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Melbourne demand surges as Australian office vacancies tighten
Melbourne CBD is the standout performer of a tightening Australian office
landscape according to the latest Australian Office Market Report released by
the Property Council of Australia.
market vacancy rates across Australia fell from 9.6 per cent to 9.1 per cent
over the six months to July 2018, with Melbourne’s office vacancy rate hitting
a 10 year low of 3.8 per cent (down from 4.6 per cent in January
2018) – the lowest vacancy rate of all Australian CBDs.
of the CBD markets record declines in their vacancy rates during the
period, ranging from 3.6 per cent in Melbourne; 4.6 per cent in Sydney; 12.1
per cent in Canberra; 14.7 per cent in Adelaide; 14.6 per cent in Brisbane and
19.4 per cent in Perth.
markets had lower vacancy rates than the same time 12 months ago with
the exception of Canberra which increased from 11.6 per cent in July
vacancy rates are a good measure of economic performance, and Melbourne is
clearly the stand-out performer of the nation,’ said Ken Morrison, Chief
Executive of the Property Council.
is our fastest growing city and best performing economy which in turn is
creating strong jobs growth and demand for office space at more than
twice its historical average.
the country’s future office supply over the next three years
will be built in Melbourne, which is exactly where you want it – responding to
Melbourne is performing strongly, the Sydney market has also tightened further,
with a CBD vacancy rate of 4.6 per cent, down from 4.8 per
cent six months ago,’ Mr Morrison said.
results for Brisbane show a welcome return in market activity with vacancy
across the CBD dropping from 16.1 per cent to 14.6 per cent.
passed its peak vacancy, with both the CBD and West Perth recording drops in vacancy,
although at 19.4 per cent the CBD vacancy rate in Perth is still above the
CBD office vacancy rate has dropped for the third consecutive period, with fringe
vacancy also dropping. There has been a strong flight to quality in the
Adelaide CBD with premium vacancy dropping to 2.8 per cent, the lowest vacancy
level since July 2012.
the country we are seeing a shift towards premium office quality, but a more
challenging outlook for lower grades of stock,’ Mr Morrison said.
challenge for planners and owners is to come up with solutions to encourage
the utilisation of secondary office stock to help meet future demand and
support vibrant and affordable commercial districts in both CBD and non-CBD
areas,’ Mr Morrison said.
non-CBD vacancy rate increased slightly from 8.9 per cent to 9 per cent over
the six months to July 2018. The top three non-CBD markets are East Melbourne
(3.1 per cent), Parramatta (3.2 per cent), and Macquarie Park (5.4 per
the top ten performing non-CBD markets are in New South Wales:
Parramatta, Macquarie Park, North Sydney, Chatswood and Crows Nest/St
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If you're thinking about downloading a bootlegged copy of X2: X-Men United or The Matrix Reloaded,
you might want to look over your shoulder for the feds..
After watching the music industry be financially hammered by piracy, Hollywood moguls want to follow its recent lead and go after individual consumers who illegally download or file share copyrighted films.
"We can't allow what happened to the music industry to happen to the movie industry," says Jack Valenti, president and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The reason for the new stance is that movie executives are having nightmares that file-sharing consumers who've swapped music for years are developing a growing appetite for free movies. And they've been watching the Recording Industry Association of America's increasingly aggressive response to the piracy that is feeding a decline in sales. Four college students were sued in April for online swapping and settled for up to $17,500 each. In June, subpoenas went out to universities and Internet providers to identify more swappers, and the RIAA plans "hundreds" more lawsuits against individuals in September.
Worldwide piracy now costs the studios an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion a year. Much of that still is lost the old-fashioned way sales of bootleg DVDs and videos.
But as the music business has shown, potential losses from online digital piracy are much higher. And more and more consumers have access to high-speed Internet connections, which make it feasible to transmit movie files. They now are downloading 400,000 to 600,00 movie files a day, according to industry estimates.
In a recent America Online poll, nearly 70% of respondents did not believe or weren't sure that "swapping" movies online was illegal. But studio executives don't buy that.
The studios also are working on the next phase of DVD technology, with tougher encryption codes that might solve the problem, but that technology is still three to four years from market. "We're confident the next wave of DVD products will be much more difficult to file share with," he says.
Jail time. The recent federal prosecution of 25-year-old Kerry Gonzalez of New Jersey for stealing a preview copy of The Hulk and posting it online before the film's release was a warning shot. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to one count of copyright infringement and faces up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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General Mills is recalling 60,000 bags of its Cascadian Farm frozen green beans after one package tested positive for Listeria. It is the second time this year that the bacteria were found in the company’s green beans.
Cascadian-green-beans_406x250The Minneapolis-based food company says no illnesses have been reported in either case. Listeria can cause fever, muscle aches, and even death.
The recall, announced Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, is for 16-ounce bags of Cascadian Farm green beans with a “Better If Used By” date of June 29, 2017. The bags were produced in June 2015.
In August, General Mills recalled 60,000 bags of Cascadian Farm green beans in 10-ounce packages. They were produced in March 2014 and had use-by dates of April 2016.


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AO, let’s go! Surfly wins first ever Innovation Lab from one of the UK’s leading eCommerce players
We are proud to announce that Surfly has won the “ 2019 AO Innovation Lab” award.
After a massive 200 applications from start-ups around the world, we were invited to the AO Innovation Lab “Pitch Day”, along with 15 other innovative companies. The pitch day was organised by L Marks who has launched successful labs with BMW, Lloyd’s Lab, and Arsenal.
Tariq had the opportunity to showcase Surfly to the leadership team and stakeholders at AO and beat off stiff competition to bring home the “2019 AO Innovation Lab” award.
“A very well organised Lab from the L Marks and AO team. It has been a pleasure to work alongside the AO team over the past few weeks. We like to move quickly at Surfly, but were extremely impressed with the speed at which their teams were able to implement Surfly using our APIs, with minimum help needed from us. We look forward to a successful innovation partnership together with an incredible brand like AO,” said Tariq Valente, Head of Business Development at Surfly
Ao.com is a fast-growing e-commerce company with a customer base of 6.5 million customers in the UK and 800,000 in Europe. As part of winning this award, Surfly will enable AO to improve the customers’ journeys and offer personalized online experiences. This will allow advisors to assist and guide customers to the product and services they want to purchase, as well as, build stronger relationships with customers online. To find out more information about AO’s Innovation Lab and to view a video of the pitch day please visit: https://www.ao-world.com/2019/11/07/ao-announces-first-partnership-following-innovation-pitch-day/


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Sobeys Inc. has completed the purchase of Canada Safeway.
Last month, the grocery chain, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Co. Ltd., said it would put 23 stores up for sale in exchange for regulatory approval for its $5.8-billion purchase of grocer Safeway Canada.
READ: Sobeys to sell 23 stores in Safeway deal, says Competition Bureau
The retailer said it will come away with a gain of 190 supermarket locations overall from the Safeway acquisition.
View the list of the stores that Sobeys has agreed to sell, according to the Competition Bureau here.
"This is a great day in the 106-year history of Sobeys," said Paul D. Sobey, president and CEO of Empire. "The addition of Canada Safeway represents a unique and highly strategic opportunity to leverage Sobeys' modern asset base and provides us with a new and exciting platform for growth as we move forward."
READ: Poulin takes over at Empire
Marc Poulin, president and CEO of Sobeys Inc. added: "We welcome the 29,000 Safeway employees to the Sobeys team as we move forward together as one company, excited to serve the food shopping needs of consumers in Western Canada."


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IPS 2013 Round-up: market changing faster than players or regulators
By the standards of the rest of the financial services sector, the payments industry has always progressed at a glacial pace. For the past 10 years, the key topic at the long-running International Payments Summit has been the Single Euro Payments Area.
In the same period, the securities industry has been through, among other things, two iterations of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the introduction of the US Dodd-Frank Act and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.
The last of those involves the non-trivial task of moving the bulk of derivatives trading from an over-the-counter model to an exchange-traded model. SEPA, by contrast, involves banks no longer charging for cross-border euro-denominated transactions.
It’s not as simple as it sounds, of course, and if the comments of many corporate customers during IPS 2013 are any guide, not all that worthwhile.
Peter Frambach, head of international payments at Ages Maut, an international transportation business based in Germany, put numbers to the issue: his firm has calculated that adoption of SEPA Direct Debits will be worth €15,000 a year to the business, but it has so far invested €400,000 to become SEPA compatible. “I wouldn’t call it a good investment,” he said.
While banks have been scrambling to ensure that they are capable of processing SEPA-compliant direct debit and credit transfer instruments in time for the February 2014 implementation deadline, corporates (and, even more so, SMEs) seem largely indifferent, partly because they have made calculations similar to Frambach, and partly because they simply don’t feel any real need. “The EU or whoever can come down on banks as much as they want and no-one will care – they’ll probably cheer – but they are not going to come down on BMW, Volvo or Volkswagen, or Airbus Industries,” said one corporate delegate.
Asked whether his firm was looking forward to any potential side-benefits of SEPA – easier account reconciliation, for instance – Jörg Bermüller, head of cash & risk management at pharmaceutical giant Merck, said: “No. It will make no difference to us at all.”
While the approaching SEPA deadline meant that the topic remained close to the top of the agenda, other issues are perhaps more pressing and it was clear from several presentations that people are thinking about profound shifts in the industry structure and what their role will be in the future.
Mobile is clearly one of the main drivers, with speakers seemingly taking turns to be on one side or the other of the opportunity versus threat debate. Brett King, the well-known author and founder of the Moven mobile banking service, threw this into sharp focus: his view is that branch banking is over, and will go the same way as bookshops and record shops did when faced with Amazon, iTunes and Spotify. That doesn’t mean banking is dead, however – people are still buying books and music – but the delivery channel has changed, and traditional players will have to decide how to deal with that. Moven has no banking charter, he said, it acts as the front end for three banks. The model has changed to being a manufacturer /distributor relationship.
This sense of trying to define a role in a changing ecosystem permeated other aspects of the debate, both onstage and in the numerous networking opportunities between sessions. To some extent, it replaced the long-running new-players-will-eat-your-lunch debate with a marginally more optimistic version of the same: some people will lose, but for the most part there will be a redefinition of the roles different institutions play – as a wholesaler, retailer, manufacturer or distributor, for instance.
This fed into another running theme on the topic of collaboration and outsourcing, which featured in several of the sessions and many conversations, and showed a clear move away from the idea that new players are a special threat to the whole transaction banking and payments industry. King’s point that his Moven is the front for three traditional banks – and more to come, he says – was echoed by Dan Schatt, general manager, financial services innovation, PayPal, who was at pains to point out that his company doesn’t see itself as a competitor to banks. “We are a technology provider to retailers,” he said. “We partner with banks.”
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Sears, once the monolith of American retail, says that there is ‘substantial doubt’ that it will be able to keep its doors open. The retailer operates three stores and two outlets in the Charlotte area.
"Zeus” McClurkin of the Harlem Globetrotters knocked down a one-handed, backwards trick shot from the sixth-floor balcony of The Speedway Club this week to promote the Globetrotters’ games on Saturday in Charlotte
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The New Zealand dollar was mixed after poor retail sales data in Australia were offset by surprisingly strong trade data. The Bank of Canada also joined the ranks of central banks noting signs of a weaker-than-expected economy.
The kiwi was trading at 67.84 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 67.71 at 8am and at 96.31 Australian cents from 96.38.
The Australia data showed retail sales rose 0.1 percent in January, below the 0.3 percent lift the market had expected, but that country’s trade balance in January was A$4.55 billion, well above the A$2.75 billion expected and the thirteenth successive month of surpluses.
That suggests the trade war between the United States and China, and the slowing Chinese economy, have yet to impact Australia’s exports.
Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says the slowdown in global economic growth has been “more pronounced and widespread” than it forecast in January.Although he had expected Canada’s economy would stumble, he said the fall in the December quarter was sharper and more broadly based than he had expected.
Tim Kelleher, head of institutional foreign exchange sales at ASB Bank, says the market’s looking a little short at current levels and that there’s reasonable demand for New Zealand dollars from exporters.
“We’re just in a holding pattern at the lower end of the range,” he says.
While the Australian market has become gloomier and more economists are forecasting rate cuts, indications from the Reserve Bank of Australia are more upbeat.
“Until you see employment falling off a cliff, you’re not going to see much action from the RBA,” Kelleher says. Australia’s unemployment rate stands at 5 percent, a little higher than New Zealand’s at 4.3 percent.
While the market is getting more certain that rate cuts in Australia are coming, traders are less certain about rate cuts in New Zealand. Kelleher says the market currently is pricing in 16 basis points of a cut, which normally would be 25 basis points.
The European Central Bank will meet overnight New Zealand time and is expected to lower its growth forecasts.
The New Zealand dollar was trading at 51.45 British pence from 51.41, at 60 euro cents from 59.87, at 75.77 yen from 75.65 and at 4.5511 Chinese yuan from 4.5426. The trade-weighted index was at 73.67 points from 73.58.
The two-year swap rate ended the day at 1.8294 percent from 1.8230 on Wednesday; the 10-year rate was at 2.4150 percent from 2.4450.
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Launch of new Wynnstay vans in the South West
NewsWynnstay have launched two new sales vans in the South West of England. The vans stock a range of agricultural products including dairy hygiene, animal health, calf, sheep and beef supplies.
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MANILA – Zalora hopes to grow its business online and offline, after it partnered with mall operator Ayala Land, its founder said Thursday.
The company may open “pop-up” stores in Ayala Malls, which will allow customers to try on merchandise before purchasing them online, said Zalora CEO Paolo Campos.
The Ayala group bought a 43.3-percent stake in the country’s largest online fashion retailer last week, as it ventured into the e-commerce space.
“The 21st century will really be about omni-channel retail experience, the fusion of online and offline shopping, and the marrying of two business models. This is why our partnership with Ayala Land is exciting for us,” Campos said.
“We are both online and offline in our personal lives and as such, business has to respond,” he said.
Campos said slow internet and low credit card penetration are the main challenges to e-commerce. Two in every three transactions at Zalora are paid via cash on delivery, he said.
“It’s certainly important for us to move some cash on delivery demand to electronic form of payment, whether credit card, debit card or online wallet,” he said.


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Phase two of Dh1b mall redevelopment under way
Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) announced phase two of Mall of the Emirates' strategic redevelopment dubbed Evolution 2015. The second stage of construction will see the mall expand by a gross leasable area of 25,000 sqm, including a 24-screen cinema, retail anchor stores, new lifestyle options and various dining choices.
Evolution 2015, which will be completed in phases with elements unveiled in the middle of next year, is being undertaken at a cost of more than Dhl billion.
"In embarking on phase two of Evolution 2015 at Mall of the Emirates, we have surveyed the needs of our two key audiences — guests and retailers — to see how we can best meet their changing needs," said Dimitri Va-zelakis, Executive Managing Director of Shopping Malls at MAF Properties. "More space for luxury maisons, the introduction of new fashion brands, an enhanced dining experience and a state-of-the-art cinema destination — these are some of the most anticipated elements."
The expansion project will also include parking for more than 1,300 cars and new prayer rooms.
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Nigeria’s Inflation drops to 16.63% in the month of September
The National Bureau of statistics have released the consumer price index for the month of September. The consumer price came to 16.63% which means a 0.38% decrease in inflation compared to the 17.01%in the preceding month.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the 0.38 per cent reduction in inflation was occasioned by price moderation in all the parameters that determine the headline index. The composite food Index also slowed to 19.57 per cent in September compared to 20.30 per cent in August.
The food index was reflected in the prices of oils and fats, bread and cereals, food product N.E.C., ﬁsh, coﬀee, tea and cocoa, potatoes, yam and other tuber and milk, cheese and egg.
The ‘’All items less farm produce’’ or core inﬂation, which excludes the prices of volatile agricultural produce stood at 13.74 per cent in September up by 0.33 per cent compared with 13.41 per cent recorded in August. The highest increases were recorded in prices of gas, household textile, garments, motor car, game of chance, and major household appliances whether electric or not.
Other are passenger transport by air, hospital services, other services in respect personal transport equipment, wine, clothing materials, other articles of clothing and clothing accessories, non-durable household goods.
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SV150: Apple, Inc. earns more than HP, Google, Intel & Cisco combinedA listing of Silicon Valley's top companies points out that Apple now brings in more revenue ($174 billion) than second place Hewlett Packard and third place Google combined, and earns more money ($37 billion) than the rest of the top five together.
The SV150 is compiled by the region's San Jose Mercury News from Bloomberg data and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings of the companies
Despite its leadership position in revenues and profits, investors have valued Apple with a market capitalization that's only about 70 percent of the combined value of HP, Google, Intel and Cisco.
The region's eleventh largest firm, Facebook, has a market cap that's nearly a third the size of Apple's, despite revenues that are just 4 percent of the iPhone maker's, and profits that are less than 4 percent of Apple's earnings.
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Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading division, has revealed that Apple from now on is only accepting application developers who agree to go through its in-house app store.
According to the New York Times, Apple has prohibited Sony’s apps Sony Reader’s e-book iPhone app for inclusion in the iOS App Store in fear of developers selling content within the app without using Apple’s in-app purchase feature.
As a result of the application not been sold solely through Apple’s store, Apple has now informed application developers that it will not continue to sell any content such as e-books within applications. This will also affect customers, as they will be forced to purchase only within the App Store.
The application reader, however, is available for Android. This move by Apple could be perceived as an attempt to keep profits within Apple, and make access more difficult for competitors. Amazon.com and other companies competing with the iPad tablet computer may witness the consequences of Apple’s decision.
The iPad can be seen as the motivating factor for this move, as it has not needed reader apps devices, for example, iPad users do not require a Kindle to read Kindle e-books on their iPads.
Haber has demonstrated his disappointment with Apple’s new restrictions. “It’s the opposite of what we wanted to bring to the market,” Haber said.
“We always wanted to bring the content to as many devices as possible, not one device to one store.”
This new transition has begun rumours that a new subscription service may apply for previous developers.


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Global demand for nonwovens is forecast to rise 5.4 percent yearly to 11.2 million metric tons in 2019. Demand will be driven by the expected increase in the manufacture of key products made from nonwovens such as baby diapers, adult incontinence products, filters, consumer and industrial wipes, disposable medical gowns, and various automotive components. Additionally, higher penetration rates of many of these end products, such as baby diapers in developing countries and adult incontinence products in developed countries, will promote rising nonwoven requirements. These and other trends are presented in World Nonwovens, a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry research firm.
Growth will also benefit from the competitive advantages such as light weight and durability that nonwovens have over alternative materials. Further gains in tonnage will be limited due to the increasing use of lower basis weight nonwovens. For instance, China has recently begun to shift to premium spunmelt nonwovens in disposable baby diapers, which allows for a lighter, thinner, and softer diaper.
Demand in developed world to lag global average
Nonwovens demand in the developed areas of the world, such as the US, Japan, and Western Europe, is projected to grow at a rate of 2.5 percent per year, well below the global average. These countries have well developed manufacturing sectors, populations with high personal incomes, and well established, mature nonwovens markets. Nevertheless, non-wovens will offer opportunities as these materials find expanded usage in various applications, such as motor vehicles and wallpaper substrates, at the expense of alternative materials.
However, in the developing world, nonwovens demand is forecast to grow at nearly three times the rate of more established regions through 2019. The manufacturing sectors of developing economies tend to rise rapidly, benefiting nonwovens used in the making of non-disposable goods. In addition, gains will benefit from growth in middle class cohorts who are better able to afford consumer goods, such as personal hygiene products and wipes, which are key markets for nonwovens. For example, greater penetration rates of disposable baby diapers in developing countries is aiding local production of these products.
China and India to lead strong gains in Asia/Pacific region
Despite having a low intensity of usage (per capita) compared to North America and Western Europe, Asia/Pacific was the largest regional market for nonwovens in 2014, with 48 percent of the global total, and will account for over half by 2019. Growth will be spurred in large part by China, which will account for 46 percent of global advances through 2019 and 36 percent of total worldwide sales that year. Manufacturing capacity for products that consume significant amounts of nonwovens continues to expand throughout the country. Like China, India is expected to exhibit strong gains, albeit from a much smaller base, as it continues to rapidly develop its manufacturing and construction sectors. In addition, rising incomes and standards of living in both countries will provide incentives for individuals to purchase convenience items, promoting the production and sale of disposable baby diapers, feminine hygiene products, and baby wipes, among other items made with significant amounts of nonwovens. Central and South America, Eastern Europe, and the Africa/Mideast region each accounted for less than 10 percent of the global nonwovens market in 2014. Both the Central and South America and the Africa/Mideast regions will post gains in excess of the global average, based on favorable growth in domestic sales.
This upcoming Freedonia industry study, World Nonwovens, presents historical data (2004, 2009 and 2014) plus forecasts (2019 and 2024) for supply and demand, as well as demand by web formation process, application and market, in 6 regions and 19 countries. The study also considers market environment factors, evaluates company market share and profiles 37 industry competitors worldwide.


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TVNZ reports profit of $12.7 million
TVNZ has reported a net profit after tax of $12.7 million for the financial year ending June 2016. Profit was in line with the financial targets set out in the Statement of Performance Expectations after adjusting for unrealised foreign exchange losses.
TVNZ CEO, Kevin Kenrick says: “The performance highlight of the year was TVNZ’s strengthened share of TV audiences. Audience share reached a five year high powered by market leading news, current affairs and local entertainment programmes. Off the back of this audience improvement TV advertising revenue share strengthened from 60.8% to 61.3%.”
Overall revenue declined $23.9 million (6.8%) due to year on year declines in market demand for TV advertising, Government funding, event broadcast linking services, as well as the one-off gain on sale of the TVNZ Archive assets in FY2015.
Operating expenses reduced by 3.3% year on year to $303.3 million primarily due to reduced programme amortisation and labour costs.
Kevin Kenrick says “We’re seeing mobile devices driving huge growth in online video consumption with TVNZ OnDemand and ONE News Now delivering an average of 10 million video streams per month.
“To compete more effectively with global scale online players, TVNZ entered into a joint venture with Fairfax Media, MediaWorks and NZME to develop and launch KPEX – a local online advertising exchange.
“The other major launch initiative for the year was DUKE – TVNZ’s new on-air and online entertainment channel.”
The 2016 financial year signified the transition of TVNZ to a wholly commercially funded business with the end of the Pacific Broadcast Service – the last remaining form of direct Government funding.
2016 also brings to a close the multi-year refurbishment of TVNZ’s Auckland building at 100 Victoria Street West. The completion of this major capital project signifies the resumption of full dividend payments and TVNZ will return a dividend of $13.4 million to the Crown for FY2016.
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The Coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan has killed at least 427 people and infected nearly 20,000 people across 26 countries so far. Ever since tackling the menace that SARS had brought to China nearly two decades ago, the country’s importance in the global economy has increased exponentially. Now, 17 years later, the world’s most populous country has been attacked yet again with another deadly epidemic: Coronavirus.
According to Andy Rothman, an economist at Matthews Asia, China today accounts for about one-third of the total economic growth, which is a larger share of global growth than that of the U.S., Europe and Japan combined. Over time, besides producing simple low-value products like plastic goods and clothing, China had achieved dominance in more advanced and lucrative pursuits like gadgets, smartphones, computers and auto parts. The country has now evolved into an essential part of the global supply chain that produces components required for factories from Mexico to Malaysia. Also, China had just joined the World Trade Organization, gaining access to markets around the globe. While the country was harnessing its seemingly limitless supply of low-wage workers to produce cheap consumer goods, its economy was more focused on exports.
Moreover, being a nation of 1.4 billion people with a growing appetite for electronic gadgets and fashion apparel, China has now risen into an enormous consumer market. According to the World Bank, since joining the WTO, China’s annual economic output had multiplied more than eightfold to nearly $14 trillion from $1.7 trillion. Its share of global trade has more than doubled to 12.8 per cent last year from 5.3 per cent in 2003, according to Oxford Economics. After SARS, China had suffered several months of economic contraction, but it had rebounded dramatically as well. That might happen this time too, but one thing that we’re certain of is that whatever happens in China will be felt widely.
According to a conservative forecast of the Oxford Economics that is based on the impacts of the virus so far, China’s economic growth is expected to drop to 5.6 per cent this year from 6.1 per cent last year. This would lead to a downfall in global economic growth by 0.2 per cent bringing it to 2.3 per cent (the slowest pace since we faced the global financial crisis a decade ago!!).
The frightening epidemic coinciding with a major holiday in China will certainly bring a substantial loss to China’s tourism and hospitality industry.
While international airlines including British Airways, American Delta and Lufthansa have cancelled all their flights to China, international companies that rely on China for either production or sales are now in deep trouble. As shopping malls remain deserted, apparel stores like Under Armor clothing and Nike face-threatening sales. Besides, as the government has extended the Lunar New Year holidays to halt the spread of the deadly virus, workers who went to visit their families during that time remain stuck in their hometowns. As a result, the activities of car factories that produce for companies like Toyota and General Motors remain suspended. Moreover, stores like Ikea, Apple and Starbucks have already closed all their stores in China.
“It’s too early to say how long it is going to last”, says Ms Rohini Malkani, an economist at DBRS Morningstar, a global credit rating business. It’s true; no one really knows how long the Coronavirus outbreak will last, how far it will spread or how many more lives it will claim. It is impossible to calculate the extent to which it will disrupt China’s economy but the country’s stellar stature in the world economy means that the impact of the outbreak will substantially exceed that of SARS.


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In online sales tax debate, $1M business is 'mom and pop'
Revenue threshold for online sales tax collections seen by opponent as too low, but supporters argue otherwise
Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- As Congress considers a law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes nationally, debate is heating up over the revenue threshold for triggering collections.
The Marketplace Fairness Act, as it's named in both House and Senate versions of the bill, exempts online sellers with less than $1 million in remote sales annually from having to collect sales taxes in states where they don't have a physical presence.
Businesses above that threshold will have to collect and remit sales taxes in all states that collect sales taxes. But opponents of this act say a $1 million threshold is too low.
In a forum Thursday sponsored by the Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, representatives of Amazon, eBay and trade groups debated the merits of this proposed law. The debate was wide-ranging, but a persistent topic and sticking point was the revenue threshold that triggers collections.
A decade ago, Congress considered a $5 million threshold before before sales tax collections were required, said Brian Bieron, senior director of U.S. government relations and global policy for eBay. This has since shrunk to $1 million, he said.
"This is an effort to change the law in a way that most undermines the businesses that have the least amount of physical presence," said Bieron.
Bill Hughes, senior vice president of the Government Relations, Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represents big retailers and supports the proposed sales tax collection law, said the $1 million threshold exempts most online businesses.
"If you're over $1 million in sales, you're big business," said Hughes. "We aren't crushing any mom and pop stores with this legislation."
But Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, an opponent of the tax collection mandate, said that retailers live off of the gross margin, orthe difference between what something was sold for and the cost of goods sold.
Most gross margins are between 20% to 30%, so if a business has $1 million dollars in sales it may realize $250,000 in gross margin, out of which it must pay all its bills and salaries, said DelBianco
A business with $1 million dollars in gross retail sales "is no more than a one or two person shop -- let's be clear about that," said DelBianco.
Emmett O'Keefe, director of public policy for Amazon, argued that sales tax collections will not create a burden on these businesses because of the software.
"It's all automated," said O'Keefe. "It's easy, it's doable, it's built into every shopping cart that's out there."
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Sydney Sweeney continues her fashion reign this year by landing yet another gig with Miu Miu, joining alongside a slew of other beloved celebrities for the Italian brand’s Fall 2022 campaign, titled “Character Study.”
In the new campaign’s accompanying, portrait-inspired video, the star-studded cast stares straight into the lens while donning the brand’s newest offerings. Sweeney can be seen rocking an oversized blazer with the brand’s coveted micro-mini skirt and a large leather handbag. Emily Ratajkowski also joins her, making her campaign debut for the brand, and wearing a long trench paired with an itty bitty skirt and a maxi tote bag.
We also see King Richard star Demi Singleton, who played Serena Williams in the film, also her campaign debut for Miu Miu, too, dressed in a tenniscore-inspired look styled with black sunglasses and the brand’s mini purse. Other stars in “Character Study” include actor Emma Corrin, model Jade Rabarivelo, and more.
This isn’t the first time Sweeney has starred in a fashion campaign this year. Straight off the 2022 Met Gala red carpet back in May, Sweeney was seen in the luxury brand’s new Miu Wander handbag advertisement. A month later, the Euphoria actress was captured for Tory Burch’s “Show Me Your Millers” video, which paid homage to its cult-favorite 2000s Miller sandals. There’s no doubt we’ll see Sweeney in another fashion campaign in the coming months, but after seeing Ratajkowski and Singleton also joining alongside her, perhaps we’ll see the trio in even more works to come soon, too.
You can now check out Miu Miu’s Fall 2022 “Character Study” campaign, starring Sydney Sweeney, Emily Ratajowski, and more, below.


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Steel prices continued to rise machinery manufacturing enterprises to actively respond
This year, the country's important means of production prices at high levels of shock, this trend is particularly evident in the steel industry. Steel prices, the brunt of the impact of the "steel as the grain" of the machinery manufacturing enterprises. Machinery manufacturing companies have said that they are both injured and helpless. But they also believe that the market price fluctuations, steel prices will eventually fall back to a reasonable range.
National Bureau of statistics data show that by the end of 8 in 2007, the country's 30 major cities in the average price of steel varieties of the top 4345 yuan per ton of $five, an increase of 5.8%, an increase of 16.8%. The national development and Reform Commission subsequently announced that the beginning of September, the domestic steel prices rising for 7 consecutive weeks, until the national day to calm down. Steel prices continued to rise sharply, so that the relevant enterprises on the industry chain downstream screaming too much.
CSR: product prices are not synchronized
"Our days are so sad! One side is a substantial increase in raw materials, while our products can not simultaneously raise prices." Chinese South Locomotive Industry Group Company mampc director Song Fengcheng at the other end of the phone to reporters. "". His "bitter" is an important problem faced by most industrial enterprises at present.
Song Fengcheng said that now the average price of steel and the same period last year, an increase of 300 yuan per ton. But the price of this part of the cost can only be their own digestion, because the agreement signed by the Ministry of Railways and the price is fixed, it is impossible to pass on the price of the cost of the motorcycle to go up. Companies and steel mills have not signed a long-term contract, is a monthly shipment of goods, so the impact of changes in the steel market is very large. If steel prices continue to rise, the company will be in next year's orders will consider the price of steel into the tender, and strive to get the support of the Ministry of Railways on the tender.
He told reporters that if the steel prices continued to climb, reasonable will squeeze the locomotive manufacturing enterprise profit space, and then affect the enterprise capital chain, will ultimately affect the overall situation of economic construction. Also hope that the Ministry of Railways to understand the difficulties of these locomotive manufacturers, objective understanding of the market situation, in the next year's bid to consider some of the raw material prices.
Kazakhstan motor: only self digestion price factors
As CSR situation also exists in the power equipment manufacturing enterprises. Reporters learned that the power equipment manufacturing industry is a big consumer of raw materials, the average power equipment manufacturing enterprises raw materials costs account for more than 60% of production costs, so the iron and steel, nonferrous metal price fluctuations is very sensitive.
Harbin electric factory limited liability company, a person in charge said that this year the price of steel has affected the production and operation of enterprises. Kazakhstan almost one hundred percent of the materials required for the motor is steel, only a year on the use of steel plate of 25 thousand tons, with a sheet, cold-rolled plate, etc., is expected to increase the cost of steel only about $30 million this year. However, these large enterprises as they are to undertake the project at the state level, if steel prices affect the production schedule, it can not guarantee to the station on time delivery, breach of contract loss is very large, is not to make money to finish the task. According to reports, the majority of orders to undertake a ha and a half years ago, the price will not be adjusted because of the current high steel prices, the price of this part of the cost of their own digestion.
Reporters learned that the main users of electric power equipment is the power company and the Power Grid Corp, so that users of "price" pricing model in the procurement of power equipment, the raw material price fluctuation risk to equipment suppliers, so as to control the annual budget. As the sales price has been locked, in this mode, the power equipment manufacturers have to bear all the risks of rising raw material prices.
Sany: to strengthen cost control against internal and external pressure
Experts recommend equipment manufacturing enterprises to strengthen the cost control to resist the pressure of raw material prices. Reporters learned that some of the equipment manufacturing enterprises because of the high volatility of raw materials to see, and the cost pressures and difficult to pass on this long-term trend to the user, so long ago began the cost control work.
Reporters learned from the Sany group marketing department, in the first half of this year, Sany finance from the R & D, manufacturing, distribution and operational support for the cost of the headquarters of Changsha in 2007 were planning and control. In the R & D, Sany has taken the selection of steel optimization, material integration, reduce the design cost and optimize the process flow and other measures. For example, the raw material selection system revision, drawing revision means, Changsha the various specifications compression rate of 29%; the formulation and implementation of the scheme to reduce the design cost, Changsha of 9 kinds of product design costs have been reduced in different degree, the paver design change 27, achieve cost 30 thousand yuan to effectively control the cost.
Sany's cost control system is very specific and detailed, from transportation costs, outsourcing processing costs to office expenses, telephone charges, have a clear goal planning. Since the first half of this year, the implementation of office cost control, the actual cost of office than the target cost savings of more than 30 thousand yuan, the actual cost of the phone than the target cost savings of more than 80 thousand yuan.
In view of rising steel prices, the industry's general view is that the downstream steel enterprises must actively respond to strengthen the establishment of cost management system, the implementation of supply chain cost management, relying on the scale to reduce costs, rely on thin


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June 15--If a home computer user has a problem with their computer, well, Dr. Phil and Dr. Nick are available and on call to make it feel better.
Phil Young and Nick Daniel are not actual doctors, but serve as the manager and tech specialist, respectively, of a new downtown Burlington business -- Tech PhD. The main purpose of the enterprise is to cure the ills of people's home computers.
Tech PhD is a division of Drake Hardware & Software, and is the brainchild of partners Dana Johnston and Jeff Johnson.
"We've always done home user business," said Johnston, the CEO of Drake Hardware & Software. "We decided we were going to open a home division. That's when we contacted Phil to manage."
"I called Phil. I have an idea, what do you think?" she added.
Young sold his Burlington business, Digital Office Solutions, on Nov. 5 and was looking for a new challenge.
"I knew Jeff and Dana for years," Young said.
The idea for a computer repair shop with a doctor theme spawned from a common saying home users spout when their computer is on the fritz -- "I have to take my computer to the doctor. It has a virus."
So, Johnston and Young ran with the doctor idea, which is evident throughout the store at 611 Jefferson St. If a customer brings their home computer through the front door, they automatically are in the doctor's waiting room. Either Dr. Phil or Dr. Nick will complete an admittance form for the patient, give the owner a prescription for its repair, and sign a patient release form when the owner picks up their computer.
The PhD part of the business name was a happy coincidence as they were thinking they wanted the enterprise to serve as a "personal help desk."
"It snowballed from personal help desk," Johnston said.
And to top it off, Young and Daniel sport white lab coats with their doctor names stitched on the front.
Drake Hardware & Software served the home computer user, but Johnston felt they needed more room and a separate division for the service.
The store officially opened June 3, and what is the most common ailment the doctors have come across so far ... "virus, virus, virus."
Two of the longer repairs in the store are fixing a virus situation or making changes to settings inside the computer if a user loses their
Tech PhD sells AVG, an anti-virus software, that can be installed on a home computer.
What's one of the easier tasks?
"A simple cleaning because its running slow," Daniel said.
Typically, Daniel is multi-tasking and able to work on three computers at once.
For many home computer users, the Internet and
"We want to make sure they are satisfied," Young said. "We'd like to be on a two- to three-day turnaround."
The doctors make house calls as well. Tech PhD's hours are shortened on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., so Young and Daniel can make house calls in the afternoon. Otherwise, the store's hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday, and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday. The store can be reached at (319) 208-1010.
Tech PhD's services go beyond repair as the shop sells new and used computers of any brand.
"We work with a company that gets a lot of used computers off lease," Johnston said. "They've been taken care of fairly well. Usually we don't have to do a lot to the used computers."
The store also sells software, with Quicken and Quick Books the most often requested by customers.
The store will go the extra mile as Daniel helped a customer set up a Facebook page.
Tech PhD plans to hold small seminars on teaching the basics of Facebook.
"It is like social time at Tech PhD," Johnston said.
Young said being a division of Drake Hardware & Software gives Tech PhD additional support and assets.
"We have a team behind us," Young said. "We have instant credibility."
For those home users with ailing computers, Tech PhD can say the doctors are in.


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O’Neal Steel celebrated its grand opening Thursday at its new 64,000-square-foot facility at 2901 S. 22nd St. in St. Joseph with executives and employees from the company, Altec, the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Bill McMurray.
O’Neal Steel was lured to St. Joseph because of its long-standing partnership with Altec, which provides products for electrical utilities, telecommunications and tree care. O’Neal Steel produces the steel used to manufacture many of Altec’s products. This new facility will save Altec money on distribution costs.
“St. Joe has Altec’s largest manufacturing facility in the United States and it only made sense for us to put a location here to continue to support them in the way that we have for the last 73 years,” said Tate Forrester, vice president of sales and marketing. Forrester will assume the role of CEO starting Oct. 1.
The new facility will employ eight people. Forrester said the company plans to expand in the future, which would increase employees to about 25.
The company’s steel typically is distributed to manufacturers of construction and agricultural equipment.
“The local manufacturing companies in St. Joe, which there’s a lot, they’ve never had a local steel service center of our scale and our size and so we think that the benefits from that will only grow over the years,” Forrester said.
The vacant warehouse that now is home to O’Neal Steel was previously a grocery store distribution center before turning into the company’s 19th U.S. location.
“Bit of a different building than the one that we would normally use in our operations, but we have been able to repurpose it and it’s working out fantastically for us,” Forrester said.
The new facility will bring a supply of steel to everyone in the St. Joseph area from large companies, like Altec, to a hobbyist making homemade metal art.


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Atari, one of the legends of video gaming, is back on the scene.
Atari is counting on a big hit with Enter the Matrix
The name has been revived by a French games publisher, which abandoned its Infogrames moniker in favour of the veteran brand.
The Atari name is the most revered in the gaming history, with a venerable repertoire of classic games such as Pong and Asteroids.
"In any language, Atari is synonymous with video games and it's recognised for transforming entertainment," said Bruno Bonnell, Chief Executive Officer of Atari.
"Perhaps the greatest part of the Atari legacy is the recipe for creating games that capture an audience's imagination."
The Atari name dates back to the early 1970s, when Nolan Bushnell set up the company in California and released Pong.
The huge success of the table tennis game with blocky black-and-white graphics went on to kick-start the video game industry.
Since then, Atari has gone through various incarnations. It has been owned by Warner Communications, now known as AOL Time Warner as well as by toymaker Hasbro, which sold it to Infogrames in 2001.
Infogrames had already started using the Atari label to publish some its games.
But it has now gone the whole way in an effort to boost its profile ahead of a big games industry show in Los Angeles next week.
The company decided to announce the change to capitalise on the release of a video game based on forthcoming The Matrix Reloaded film.
"It's the perfect moment in our history to make this change," said Mr Bonnell.
Atari is placing great hopes on the Enter the Matrix game, which goes on sale on 15 May to coincide with the release of the film.
It has shipped four million copies of the game worldwide and is available for the PlayStation 2, the Xbox, the GameCube and the PC.
The success of the game is widely seen as the key to the company meeting its sales forecasts.


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Post Falls plans credit card use fee
By Brian Walker
POST FALLS — Post Falls plans to charge a fee to those who use credit
cards to pay for city services to cover the cost of doing business.
The City Council on Tuesday night sided with staff’s recommendation to
charge a fee of 3.95 percent on credit card transactions online and in
A public hearing on the proposal is expected to be held on Jan. 4.
“These fees will not provide the city with extra money,” said Eric
Keck, city administrator. “We are merely trying to capture the cost of
doing business by credit card. All taxpayers should not have to
subsidize those that utilize the convenience of credit cards. Not
everyone else who pays in cash or by check wants to foot the bill for
someone using a credit card or getting reward or miles points.
We are charged fees by the credit card companies as well as the
provider of the electronic banking gateway for persons utilizing a
credit or rewards card. These fees are becoming quite steep and we can
no longer cover these costs.”
Credit card charges for parks and recreation programs have totaled
$4,700 so far in 2010 and for utilities $20,200.
Only the Utilities Division accepts online credit card payments, but
the Parks and Recreation and Police departments are about to do the
The city anticipates that, as it brings parks and recreation and
police payment services online, that there will be a large increase in
credit card usage. Such was the case in 2007 when the city brought
utility payments online.
The city started accepting credit cards for parks and recreation and
utilities in 2006. The council passed $1 convenience fee at that time
to help offset the costs of accepting the cards, but due to issues of
collecting the dollar and the small amount of cards being used at that
time, the fee wasn't implemented.
City officials say credit card usage for city services is on the rise
due to convenience and rewards offered by card companies for usage.


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SAN FRANCISCO - To curb shoplifting at pharmacies and other businesses, there are calls to let San Francisco sheriff's deputies make extra money as security guards.
The idea, proposed by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai, would let off-duty deputies moonlight as private guards. Currently, only off-duty police officers can take a second job in security. Businesses would pay the deputies' wages.
The proposal comes after Walgreens announced the closure of another 5 stores in San Francisco due to alleged rampant theft.
Upon hearing the news, Safai said the closures would severely impact children, families and seniors, many of whom get their prescription medications from Walgreens pharmacies.
"I am completely devastated by this news. This closure will significantly impact this community. This Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for families and children for decades," he said of the Mission Street location. "The city needs to act with a sense of urgency to reduce and deter the number of incidents of commercial retail theft."
Last month, Scott and Mayor London Breed announced a series of new initiatives that would address retail thefts, including among others, expanding the Police Department's Organized Retail Crime Unit and recruiting more retired police officers to patrol neighborhoods.
The frustration and fear have been fueled by widely circulating images of shoplifting caught on video.
This summer, shoplifters in masks carrying armfuls of designer handbags sprinted from a downtown Neiman Marcus department store and into getaway cars. In June, a masked man was caught on video at a Walgreens, stuffing items into a trash bag before cruising out of the store on a bicycle.
If the supervisor's legislation is approved, deputies could be hired as security guards as early as November.


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Tanzanian authorities has ordered the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) to launch a nationwide crackdown on oil marketing companies’ hoarding fuel after prices of the commodity dropped early this month.
“Any oil marketing company found hoarding fuel will be fined not less than 100 million Tanzanian shillings (about US$43k),” warned the Minister for Energy, Medard Kalemani when he addressed a news conference in the capital Dodoma.
Kalemani said most of the oil marketing firms selling fuel in the country have decided to stash the commodity after the retail and wholesale prices for the petroleum products imported through the Dar es Salaam port for June dropped compared to prices recorded in May.
The oil marketing companies have stashed fuel that was imported in June waiting for prices of the commodity to go up,” said the minister.
“I am giving seven days for the oil marketing companies that have stashed fuel to stop the malpractice before they face the full force of the law,” he said, adding that oil marketing firms in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma and Mbeya were notorious for hoarding fuel waiting for prices to be hiked.
Currently, he said the country has 389.6 million litres of diesel, petrol, kerosene and jet fuel that could last for the next three months.
The utility regulator attributed the fall in prices due to the global trends that have largely affected oil prices at the world market.
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Police in Los Angeles have released footage showing a crowd ransacking a 7-Eleven convenience store in the city’s Harbor Gateway neighborhood early on Monday, August 15, and have asked for the public’s help identifying people involved.In a news release, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said they believed the “‘flash mob’ of looters” formed after a so-called street takeover at Figueroa Street and El Segundo Boulevard.The footage depicts chaotic scenes as people streamed into the store at
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It has been called Seed Distributors, CPCSD and more formally California Planting Cotton Seed Distributors.
Now the oldest cotton planting seed distributor in the San Joaquin Valley has a brand new name for the first time in 71 years. It could be “Phoenix” since it was resurrected by Bayer CropScience from the ashes of a rapidly shrinking California cotton industry with far too many competitors for the acres.
Officially the seed distributor that began in 1936 is now FiberMax-CPCSD after Bayer CropScience agreed to buy CPCSD for $14 million last year.
CPCSD has emerged from the edge of extinction with a bright future, according to John Palmer, the former CPCSD vice president of sales and now western seed manager.
Palmer said at the new company’s winter grower meetings most of the staff remains intact at the Shafter, Calif.-based company, including seed breeders Steve Oakley and Hal Moser.
Bayer is pumping new financial life into the company, including plans for a $1 million renovation of the company’s processing facilities.
“California cotton growers will benefit from Bayer CropScience’s commitment to maintain a steady flow of new, superior cotton products for the California market,” said Palmer.
“We’re excited about acquiring CPCSD because the company’s seed products and germplasm complement the high quality fiber cotton FiberMax is based on,” said Lee Rivenbark of Lubbock, Texas, director of FiberMax cotton.
“Now with FiberMax-CPCSD we have more of a national focus vs. the Southwest and east.”
Rivenbark admits the sharp decline in California cotton acres over the past decade poses a “tremendous challenge, but there’s still an opportunity to plant, grow and sell high quality Pima and Acala cotton.”
In a decade, Bayer CropScience has captured 29 percent of the U.S. cotton market, second to Delta and Pine Land Co.’s 52 percent.
The cotton seed business continues to be about high yielding varieties, however, it is also has become about technology. Bayer CropScience is in the fray with its Liberty Link herbicide resistant cottons as well as insect resistance and drought tolerant cottons coming down the row.
Rivenbark said the company is also developing cottons with glyphosate-tolerant technology called Glytol.
He expects stacked Liberty Link/Glytol FiberMax cottons to be on the market in 2010 along with two-gene Bt cotton, all stacked.
“We are talking double stack herbicide tolerance and double Bt gene,” said Rivenbark.
Bayer CropScience also is field testing cotton with drought-tolerant genes in four regions of the U.S. Cotton Belt.
Rivenbark said a Roundup Flex Pima will be launched next year followed by a Liberty-Link Pima. These herbicide-tolerant extra long staple cottons are expected to be readily accepted in California where there are now herbicide-resistant Upland/Acalas, but no biotech Pimas. “We have all kinds of new products in the pipeline.”
Palmer said FiberMax-CPCSD was expecting to win approved Acala status from the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board this spring for the first Liberty Link Acala, Revolution LL. It will be available on a very limited basis this season, said Palmer. “We have only about 700 bags,” he explained.
CPCSD had licensing agreements to work with Monsanto to develop Roundup-resistant cottons before the Bayer buyout. An offspring of that Monsanto pact is Acala Daytona RF, a high yielding Roundup Ready Flex Acala. It also was expected to be given official Acala status this spring by the cotton board.
“In the absence of weed pressure, Daytona RF is not the highest yielding Acala, but under high weed pressure with the Flex system, it can be exceptional,” said Palmer.
“We have plenty of Daytona RF Acala as well as Cobalt Pima,” said Palmer. The new CPCSD Pima, a full maturity Pima similar to DP 340, was the top yielding Pima in the 2005 University of California Cooperative Extension Pima variety trials.
Palmer said the company’s varieties will be sold in Fiber Max-CPCSD brand 50-pound bags. Next season the company will bag by seed-count.
Cottons sold by the new CPCSD-FiberMax company will be marketed under the certified FiberMax tracking system, which nets two cents to three cents more per pound than non-certified cotton.


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Locog was expected to start debiting accounts from May 10 but a spokesman confirmed that the earliest date any debiting would occur will be May 16.
The 1.8 million ticket applicants were expecting to get an idea of the success of their ticket order depending on the extent of the withdrawal of monies from debit accounts and Visa credit cards as early as today, but the first monies won't be taken until next Monday.
Insiders say the cascading system of the ballot is taking much longer than expected and there are some lingering issues dealing with several thousand applicants who had their orders corrupted when they applied in the final hours of the six week application window.
However Locog insists that the suspension of fulfilling the orders is not a delay.
"We have always said that the money would be taken from between May 10 and June 24 and we are still working to that,'' Locog spokesman Adrian Bassett said.
"The earliest the money will come out is May 16 and that is within that timescale, there is no delay."
This comes as the Locog chief executive Paul Deighton warned that more people face disappointment with their Olympic ticket orders, rather than any financial overextension when the monies are taken.
Deighton said many Olympic ticket applicants judged the ticket process ''sensibly'' and had correctly assumed that when applying for popular events like the ceremonies, swimming and men's 100m final that they may not get all of their orders.
This may allay fears of some people who ordered thousands of pounds of tickets and are now worried about a credit squeeze on their household budget.
Deighton said his biggest concern was satisfying the expectations of some people who may have solely ordered the high-demand tickets, believing that those orders will be filled.
He said last week: "Statistically most people ordered about right. I am a bit more concerned about people who only ordered the 100m final and the opening ceremony and expect to get them. That is why we are running the next round to take care of them."
Meanwhile eBay has confirmed it will work with Locog to prevent reselling of Olympic tickets. Tickets can only be resold for face value on an Olympic website to be set up later in the year.
In early July Locog will put all of its unsold tickets online for immediate purchase by people who did not get any tickets in the ticket application. This will be open for a short period of time, yet to be determined. Then, people who had applied but only secured a portion of their order, will be eligible to access the site to purchase further tickets.
Locog will release any unsold tickets, after the two rounds offered internally to unsuccessful initial ticket applicants, for general sale. This will happen in late November and early December.
In the meantime other Olympic-related tickets are about to be launched. Details and prices of Paralympic tickets will be released on Wednesday and go on sale on September 9, 2011.
Tickets for Olympic test events go on sale later this month while tickets for Festival tickets as part of the Cultural Olympiad go on sale in October.
There may also be a release of further high-demand tickets once organisers have finalised venue seating plans.


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Richmond Hill, Ontario – New-vehicle sales went up 5.5 per cent in March, compared with the same period in 2010, contributing to an all-time sales record for the month, according to industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) finished the month at 1.67 million units, the second-highest level in the last three years.
“We are still a long way from consistently strong sales, but the signs of a sustained recovery in the light-vehicle market are emerging,” DesRosiers said. “The sales surge was led by the Detroit Three, who all recorded strong sales gains for the month.”
Ford was number-one for the month, followed by GM and Chrysler. Other large gains were made by Kia, Land Rover, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen and Audi, DesRosiers said. Companies that lost ground included Mazda, Toyota/Lexus, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Volvo, BMW and Nissan/Infiniti.
“The Detroit Three, up 15.8 per cent, continued to take market share from import nameplate brands, down by 1.8 per cent,” DesRosiers said. “For the year-to-date, the import brands have lost 2.6 points of market share to Detroit, although import brands still control 53.2 per cent of the market.”
DesRosiers also noted that light trucks continue to significantly outsell passenger cars and now account for 57.9 per cent of all sales, a new historical record. The figures for March 2011 were:
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China to extend tariff waivers on US goods until end-2023
China will extend tariff waivers on some US commodities until the end of 2023, the finance ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Some certain goods imports from the US and Canada will continue to be exempted from tariffs between June 1 and Dec. 31, 2023, read the statement.
According to latest data from the General Administration of Customs, trade volume between the US and China amounted to $217.9 billion in the first four months of 2023, plunging 11.2% from last year.
Mainland China's imports from the US totaled at $59.6 billion in January-April, down from $60.8 billion in the same period last year.


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AMP Capital’s shopping centres are the first retail portfolio in Australia and New Zealand to be mapped internally for Google Street View.
Why we love this project:
- 18 AMP Capital-managed shopping centres across Australia and New Zealand have been mapped by Google Street View, using 360-degree panoramic navigation technology so customers can virtually window shop retailers, cafes, restaurants and services
- AMP Capital’s survey of 5,000 shoppers found 83% were happy with their centre’s response to COVID-19, but 39% will undertake more planned shopping, and 44% will shop during less busy times
- 96% of customers surveyed by AMP Capital plan to shop at their local centre during the Christmas period.
AMP Capital’s project with Google Street View aims to build the ‘know, like and trust’ factor with shoppers and facilitate an easier, more convenient customer journey.
AMP Capital is one of the largest direct real estate fund managers in the Asia Pacific, with more than $28 billion in funds under management as of 30 June 2020.
“This is an exciting step forward in our customer experience digital roadmap, which aims to create an easier and more digitally-enabled shopping experience for our customers, and in turn, supports our valued retailers,” says Helen Hey, AMP Capital’s head of customer technology and innovation.
“Recent research of more than 5,000 shoppers in AMP Capital’s portfolio showed that while 83 per cent are happy with their centre’s response to COVID-19, 39 per cent expect to shop in a more planned and less browsing way, and 44% will shop in less busy times. So it’s great we can support their shopping habits with an innovative technology solution,” Hey says.
Cynthia Wei, Google Street View program manager says her company’s technology “allows people to virtually walk paths and explore a space before they visit”.
While this technology is most well-known for helping you navigate outdoors along roads or walking trails, it can also be implemented to indoor spaces.”
“Physical rather than online retail is still our customers’ preference with 96 per cent saying they plan to shop at their local AMP Capital-managed centre during the Christmas period,” Hey adds.
Road test Google Street View at Macquarie Centre in Sydney.


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It looks like Amber Rose has been spending a wee bit too much time in the sun.
The star appears to have gotten herself one hell of a sunburn — and took the opportunity to share it with the world in an Instagram snap which, of course, contains plenty of booty.
"F**k yo Tan #MILFIN," the mom-of-one wrote in the caption.
Fuck yo Tan #MILFIN 👅 A photo posted by Amber Rose (@amberrose) on May 29, 2015 at 6:47pm PDT
Fuck yo Tan #MILFIN 👅
A photo posted by Amber Rose (@amberrose) on May 29, 2015 at 6:47pm PDT
And we also have to say, with how little clothing she seems to wear — especially on the beach — we are shocked to see she actually has tan lines!
No doubt people will be sending more bile her way after posting the pic, but everyone should know by now, she doesn't give a good gosh darn what anybody thinks.
RELATED: Amber Rose Looks Totally Unrecognizable In Latest Throwback Photo
And you know what they say: if you've got it, flaunt it. And Amber has certainly got a lot of it.


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Clear Channel radios immensely popular iHeartRadio app is now available on the Xbox 360. The new Xbox version allows the user to control iHeartRadio using their hand or voice via Kinect or through a traditional controller.
iHeartRadio recently announced a partnership with Cumulus broadcasting that gives iHeartRadio listeners nearly 1000 terrestrial radio stations to choose from as well as custom programmed content specifically for the app.
iHeartRadio also has full customization available that they bill as “like Pandora”.
“We’re excited about the debut of THE NEW iHEARTRADIO on XBOX 360 and to bring this first-of-its-kind experience to our iHEARTRADIO listeners,” said CLEAR CHANNEL DIGITAL Pres. BRIAN LAKAMP. “This is another example of how we are committed to offering personal music experiences wherever our listeners are.”
iHeartRadio has been on both Apple’s iOS App Store and the Android Market for over two years.
As lady luck would have it we’ve been scouring the internet, our ninjas and sources to get the good word on what is happening with Iheartradio, Clearchannel and this big announcement on Monday morning at 8:15am by none other than Ryan Seacrest. Well here it is folks, as promised IHeartradio and ClearChannel are throwing the biggest concert of our current lifetime. It’s the Iheartradio Music Festival and it’s happening September 23-24th in Las Vegas, NV at the MGM Grand.
Here are the artists already playing:
Kenny Chesney, Rascall Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Lady GaGa, Coldplay, John Mayer, Jennifer Lopez, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Niki Minaj, David Guetta, Bruno Mars, Usher
Iheartradio is also going to announce some major changes. You’ll still be able to listen to your favorite Clear Channel Radio Stations but you’ll also have a more Pandora like radio interface.
So now thanks to Thedroidguy, you don’t have to twist and turn all weekend wondering what IHeartradio is doing. Oh and tickets go on sale next Saturday at 10:00am


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Branded is back
In the wake of the pandemic and growing concerns about digital ad fraud, advertisers are placing a greater emphasis on the power of meaningful stories that resonate with consumers, and less on short term promotional advertising. makers reports.
The past year has seen something of sea-change in thinking within the advertising industry – one that has placed a greater focus than ever on branded content. The reason is twofold. Firstly, in the wake of the pandemic, social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and growing concern about the state of the natural world, many advertisers have elevated their brand content strategies. Many are placing a greater emphasis on the power of meaningful stories that resonate with consumers, and less on short term promotional advertising. More than half of advertisers using paid branded content and inﬂuencers say doing so is more critical than it was a year ago, according to a recent Advertiser Perceptions report.
Secondly, many agencies and commercials producers say there has been a move away from hyper-targeted, pay per click (PPC) advertising designed to maximise short term sales over long term brand building. “There’s been a really interesting shift,” says Maurice Wheeler, chief executive of the We Are Family agency network, which specialises in children, young people and family marketing and works with brands such as Lego and Mercedes-Benz. He says that brand (or native) content was the hot thing ﬁve years ago as advertisers tried to foster deeper engagement with audiences. But then the hyper-targeted programmatic ad buy enabled by tech giants like Facebook and Google grew in popularity, with algorithms allowing advertisers to deliver speciﬁc pieces of content to speciﬁc people.


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"The slot for expandable storage will be disabled until the update arrives,": the report said on Thursday.
San Francisco: Sony has reportedly confirmed that PlayStation 5 will not support SSD expandable storage at launch. As reported by The Verge, Sony said that while the PS5 will ship with a dedicated internal slot for inserting stand-alone SSD units, it won’t be compatible with them right out of the box.
“The slot for expandable storage will be disabled until the update arrives,”: the report said on Thursday.
PlayStation 5 will include a lightning-fast 825GB solid-state drive on release, and Sony has previously confirmed owners will be able to expand that SSD storage space via the console’s dedicated internal M.2 slot.
PlayStation hardware architect Mark Cerny spent several minutes talking up the SSD storage expansion feature as part of his technical preview back in March, but he also said at the time that support was likely to be “a bit past” launch.
In a previous discussion about the SSD, Cerny clarified that Sony wanted to have this available at launch but not all M.2 SSDs are fast enough to keep true to PS5 performance goals.
The PS5 will support USB external storage at launch and this will be a good way to play PS4 games or those that don’t need to utilise the faster speed of the SSD.
The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, on the other hand, will support expandable SSD storage at launch with the official 1 TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card that will fit into a dedicated slot on the back of the consoles.
Sony PlatStation5, likely to arrive next month globally amid the initial pre-order mess, will cost Rs 49,990 in India and the PS5 Digital Edition will be available for Rs 39,990.


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The dispute over Twitter is entering the next round: Before a court decides in October whether Elon Musk has to buy the social media platform, Musk tries to turn the negotiation in his favor. The richest man in the world is now referring to recently known allegations by a whistleblower. This accuses Twitter of serious data protection deficiencies. Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, also recently sharply criticized the company (eXXpress reported).
Because of these “outrageous” flaws, Musk’s offer to buy Twitter is invalid, his attorneys wrote in a letter published on Tuesday. The founder of Tesla and SpaceX is thus expanding his arguments to get out of the Twitter takeover agreed in April. Most recently, Musk said that Twitter made false statements about the number of fake accounts.


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For more than a year, Uber Technologies Inc. concealed a massive hack that exposed the personal data of millions of drivers and riders, violating a California law that requires companies to promptly report such breaches, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer.
In October 2016, hackers stole the names, cellphone numbers and email addresses of more than 57 million riders across the world, as well as driver’s license numbers for 600,000 Uber drivers in the United States. Uber disclosed the hack last month.
Feuer filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of California residents. The case will focus on Uber’s failure to disclose the data breach to Uber’s California drivers, he said.
California law requires companies to report hacks “in the most expedient time possible” and “without unreasonable delay” when some forms of personal data, including driver’s license numbers, are compromised. The law is designed to help consumers fight identity theft.
Instead, Uber paid the hackers $100,000 to destroy the data, pressured them to sign nondisclosure agreements, and portrayed the ransom as a payment to test the vulnerabilities of the company’s data security systems, according to the lawsuit.
“We’re taking action because we believe very strongly in the importance of protecting consumers,” Feuer said Monday at a news conference at Los Angeles City Hall.
Feuer said he doesn’t yet know how many drivers in California were affected in Uber’s lawsuit.
The lawsuit seeks $2,500 for each violation of the law. Any payments would be shared between the city and the county of Los Angeles, and would be spent on consumer protection efforts, Feuer said.
In a statement, an Uber spokesperson said the company is happy to address regulators’ questions, and is “committed to changing the way we do business, putting integrity at the core of every decision we make, and working hard to regain the trust of consumers.”
In January 2016, Uber paid a $20,000 fine to the New York attorney general for failing to promptly report a separate data breach in 2014. That previous disclosure, Monday’s lawsuit said, makes the company’s “gross conduct … even more alarming.”


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GM to Union: End Strike or Automaker Will 'Wind Down' Equinox Production
Talks between General Motors and Canadian union Unifor seem to have broken down after the automaker mentioned it might wind down production of the Chevrolet Equinox at the striking CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. Negotiators explained to the union that the cost of continuing the month-long strike would mean losing more business to Mexico, which has already been filling Canadian production gaps since before the strike began.
GM currently builds the popular Equinox at three North American facilities: the CAMI plant, and two Mexican plants. With a shrinking 41-day supply of rolling stock at the end of last month, the facilities located south of the border can’t produce an equivalent volume to the Canadian worksite. However, GM suggests that could change if Unifor doesn’t throw in the towel soon.
General Motors Employees Authorize Strike in Ontario, Start Countdown
Unifor Local 88 just loaded its strike gun. Workers at General Motors’ Ingersoll, Ontario, assembly plant voted on Sunday to enact a strike if no labor agreement can be reached by next month. The union, which represents the CAMI factory employees, said 99.8 percent of workers at the plant voted for the strike authorization.
Negotiations started in July as GM announced it would lay off about 400 Ingersoll-based workers — resulting from the automaker’s previous decision to shift production of the GMC Terrain to Mexico. Unifor estimates roughly 200 workers took early retirement packages earlier this year.
About 2,450 hourly workers will be employed at the plant following the layoffs, as well as about 300 salaried workers. Now, the strike vote threatens the sole remaining model produced in Ingersoll — a strategically important one for GM.


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SAN FRANCISCO – Warring Democrats and Republicans in the current U.S. elections need to stop bashing China and enact more free trade legislation, said Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association in an annual address laying out the CEA's policy agenda.
China bashing is the only unifying theme for the otherwise polarized parties in the current U.S. elections, said Shapiro. Rather than beat up on one of the world's largest markets, politicians should look for ways to embrace more trade with China and all international markets, he said.
Specifically, Shapiro called for Congress to enact a three-year old fair trade pact with South Korea. Korea's ambassador to the U.S. spoke at a CEA meeting here lobbying for the legislation.
Not all is rosy in China, however. The CEA is concerned about recent moves in China to require products use proprietary China standards, Shapiro said.
In another part of his talk, Shapiro said the CEA opposes a recent deal with broadcasters that might require all smartphones to build in an FM radio receiver. He said broadcasters will also lobby that all handsets support its emerging mobile video technology.
Shapiro used his speech to tout the CEA's new innovation agenda. The CEA president is working on a book about the need for the U.S. to reclaim leadership in technology.
Overall, the consumer electronics industry is doing alright in a sluggish recovery. CEA expects wholesale U.S. sales of consumer electronics to hit $175 billion in 2010, up three percent from a year ago. Sales will edge up four percent to $182 billion in 2011, CEA projects.
Shapiro spoke at the CEA's annual Industry Forum which is hosting meetings of its standards working groups for the first time. The CEA is working on 19 new standards in areas including 3-D TV and wireless charging.
Next month the group will open its doors to individual members for the first time, reaching out to enthusiast users to expand its budget and influence. "We want to engage passionate people who can get involved in our public policy and action issues," he said.


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During presidential election campaign, among the candidates pledged to put us workers very first, procure american goods to fulfil federal government purchases, and just take a challenging stance on chinas trade techniques.
It was joe biden, maybe not donald trump.
Even though the candidates disagreed on almost everything else, trade had been the main one area where mr biden borrowed his republican competitors rhetoric, guaranteeing a purchase us method with echoes of the the united states first agenda that powered mr trump to triumph in 2016.
Mr bidens position through the campaign recommends the democrat is not likely to embark on a wholesale reversal associated with the trump administrations protectionist trade guidelines or its change from globalism.
But while trade discounts are unlikely become a top priority for mr biden, who has got said however place domestic political concerns initially, the president-elect has actually signalled which he wishes the united states to start out taking part in multilateral organisations once again such as the world trade company.
Democratic and republican administrations alike were unhappy because of the wtos appellate body the influential panel that guides on disputes between its users viewing its rulings not only as an infringement on sovereignty additionally as failing continually to deal with chinas trade practices.
However, the biden administrations management of the usa diplomatic commitment with europe plus the geneva-based wto is expected to differ substantially from mr trumps strategy.
The trump management basically stepped far from engaging with wto people, by refusing to appoint brand new appellate body judges and unilaterally blocking the appointment of a new director-general. but a premier priority for the biden management is to re-engage aided by the geneva-based human body and talk about a reform agenda.
There is a lot of rebuilding and reform that must take place, said stephanie murphy, a florida democrat just who sits regarding home of representatives methods committee, which oversees trade. this administration allowed for, basically, the destruction of the wto.
A biden management should determine what to accomplish about united states tariffs on metal and aluminum imports from allied countries, which washington has actually argued have been in place for reasons of national protection.
Mr trump received the moniker tariff guy during his amount of time in company due to their practice of slapping punitive levies on imports into united states. undoing some of these tariffs won't be straightforward.
Even though the incoming president can lawfully pull those tariffs, says chad bown, other on peterson institute for global economics and former economic adviser to barack obama, he may face political pressure to leave them on perhaps not minimum from congressional democrats representing industrial says that swung to mr biden in the presidential election.
European diplomats, also, expect the tariffs to remain. i think biden is within a rather comfortable place in a way, because they can blame president trump for having introduced these tariffs and then he won't deal with an excessive amount of pressure domestically to get rid of [them], one diplomat stated.
However, leaving them in position inside their present kind will probably cause a dispute during the wto, where several countries have challenged the legality of this tariffs. mr biden may find an easy method for this with wto systems to negotiate tariff amounts with allies.
He could also negotiate agreements like that struck within us-mexico-canada, or usmca, trade deal, under which tariffs on metal and aluminum are raised as long as the imports from that nation remain at a group low-level. it might additionally be a choice to utilize the tariffs to negotiate more collaboration on pressuring china, trade professionals state.
Conducting a more multilateral method of pressing beijing for financial reform additionally marks out mr bidens trade plan as not the same as mr trumps strategy.
Richie neal, the democratic president of the house ways and means committee, stated he expected a far more strategic, coherent approach to defend against unfair chinese trade methods than weve seen from trump administration.
Tariffs on china are likely to stay in location, but. politically, its likely to be extremely tough when it comes to biden administration to simply are offered in and get rid of the tariffs theres bipartisan hostility toward china, mr bown said.
Mr biden will also deal with pressure to reduce americas dependence on imports from asia. coronavirus has prompted concern from top democrats, including elizabeth warren, the senator from massachusetts, who've been important to the fact that offer stores for crucial industries such medical products and pharmaceuticals are greatly reliant on china.
On capitol hill, also, there is apt to be a change as democratic lawmakers will be empowered to push to secure employees liberties terms and environmental reforms in americas continuing trade negotiations using the united kingdom and kenya.
Mr neal stated us trade policy would continue to be pro-worker, which the enforcement of this labour and environmental defenses inside usmca contract is important.
It is also prone to focus on just what it can achieve for ordinary us americans,rather than for all of us companies. miriam sapiro, a senior trade officialin the obama administrationand managingdirector at sard verbinnen, a communications company, stated it ought to be mentioned that mr biden features pledged to look at trade through the lens of so what can are better for americas middle income.


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Rummage Bonanza was open for its final weekend last week. It is now closed.
The business was a flea market with multiple vendors that used the former Ultimate Fitness space at 2639 S. Oneida St. in Appleton.
“The building we have used for nearly four months is being sold. There’s an accepted offer. The landlord/owner and I agree it best to vacate the spot as the buyer goes through their due diligence,” said Jim Emmers, who ran the weekend flea market and is also a commercial real estate broker. “The community is ripe for a continuation of such a business and I hope that this occurs.”
He said he had about 100 different vendors over the course of four months, and a peak of about 40 at once on his best weekend. His best day drew about 600 shoppers, he estimated.
Emmers said he had no plans to relocate the Rummage Bonanza business elsewhere. “That was a worthy location and I had a good deal on it,” he said. “Unless I’d find something that great, I wouldn’t consider it.”
The incoming business now in the process of buying the Oneida Street building can be identified after the deal closes, he said.
—Maureen Wallenfang: 920-993-1000, ext. 287, or email@example.com; on Twitter @wallenfang