takes care of implementing the law in the first stage itself. We are extremely delighted to be a part of the committee to set standards for the Indian industry. We are assured that this is going to transform the PPE industry in India.
What are the market trends concerning the facemask manufacturing sector? The mask market has grown since Covid-19 set in. The market was already prevailing in the industry for the past 70 years. Industrial Dust Masks were manufactured previously to protect workers from harmful airborne particles. Other countries were using masks against pollution. India should have been using them too, but we never thought of it. With Covid-19 coming in, masks have become an essential day-to-day requirement. Masks are here to stay to save people from viruses and pollution, helping them live healthy lives. In the past ten years, we have witnessed novel new viruses hitting the globe now and then, making masks a necessity. Masks are the saviours that will permanently protect people from these uncertainties.
What is the Indian market scenario in facemask manufacturing? In Feb 2020, there were only two masks manufacturers in India. They have been manufacturing masks for 25 years and were primarily supplying to the Indian industry and exporting. Their production was not more than 100 to 1000 pieces a day. Another manufacturer was mainly importing and selling in the Indian market. From 2020 onwards, since the pandemic hit, we have more than 500 manufacturers producing N-95 masks (N 95 is the wrong terminology altogether), out of which 200 have achieved the BIS licence. BIS licence is the quality hallmark to ascertain that the masks they are manufacturing are of the right quality to fight the virus. N-95 terminology comes from the US. Any mask tested in a lab in the USA by a testing lab called NIOSH when it passes their standard, it is certified as NIOSH N-95.
Similarly, In India, when you submit to BIS, the Indian government gives you a certificate called ISI mark FFP 2. The FFP2 and N-95 are both equal in terms of safety for protecting you against pollution and virus. We have products of the same standards available in India. So, I request you to trust India and promote "Made in India" products.
What will be the future of manufacturing facemasks in the Indian market once the pandemic is over? Five hundred manufacturers who have come up in the Indian market are probably from different fields of business. They took up a new venture seeing the emerging opportunity, and will return to regular business, which was disrupted by the pandemic. 90% of these manufacturers will change the business by the time pandemic settles down.
The petitioners have sought a declaration that free distribution of medicine samples to medical practitioners does not amount to freebies and therefore, section 194R of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (which provides for deduction of 10% tax at source), is not applicable. In addition, the petitioners have also sought quashing of the June 16, 2022 circular issued by the ministry of finance treating these medicines as freebies.
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Researchers at security firm Checkmarx say they built a proof-of-concept skill for Amazon’s Echo devices that in theory could have voice assistant Alexa listen to, transcribe, and report what users said after they thought they had finished using a legitimate service.
They took advantage of a feature that allows a skill to extend the time it listens to users after it’s been activated if it prompts them for more information by playing an inaudible prompt. That way, their skill, which offered a simple calculator, could keep getting transcripts from Alexa of what users said without them getting any audio cue that the device was still listening. A light would likely have been visible on affected devices, Threatpost reports, but users wouldn’t notice it unless they looked at the device.
Checkmarx never publicly released the skill, which would have required Amazon’s approval. And Amazon has since taken steps to safeguard against such software, including scanning for skills that silent prompts or that listen for unusual lengths of time, Wired reports.
“Customer trust is important to us and we take security and privacy seriously,” an Amazon spokesperson said in an email to Fast Company. “We have put mitigations in place for detecting this type of skill behavior and reject or suppress those skills when we do.”
Last year, a separate group of researchers at China’s Zhejiang University said they had discovered how to play ultrasonic commands to voice assistants like Alexa and Apple’s Siri. The commands would be audible to the devices, though not humans (although humans would hear any audible responses from the devices).


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SAP Fioneer announces a new vertical product strategy for banking and insurance customers
By Joy Dumasia
SAP Fioneer, a global provider of financial services software solutions and platforms, has announced the launch of a new vertical product strategy which significantly reshapes its offering to customers. Adopting a vertical approach, three platforms will provide IT solutions tailored to specific market, and customer needs enabling them to navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape.
SAP Fioneer’s Banking, Insurance and Finance & ESG Platforms are built on SAP’s world-class technology to deliver end-to-end solutions for the financial industry that are pre-integrated, ready to run and seamlessly integrated with existing applications. Packaged solutions, known as ‘editions’, will form an integral part of the platform offering and feature flexible and scalable ‘out-of-the-box’ solutions tailor-made for specific verticals and customer needs. At the same time, customers can ‘co-innovate’ by being able to customize and design solutions in partnership with SAP Fioneer.
The announcement was made at the SAP & SAP Fioneer Financial Services Forum in Amsterdam by SAP Fioneer CEO Dirk Kruse. The debut flagship event takes place just over ten months after the launch of SAP Fioneer, a financial services carve-out from global tech leader SAP. The conference features a host of organizations across the banking and insurance sectors, including The Bank of London, Munich Re and Standard Chartered, with experts from SAP and SAP Fioneer joined by bestselling author, start-up founder and radio host Brett King for the day’s keynote.
Dirk Kruse, CEO at SAP Fioneer, said: “Many financial services organizations across banking and insurance are navigating significant challenges from regulatory change to rapid digitalization, and it has never been more important for them to keep pace. The launch of our platform strategy reinforces our capability to offer stability and resilience through rock-solid, world-class financial technology and, at the same time, be agile to developments with a host of scalable, configurable and open core solutions. By putting customer experience first, our vertical approach enables them to stay ahead of the curve. Our unrivalled product portfolio, coupled with SAP Fioneer’s expertise, offers customers the breadth and depth they need to achieve their ambitions.”
Recently, IBS Intelligence reported that The Bank of London, the world’s purpose-built global clearing, agency and transaction bank, has teamed up with SAP Fioneer, a global provider of financial services software solutions and platforms, to transform and simplify global clearing and transaction banking.
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(For Immediate Release – November 2018) The Augusta Economic Development Authority continues to build their team for the improvement of Richmond County and the Augusta Region. Timothy McFalls, Sr. has been named Manager of Commercial and Retail Development for the EDA and will begin immediately.
“Determining the right fit for this position was critical for the added recruitment for the EDA and the “underserved areas” of Richmond County. I look forward to working with Mr. McFalls to create a plan that leads to added jobs, investment, and citizen satisfaction with the offerings for retail and commercial enterprise in Richmond County,” according to Cal Wray, President of the EDA. “I believe we are on the right track to accomplish our goals in this endeavor with our newest addition.”
The position is responsible for developing, directing, and coordinating programs for new and existing retail and commercial business investments within Augusta and Richmond County. The position is a combined sales, marketing, and project management position, requiring skills in both lead generation and deal closing. While this position is an employee of the EDA this is a collaboration between the Augusta Commission and the EDA. The two have partnered for this effort over the next 5 years with the Commission helping to fund Retail and Commercial Development. “We are excited by this partnership and the added value that the EDA will now bring to commercial and retail recruitment along with our track record of recruiting manufacturing, technical, and industrial jobs to our community,” said Henry Ingram, Chairman of the EDA’s Board of Directors. Retail Committee Chairman and Commissioner Sammie Sias added, “This effort has been in the works for many years, and I am excited for the Commission and EDA to take the next step for the recruitment of retail and commercial investments in the areas of our community that desire and can support these types of investments. This is a process that will play out over the course of years as we continually look to improve our community.”
“The AEDA Board of Directors recognizes the importance of retail and commercial business in our area, and I look forward to helping to create the vision and implementation for our recruitment to be successful,” says McFalls. “I appreciate the opportunity to work with the EDA team, local governments and community leaders and citizens to serve as a liaison for solutions to issues that may be impacting the local retail economy.”
Wray was named to the top economic development post in January of this year. Michael Norris was named project manager for the EDA in April. Cheney Thomasson was named existing industry coordinator in July. With this hire, the EDA is closing in on a full staff with one additional position to be filled in 2019.
The Augusta EDA’s mission is to seek new investments and jobs for Augusta and to aide existing businesses undergoing capital expansions and job growth. The organization provides bond financing, tax abatement and other incentives for businesses based on certain guidelines. The EDA is Augusta’s key contact for the Georgia Department of Economic Development, and statewide economic development partners like Georgia Power Company and Georgia EMC. The EDA also works with other stakeholders including industry leaders, developers and site selection consultants.


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Amazon abruptly fires senior supervisors tied to unionized warehouse
NEW YORK — Immediately after Amazon workforce at a large warehouse on Staten Island scored an upset union victory past thirty day period, it turned the union’s leaders into superstars, sent shock waves by way of the broader labor movement and prompted politicians close to the nation to rally behind Amazon workers. Now it also appears to have developed fallout within just Amazon’s administration ranks.
On Thursday, Amazon educated a lot more than a half-dozen senior administrators associated with the Staten Island warehouse that they have been remaining fired, according to 4 latest and previous workforce with know-how of the problem who spoke on the issue of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
The firings, which happened outside the company’s typical personnel review cycle, had been found by the supervisors and other people who get the job done at the facility as a reaction to the victory by the Amazon Labor Union, 3 of the persons mentioned. Workers at the warehouse voted by a huge margin to kind the first union at the firm in the United States, in 1 of the biggest victories for organized labor in at minimum a technology.
Phrase of the shake-up unfold via the warehouse Thursday. Numerous of the administrators experienced been responsible for implementing the company’s response to the unionization energy. A number of were veterans of the business, with more than six yrs of experience, according to their LinkedIn profiles.
Employees who supported the union complained that the company’s overall health and basic safety protocols ended up also lax, particularly as they related to COVID-19 and repetitive pressure injuries, and that the firm pushed them far too difficult to meet up with overall performance targets, generally at the price of sufficient breaks. Numerous also mentioned that shell out at the warehouse, which commences at more than $18 for every hour for whole-time staff, was way too reduced to are living on in New York Town.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel stated the corporation manufactured the management improvements soon after it had spent various months assessing factors of the “operations and leadership” at JFK8, which is the company’s title for the warehouse. “Part of our culture at Amazon is to regularly enhance,” said Nantel, “and we imagine it’s essential to acquire time to overview no matter if or not we’re performing the most effective we could be for our crew.”
The supervisors ended up advised they were being fired as section of an “organizational alter,” two men and women mentioned. One man or woman reported some of the managers had been robust performers who experienced not long ago acquired favourable testimonials.
The Staten Island facility is Amazon’s only success center in New York Metropolis, and for a yr present and former employees at the facility structured to form an upstart unbiased union.
The corporation is demanding the election, declaring the union’s unconventional methods were being coercive and that the Countrywide Labor Relations Board was biased in the union’s favor. And the union is functioning to sustain the strain on Amazon so it will negotiate a agreement.
Christian Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, testified Thursday in advance of a U.S. Senate committee that was exploring irrespective of whether organizations that violate labor rules really should be denied federal contracts. Smalls afterwards attended a White Household assembly with other labor organizers in which he instantly questioned President Joe Biden to push Amazon to acknowledge his union.
A White Dwelling spokesperson reported that it was up to the NLRB to certify the results of the the latest election, but affirmed that Biden experienced very long supported collective bargaining and workers’ legal rights to unionize.
Amazon has mentioned that it invested $300 million on protection projects in 2021 by yourself and that it gives shell out higher than the minimum amount wage with reliable gains like well being treatment to total-time personnel as soon as they join the business.
Firm officers and consultants held additional than 20 required meetings per working day with staff in the run-up to the election, in which they sought to persuade employees not to guidance the union. The officers highlighted the quantity of funds that the union would acquire from them and emphasized the uncertainty of collective bargaining, which they reported could depart personnel even worse off.
Labor professionals say that this sort of statements can be misleading due to the fact it is hugely unconventional for employees to see their payment tumble as a outcome of the union bargaining process.


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Wiggle Unveils Changes to Senior Marketing Team - Further Investment in Talent
UK-based Wiggle, the world’s biggest cycle and trisports retailer, have yesterday (8th June 2015) announced a number of changes and additions to its senior marketing team.
Adam Ryan, previously Wiggle’s Head of Brand has been promoted to Head of Group Sales & Events, reporting to Harvey. Adam is responsible for UK and European country development as well as the delivery and continued expansion of Wiggle’s hectic event portfolio.
Jo Taylor, previously a brand consultant with Liz Earle, Elemis and also FatFace joins Wiggle as Brand Marketing Manager reporting to Harvey, responsible for global brand development and marketing activation.
Former USA Olympic cyclist, Derek Bouchard-Hall, currently Wiggle’s Director of International Sales & Group Pricing will be leaving on June 12th to take up his dream job as CEO of USA Cycling.
Rachel Moffatt, Wiggle’s current Interim Marketing Director, has led these changes. Appointed in April 2014, Rachel was tasked with a full review of the company’s marketing. She has overseen the introduction of a successful new brand identity and communications strategy as well as increasing marketing investment and strengthening the internal marketing team.
Stefan Barden, Wiggle CEO, says "Over the past 18 months we have taken No.1 position in the UK cycling and tri-sports market, and continue to add customers at record levels. With her remit complete, Rachel will be moving on after a handover to Harvey. Similarly Derek will leave us for the USA and remain a valuable contact. We wish them both the best of luck. Adam and Jo, under Harvey's leadership, will continue to drive our business forward to new levels, and we welcome them all to their new roles.”
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A new ownership group, which prefers not to be named, has signed two new tenants to the center and will be making upgrades to the property as well. That includes additional landscaping, new paint and lights and a replacement for part of the roof. More changes will be coming in the next year.
For now, the focus is on new tenants, says Zach Zerbe of Landmark Commercial Real Estate. He handled a deal for a new business called Advanced Satellites, and he and colleague Ken Saville handled a deal for a new business called the Shop.
The Shop is opening soon in 1,670 square feet at the former Chic Street Boutique space.
“We are a very different atmosphere,” says co-owner Christy Jones.
She says she has not seen anything like the Shop in Wichita.
There will be a coffee shop, bakery and art gallery along with handmade jewelry, refurbished furniture and knickknacks.
Jones and her wife, Randi Jones, and Randi Jones’ sister, Tanis Mason, are opening the Shop.
“It’s our lifelong dream to own our own business (and) to do something that we love to do,” Christy Jones says.
Randi Jones is an artist.
“She’ll paint on anything,” Christy Jones says.
“Ninety-five percent of everything in our shop has been handmade or redone or something,” she says.
There will be paint and craft classes in a loft as well as a children’s art area.
Randi Jones, an El Dorado native, and Christy Jones recently moved to Kansas from Florida.
Randi Jones says there was more of a hurdle for artists to show their work in Florida. She says artists often have to pay to show their work in a business. She wants to make it easier by having a drawing to regularly choose area artists who can show their work for free at the Shop.
The store is ready to open except for missing a license to operate a restaurant, although Christy Jones says all she’s serving is a variety of coffee, a few other drinks and some pastries.
“Nothing major,” she says. “It’s on a small scale.”
She says the city says the business needs a grease trap.
“I have a convection oven and a coffee pot. Do I need a grease trap?”
She says she hopes to resolve the issue and open by the end of the month.
There is seating for 10 in the coffee shop.
“The location is superb,” Christy Jones says of Central and Rock.
That’s even though she’ll have competition from Starbucks next door.
She says they are two different kinds of businesses, though.
“I don’t want to steal their business.”
Also at the center, Advanced Satellites is settling into its new space, and owner Todd Bordenhopes to have a grand opening next month.
The business is a local retailer for Dish Network and DirectTV. It also does internet satellite with HughesNet and Exede.
The store offers home security and automation services as well.
Borden also owns Advanced Satellites stores in Salina and Hays.
“We’ve been looking at Wichita for a very long time,” he says. “There’s nobody that does what we do to the level we do it.”
Borden says the shop is good for people who want to see potential services in person or get in-store help instead of over the phone.
“I want to talk to somebody face-to-face,” is something he says he hears.
“We do have the nicest showroom in the Midwest,” Borden says. “We have everything on display.”
The almost 2,000-square-foot store is in the former Metro Real Estate Group space.
Borden says he hopes to open a store on the west side and what he calls a Dish Latino store as well. He says he expects both stores to be open within a year.
Borden says Jennifer Acker is managing the Wichita store.
“She’s real big on preaching local.”
Look for more news on Mill Creek Village as the ownership adds more tenants and makes other changes.


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Facebook representatives announced that the social networking website will soon be selling their stock publicly with the goal of making the company stronger and connecting more users than ever before.
Representatives announced the initial public on Wednesday Feb. 1, although there is no set date for when the company’s stock will be available for trade on the market.
Prabhudev Konana, chair of the UT department of information, risk, and operations management, said Facebook is projected to raise $5 billion in revenue through going public and could be worth $75-100 billion, although analyzing the worth of Facebook is incredibly difficult.
“If Facebook can replicate what happened with Google, they could be very successful,” Konana said. “However, there are not too many examples of success [from companies similar to Facebook] from which to draw conclusions.”
He said the outcome of Facebook becoming a publicly-owned company was especially difficult to predict because similar companies – such as LinkedIn and Zynga – have recently gone public as well. These companies and others that rely on the Internet for success, such as Google and Yahoo, typically make most of their income from advertising, said Konana.
“These companies are all relying on advertising revenue, and they are all chasing the same dollars,” Konana said. “There is only so much of this money to go around, which makes the future very hard to predict.”
However, Konana said Facebook’s success over Google’s competing social network, Google+, could indicate the company is not overvalued. In addition, the large number of companies that choose to provide services on the website provides further evidence that Facebook will be successful in the future.
Konana also said advertising on Facebook could become more intense and targeted due to the company’s decision to sell its shares publicly.
“They will have to [advertise more] because they are responsible for their stock holders now,” Konana said. “They will have to be more aggressive without being intrusive. This will allow them to monetize – or extract maximum financial gain from – their network.”
Management information systems senior Theresa Sturdivant said she also anticipated Facebook would begin to use more aggressive advertising techniques. However, she did not think it would significantly affect users.
“At this point, as a user, I wouldn’t say the advertising detracted from my experience,” Sturdivant said. “I tend to ignore it, like most do. Facebook knows that most ignore their advertisements, and in the future, I can easily see them using more aggressive advertising methods.”
Sturdivant said although she uses Facebook for social and academic purposes, she thinks other networking sites are more professional.
“[Facebook] has been an academic resource when it comes to networking with organization members and alumni,” Sturdivant said. “Otherwise, I would say it doesn’t have much merit in the academic world when you consider the other social networks that are geared directly towards team members, like Basecamp or Piazza.”
Michael Roberts, an English graduate student who teaches a class at UT on the rhetoric of Facebook, said he thinks Facebook will try to compete more with Google after going public. Roberts said Facebook has emphasized information-sharing between friends, while Google has emphasized information-sharing between all Internet users.
“I think they are going to expand their markets, rather than advertise more,” Roberts said. “I see Facebook and Google being more of competitors. Facebook is taking a micro-perspective and Google is taking a macro-perspective on how you get information.”
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U.S. households generated an astonishing $37 trillion in additional wealth during the pandemic, which could help boost U.S. consumer resilience. However, the Corona savings ended mainly with the wealthiest group of people. Because this group already had enough money before the corona, wealth accumulation does not translate into consumer spending as much as it would have otherwise. So additional savings provide little protection against a potential recession.
Net wealth inequality in the US remains high, but statistics show that additional corona savings have worsened inequality. By the first quarter of 2022, the highest earners owned two-thirds of the wealth, while the top one percent alone owned 40 percent. Meanwhile, a very small number of households own only three percent of the wealth, creating no additional wealth during the pandemic.
That accumulated wealth is not good for money flowing in the economy. High earners have enough income to meet their needs regardless of economic growth. Therefore, they usually store their wealth in less liquid assets like real estate and stocks. These assets are responsible for 70 percent of total net wealth growth during pandemics. As almost three-quarters of these assets are in the hands of high-income earners, there is additional wealth accumulation in these less liquid assets.
The limited wealth of an average family is now being strained. Low- and middle-income households are increasingly using their incomes to meet the rising cost of living, especially food and gasoline. The household savings rate fell to 5.1 percent in June, the lowest level since the summer of 2009. This means that the average American household has fewer and fewer resources to deal with high inflation, and thus they have to cut back on consumption. This partially removes this important pillar of economic growth, making a soft landing of the economy more difficult.
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SCOTLAND’S commercial property market is on the ‘road to recovery’ according to new analysis from Knight Frank.
Investor appetite for industrial and retail warehousing assets is helping to drive activity, with research uncovering that £1.2 billion has been invested in Scottish commercial property in the first three quarters of 2021 – up 20.78% on the equivalent period last year.
Overseas investors account for just over £500 million (41.81%) of overall volumes. Private property companies represented another £322 million.
Knight Frank said the industrial sector has attracted £259 million of investment in the last nine months – more than double 2019’s £109 million and 2020’s £112 million. Retail warehousing accounted for £232 million in the first three quarters of 2021, compared to £213 million and £117 million in 2019 and 2020.
Alasdair Steele, head of Scotland commercial at Knight Frank, said, “Our figures suggest that Scotland is edging closer towards the level of activity we saw prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. While there is still some way to go, the economy was locked down for much of the first half of the year and there has been a noticeable upturn in investor sentiment since the start of the summer.
“Industrials and retail warehousing have seen the clearest upturn in activity, with investment volumes more or less doubling in both markets. Prime offices remain in high demand and, although investment volumes in offices are still some way off where they were in 2019, we expect to see more activity in this sector towards the end of the year and into 2022.
“There is a weight of money looking to be invested and good quality stock coming onto the market. We expect that to drive deal activity in the final quarter of the year and, with that, we could begin to see prime yields fall – as has already been the case with some recent deals in Edinburgh.”


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As the world’s largest outbound tourism market, China cannot be overlooked in the efforts to promote responsible and sustainable global travel and to reduce the negative impact of tourism on local communities and natural environments. While much work is needed to raise awareness and change behaviors, we believe that Chinese consumers do have an interest in sustainability and a willingness to adopt responsible habits. Moreover, in the case of combating overtourism and distributing the benefits of tourism more widely within a destination, China can play a central role.
Thanks to the importance of word of mouth in Chinese travel decision making, as well as the prevalence of sharing one’s travel experience on social media, educating Chinese tourists about environmentally and socially responsible tourism can have a knock-on impact, influencing other Chinese travelers in their understanding and behavior, as well as setting a positive example for conservation, animal welfare and other issues at home.
In the first of a four-part blog series based on Dragon Trail’s report, “Responsible Tourism from China,” we outline the three key focus areas relating to responsible and sustainable tourism from China.
In Europe, Chinese have been singled out as the nationality to blame for overtourism in destinations like Venice and Cambridge. In reality, these destinations have growing numbers of visitors from all over the world, and increased tourism from China is only part of the equation.
“The Chinese are very often the target because they’re so visible. So people say ‘The Chinese are to blame for overtourism’ when really they’re not the only tourists coming, but they’re singled out,” says Dr. Prof. Wolfgang Arlt, director of the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute (COTRI).
A legitimate concern about the impacts of Chinese tourism and their contribution to overtourism, and one that is central to Cambridge’s problems, is the tendency of Chinese to travel together in large numbers. Historic European cities with small streets cannot comfortably accommodate 50-person tour groups. But throughout the world, the Chinese tourism market is moving away from this style of tourism and towards either smaller, customized groups, or FIT. Restricting group size is one answer, but the evidence shows that the Chinese market is already changing towards smaller group sizes. Destinations can help this process by providing accessible resources for self-planning by Chinese FITs.
Another issue is that Chinese outbound tourism continues to grow, and with sustained growth of 8-9% over the next 10 years, we wind up with 400 million outbound trips per year according to COTRI estimates. Passport ownership could double to 240 million by the end of 2020, with first-time travelers wanting to visit the same “must-see” destinations as the travelers who came before them.
But there’s one important way in which Chinese actually contribute less to overtourism than other nationalities: seasonality. The Chinese market is much less seasonal than the European one and much less concentrated in the summertime peak. The fact that China has a unique national holiday schedule is a major contributor to this – there are week-long vacations for the whole country at the start of October and at Chinese New Year in the middle of winter, as well as a series of long weekends throughout the spring and early summer, which means that Chinese can fill in the gaps in the low seasons. Click here for our guide to the Chinese holiday calendar.
Chinese tourists don’t have a stellar reputation for environmental responsibility. At home, there are stories like the Sichuan eco park that had to shut in 2019 after tourists picked all of the lotus flowers. In Boracay, which previously closed to tourism for six months in order to clean up and relieve the overstrained ecosystem, Chinese tourists have been accused of “breaking rules all over the place” in regards to things like littering and smoking on the beach. In August 2019, a section of the beach had to be shut for three days after a tourist – claimed by many sources to be Chinese – buried a used diaper in the sand.
Still, there are reasons for optimism. According to Booking.com’s 2019 Sustainable Tourism Development Report, 87% of Chinese travelers believe that people need to take action and choose sustainable tourism, compared to 72% of overall global travelers. 94% of Chinese travelers said they planned to choose environmentally friendly accommodation in 2020, compared to 73% of global travelers. 80% of Chinese respondents said they thought travel companies should provide more sustainable travel products. Looking to the future, Chinese Gen-Z, or post-95s and post-00s, are more focused than older generations on environmentally friendly consumption.
While over half (64%) of Chinese travelers in the Booking.com survey said that they are unaware of any “green” signage or certification for hotels, 82% said they would be more likely to stay at hotels with this kind of certification. A survey by Chinese OTA Ctrip also showed that more than 80% of clients would support hotels that do not provide disposable daily necessities, and from July 2019, China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism published a regulation stating that hotels in Shanghai will no longer proactively provide disposable daily necessities such as toothbrushes, combs, or razors.
However, Booking.com’s report also showed some barriers to consumers actually partaking in more sustainable travel. 24% said they could not afford responsible travel (down from 35% in 2018), and 67% said they were unaware of how to make trips more sustainable.
There is huge potential for education, and – at least on WeChat – Chinese consumers seem very receptive. At the end of 2018, Tourism New Zealand got 17,249 views (45% more than New Zealand’s average views per post for the quarter) and many positive comments for its WeChat post on the Tiaki Pledge, a responsible tourism pledge modeled on Palau’s. The same week, Cebu Pacific airlines got 11,793 views (84% higher than average) for an article on Boracay’s reopening and new rules about litter and recycling, again with very positive comments. In June 2019, Emirates Airline broke into the top three WeChat accounts for the week, with 21,559 views for an article on reducing single-use plastics – the airline’s most-read article by far since we started tracking WeChat accounts at the start of 2017. AirAsia’s posts about its socially and environmentally responsible +ME program have also received over 100,000 views on several occasions in 2019.
Sustainable tourism-themed WeChat posts by (left to right) AirAsia, Emirates Airlines, Tourism New Zealand, and Cebu Pacific have all received positive responses in 2018 and 2019
Of course, it’s easy to be cynical about promoting environmental sustainability at the same time as promoting cheap airfares, especially those to fragile and overburdened ecosystems like Boracay’s. The South China Morning Post has argued that AirAsia’s initiative is nothing more than lip service to a new tourism buzzword, “sustainability”.
Response to this WeChat content, however, provides some insights about consumer attitudes. Emirates Airline averaged 3,300 views per post in 2018, with a historic high of 14,410 views for a post before they wrote about getting rid of plastic swizzle sticks and packaging on board. This and other examples show us that Chinese outbound travelers are interested in this information and supportive of environmentally friendly initiatives.
In 2018, Ctrip worked together with Tourism Toronto and China Southern Airlines to distribute reusable, foldable plastic cups to travelers
From 2017, China’s leading OTA, Ctrip has been involved in a number of partnerships and initiatives to reduce waste, and encourage more environmentally sustainable tourism. They have partnered with WWF and the UNDP, and with travel brands including tourism boards, airlines, and hotels. In 2018, Ctrip worked together with Tourism Toronto and China Southern Airlines to distribute reusable, foldable plastic cups to travelers. Also in 2018, Ctrip launched a “plogging” event, where participants jog and pick up litter, with more than 200 participants from 10 cities in China, Japan, and Thailand. Participants could sign up via the Ctrip app and the Ctrip Virtual Tour Manager mini-program. Ctrip is also part of the new global sustainable travel initiative, Travelyst.
Animal welfare and conservation is perhaps the area where the most amount of work has been done on educating the Chinese public, and here we can see some of the biggest results. Between 2011 and 2016, shark’s fin consumption in mainland China dropped by more than 80%, with a dramatic impact from a long-term WildAid awareness campaign featuring Yao Ming.
From the start of 2018, China banned the import of ivory. Nine months later, the percentage of Chinese who said they would not buy ivory jumped from 50% to 72%, according to a survey by GlobeScan and the WWF. Unfortunately, within that same time frame, Chinese who frequently travel abroad became more likely to buy ivory, with Thailand one of the biggest markets.
Public education campaigns against the purchase of ivory are ongoing. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) created one such campaign starting several years ago, with a series of ads featuring Chinese celebrities saying no to ivory. The ads have been displayed in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuhan, Suzhou, Ningbo, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and many other cities, as well as promoted online, and are still running in 2019. Comments about the campaign on Weibo are generally supportive and positive, such as “Great campaign”, “I say no to ivory products”, and “I hope more and more celebrities and opinion leaders join the cause of protecting elephants”. The success of the celebrity-led shark conservation campaign shows potential for the same impact on ivory sales, but it seems that work is needed to specifically target outbound travelers.
There has been good news for elephants as of 2019, though – a survey by World Animal Protection China found that the numbers of Chinese tourists who ride elephants and watch elephant shows in Thailand have dropped by 13% and 26% since 2016, respectively, with 81% agreeing that tour agencies should avoid activities that cause the suffering of animals. Contributing to awareness is Chinese director Zhang Chaodao’s documentary on elephant tourism in Thailand, Black Elephant, which has been viewed millions of times online since its 2017 release. In 2018, he released a follow-up film (Black Elephant 2, viewable below with English subtitles) exposing the mistreatment of elephants in Sri Lanka, and recommending alternative ways of seeing elephants as a tourist that do not harm the animals.
World Animal Protection’s 2019 China Outbound Wildlife Tourism Consumption Report also found that up to 91% of respondents expressed direct and indirect concerns about whether wildlife tourism negatively affects animals. 61% said they will not participate in activities that have a negative impact on animals even if there are no alternative activities, and over 70% of respondents said they were willing to participate in more expensive or time-consuming activities if no harm comes to the animal or if the activities contribute to animal welfare.
An earlier World Animal Protection survey in 2017 showed that 85% of Chinese millennial travelers opposed tourism activities that will bring harm to animals, and would avoid or minimize participation in those activities. 88% of millennials said they would support organizations that avoid creating tourism products that cause harm to animals.
There are also some notable examples of KOLs promoting responsible tourism and wildlife protection in Africa. Jiang Yiyan is a Chinese actress, singer and photographer who has become very involved in environmental issues, particularly animal conservation in Africa. She filmed a documentary with WildAid about Sudan, the last male white rhino, who died in Kenya in 2018. In June 2019, Jiang delivered a moving talk about Sudan, animal conservation, and global environmental protection at TEDx Suzhou (click here to watch).
Zhu Yilong traveled to Namibia, promoting rhino protection and responsible tourism with Condé Nast Traveler
Chinese actor Zhu Yilong is featured on the cover of the October 2019 issue of Condé Nast Traveler in China, with a photo shoot and story about his trip to Namibia to raise awareness for rhino protection. Condé Nast Traveler’s WeChat Story on the trip got more than 52,800 views. Weibo posts featuring photos and short videos of the actor viewing Namibian wildlife and interacting with local people, featuring the hashtag #TravelTogetherResponsibly (#和责任感相伴的旅行#), got tens of thousands of shares, comments, and likes.
For a free PDF copy of Dragon Trail Interactive’s full Responsible Tourism from China 2019 report, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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All-new Hyundai Santa Fe seats up to 7
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Hyundai is putting the Santa Fe name on its all-new seven-passenger SUV that the company revealed at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show Wednesday.
The new, larger Santa Fe joins the smaller, five-passenger Santa Fe Sport which is already available at Hyundai dealerships.
For 2013, the new Santa Fe can be order with six- or seven-passenger seating. Those in the car can expect lots of cupholders (two in the front and two in the back), bottle holders in the doors, a larger central storage console, a storage bin in the front, pockets in the backs of the front seats and cargo space under the floor.
Comforts inside the car range from a panoramic sunroof to an available 12-speaker premium audio system.
Powering the big SUV is a 3.3-liter V-6 engine that Hyundai says is both smaller and more powerful than engines from its main competitors.
The 2013 Santa Fe will go on sale early in 2013, and prices will be announced closer to that time.
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THE WHAT? Shiseido has announced a series of personnel changes, effective July 1, 2021. President and CEO Masahiko Uotani is relinquishing part of his title, namely Japan Region CEO, a role which will be taken up by Norio Tadakawa, currently COO for Japan Region.
THE DETAILS From July 1, Masahiko Uotani shall assume the title of Director and Chair of Shiseido Japan and Norio Tadakawa will step into the Japan Region CEO position.
Meanwhile, Ron Gee has been confirmed as CEO for the Americas Region. Gee has been Interim CEO since September last year following the departure of Marc Rey.
THE WHY? While the press release is circumspect to say the least, Shiseido’s latest set of results revealed that Japan is the only region yet to return to growth since the pandemic hit. Presumably, this appointment is aimed at turning that around.


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“It’s time for organisations to take a fresh look at loyalty… they are wasting billions every year on customer loyalty programmes that don’t create impact like they used to,” according to the study.
There was a media report appeared last week that said in a measure to cut cost, Snapdeal plans to trim 30% of its employee in the coming two months.
Google said it expanded its policies to better protect users from misleading and predatory offers and stepped up technology to spot and disable bad ads faster.
The restaurant sector is third largest industry among India’s service sectors, the report added. NRAI secretary Rahul Singh recommended early implementation of GST, adding that liquor should be included in the uniform single tax structure.
Singapore, Zurich, and Hong Kong were the top three most expensive cities in the world, according to the survey.
A SimilarWeb report had earlier ranked Flipkart as the leading shopping app with 47 percent of the share of visits.
The air purifier market has gained majorly in the last one year with entry of major global players, whereby at present around 50 companies are operating in the segment.
The industry has recorded strong growth rates in the last five years, especially in Assam, Delhi, Punjab and West Bengal on the back of rising income levels.
Advertisement spend in India is set to grow 13% in 2016 with ecommerce players, telecom operators and mobile handset makers leading the way, forecasts ZenithOptimedia.
Against 6.5% market share in April-June 2015, the combine has gained 3% to finish the July-September quarter at 9.5%, according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) report.
Share of mobile sales in online sales nationwide gained 3.2 percentage points from the first quarter this year to 50.8 per cent in the second.
"It is amply clear that Indian men in non-metros continue to seek power and status to validate their position in life, just like their urban counterparts.
The report said China has overtaken the US as the world largest online retail market with $442 billion compared to US nearly $300 billion last year.
According to the global brokerage firm, the Indian white goods market is under-penetrated and is on verge of a cyclical upturn.
China has exceeded the US to become the world's largest online retail market, it said as the online retail transactions reached 2.79 billion yuan in 2014.
The direct selling market in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has the potential to attain a market size of Rs 50 billion by 2025, according to a FICCI KPMG report.
Security and invasion of privacy have emerged as key data issues today, and consumers across the world are understood to be strongly negative about retailers' privacy initiatives.
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5 entrepreneurs have been chosen to get component in a new incubator application made to fill vacant downtown retail spaces with Black-owned firms.
Mayor Brandon Scott and the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore introduced now that the original companies that will be component of the Strengthen (Black-Owned and Occupied Storefront Tenancy) plan are:
- The Black Genius Artwork show – a multi-media imaginative area and style brand name owned by Bryan Robinson
- Codetta Bake Store – a café and bakery specializing in dessert objects owned by Sumayyah Bilal and Christopher Burgess
- Elite Secrets and techniques Bridal – a bridal structure residence owned by LaTonya Turnage
- Media Rhythm Institute – a hip-hop-motivated media area with a café and educational studio owned by Deverick Murray, Jimmie Thomas, and Tiffany Welch
- NKVSKIN – a line of natural elegance products owned by Nikia Vaughan.
Under the Improve method, selected corporations obtain monetary and technological aid to open up a retail site at just one of a number of accessible downtown storefronts pre-recognized by the Downtown Partnership. The five business people announced today were being selected from among the 30 candidates whose proposals have been reviewed by a blue-ribbon panel. Some have on the internet firms and desired a brick-and-mortar spot, though at the very least one particular of the companies is increasing to a next spot.
The leases are negotiated independently, and none of the corporations is open nonetheless. The program provides every single selected entrepreneur with up to $50,000 in grant funding to aid deal with money and functioning fees. It also supports the business people during their very first year with expert expert services that offer complex, lawful, accounting, and advertising suggestions, which include assistance with layout and development of their spaces.
A push function was held nowadays at the upcoming place of one of the business people, Elite Techniques Bridal, at the foundation of the 1 Charles Center office tower, 100 North Charles Avenue. Areas for the other organizations ended up not all disclosed for the reason that some of the business people haven’t finalized their leases.
All of the companies will be inside the boundaries of the Downtown Management Authority District, a 106-sq.-block location framed roughly by Greene Avenue on the west, Pratt Road on the south, I-83 and President Street on the East and Centre Street on the north, with a spike up to Chase Avenue together Antique Row.
“Today’s announcement is not the end of our journey with these five amazing corporations. It is just the starting,” said Downtown Partnership President Shelonda Stokes, in a assertion. “We did not produce Improve to examine off a box and shift on. We’re in it with them for the prolonged haul mainly because their success will generate prospects for other business owners to abide by in their footsteps.”
Advocates say the plan represents an attempt both equally to fill retail vacancies downtown and to assistance Black-owned entrepreneurs as the town reopens next the shutdowns prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Initiatives like Raise are significant for strengthening Black entrepreneurship in Baltimore, so I commend Shelonda Stokes and Downtown Partnership for their continued assist,” mentioned Mayor Brandon M. Scott. “This funding is desired to nurture our developing Black business enterprise sector and make sure the long run good results of aspiring Black business owners across the city.”
Intended to be a countrywide design for entrepreneurship, Raise is introduced by Fearless, a $40 million Black-owned technology company located on Marketplace Location. Added assistance is coming from BGE M&T Financial institution the Baltimore Growth Company Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates the Town of Baltimore Compact Enterprise Source Centre Maryland Compact Organization Progress Heart DLA Piper the Greater Baltimore City League and the T. Rowe Value Basis.
“Starting a company is amazingly difficult but the obstacles to good results are even better if you’re a Black small business owner,” explained Delali Dzirasa, the founder and CEO of Fearless, in a statement. “With Boost, we’re removing barriers upheld by structural racism that makes it more durable for Black-owned corporations to access funds, bring in a wide buyer base, and develop generational wealth.”
All five businesses are expected to open in their decided on areas within a yr, preferably by the end of 2021, stated Michael Evitts, Senior Vice President of Communications and Manufacturer Management for the Downtown Partnership. The variety of more business people is contingent on funding, but the objective is to have long term application rounds and fill a lot more vacant retail areas, he explained.


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The jobs that were supposed to be america are gone to China. The people in Chain make a li... ... middle of paper ... ...my has also seen some changes over the years due to this. The minerals and production materials are used from China which inturn is benefitting China in overall trade with United States. Although China is supported with the employment opportunity created by Apple’s decision to produce Iphone in China, the state of the workers in those chinese production contractors is not sound. The workers claim that they are not being paid appropriately.
How is outsourcing affecting American Citizens, its not only taking jobs away from us Americans but is also hurting our US economy. Outsourcing is when a company such as Apple sends jobs overseas to a country such as China and has factory workers there assemble the product for a much lower price. Yes this lowers the price of products but we have to take into account how many jobs this it taking from American citizens. Outsourcing jobs does lower the price of products but jobs should stay here in the US to build our economy and give American’s their jobs back. The issue on outsourcing jobs is not only jobs being taken away from Americans but its hurting our economy.
Threat of new entrants is moderate owing to large capital requirement. PESTEL ana... ... middle of paper ... ...f Apple products. Social - People today are aware of social issues and these issues influence the consumer buying decisions. Apple outsourced most of its production to Foxconn in China. Many Foxconn workers in China committed suicides and Apple was forced to commission a study by fair labor association.
“Made in China” is a label we can find nearly every product in the US consumer market, moreover the world market. The products that are made-in-China replaced the made-in USA gradually and nowadays it is hard to find the products which are not made in China, all over the world. The US was the biggest supporter of the growth in Chinese Economy and the National power, unintentionally. China was able to take over world’s processing industry because America gave up the industry. It allowed China to become the world number one merchandise manufacturer in these days.
California Congressman Joe Baca once said, “Products made in china are cheap through the exploitation of the work force. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of manufacturing jobs (Joe Baca).” Congressman Baca hit that that nail on the head, but whose workforce really being exploited? In recent years there has been much discussion of offshoring; whether it be a call center for when your computer breaks, or the manufacturing facility for the air bag that could save your life – what is that little label worth to you. The facts remain clear, every time a company closes its facilities to move abroad many Americans lose their jobs. At first people weren’t too worried when the low paying factory jobs packed up and left, but now middle class tech jobs, and even high level engineering jobs are leaving our country.
The truth is that by using cheaper wages in developing nations, we are not only improving our standard of living, but are improving the goodwill of the planet as a whole. For example, if a laborer in China is able to put an American out of work, it would, at first, be viewed negatively. However, due to the advanced research and development facilities the United States possesses, that worker could, potentially, work as a pharmaceutical researcher – an option unavailable to someone in a developing nation. Many seem to forget that the impoverished today are, in many ways, better off than the rich of the nation were less than 100 years ago. Much of this is due to our globalized econom... ... middle of paper ... ... by groups that convince Americans that “sweatshops” are terrible – while unaware of the true picture (an important fact to consider is that many anti-sweatshop groups are heavily funded by organized labor groups).
They traded with each other quite often, and American businessmen went over to start businesses in China, which helped out the economy a lot. When the Gold Rush started, there was a really bad disease that had gone all over southeast China. This made many Chinese leave in hopes of striking gold and becoming rich in America, although almost all of them did not. Since they did not find gold, they were forced to take on jobs, which were hard work and low pay since they were immigrants. Most of them worked on the railroads because "the Gold Rush had fueled the demand for rail lines to link the east and west coasts of North America."
Unfortunately, we can also see the same pattern in China's education system and lobar market. Chinese students are also face severe competition, education system is ever more test oriented in China ... ... middle of paper ... ... economic downturn (Wartzman, 2009). These measures increases the loyalty of employees and also formed their identity, Japanese workers often refer to themselves as a “company man”. Individualism dominates China, and company exists purely for profit. People rarely identify themselves as a company man.
In this flatter, people of US complain about the job, manufacturing things that moved to china because china being successful day by day to emerged as a center of manufacturing offshoring. The reason for moving to china is to save the cost and if one company move to china then the only factor remain for the rival companies to move their companies to china for manufacturing goods. After joining the WTO, many international companies felt safer to operate
Expanding into China, the world’s most populous country, opened up a huge opportunity to spread into all of Asia because there was the labor aspect in which cheap labor could produce shoes and other clothing at a lower cost. Everything seemed well in the corporation as stockholders and managers were receiving huge dividends and the public was receiving great products. However, in 1991 problems began, Jeff Ballinger a labor activist made a report on working conditions and wage levels for the Asian-American Free Labor Association(Nisen). Ballinger believed that foreign companies often exploited low wage, politically repressed labor pools(Nisen). Subs... ... middle of paper ... ...cked, Slapped and Verbally Abused' at Factories Making Converse."


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Could Woolworths be set for a Lazarus moment? It emerged this weekend that Sir Geoff Mulcahy has spent the last month talking to a group led by former Woolworths MD Tony Page – their plan is to buy up around 200 of the 800 shops left vacant by Woolies’ collapse, and launch a new one-stop-shop retail operation in the style of the defunct pic ‘n’ mix maestros. Mulcahy, who used to run Woolies’ ex-parent Kingfisher, tried to buy 500 of its stores out of administration last year without success – and he clearly still thinks there’s money to be made from the format. Despite some strong evidence to the contrary…
The involvement of Mulcahy, who’s a big hitter in the retail world, is a huge boost for Page’s group. Apparently he already has two-thirds of the £5m+ he's seeking from investors, and he clearly hopes that Mulcahy – who will apparently take the role of non-executive chairman – will encourage a few more deep-pocketed backers to chip in. ‘Sir Geoff can see the same great opportunities in this as myself and my colleagues do,’ said Page. Unfortunately it won’t be able to use the Woolies’ brand (which was sold to the Barclay brothers back in February as part of the fire-sale), so it’s using the ubiquitous Twitter to invite suggestions for a new name. We vote Mullies.
The closure of the last Woolies’ branches on January 6 undoubtedly left a void on the British high street, and provoked plenty of nostalgia. Those with fond memories of buying their first Sonia LP and back-to-school jotters could only look on helplessly as the stores were stripped bare, with even the shelves up for grabs by the eleventh hour. On the other hand, research suggested repeatedly that the Woolies’s brand had been in decline for years, battered by competition from supermarkets and internet stores. The consensus was that it suffered from trying to be a jack of all trades rather than a master of one.
But the general retail format clearly can work. Some of Woolies’ shops, particularly those in prime high street locations, were profitable (the problem was its failure to close the non-performing ones, plus various supply chain issues). And Wellworths, the copycat retail outlet opened by former Woolies manager Claire Robertson in Dorset back in April, has seen sales boom – which, according to Page, has boosted confidence that his new venture will succeed. If he’s managed to convince Mulcahy, he must be doing something right.
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Google Catches Up to Apple with Augmented Reality Kit for Mobile Apps
- By David Ramel
- August 30, 2017
Google is catching up with arch-rival Apple in the mobile augmented reality space (popularized by Pokémon GO), announcing ARCore to keep pace with Apple's ARKit, unveiled in June.
Offered as an early preview SDK, ARCore can be used in development environments such as Android Studio, Unity and Unreal. Along with SDKs for those tools, Google has published guides, APIs and set up a forum where developers can connect, ask questions and discuss issues.
In its promotional materials, Google has been emphasizing the ability of ARCore -- which builds upon the company's Tango project) to operate "at Android scale."
"We've been developing the fundamental technologies that power mobile AR over the last three years with Tango, and ARCore is built on that work," engineering exec Dave Burke said in a blog post yesterday. "But, it works without any additional hardware, which means it can scale across the Android ecosystem. ARCore will run on millions of devices, starting today with the Pixel and Samsung's S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above. We're targeting 100 million devices at the end of the preview. We're working with manufacturers like Samsung, Huawei, LG, ASUS and others to make this possible with a consistent bar for quality and high performance."
Apple, meanwhile, got about a three-month head start with ARKit.
"iOS 11 introduces ARKit, a new framework that allows you to easily create unparalleled augmented reality experiences for iPhone and iPad," Apple said at the time. "By blending digital objects and information with the environment around you, ARKit takes apps beyond the screen, freeing them to interact with the real world in entirely new ways."
Google says its new ARCore uses three key technologies:
- Motion tracking allows the phone to understand and track its position relative to the world.
- Environmental understanding allows the phone to detect the size and location of flat horizontal surfaces like the ground or a coffee table.
- Light estimation allows the phone to estimate the environment's current lighting conditions.
"Fundamentally, ARCore is doing two things: tracking the position of the mobile device as it moves, and building its own understanding of the real world," Google said. ARCore's motion tracking technology uses the phone's camera to identify interesting points, called features, and tracks how those points move over time. With a combination of the movement of these points and readings from the phone's inertial sensors, ARCore determines both the position and orientation of the phone as it moves through space.
"In addition to identifying key points, ARCore can detect flat surfaces, like a table or the floor, and can also estimate the average lighting in the area around it. These capabilities combine to enable ARCore to build its own understanding of the world around it."
Google warned that, as an early preview, ARCore may be subject to breaking changes in future iterations. In the meantime, it asks interested developers to begin experimenting with it and providing feedback on the early-stage APIs.
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The Hong Kong company is getting ready to launch a product with a rather unique design, aimed at the professional market.
The British manufacturer is now entering a market closer to the home/consumer with the new build.
Thrustmaster released one of the coolest-looking headsets aimed at the flight simulation community. But do they look, feel and sound as good as the photos?
Would you like possibly help shape a new product for our hobby? This may just be your chance to do it. In only 30 seconds, you can help make a new product possible.
The company is finally releasing a mod that allows both new and old users of the Pro Flight Trainer Puma to add toe brakes to their sets.
Ruder pedals can be a dream or a nightmare, especially for us, helicopter pilots. How well can you use the Thrustmaster TPR with helicopter?
RC Simulations has been working on their consoles for quite some time and they have just started to deliver their most recent product.
The manufacturer is releasing the latest iteration of one of their best-selling systems, tested by real Huey pilots.
With the latest releases of X-Plane (11.30 betas and release candidates), the Pro Flight Trainer Puma owners found some issues with the setup of the kit. PFT has released an update of their files to fix that.
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Confidence among American consumers over the last two weeks slumped by the most on record as businesses closures across the country left millions out of work.
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index tumbled 3.4 points in the week ended March 29 to 56.3, the lowest since June 2018, according to the survey released Thursday based on responses collected through Sunday. Including the 3.3-point drop in the previous period, the two-week slide is the worst in records back to 1985.
Views of the economy also saw largest-ever two-week plunge, while attitudes toward the buying climate and personal finances deteriorated further amid volatility across financial markets. The 12.1-point drop in comfort about the economy dwarfed a previous record decline of 8 points in February 2008 during the last recession.
The comfort gauge is extending declines from a 20-year peak in late January as economists say the U.S. is entering a sharp recession on virus containment measures. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits more than doubled to a second straight record as 6.65 million people filed jobless claims in the week ended March 28, the Labor Department reported earlier Thursday.
“These unprecedented declines in consumer sentiment mark the vast economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis,” Gary Langer, head of Langer Research Associates, which produces the index, said in a statement. “Unemployment claims have skyrocketed, commerce has plummeted in the face of business closures and stay-at-home orders, and the markets are in turmoil.”
Declines in the comfort index have been steepest for those with greater exposure to the stock market, Langer said, with ratings for Americans with household incomes of $100,000 or more falling to a more than three-year low of 66.5.
Sentiment deteriorated in almost every category, but two groups showed slight improvement: Comfort ratings for those without high school degrees and part-time workers both rose.
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President Donald Trump chided Warren Buffett’s recent move to exit his bets on the airline industry.
“He’s been right his whole life, but sometimes even somebody like Warren Buffett -- I have a lot of respect for him -- they make mistakes,” Trump said Friday in a news conference at the White House. “They should have kept airline stocks, because the airline stocks went through the roof today and others did too.”
Buffett abandoned his investments in four major U.S. airlines in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation, curbing travel across the globe. He started piling into the industry in 2016, which went against his previous swearing off of airlines after a tumultuous USAir bet. At the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in May, he said the “world changed” for the airline industry.
All four companies that Berkshire previously held soared this week after American Airlines Group Inc. said it would boost July flights 74% and jobs data showed an unexpected rebound in hiring. Delta Air Lines Inc. surged more than 40% this week, while American Airlines jumped 90%, Southwest Airlines Co. climbed more than 25% and United Airlines Holdings Inc. advanced more than 60%.
Buffett’s assistant didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.
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India’s consumer inflation eased to a five-month low of 6.71% in July on the back of a moderation in food inflation, firming up expectations that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may go for a softer increase in policy rates at its end-September review.I am a Chinese, not a Terrorist: Huawei India CEO to Court
Huawei Telecommunications (India) chief executive officer Li Xiongwei told a Delhi court on Friday, “I am a Chinese (national) and not a terrorist,” apparently borrowing a line from a Shah Rukh Khan movie.Chip Shortage in the Rear-View Mirror, Auto Cos on Launchpad
Automobile companies are gearing up for a record number of launches in the coming months as the semiconductor shortage that has plagued the industry eases.
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In recent years, much of the conversation in technology has been regarding the relationship between iPhone and Verizon. For much of this time, is has been a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’ but the wait is set to be over as 2011 is the expected date for the move.
In a recent report from Fortune Magazine, a CDMA version of the iPhone is set to be produced which will be released on Verizon and very much concludes the early rumours. Back in 2007, Steve Jobs said that both companies ‘missed something’ by not teaming up earlier but they are now set to make amends later in 2011. At first, the device isn’t expected to support LTE as this is something that will be added when the Verizon iPhone 5 comes around.
This news won’t be a shock to many people but is it too late? Will the Verizon iPhone 4 be able to compete with the amount of other Verizon LTE devices that can be found on the market? In truth, the support that Apple and Verizon has suggests that it won’t be a problem at all.


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Blue Marlin’s two very different projects have been recognised by the renowned Design Business Association Design Effectiveness Awards, which is the only award scheme in the world to evaluate design projects based on hard commercial data. The DBA will reveal what level of award has been won—bronze, silver or gold—at a ceremony in London in February.
Photo: Deli2go’s visual identity
Blue Marlin has picked an award for overhauling Shell’s forecourt food and drink offer, Deli2go, which involved everything from brand proposition and naming to packaging, retail environments and website design. The independent brand design agency has also won an award for its stunningly successful work for entrepreneurial brand Funkin Mixers, which gained £1m in sales in a year off the back of new look packaging.
Photo: Deli2go’s sandwich packaging
Global CEO Andrew Eyles comments, “We are well known for 2D and 3D packaging, but we work across the entire spectrum of brand topuchpoints and everything we do dovetails with what our clients’ brands seek to achieve. These awards reflect our ability to take a brand from conception to launch to driving growth through design integrity management. And they are a great endorsement of the importance we place on the genuine integration of strategy, creativity, realisation across all design disciplines.”
Formerly Shell’s own brand food and drink, Deli2go launched in the teeth of recession in a depressed sector, but turned in a performance so successful that it left the competition standing and exceeded even Shell’s most ambitious targets. The brand has been so successful it is being rolled out internationally and has already been launched in Canada. “We wanted to change people’s perceptions of garage food and drink and make Shell’s offer a positive choice that drivers would go that extra mile for. Our work achieved that in style and the sales figures speak for themselves,” Eyles remarks.
Photo: Funkin Mixers line-up
Funkin Mixers is a young brand based on a great idea: the perfect cocktail in ten seconds flat—just add spirit and stir. With the help of the striking graphics and effective outer pack design created by
Blue Marlin, its sales increased by 61 per cent in a year and made distribution gains in multiple grocers, off licences, pubs, clubs, hotels, airlines and wholesalers that transformed its fortunes.
Funkin CEO Andrew King says, “Investing in design was a big commitment for a company like ours and we are delighted that we have seen such excellent sales results and delivered a strong return on investment. We had no idea that it would pay for itself 31 times over in the first year. It’s probably the best money we’ve spent.”


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The WAB US Corp has announced it is going to participate at AAPS PharmSci 360.
WAB US Corp will be exhibiting in booth 1531.
For more than 70 years WAB-Group has stood for high quality and reliability. A worldwide service and sales network enables the company to fully support its clients, from process validation to qualification.
The DYNO®-MILL PHARMA brand is designed for active pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) processing and cell disruption.
The conference will be held from 3-7 November at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, US.