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Givaudan announces the development of Customer Foresight
18 May 2022 |
Givaudan’s ground-breaking Customer Foresight futurescaping platform will leverage big data, artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Givaudan’s deep expertise to co-create food experiences with customers and meet the ever changing needs of consumers.
Givaudan strengthens Sense Preservation portfolio with NaNino+?, a new natural nitrite alternative for processed meat
11 May 2022 |
Givaudan today introduced NaNino+?, a patent-pending synergistic combination of plant-based ingredients and natural flavourings that can be used as a nitrite replacement in processed meat. Expertly designed with our natural ingredients, it provides a lasting multi-sensorial food experience with great taste, colour and freshness.
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces Centella CAST, an active cosmetic ingredient that naturally reduces the appearance of stretch marks
02 May 2022 |
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces Centella CAST, the natural remodeling partner crafted by green fractionation from one of the most well-known medicinal plants, Centella Asiatica.
Givaudan introduces its SaniScent? platform, the most comprehensive suite of cross category hygiene technologies to date
28 Apr 2022 |
Givaudan raises the bar on hygiene technologies with the launch of the SaniScent? platform, the industries' most comprehensive technologies that reinforces hygiene to improve overall health and wellbeing.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Cristalhyal? e-Perfection, redefining hyaluronic acid (HA) for flawless skin
30 Mar 2022 |
Cristalhyal? e-Perfection, the triple-action ingredient, accesses the skin’s deep layers via electrical attraction to provide well-ageing benefits, long-lasting hydration and mattifying effects.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Patchoul’Up?, a new upcycled active ingredient for hair and scalp
22 Mar 2022 |
Patchoul’Up? is a 100% upcycled active ingredient able to rebalance sebum production, eliminate dry flakes and normalise the scalp microbiome for overall wellbeing.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Neoporyl?, the next-generation pore therapist
28 Feb 2022 |
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces Neoporyl?, an active ingredient that reduces the size of enlarged pores by targeting the biological root causes of parakeratosis, an alteration of the epidermal structure, and dermis fragility.
Givaudan launches PrimeLock+? to deliver juicy deliciousness, flavour and stability while reducing fat in plant-based products
22 Feb 2022 |
Givaudan has launched PrimeLock+?, a natural, vegan-friendly integrated solution that mimics animal fat cells, enabling food companies to take plant-based product development and consumer satisfaction to a new level.
‘Human by nature’: Givaudan celebrates the beauty of the human experience and connection to nature with a new brand identity
15 Feb 2022 |
Givaudan proudly unveils its new brand identity ‘Human by nature’. The Company is changing the way it presents itself to better reflect the role it plays and the value it brings to its clients and the world at large.
Human by Nature
A perspective from CEO Gilles Andrier on Givaudan’s new brand identity.
Givaudan and Fiberstar enter agreement to expand plant-based texturising ingredients to new markets
14 Feb 2022 |
Givaudan and US-based company Fiberstar today announced that they have entered into an agreement allowing Givaudan to commercialise and use Fiberstar’s natural, plant-based texturising ingredient Citri-Fi?.
Givaudan opens Nordic Experience Centre in Sweden
18 Nov 2021 |
Givaudan today reaffirmed its commitment to customers and partners in the Nordic region with the opening of the Givaudan Nordic Experience Centre in Malm?, Sweden. The new facility unlocks more opportunities for co-creation with Nordic customers, helping accelerate innovation and enhancing Givaudan’s ability to tailor food and beverages to local trends and preferences.?
Givaudan Active Beauty outpaces the market by leveraging biotech to offer the purest (-)-α-bisabolol
09 Nov 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is pushing the boundaries of biotechnology by presenting new specifications for BisaboLife?, the purest and sustainable (-)-α-bisabolol. Thanks to an optimised process, we now guarantee an ingredient with a level of purity at a minimum of 99%, the highest rate available in the industry today, outperforming synthetic and natural products.
Introducing Ma Madeleine?, an olfactory kit guided by a web application to help repair the sense of smell
05 Nov 2021 |
Givaudan is proud to be part of a specialised team involved in the making of Ma Madeleine?, a web application that works in tandem with a high-quality olfactory rehabilitation kit.
Givaudan launches Z-biome?, the first microbiome-centered fragrance technologies
04 Nov 2021 |
As more and more people believe that wellbeing is connected to the health of the skin, scientists and perfumers have created two innovative technologies, My Z-biome? and Z-biome? Deo.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils [N.A.S.]? Rosemary 01, the organic BHT challenger
03 Nov 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty strengthens its portfolio by launching [N.A.S.]? Rosemary 01, a functional cosmetic ingredient that challenges butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) by outperforming its efficacy in a natural and organic way.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Masknyl? to relieve skin issues associated with mask-wearing
28 Sep 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Masknyl?, an active ingredient able to counteract redness, inflammation and hyperpigmentation due to mask-wearing.
Celebrating 75 years of the Givaudan Perfumery School
21 Sep 2021 |
Givaudan is delighted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Givaudan Perfumery School, a legendary institution recognised for training some of the world’s most renowned perfumers over the years.
Givaudan joins Animal-Free Safety Assessment Collaboration to advance chemical safety without animal testing globally
17 Sep 2021 |
Givaudan is taking its commitment to the next level by joining the Animal-Free Safety Assessment Collaboration. AFSA brings together corporations with non-profits such as Humane Society International (HSI), who share the vision of a non-animal approach to product safety assessment in order to better protect people and our planet.
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Sericoside to offer skin a second youth through cellular reprogramming
15 Sep 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Sericoside, an active ingredient with the well-ageing power to offer skin a second youth by resetting its cellular memory. Crafted by green fractionation from Terminalia sericea roots, Sericoside is a botanical active ingredient capable of restoring skin to its best version.
Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros establish pilot plant for cultured meat
15 Sep 2021 |
Three companies Givaudan, Bühler and Migros have formed a new entity, The Cultured Food Innovation Hub, in Kemptthal near Zurich, to accelerate the development and market penetration of cellular agriculture products.
Givaudan draws inspiration from nature with Phytogaia? and Thalassogaia?
27 Jul 2021 |
Givaudan is delighted to unveil two new innovative fragrance technologies, Phytogaia? and Thalassogaia?, which are inspired by nature allowing perfumers to bring the natural benefits of forests and the ocean into perfumes.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Zanthalene?
12 Jul 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Zanthalene?, a scalable natural active ingredient crafted by green fractionation with botox-like efficacy and skin sensitivity modulation benefits.
Givaudan strengthens e-commerce presence in China with 1688.com partnership
09 Jul 2021 |
Givaudan, the global leader in fragrance and beauty has strengthened its e-commerce offering in China through the opening of its flagship business-to-business (B2B) store on China’s leading wholesale website, 1688.com.
World’s first toxicology testing strategy without animal testing adopted by OECD
29 Jun 2021 |
The world’s first toxicology testing strategy without animal testing has been approved by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). The testing strategy consists of three so-called alternative methods. They can be used to predict whether a substance causes allergic reactions in the skin.
Givaudan launches ‘Touch Again’, an experiential fine fragrance showcase in Shanghai
11 May 2021 |
Givaudan launches ‘Touch Again’ to highlight the transformative power of scent in uplifting the human spirit through four themes, addressing the uncertainty, loneliness and lack of human touch that has resulted from the pandemic.
Enhancing the fragrance experience with Givaudan’s innovative Bloomful? platform
07 May 2021 |
By combining our perfumers’ understanding of bloom with an array of scientific analysis, Bloomful? makes it easier to define and measure this fascinating concept, which can add an appealing new olfactive dimension to many consumer products.
?The Journal of Nutrition publishes clinical results confirming TurmiPure Gold? delivers superior curcuminoids bioavailability at a low dose
28 Apr 2021 |
Newly published randomised crossover study in healthy adults compares the efficacy of five turmeric formulas at their recommended daily dose, with TurmiPure Gold? demonstrating bioequivalence at a low dose for the first time.
Givaudan and Bühler open Protein Innovation Centre in Singapore
26 Apr 2021 |
Givaudan, a global leading company in taste and wellbeing, and Bühler, global leader for food processing solutions, today jointly announced the official opening of the APAC Protein Innovation Centre.
Givaudan Active Beauty tackles oily skin issues and outperforms retinoic acid with Mangixyl?
06 Apr 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is proud to launch Mangixyl?, a powerful microbiome-friendly cosmetic ingredient with proven efficacy targeting oily skin through sebum regulation.
Givaudan launches the Aroma Kiosk
24 Mar 2021 |
Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing has announced the launch of the Aroma Kiosk, a ground-breaking new digital sensory insights tool, which is designed to connect with consumers in dynamic environments such as grocery and department stores, universities and shopping malls to gather valuable consumer insights and recommend products in real time.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Chronoglow?
17 Mar 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Chronoglow?, an active ingredient crafted by green fractionation and empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) able to mimic botanical epigenetic mechanisms for skin care benefits.
Givaudan reorganises its Taste & Wellbeing product portfolio around Food Experience spaces
10 Mar 2021 |
Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing has announced it has strategically realigned its portfolio to better reflect how, through its expanded product offering and capabilities, it supports customers to deliver future facing food experiences that consumers value.
Givaudan launches groundbreaking consumer segmentation tool in North America focused on flavor
04 Mar 2021 |
Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing has partnered with leading market intelligence firm Bellomy to launch FlavorFinders?, a unique research-backed, patent pending segmentation tool that will evolve the way flavor strategy is built, for the North America market.
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Omegablue?, an upcycled ingredient dedicated to skin repair
02 Mar 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Omegablue?, a cosmetic ingredient created from upcycled wild bilberries used for advanced skin repair. A plant that grows in Central and Northern Europe, we’ve upcycled the seeds to craft a natural ingredient to revert skin dryness, irritation, and desquamation caused by lipid barrier damage.
Givaudan launches ground-breaking AI tools for next generation product development
18 Feb 2021 |
Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing has announced the launch of its unique Advanced Tools for Modelling (ATOM) which use state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to optimise food and flavour formulation and facilitate co-creation and collaboration with customers.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Nootropics
09 Feb 2021 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Nootropics, a collection of six natural and traceable extracts featuring guarana, ginger, green tea, gotu kola, ginkgo and green coffee, well-known among the industry and consumers for their impressive functions as food supplements and their cosmetic properties.
Givaudan refreshes FlavourVision? consumer trend programme through COVID-19 lens
03 Dec 2020 |
Givaudan has refreshed its future-forward FlavourVision? consumer trend programme. The Company examined the seven FlavourVision? trends through the lens of COVID-19 and identified six significant shifts that have the potential to shape a “new normal” in the long term.
Givaudan introduces MoodScentz?, a trio of mood enhancing fragrance technologies
19 Nov 2020 |
Givaudan is thrilled to introduce MoodScentz?, a pioneering fragrance technologies platform guiding our perfumers and creative teams in crafting mood enhancing fragrances across all categories of perfume, to evoke positive emotions using the power of fragrance.
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces B‑Lightyl?
27 Oct 2020 |
Created from ‘Himanthalia elongata’, a brown macro-alga naturally sourced in Brittany, France, B-Lightyl? is a natural ingredient addressing hyperpigmentation disorders in a preventive and curative way.
Givaudan highlights plant-based fish products as next big trend in alternative proteins
16 Sep 2020 |
Research investigates the hottest trend in alternative proteins – plant-based fish products – and explores the opportunities and challenges for manufacturers today and for future market development.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Neosalyl?, a fully natural and pure substitute for synthetic salicylic acid for skin and scalp
15 Sep 2020 |
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Neosalyl?, a 100% natural and pure salicylic acid for skin and scalp that is organic compared to its synthetic alternative.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches New Red 1805, a vegan red pigment for a natural and colourful make-up
08 Sep 2020 |
This powder offers a sustainable alternative to synthetic red pigments, while creating new possibilities to answer the growing trend for healthier and cleaner beauty.
Givaudan extends global innovation partnerships to accelerate new solutions for plant proteins
30 Jun 2020 |
Givaudan, the world’s leading flavour and fragrances company is expanding its global innovation ecosystem with new partnerships to drive innovative solutions for alternative protein products.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils #BeautyBoosters, a botanical beauty collection bringing smooth and glowing skin to consumers
Givaudan Active Beauty captures the essence of the Japanese Beauty (J-Beauty) ritual in a selection of eight botanical extracts, such as Green Tea, Aloe Vera and Lemon Balm, combining efficacy and inspiring sourcing to create a complete skincare routine.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches ‘Skin Care Highlighter’
20 Feb 2020 |
Inspired by the latest Asian beauty trends, Givaudan Active Beauty developed ‘Skin Care Highlighter’, a transforming gel dedicated for the cheekbones that can be added to your skincare routine.
Bühler and Givaudan join forces in Singapore to open unique Innovation Center dedicated to plant-based food
13 Feb 2020 |
The leading food technology provider and the global leader in flavors and fragrances, are bringing their global partnership to Asia to build an Innovation Center dedicated to plant-based food. The new facility is planned to open in Singapore later this year.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Sensory Crush targeting Generation Z consumers
13 Jan 2020 |
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Sensory Crush, a collection of three naturally coloured face masks that meet the beauty expectations of Generation Z consumers.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils RitualEssenz? Brazil, a new botanical extract collection rooted in Brazilian biodiversity
05 Dec 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils RitualEssenz? Brazil, a new collection stemming from Brazil natural treasures, further promoting clean and natural beauty products.
Givaudan Fine Fragrances launches ‘MyBloom’ collection inspired by olfactive extimacy
21 Nov 2019 |
Givaudan Fine Fragrances launches its new global creative vision ‘MyBloom’ addressing the consumers’ need for olfactive extimacy in fragrance creation by tapping into trends such as self-love, mindfulness and authenticity.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Silkgel, the unique vegan biomimetic silk for hair care
11 Nov 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Silkgel, a unique vegan and sustainable biomimetic silk crafted by white biotechnology. The new hair care benefits of Silkgel will be announced during SCS Formulate in Coventry (UK) on 12 November.
Givaudan Active Beauty reshapes the face of beauty for Generation Z with ‘My Blue Guard High Defence’
04 Nov 2019 |
With 95% of natural origin ingredients, this day cream, powered by botanical extracts, will be introduced during in-cosmetics Asia.
Givaudan launches unique flavouring approach to transform the taste of plant-based meat alternatives
11 Sep 2019 |
Givaudan, the world’s leading flavour and fragrance company, has announced an entirely new approach to transform the taste experience of meat substitutes created from textured vegetable protein, a type of protein used extensively in plant-based meat alternatives.
Givaudan Active Beauty will present Naturein? Wheat Peptides during in-cosmetics Latin America
10 Sep 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Naturein? Wheat Peptides, a clean and sustainable alternative to cationic guar, a key specific detangling ingredient for hair care. The new natural ingredient obtained from 100% French origin locally-sourced wheat and crafted by green fractionation will be introduced at in-cosmetics Latin America on 18 September.
Givaudan shares industry-leading protein expertise at strategic conference in Singapore
27 Aug 2019 |
Givaudan, the world’s leading flavour and fragrance company, has shared its leading alternative proteins expertise at a major industry roundtable event, backed by the Singapore government’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
Givaudan hosts global meeting of innovation consortium developing next generation meat alternatives
22 Jul 2019 |
Givaudan, the world’s leading flavour and fragrance company hosted the global innovation consortium, Plant Meat Matters, on 11 and 12 July at its newly opened flagship Innovation Centre in Zurich.
Givaudan and Bühler partner to fast-track market access and innovation for start-ups
16 Jul 2019 |
Givaudan, the global leader in flavours and fragrances, and Bühler, global leader for food processing solutions, have today announced a development partnership to accelerate market access for food start-ups in Switzerland.
Givaudan’s ground-breaking collaboration with UC Berkeley unveils most promising new plant-based proteins
26 Jun 2019 |
Givaudan has unveiled six new up-and-coming plant-based proteins that could likely be game-changers for the food industry, and in particular, nutritional beverages.
Givaudan launches Zap, its unique platform for malodour solutions specific to categories and applications
19 Jun 2019 |
Givaudan Fragrances is thrilled to announce today the launch of its Zap solutions platform designed to address the negative impact of malodour for home, personal and fabric care. As the first fragrance house to offer malodour solutions specific to categories and applications, we design scents that can address very specific consumer challenges for each product category.
Givaudan unveils breakthrough masking solutions for seven proteins
20 Jun 2019 |
Givaudan has unveiled a selection of masking solutions in combination with a new smart masking tool, offering flavourists fast access to high-performance solutions to combat off-notes across plant-based proteins. This effort has resulted in the largest, most comprehensive collection of data related to plant proteins and taste ingredients in the industry.
The Givaudan Perfumery School announces a new vision for a fragrant future
13 Jun 2019 |
The Givaudan Perfumery School announces an ambitious new vision combining our rich heritage and modern innovations to deliver a transformational education, training, and a one-of-a-kind learning experience for the perfumery students of tomorrow.
Givaudan Active Beauty drives innovation with new clinical data on skin microbiome
12 Jun 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty takes skin microbiome research to the next level by publishing new exclusive clinical data for Vetivyne?, the vetiver inspired skin youth booster, and Yogurtene? Balance, a unique yogurt powder and prebiotic combination, with both contributing to the beauty and well-being of consumers.
Calice Becker receives the prestigious French médaille de Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres
21 May 2019
Givaudan signs partnership agreement with foodtech incubator StartLife
16 May 2019 |
As part of its 2020 strategy of collaborative innovation,Givaudan, the world’s leading flavour and fragrance company, announced today a partnership with StartLife, the leading food and agritech incubator in the Netherlands.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Spherulite? R10, a unique microencapsulated stabilised retinol
07 May 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Spherulite? R10, a groundbreaking solution to use retinol in a more stable and efficient way for skincare. Crafted with the Spherulite? technology, Spherulite? R10 demonstrates faster and superior anti-ageing clinical efficacy compared to free retinol.
Givaudan Active Beauty gets high level recognition from the beauty industry by winning 5 awards last week in Paris
12 Apr 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is delighted to announce that its three newest active ingredients, Agefinity?, Sensityl? and Darkenyl? have won five innovation prizes last week in Paris.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils Adaptogenes Botanicals Solution?, an in and out beauty concept to enhance well-being
04 Apr 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Adaptogenes Botanicals Solution?, a collection made of ten botanical extracts including moringa, turmeric, aloe vera and acerola to chill the skin and the body.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Agefinity?, a natural biomimetic cosmetic active redefining skin ageing
01 Apr 2019 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Agefinity?, our latest revolutionary cosmetic active enhancing the Y-zone – the face and neck area – by using natural ingredients and pioneering biotechnology to energise and reshape skin cells.
Givaudan announces partnership with The Kitchen to drive innovation in the food sector
18 Feb 2019 |
Givaudan announced today its partnership with leading food technology incubator, The Kitchen, owned by Strauss Group.
Givaudan co-founds ‘Future Food Initiative’ to advance sustainable food and nutrition research
05 Feb 2019 |
Givaudan announces its commitment to co-found the ‘Future Food Initiative’, a Swiss-based public-private partnership aimed to expand sustainable food and nutrition research.
Givaudan fine fragrance perfumers create new ‘Delight’ collection in collaboration with flavourists
12 Dec 2018 |
Givaudan launches its new global creative programme ‘Delight’ dedicated to giving a heightened sense of pleasure to consumers in fragrance.
Givaudan launches Scentaurus?, a new family of sustainable fragrance precursors
28 Jan 2019 |
Givaudan launches Scentaurus?, a new family of sustainable fragrance precursors. Offering the broadest palette of fragrance precursors in the industry and reinventing the architecture of Fragrances.
Givaudan Active Beauty brings a new breakthrough on skin health and microbiome impacts
12 Dec 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty moves forward in microbiome research while presenting new scientific results to highlight the impact of site and skin types to get a healthy skin microbiota.
Givaudan unveils new approach to sugar reduction and satisfaction
14 Nov 2018 |
Givaudan, the global leader in flavours and fragrances, has launched a new approach to sugar reduction that delivers fully satisfying, reduced-sugar products without added sweeteners.
Givaudan Active Beauty sets a new dawn for self-tanning with Vegetan? Evolve, at SCS Formulate
13 Nov 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces Vegetan? Evolve, the latest variation in the Vegetan? range.
Givaudan Active Beauty is awarded for its innovative concept featuring Darkenyl? with the Spotlight-on Formulation Award at in-cosmetics Asia
01 Nov 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty holds its advanced expertise by winning the Award for the Spotlight-On Formulation Award with the S3D? Colour back concept product.
Givaudan Active Beauty reverses hair ageing with Darkenyl?, an advanced hair pigmentation recovery at in-cosmetics Asia in Bangkok
30 Oct 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Darkenyl?, a new revolutionary hair repigmenting active ingredient inspired from the latest stem cell research.
Givaudan Active Beauty gets Gold recognition for PrimalHyal? Ultrafiller at in-cosmetics LATAM
20 Sep 2018 |
Givaudan announced that one of its latest anti-ageing active ingredient PrimalHyal? Ultrafiller, the dermal fillers challenger, has won the Gold Award for the ‘Best Innovation Ingredient Award’ at in-cosmetics Latin America 2018.
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces ‘Fragrance on the move’ a new sensory experience elating the senses
18 Sep 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty has created ‘Fragrance on the move’, an innovative concept including four products merging cosmetics and fine fragrances to enhance beauty and to provide inspiration, delight and astonishment.
Givaudan Active Beauty introduces EVE, a New Product Development assistant based on Artificial Intelligence for cosmetic products
28 Aug 2018 |
Inspired by the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, Givaudan Active Beauty took their digital strategy one step further by creating EVE, a new disruptive application for New Product Development (NPD).
Givaudan Active Beauty offers a select few customised fine fragrances that similarly protect the skin microflora
07 Jun 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty offers a select few customised fine fragrances that similarly protect the skin microflora
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils a sustainable scalp soothing solution with BisaboLife?
14 May 2018 |
New clinical tests demonstrate hair care benefits in rinse off products with the sustainable biotech (-)-α-bisabolol
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Sensoria, a novel sensory concept unifying fine fragrance and cosmetics to delight consumers
24 Apr 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents Sensoria, a novel sensory concept unifying fine fragrance and cosmetics to delight consumers.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils PrimalHyal? Ultrafiller, a cosmetic alternative to dermal fillers, at in-cosmetics Global 2018
16 Apr 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty has developed PrimalHyal? Ultrafiller, a new topical hyaluronic acid (HA) acting like an aesthetic filler by penetrating deeply into the skin and filling wrinkles, while stimulating the skin’s anti-pollution defences.
Givaudan Active Beauty wins the Global Beauty Industry Award with PrimalHyal? Gold, as Best Colour Cosmetics Ingredient
04 Mar 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty announced that PrimalHyal? Gold, the first oil soluble hyaluronic acid dedicated to make-up, has won the global Beauty Industry Award as being the Best Color Cosmetics Ingredient.
Active Beauty beautifies your lips with its new marketing concept S3D? Fascination
09 Jan 2017 |
Featuring PrimalHyal? Gold, coming from fully sustainable white biotechnology, S3D? Fascination is a deep and long lasting hydrating formula that will beautify your lips instantly.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches Revivyl? at in-cosmetics London
09 Jan 2017 |
By combining their metagenomic pioneering capability and their exclusive skills in bio-guided plant fractionation, Active Beauty skin experts have been able to develop the first active cosmetic ingredient dedicated to accelerate the entire skin regeneration process.
Givaudan fine fragrance perfumers create new ‘Delight’ collection in collaboration with flavourists
13 Feb 2018 |
Givaudan launches its new global creative programme ‘Delight’ where perfumers worked in close collaboration with flavourists to incorporate new technical and creative approaches to their creations and thereby bring more reality and more instinctive pleasure to their fragrance accords.
Givaudan revamps its FlavourVision? consumer trend programme to mark 10th anniversary
05 Feb 2018 |
Givaudan, the global leader in flavours and fragrances, today announced new developments enhancing its industry-leading trends programme, FlavourVision?, coinciding with its 10th anniversary.
Givaudan Active Beauty reveals new benefits for Megassane?, as a skin tone highlighter through proteasome activation
08 Jan 2018 |
Givaudan Active Beauty's marine biotechnology R&D experts have discovered new benefits of Megassane? to act as a natural skin highlighter and embellish skin complexion.
Givaudan Active Beauty receives first vegan approval for range of self-tanning products
21 Nov 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is delighted to announce its DHA range of products was fully approved as vegan, meaning products are GMO free, not tested on animals, and do not contain any animal products or derivatives.
Givaudan Active Beauty wins an additional Gold award for Revivyl? for the Best Innovation Ingredient Award at in-cosmetics Asia
02 Nov 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty continues to impress the industry experts with its latest innovative active ingredient Revivyl?, the very first holistic skin renewal accelerator while winning a new Gold Award for the Best Innovation Ingredient Award in Bangkok.
Givaudan Active Beauty to launch BisaboLife?, the sustainable biotech (-)-α-bisabolol at in-cosmetics Asia 2017
30 Oct 2017 |
Drawing from natural resources to bring beauty to the world, Givaudan Active Beauty presents today its latest sustainable molecule called BisaboLife?, produced by an exclusive fermentation process.
Givaudan Active Beauty unveils its first fragrance concept [Yu] to express and protect your uniqueness
05 Apr 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty presents a world premiere concept called [Yu] (patent-pending), an innovative fine fragrance featuring our latest active ingredient Revivyl? , a holistic skin renewal accelerator, enabling to express and protect your uniqueness.
Givaudan Active Beauty’s latest innovation, Revivyl?, is short-listed for the Best Innovation Ingredient Award at in-cosmetics London 2017
29 Mar 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is delighted to be selected as a finalist for the Best Innovation Ingredient Award at in-cosmetics London for its latest innovative active Revivyl?, the holistic skin renewal accelerator.
Givaudan Active Beauty invites you to live an Hair Odyssey with its new entertaining concept: Immersive Beauty Experience
21 Mar 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is releasing its new “Immersive Beauty Experience” application combining virtual reality and motion sensing technologies.
Givaudan Active Beauty to launch a new ‘explosive’ colour collection of Unispheres?
21 Mar 2017 |
Since 25 years, Givaudan Active Beauty’s experts have been improving their unique visual cues Unispheres? and Unishapes technologies, always offering new application possibilities. These 3D shapes and beads, specifically made for the personal care industry, are optimised to entrap active ingredients or oils, while enhancing the visual appeal of cosmetic products on the shelves.
Givaudan Active Beauty impressed the jury of Beauty Industry Awards with its latest innovations PrimalHyal? Gold and Brightenyl?
13 Mar 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is very pleased to announce that Brightenyl? for Best Skin Care Ingredient and PrimalHyal? Gold for Best Color Cosmetics Ingredient have been selected as a global finalists for the Asia Pacific and European region respectively.
Givaudan Active Beauty enhances the beauty of your hair with its ‘Under Control Spray’
04 Mar 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is delighted to present its Under Control Spray to beautify, protect and moisturise every strand of hair, while maintaining its natural volume from the roots to the tips.
Givaudan Active Beauty beautifies your skin with its new sensory concept S3D? Millésime
04 Mar 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty has blended this consumers’ need with some inspiration from the luxury codes of Champagne to create its new marketing concept: S3D? Millésime.
Givaudan Active Beauty launches ResistHyal? at in-cosmetics London, the ultimate 7-in-1 hair beauty enhancer
09 Jan 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty is launching now a new patented bio-active ingredient acting on keratin infrastructure called ResistHyal? that will revolutionise the hair care market.
Active Beauty launches PrimalHyal? Gold, the first oil base compatible hydrated hyaluronic acid
09 Jan 2017 |
Givaudan Active Beauty extends its hyaluronic acid range with the launching of a new active cosmetic ingredient called PrimalHyal? Gold.


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World War II veterans Ralph Neilsen and Albert W. Whitmore Jr., owners and operators of the Norwood Nursery on Neponset Street on the road to Canton, have been working from Sun up to sun down for the past several weeks getting their stand ready for the Memorial Day trade and announce that they have a complete stock of potted plants, flowering annual«, vegetable plants, evergreen trees and perennials now on display.
The stand has been operated for three years by Whitmore. Neilsen joined the company recently after being connected for seven years with the North Walpole Greenhouse. They announced yesterday
that they are operating a free delivery service for their customers and that they are also available for landscape gardening work. In addition, they have a Rototiller service.
They have elaborate plans for the future of the Norwood Nursery which include the erection of two large greenhouses. They will be pleased to greet both their old and new customers at any time.
(All articles were originally published in the Norwood Messenger unless otherwise noted)

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Analysts Offer Insights on Consumer Goods Companies: Tempur Sealy (TPX) and Stellantis (STLA)
There’s a lot to be optimistic about in the Consumer Goods sector as 2 analysts just weighed in on Tempur Sealy (TPX – Research Report) and Stellantis (STLA – Research Report) with bullish sentiments.
Tempur Sealy (TPX)
Bank of America Securities analyst Curtis Nagle maintained a Buy rating on Tempur Sealy on January 27 and set a price target of $48.00. The company’s shares closed last Friday at $39.86, close to its 52-week high of $42.27.
According to TipRanks.com, Nagle is a 2-star analyst with an average return of
Currently, the analyst consensus on Tempur Sealy is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $40.38, implying a 5.4% upside from current levels. In a report issued on January 12, Goldman Sachs also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $42.00 price target.
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In a report released today, Adrian Yanoshik from Berenberg Bank maintained a Buy rating on Stellantis, with a price target of EUR18.00. The company’s shares closed last Friday at $15.54.
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The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Stellantis with a $22.52 average price target, which is a 46.9% upside from current levels. In a report issued on January 23, UBS also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a EUR17.50 price target.
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By most accounts, the Google Chrome development team has dramatically achieved its goal of building a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier.
Walter Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, who has been testing Google’s Chrome browser for a week next to the latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, concludes “With the emergence of Chrome, consumers have a new and innovative browser choice, and with IE8, the new browser war is sure to be a worthy contest.” Many cloud computing enthusiasts are overjoyed with Chrome and call it the first cloud browser or even the basis for a cloud operating system.
So says Nick Carr:
“To Google, the browser has become a weak link in the cloud system — the needle’s eye through which the outputs of the company’s massive data centers usually have to pass to reach the user — and as a result the browser has to be rethought, revamped, retooled, modernized. Google can’t wait for Microsoft or Apple or the Mozilla Foundation to make the changes (the first has mixed feelings about promoting cloud apps, the second is more interested in hardware than in clouds, and the third, despite regular infusions of Google bucks, lacks resources), so Google is jump-starting the process with Chrome.”


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Fisker Planning to Make Chevy Volt Rival
One manufacturer who made a range-extender EV before GM is Fisker, and according to insideevs.com, who have obtained inside information, the American carmaker will launch its own Chevy Volt rival, which will sit on a new platform developed by Fisker, which is called ‘P Plaftorm’.
The source article also suggests that there’s a connection between Fisker and the Fiat/Chrysler group, which may lead to a co-developed car. If it proves to be true, this ‘connection’ would enable Fisker to make the car they want, yet cheaper, quicker and easier, at one of Chrysler’s many production facilities scattered across the US.
We hope this rumor turns out to be true, as a smaller and cheaper car styled by Henrik Fisker, with a green powertrain is something you simply cannot not look forward to seeing.


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ATI, graphics products group of Advanced Micro Devices, on Tuesday released the world’s first 40nm graphics processing unit. The novelty not only marks a milestone for the company, but also brings new performance levels to $100 price-point per graphics card.
“Consumer pressure in this economic downturn is shifting demand to lower prices and the price band around $100 has the highest demand and highest volume. AMD has responded with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4770, targeting this market with cutting-edge technologies like 40nm processors, support for DirectX 10.1 gaming and GDDR5 memory,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s graphics products group.
ATI Radeon HD 4770, which is powered by ATI RV740 graphics processing units (GPUs), features 640 stream processors, 32 texture units, 16 render back ends and 128-bit GDDR3/GDDR4/GDDR5 memory controller. ATI recommends its partners among graphics cards makers to clock the chip at 750MHz and install 512MB of GDDR5 memory at 3200MHz.
Just like the latest ATI Radeon graphics chips, the novelty supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 application programming interfaces, hardware-accelerated playback of high-definition video with post-processing and other advantages.
Thanks to 40nm process technology of TSMC, ATI Radeon HD 4770 consumes only about 50W under load, which is considerably less than graphics cards offering similar levels of performance. Based on performance figures obtained by X-bit labs, the novelty is slightly slower compared to ATI Radeon HD 4850, a graphics card that used to cost $200 less than a year ago.
Manufacturer suggested retail price of ATI Radeon HD 4770 is $109, however, U.S. and Canada residents may also get $10 rebate from certain online stores.


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Pixel Watch vs Gear S4: that's going to be an intense battle!
We're expecting a couple of major entries in the smartwatch niche late this Summer. Well, none of them have been confirmed, so we are going off of rumors here. The devices in question are the alleged Google Pixel Watch, which we've been hearing a ton about, and the Samsung Gear S4, which would be pretty much on time to refresh the successful Gear S3.
Of course, one will be the showcase device for what the new and improved Wear OS (previously Android Wear) can do with its Google Assistant on board and — hopefully — snappy user experience; the other will continue improving upon Samsung's Tizen platform, which sometimes feels heavy, but makes up for it with a lot of useful features.
We were wondering — if both of these become reality, which one would you be more excited about? Well, according to our poll results, it's going to be a heated battle! Granted, the Gear S4 is slightly in the lead here, but hey — if the Pixel Watch comes in with a bang, it may change these results.


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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to Produce a Party of a Different Color, Chosen by M&M’S(R) Fans
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., May 13 /PRNewswire/ — For the past month, Americans have been visiting www.MMS.com to vote for their favorite M&M’SÃ‚® character – Red, Ms. Green, Yellow, Orange or Blue. Today, M&M’SÃ‚® Brand announced a unique partnership with Diddy that gives consumers an entirely new reason to vote.
To celebrate the M&M’SÃ‚® character voted America’s favorite, internationally-renowned music superstar and business mogul, Sean “Diddy” Combs will produce a special M&M’SÃ‚® Color Party in New York City. This will be the first time consumers will be able to choose the color of one of Diddy’s legendary events. The guest list? One M&M’SÃ‚®-loving American and 20 friends who can win by registering for the “Party Like Diddy Sweepstakes.” Diddy will also meet the winner in advance to help plan his first-ever Red or Green or Yellow or Orange or Blue Party.
“This year, I’m touring North America and Europe to promote my new album, Last Train to Paris, so unfortunately I can’t throw my annual White Party,” said Sean “Diddy” Combs. “But I wanted to make sure there was at least one colorful affair on the calendar this summer, so I’ll be producing the M&M’SÃ‚® Color Party, in honor of America’s favorite M&M’SÃ‚® character. It’s the first time people can pick the color of one of my parties.”
Eligible U.S. residents can enter for their chance to win the M&M’SÃ‚® Color Party produced by Diddy by registering for the “Party Like Diddy Sweepstakes” at www.MMS.com between noon on May 13 and noon on July 6, 2010. In addition to the once-in-a-lifetime party experience, the winner will receive travel and accommodations for them and a guest to meet Diddy to help plan the party, as well as travel and accommodations for 20 of their friends for the party.
Fans can also register to win other amazing prizes while casting their vote for their favorite M&M’SÃ‚® character, including a $50,000 cash prize, a special M&M’SÃ‚® branded guitar and a $25 M&M’S DiscoverÃ‚® debit card – among other prizes. For more information about M&M’SÃ‚® character vote, visit www.MMS.com or www.facebook.com/mms.
About Sean “Diddy” Combs
SEAN COMBS, the CEO and founder of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group is a multifaceted entertainment powerhouse. Sean “Diddy” Combs was recently declared “One of the Most Influential Businessmen in the World” by Time Magazine and CNN. Combs, 40, oversees one of the world’s preeminent urban entertainment companies, encompassing a broad range of businesses including recording, music publishing, artist management, television and film production, recording facility, apparel, fragrance and restaurants.
About Mars Chocolate North America:
Mars Chocolate North America is the North American chocolate operations of Mars, Incorporated. Mars, Incorporated is a private, family-owned company founded in 1911 and employing more than 65,000 associates at over 230 sites, including 135 factories, in 68 countries worldwide. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, U.S.A., Mars, Incorporated is one of the world’s largest food companies, generating global revenues of more than $28 billion annually and operating in six business segments: Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley Gum and Confections, Food, Drinks, and Symbioscience. These segments produce some of the world’s leading brands: Chocolate – M&M’SÃ‚®, SNICKERSÃ‚®, DOVEÃ‚®, GALAXYÃ‚®, MARSÃ‚®, MILKY WAYÃ‚® and TWIXÃ‚®; Petcare – PEDIGREEÃ‚®, WHISKASÃ‚®, SHEBAÃ‚®, CESARÃ‚® and ROYAL CANINÃ‚®; Wrigley – ORBITÃ‚®, EXTRAÃ‚®, STARBURSTÃ‚®, DOUBLEMINTÃ‚® and SKITTLESÃ‚®; Food – UNCLE BEN’SÃ‚®, DOLMIOÃ‚®, EBLYÃ‚®, MASTERFOODSÃ‚® and SEEDS OF CHANGEÃ‚®; Drinks – KLIXÃ‚® and FLAVIAÃ‚®; Symbioscience – WISDOM PANELÃ‚®, SERAMISÃ‚®, CIRCUHEALTH(TM) and COCOAPROÃ‚®.
For more information, please visit www.mars.com.
SOURCE Mars Chocolate North America


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Vu Hong Phu, MB board member, shared MB's digital transformation experience
Vu Hong Phu, MB board member, discussed digital banking challenges at the Shark Tank Forum 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 25, and shared MB's experience with a presentation on the digital economy.
At the beginning of the presentation, he explained why digital transformation was an inevitable trend for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the post-pandemic era.
He noted that over 50 per cent of SMEs in Asia have yet to access official capital and adequate financial resources. This means that about $1.1 trillion of bank capital for SMEs has yet to be deployed. This has huge potential for Vietnam's digital economy. Even though banks are actively innovating products and improving customer experiences, 45 per cent of SMEs face difficulties due to the lengthy time it takes to process loans.
According to a survey of over 2,000 businesses conducted by McKinsey in Southeast Asia and India, around 70 per cent of businesses will switch to a digital sales platform in the next three years. With this shift, it is expected that revenue from digital platforms will account for about 69 per cent by 2025, while revenue from traditional channels will decrease to 31 per cent.
“This poses new challenges for SMEs but also shows the potential for digital partnerships between banks and merchants to promote cross-selling of integrated banking and beyond banking services," Phu said.
The MB leader pointed out four major pillars of a successful partnership ecosystem for banks and SMEs
Phu identified four pillars of a successful partnership ecosystem for banks and SMEs. The first is to build a standard cooperation ecosystem, which is the most crucial element for SMEs undergoing digital transformation. The second is putting the customer first. The third is maintaining a strong collaborative process - addressing exclusivity, data sharing and revenue sharing. The fourth is data analytics.
MBBank has two main digital platforms MBBank for individual customers and BIZ MBBank for corporate customers. Besides digital banking services, the platform has provided numerous services for individual and corporate customers. Over 200 enterprises have been connected with two MB platforms to provide products and services.
MB's digital ecosystem integrates business management platforms such as financial and accounting, human resources, and sales management.
"In the future, after being upgraded, this platform will be able to be integrated with an ERP solution for customers," said Phu. "With the Market Place component, businesses participating in MB's ecosystem can network, share products with customers, and optimise costs when participating in a digital ecosystem."
BIZ MBBank platform offers cutting-edge features for corporate clients
In addition, MB has been a trailblazer in implementing blockchain for import-export businesses.
"This solution helps connect customers with banks, customs, and shipping lines in exports and imports. It enables users to monitor the entire process on the Contour platform," said Phu.
He added that this is a new step for the bank in the digital transformation roadmap for financial and banking activities, especially digitising products and services for export and import customers and improving the customer experience.
With the view to becoming a digital firm, over the past five years, MB has focused on mastering technology and promoting services and products via digital channels.
The BIZ MBBank digital platform has garnered over 200,000 users, including 100,000 frequent users, accounting for 10 per cent of the number of businesses in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the MBBank app has served over 20 million customers, including 12 million frequent monthly transactions.
"MB has reached a milestone of one billion transactions on digital channels this year, compared with 380 million transactions in 2021. The bank boasts the highest market proportion in terms of the number of transactions made via Napas," said MB’s leader.
By completing its financial ecosystem and drastically implementing its digital strategy, MB has thrived even during the tough time of the pandemic, with growth in width and depth.
Entering its new strategic period from 2022-2026, MB has established a vision to become a leading digital and financial behemoth and reach the top 3 in the market in terms of efficiency while leading in Asia.
Fitch Ratings has recently upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Default Rating of MB from BB- to B+, with a positive outlook.
|MB comes top at Vietnam Digital Transformation Awards 2022
MB's three award-winning solutions at the Vietnam Digital Awards 2022 outperformed more than a thousand other innovations.
|Digital transformation accompanying SMEs for viability and growth
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), and Meta just organised the Forum on Accompanying SMEs with Digital Transformation.
|Fitch Ratings upgrades MB's international credit rating
On November 17, international rating agency Fitch Ratings announced its annual credit rating results for 2022, in which MB's long-term debt issuer credit rating (IDR) was upgraded from B+ to BB-, with a Positive outlook.


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They want Congress to carefully vet the TPP to make sure it's in the best interests of American families. And they are skeptical of fast-track negotiations that derail the job Congress is supposed to do.
President Obama is expected to ask for fast-track authority, which would prevent Congress from amending the trade deal that is being negotiated in extreme secrecy. The 36 freshmen sent a letter today to the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Sander Levin. The letter said fast track would make it hard to fix a trade policy that lets big corporations ship jobs overseas:
We cannot afford to have American production and American jobs sent offshore because of unfair trade agreements that undermine our economic growth. When jobs and production factories are offshored, American wages are lost, American-made products decline, and our international interests are compromised.The signers also said Congress should not forfeit its constitutional authority to review foreign trade agreements.
Rep. Mark Pocan from Wisconsin announced the delivery of the letter in a news release:
Too often, our country’s trade agreements have been a bad deal for American industries and for the American worker. As a small business owner, I’ve seen the number of Made in America products available to me dwindle sharply in the past decade because of the unintended consequences of so-called “free” trade agreements. Congress cannot repeat the mistakes of the past by standing by and blindly agreeing to new trade agreements without proper regulation. The administration should make the draft TPP FTA texts public and allow Congress to conduct our constitutionally-mandated oversight so we can ensure economic growth here in America.The new legislators want to avoid creating another NAFTA, which continues to pummel the nation's manufacturing job base 20 years after it was signed. Five million Americans have lost manufacturing jobs since its passage. Capitol Hill should watch out for U.S. workers, they said in the letter:
Congress needs to work together to get American trade policy back on track -- not give away its authority to do so. Reducing our authority to ensure our trade agreements serve the public interest will undermine our efforts to create American jobs and to reform a misguided trade policy that has devastated our manufacturing base through the offshoring of American production and American jobs.The 36 House Democrats said Americans opposed previous trade agreements like NAFTA. The public is also wary of trade rules that trade good American jobs and benefits for lost jobs, lower wages and dangerous products, they said.
The Teamsters strongly support the 36 freshmen. No one doubts the value of trade, but not if it puts American workers at a disadvantage and American consumers at risk. And we certainly don't need politicians pulling a fast one on American workers with fast-track legislation that prevents members of Congress from amending it to make sure every provision is in the interest of American families.


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Vellano has created a set of forged wheels for the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4.
Vellano has created a set of forged wheels for the Lamborghini Aventador.
Making the latest Italian bull even more beautiful than it already is in its standard form is a difficult task. However, Vellano was able to do this by developing a set of forged wheels making the Aventador look even more menacing.
These matte black rims are accented in orange trimming which matches the brake calipers of the LP700-4. The wheels measure 20 inches on the front axle and 21 inches at the back. The Aventador has also received a matte black wrap to make the supercar look even more sinister.


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Parrish will be based in the Check Point U.S. headquarters in San Carlos, Calif.
At NetApp, she had also served as senior vice president of worldwide channel sales. She has held numerous senior leadership positions in marketing and channel sales at Fortune 1000 companies including Symantec, Veritas, Nokia and 3Com (now part of HP).
Amnon Bar-Lev, president, Check Point, said that she will be a key addition to its executive team. Her insights will be strengthening Check Point’s brand awareness strategy and accelerating its growth in the security marketplace.
Check Point claims that it protects more than 100,000 enterprises assisting them to stay ahead of security threats, offering protection from the network to mobile devices.


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Google’s Secrets to Small Business Success
Holiday shopping season can be a major outlet for small companies to cement their growth, but having a non-working or non-existent Website can be a huge roadblock to getting there.
Americans searching the web are overwhelmingly looking for local goods and services, according to Google’s Andrea Faville, who says 97% of searches fall into this category. But nearly half of all small businesses don’t even have a working Website.
“It’s just not a priority for them to get it started,” Faville says. “I think it comes down to small business owners having so much to be responsible, that building a website isn’t at the top of their list. But at the same time, a Website is basically today’s ‘Open for Business’ sign. If businesses want to be found, they need to be online.”
Google has a site, GYBO.com, where small businesses can go and get started with Website building tools, domain name registration and Web hosting, all free for up to a year. Faville says GYBO is just the beginning of what the Web giant has to offer for smaller companies looking to grow. Here are five other options available:
Google apps: This feature allows businesses to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations for $5 per month to begin with. “These things can be very expensive,” she says. “And one of the great things is that it’s all in the cloud—so it doesn’t take up space on your server. People can access them anywhere they have a laptop and Internet connection.”
Users can make edits in real time and work together from wherever they are, she says.
Hangouts for small business: Google’s hangouts tool is a host for live video chats that small companies can leverage to communicate no matter where they are. “You can actually have a conversation just by logging into the Internet,” Faville says. “Imagine being able to have meetings in a remote office, or answering customers’ questions face-to-face, and being able to do it for free.”
Make consumer surveys:“Market research is incredibly powerful… but it can also be very expensive,” Faville says. “Google consumer surveys start at 10 cents per response. You get to run surveys across the Web, so if people are looking for stuff to read, they may see this an answer one or two quick questions.”
And businesses in return will receive a scientifically-analyzed report with the answers to their survey questions, and meaningful intelligence for their business.
Analyze trends: Faville says Google trends lets users see how search terms trend over time, and apply them toward their marketing strategies.
“If you want to see if people are searching more for dog toys or cat toys this year, or when people are beginning to search for holiday decorations this year,” she says.
Become a trusted store: This is a feature on Google for small companies to prove their quality to potential customers, says Faville.
“If you are a small business and you have invested a lot of time creating a great customer experience… someone coming to your business for the first time has to way of know that,” she says. “We have created a site called ‘Trusted Stores’ where businesses can apply.”
Google analyses the customer service and shipping ratings and reviews for companies and depending on their scores, the site will give them a badge to put up on their Website.
“So if a customer is looking around and wants to support a local goods maker, and they see they have it on their site, you know you will get a good experience when you shop there,” Faville says.


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Amazon Forest faces 150 times more deforestation in 2022 than in 2021
During the ruling of Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil’s right-wing, a record amount of deforestation in the Amazon took place in 2022, which was about 150 percent more than the deforestation rate of 2021. A Brazilian government report has published the news.
Satellite images show that 218 square kilometers of Amazon Forest got destroyed in December 2022. Brazil’s National Space Agency (INPE) has captured the situation.
According to INPE’s satellite image analysis, 87 square kilometers of deforestation occurred in the Amazon in December 2021. Compared to that, in December 2022, more than one and a half hundred percent of forests have been deforested.
Bolsonaro’s term ended in Brazil’s presidential election in December 2022. He has defeated by the left-wing presidential candidate Lula da Silva.
The international community has been vocal about massive deforestation in the Amazon during Bolsonaro’s time in power. Environmentalists believe that the climate has been dramatically damaged by destroying the world’s lungs, the Amazon Forest.
During Bolsonaro’s four years in office, the Amazon has seen an average of 75 percent more deforestation each year than in the previous decade. Bolsonaro’s agribusiness friends were involved in it.
Marcio Astirini, an environmentalist and climate watcher, said Bolsonaro’s government is over, but the damage he has done to the environment could last for years.
Experts say that large farm companies and land grabbers for farming and ranching are responsible for deforestation. Moreover, Bonsonaro helped them in this work.
However, President Lula significantly reduced deforestation during his power from 2003 to 2010. He also promised to reduce deforestation to zero by strengthening Brazil’s environmental protection programs.


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Even though most experts say episodes of mall violence don't hurt traffic and sales beyond the immediate days following the occurrence, specialty retailer Zumiez feels differently.
"The effects of war or acts of terrorism, or other types of mall violence, could adversely affect our business," Zumez said in its annual 10-K report, filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Violence was one of 36 "risk factors" detailed over 11 pages in the report.
To be fair, mall violence is perhaps more top of mind for Zumiez. In January, two of its employees were killed by a gunman at the Columbia Mall in Maryland.
(Read more: How malls plan to keep shoppers safe this holiday)
In general, after such incidents, stores and malls immediately revisit their security staffing and coverage plans to determine whether they were acting in accordance with their own policies and whether or not they need to adjust those policies, said Mark Cohen, professor at Columbia Business School and former Sears Canada CEO.
"The greatest issue is likely debriefing and counseling stores' staff who may have witnessed an event," he said.
Here's the full text of the risk factor:
Most of our stores are located in shopping malls. Any threat of terrorist attacks or actual terrorist events, or other types of mall violence, such as shootings in malls, particularly in public areas, could lead to lower customer traffic in shopping malls. In addition, local authorities or mall management could close shopping malls in response to security concerns. Mall closures, as well as lower customer traffic due to security concerns, could result in decreased sales. Additionally, the armed conflicts in the Middle East, or the threat, escalation or commencement of war or other armed conflict elsewhere, could significantly diminish consumer spending, and result in decreased sales for us. Decreased sales could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
—By CNBC's Courtney Reagan. Follow her on Twitter @CourtReagan.


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In addition, Amazon advertising enables precise targeting and the use of relevant keywords to present ads to exactly those users who are most likely to be interested in the advertised products. This can lead to increased conversion rates and improved return on investment (ROI). In an increasingly competitive online sales environment, advertising on Amazon has become an indispensable tool to help companies increase sales and establish a strong presence on one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world.
In addition, advertising plays a crucial role in Amazon's own business performance. Advertising revenue is now a third major pillar of Amazon's business, alongside e-commerce and cloud computing. If Amazon's advertising revenues increase in the coming years as they have in the past, Google and Amazon would hold almost equal shares of one fifth of the US advertising market.
We took this development as an opportunity to examine how companies are exploiting their advertising potential on the basis of current developments. Our focus was on the current hit movie "Barbie. At its launch, the search volume on Amazon for keywords such as "Barbie movie" literally exploded: The volume rose from the low hundreds to over 6000.
"One might assume that the world's second-largest toy manufacturer would recognize the momentum of the movie as an opportunity and use Amazon's marketing options to increase sales of dolls and other toys. With regard to the ads placed, however, it now appears that Mattel is completely missing the opportunity on Amazon. On the advertising side, there is no strong, pervasive advertising presence in terms of own branding," explains Stefan Gutheil, founder and CEO of ICONIC SALES, in detail.
"The fact that Lego and other suppliers are prominently placed for keywords such as Barbie is due to the fact that Mattel remains almost inactive here, thereby allowing competitors in the toy segment or the same age group to profit. And this from a lack of and insufficiently strong own-brand protection. A similar advertising picture (and in some cases even weaker) can also be seen in other marketplaces such as in the USA: There is little to no apparent advertising presence on search terms such as Barbie, Barbie doll, Barbie movie, Barbie Margot Robbie," explains Amazon expert Gutheil.


text: After two years of sitting dormant on the tracks, the Soul Train is ready to move again, thanks to new ownership. Series creator and longtime host Don Cornelius has sold the long-running franchise to production company MadVision, who plan to both produce new episodes for the first time since 2006 as well as release DVDs and Internet content from the show's massive archives. In recent years, Soul Train had only been broadcast in syndication in the form of "Best Of" episodes. MadVision is already talking to producers about the 2008 version of Soul Train, hoping to update it to connect with a younger audience. For the nostalgic set, "The series has never been shown on DVD, and it's not been utilized on video-on-demand or mobile or Internet platforms," MadVision co-founder Peter Griffith said. "There are many opportunities that we are exploring."


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ECB Study Finds Impact of Weak Euro on Prices Recedes With Time
The impact of currency moves on inflation have weakened in the 19-nation euro region, a European Central Bank study showed on Wednesday.
“Over time, the size of exchange rate pass-through is documented to have declined in the euro area and other advanced economies,” according to an article to be published in the ECB’s economic bulletin. “This decline can be attributed to several factors, including the low inflation environment prevailing in many economies over the past two decades and the changing composition of imports.”
The report comes as the ECB is considering whether to extend its 1.7 trillion-euro ($1.9 trillion) asset-buying program beyond March amid stubbornly low inflation. Policy makers including President Mario Draghi have highlighted the importance of the exchange rate for price developments and growth, while stressing that they don’t have a target for the single currency.
“The effect of the exchange rate is strongest and most immediate for import prices, and declines along the pricing chain,” the ECB said. Local distribution costs, a lower share of imported inputs in consumer inflation, “and the relatively long time taken for the indirect effects of exchange-rate shocks to feed through the economy are the main factors contributing to this pattern.”
While headline inflation accelerated to 0.5 percent in October, the highest since mid-2014, it remained well below the central bank’s goal of just under 2 percent.
The globalization of trade as well as the emergence of low-cost exporters in countries such as China may have reduced the impact of exchange-rate swings on prices, according to the study. The growing role of the euro as a currency in which imports are invoiced may have also helped weaken the link.
Still, monetary policy can make a difference.
“An expansionary domestic monetary policy shock will be followed by a euro depreciation, with a direct inflationary effect on import prices,” the ECB said. “It could therefore be expected that such a shock would lead to a higher correlation between exchange rate” and consumer-price movements “than would be observed after a depreciation caused by, for example, a negative domestic supply shock such as lower productivity.”


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Earlier today, a massive amount of confidential information about Microsoft’s current and future plans for Xbox hardware and games was uploaded to a federal court website. It now appears that someone from the company may be responsible for this massive data leak.
Bloomberg It is reported, via unnamed sources, that the information was uploaded to the court website “accidentally” by someone at Microsoft. The site was a source of information about Microsoft’s current legal battle with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the company’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard.
B Post on X (formerly Twitter)Douglas Parr, director of the FTC’s Office of Public Affairs, wrote, “The FTC was not responsible for putting Microsoft’s gaming and console plans on the court website.”
B Post X ContinuedFarr wrote that the judge in the FTC v. Microsoft case revealed that Microsoft provided a secure cloud link on September 14 and the court uploaded what was included in that link to its website, which mistakenly included “non-public information.”
The judge says Microsoft’s private information has been removed from the court’s website. However, it was too late, as the leaked information made its way across the internet this morning. It included information about Microsoft’s next Xbox consoles, including an Xbox Series X refresh planned for 2024 and a new console in 2028.
It also contained information about Microsoft’s next Xbox controller and a leaked schedule for upcoming games from its Bethesda Softworks studios. Microsoft has yet to offer any official or public comment on the information from this leak.
The court now says both the FTC and Microsoft will provide “amended trial exhibits” by September 22. In addition to using a secure link to the cloud, the parties will also “submit a written acknowledgment” confirming that the FTC and Microsoft have reviewed the files contained in these links and “certify that they contain only public information pursuant to court orders.”


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Govt plans to come hard on inflation
The government on Tuesday decided to adopt a carrot and stick approach to combat inflation and discipline the industry. The prime minister asked to the industry to show restraint and not and to hold the price line rather than going for a quick buck.
The finance minister followed it up with tax concessions, duty cuts and export disincentives. Mr P Chidambaram also said the government would consider adopting ���administrative measures��� to discipline sections of the industry taking undue advantage of short-term shortages.
The minister extended tax waivers for refineries and export-oriented IT enterprises and exempted all categories of electric vehicles from excise duty.
The fiscal package included export duties on select steel items and basmati rice, which seek to make exports costly and augment domestic supplies.
At the same time, customs duties have been cut on steel, ferro alloys, coking coal, zinc, skimmed milk and butter oil to ease supply crunch and soften prices. The import duty on newsprint, too, has been cut from 5% to 3%.
The finance minister said the government���s policies, fiscal and monetary, were aimed at making growth inclusive. The Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2008-09 on Tuesday.
The rejig in the tax structure to counter inflation, however, would leave the exchequer poorer by Rs 1,500 crore. These anti-inflation measures primarily target steel, which contributes a fifth of the current spurt in prices.
(This article was originally published in The Times of India)


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A Supersized World
Stop the Presses! There is a brand new King of Technology! The New York Times reports:
New King of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft By MIGUEL HELFT and ASHLEE VANCE Published: May 26, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, overtook Microsoft, the computer software giant, on Wednesday to become the world’s most valuable technology company.
In intraday trading shortly after 2:30 p.m., Apple shares rose 1.8 percent, which gave the company a value of $227.1 billion. Shares of Microsoft declined about 1 percent, giving the company a market capitalization of $226.3 billion.
Technology’s New King!
The only American company valued higher is Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $282 billion.
This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history, as Apple had been given up for dead only a decade earlier. But the rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds a cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.
Microsoft, with its Windows and Office software franchises, has dominated the relationship most people had with their computers for almost two decades and that was reflected in its stock market capitalization. But the click-clack of the keyboard has ceded ground to the swoosh of a finger across a smartphone’s touch-screen.
“It is the single most important turnaround that I have seen in Silicon Valley,” said Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist who has invested in some of the most successful technology companies.
”Microsoft depends more on maintaining the status quo, while Apple is in a constant battle to one-up itself and create something new,” said Peter A. Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook. “Apple is a bet on technology,” he said. “And Apple beating Microsoft is a very significant thing.”
“The battle has shifted from Microsoft against Apple to Apple against Google,” said Tim Bajarin, a technology analyst who has been following Apple since 1981. “Apple has a significant lead. But Google is going to be a powerful competitor.”
Apple and Microsoft initiated the personal computing revolution in the late 1970s, but Microsoft quickly outflanked Apple and grew to be one of the most profitable businesses ever created.
A little more than a decade ago, Apple, which had pushed out Mr. Jobs in 1985, was widely believed to be on the path to extinction. Michael S. Dell, the founder and chief executive of Dell computer, went so far as to suggest that Apple should shut down and return any money to shareholders. (The computer maker is now worth about a tenth of Apple.) Around the same time, Microsoft’s chief technology officer called Apple “already dead.”
But with the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple in 1996 — and an investment by Microsoft of $150 million — the company began a slow path to recovery. Apple’s rebirth began in earnest with the introduction of the iPod music players, and Mr. Jobs began to gain a reputation for anticipating what consumers want. The company elbowed aside Sony and came to dominate the music distribution business with the iTunes online music store.
It later upstaged Nokia, the dominant brand in mobile phones, by introducing the iPhone in 2007. And this year, Mr. Jobs shook things up again, with the introduction of the iPad, a tablet computer that has the potential to create a new category of computers and once again reshape the way people interact with their devices.
Mr. Jobs helped create “the best desktop computer, the best portable music device, the best smartphone and also now the best tablet,” said Steve Perlman, a serial entrepreneur who was an executive at both Apple and Microsoft and is now the chief executive of OnLive, an online gaming company.
Still, Microsoft is a hugely powerful and profitable company in the tech world. . . But Apple has the momentum. “Steve saw way early on, and way before Microsoft, that hardware and software needed to be married into something that did not require effort from the user,” said Scott G. McNealy, the co-founder and longtime chief executive of Sun Microsystems.“Apple’s products are shrink-wrapped and ready to go. The full story may be found here! •
And as for Apple finally overtaking Microsoft in value, this is no surprise to those of us who are characterized by Microsofties world wide as Apple Fan Boys. In truth, we knew there was more value in an ounce of an Apple products as in a ton of Microsoft vapor ware. Microsoft seemed to require controlling the pc industry to flourish, and when it belatedly discovered the web and decided to try and extend its os domination to the world wide web, it killed Netscape by offering its web browser, Internet Explorer, for free (in Microsoft’s own words) to cut off Netscape’s air supply. Ultimately this brought the government’s antimonopoly forces down on it, which considered forcing the company’s breakup. And the European Union has fined Microsoft megabucks and forced it to offer competitor’s web browsers in the European Union sales.
Word is the government is investigating Apple’s almost complete domination of the music business. However, when all is said and done I think they will find that Apple did nothing more to dominate the music player business than build a better player, and then work out a system for buying music that was only competitive with the sources of stealing music. If the iTunes store is easier to use than Amazon’s mp3 store, there is nothing anti-competitive about that.
Anyone around here sentimental? The “I’m a P.C., I’m a Mac ads are finally history. But someone has cleverly strung pieces of each one together into one whole. Taking a cue from Steve Jobs famous line at Apple product introductions, it’s called, “One More Thing,” of course starring John Hodgeman and Justin Long. •
Mark Twain Autobiography Finally Coming
As we head into week number 143 of our blog, there are several headlines of interest. The 100th anniversary of the death of Mark Twain has passed, and to celebrate it the institution which houses his autobiography will begin its publication. Twain devoted the last ten years of his life to its writing, but directed that it be withheld from publication for 100 years from his death. The 100 aniversary of his death occurred on April 21st, and according to the publishers his long awaited autobiography will be released in 3 volumes, the first coming out this fall. The full story may be accessed here!
And someone name Michael Jordon reports at BlackBook.com that:
Every year at the end of May, Mark Twain pushes aside the lid on his coffin, claws his way out of the fetid soil, and tries to anoint a new recipient of The Mark Twain Prize For American Humor, the prize granted to the funniest people in the world! This year, the deserving winner is Tina Fey, comedienne extraordinaire and my and every other comedy geek's future girlfriend if there is any justice in this world. Fey's career highlights include a nine year stint on Saturday Night Live, six Emmys and two Golden Globes for her TV series "30 Rock" (which she stars in, writes, and produces), and a successful movie career that's included such hits as Mean Girls and Date Night. Fey is only the third woman to win the award, after Whoopi Goldberg and Lily Tomlin won it in 2001 and 2003 respectively.
Tina Fey wins the 2010 Mark Twain Award
At 40, Fey is also the youngest person to ever receive the award— I’m going to assume it comes in the shape of a solid gold vibrating sex toy— which will be handed out on November 13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The ceremony will include “a night of humor featuring other comic stars.” Other comic stars? Count me in!
Previous winners of The Mark Twain Prize For American Humor include Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and George Carlin. No word yet on whether Twain specifically requested Fey in his 100 year old diary that will finally be released this year, or if the marching orders are coming from zombie Twain. Either way, all the 30 Rock geeks should be pretty excited.
Spectators in Phoenix hold signs protesting Arizona's controversial new immigration law during Telemundo's morning show broadcast of "Levántate," which featured an interview with Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. Photo: Mark Henle-AP
With the uproar over Arizona’s new racial profiling immigration law resounding all over the nation, most people are forgetting one rather important fact. Although people of Mexican descent who were not born in Arizona are called illegal, the fact is that ten years after the successful Texas revolution in 1836, in its first action after Texas joined the union the United States dispatched its army and invaded Mexico, and after conquering the country, forced Mexico to cede not only Texas but all of Mexico’s territories west of Texas to the United States. From Wikipedia:
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
In addition to a naval blockade of the Mexican coast, American forces invaded and conquered New Mexico, California and parts of northern Mexico. Another American army captured Mexico City, forcing Mexico to agree to the sale of its northern territories to the U.S.
Territories which included New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California, were paid for, but under terms under which Mexico was given no choice other than accept. Houston Federal Judge Woodrow Seals, who ruled that the State of Texas must educate the children of those in Texas illegally reflected this knowledge of the original ursurpation of Mexican lands in making his ruling.
Many of the nation’s “gringos,” English only white protestants, who would wish to pack “illegals” off to their country of origin and making them to go to the back of the line to apply for legal re-admittance, support this point of view making no mention of the way the United States wrested Texas and all states to its west from Mexico, all the while decrying totalitarian states which annex their neighbors territory by force.
Whatever form the solution of America’s illegal immigrant problem might finally take, somewhere within it should be an acknowledgment of the true origins of states like Arizona, and why Mexican nationals deserve special treatment in their quest for citizenship. And under no condition should racial profiling be used by law enforcement agencies to single out suspected illegals.
A roseate spoonbill passes a gull over an island in the Barataria Bay on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The island is home to thousands of brown pelicans, egrets and roseate spoonbills, many of which are now stained by oil. Officials say that it might be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands and islands affected by the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which continues gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Photo: John Moore-Getty Images
And from out It’s About Damn Time! Department, the FDA announced that it is considering a product known as “viagra” for women. Rob Stein writing in the Washington Post reports:
A panel of federal advisers will soon wrestle with a question that has bedeviled poets, philosophers and generations of frustrated men: What do women want?
That enigma will be part of a Food and Drug Administration committee's deliberations next month when it considers endorsing the first pill designed to do for women what Viagra did for men: boost their sex lives. A German pharmaceutical giant wants to sell a drug with the decidedly unsexy name "flibanserin," which has shown prowess for sparking a woman's sexual desire by fiddling with her brain chemicals.
For the full story go here!
Here We Go Again!
My appointment with my new oncologist is Friday, June 4 at 3:30. Here we go again.
Several years ago I was sent to a different oncologist, who did a bone marrow test and declared I had chronic myloid leukemia. He began a treatment which damn near killed me, it made me drive my car off the road, and got me so I couldn’t eat food.
I took myself off of that medication and enrolled in the VA hospital, where they did a bone marrow test which found I did not have c.m.l. and I breathed easier. Several years have gone by since then, but thanks to a recent blood test guess what? My white corpuscles are once again raging out of control. And so I have scheduled an appointment with yet another oncologist. Next week’s blog should have an update on that visit.
Meantime here is what I learned from my last experience with chronic myeloid leukemia. At that time there was only one drug which controlled the condition. It was called Gleevec and it’s monthly dose was priced back then at $3,000. At the time of my original diagnosis my son Joel, who is a licensed medical doctor and psychiatrist, got me enrolled in the Veteran’s Administration under the assumption that the V.A. would furnish Gleevec if required; although the V.A. does not list Gleevec as a drug it provides, it does point out occasional use of special drugs.
It was funny, after the recent diagnosis I said to myself, how could this be as I don’t seem to have any symptoms? Then it slowly sank in to me that I most certainly do have symptoms. For once thing I bruise and bleed easily, and am frequently covered with bruise like discolorations on my arms, bruises which I have no memory of getting.
And of course my newest symptom which consists of very intense naps, three a day following meals. And on some days even more. Worst thing is I usually sleep through the first three quarters of the NBA regional finals, waking up just in time to see the last quarter.
The Heart and Soul nebulae is displayed in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky in the constellation Cassiopeia over 10 times as wide as the full moon and eight times as high. Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Photo: NASA-AP
And so as our space cruiser banks around the Heart and Soul Nebulae and heads on track for a return to the third planet from the sun, we find it’s time to once again take leave of our little blog.
We put up a new one every Saturday morning after breakfast, and it stays up the entire week, except for those rare occasions where we slip something in after the original post. We hope you’ll come back again next week, same URL, for our next edition. Meantime, bye now, be good, and if you can’t be good, have fun being bad. Bye, bye.


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Verizon Wireless has announced that the Samsung ATIV Odyssey - known as the ATIV S in the UK - will be available to customers on 24 January both in-store and online. Pricing for the mid-range Windows 8 handset is set at $49.99 after $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.
Specs for the ATIV Odyssey include a 4-inch Super AMOLED display at 800 × 480 resolution, 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 8GB of internal storage, 5-megapixel rear-camera, and LTE.
The Odyssey's launch in the US is notable because it's Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 launch in the country and adds to Verizon's minuscule Windows Phone 8 presence of only three handsets.
Available exclusively to Phones 4U in the UK with a few different specs, the Odyssey is light and large, offering a big battery. It is also one of the few WP8 smartphones that has expandable storage via an micro SD.
The specs here aren't crazy like HTC's Windows Phone 8X, but at $49.99 it may be appealing to those on a budget.


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J&T Express, the leading e-commerce delivery company in Southeast Asia, has mobilized its resources with the aim of assisting in the transporting relief goods as well as providing other logistical requirements.
Since the government-imposed lockdown of the country last March 15, the company has offered its services, for free, to local governments to distribute relief goods in areas of Mandaluyong, Muntinlupa, Pasig, Pasay, Laguna, Lucena, and Davao.
According to Dean Ding, chief executive officer of J&T Express Philippines, the company will assist any local government unit that is in need of their resources in ensuring that much-needed relief goods reach those citizens who need it the most.
“As socially-responsible corporate entity operating in the country, we feel it is our duty to do what we can to help local governments get people the aid they need. Logistical service is now more needed than ever and we are all too happy to put our resources and manpower in the service of others,” he said.
The company also announced that it mobilized for the Office of the Vice-President in its efforts to aid those most affected. Ding also stressed that the company is accepting requests for mobilization not only for local government units but for non-government organizations (NGOs) and members of the private sector who wishes to do their part in this time of need.


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Bed Bath & Beyond missed Wall Street estimates for the second quarter as sales slid and losses mounted.
An analyst consensus estimate published by Yahoo Finance anticipated an adjusted diluted loss per share of $1.85 and sales of $1.47 billion.
According to the company, comparable sales tumbled 26% in the quarter year over year. Net sales fell 28% to $1.44 billion from the 2021 period. Operating loss was $346.2 million versus an operating loss of $84.1 million in the year-prior quarter.
Sue Gove, Bed Bath & Beyond director and interim CEO, said in a conference call that the company had been able to adjust inventory favorably in the second quarter. She said the company had seen “positive sales trends in seasonal categories and national brands where in-stock position and visual merchandising have improved. Additionally, our buybuy BABY business continues to hold market share relative to other mass market retailers despite the absence of child tax credits in a more competitive environment.”
However, Gove said overall results are unacceptable and that the company is moving fast to deal with factors that have hurt recent results with a back-to-basics strategy.
“Our results for the second quarter came in as previously expected and announced. While our sales and profit results do not yet reflect the strategic and financial actions we have initiated to change our performance, they do demonstrate sequential progress in several key areas. In the first quarter, we experienced a significant dislocation between sales and inventory that we began to address immediately during the second quarter. Aggressive inventory optimization actions, including accelerated markdowns and strategic promotions, led to double-digit improvement in this gap. Working with our supplier partners has also been an important focus area and our payables are considerably healthier than in the prior quarter as evident on our balance sheet,” said Gove.
Although changes in operations made by management have only just begun to take hold, Gove says Bed Bath & Beyond had seen indications of continued progress as merchandising and inventory changes began to take hold, particularly as to improved in-stock positions and visual merchandising.
“Our Welcome Rewards loyalty program also continues to gain momentum with membership expanding by more than 1.3 million since the end of August, for a total of 6.4 million members since launching this summer,” she said. “Enrolled members represent more frequent purchases and higher transaction values across all three banners. Our buybuy BABY business continues to hold market share relative to other mass market retailers in today’s highly competitive environment. We are enhancing our capabilities while leveraging Welcome Rewards, such as the relaunch of our baby registry business later this fiscal year, increasing the effectiveness of marketing investments and realizing the strategic shift of our merchandise assortment, which had minimal impact in this quarter, all targeted to drive customers and top-line growth.”
Gove added, “We have worked quickly to deploy strategic and financial changes swiftly to increase cash through business growth and lowering our cost structure by approximately $250 million in the second half of fiscal 2022, or an expected $500 million on an annualized basis. We are confident that our current liquidity will enable the necessary changes we are implementing. Regaining market share and enhancing liquidity are our top priorities.”
As announced on August 31, Bed Bath & Beyond secured more than $500 million of new financing, including an expanded $1.13 billion asset-backed revolving credit facility and a new $375 million FILO facility. Current liquidity is $850 million after repayments and borrowings that occurred subsequent to the fiscal 2022 second quarter, the company asserted. Also, the company’s 12 million share-at-the-market offering program has launched, which, to date, has sold approximately three million shares for approximately $30 million. Bed Bath & Beyond announced the program on August 31 and expects proceeds to advance strategic financial objectives, it noted.
In addition, the company maintained that it is considering liability management transactions with a particular focus on 2024 bonds. Transactions could launch in the third quarter and include offers to exchange current debt for new longer-tenured debt or equity at exchange ratios related to the then-current value of the current debt. However, transactions could take other forms or might not occur at all, Bed Bath & Beyond pointed out.


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The Laughing Cow, the cheese brand marketed by Coinbase User List Bel Group, is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a multichannel campaign that includes QR code-enabled packaging, online video, digital content and social media. As part Coinbase User List of the effort, the brand created a website that lets people record and share laughs for a chance to win an exclusive “laugh box” to record and replay their laughter, per an announcement. Consumers can visit 100ytlc.com directly or scan QR codes on specially marked cheese wedges to open the website and start recording their laughter, Which is posted on a virtual globe for Coinbase User List others to hear. Laughing Cow will sell the QR code-enabled cheese wedges in all-red packaging at select retailers from February through March, and has a goal of recording 30,000 laughs in the U.S. The campaign builds from the brand’s name to lighten the mood at a difficult time in an Coinbase User List authentic way. As part of the effort, Laughing Cow pledged $75,000 to the Comedy Cures Foundation, which provides therapeutic entertainment to people living with illness, depression, trauma and disabilities. Laughing Cow also is partnering with nongovernmental organizations in more than 30 countries, per its announcement. Laughing Cow’s anniversary campaign Coinbase User List is a sign of how brands have returned to lighthearted themes after consumers started to grow weary of advertising that referred to pandemic uncertainties. Generation Z was among the first consumer groups to express an interest in a return to fun advertising to help fill the hours spent in isolation. With people stuck at home, the effort to crowdsource laughter gives people a way to feel they are part of a community while spreading happiness. It stands in contrast to the website just scream .baby, which earlier in the pandemic urged people to call a telephone number where their screams could be recorded.