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How did a hairstyle that once signified “off to the garage for some milk” become a fashion phenomenon? Because that’s where we are at with the high bun – or topknot – a hairstyle that is popping up everywhere.
The ’do is fast becoming a red-carpet staple, seen on stars from Jennifer Lopez to Katy Perry to Rihanna. At the People’s Choice awards on Sunday, Zendaya wore an unstructured version, while her 16-year-old Euphoria co-star Storm Reid wore a towering bun topped with a star-shaped pin. Last month, when the British women’s team competed at the World Artistic Gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, all six wore the hairstyle.
Like its embarrassing cousin, the man bun, it has developed vague wellnessy connotations. It’s the style of choice for Hollywood types doing yoga or posting sweaty but flattering post-gym pictures. For such an easy style, there are countless online tutorials on how to achieve it, such as the one on motherandbaby.co.uk, which promises a “no-wash topknot for busy mornings”.
On the catwalk, the style projects an effortless vibe. Last year, 77 of the 81 Chanel models at one show wore a bun, which the hairstylist Sam McKnight said was “inspired by the models themselves – when they grab their hair after a show and shove it up in a messy topknot tied with elastic”. In September, at London fashion week, Victoria Beckham took her bow in hard-working designer mode, wearing a messy topknot; the tonsorial equivalent of rolling her sleeves up.
Ursula Stephen – Zendaya’s hairdresser and the mastermind of many red-carpet topknots – described it as “one of those Coachella kind of things. Kind of like no-makeup makeup.”
Some of the topknot’s biggest proponents are those who live their private moments in public. On Instagram, it is perfect for casually hanging out in the bath while telling your followers how great your new shampoo is with the tagline: #ad #sponcontent. The Kardashians are big fans, obviously.
And, really, it is internet hair. Unlike the ballerina bun, or the chignon at the nape of the neck, it is fully visible from the front. Marni Senofonte – a one-woman social-media trend machine who is best known as “Beyoncé’s Instagram stylist” – wears a 3in-high topknot. Her hair is instantly recognisable, the smartphone era equivalent of Anna Wintour’s bob.
The topknot also, of course, has a deep significance in many religions, including Sikhism and Buddhism. Indeed, when you delve into the history of the topknot, it is difficult to interpret its western rise as anything but a borrowing – subconsciously or otherwise – from eastern cultures.
This is most clearly demonstrated by the version seen on celebrities, such as Miley Cyrus, or off-duty models doing chakrasanas on Instagram. In kundalini yoga, wearing a knot on top of the head, for energetic effect, is part of the practice. Photographs of celebrity fans, including Russell Brand, wearing topknots while meditating, may well have seeped into the western zeitgeist. Like the man bun, which tends to be worn a little lower down the crown, this version of the topknot seems to bring with it a hazy sense of enlightenment and urban creativity. It’s popular in Hollywood.
For Susie Lau, a fashion writer and street-style star who has been wearing her topknot for about a decade, adopting the style did not feel hugely groundbreaking because in Japan and Hong Kong, where she has family and frequently travels, “it feels less of a style statement and more like an everyday hairstyle”. Lau points out that the hairstyle looks similar to that worn by men in China during the Ming dynasty.
Yet in the UK, it was not really fashionable until fairly recently, according to Rachael Gibson who runs an Instagram account dedicated to the history of hair. Historically, western up-dos, such as the apollo knot of the 1800s, were intricate and extravagant, a straight-up sign of “conspicuous consumption”, indicating their wearer as “lady of leisure”. On the contrary, she says, the modern topknot ties into a different modern aspiration – the “dread of the salon blow-dry – people wanting to move away from looking ‘done’”.
Topknots are particularly popular among teenage girls and women in their early 20s. The hairdresser Charlotte Mensah agrees that the buns are getting higher. “It’s such a thing. My daughter, who is 18, loves wearing her hair like that. All her friends at uni do.”
For young fans the inspiration might be Zoella, the YouTube star who has very long, very thick hair, and whose “How to: Messy Bun” tutorial has been viewed more than 12m times. Or it could be the Love Island star Molly-Mae Hague, whose bun is “a celeb in its own right” according to Cosmopolitan.
A tutorial posted by Hague in the summer underlined the class issues inherent in the topknot. Without expensive extensions to twist into a luxuriant bun, some fans claimed that the slick-sided ’do made them “look like Miss Trunchbull”.
Gibson warns against classifying the style as democratic. “It is always clean, thick hair, artfully done on Instagram. You wonder if people would have a different opinion if they saw a normal working-class woman wearing a topknot. If I put my hair up like that with no makeup on to take the bins out, people are not going to say: ‘She looks incredible.’”
For some hair types, though, it is genuinely easy – and cheap – to achieve. Lau, for one, advocates it for difficult weather. “I remember the first time I did it. I was in Stockholm in the winter and it was snowing really hard and super windy – it was more a practical thing.” Mensah says it can save women a lot of time. It works well on hair that is “lived in”, perhaps because it hasn’t been washed for a couple of days. “The knottier and more mussed the hair the better.” For afro hair, it is “a great look for second- or third-day twist out”.
Stephen even believes it gives “an instant facelift”. No wonder it is popular. It is likely to stay that way, too, because its silhouette so perfectly suits the lens of a front-facing camera. Because, in 2019, if you can’t see your bun on social media, did it even happen?


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Pessimism took a firmer hold of consumers in the final quarter of last year as concerns about job prospects soured sentiment.
Singapore scored 97 on the Nielsen consumer confidence index for the last three months of last year, a tad down from 98 in the previous quarter.
A reading below 100 indicates pessimism. Singapore has been scoring under 100 in the quarterly survey since the third quarter of 2011, said Nielsen, an information company.
Even with the rather gloomy reading, the Singapore score is still better than the global average of 94.
The marginal dip in consumer confidence here in the fourth quarter was driven by a slight increase in the number of consumers worried about job prospects: From 34 per cent in the third quarter survey to 38 per cent.
Nonetheless, Singaporeans stayed relatively upbeat about their personal finances, and expressed a willingness to spend.
Of the 505 respondents, 54 per cent said their personal finances over the following 12 months would likely be good or excellent - the same as in the third quarter.
And 36 per cent felt that the next 12 months would be a good time to buy the things they need or want, up 1 percentage point from the previous quarter.
Almost half, or 49 per cent, said they also planned to spend on holidays and vacations, up from 45 per cent in the third quarter and the highest level globally.
This sentiment could be the result of consumers having more spare cash, Nielsen said yesterday.
The proportion of respondents who said they had no spare cash fell from 9 per cent in the third quarter to 6 per cent in the fourth.
"While Singaporeans are feeling less positive about their job prospects, the fact that they continue to be optimistic about their personal financial situations and that they are willing to spend on vacations indicate that consumers' confidence is still relatively positive," said Mr Luca Griseri, Nielsen's head of financial services in Singapore and Malaysia.
Singaporeans also continued to be avid savers, with 64 per cent saying they would channel excess funds into savings, the same proportion as in the third quarter.
The share of respondents who would invest excess cash into retirement funds also stayed the same, at 23 per cent.
But only 26 per cent said they planned to invest in stocks or mutual funds, down from 30 per cent in the third quarter.

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Tesco Corporation (TESO) Earning Somewhat Positive Press Coverage, Analysis Shows
Headlines about Tesco Corporation (NASDAQ:TESO) have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Tesco Corporation earned a media sentiment score of 0.13 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned headlines about the oil and gas company an impact score of 47.3015981419579 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next several days.
These are some of the headlines that may have effected Accern’s rankings:
- Tesco Corporation (TESO) Receives Hold Rating from Cowen and Company (americanbankingnews.com)
- Amazon wants to buy French supermarket | Tesco H1 sales up (freshplaza.com)
- Tesco bosses in accounting scandal ignored staff who feared jail, court hears (breakingnews.ie)
- London Finance Show: Tesco on Booker situation; Morses Club, and DFS downgrade (proactiveinvestors.co.uk)
- Tesco whistleblower tells of mounting anxieties over accounts gap (finance.yahoo.com)
Shares of Tesco Corporation (NASDAQ TESO) opened at 5.15 on Friday. Tesco Corporation has a 1-year low of $3.70 and a 1-year high of $9.65. The firm’s market cap is $240.78 million. The company has a 50 day moving average of $4.89 and a 200 day moving average of $5.24.
Tesco Corporation (NASDAQ:TESO) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, August 8th. The oil and gas company reported ($0.25) EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of ($0.24) by ($0.01). Tesco Corporation had a negative return on equity of 18.21% and a negative net margin of 47.72%. The business had revenue of $40.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $41.01 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.39) EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 19.3% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts forecast that Tesco Corporation will post ($0.94) earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on TESO shares. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Tesco Corporation from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, September 15th. Seaport Global Securities reaffirmed a “neutral” rating on shares of Tesco Corporation in a research note on Wednesday, August 9th. ValuEngine lowered shares of Tesco Corporation from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Friday, September 1st. FBR & Co set a $7.00 price objective on shares of Tesco Corporation and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 16th. Finally, Cowen and Company set a $5.00 price objective on shares of Tesco Corporation and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Tesco Corporation has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $6.00.
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In a setback to the automobile industry looking for a reduction in GST rates to help tide over the present crisis, the finance ministry has said current taxes on the sector were lower than pre-GST times and the industry should rather look at reducing their costs by cutting down the royalty payments to parent companies abroad instead of asking the government to change the GST rates.
Top sources in the finance ministry said that India’s tax policy on automobiles has been quite consistent for the last three decades now in the form of allowing foreign investment and incentivising domestic manufacturing by providing reasonable protection from imports.
“The industry has on its part delivered. It has contributed by way of large investments and employment. All of a sudden, dissent in some quarters on tax rates on automobile is surprising. In fact these companies should cut down their costs of manufacturing by cutting down the royalty payments to their parent companies abroad instead of asking the government to reduce GST,” finance ministry sources said.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recent statement at an industry event suggesting that concerns of the industry in GST would be taken to the GST Council, fuelled speculation that rates on automobiles may be reduced. Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Prakash Javadekar early this month also said the central government is looking into the automobile industry’s recommendation for a reduction in Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates by 10 per cent across all categories of vehicles.
However, sources said that the GST Council is unlikely to accept a cut in rates as most states are not in favour in tampering with the tax rates during the current pandemic. The Council is now focused on GST compensation and how to mobilise resources to bridge the gap between expected and actual GST collection this year.
With the introduction of GST, multitude of taxes in the form of excise duty, special excise duties, cesses, VAT, CST etc, gave way to uniform GST. Vehicles, based on their high pre-GST incidence have been placed in 28 per cent slab. Passenger vehicles also attract compensation cess ranging from 1 per cent to 22 per cent. Finmin sources said, even with compensation cess the taxes on automobiles have not gone beyond pre-GST incidences except may be in few that were enjoying certain duty concessions.
Official sources in finance ministry said that there has been complete certainty as such in the auto sector taxation in India. Certain concessions have been provided to electric vehicles and to hybrid vehicles. Also, the most established players of the auto sector have been in India for quite some time and are used to the regulatory and taxation environment and have flourished in this regime. It is evident from the huge payouts in the form of royalty made by these auto companies to their parent companies located abroad. So the contention that high taxation in auto sector is causing a demand slump and difficulty in scaling up for auto players does not hold, they said.
Asked whether the present GST structure along with compensation cess makes Indian automobiles sector pay among the highest taxes globally, the top government source quoted above said that this was not true.
“The GST on automobiles is in the highest GST bracket across the globe without much exception. In fact, world over, automobiles are subject to taxation on the higher side. Say, for example, Japan currently has three types of taxes on automobiles – once on purchase, then an annual automobile tax (yes, an annual tax) based on engine size and finally a weight tax at inspections required once every two years. Over and above this, there is GST at the highest of the applicable rates.”
“Also, in EU, the base rate for VAT/GST on automobiles ranges from 20 to 25 per cent with plotters of other taxes varying with jurisdiction. UK charges vehicle excise duties which varies with car emission norms and has 14 rate slabs varying from 0 pounds a year to 2,175 pounds a year with surcharge of 325 pounds in the first year and 150 pounds for expensive vehicles. Besides, there are road usage charges. Further, high parking charges are common across the globe. Most of the countries provide certain concessions to electric vehicles. Given this, it would be unfair to claim that the GST rates in India are astounding or a demand dampener.”
As per figures for the month of August 2020 released by automobile body SIAM, the domestic production of 2 wheelers has outdone the numbers of August 2019. While in August 2019, 18.58 lakh units were produced, in August 2020 the numbers have risen to 18.59 lakh units. This is up from a mere 3 lakh units in May 2020. Similarly, in the Passenger Vehicles segment, while in August 2019, 1.89 lakh units were sold, in August 2020 around 2.16 lakh units have been sold.


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MediaFuse-Dentsu International has been awarded Africa’s Most Innovative Marketing Communication Agency of the Year 2022 by the African Brands Congress.
The award was presented to the company during the weekend at the Sheraton Hotel in Lagos State, according to a statement by Dentsu Nigeria’s Group Corporate Communications Manager, Sodiq Oyeleke, on Monday.
Dentsu Nigeria is a part of Dentsu International which operates in over 146 markets worldwide.
At the 2022 edition of the African Brand Leadership Awards, the organisers said, “The technical committee research report shows that MediaFuse-Dentsu International is hereby chosen as the winner of Africa’s Most Innovative Marketing Communication Agency of the year 2022 category.
“MediaFuse-Dentsu International was chosen as a winner because of its value creation and brand building efforts and growth in 2022.”
Reacting, Dentsu Nigeria’s Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Mr Emeka Okeke (FRPA), expressed delight at the award, saying it further proved that the company is living by its core values.
He said, “Dentsu Nigeria is proud to have been awarded Africa’s Most Innovative Marketing Communication Agency of the year 2022 at the African Brand Leadership Merit Awards ceremony held on Friday, August 12, 2022, in Lagos.
“We are incredibly proud of our talents and their dedication to making us the best. We are particularly delighted to be acknowledged on the African stage. This is proof of the impact of our outstanding works and we shall sustain this.
“Being awarded as the Most Innovative is a piece of evidence that our operations are guided by our five core values – Agile, Pioneering, Responsible, Collaborative, and Ambitious.”
The convener of ABC, Desmond Esorougwe, added that the award ceremony was organised to increase African brands’ global competitiveness.
“The ABC is an annual fiesta of best brains behind the most successful and sought-after African brands for the stimulation, motivation and excitement of the creativity in individuals and enhancement of professional development skills in the areas that are most relevant to the business community and the Brands Management community,” he said.


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Tesla, Inc. on Thursday surprised audiences with a new version of the Roadster, unveiled in a cloud of smoke from the back of its electric Semi truck.Billed as the “quickest car in the world,” the revamped Roadster can accelerate from zero to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds.“[It’s] the fastest production car ever made, period,” Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said during the LA event.As demonstrated in front of a rabid crowd, the vehicle accelerates from zero to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds, from zero to 100 mph in 4.2 seconds, and can travel a quarter mile in 8.8 seconds.“These are all world records,” Musk boasted.And that’s just the base model.“This is what we’re achieving in the prototype,” the entrepreneur said, teasing a top speed of more than 250 mph, as well as a highway range of 620 miles on a single charge of the 200 kWh battery pack.“Those numbers sound nutty, but they’re real,” he added.The four-seater sports car comes with three motors, “tons” of storage, and a removable glass roof.“The point of doing this is to just give a hard-core smackdown to gasoline cars,” Musk said, riling up the audience again. “Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche” (whatever that means).Remove the glass roof for a summertime drive (via Tesla, Inc.)Tesla’s initial offering—the “foundation of the whole company”—the battery electric Roadster was produced from 2008 to 2012.Even then, the company was breaking records: The sports car was the first all-electric vehicle to use lithium-ion battery cells and travel more than 200 miles on a single charge.“People asked us for a long time, ‘When are you going to make a new Roadster?’” Musk said during the reveal. “We are making it now.”Available to pre-order now for cruising in 2020, the new Roadster starts at $200,000 (with $50,000 reservation fee).The electric truck accelerates from zero to 60 mph in five seconds (via Tesla, Inc.)The sleek sports car may have stolen the show, but Tesla’s event also introduced the long-awaited Semi truck—a BAMF lorry that can travel from zero to 60 mph in five seconds. That slows to 20 seconds when carrying 80,000 lbs, but still far outpaces any diesel truck on the market.Even hauling all that weight, Tesla’s Semi promises to deliver a 500-mile range on a single charge, and can reach speeds of 65 mph up a 5 percent grade climb (diesel motors can manage only 45 mph).“Because the vast majority of routes are under 250 miles, it means you can go to your destination and back … without recharging,” according to Musk.Racecar-like central seating, four independent motors (one on each rear wheel), an independent front suspension, and only one gear makes it feel like you’re driving a Tesla sedan—”only bigger.”The driver sits in the center, surrounded by high-tech displays (via Tesla, Inc.)“I can drive this thing, and I have no idea how to drive a semi,” he joked.The greatest truck takeaway—aside from fast charging, standard enhanced autopilot, jackknifing prevention, and nuclear explosion-proof glass—is that the Tesla Semi is built for more than truckers.It’s for everyone on the road who has ever been stuck behind a freighter on a two-lane road; for everyone who has ever feared for their life changing lanes next to an 18-wheeler.Production on the probably-very-expensive vehicle is scheduled to begin in 2019; order now to get your Semi in two years. Let us know what you like about Geek by taking our survey.
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An independent study commissioned by Samsung found that working conditions at suppliers in China are pretty horrendous—they've been that way for awhile now. The sustainability report shows that many issues still persist; 100 suppliers were investigated, and 59 failed. That's a pretty high failure rate, especially when you consider that these issues aren't exactly new. These are problems that have been on record before.
Rules and regulations at these plants seem to be disregarded completely. Safety equipment, such as ear plugs and protective goggles, are not being provided in some cases and, when it is, supervisors aren't ensuring employees are actually using the equipment. But that's not even the half of it, according to the report. There are bigger issues at stake, including low wages and benefits, and lack of emergency preparedness.
Back in 2012, Samsung said it was committed to addressing unfair labor conditions at Chinese suppliers, but it appears things are worse than ever. In addition to lack of safety and wage disputes, the audit also found that these Chinese suppliers aren't complying with China's legally permitted overtime hours. Samsung, for its part, said it is committed to fixing the problems, and will call on suppliers to take "corrective actions."
Over the past year, Samsung has reportedly rectified 1,934 work-hazard issues, and has deployed 2,000 inspectors that oversee work operations. While issues still remain, the audit found no instances of child labor, so progress is certainly being made. However, at the rate Samsung churns out products—not just in the mobile space—the company needs to get the suppliers in line, otherwise this is something that won't ever be fixed.


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We’re very pleased to announce that Methods has achieved additional certification to the UK government’s https://www.cyberessentials.ncsc.gov.uk/getting-certified/ plus certification.
Jointly developed by the UK government and cybersecurity industry, the Cyber Essentials scheme defines a baseline standard of security controls for businesses in the UK. It outlines the controls that all organisations should implement to help mitigate risks from common internet-based threats.
Cyber Essentials plus concentrates on five key areas:
- Securing end to end connectivity to the internet through appropriate management of boundary firewalls and internet gateways
- The secure configuration of software and devices used within the business
- Strong access control to data and services used by the organisation
- effective processes and mechanisms for protecting against viruses and other malware
- Effective patch management to ensure devices and software are up to date
Raza Sharif, Methods’ Head of Cyber Security commented, “Our independently verified security plus certification is now another step on our journey of continuous security improvement and adds a level of external, independently verifiable assurance that we have effective measures to help protect our systems and services.”


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The News Corp unit isn’t offering specific numbers. But it says that sales are up enough to make Fox Cable Networks one of the industry’s leaders for this upfront season measured by revenue growth. “Fox Cable Networks has once again demonstrated that its channels are some of the most desired brands in the ad supported space,” says Advertising Sales President Lou LaTorre. The company will help partners “achieve their goals and look(s) forward to a very successful year for all.” National Geographic and FX are believed to have been among the leaders for Fox Cable, with sales growth about twice the average for the overall market. Last year all national ad-supported cable networks generated $9.8B in upfront sales commitments, up 5% vs 2011, the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau reports.
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Sydney-based Web hosting provider, Digital Pacific has acquired fellow Web hosting outfit, Crucial.
Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will continue to trade separately and retain their brands, with more than 70 employees on their books. The financial terms haven't been disclosed.
Digital Pacific founder and CEO, Andrew Koloadin, said the background stories behind the two companies were quite similar in that both were born out of small Bondi apartments more than 12 years ago.
“This has fostered very similar, customer-focused cultures at both organisations.” Koloadin said.
Koloadin said there were no planned changes to operations and both businesses will continue to operate without disruption to both Crucial and Digital Pacific customers.
Crucial CEO, David Murray, will be joining the Digital Pacific team and said the acquisition presented an opportunity for its customers with additional resources, support and infrastructure.
“The standard its team sets for the community is exceptional, and the Crucial team has a similar culture and ethos,” Murray said.


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Chester's Disney Store will close its doors this month – after almost 25 years of trading in the city centre.
We reported last week that the Foregate Street store could close after it was listed to let on retail property website Barker Proudlove for a sum of £280,000 a year.
But despite numerous attempts, neither staff or Disney would comment to confirm or deny this.
But there are now signs up in the store confirming the store's closure on Wednesday, September 20.
The sign thanks customers for 'being our guest' and highlighted the nearest available Disney Store in Liverpool One.
Staff said they were not allowed to comment on anything relating to the closure of the store.


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Financial technology company SunGard Data Systems Inc is preparing to appoint financial advisers to explore a sale that could value it at as much as $10 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
GoDaddy Inc's shares rose as much as 34 percent in their debut on Wednesday following a $460 million initial public offering, as investors spotted a bargain in a company making a shift from Internet domains to small-business services.
Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc has priced its initial public offering at $20 per share, above its previously indicated $17 to $19 per share range, valuing it at around $4.5 billion, including debt, according to underwriting sources.
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Italian luxury packaging trade shows Packaging Première and PCD Milan are opening their doors on May 24-26, 2022 in Fieramilanocity. After a two-year hiatus, the joint events will host 260 exhibitors with more than 6,700 visitors expected.
Dedicated to designers, brands and manufacturers of luxury packaging, Milan-based trade show Packaging Première, acquired by global trade show organizer Easyfairs in 2019, is featuring several new initiatives. First off, the debut edition of Packaging Première's Avant-Garde, a project where a curated selection of exhibitors will present their latest luxury packaging innovations to the community. Selected by a 10-strong jury, the innovations will be on display in a dedicated area.
Devoted to the artistic aspect of packaging design, Packaging Première will host a space called Art Gallery, where the works of artists that specialize in repurposing materials in new and creative ways will be on show.
This year is also hosting the premier edition of PCD Milan, the Italian version of fragrance and cosmetics trade show PCD, which will be held alongside Packaging Premiere in Fieramilanocity. Focused principally on primary packaging solutions, the conference roster will cover a range of issues around sustainability and innovative materials. The Pentawards competition winners will also be on displayed during the three-day show (Easyfairs is also the owner of the Pentawards).
"We are very excited about the path we are taking to establish Packaging Première as the reference event for deluxe packaging at an international level. Our aim is to create unique experiences for our community, […] through social media, but also in the events and digital initiatives throughout the year. The strong and unique identity of Packaging Première will be the driving force behind the first edition of PCD Milan," says Packaging Première Founder and Director Pier Paolo Ponchia.
Easyfairs called on UK-based design agency Butterfly Cannon to renew the graphic identity of three of its trade shows: London Packaging Week, Paris Packaging Week and Packaging Premiere & PCD Milan.


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Sep. 27—Nearly 200 Maine residents were affected by a massive data breach this month when hackers published personal and financial information of users of a web company popular with far-right fringe groups.
A notice filed with the Maine Attorney General's Office last week confirmed that 190 Mainers were among the 110,000 people affected nationwide in the hack of Epik, a company based in Washington.
The hack occurred on Sept. 13, but the company didn't notify users until two days later. The information seized by Anonymous, an internet hacking collective, includes several years' worth of data, including credit card information, email addresses and web domain transactions.
The notice filed with the AG's office does not include any identifying information about Maine residents who were affected. Maine law requires that all data breaches be posted publicly, but only breaches that affect at least 1,000 people are shared with consumer reporting agencies.
Epik, in a statement to customers, said it will investigate and cooperate with "relevant authorities and other stakeholders as well." Affected customers also have been offered free identity theft protection services.
Epik has a broad customer base but has come under fire recently for its connections to hate groups, including the Proud Boys, and for catering to those who have been banned by other social media sites. Some customers have been outed as operators of websites that supported the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Heidi Beirich, a veteran researcher of hate and extremism, told the Washington Post that the Epik data set, "is like somebody has just handed you all the detective work — the names, the people behind the accounts."
"This is like the mother of all data lodes because Epik was at the center of so many of the extremist websites and organizations that people like me study. Epik was the place of last refuge for a lot of these sites," said Beirich, co-founder of the nonprofit Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "And as the data is analyzed and looked at more deeply, we're going to see this ecosystem in a way that was simply not possible before."


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U-Swirl Frozen Yogurt opens second Albuquerque location
U-Swirl Frozen Yogurt Cafe has opened its second Albuquerque location. The new site is immediately south of the University of New Mexico.
The frozen yogurt franchise out of Henderson, Nev., opened its second shop at 115 Harvard SE in the Bricklight District, following the opening of the chain’s first New Mexico spot at Paseo del Norte and Wyoming in February.
Kristopher Hansen, regional district manager, said a third location is under way near the Lovelace Woman’s Hospital at Montgomery and San Mateo boulevards. Three more are planned for Albuquerque and a total of 10 for New Mexico, but the exact sites have not been selected yet, he said.
U-Swirl offers 20 nonfat flavors, including sorbets and sugar-free options, and 60 to 80 toppings. Tom Jones and Rob Powell with Grubb & Ellis|New Mexico are representing the company on its leases. Dr. Larry Lehrner, a nephrologist in Nevada, is the owner of Family Yogurt LLC, the franchisee for New Mexico.
The company reported $693,701 in cafe sales (unaudited) company-wide for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared to $751,153 in sales for the same quarter in 2010. Management blamed the economy in Nevada for hurting its quarterly sales.
The company had a net loss (unaudited) for that quarter of $71,599. It is expanding in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Florida, Georgia, Montana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah.
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According to the new Global Water Report 2013 by international not-for-profit organization CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, water scarcity problems are set to become more common over the years to come and businesses need to change their approach to water-related risk management, The Guardian reported.
The report found that water risks are becoming increasingly immediate and a growing number of companies expect to feel their impact within the next five years. About two-thirds of the 180 companies that were surveyed for the report identify water risks in their direct operations and in the supply chain as near-term. The most commonly cited water risks include water scarcity, flooding and a rise in compliance costs, CDP said. Other risks that businesses predict will increase over the next few years are poor water quality, increased water prices and reputational harm.
CDP stated that the general corporate view on water management too often stresses direct water use reduction. This is a very limited and outdated approach that fails to recognize the wide range of water risks that businesses will face in the near future, CDP pointed out.
Although the number of businesses acknowledging the fact that water issues cannot be resolved in isolation is rising, one in six companies still fail to comply with their water discharge permits, while a modest 3 percent of those polled had targets for water management, CDP concluded.


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Facebook and Xiaomi discussed a possible investment in the smartphone maker, politics likely stand in the way
Facebook top honchos, along with the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, recently visited China to give a presentation at one of the country's top engineering universities. Said event then morphed into a Q&A session, in which Zuckerberg answered questions from the audience in Mandarin – a sign that Facebook hasn't given up on China, which blocks the social media (along with Twitter), citing national security concerns. That's likely only one of the reasons – Chinese protectionism being yet another.
Reuters. The meet apparently took place ahead of Xiaomi's $1.1 billion fundraiser, and the main topic of discussion was a possible investment by the social media giant into the star start-up. A deal never materialized, however, as Xiaomi's CEO, Lei Jun, was apparently concerned over a possible political fall out (an important consideration when you're doing business in China), not to mention that such an investment could sully Xiaomi's relationship with Google. Facebook and Google compete on more than just one product.During his trip to China, Zuckerberg also met with the country's foremost smartphone maker, Xiaomi, at a private dinner in Beijing, according to
too sensitive", given the social media's politically-motivated ban.It's easy to understand why both sides would be interested in a partnership, however. Facebook, for its part, is obviously most tempted by the prospect of slowly conquering a market with 1.3 billion possible new users, while Xiaomi could definitely profit from some added publicity in its efforts to expand outside of China – and its name being put next to Facebook will certainly help with that. Unfortunately for both, Mr. Jun thought an equity sell to Facebook would be "


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Disney Springs West Side is bustling with energy and excitement lately! In August we got to check out and show some skill at the the incredible NBA Experience and shared more details about the new Cirque du Soleil show (slated to premiere on April 17, 2020)—and soon-to-come Beatrix neighborhood restaurant. Today I’m excited to share breaking news on a new shopping destination adding some colorful fun to the mix.
Now, for those of you OG Spokesmayne viewers, you know that chocolate is really not my thing (I know). But, this new M & M Store coming to Disney Springs will be a fun and fresh place among the many shops at Disney Springs.
M&M’S Orlando store will be making a sweet addition to the unparalleled mix of shopping at Disney Springs. The new state-of-the-art store will offer an immersive experience that combines the colorful fun that fans of the M&M’S brand enjoy with lasting memories. “Guests will be fully immersed into an interactive chocolate experience that will create more moments and more smiles through the colorful fun of M&M’S,” said Patrick McIntyre, director of global retail at Mars Retail Group.
The new store is set to open in 2020 near the NBA Experience and of course will be filled with your favorite chocolate candies. Keep an eye out for more details about the M&M’S Orlando store and be sure to follow spokesmayne.co and Spokesmayne on Instagram and Facebook for the latest happenings.


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The gap between mobile and desktop clicks & CTO rates has almost reached the tipping point. Data from Yesmail’s “Email Benchmark Report Q3 2016: Mind the Gap” which analyzed 7 billion messages shows that the proportion of mobile to desktop clicks has risen 56 percent over three years and 17 percent YoY. Desktop CTO is on a steep decline and is now only 4.4 percent higher than mobile CTO.
According to the benchmark study, the Retail industry has all but closed the gap, boasting a 10.8% CTO for both mobile and desktop devices. Retailers improved the mobile shopping experience through responsive design and other innovative tactics that support ecommerce including tap-friendly buy and call-to-action buttons, click-to-call, collapsed category links, and email-specific landing pages.
Improving the Mobile Experience to Increase Conversions
Consumers are more inclined to engage with marketing email on mobile devices than ever before, yet many marketers are failing to provide customers with a better experience. Customers today expect brands to know what they’re doing across all channels and devices.
Bridging the gap between mobile and desktop shopping will go a long way toward increasing conversions. A Google study on the growing shift to mobile points out that smartphone use often occurs during spare moments or while doing other activities.1


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The European Commission is investing £1.8bn in a 10-year research and development project into embedded computing.
The move is part of a European effort to grab a significant chunk of a global market growing at 14 per cent per year and estimated to be worth £45bn.
Computers are increasingly embedded in consumer goods such as cars, credit cards, passports, planes, phones, factories, washing machines and televisions.
The Commission said in a statement that embedded computers will account for more than a third of a car's value by 2010.
"More and more useful applications affecting the daily life of consumers rely on such embedded systems," said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media.
"The new Airbus, for example, includes many embedded technologies from fly-by-wire to cabin pressure control."
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Apex Legends duo mode made a comeback just in time for Valentine’s Day. This limited-time game mode has been a fan favorite since it first made an appearance in November 2019. This mode lets you drop in as a two-player team rather than a squad.
Apex Legends Duos Back for Valentine’s Day Event
Respawn Entertainment has finally decided to bring back Apex Legends duos for Valentine’s Day Rendezvous event. The new Valentine’s Day event also includes new cosmetics like Love Struck and Lovefinder Gun Charms, a new Pathfinder Love of the Game Frame, and Through the Heart Longbow DMR skin.
The Valentine’s Day Rendezvous Event runs from February 11th through February 18th, 2020. Be sure to take advantage of the double XP when you squad up with a buddy (up to 20k a day).


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Second-quarter earnings season will be a true test of which companies are the strongest and which will be recession-proof. Just like their customers, companies are also affected by inflationary pressure, and their historically high corporate profit margins are at risk from rising costs this earnings season.
Within a high inflation environment, revenue growth isn’t difficult to guarantee. Prices are increasing everywhere, and businesses and consumers are bracing for a big shock. Companies can grow their profits by simply increasing their prices, without necessarily needing to sell more units.
However, input costs such as raw materials, transportation, wages, and others are on the rise as well. The companies most likely to survive are the ones that can increase their selling prices faster than suppliers increase theirs. That is the real definition of pricing power.
“With margins under attack, profitability will be increasingly important,” said a John Hancock Investment Management Co-Chief Investment Strategist, Matt Miskin.
Second-quarter results over the next month- covering April, May, and June period- will be quite telling. That period saw a massive increase in oil and other commodity prices, rising wages every month, a climb in interest rates, and continuing supply-chain bottlenecks that increase the cost and complexity of daily operations.
According to Credit Suisse’s head of U.S. equity strategy, Jonathan Golub, S&P 500 revenue is expected to increase 10.3% year over year in the second quarter. However, earnings per share is seen rising 5.5%, suggesting a meaningful decline in the index’s overall profit margin.
“It’s going to be hard for margins not to slip, but the revenue numbers are going to be growing by double digits,” Golub added on Tuesday. “Inflation is companies raising their prices. We’ll see some of that pricing power fall as inflation falls.”
The best margin growth from the previous year’s period is expected from cyclical companies, including many of the energy and commodity producers that are witnessing the market price of their products climb. The expectation is that S&P 500 cyclical will grow revenue by 23.0% and earnings per share by 51.7%, said Golub.
That contrasts with a 4.5% increase in revenue and a 1.1% decline in earnings per share expected from noncyclical companies in the S&P 500, which contains many technology, healthcare, and utility names.
Tech giants like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Microsoft (ticker: MSFT), Alphabet (ticker: GOOGL), Amazon.com (ticker: AMZN), Meta Platforms (ticker: META), and Nvidia (ticker: NVDA) are a few of the companies with margin concerns this earnings season. Revenue for these tech giants is expected to grow by 7.6% year over year, while earnings per share is seen dropping by 4.3%.
The heavyweight in the S&P 500 makes the expected contraction noteworthy for the index as a whole. Aside from those companies, S&P 500 sales are expected to increase by 10.9% and earnings per share to increase by 9.9%, according to Golub.
The remarks made by company CEOs and CFOs this earnings season regarding their expectations for margins in the second half of 2022 may have a greater impact on how their company stocks respond than the actual hard numbers they present for the second quarter. Analysts and investors might also predict the margin trend for the next six months in the reported period.
“We think company management teams will say that inflation is boosting their revenues and that the Fed’s tighter monetary policies in response to inflation aren’t depressing their unit sales so far,” said Yardeni Research president Ed Yardeni. “That would explain why analysts have been raising their revenue estimates. Analysts also have been raising both their earnings estimates and with their revenues estimates, implying that overall profit margins are holding strong and not getting squeezed by rapidly rising labour and material costs or by labour and parts shortages. So it will be intriguing to see whether that’s actually been the case during Q2.”
Currently, the S&P 500’s forward profit margin stands at around 13.3%, a near-record high and where it has been since the end of last year, according to Yardeni.


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More than 500 companies join Facebook ad boycott ‘stop hate for profit’
[M]ore than 500 companies officially kicked off an advertising boycott intended to pressure Facebook into taking a stronger stand against hate speech. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with its organizers early next week... In a broad sense, the current boycott, which will last at least a month, is like nothing Facebook has experienced before. Following weeks of protests against police violence and racial injustice, major brands have for the first time joined together to protest still-prevalent hate speech on Facebook’s platforms by taking aim at the social network’s $70 billion in annual ad revenue... As of Wednesday, 530 companies have signed on — and that’s not counting businesses like Target and Starbucks, which have paused advertising but did not formally join the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, which calls its action a “pause” rather than a boycott.
... Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications, tried to reassure businesses that Facebook “does not benefit from hate” and said the company has every incentive to remove hate speech from its service. He acknowledged that “many of our critics are angry about the inflammatory rhetoric President Trump has posted on our platform and others, and want us to be more aggressive in removing his speech.”
Clegg, however, offered few concessions, and instead repeated Zuckerberg’s frequent talking point that “the only way to hold the powerful to account is ultimately through the ballot box.” He pointed to Facebook’s get-out-the-vote efforts as evidence of the company’s commitment, along with the billions of dollars, tens of thousands of content moderators and other investments it has made in trying to improve its platform.


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ROYAL Mail strikes could cause mayhem for Christmas shopping, with 115,000 posties taking to the picket line at the end of this month.
In an announcement late on Tuesday, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said that it was moving ahead with four further days of strike action, including Black Friday, the largest online shopping day of the year.
CWU General Secretary Dave Ward said: “Posties are in the fight of their lives against the Uberisation of Royal Mail and the destruction of their conditions. But 115,000 of our members will not just accept this war on their livelihoods and their industry.
It comes after it rejected what it deemed a “derisory” seven per cent pay rise from the delivery giant offered earlier this week.
The impact of the new strike dates are likely to be far-reaching, with e-commerce giants like Amazon working with Royal Mail to deliver festive bargains.
Whilst Royal Mail have reassured that they will be working to minimise the disruption, with the full operation process back within 48 hours, a smaller volume of parcels may be allowed in order to meet the mammoth demand.
Amazon Prime items are normally delivered via ‘Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed’ service.
The impact is likely to be UK wide. It is understood that the striking union members are spread evenly throughout the country, with pockets across London, and hubs in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool growing momentum.
Although the CWU has warned that more strikes are coming, it is yet to set any dates. It must give Royal Mail two weeks notice before any more action is taken.
The group have declared a vote of no confidence in the company’s CEO Simon Thompson, although this cannot actually force the top dog to give up his top spot.
Strikes are due to take place on 24 and 25th November, the busiest online shopping day in the calendar, and 30 November and 1 December – just two days after Cyber Monday, one of the busiest online shopping days.


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iPhone 8 won’t be delayed: Report
Apple generally unveils new iPhones in or around September and there will be no delay in the launch of the next-generation line of the widely-acclaimed devices, Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News reported.
The report turned down speculations that volume production of next-generation iPhones would be delayed to the final quarter of 2017. In others words, those speculations suggested that the original launch schedule of August-September wouldn’t be followed this year.
The report also suggested that upstream to downstream suppliers in the global iPhone supply chains are prepared to boost related iPhone parts starting June 2017.
The list of suppliers includes Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), battery supplier Simplo Technology, and substrate-like PCB manufacturers Zhen Ding Technology and Kinsus Interconnect Technology.
TSMC will reportedly start to fabricate the wafer starts that are required for the production of a11 processes on 10th of June. Their delivery into the chips is expected to start in the second half of July.
Meanwhile, iPhone assemblers Pegatron, Foxconn Electronics and Winstron are preparing to accelerate the recruitment and training of new workers in their Chinese facilities to cope with potential strong demand for the new iPhones.
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Tattersalls has announced it has taken a majority stake in French sales company Osarus, whose flagship September yearling sale will take place at La Teste de Buch Racecourse Sept. 11-12.
In a release, Tattersalls noted that Osarus has rapidly established itself as a significant force in the French bloodstock industry, having been founded only seven years ago.
"We view the move as an investment in a vibrant, ambitious, young company which has made a significant impact in an important sector of the European bloodstock market in a very short space of time, said Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony. "We have been working closely with the Osarus team for more than 18 months and taking a majority stake in the firm reflects how impressed we have been by their collective vision.
"The move also reflects our confidence in the French racing and breeding industry which is respected and admired throughout the world," Mahony continued. "The heartland of Osarus is the South West region of France where so many of the leading French breeders and trainers are based, and it is a region which continues to thrive and prosper."


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Apparently it is to be a 5 day listing on the home page of PR Newswire. There are 10 releases to start and they are being auctioned off over at eBay. If my bid wins, I’ll post about the process:
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LG.Philips LCD Co, the world's largest maker of liquid-crystal displays, posted a smaller-than-expected profit decline in the second quarter as an industry glut eased. The company forecast prices and shipments to rise in the current three months.
Net income fell 94 percent to 41 billion won (US$39 million) in the three months ended June 30 from 701 billion won a year earlier, Seoul-based LG.Philips said in a regulatory filing. Revenue, including overseas affiliates, rose 1 percent to 2.3 trillion won, the company said.
LG.Philips and other manufacturers of LCD panels are counting on demand before the new school year and the Christmas shopping season to help drive earnings growth in the US$35 billion industry. Screen prices probably rose for the first time in a year in the past quarter, indicating that the industry is starting to recover.
Second-quarter prices fell 1.1 percent from the first quarter and 42 percent from a year earlier, LG.Philips said.
Prices at the end of September will rise from the end of last month by a "single-digit" percentage, the company said. Third-quarter shipments will rise about 15 percent from the second quarter.
Excluding overseas affiliates, operating income fell 96 percent to 28 billion won and revenue dropped 11 percent to 2 trillion won, the company said in a separate filing.
The company plans to reduce capital spending next year to between 3.5 trillion won and 4.5 trillion won, compared with a budget for 4.6 trillion won for this year, according to the statement.
LG.Philips, jointly controlled by South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. and Royal Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands, is the first LCD maker to report earnings for the latest quarter. The company had a 79 billion won loss in the three months ended March, its first quarterly loss in two years.
Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co, the second-largest maker of LCDs used in monitors and televisions after LG.Philips, reports earnings on Friday.
In Taiwan, AU Optronics Corp (友達光電), the world's third-largest producer, may report on Aug. 3 and No. 4 Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp (奇美電子) on July 29, according to their Web sites.


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Sales increased 9.5% to $14.8 million, as earnings on an adjusted basis rose to $500,000 from $300,000 during the same period a year earlier. Advertising sales, defined as "media revenue," surged 18% to $3.2 million. The New York-based media company, which also owns The Deal, reported a net loss of $600,000.
Subscription services in the quarter gained 7.4% to $11.6 million, in part on marketing around the release of Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully, said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Elisabeth DeMarse. Cramer, a co-founder of TheStreet, hosts CNBC's Mad Money. The company ended the quarter with $59.1 million in cash and cash equivalents.
"We have turned the corner and are growing media revenue," DeMarse said in an investor conference call. "We love the visibility that the subscription model affords."
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Patriot Mobile is the Official 2024 SHOT Show Wi-Fi Sponsor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, is pleased to announce that Patriot Mobile has signed on as the official Wi-Fi Sponsor for the 2024 SHOT Show®. Patriot Mobile is a U.S. mobile phone service provider offering nationwide coverage on 4G or 5G networks and U.S.-based customer support.
“We are truly thankful to have Patriot Mobile be part of our family of SHOT Show sponsors. Ensuring seamless, full-coverage Wi-Fi services throughout the Caesars Forum and The Venetian Expo is one of the show’s most essential components,” said Chris Tatulli, NSSF Senior Director, Exhibit & Sponsorship Sales. “We encourage everyone to get to know the professionals behind this company and thank them for adding to the success of the 2024 SHOT Show.”
“As a proud supporter of the Second Amendment, Patriot Mobile is thrilled to be the 2024 SHOT Show Official Wi-Fi sponsor,” said Glenn Story, Patriot Mobile CEO. “This show is such an important part of the firearms industry, and we are locked and loaded with lightning-fast Wi-Fi to keep exhibitors and show attendees connected.”
NSSF’s 2024 SHOT Show takes place January 23-26 at The Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. Registration is now open. For more information on SHOT Show, including how to register, educational resources, hotels, travel and attendee resources, visit SHOTShow.org.
Additional sponsorship opportunities are available. To discover how a SHOT Show sponsorship can benefit your business, contact Chris Tatulli at email@example.com or 203-426-1320 ext. 214.
NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearm retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers nationwide. For more information, visit nssf.org.
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What’s going on, y’all? Well, I discovered a bit of news for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans and Netflix users. After spending a long time in its anime lineup, Yu-Gi-Oh will soon be leaving Netflix. Fans have a matter of days to catch up on the adventures of Yugi Motou and his friends before the series’ departure. Netflix currently has three seasons of the original series and recently acquired the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V. For now, it is the original series leaving but the likelihood of Arc-V making a departure is not out of the question. While this is will be a blow to fans, fear not. There are other ways to watch Yu-Gi-Oh. Digital versions of the series are available on Amazon and iTunes if you want to buy the episode outright. But if streaming is more your thing, Crunchyroll has everything Yu-Gi-Oh on their site, and hopefully their partnership with HBO Max will bring the world of Duel Monsters to the new streaming conglomerate.
However, the future of the long running franchise hangs in the balance for US fans. The latest series, Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens, is currently on hiatus due to COVID19. Its episodes are doing well in Japan and the trademark application has been filed in the United States, so fans are holding hope for a English dub of the series to begin soon.


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Swiss Military Worldwide, a premium global Men's lifestyle brand has announced its foray into the Indian retail market. The first outlet will come up in northern region very shortly, and, Franchisee model of the stores too will be launched in the latter part of the year.
With a target of reaching 200+ retail points by end of 2014, the brand is primarily looking at Multi Brand Outlets to expand and will be focusing on five product categories including Travel Gear, Writing Instruments, Lifestyle Accessories, Leather Goods and Garments. Addressing the media, Anuj Sawhney, Managing Director, Swiss Military Worldwide, said, " We are rolling out a phased launch of our retail operations bringing affordable yet high on utility Swiss Military products to the discerning Indian consumer.”
Founded in Switzerland over 30 years, Swiss Military entered the Indian market five years ago and has been operating in the Business-to-Business segment.


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Pioneering ink-jet press developer Inca has been snapped up by Screen.
The Japanese imaging giant has paid 30m for the Cambridge-based firm, a deal which positions it to access new markets including industrial printing and packaging.
"This is a highly strategic investment for us," said Screen chairman and president Akira Ishida. "The impact of digital ink-jet technologies on the conventional print market is accelerating and Inca's technology complements our digital imaging and printing products perfectly."
Screen also highlighted the firm's ink-jet expertise as being important to its semi-conductor and flat panel display products.
Inca will operate as a standalone division of the firm operating from Cambridge under the existing management team. Its existing partnerships with Fujifilm Sericol, which sells its flatbed machines, and Sun Chemical, with which it is developing the FastJet corrugated packaging press, will continue.
"I'm very happy to be with Screen, they're people like us, they're engineers," said Inca managing director Bill Baxter. "They also support our ideas for other things in industrial printers beyond corrugated...We're getting let loose on all those lovely techy things we love."
The deal was sealed in the middle of a landmark Fespa dominated by digital ink-jet developments, which included Inca showing its Spyder 320 high-quality 3.2x1.6m flatbed for the first time as well as launching a materials handling system for the Columbia Turbo, which it claimed boosted its productivity by a further 20%.
The system, which costs 90,000 consists of a manual loading table and automated unloading, which the firm said was the best compromise in terms of speed and cost.
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Huobi Group, the operators of one of many world’s largest crypto asset buying and selling venues, has introduced that it’ll launch a digital forex trade in Argentina. The brand new platform is predicted to go reside in mid-October.
Huobi is shifting into Argentina as that nation’s economic system as soon as once more teeters on the sting of collapse. The federal government has lately launched capital controls to attempt to cease the fast devaluation of the Argentine peso. Such measures may make Bitcoin and different digital currencies enticing to a inhabitants already distrusting of central banks.
Huobi Execs See Nice Potential for Crypto in Argentina
In accordance with an article revealed as we speak by Reuters, the Huobi Group has plans to launch a department of its crypto asset trade in Argentina. The trade will permit customers to deposit the native forex, the peso, and trade it for Bitcoin and a bunch of different digital belongings.
Customers might already purchase cryptocurrency utilizing the peso at Huobi’s OTC trade service. Nevertheless, the introduction of an exchange-proper will permit for Argentinian residents to purchase digital currencies utilizing a wide range of totally different funding strategies. These embody bank cards, wire transfers, and digital cost suppliers just like the native service Mercadopago.
The brand new CEO of the Argentine-facing department of Huobi, Carlos Banfi, acknowledged the next of the chance introduced by the South American launch:
“There already exists a basic consensus to interrupt from a reliance on the native forex and banks, and with Huobi’s entrance into the market, it’s a nice alternative to maneuver the needle on blockchain and crypto adoption in Argentina.”
It’s comprehensible for Argentinians to mistrust their central banks and forex. The nation has an extended historical past of financial disaster and reliance on IMF loans.
Latest developments, comparable to a major election victory of a leftist opposition chief over the present pro-business authorities has rocked the markets, forcing the federal government to introduce capital controls as soon as once more.
The worsening financial state of affairs in Argentina led to Bitcoin reaching an all-time excessive by way of its worth versus the peso lately.
This, coupled with the shortage of religion odd residents have already got within the native forex, might present the right entry level into the Argentine marketplace for Huobi.
A senior enterprise director at Huobi Cloud, David Chen, commented:
“The growing demand for crypto-related services makes Argentina an ideal entry level for Huobi to pursue bigger initiatives in selling cryptocurrency and blockchain to the market.”
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Realme has just officially announced its entry into the Philippine market, along with the launch of its debut smartphone, the C1. Now, consumers have another option – a brand that focuses on products that combine eye-candy design with competitive specs and pricing.
At the back of the device is a 12MP main camera, along with a 2MP depth camera. Up front, a 5MP snapper is in charge of your selfies. It runs on ColorOS 5.1 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo, and packs a 4,230mAh battery.
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There is something about Android and Bacon which I just don’t understand yet except that Bacon Explosion is delicious. Well if you’re Cravin’ Bacon, Bacon Explosion hasn’t found it’s way to Android yet but over 700 Bob Evans and MiMis cafe locations have.
Using the Snapfinger app for Android, you can see reviews and look at menus for thousands of restaurants in the country and ones right around the corner. Snapfinger takes this experience a step further and allows you to order for pick up right from your Android handset, and even pay in advance!
The user interface on Snapfinger is feature rich and easy to navigate.
Snapfinger announced today two exclusive partnerships. The first with Bob Evan’s brand restaurants. Bob Evans has 569 restaurants in the US and Snapfinger is their exclusive mobile provider.
French inspired, but great American Food serving establishment, Mimi’s operates 124 restaurants across the country and has also retained snapfinger as their exclusive mobile content provider.
Snapfinger currently has over 28,000 restaurants in 2200 cities nationwide and provides complete mobile solutions available on iPhone and Android to those restaurants.


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By Jeff Benjamin on Feb 2, 2013
Every time there’s a new jailbreak, the same message is preached: Save your SHSH blobs! In fact, even when there is not a jailbreak, it’s a good practice to always save your SHSH blobs. These files are absolute must haves if there ever opens up the possibility to downgrade back to iOS 6.1 once newer firmware is released. If you don’t save your blobs for a specific firmware, then the possibility of ever being able to downgrade to that firmware is slim to none.
So please, be proactive. Save your SHSH blobs right now. That way, when Apple drops iOS 6.1.1, or whatever its next firmware will be called, you will already have your blobs saved. Apple has been quick about closing its firmware signing window as of late, so once the new firmware is released, it might be too late to save the iOS 6.1 blobs.
If you haven’t already done so, there’s no need to feel ashamed, but act now. Take a look at our easy to follow step-by-step walkthrough inside, and we’ll show you just how simple the process is. Read More
By Cody Lee on Jan 28, 2013
With a new jailbreak impending, it’s nice to see that notcom has updated his SHSH blob-saving utility this afternoon. TinyUmbrella now supports the newly-released iOS 6.1 firmware, as well as iOS 6.0.2.
The developer also says that he is still hard at work on a TU revamp, which will include auto-updating and “much cleaner code.” Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 4, 2012
The popular SHSH blob-saver TinyUmbrella received an update today. Notcom, the developer, added support to the utility for the newly-released iOS 6.0.1 firmware, and both the fourth generation iPad and iPad mini… Read More
By Cody Lee on Sep 19, 2012
It seems like it’s been forever since we’ve seen a TinyUmbrella update. The SHSH blob-saver has been noticeably absent throughout the summer as Apple has released multiple iOS 6 betas.
But notcom, the utility’s creator, broke the silence this week, announcing that TU has finally been updated to support the new software. It now works with iOS 6 and the latest Apple TV firmware… Read More
By Jeff Benjamin on May 25, 2012
The Absinthe 2.0 talk is going on right now at Amsterdam’s Hack In The Box security conference, so that can only mean that the upcoming untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 is imminent. For this reason, now is a good time to save your SHSH blobs for iOS 5.1.1 while Apple is still signing the firmware.
Check inside for a full tutorial on how to ensure that your SHSH blobs are saved. You may never need them, but it’s much better to be safe than sorry in the event that you do… Read More
By Cody Lee on May 12, 2012
As most of you know, Apple released an update to iOS last week, bringing the firmware to 5.1.1. The new software doesn’t contain much more than bug fixes, but if you updated to it, you’ll want to save your SHSH blobs.
Luckily you can do that with the latest version of TinyUmbrella. NotCom has just released TU 5.11.00 with support for the latest version of iOS. And if you haven’t been saving your SHSH blobs, you might want to start… Read More
By Cody Lee on Apr 10, 2012
Semaphore, also known as notcom, has just announced that he has pushed out an update for TinyUmbrella, bringing it to version 5.10.11.
The new software contains a feature that allows users to save their BBTickets from their iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and CDMA iPhone 4 for later use… Read More
By Cody Lee on Mar 16, 2012
It’s not even Noon yet here on the west coast and today has already proven to be fairly eventful. Not only did Apple’s new iPad go on sale around the world this morning, but the tablet was jailbroken within hours.
And now we’ve learned that NotCom has just updated TinyUmbrella to version 5.10.08. The new software, which saves your devices’ SHSH Blobs, now includes support for the new Apple TV and yes, the new iPad… Read More
By Cody Lee on Feb 7, 2012
Are you enjoying your newly jailbroken devices as much as we are? If so, you may want to make sure that you have saved your iOS 5.0.1 SHSH blobs. If not, you could risk losing the ability to jailbreak in the future.
It’s been over a month since Apple released iOS 5.1 beta 3, so it wouldn’t surprise us to see a public release sometime in the near future. And from what we’ve heard, the new software will patch the Corona exploit… Read More
By Sébastien Page on Jan 5, 2012
TinyUmbrella was recently updated to bring support for the iPhone 4S second iOS 5.0.1 build, but a few Windows users have encountered this issue where the app would just crash on launch.
Notcom, the developer of TinyUmbrella, was quick to fix this and just updated his tool to resolve this issue… Read More


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Germany’s Bayer says that its performance “significantly” improved in 2004, when a 4% hike in sales during the twelve months to 29.8 billion euros versus the previous year [[18/03/04a]], resulted in a 603 million euro profit for the period, versus a 1.4 billion euro loss in 2003.
The company was hit by a 2.6 billion-euro special charge in 2003 relating to legal claims for the now withdrawn cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay/Baycol (cerivastatin) [[08/08/01a]], [[21/09/04b]], and restructuring charges primarily as a result of its decision to spin off its polymers business, which is now operating as Lanxess [[11/01/05f]].
In 2004, the firm’s operating result (EBIT) before special items climbed a not insignificant 53% to 2.2 billion euros, on the back of continued efforts to reduce costs and increase efficiency, the firm noted, adding that it was more than able to offset the sharp rise in raw material prices, negative currency effects and US generic competition to its once top-selling antibiotic, Cipro (ciprofloxacin) [[11/06/04e]]. “This improvement in our operating performance is very gratifying. We have exceeded our sales and earnings targets and successfully realigned our company,” said chief executive, Werner Wenning.
On a quarterly basis, the firm recorded net income of 41 million euros – versus almost a 2 billion euro loss in the corresponding quarter of 2003 – and a 9% rise in sales to in excess of 7.7 billion euros.
Bayer says it will provide further details of its 2004 performance at its financial news conference on March 15.


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How do you see worldwide socks sector shaping up amidst various geographical, socio-political, economical set of happenings?
The biggest challenge to our industry is the failing economies of Europe and the US, which are the biggest consumers of our products. Less spending power for consumers means commodity items get rationed resulting in retailers and wholesalers wanting to reduce inventory and cut costs.
Unfortunately, this has not been off-set with the emergence of other high consumption economies. China, India, Brazil, Russia, for all their growth, still have a very limited middle class with adequate spending power. However, as domestic production prices in these countries rise, there should be a trend towards them, importing the lesser value-added goods, like commodity textiles. Having said that, the demand for hosiery products is still strong, mostly due to the consolidation of wholesalers and manufacturers globally and closing down of inefficient units.
Changing trends and greater awareness from consumers has also played its part in changing the product mix, pushing the low-end product further down and improving the specifications and quality of middle to high-end products.
Pakistan still remains the primary producer for sports socks, due to its high quality locally produced cotton. Similarly, China still remains the highest producer of synthetic yarn products and dress socks. Other noteworthy players in the dress and high end markets include India, Turkey, Korea and now Vietnam. Eastern Europe is still cost efficient and logistically viable for the European market, whereas countries like Mexico, Honduras and the other Caribbean islands serve the same purpose for North America.
Published on: 16/02/2012
DISCLAIMER: All views and opinions expressed in this column are solely of the interviewee, and they do not reflect in any way the opinion of Fibre2Fashion.com.


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As the tech world goes virtual, Heather Wright polls some experts about their views on where resellers stand to gain the most.
Westcon's national manager of innovation and services Darryl Grauman, Duncan Bennet, VMware vice president and managing director and Michael Warrilow, Gartner’s Infrastructure Software Team research director, offer some industry insight...
Beyond the desktop
Grauman says he’s seeing two key growth areas beyond desktop virtualisation: copy data management, which he believes is the next growth area, and virtualised networks.
Copy data is the data created by all the business systems making a copy of everything in production – backup, snapshots, disaster recovery, business continuity, test and development, analytics...
Storage software and hardware company Actifio claims that can result in ‘an average of 13-120 excess duplicate copies of data’, ‘with a massive increase in your required storage footprint, bandwidth requirements, backup windows, labour intensity and just plain complexity’.
Actifio's offering ‘essentially virtualises your disparate protection and availability in storage applications into a single data management appliance that lets you recover anything instantly...”
Grauman, says Actifio’s offering has already been adopted locally by companies including MetService and IAG.
“It’s a really, really big area, alongside VDI,” he says, with the top 300 New Zealand companies key targets.
“Imagine what this will do to the market. It’s going to cannibalise a significant amount of the storage market. Think what will happen. The cost savings are phenomenal. If I’m competing with another reseller in outsourcing and my cost is one-third the cost of theirs...”
He says Westcon is working with several New Zealand resellers keen to offer an ‘as a service’ model.
The virtual network space is also an area Grauman says resellers should be getting excited about. Offering the opportunity to put the smarts in the switch layer into software and leave the switch purely as a transport layer,
Grauman claims it’s an area which ‘is going to shake up the industry second to none’.
“I can’t wait for the launch of VMware’s NSX,” he adds. VMware announced general availability of its NSX network virtualisation software last month.
Grauman says the distributor is already seeing customers putting $1 million network upgrades on hold pending trials and testing of NSX. Japan’s NTT has deployed a pre- cursor to the product, and Grauman says he’s keeping a close eye on how it works there.
While he’s unsure what sort of savings virtualisation of network infrastructure could bring companies, he says it’s likely to be very similar to the way virtualisation impacted servers and where ‘companies are now spending one tenth on a virtual server’.
“But it’s taken 10 years to get server virtualisation [to this point]. It will take us two, three, four years to fully understand network virtualisation.”
Warrilow agrees that virtualised networks are increasingly coming to the fore, but that it’s a longer term game. “It’s probably more of a conversation for next year” he says.
Instead, in the immediate future, he sees demand for virtual storage.
“If your customer is sick of spending money on storage vendor x or y, there’s an opportunity for classic education and pre-sales for where software-based storage may come in,” Warrilow says.
He adds that there is still plenty of scope for proof of concept, and more design and configuration work for resellers focusing on software defined storage, balancing out some of the loss of hardware sales.
Meanwhile, Bennet’s hit list for where channel can most capitalise on virtualisation is topped by the aforementioned virtual servers as companies move off Unix, management and automation of virtual environments, end-user virtualisation, and virtualisation of the network and storage.
“In all of these areas there are not just technology resale opportunities, but significant services opportunity for resellers as well,” Bennet says.
“Not all partners specialise in all areas. Not all server partners will specialise in end user and not all partners will set up cloud offerings. You need to look at what part of the solution you want to specialise in.”
Grauman adds resellers need to think carefully about their business and ‘do some forward training’.
“Right now people need to become experts. You can’t be a jack of all trades and master of none," he concludes.
"Become an expert in virtual desktops, data centre virtualisation, server virtualisation, copy data management. Take one and become a deep expert in it.
"Because the worst thing you can do is walk in as a generalist and be competing against an expert."
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NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger – and more expensive – version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks.
During a press event Wednesday at Pace University in New York, Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos showed off the $489 device. It has a grayscale screen that is 9.7 inches on the diagonal, up from 6 inches on the regular Kindle. The new Kindle DX also includes a QWERTY keyboard like the current Kindle.
The announcement comes three months after Amazon revealed a slimmer, updated version of the original $359 Kindle, which wirelessly downloads books. Some analysts have said the unit needed must-have content like textbooks to become more of a mainstream gadget.
Three textbook publishers said they have agreed to sell books on the device.
Amazon shares dropped $1.50, 1.8 percent, to $80.40 in morning trading.
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Microsoft denotes the second quarter of its 2019 money results these days, reportage revenue of $32.5 billion and profit of $8.4 billion. Surface and play ar each up, however revenue from Windows licenses has slipped.
While Surface revenue solely grew one p.c within the same quarter last year, it’s jumped by a colossal thirty-nine p.c this year to $1.86 billion. the massive jump isn’t entirely shocking, as Microsoft free its Surface professional vi and Surface portable computer two throughout the foremost recent quarter, aboard the new Surface Studio two and Surface Headphones. it absolutely was a busy vacation amount for Surface, and also the revenue reflects that.
Surface Book two and Surface Go sales pushed Surface revenue to $1.1 billion within the previous quarter, therefore it’s clear demand has continued across these new Surface devices. It means that Surface is currently nearly a $2 billion business for Microsoft.
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Microsoft’s play business has been a recent highlight of the company’s earnings, and financial Q2 2019 isn’t any totally different. play revenue is up eight p.c this quarter, though Xbox hardware revenue has born by nineteen p.c primarily because of the Xbox One X launch within the same quarter a year past. Xbox Live active users conjointly hit sixty-four million throughout the vacations, up eight p.c from the previous year.
We’re still waiting to listen to a lot of concerning Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming service, and also the company is because of beginning public trials this year. It’s all a part of Microsoft’s decided to produce its own Netflix for games, however, it’ll face competition from Google, Nvidia, Sony, and even presumably Amazon within the future. On a decision with investors, Microsoft chief operating officer Satya Nadella discovered that xCloud “will be public trials later this year,” hinting that we tend to won’t see the service before long.
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Cloud play may become a key piece of ground for Microsoft and alternative technical school firms, and also the code maker is already a step previous some rivals because of its cloud dominance. Microsoft’s Azure revenue has mature seventy-six p.c this quarter. Server merchandise and cloud services generally have conjointly mature by twenty-eight p.c. the whole “intelligent cloud” division has currently accumulated by twenty-four p.c, marking $8.6 billion of Microsoft’s overall $29.1 billion revenue this quarter.
Over on the Windows facet, OEM professional revenue is down five p.c this quarter, that Microsoft says is roughly in line with laptop sales to businesses. Non-Pro revenue has decreased by eleven p.c, and Microsoft blames this on “continued pressure within the entry-level class.” In alternative words: Chromebooks. Microsoft simply undraped its latest Chromebook challenge to attractiveness to students and colleges, in an attempt to stave off Google’s hardware for 2019. It’s clear that entry-level valuation and devices are threatening Windows licensing revenue as customers have many various selections for devices. On the associate capitalist decision, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood discovered that a number of the decline was because of the temporal order of latest chips from partners limiting OEMs and new devices.
As always, Microsoft’s future growth appearance more and more obsessed with its cloud success. Azure revenue is up seventy-six p.c year over year and workplace industrial merchandise and cloud services grew eleven p.c. Microsoft conjointly currently has thirty-three .3 million workplaces three65 shopper subscribers, up from 29.2 million now last year. LinkedIn, Microsoft’s $26 billion bet, is additionally seeing solid revenue growth of twenty-nine p.c. By bestchromebookpick.com


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Sainsbury’s has outperformed the market for the third consecutive month with sales growth of 1.2%.
The retailer has seen the growth across convenience, supermarket and online, which has increased market share to 16.7%, according to the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel [12 w/e 6 December].
Tesco and Asda both saw a fall in sales of 3.4% despite increasing their online sales while Morrisons saw a drop of 2%. Morrisons said that between half and three-quarters of this decline was as a result of its exit from the convenience sector and shutting 21 supermarkets, many of which closed last month. It said this accounted for a reduction in sales of between 1% and 1.5% and that it would be facing these tough comparisons for the next year.
Aldi and Lidl remain with a combined 10% share of the market, growing sales by 15.4% and 17.9% respectively year on year. The Co-operative Group’s revival continues with sales growth of 2% and an increased market share to 6.2%. Waitrose grew revenues by 2.7% and holds a 5.1% share of the market.
Overall sales in the total grocery market were up 0.1% on the same period last year, despite the impact of Black Friday, which saw a 4% increase in sales on last year. The latest period sees the lowest growth since June and is the ninth consecutive month where sales have increased by less than 1%.
“Despite the difficult market conditions, Sainsbury’s increased sales by 1.2%, growing across its convenience, supermarket and online businesses and increasing its market share to 16.7%. Consumers continue to be drawn to the retailer’s ‘Taste the Difference’ range, and with sales of Champagne and sparkling wine up by a quarter it seems clear that the grocer is successfully tapping into demand for premium goods,” said Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel. “Sainsbury’s recent run of success predates its popular ‘Mog’s Christmas Calamity’ advert, with the retailer now having grown ahead of the market for three months in a row.”
Grocery inflation now stands at -1.9% for the 12-week period ending 6 December 2015, meaning shoppers are now paying less for a representative basket of groceries than they did in 2014.


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PARAMUS, N.J. NuVim on Tuesday named Ruth Carey nutritional expert.
Carey has been a nutrition consultant in private practice and has been a national media spokesperson for brands like Gatorade and Lipton and has worked with brands like Ensure, Nike, The USA Olympic Committee, The Portland Trailblazers and USA Gymnastics. She has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show” and The Food Network.
Carey will be helping to promote NuVim, a refrigerated nutrition beverage sold in half-gallon juice cartons in 2,000 supermarkets, including Shoprite, A&P, Giant Eagle, Acme, Giant and more than 300 Wal-Mart supercenters.
NuVim is fortified with NutraFlora, a prebiotic that helps maintain a strong immune system and enhances calcium absorption and digestion. NuVim also contains a level of whey protein concentrate that is known to help muscle flexibility, promote sturdy joints and improve athletic performance, the company stated.