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Sales for the US market are up 111 percent compared with the same period last year, but are dwarfed by the sheer number of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles sold in the same period.
After a decade of research, Smithsonian scientists reveal the newest species in the order Carnivora. A new mammal in the 21st century? Go figure.
Leaders of cities outside the typical tech metropolises -- specifically cities touched by Tesla's sprawling electric-car operation in California and Nevada -- want a bigger hand in tech manufacturing.
The big carrier plays catchup with offers by Sprint and AT&T to increase the amount of data available on an existing family plan.
Chocolate experts from Nestle set about crafting a chocolate teapot that can stand up to boiling water and still turn out a lovely cup of tea.
Prominent venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are expected to take part in the funding round.
Business users of the cloud storage company will be able to integrate their work and personal accounts.
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Huge launches are expected from Samsung, Sony and others as the German show sets the tech agenda for the rest of the year.


text: In a sales call to talk about Apple’s numbers over the past quarters, Tim Cook acknowledged an increasingly prescient fact: iPod’s are in decline. iPod sales dipped precipitously by 52%, while revenues dropped by 54%. That means the iPod accounts for merely 2% of Apple’s overall income. Cook wants to focus on the Apple TV instead, and has immediately done so by listing the Apple TV in its own section, upgrading it from what Steve Jobs called a “Hobby” to a full-fledged product line. The new section of the store also features Apple TV accessories, old refurbished versions of the device, and a Q&A section. The dedicated product section very likely means that there will be substantial upgrades coming to the device soon, and that persistent rumor of a new Apple TV with a TV tuner, additional gaming, and wireless router options could just come to pass.

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The first Noe Valley flip of the year has hit the market, and, not surprisingly, it's a big one. The compact Victorian last sold for $1.5 million back in 2014 as a two-bedroom with a retro pink kitchen and just one bathroom. And while it is technically still the same home, nearly everything about it has changed. The biggest upgrade is the quadrupling of the square footage, although the price—which jumped to $3.95 million—has gone up nearly as much.
The formerly plain interiors have now been done up in modern designer style, with dark gray accent paint, retractable glass walls leading to the backyard, and a marble-clad bathroom complete with soaking tub. The renovation isn't as whitewashed and barren as some flips are, and the big square footage keeps the massive price jump from seeming ludicrous.
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Tokyo’s sushi legend, the three-Michelin-starred Chef Takashi Saito had recently visited Hong Kong’s fine dining haven, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, to get ready for the opening of his very first overseas branch.
“It is always a pleasure to be back in this dynamic city but this time I am more excited than ever! Thanks to the stellar partnership of my long term friend, GLOBAL LINK (restaurant group) and the reputable Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, I am glad to witness our new venture is falling in place nicely. Now I am not just confident about the opening but sincerely look forward to meeting all the food lovers in Hong Kong this Spring.”
Sushi Saito Hong Kong is set to open on March 25, 2018 while Chef Saito will visit Hong Kong to host a two-day opening gala. Further details will soon be announced.


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February 24, 2021
Budget allocated US$ 27.25bn for various PLI schemes, including US$ 5.66bn for the electronics goods manufacturing sector.
PLIs aim to reduce the dependency on imports and make the nation self-reliant, positioning India as a global manufacturing hub.
Centre has approved the PLI scheme for 13 sectors, including the mobile phones manufacturing, specified electronic components.
PLI scheme for IT hardware worth US$ 1.05bn shall boost hardware manufacturing exports by US$ 33.9bn.
For certain eligible manufacturing companies, the Government of India announced production linked incentive (PLI) schemes and provided them with a 4-6% incentive on incremental sales over the base year of 2019-20 for a five-year period. These schemes are like a kind of subsidy provided from the budget for domestically manufactured goods. The incentive amount is different for different sectors. The PLI scheme is set to motivate large domestic and internal firms to boost production, build a competitive ecosystem and lead to further inclusive growth in the country.
So far, the Centre has approved PLI scheme for 13 sectors, including the mobile phones manufacturing, specified electronic components. Recently, the government also approved a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for laptops, tablets, all-in-one computers, and servers, as it looked to pursue global players to tap India’s manufacturing capabilities. To push the manufacturing sector, this year’s union budget has allocated US$ 27.25bn for various PLI schemes over the next five years. In the wake of the pandemic, US$ 5.66bn has been announced for the electronics goods manufacturing sector, which will facilitate the growth of MSMEs, leading to inclusive growth and providing the required boost for economic growth. This growth has encouraged international companies to invest in India, thereby serving a two-fold purpose of attracting foreign investment and incentivising domestic manufacturers. In a similar move, the GoI has also announced a PLI scheme for IT hardware worth US$ 1.05bn, which will help add 1,80,000 jobs to the sector, according to India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) and shall boost hardware manufacturing exports by US$ 33.9bn.
Under the aegis of PM Modi’s clarion call for an Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), PLIs aim to help India evolve into an efficient and resilient manufacturing hub. The main goal here is to reduce the dependency on imports and make the nation self-reliant in manufacturing goods for local and export markets, positioning India as a global manufacturing hub. The increase in domestic manufacturing brings about more competitiveness, efficiency, capacity building, enhancing exports, attracting investments and creation of a plethora of job opportunities.


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Hello Fellow Gyros:
With the COVID announcement on Wednesday it looks like we can no longer have indoor gatherings until further notice. As a result the following events are cancelled:
- District VIII Convention – September 23 to 26. Cancelled. Those who have already registered will have been notified directly by Ken Baker and the hotel reservations have been cancelled. Refunds are pending.
- Cribbage Night – October 6. Cancelled.
- Founders Night – October 19. Still waiting for confirmation from Edmonton Club, but I am assuming it will be cancelled unless restrictions are lifted by then.
- District VIII Curlarama – October 22 to 24. Cancelled.
We will wait for further notice if November events can proceed


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UPDATE: Texas brewers group forms a PAC to fix state’s ‘broken beer laws’
UPDATE: The Beer Alliance of Texas has a statement in response to CraftPAC’s launch.
“Our members continue to support the long established, very workable three tier regulatory system in Texas. We will continue to dialogue with all beverage stakeholders, as we always have, including the craft brewers, as lawmakers update and refresh public policies,” Rick Donley, president of the Beer Alliance of Texas, said.
EARLIER: Texas’ legislative session last year was a disaster for the state’s craft brewers. But they don’t intend for the next one to be.
To fight back and implement the changes brewers see as necessary for the industry’s growth, the organization representing their interests in Texas has launched a political action committee, or PAC for short. The Texas Craft Brewers Guild’s CraftPAC will use monetary contributions from brewers and consumers alike to support legislation, legislative candidates and other political initiatives that will benefit the industry.
The new CraftPAC is in response to recent bills that one of the state’s most influential lobby groups — wholesale beer distributors — pushed through, such as last year’s HB 3287, now a law prohibiting taprooms in breweries that grow beyond a certain size or become owned by a larger beer company. Texas brewers largely opposed it.
CraftPAC is also a means for Texas brewers to gain rights that breweries in the country’s 49 other states already have, Adam DeBower, Austin Beerworks co-founder and director on the board of the guild, said. He’s board chair for CraftPAC as well.
The PAC “is a way that we can raise money not just from the craft brewers in the state of Texas but also the fans, the craft beer fans,” he said. “Get them engaged, get them involved, in seeing real legislative change. Quite frankly, the beer laws in Texas are broken, and we need to fix them. The three-tier system itself is broken. We need to fix it. We don’t want to get rid of it; we want to upgrade it.”
He and Charles Vallhonrat, executive director of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild, recite two facts when they talk about the need for a craft brewery-focused PAC: Texas is the only state in the U.S. that doesn’t allow its breweries to sell beer directly to consumers for their enjoyment off-site. Texas also ranks 46th in breweries per capita.
“Texas has a huge population but such a small number of breweries,” DeBower said, citing restrictive laws, among other factors, as the reason for the state’s slow craft beer growth.
That’s in contrast to states like California, which has a slightly larger population but about three times the number of breweries — almost 630 breweries to Texas’ more than 250. California also doubles in breweries per capita, according to data from the Brewers Association, a national organization representing the country’s craft brewers.
Additionally, California and all other states sans Texas allow manufacturing breweries the ability to sell beer to go in their taprooms. Texas’ wineries, distilleries and brewpubs also can sell their products on-site for off-site consumption. As a result, many manufacturing breweries — Austin’s Hops & Grain most recently — have switched to brewpub licenses, a designation that limits how much beer they can make.
“The advantage in selling beer to go, for me, is that you are able to offer customers the full brewery experience that is becoming not only the norm across the U.S. but an expectation. And if you can't offer that experience to folks that visit your brewery, I firmly believe that you're at a disadvantage,” Hops & Grain’s founder Josh Hare wrote last month about the main reason his brewery became a brewpub.
Preventing Texas breweries specifically from taproom sales for off-site consumption is the wholesale beer distributor lobby, led by the trade groups Beer Alliance of Texas and Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas. They argue that having those sales is a violation of the three-tier system.
In the three-tier system, breweries make beer, distributors sell that beer to retailers, and retailers then sell it to the public, and none of those groups can veer into each other’s business. The alcohol regulations were established in the 1930s, following the repeal of Prohibition.
To beer distributors, the system is still doing its job.
The three-tier system “has allowed for an incredibly competitive marketplace and allows smalls breweries to thrive in a way that other commodities can’t do because of the inability to get to market without a distribution tier,” Keith Strama, counsel for the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas, said during testimony last year for HB 3287. (We have requested comment from the distributors but have not heard back.)
The bill hijacked the guild’s plans for Texas’ legislative session. The Texas Craft Brewers Guild had intended to push for SB 1217, which would have allowed the to-go taproom sales.
Instead, the guild had to play defense against HB 3287. It dictates breweries making 225,000 barrels or more of beer per year — namely, Austin’s Oskar Blues facility — have to sell any beer designated for their on-site taprooms to their distributor and buy it back. The beer doesn’t leave the facility. Detractors of the bill, including the guild, called this payment an “extortion fee” and “dock bump tax.”
To fight for a gubernatorial veto of HB 3287, the Texas Craft Brewers Guild created an online petition that generated “about 15,000 signatures in a 48 hour period,” DeBower said.
Though it ultimately didn’t succeed, the petition demonstrated to Texas brewers that they have a huge base of supporters who want to help their cause and might even be willing to donate money.
“Through social media and word of mouth was how that got out,” DeBower said of the petition. “Our aspiration here is that we can build on that. Get this idea in front of craft beer fans and get a few dollars. We will never have the money our opposition has, and nor do we want to have it. But we still have to spend the money and play the game.”
DeBower is likely right — that no matter how much CraftPAC is able to raise, the amount will look like pennies in comparison to the millions of dollars in donations the wholesale beer distributors have given to lawmakers in the state. Their lobby is one of the most powerful in Texas, but CraftPAC intends, at least, to level the playing field a bit.
According to an analysis by the Texas Tribune, “booze industry players gave more than $11 million to state campaigns over the past four years, about three-quarters of which came from beer distribution interests.”
CraftPAC will start giving money as well, launching just in time for state primary elections on March 6, Vallhonrat said.
“One of our greatest assets is our fanbase,” he said. “The public outpouring from the petition was fantastic, and we need to build on that type of effort.”


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Looks like the fairly long wait for a console version of the popular MMORPG Black Desert Online is coming closer to its end, as today Pearl Abyss announced a data for the opening of pre-orders of the Xbox One version.
Aspiring players will be able to pre-order the game on Jan. 7, 2019 via the Microsoft Store.
The game has been partly redesigned for Microsoft’s console, and it will come with the changes that Pearl Abyss has been making to the PC version, including a renewed story, remastered graphics and audio, on top of a new interface optimized for the Xbox One.
If you’re unfamiliar with Black Desert Online, it’s a Korean MMORPG featuring really, really pretty graphics, what can easily be defined as the most advanced character customization in the industry, and a really vast open world. It’s currently available for PC and counts over ten million players worldwide.
Incidentally, a PS4 version of the game was teased quite a while ago by Pearl Abyss on social media, but after striking a deal with Microsoft’s [email protected], no further word about it has been shared by the developer.
Update: Pearl abyss reached out mentioning that while the PC version will retain the “Black Desert Online” title, the Xbox One version will simply be titled “Black Desert.”


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Ninety per cent of all A-category circles would be covered by 3G technology by end of next year, Ericsson estimates.
In 3G, Aircel has registered high growth in NE as its 3G subscriber base grew by 37% in 2013 while 3G data revenue increased by 200%.
LG hopes the new G3 phone, which added metal film to the rear plastic cover to offer a polished metallic look, will pull its handset business out of the red.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today expressed the hope that his successor will challenge the TDSAT ruling on 3G roaming pact between telecom operators.
3i said it would continue to focus on mid-market investments in its core business services, consumer, healthcare and industrial sectors.
The Z3 is the first phone to be launched by BlackBerry since new CEO John Chen took the helm late last year.
The decision by Council of Ministers ends years of stalemate as Iraq had wanted to auction 3G licences for minimum $307 million each.
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In a megaton surprise that nobody saw coming, Valve’s Gabe Newell — who has previously been a vocal critic of the PlayStation 3 — came out on stage at Sony’s E3 press conference and announced that Portal 2 will release on the PS3 simultaneously with the PC, Mac, and Xbox 360. But that’s not all: the PS3 version of Portal 2 will be the only console version to include Steamworks support, which means that all the behind-the-scenes features that PC and Mac players are used to — such as automatic game updates and the Steam Cloud — will come with Portal 2 on the PS3.
The press release also mentions “downloadable content” as one of Steamworks’ main features, so we’re wondering if this means that Portal 2 will receive free updates, just like the PC/Mac versions of all other Steam games.
Newell even went as far as to call Portal 2 on PS3 “the best version on any console,” saying that Valve finally decided to develop on PS3 because it’s “the most open platform of all the current-generation consoles and [Sony] has worked extremely hard to make the platform the most desirable for consumers and developers.” Strong words, indeed — it sounds like Newell is as big a fan of the PlayStation 3 now as he was a detractor at its launch in 2006. As GLaDOS said at the end of the CG trailer shown at the press conference, “I think we can put our differences behind us … for science … you monster.”
Portal 2 will be out sometime in 2011 on PS3, 360, PC, and Mac.


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Employers all across the world are showing their real faces in the time of Corona. Where some of the corporate giants are firing their employers to get a better hold of the liquidity, others are working towards making things better for the employees. Where Canadian Airlines fired more than twenty percent of its employees, Walmart has spent more than $900 million on its employees.
Walmart and its employee bonuses:
According to the recent reports, Walmart has incurred a cost of around $900 million on the well being of its employees. This has occurred in the first quarter. According to the figures, there is a possibility that the second quarter may take an equal amount of expenditure again.
The total expenditure includes an amount of 750$ million being spent merely on the bonuses given to the workers. Along with this, the cost of $390 million is spent on the reduction in the bonuses of all the associates of the company.
All time high cost:
The chief financial officer of the company, Brett Biggs, in a recent statement said that the company has already come up with a second round of bonuses. He announced it on Saturday, which gave great relief to the employees. According to him, the cost of sanitizing the stores will also be inured bu the company. This overall cost is an all-time high. The main reason is that considering the pandemic needs special cleanliness measures.
Amazon and its losses:
However, it’s not just Walmart that is bearing all these expenses. The biggest competitor of Walmart, Amazon, has also claimed increased expenses. According to the company, it had to deal with an additional expense of around four billion dollars. Global Pandemic is the reason behind it.
The reason behind the profit decline:
According to the statistics, Walmart was able to gain great profits during 2018-2019. However, with the global Pandemic hitting the world, it had to deal with a great loss in the profit. The major reason behind it is the health crisis, which has engulfed the whole World. People are not allowed to come out of the house due to Lockdown, and it has reduced the number of their shopping trips. Most of the people are opting for online shopping, which further reduces the profit margin for Walmart.
What the Future Holds?
The officials of the company say that it will take quite a lot of time for the company to recover. This is because even if the lock-down is lifted, people will find it difficult to trust and come out. They would not feel comfortable coming out of their houses. The virus scare will compel them to stay home for a long time. This will ultimately cause a great profit loss for the company.


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Redbox shook up the video-rental business by offering DVDs at its convenient kiosks for just a dollar a night. Now it plans to widen that advantage by introducing cheap Blu-rays to its lineup of titles.
Via Home Media Magazine, we hear that Redbox will start offering Blu-ray titles within the next few months. The company's president, Mitch Lowe, announced the news during a keynote speech at an industry conference earlier this week. He said that the cost for a one-night rental will likely be set at $1.50.
Just don't expect to be able to rent all of those titles on the day they come out. Redbox has agreements in place to hold movie rentals (both DVD and Blu-ray) from Universal, Fox and Warner Bros. until 28 days after street date. Blockbuster currently has an exclusive window with those studios.


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King of Fighters adding Maniax
Xbox-exclusive brawler originally titled KOF: Maximum Impact set to hit North America in June.
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SNK Playmore USA today announced a new title, literally. KOF: Maximum Impact will now be dubbed KOF: Maximum Impact - Maniax. The game will be the first original KOF game for the Xbox when it hits shelves in June. SNK also revealed a few more details on the game. Maniax will feature a "stop-action camera" that lets players freeze the action to "photograph" their fighters from any angle, in addition to featuring both English and Japanese languages.


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Spotify's big stock debut, Mozilla releasing AR/VR Firefox
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Spotify's stock has spiked after making a debut on the public markets.
Its opening price of $165.90 a share puts its valuation at around $29.5 billion, and that's up from 19 billion.
You can find Spotify's ticker name on the New York Stock Exchange as simply SPOT.
Mozilla is making a mixed reality version of its Firefox browser that it's calling Firefox Reality.
The browser will work on VR and AR hardware, although there's no immediate release date.
The idea is to get Firefox into your AR or VR headset and browse like you would with a computer version, but with special accessibility controls for the different environmental challenges.
Look for Firefox Reality coming soon.
And speaking of VR, reviews of the HTC Vive Pro are in, and it's getting craze for its improved ergonomics, usability, and higher quality screens.
So what's the bad news?
Well, it costs $800 with none of the sensors or controllers it needs to function.
When it's all said and done the Vive Pro should only be considered by hardcore enthusiasts.
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HORSEMEAT: Asda finds horse DNA in Greencore chilled sauce
Asda tests found horse DNA in sauce made by Greencore
Asda has recalled fresh sauce manufactured by private-label giant Greencore after finding horse DNA in the line - the first product outside the frozen aisle to become embroiled in the contamination scandal.
Greencore has confirmed it supplied the 350g Chosen By You Beef Bolognese Sauce that Asda has withdrawn from sale.
The Ireland-based group said Asda had found "traces of equine DNA in a screening test". Greencore said it was waiting for the results of further tests to see how much horse DNA was in the sauce.
The product contained meat supplied by ABP Food Group, the Irish processor that is one of the companies at the centre of the scandal, which has taken in producers and retailers across Europe.
Greencore said the meat came from ABP's Nenagh plant in County Tipperary in Ireland. Last month, frozen beef burgers made at three other ABP factories in Ireland and the UK were found to contain horse DNA.
Greencore said it was working "closely" with ABP "to determine the full facts as we await the results of further tests".
Asda, the UK arm of Wal-Mart Stores, has withdrawn three more Greencore products that do not contain horse DNA "as a precautionary measure", the food producer said - a 600g beef broth soup, a 400g chilli con carne soup and 500g meat feast pasta sauce.
"Greencore is committed to maintaining the highest standards of food safety and food traceability, and is therefore extremely concerned that the quality of one of its products may have been compromised in this way. The company is participating in full with the intensive industry testing programme to examine the full supply chain in order to restore consumer confidence," the company said.
Asda had not returned a request for comment at the time of writing.
Last week, UK manufacturers and retailers agreed to embark on industry-wide tests to see what beef products contained horse DNA. The first results from those tests are due today (15 February).
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While anonymity is core to the appeal of cryptocurrency trading for many, the Australian Tax Office has indicated it has crypto profits firmly in its sights as the end of the financial year approaches.
Tim Loh, assistant commissioner at the ATO, warned Australians that if you exchange bitcoin for another cryptocurrency, or convert it into regular sovereign currency, such as Australian dollars, a taxable event is created.
When cryptocurrency is held as an investment, it is classed by the ATO as an asset; and if it is later sold at a profit, it is subject to Capital Gains Tax (CGT).
Loh said that the tax agency is paying particular attention as a result of intense interest in crypto markets and rush of new investors in the space since the start of 2021.
“Prices [of some cyptocurrencies] have rocketed and we have seen a lot more people investing in them, particularly in the past 12 to 18 months,” he said.
In the first few months of 2021, the notoriously volatile crypto market has seen astronomical surges in value, and Australians are following the hype.
More Australians now invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin than precious metals like gold and silver, according to BTC Markets, one of Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
The exchange reported it onboarded one-sixth of its yearly customers in just six days in January 2021 as demand swelled.
The largest cohort of crypto investors fall within the age group of 25 to 34 years, followed by 35 to 44 years, it reported.
And financial comparisons company Finder found that one in four Australians invests in cryptocurrency, according to a survey of 1,004 people conducted in January.
The ASX has taken note and is currently assessing a number of applications for a local exchange-traded fund (ETF).
If a launch tipped for later this year was to go ahead, it would enable any Australian to hold major cryptocurrencies in their share portfolio.
Loh also noted the ATO has infrastructure in place to make sure traders would not skirt the system.
“We have data-matching protocols [in place] to ensure people who are trading cryptocurrency are paying the right amount of tax,” Loh said.
According to ATO guidelines, while CGT applies to crypto profits, investors still benefit from a 50% discount on the tax if the crypto is held for at least 12 months.
However, it says capital gains or losses that arise from the disposal of cryptocurrency that is a “personal use asset” – where crypto is used to buy items for personal consumption – can be disregarded for tax purposes.
The ATO’s guidelines refer to ‘cryptocurrency’ as bitcoin, “or other crypto or digital currencies that have similar characteristics as bitcoin.”
“If you are involved in acquiring or disposing of cryptocurrency, you need to be aware of the tax consequences,” the ATO advises.
In its guidelines around the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies, the tax office says that everyone “involved in acquiring or disposing of cryptocurrency” is required to keep records in relation to their cryptocurrency transactions.
It also warns that those who have dealt with a foreign exchange or cryptocurrency may face taxation consequences for transactions in the foreign country.
The ATO also said it is setting its sights on work-related expenses, including car and travel claims, expected to be lower in this year’s returns as more people work from home, as well as investment property deductions.


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Soccer publisher Copa90 plots American expansion with help from Turner
U.K.-based soccer publisher Copa90 is ready to take on the U.S. as interest in soccer grows in the country, with an assist from Turner.
Last month, Turner’s international arm led a new round of funding in Copa90 parent Bigballs Media, with expansion into international markets — and especially the U.S. — a major reason cited for the investment. Today, roughly 20 percent of Copa90’s total audience — which includes 14 million followers and 76 million monthly video views across Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram — is in the U.S.
“When you have 50,000 people attending MLS games in Atlanta — which is a brand new soccer city — we know that our time is now to expand,” said Tom Thirlwall, CEO of Bigballs Media. “What we’re interested in is the soccer culture and what sits beyond the pitch and 90 minutes of gameplay.”
Copa90’s plans kick off with a new content initiative led by two in-house video personalities, Poet & Vuj, who will travel the country shooting videos from locations such as New York, Miami, Orlando and Los Angeles. Content will include new, U.S.-centric versions of existing Copa90 shows such as “FIFA and Chill” — in which the hosts and celebrity guests play the titular EA sports title, “Five-Shot Challenge”– and “Comments Below,” a weekly program covering the latest soccer news.
Aiming for broad appeal, Copa90 content won’t be restricted to featuring soccer fans and players: the publisher will also feature NBA players, hip-hop stars and other celebrities that are part of the broader youth, sports and entertainment culture in the U.S. “There are adjacent cultural touchpoints — soccer players are really into hip hop, for example — and we want to explore these big commonalities,” Thirlwall said.
In the U.S., Copa90 will take advantage of the distribution reach offered by Turner’s CNN and Bleacher Report. This includes sites and apps owned by both companies, such as Bleacher Report’s popular Team Stream app, as well as their respective social channels.
Since the Turner investment was announced, Copa90 has already collaborated with both CNN and Bleacher Report. For instance, Copa90 recently produced a 13-minute documentary about Russian soccer fans’ anticipation of the upcoming World Cup. CNN featured the film by promoting it during a TV segment on the Russia World Cup while having Copa90 creative director Lawrence Tallis on as a guest expert. With Bleacher Report, Copa90 struck a deal with Pepsi to create 150 pieces of social content for the UEFA Champions League. (Copa90 and Bleacher Report are longtime partners, co-producing a weekly soccer show for Bleacher Report’s international Snapchat Discover channel.)
With Turner reportedly spending $60 million a year to broadcast the annual Champions League tournament through 2021, Copa90 will be part of the company’s plans to create social, digital and branded content surrounding the tournament.
“All of this is building toward the opportunity to grow our brand of soccer content and telling the stories of the teams, players, cities and fan groups in a way that doesn’t exist in American media today,” said Marc Horine, gm of the Americas for Copa90.
To prep for its U.S. expansion, Copa90 has almost doubled the number of employees it has in the country to 25. This includes the company’s first two U.S. sales execs in New York and LA. Copa90 plans to grow to 50 full-time U.S. employees in the next 12 to 18 months, Thirlwall said. This group is led by Horine, who joined the company four months ago after a decade at ESPN.
“A lot of media companies have a lot of mouths to feed,” Horine said. “All we do is soccer — we are focused on that one thing — and American represents the biggest growth opportunity for this company.”
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Malibu Planning Commission recommends against chain-store law
After years of debate and discussion, the Malibu Planning Commission recommended the City Council oppose a law that would make it more difficult for additional chain stores to open in the city’s central district.
In a 4-1 vote late Monday night, the commission said certain parts of the proposed ordinance required more study. The decision surprised some attendees who assumed the proposal would sail through the commission only to be bitterly debated in front of the City Council.
City staff had recommended the so-called “formula retail ordinance,” saying in a report that about 25% of the stores in Malibu’s civic center are chains, and that number was expected to grow.
Under the proposal, the vast majority of new chain stores in the city’s civic center would have had to go to the city’s Planning Department for a full review process before they could open.
The plan has heightened debate about Malibu’s changing identity, pitting some longtime residents against property owners. Some locals decried a loss of Malibu’s rural character due to an influx of chain stores, while developers contended that the free market was deciding the retail mix of the city and maintained that the proposed chain ordinance was not necessary.
City officials said Monday’s meeting lasted at least four hours with about three hours of public comment. Some of the discussion centered around Planning Commissioner John Mazza, who cast the lone dissenting vote.
David Waite, an attorney representing civic center property owners, alleged that Mazza wrote an email to leadership of a coalition supporting the ordinance that showed intent to “sabotage future commercial development in the city.” Mazza could not be immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
In issuing its decision, the Planning Commission recommended that city staff review and clarify parts of the proposed ordinance such as the definition of “formula retail,” the exemptions included and the methodology used to make certain calculations about retail space.
City officials also said that the Planning Commission’s recommendation will move to the City Council, which can accept or deny it -- probably sometime in late August or early September.
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German non-profit organisation Stiftung der Deutschen Bekleidungsindustrie (SDBI), which looks after the interests of upcoming fashion designers, has announced the winners of its annual European Fashion Award FASH 2016. The winning students, who were hand selected by the jury were: Flora Sophie Taubner, Lars Dittrich (Giebichenstein University of Art & Design Halle), Aylin Tomta (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences), Julian Weth (Akademie JAK, Hamburg), Agnė Alaburdaitė (Vilnius Academy of Art), Katharina Buczek (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) and Rani Maria Lange (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences).
The seven students were selected from a pool of 151 applicants by a jury consisting of experts from the fashion-, retail- and media industry. Members included Antonio Cristaudo (Global Marketing Development Manager for Pitti Uomo), Sébastien Meunier (Artistic Director at Ann Demeulemeester) and Joachim Schirrmacher (SDBI Director). In addition to receiving a monetary prize, which ranges from 1.000 euro to 2.500 euro, all winners were given the chance to participate in SDBI’s Mentoring Programme. In order to be eligible for the competition, participating students were asked to submit a written report of their concept, a mood board, two outfits they designed and their résumé, all of which aligned with the competition's theme of ‘change’. “The scope included these questions: How can fashion react to all the changes wrought by conflicts and catastrophes, globalization and digitalization? What are the visions? Who will ride the wave of change and claim the future,” said SDBI in a statement. The winning designs are set to be presented during Berlin Fashion Week in summer 2016. Simultaneously, the jury will announce at which place the participants ranked and which prize they are set to receive.
As part of the Mentoring Programme students were invited to attend exhibitions by designers such as Vladimir Karaleev, Perret Schaad and Nobi Talai, in order to gain insight into the industry and generate contacts for the future. The winning students also have the opportunity to have their portfolio's evaluated by a group of designers. Finally, the designs that these students submitted for the FASH 2016 Award will be photographed by Franco P. Tettamanti.
The European Fashion Award FASH has been awarded annually since 2005. It is a platform which offers a new generation of designers a chance to kick start their career. Previous winners of the award have continued to work for companies such as Adidas, Hugo Boss or Vivienne Westwood.
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Repay Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: RPAY), a U.S.-based provider of vertically-integrated payment solutions, recently announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Protego Technologies Limited, an Ireland-based consultancy that helps extend technology departments and developer teams with specialized talent and project management. The new partnership is projected to create 60 new jobs initially in Ireland.
Founded in 2006, REPAY describes itself as a full-service payment technology and processing provider. The company enables expedient and secure collection payments through any channel at any time.
“Our payment platform provides direct integration with enterprise management systems and access to a suite of payment solutions, including credit/debit card processing, ACH processing, Instant Funding, IVR/phone pay, text pay, electronic bill payment and presentment (EBPP) systems, and consumer-facing payment portals, such as web portals and mobile apps.”
REPAY also reported it serves the B2B space by automating accounts payable (AP) services and outbound vendor payments through virtual card, ACH, and check processing and effectively managing the full print/mail and electronic communication stream.
REPAY further revealed that as an exclusive provider, Protego will identify, recruit, and manage emerging technology talent to supplement REPAY’s software development team and capabilities.
“This strategic approach aims to enable REPAY to affordably increase its development capacity, embark on innovative technology initiatives, and continue to enhance core product offerings to swiftly meet the growing demand for digitization of payment experiences.”
Jason Kirk, CTO of REPAY, spoke about the partnership by stating:
“This partnership to supplement our software development capabilities further fortifies our commitment to drive innovation and facilitate optimal payment experiences.”


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Corporate Performance Artists founder Joseph McElroy was recently quoted in a piece by Ashley Poulter about using Google Plus for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners published at CEOBlogNation’s Teach A Ceo.
McElroy took the opportunity to write about the importance of understanding Community Development in forging an approach to the Search Engine giant’s social network, which has emerged lately as a prime factor in Search Engine, Social Media, and Content Marketing.
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Continuing an artistic tradition, CorporatePA are proud to be the co-creators of a new music series presented by the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York, a 225-year old organization promoting educational, cultural and philanthrophic programs. The ten-month series, entitled "Muse & Music", combines live acoustic guest performances with in-depth discussions exploring the craft of songwriting and the muses that inspire musicians.
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Corporate Performance Artists, a New York Search Engine Marketing and Web Agency, announced this week it will begin offering Strategic Search Marketing services.
CorporatePA has established itself as an expert SEO company for almost a decade, consistently ranking among the top Search Marketing companies in New York City.


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After he was fired Thursday, Andrew Mason wrote a note to his Groupon colleagues filled with the same offbeat humor, charm and candor that defined his tenure as chief executive of the daily deals company he co-founded.
"After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family," the letter began. "Just kidding — I was fired today."
His ouster came as no surprise. Questions about his future have been swirling for months because of Groupon's poor performance since going public a little more than a year ago.
The end of the road for the 32-year-old Mason came a day after the Chicago-based company posted disappointing fourth-quarter earnings that sent its stock reeling. But his exit was signaled three months ago when an anonymous leak to a well-read tech blog indicated that Groupon's board of directors was considering replacing Mason.
Mason even alluded to his preordained departure in his farewell note: "If you're wondering why ... you haven't been paying attention. … As CEO I am accountable."
Mason's firing also reflects a changing company with needs different than the skyrocketing startup that he helped create in 2008. His rapid rise and fall is hardly unusual in entrepreneurial circles. It's hard to transition from visionary to manager of a complex, global enterprise and the pace at Groupon was nearly unprecedented.
"I've always thought they got a bad rap in the press," Matt Moog, a Chicago tech entrepreneur, said of Groupon's leaders. "It's extraordinarily difficult to grow a company as fast as they did and get it all right the first time. The change in leadership will give them a chance to back away from that criticism a little bit and try to keep growing the company."
Groupon's struggles have been stunning, and dispiriting, to many in Chicago because so many expectations were wrapped up in its early success. The city's tech scene has worked through several boom and bust cycles trying to put itself on the map as a regional center. That ambition is held not just by local entrepreneurs and investors, but civic boosters all the way up to Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
And for a while, Groupon delivered the goods. The company evolved into one of the hottest names in technology in less than three years, single-handedly redefining Chicago as one of the most exciting cities in the country for digital business. Employment at the company grew from a handful to more than 10,000 worldwide as the company's valuation blossomed into the billions.
Groupon's red-hot growth attracted numerous imitators, from LivingSocial to Amazon. Google noticed the competitive threat to its local advertising sales and tried to purchase Groupon in 2010 for nearly $6 billion. Groupon's leaders said no deal.
For a while it looked like a smart call. Investors cheered Groupon's initial public offering in November 2011. It ended its first day as a public company worth more than $17 billion.
But since then Groupon has floundered, as consumers' appetite for heavily discounted deals on restaurants, yoga classes and pedicures has shrunk. To boost growth the company started Groupon Goods, an online retailer selling a seemingly random assortment of products — everything from leggings to cowhide rugs — at a discount.
Few analysts believe Groupon can effectively compete in the online retailer space against the likes of Amazon. Some see it as little more than an expensive way to beef up sales and, ultimately, as a distraction from its lagging daily deals business.
A more promising initiative may be Groupon's local marketplace, a shift from pushing out daily deals to pulling in customers through ongoing, search-driven offers. Launched in November in Chicago and New York, customers who search online for various products and services will see relevant deals on Groupon, hopefully pulling them to the site to fulfill their purchases.
The company called it an "evolutionary step" toward demand shopping, while Mason, on what was his last conference call as CEO of Groupon on Wednesday, said it was a necessary change of direction.
"It's hard to believe that just a short time ago we were a deal-a-day business," he said. "As you can see, our business continues to evolve at a breakneck pace."
Questions about the company's direction — and identity — will now fall to someone else.
Groupon, valued at less than $3 billion, said it has launched a search for Mason's replacement. In the meantime, Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis will be in charge.
"This company is in a different phase of its growth now and it requires a slightly different skill set," said Arvind Bhatia, a senior research analyst at Sterne Agee. "What they need is somebody who has e-commerce experience and who has an operational background — not just a visionary."


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Suttons Tankers, part of Suttons Group, is to end its eight-year relationship with British Sugar.
As the festival season ramps up, Aylesbury-based audio services and event transport business Entertec has taken delivery of a tailor-made trailer from Schmitz Cargobull.
Lancashire’s Ainsworth & Martin has become North West Logistics, relocating from its Preston home to a new site in Accrington. Fortec-member Ainsworth & Martin acquired North West Logistics some two years ago. The complementary businesses had been run separately, but after a £100,000 investment in the Accrington facility, Ainsworth & Martin joined its stablemate at Altham Business Estate this summer. North West Logistics’ modern site contains a 25,000ft² warehouse with Comah-certified hazardous goods store. Having both businesses on one site […]


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IAR Systems® has announced an expansion of its wide range of supported microcontrollers (MCUs) in the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM®.
As the IoT unfolds it’s critical, says Tony Milbourn of u-blox, not to lose track of what really matters and to provide the technologies, modules and security to keep them robust and reliable.
In what is said to be the first live demo of its kind, EPAM Systems, Inc. has shown an IoT connected services app that enables a vehicle to automatically communicate with multiple platforms.
The connected object market today shows a real complementarity between the OTT and Telco players in terms of their current positionings, aligned with their core business. In the longer term, however, IDATE anticipates a fiercer competition, around the platforms and services which are set to be the next source of revenue.
With manufacturing industry preparing for a significant step-change, the world’s first truly industrial city has been chosen to host the inaugural exhibition, Industry 4.0 Summit.
RealVNC, has announced their new collaboration with Frazer-Nash Research Ltd, the pioneering British technology and electric powertrain developer.
According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of insurance telematics policies in force on the European market reached 5.3 million in Q4-2015.
Telenor Connexion has announced the expansion of its IoT solutions offering with the release of its new Big Data Analytics tool: ARTS (Advanced Real-time troubleshooting ToolSet).
Azul Systems (Azul), has announced that Zulu Embedded, Azul’s open source Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based on OpenJDK, now supports 32-bit ARM processors, the dominant processor architecture for embedded designs.
Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), has gathered interviews and specialist articles on the IoT and its technological, economic and social impact in its newly published “Internet of Things Executive Handbook 2016”.
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Posted by Jasmine Lee / Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
The 13th Annual Alexandria Holiday Boat Parade of Lights is clever. Sure, traditional parades of floats built on the backs of trucks and large, inflated versions of mascots and cartoon characters are fun. But an aquatic parade? It’s like the cream cheese frosting on a red velvet cupcake: delightful. With a holiday event as interesting as this, it’s no wonder Alexandria was named one of HGTV’s Top 10 Christmas Towns.
While we welcome the arrival of the last month of 2012 next Saturday, dozens of decorated boats will be lit up and cheered on as they travel on the Potomac River. The parade will be led Alexandria’s very own fireboat Vigilant and D.C.’s John Glenn. And just an on-land parade, the “floats” will be judged by a panel of judges and awarded prizes ranging from “Best in Show” to “Thinking Outside the Christmas Box.”
At 3 p.m., before the main event, the Alexandria City Marina will be home to holiday festivities for the whole family; kids and pets can snap a pic with Santa and everyone can enjoy hot cocoa and apple cider. Then, at 5:15 p.m., bundle up and look out for those very merry boats!
Oh, and did we mention it’s all free?
Dec. 1, 5:15 p.m.
Alexandria City Marina, One Cameron St., Alexandria
703-746-3301 / visitalexandriava.com


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The Farm 51 has announced that the first proper gameplay footage for World War 3 will be revealed this Monday, August 20th. The team did not reveal any particular time and we are pretty sure that it won’t be linked to NVIDIA’s upcoming pre-Gamescom 2018 event (in which the green team will reveal its new graphics cards).
The wait is almost over! #worldwar3iscoming pic.twitter.com/vsdG97aC5H
— World War 3 (@ww3thegame) August 17, 2018
As we’ve already stated, World War 3 will be powered by Unreal Engine 4 and will support up to 64 players in a match. The game will also have its unique Battle Royale mode, called Recon. According to the developers, Recon won’t be like Rush at all as they have taken some features of a standard BR mode that fit its gameplay and as a result of that there’s currently no BR game similar to Recon.
From what we’ve seen so far World War 3 feels like a game inspired by the Battlefield games (though it may be more realistic than DICE’s offering). And since the new Battlefield game will not be set in modern times, World War 3 may fill that gap.
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Changing weather patterns and an increase in demand have led to a shortage of maple syrup. Worldwide stocks of everyone's favourite pancake topping have gone down. This has caused Canada to release 22 million kilograms of the sweet, sticky stuff into the market. Canada is the world's largest producer of maple syrup. The province of Quebec produces almost three-quarters of global supply. Canada keeps huge amounts of it for emergencies. The syrup it has just released is almost half of those emergency reserves. A spokeswoman for Quebec's maple syrup producers said there would be no shortages. She said: "That's why the reserve is made.…We won't lack maple syrup."
A warmer spring this year has reduced syrup supplies. Maple trees need warm daytime and freezing nighttime temperatures to produce syrup. A warmer and shorter spring led to a poorer harvest than usual. Another factor is worldwide demand for maple syrup. This has increased by more than 20 per cent this year. One major reason for this rise is the coronavirus pandemic. More people are at home, cooking pancakes and waffles. It is possible that more of us have developed a sweet tooth. The Quebec spokeswoman said: "The pandemic helped our case because we're seeing people cook more at home and use more local products. It's not just in Quebec where the demand is increasing."
Back to the maple syrup lesson.


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Bill Gates has come out in support of the FBI over its battle with Apple about unlocking an iPhone as part of the San Bernardino case.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Gates argues that Apple’s co-operation would not set a meaningful precedent. The FBI, he reckons, is “not asking for some general thing, [it’s] asking for a particular case”. He goes on to provide an analogy:
It is no different than... should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records. Let’s say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said ‘don’t make me cut this ribbon, because you’ll make me cut it many times.’
Gates isn’t alone. A new study published yesterday by the Pew Research Center revealed that 51 per cent of those surveyed thoughts Apple should work with the FBI. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s chief Sundar Pichai are both siding with Apple.
Yesterday, Cook proposed an independent commission review the case to settle the matter. [FT]
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It’s been exciting to see the food narrative growing louder and more robust in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit that took place on 23 September in New York, and of course, during World Food Month.
In its efforts to explore the extent of the brokenness of global food systems and how they can be fixed, the UN has done a commendable job of raising awareness around “good food” – how it’s produced, its taste and what it looks like. This has served to call out the perpetrators and laud the unsung heroes (e.g. farmers and indigenous peoples) in the various value chains.
Aptly, this edition features an article on food systems, compliance and food security. And in continuing our series, we shine the spotlight on problematic and unnecessary plastics.
Our fruit industry plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining resilient food systems – locally, as well as in its export markets (with packaging remaining a critical consideration in driving sustainability, and meeting retailer and consumer demands).
Hearteningly, the industry – as well as the agricultural sector at large – has continued to show extraordinary strength despite trying circumstances. Though, the Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confi dence Index (ACI) reflects a decline to 67 in Q3 from a record high 75 in Q2. But all is not lost: “A level above the neutral 50-point mark implies that agribusinesses are optimistic about operating conditions in the country,” reassures Agbiz.
With UN-projected global population growth to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, the role of the agricultural sector – and by extension, that of the fruit industry – is only going to grow bigger in its significance. For the fruit industry, this means retaining current markets and penetrating new ones, to match its growing production volumes. But it will require government keeping in step with the industry by prioritising favourable trade negotiations in the export markets.
Speaking of industry-government alignment, in the foreword Anton Kruger addresses the importance of strategically sound legislation. If we get this right, the industry can maximise the growing appetite for SA’s world-class fruit, ahead of its competitors.
Also in this edition, we look at the ways in which young famers are nurtured in the North West Province, market trends in the organic food context, top-working of citrus, and the SATI research overview.
On a different but rather important note, there has been growing concern around mental health, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent World Economic Forum article titled, “The pandemic has made mental well-being a public health must”, they acknowledge “many initiatives doubling down on mental-health awareness now: the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UK’s Royal Family and the Global Self-Care Federation”. The article also underscores the importance of recognising mental health risks and tuning in to identifying symptoms. I would encourage management and in fact, everyone in the industry to apply cognisance and understanding in this critical area, at this critical time.


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Raisio / FI. (rg) Finland’s Raisio Group has sold its fish feed business to a subsidiary of Finnforel Oy. The other shareholders of the new company are the American company Alltech Corporation and the Finnish Heino Group. The debt-free purchase price is EUR 7 million and the transaction is carried out in the form of a share deal. Raisioaqua Ltd has been transferred to the new owner, and the transaction does not require the approval of the competition authorities.
«Raisioaqua Ltd is the only Finnish fish feed manufacturer, and its production also plays a vital role in Finland’s fish farming and security of supply. Therefore, it is great that we found a good new home and buyer for the business – one whose business has a place for Raisioaqua’s fish feeds and who will continue to operate the factory in Raisio. Raisioaqua has performed well in the challenging market environment of 2022,» says Pekka Kuusniemi, CEO of Raisio.
Pekka A. Viljakainen, Chairperson of the Board of Finnforel Oy, is pleased with the acquisition and says: «Finnforel’s mission has been to offer sustainably produced Saimaan Tuore fish products to consumers and create a strong export industry in Finland. We have moved to a stage in our strategy where our gigafactor plants will be built around the world. As part of this strategy, it is important to promote the development and production of more sustainable fish feed. With the 60,000-tonne plant we are now buying from Raisio, combined with our partnership with Alltech Coppens, we want to secure a reliable feed supply for fish farmers in the Baltic Sea region, combined with product development with the world’s largest operator in the field.»
The 27 employees currently working in the fish feed business will continue to work for the company as existing employees.
The financial result of the fish feed business reported in discontinued operations and sale of its shares are not expected to have a significant financial impact on Raisio’s first quarter of 2023. Raisio recognised an impairment loss of EUR 4.1 million on Raisioaqua’s fixed assets in the Q1 2022 Ebit. The net sales of the fish feed business in 2022 were EUR 24.9 million and Ebit was EUR -5.1 million, including the impairment loss of EUR 4.1 million.
Finnforel Oy is a recirculating aquaculture company established in 2017, specialising in genetics and related technologies. The company currently has pilot plants in Varkaus, Hollola and Joroinen, which produce around one million kilos of sustainably farmed rainbow trout annually. The company’s best-known brand is the Saimaan Tuore line of rainbow trout products that are available in more than a thousand grocery stores around Finland.


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Black Models Say They Were Turned Away From a Miami Swim Week Casting
Models of color routinely find themselves marginalized in the fashion industry.
Model Joia Talbott says race was the reason she and other black models were dismissed from a casting call during July’s Miami Swim Week. Talbott says that after arriving at the call, she and roughly 15 other black models were told, “The casting’s closed.”
However, when the women left the line, casting quickly resumed, according to Talbott.
“They told us they didn’t want any more black models, and that afros were a no-no,” the model said in a video posted to Facebook. “They was definitely not feeling my afro at all, so I didn’t stand a chance, right? Wow. We’re ready to go back to LA where we’re appreciated, and we book.”
Racked reached out to both Talbott and Miami Swim Week about the alleged incident and will update the story if they respond.
“I’m still trying to process what happened, like, honestly,” she said.
Neither model named the casting company that rejected them, but Leggett urged the city of Miami to recognize that “there’s no such thing as too much brown skin.”
Talbott also raised the call on Instagram, where she posted a picture of herself and 10 other black models purportedly turned away from the casting. The models have a wide range of skin tones, hairstyles, and body types. Since they’re such an eclectic group, the allegation that all were deemed unfit for the casting is especially disturbing.
In recent years, black models have made a point of discussing the racial discrimination they face, and for years now Jezebel has kept a tally of how many models of color walk the runway during New York Fashion Week. Activism related to the issue has gained momentum too. Last year, a Black Models Matter protest took place outside the Balenciaga show during Paris Fashion Week. The models targeted Balenciaga due to the fashion brand’s history of using overwhelmingly white talent during shows. In an Instagram post in which he called out Balenciaga for mistreating models, allegedly leaving 150 people in a dark staircase for three hours, casting director James Scully also pointed the finger at the brand Lanvin.
“I have heard from several agents, some of whom are black, that they have received mandate from Lanvin that they do not want to be presented with women of color,” he wrote.
Two years earlier, model Ashley Chew coined the slogan “Black Models Matter” after painting those three words on a tote bag. Chew, also a painter, said she was inspired to use the motto after attending a casting for a designer that routinely snubs models of color. Since a street-style photographer took a photo of Chew carrying the politically-infused tote, the slogan went viral, turning into a hashtag that designers like Zac Posen have used. Both Posen and supermodel Imanhave carried Chew’s bags.
“People don’t realize it, but the fashion industry is really cutthroat,” Chew told Fashionista in 2016. “People will tell you straight up if they don’t want black models or natural hair. Skin pigmentation doesn’t matter either. Light, medium, or dark — you’re going to be treated as black. I feel this is why ‘Black Models Matter’ created such a buzz, because it’s been an issue for a while. There’s nothing worse than getting turned down for your natural composition.”


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LONDON The boss of Lidl's British business has left the discount supermarket and is being replaced by the firm's executive in charge of sales and operations in Austria.
Lidl gave no reason for the exit of Ronny Gottschlich, 41, who has been with the group for 16 years
His six years as CEO has seen rapid growth in sales and market share gains at the expense of Britain's big four grocers - Tesco (TSCO.L), Sainsbury's (SBRY.L), Asda (WMT.N) and Morrisons (MRW.L).
The firm is currently vying with fellow German discounter Aldi [ALDIEI.UL] to be Britain's fastest growing supermarket.
Gottschlich will be succeeded by Christian Härtnagel, 34, - a 13 year Lidl veteran, who has worked in different management positions across the business, including regional director at Lidl Ireland.
"(Härtnagel) will be responsible for moving the business forward and securing its ongoing market growth, including the continuation of Lidl GB’s ambitious investment plans which will see store numbers potentially more than double to 1,500 in the long term," Lidl said in a statement.
The firm, which trades from 630 UK stores, reported record revenue of 4.7 billion pounds in 2015.
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Walmart has bought a handful of startups lately, and the company says this acquisition spree will continue.
It’s looking to buy businesses in the technology, retail and digital native brands categories, said Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., onstage at… 164 more words
I had the good fortune to meet at a conference the very excellent Frances White who is featured in this documentary. Frances is so much more interesting and empirically sound than the cultural anthropologists who typically operate under a highly derivative and lazy Marxist lens.
Bonobos founder Andy Dunn explains in an interview at Code Commerce rather candidly why Bonobos thought selling to Walmart was better than going public: 317 more words
When Walmart acquired Bonobos and Modcloth, confusion reigned over how these trendy, upscale brands meshed with America’s no-frills most affordable retailer.
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Broadcasting giant will once again offer 100 lucky small businesses free TV advertising, adding free superfast business broadband for the 2021 scheme.
For the second year in a row, Sky will provide much needed support to 100 UK’s small businesses by giving them free access to TV advertising via their AdSmart platform. As businesses across the country attempt to recover from the financial damage caused by the ongoing pandemic, Sky has unveiled its £2m support scheme called the SME 100.
This year’s package means 100 SMEs will each receive £20k of TV advertising across some of the nation’s most loved channels delivered to their ideal audience and location in Sky and Virgin homes. This is double the value offered during 2020. Sky is keen to help small businesses remain connected with their customers, while boosting their recovery as the nation emerges from yet another lockdown.
Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of Sky, have explained that the 100 chosen SMEs will also enjoy other benefits. These include 12 months of unlimited superfast business broadband, as well as a digital phone package, that comes courtesy of Sky Connect ‘ Sky’s new B2B telecoms business. The superfast broadband comes with built-in malware and phishing protection. This latest offering takes the total value of advertising support, provided by Sky since the start of the pandemic, to more than £4.5m.
Sky‘s chief executive, Stephen van Rooyen, said: Small British businesses are more important to the UK economy than ever before. The pandemic has hit them hard, and we want to ensure they can bounce back even stronger. Through our SME100 scheme we’re offering businesses a selection of industry-leading products that will help them stay connected to customers and, more importantly, increase their sales and revenue.
Over the last 12 months, Sky has contributed more than £4.5 million in advertising support for small businesses, and we’ll continue to do all we can to help.
The enhanced 2021 campaign package will be delivered via AdSmart, the market-leading TV platform that enables brands to advertise by focusing on appropriate audiences. This revolutionary technology means a brand can focus on specific targets, whether it is via postcode, size of household or pertinent lifestyle attributes.
By only targeting audiences that matter to a business, brands can be assured that their advertising will be relevant to those who view it. Arran Sense of Scotland was one of 100 SMEs to benefit from the scheme in 2020. Their TV advertising campaign, across specific local authorities in Scotland, generated around £15k in revenue from over 300 orders.
Claire Logan, head of digital and ecommerce at the company, which is based in the Isle of Arran, said: We had never previously considered TV advertising as a viable option for a business of our size. But the process couldn’t have been simpler or more impactful.
Working with Sky, we were guided step-by-step on how to bring our brand to life and reach a really specific group of potential customers in our local area. We’ve since gained a significant insight into our customer base and have benefited from increased brand awareness. It has given our business a much-needed boost during the pandemic.
Those SMEs keen to be selected as one of the ‘lucky 100’, have until the end of September this year, to state their case. The 100 winning businesses will be put in touch with creative agencies in their local area to design and create their TV campaigns, which can run up to a maximum of 30 seconds. Businesses can nominate themselves online and will be chosen by an internal panel at Sky.
All applicants to the scheme will receive a £250 discount, if they sign up for any of Sky Connect‘s 24-month broadband and digital phone packages. The scheme is open to any small UK business that has been running for at least one year, and has no more than 50 full time employees.
Sky chief executive, Stephen van Rooyen, added: The selected businesses will be representative of the UK, both from a geographic and diversity perspective. It is aimed that at least 20% of the 100 winners will come from an ethnic minority background. To apply for the SME100 scheme, and read the promotional terms and conditions, please visit: www.adsmartfromsky.co.uk/sme100
About Sky Media:
Is the advertising sales arm of Sky, offering businesses of all shapes and sizes an exciting array of opportunities on TV, online and ‘on the go’. Reaching over 95% of the UK population, Sky Media represents all of Sky‘s channels and sites including: Sky Sports, Sky News, Sky One, Sky Cinema, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic and Sky Witness. They also sell on behalf of many other renowned broadcasters and channels, such as: Channel 5, Discovery, National Geographic, MTV, Fox, Universal, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. There are numerous platforms and opportunities available for all budgets, and all aimed at helping you reach the relevant audience.
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Sky Connect is Sky‘s new B2B broadband business, offering purpose-built business products, exceptional customer service and an easy-to-follow pricing structure with no hidden fees. Targeted at small businesses, Sky Connect offers the UK’s only business-grade 4G internet back-up product. And the company’s digital phone service has more call management features than anyone else. Sky Broadband, the second largest provider in the UK, has received fewer complaints to Ofcom over the past 10 years, on average, than any other supplier.


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- 7 December 2018
- Transport / Logistics Services
Largely as a result of the growth of e-commerce but partly as a result of the uncertainties around Brexit, average take-up of warehouse space has almost doubled in the last nine years to 30 million square feet according to estate agents Savills.
The build-to-suit warehouse construction method has dominated this growth, with this accounting for up to 50% of all transactions in 2016 but this was largely down to a lack of speculative units in the time period. As more speculative construction takes place, so Savills believe that this is likely to change in the coming year.
Kevin Mofid, head of industrial research, said: “For those who witnessed the last recession back in 2008, there is still residual nervousness around speculative development. However, 10 years later we are looking at a very different landscape where vacancy rates are as low as 3 per cent in and around London and the South East and there is simply not enough supply to satisfy the current demand.
“Assuming occupier demand doesn’t fall dramatically and there isn’t a significant increase in second hand supply, we believe that this is the perfect level of development to sustain the market moving forward.”
Richard Sullivan, national head of industrial & logistics at Savills, said: “We believe that the currently level of speculative development remains just right to fulfil outstanding demand. However it is important that we continue to respond to occupier requirements and provide the right space at the right time and in the correct locations. Vacancy rates of up to 10 per cent can be tolerated and in fact will likely redress the current rental imbalance we are currently experiencing in supply starved markets.”
Separately, news reports suggested that the government, when exploring the potential to book frozen and chilled food to stockpile food ahead of Brexit, discovered that all available capacity had been booked already. Rumour has it that the capacity has been taken by Amazon, ahead of a possible grocery launch later this year.