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Peru proposes talks to save TPP after Trump firms up opposition
Nov 22, 2016
Peru proposed new talks to ensure the U.S.-proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership will be implemented after Donald Trump vowed to withdraw the United States from the sweeping trade deal on the first day of his administration.
Trade Minister Eduardo Ferreyros, who last week urged the world not to "box in" Trump on his campaign stance toward the TPP, said the U.S. President-elect's comments on Monday had "dramatically changed the panorama."
"But in my opinion it doesn't kill it. We can work on it, change it" so its implementation does not hinge on U.S. ratification, Ferreyros said in an interview late on Monday with local TV channel Canal N.
The TPP, signed by the United States, Peru and 10 other Pacific rim countries early this year, was written so it cannot go into effect without ratification from the United States, which has framed the pact as a way to counter China's rise in the fast-growing Asia Pacific.
"We can modify that clause and also take advantage to modify other clauses that might be uncomfortable for us," said Ferreyros. Asked if China could join the TPP, Ferreyros said yes but that Beijing would have to show interest first.
China has been promoting a rival regional free trade deal, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), that includes India but is not expected to include steep tariff reductions or strong protections for workers, the environment or intellectual property, according to the administration of outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama.
Beijing said Sunday that high standards in multilateral trade deals discourages participation from developing economies.
On Tuesday, Peru announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with China to work on an update of their 6-year-old bilateral free trade deal, which currently excludes textile and garment sectors.
Trump, who has described multilateral free trade deals as bad for U.S. manufacturing jobs, on Monday formally declared his intent to withdraw from the deal on his first day in office, appearing to open a path for China to assume the leadership mantle on trade and diplomacy in Asia.
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Hundreds of representatives of companies and trade groups are warning President Donald Trump that carrying out his plan to impose tariffs on $300 billion more in Chinese imports will hurt consumers’ pocketbooks, hamper business growth and fail to achieve the president’s objectives.
“It’ll be the straw that breaks the camel‘s back for a lot of our companies,” said Karen Giberson, president and CEO of the Accessories Council, an industry group whose members include fashion designers, jewelry importers and the upscale retailer Bloomingdale’s.
The howls of opposition coming from retailers like Best Buy, streaming box company Roku, child-products company Baby Trend and other big and small businesses weakens Trump’s hand as he prepares for a possible showdown with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 leaders meeting in Osaka, Japan on June 28-29.
More than 300 witnesses are expected to testify over the next seven days, with representatives from sectors that include semiconductors, energy, plumbing, software, home appliances, sports equipment, boat manufacturing, chemical firms, pet supplies, bicycles and fireworks.
Mark Schneider, CEO of the clothing line Kenneth Cole Productions, told administration officials at a hearing in Washington that he has tried finding alternative sources of supply, such as Mexico, for the company’s shoes and other products. But Trump’s unpredictable trade policy — such as a recent threat to slap tariffs on Mexico over migration issues — has made it hard to know where to make sourcing decisions.
“I started looking in Mexico, but I got scared off,” Schneider said Monday. “Some sort of stability with this type of discussion would be really helpful. There’s no preparation for anything.“
Businesses have also tried to lobby members of Congress and the administration directly against the imposition of more duties. Their best hope is to persuade U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to leave their industries’ items off the broad list of products that will face duties of up to 25 percent.
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As Christine Gallie she was a world-famous judo champion, and as Cyd Child she was a foremost stunt performer.
This affectionate tome looks at the life and career Patricia 'Pat' Coombs in detail for the first time ever.
Comedy Writer David Renwick pens a brand new novel bringing One Foot in the Grave into the 21st Century.
This week we announce a brand new edition of former Doctor Who producer Barry Letts’s autobiography Who and Me.
With a television career spanning nearly twenty years, this limited edition book looks at the life of Douglas Camfield.
They sound like a firm of solicitors and look like a bunch of Tutankhamen’s hieroglyphs that fancied a boogie.
Fantom is thrilled to announce that the late Peter Vaughan's autobiography 'Once A Villain' is now released in paperback.
All Mapped Out is now available in paperback. Dave Bartram takes us on a UK trip of a lifetime.
Biography of actor Roger Delgado, best known to millions as the original Master in Doctor Who now in paperback!
John Levene discusses the publication of his autobiography Run the Shadows, Walk you Sun, released last year in hardback.
Fantom are bringing you sunshine this month with a brand-new biography of Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind.


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CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Business.com launches a new platform that transforms the way B2B marketers connect with buyers, accelerating the company's mission of providing executives the ability to acquire the knowledge, products and services they need to run their businesses. The new platform and site uses a state of the art data platform, combined with a powerful content delivery system, to deliver high quality content and contextual advertising to help executives in growth companies no matter where they are in their decision process. (Tweet this!)
"Over the last decade, business-focused digital media sites have struggled to strike the right balance of providing both a strong and recurring value for readers while also delivering high quality traffic and engagement to their advertisers," says Tony Uphoff, CEO of Business.com. "The next generation of Business.com was engineered from the ground up to do just that."
The old days of ads without context and leads without nurturing are gone. "With the new platform, we are now collecting millions of real-time behavioral data points from our audience allowing us to create an even better user experience. This also creates a more powerful platform for advertisers to engage with buyers at each stage of their purchasing journey while also streamlining the complicated B2B buying process," says Uphoff.
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- A robust contextual delivery system combined with responsive design provides a uniquely functional experience to the end user regardless of device.
- Further, the new Business.com platform connects the right buyer to the right seller at the right time while nurturing that relationship.
Business.com Media, Inc. helps over 30 million executives in growing businesses each year acquire the knowledge, products and services they need to run and grow their business. Its suite of performance marketing products enable contextual advertising at every stage of the buyers journey driving over half a million purchases for its 10,000+ advertising customers.
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BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — While women's specific bike, accessory and apparel sales are trending upward, there is still a big opportunity to grow.
ORANGE, Calif. (BRAIN) — Triathlon Business International has completed an extensive study of the consumer triathlon market and its economic impacts.
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (BRAIN) — The National Sporting Goods Association found that consumer-reported retail sales of sporting goods equipment, athletic footwear and athletic apparel increased 2 percent in 2014. The NSGA published its 2015 edition of its Sporting Goods Market report this week.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — PeopleForBikes says new analysis of its research into American bicycling shows that many assumptions about women and bikes are wrong.
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (BRAIN) — The number of Americans who rode six or more days remained flat last year compared to 2013 figures, according to the National Sporting Goods Association, which tracks participation trends for cycling and 53 other sports and recreational activities.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (BRAIN) — The Sports & Fitness Industry Association published the first 25 of its 94 single sport and fitness participation reports Monday. These reports provide an analysis and breakdown of participation demographics by specific sport or fitness activity, including bicycling, triathlon and stationary cycling.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Nearly half of all Americans — 48.4 percent — participated in at least one outdoor activity in 2014, a decrease of 0.8 percent compared with 2013, according to the Outdoor Foundation’s 2015 Outdoor Recreation Participation Topline Report.
NEW YORK (BRAIN) — National real estate brokerage firm Redfin unveiled its ranking of bikeable cities Thursday to coincide with Bike to Work week.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (BRAIN) – The Sports & Fitness Industry Association this week released its 2015 participation report that ranked sports activities by number of participants. Road bicycling ranked 7th on the survey's top 10 list with 20.4 million core participants in 2014.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — U.S. bike wholesaler sales grew 6 percent through March compared with the first three months of last year, according to the Bicycle Product Suppliers Association wholesale business report released this week. Sales were up more than 7 percent in March.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — PeopleForBikes and the Alliance for Biking & Walking have published a new report exploring the topic of equity in national bike advocacy efforts. The report is titled “Building Equity. Race, Ethnicity, Class and Protected Bike Lanes: an Idea Book for Fairer Cities.”
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — A new study commissioned by PeopleForBikes has found that roughly one in three Americans rode a bike at least once in the past year — a significantly higher rate of participation than previous research from other sources has shown.
NEVERS, France (BRAIN) — Look Cycles is warning of counterfeit Look 695 and 695 Light framesets being offered in China and Europe. The company says the frames could be unsafe.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (BRAIN) – Fewer shoppers are visiting bike shops, according to The Gluskin Townley Group, an industry research firm.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Almost 143 million Americans, or 49.2 percent of the U.S. population, participated in an outdoor activity at least once in 2013, according to the Outdoor Foundation’s 2014 Outdoor Recreation Participation Report.
DENVER (BRAIN) — The 2014 USA Pro Challenge stage in August brought $130 million in spending to its home state of Colorado, according to a study by sports research firm Sponsorship Science. The USA Pro Challenge commissioned the study.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Executives for PeopleForBikes have selected a researcher to survey U.S. rider participation including breakdowns of rides and rider types.
The survey is near completion and will be programmed and in the field by Aug. 25. A final report is slated for completion in October.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Merchandise sales at IBDs fell 5 percent in June over the same period in 2013 to total $373 million, according to Leisure Trends Group's latestRetailTrak IBD sales summary. And although unit sales fell 8 percent, average retail-selling prices rose 4 percent over June 2013.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Sales of outdoor products picked up steam last month as outdoor footwear, apparel and hardgoods sales increased 6.8 percent to $1.18 billion in the five-week fiscal month of June, according to a report released by the Outdoor Industry Association.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (BRAIN) — Industry consultant group Gluskin Townley is making a bike brand marketshare report available at a significant discount this summer.


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GLENWOOD, AL — (AmmoLand.com) The National Rifle Association and the Pursuit Channel, America’s most widely distributed hunt, fish, shoot network, have announced the 2014 renewal of their partnership to NRA Freedom Fridays presented by Cheaper Than Dirt! and NRA Country Sundays, high-value content blocks designed to promote, strengthen and perpetuate America’s traditional outdoors lifestyles.
The NRA and Pursuit Channel will support these initiatives collaboratively on national television and through a host of associated media, including social sites, electronic member and subscriber drives and print and electronic publications. From small game to big-game hunting, the television shows featured under the NRA banner observe the pro-hunting, pro-shooting activities protected by sportsmen and leading unification organizations like the NRA.
Starting at 8:00 p.m. EST and concluding at midnight, “NRA Freedom Fridays presented by Cheaper Than Dirt!” features: Trigger Time, American Airgunner, ATSN: Stop the Threat, Gun Talk TV, Doug Koenig’s Championship Season, Guns & Gear TV and 3 Gun Nation.
NRA Country Sundays, from 4:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., showcases: The Bear Whisperer, Deadly Passion, North American Hunter, Final Descent Outdoors, Boundless Hunting, Carnivore and Jason Perterson’s Into The Wild.
“The renewal of this alliance represents another exciting opportunity to celebrate and bolster America’s rich outdoors lifestyles beginning with our hunting and shooting heritages,” said Wayne LaPierre, CEO and Executive Vice President of the NRA. “Pursuit Channel continues to be a vital resource in the NRA’s fight for freedom,” he said.
“Our viewers are staunch advocates and supporters of the NRA,” said Rusty Faulk, Founder and CEO of Pursuit Channel. “You cannot overstate the importance of the NRA or the tremendous honor it is for our network to offer a supporting role in its vital work,” said Faulk.
Established in 1871, the NRA and its membership represent the most powerful Second Amendment advocacy group in the world. Visit www.nra.org to join the fight to protect your freedoms.
Pursuit Channel,www.pursuitchannel.com, active in more than 42 million U.S. television households including HD linear and robust OTT feeds, is the only audited outdoors television network viewable to every DIRECTV (604 PRST) and DISH Network (393 PRST) subscriber. MOOSE Media, www.moosemedia.tv, directs sales and marketing efforts for Pursuit.


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Community Roundtable -Hipanic Heritage Month – Latinas Small Business Owner
September 21, 2020 – 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Over the past 10 years, the number of Latino business owners grew 34%, compared to 1% for all business owners in the United States, according to a recent study from Stanford University. Recent U.S. Census Bureau data shows that from 2014-2016 employment among Hispanic women-owned firms grew at a rate of 14 percent. In 2016, Hispanic women employed over 570,000 workers. Let’s celebrate the success of Latina Owned Businesses.


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Select products sold on Assembly can be fast-tracked into eBay Certified Refurbished Product listings, driving more used electronics back into the marketplace.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA, March 21, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — One of the world’s premier ecommerce platforms is partnering with consumer electronics recommerce partner Assembly whose product listings may qualify buyers to fast-track resale of that product as eBay Certified Refurbished. This new program streamlines the process for eBay sellers to provide high-quality products to their customers with Certified Refurbished Product benefits such as free shipping and two-year warranties. Eligible product listings on Assembly will be marked as eBay Certified Refurbished, giving buyers more opportunities to offer their customers financially and environmentally beneficial mobile devices.
This program accelerates recommerce as a pathway to increase economic opportunity while reducing the environmental impact of consumer electronics. Within recent years, recommerce of electronics has grown significantly among Gen Z and Millennials, largely driven by economic concerns coupled with a desire to promote environmental sustainability. These trends are explored in eBay’s latest Recommerce Report (ebayinc.com/impact/sustainable-commerce/recommerce-report).
“We know that our sellers and buyers are passionate about the sustainable and economic values of recommerce,” said eBay President and CEO Jamie Iannone. “At eBay, these values are core to who we are as a company — and we work every day to build a more robust circular economy.”
A majority of the mobile devices listed on Assembly exceed eBay Certified Reseller requirements. Through this program, buyers can seamlessly transition that high-quality product into individual eBay Certified Refurbished listings. Removing these friction points from recommerce will increase consumer choice, drive economic opportunity and promote sustainability.
Created with the mission to provide a safe and easy way for individuals and businesses to extend the useful life of devices, and provide attractive alternatives to purchasing new, Assembly was developed under the leadership of Phobio, a leading provider of consumer electronics trade-in programs globally since 2010. Most of the devices available through Assembly have been sourced through retail trade-in programs.
“Assembly gives businesses of any size a safe and simple way to recapture value from used IT assets and purchase pre-owned tech all while promoting environmental sustainability,” said Phobio Founder and CEO Stephen Wakeling. “We are very excited by this partnership with eBay which aligns with our goal of creating more opportunities for everyone to benefit from quality mobile devices.”
Assembly is an online auction platform for IT assets that makes it easy for businesses to sell their used computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices to a network of qualified buyers. Assembly offers businesses a valuable connection to the circular economy and allows them to recapture dollars to reinvest in new equipment while contributing to their sustainability goals and keeping employees armed with the equipment they need to be productive. Assembly was founded in 2021 and is based in Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit http://www.oneassembly.com
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), which lost its stalking-horse position in the acquisition of Dean Foods but ended up as the winning bidder at auction for 44 of the company’s fluid and frozen facilities, has had its purchase approved by the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The deal was amended to include DFA’s sale of three Dean Foods plants in Illinois, Wisconsin and Massachusetts. The department’s investigation was conducted against the backdrop of unprecedented challenges in the dairy industry, with the two largest fluid milk processors in the U.S., Dean Foods and Borden Dairy Co., in bankruptcy, and Dean faced with imminent liquidation.
The antitrust department also was looking into Dean’s deal to sell assets, rights, interests and properties of eight facilities, two distribution branches and certain other assets to Prairie Farms Dairy.
“This is a tumultuous time for the dairy industry, with the two largest fluid milk processors, Dean and Borden Dairy Co., in bankruptcy, and a pandemic causing demand for milk by schools and restaurants to collapse. In the face of these challenges and Dean’s worsening financial condition, the department conducted a fast but comprehensive investigation, and our actions today preserve competition for fluid milk processing in northeastern Illinois, Wisconsin and in New England,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division. “In addition, the closing of the department’s investigation into Prairie Farms’ acquisition will preserve necessary outlets for dairy farmers and keep milk on consumers’ refrigerator shelves by keeping the plants in operation.”
Last month, Dean Foods also agreed to sell its Meadow Gold Hawaii operations in Hilo and Honolulu to Industrial Realty Group, who will partner with 8 Cow Dairies, a Hawaii-based company, to manage operations. Mana Saves McArthur LLC and Producers Dairy Foods were designated as winning bidders for the sale of the facilities in Miami and Reno, Nev., respectively. Harmoni Inc. was designated as the winning bidder for the Uncle Matt’s business.
DFA is a Kansas cooperative marketing association based in Kansas City, Kan. It has nearly 14,000 farmer members across the United States. DFA had 2018 revenues of $13.6 billion.
Prairie Farms is an Illinois corporation based in Edwardsville, Ill. It has more than 700 farmer members and annual revenues of over $3 billion.
Dean Foods is a Delaware corporation based in Dallas, Texas. It operates 57 fluid milk processing plants in 29 states. Dean had 2018 revenues of $7.75 billion. On Nov. 12, 2019, Dean filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will cease to operate as a going concern in May 2020.


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Granblue Fantasy: Relink Game Reveals 2022 Release for PS4, PS5
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Cygames revealed on Saturday during the first day of its "Granblue Fes 2020" virtual event that it will release its Granblue Fantasy: Relink game in 2022, and will also release the game for PlayStation 5 in addition to the previously announced PlayStation 4. The game will have cross-play compatibility for its multiplayer mode between the two consoles.
The livestream for the event also revealed a demo video of the game, which Cygames will upload with English subtitles on YouTube at a later date.
The game is planned for English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish localizations. Game director Tetsuya Fukuhara reportedly stated in February 2019 that the game will have a simultaneous worldwide release.
The game is an action role-playing game featuring illustrations by Cygames and CyDesignation. Cygames' Koichi Haruta is producing the game, Tetsuya Fukuhara is directing the game, Hideo Minaba is designing the characters, and Nobuo Uematsu and Tsutomu Narita are composing the music. The game will feature a new story.
Players will get to choose between an unnamed male (voiced by Yūki Ono) or female (voiced by Hisako Kanemoto) main character. Other allied characters confirmed for the game include Lyria (Nao Tōyama), Vyrn (Rie Kugimiya), Katalina (Miyuki Sawashiro), Rackam (Hiroaki Hirata), Io (Yukari Tamura), Eugen (previously voiced by Keiji Fujiwara), and Rosetta (Rie Tanaka). Furycane will be a primal beast in the game.
Cygames released the original Granblue Fantasy smartphone game in 2014.
Cygames and Arc System Works' Granblue Fantasy: Versus fighting game launched in Japan on February 6, and then launched in North America on March 3. Marvelous Europe released the game in Europe and Australia on March 27. The game launched on PC on March 13.


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India signs cooperation agreement with World Food Programme for 2023-27
The new production facility will be one of the largest GEA has ever built
Germany-based GEA has started the installation of two complete lines to produce freeze-dried and spray-dried instant coffee using the CARINE extraction system for Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) in Brazil. Scheduled to start production in 2023, the new plant is being built on a greenfield site in Espírito Santo, Brazil, a region that produces conilon beans, which are similar to robusta. The new production facility will be one of the largest GEA has ever built and will give ofi capabilities for significant future growth in its soluble coffee business.
ofi is a new operating group born out of Olam. The company offers sustainable, natural, value-added food products and ingredients and is a top-three global supplier of green coffee, with a presence in nearly all major origins. Although ofi has considerable global experience in the production of instant coffee, this will be the first time the company processes instant coffee in Brazil.
Instant coffee consumption is expected to increase in South America and the new facility will enable ofi to expand capacity to meet the demands of a growing market. According to Preben Dam, Area Sales Manager for Coffee and Freeze Drying at GEA, ofi is proving to be an industry trendsetter: “Having designed and built more than 200 instant coffee plants around the world, GEA is at the forefront of coffee processing technology.”


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News hardware NFT: The price of the first tweet collapses like Bitcoin and loses several million euros
After an unsuccessful auction, the tweet bought several million a year ago, struggling to receive decent offers.
The first tweet in NFT
In 2021, at the start of NFT’s trend, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey held an auction for the first Tweet he posted on the social network.
A sale that ended with an offer of 2.7 million euros…
At that price, the buyer received not just a tweet screenshot, but digital proof that they own the virtual item. As a bonus, an autographed digital certificate on the blockchain containing all the metadata of the Tweet.
Indeed, before being expensive jpegs, non-fungible tokens are a technology that makes it possible to attest to the ownership of an “Object” on the Web.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet ever from 2006 is up for sale.
The current bid is $2 million.
The buyer gets “an autographed digital certificate, signed using cryptography, that will include metadata of the original tweet.” pic.twitter.com/OgsUJBKDYJ
—Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) March 6, 2021
The failure of the first sale
The “happy” holder of the tweet is Sina Estavi a crypto entrepreneur residing in Malaysia.
Not a little proud of his acquisition, the owner posts on his Opensea account (NFT resale platform) “Holder of the first tweet in the world”.
He also told the BBC that his NFT was: “a piece of human history, in digital form”, “Who knows how much this tweet will be worth in 50 years? »
However, he did not want to remain the owner of the first tweet for very long since it organized an auction in April 2022.
The entrepreneur wanted to make 45 million euros, but nothing went as planned…
Sure enough, his NFT’s resale auction ended in failure and owner Sina Estavi received a maximum bid of 2 ether or €5,000 during the time….
At current Ethereum prices the biggest offer is €2,000…
The Malaysian entrepreneur preferred to keep his NFT, which he also compares to the Mona Lisa of Web3, and not accept the offer which would have caused him to lose several million euros on his investment.
A wake-up call for those who buy anything and everything in NFT… Although the potential of the technology is very innovative, it, like most emerging technologies, is too often exploited for speculative purposes.
Sina Estavi has time to meditate and lower his price expectations since the market is not in top form…
The NFT waiting for a buyer
The cryptocurrency crash has caused significant damage to the entire NFT market.
Because of this, non-fungible tokens rack up a double jeopardy as their Ethereum price plummets and the crypto price also continues its decline.
For exemple :
A Bored Ape cost approximately 140eth or €350,000 last April. Today, the cheapest costs 89eth or €91,000.
This significant drop in NFTs is synonymous with a loss of enthusiasm and leads to low volume. Consequently, users are deserting the platforms and this lack of activity is reflected in the offers made to NFTs.
In this context, the Sina Estavi regularly has maximum offers equivalent to restaurant bills, around 20 €…
Nevertheless, a user decided to save the furniture yesterday by offering €1,000 to the owner of the tweet… Will the owner give in?


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It is common knowledge that conventional produce contains a whole list of questionable chemicals and harmful pesticides. Linked to birth defects and lower IQ in children, conventional pesticides are known to be health disruptors. But what about organic produce? Perchlorate, a pollutant and powerful endocrine disruptor that is a key ingredient in rocket fuel, has been found in 32% of organic produce.
In 2005 the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology published a study on perchlorate levels in North America. They found:
“Conventionally and organically produced lettuce and other leafy vegetable samples were collected from production fields and farmers’ markets in the central and coastal valleys of California, New Mexico, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Quebec, and New Jersey. Results show that 16% of the conventionally produced samples and 32% of the organically produced samples had quantifiable levels of perchlorate using ion chromatography. Estimated perchlorate exposure from organically produced leafy vegetables was approximately 2 times that of conventional produce…”
Used by military defense contractors, aerospace programs, and various other military operations, perchlorate has been contaminated its way into drinking water, feed and edible plants, animals products, milk and breast milk, and both conventional and organic produce. It is so abundant in the food chain, in fact, that it has been found in virtually all humans tested. The Colorado River is so thoroughly contaminated with perchlorate (1.5-8 micrograms per Liter) that 90% of the lettuce consumed during the winter months in the United States produced in the Lower Colorado River region was found to contain it.
The ability for health-conscious consumers to purchase contaminant-free organic produce is heavily threatened by this endocrine disrupting chemical. Purchasing locally grown high-quality organic foods from reputable farms is the best option for now, but action must be taken before perchlorate contaminates the food supply even further. The study that found 32% of organic produce to contain perchlorate was from 2005, the number could be much higher at the present.
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IT IS said that quality lasts a lifetime. And it was quality from three generations ago that has allowed 34-year-old Akhona Vundisa to launch a thriving high-end bag range.
Sifting through old stuff stashed in a hut on the outskirts of the Eastern Cape, Vundisa came across two vintage leather bags that caught his attention. Drawn to them, he dusted them off and admired the artistry.
“I asked my father who they belonged to, and he said they were his father’s,“ Vundisa said.
“He explained to me that my great-grandfather was leather bag maker in Scotland, and he would give my grandfather two bags each time he was coming to South Africa,” he said.
Intrigued by the design and quality of the leather used, Vundisa took the bag and carried it at varsity. He said students at the University of the Free State started inquiring about where he got it. That sparked a bright idea in his head. By March of 2020, Dr J Struthers was born.
“I got tired of explaining it belonged to my grandfather, and I decided to start my brand and sold similar bags. I did not have to reinvent the wheel, but I continued a legacy that was always there,” he said.
He approached the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) for funding and was given R47 000 to get him started. He found a factory in Woodstock, Cape Town, to bring his vision to life. But life is never straightforward, and curve balls will always come. As he was preparing to launch his company and the bags, President Cyril Ramaphosa placed South Africa on level 5 lockdown.
Vundisa said he found himself with a product but nowhere to move it.
“I had to think outside the box. While sitting at home, I thought to myself; everyone is on their phones during this period. I decided to push the brand on social media and reach people from their homes,” he said.
During the pandemic, he made his first sale in April of 2020, and he has never looked back. By June of that same year, the first range was sold out. But as many entrepreneurs would know, he did not get to enjoy the profits from the success of the business.
“I reinvested the profits back into the business to grow it to ensure the second range was larger. Again it sold out in 2021, and I reinvested those profits back into the business. I want to grow it first before I can start enjoying the profits, but hopefully, 2022 might be different,” he said.
Vundisa is exceptionally proud of the history behind the product and the stories that the bags tell. He said they tell stories of different tribes and cultures worldwide, including the Maasai in Kenya. The young entrepreneur who admits that he had not done market research when he started is about to conquer the international market.
“We are going to be collaborating with a company in the United Kingdom, Struthers Watchmakers, who make unique timepieces. They will be giving their clients our bags as gifts after buying timepieces, which has me excited. It’s overwhelming to know that people worldwide will now be using our bags which are made here in South Africa by a young man from the rural areas,” he said.
The soft-spoken man from the Eastern Cape explained that the business trajectory was exciting, given that he had to store his bags in his res room as he could not afford to pay for a warehouse.
“Now, my bags will be on the world stage. The next step will be to have stores in all the major cities in the country. I would also like to collaborate with David Tlale and Maxhosa to further cement South Africa’s legacy on the international fashion stage,” he concluded.
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Switzerland, China and South Korea are among the U.K.'s fastest growing export partners, according to researchers.
The U.K.'s fastest growing markets are, in descending order, Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and South Korea, with U.K. exports to these five countries worth $71 billion last year, a study by Wyelands Bank and Global Trade Review, published Monday, stated.
The report predicted that the export growth rate to Switzerland and China was 3.6 percent a year through to 2021 and could reach 2.9 percent to Saudi Arabia in the same period.
Export growth to Hong Kong and South Korea, meanwhile, could reach around 1.2 percent per year to 2021, the research showed.
"The projected growth means that these markets could generate an extra $2.1 billion a year for U.K. exports," the report commissioned by Wyelands Bank, which was set up to help the U.K.'s small and medium-sized businesses grow, said.
At a time when the U.K. is negotiating its future trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28-country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs union.
Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.
While the countries listed above might be the fastest-growing export markets, they are still far behind the country's traditional destinations for exports, with Europe remaining the U.K.'s biggest trading partner for exports with a 46.3 percent share. North America is next with 17.2 percent, followed by Asia Pacific (7 percent), Sub-Saharan Africa (5.4 percent), Middle East and North Africa (1.8 percent) and South America (1.2 percent), the report said.
Wyelands predicted that exports to the Asia Pacific region are expected to grow at 3 percent a year to 2021 and 0.5 percent annually to South America, until 2021.
The report stated that the U.K. economy is highly dependent on trade as it accounts for 58 percent of U.K. gross domestic product (GDP). "This makes the U.K. economy one of the most open in the Group of 20 (major economies), and more open than China, America and Japan," the report noted.
In 2016, the U.K. exported goods worth $433.5 billion and imported goods worth $678.1 billion.


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Smartphones can be addictive
Some of us are practically chained to our smartphones. Indeed, 30% of people surveyed by Pew described their smartphone as a "leash."
In the Bank of America survey, 89% of Americans said they check their smartphone at least a few times a day, and 36% check it constantly. Further demonstrating our attachment to smartphones, 44% of Americans in the Bank of America survey reported they couldn't make it a day without their smartphone.
"Whether we admit it or not, we're in a serious relationship with our smartphones. That relationship, however, is often one-sided," according to Motorola.
If you feel as though you're addicted to your smartphone, Roberts offers this cure: Cozy up to a block of wood in the shape of a smartphone to soothe you when you're suffering withdrawal symptoms.
"It's the same principle as pulling out a stick of gum when you're trying to quit smoking," he says.


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The South Dakota Pork Producers Council will hold its 43rd Annual Pork Congress at the Sioux Falls Ramkota Hotel and Exhibit Hall Jan. 12-13.
The two-day trade show will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 13. Exhibitors will display the latest in technology, equipment, feeds, and vet supplies. Admission to the trade show is free and a pork loin feed is available to all in attendance Thursday beginning at 11:30 a.m. in the Ramkota Exhibit Hall Annex.
On Thursday at 10:30 a.m., an educational seminar will feature Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics. He will discuss the economic outlook for the pork industry and the projections for input costs.
A PQA Plus certification session is available on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 1 p.m. in the seminar area of the exhibit hall. PQA Plus is a voluntary program for pork farmers to demonstrate to consumers their commitment to providing the best care possible for their animals while also providing the highest quality and safest product possible.
At 2 p.m., producers will be able to receive Transport Quality Assurance certification. TQA is a program designed by the National Pork Board to teach producers how to handle and transport pigs.
Thursday's events end the Master Pork Producers Recognition banquet.
During the annual Awards Luncheon on Friday, the SDPPC will present several awards to industry leaders, including a pork environmental steward award to Ferlyn and Karen Hofer, of Canistota.
Friday afternoon's session begins with a cooking demonstration from the SDSU Meats Department.
At 2 p.m. Nancy Lidster, of DNL Farms, with be talking about misconceptions about pig behavior that cause pig handling problems. She will go over ineffective handling methods that require more time and often extra people than necessary.
New this year is a session in which producers can ask an industry panel questions about management, finance, nutrition ventilation and animal handling.
The convention wraps up with a reception and Pork PAC silent auction Friday evening.
A full schedule of events is available at www.sdpork.orgSource: South Dakota Pork Producers Council


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I’ve been a beauty editor for more than a decade so I generally know what brands are Black-owned and which ones aren’t even if they cater to the Black community. But even I need a reminder while shopping. Target’s Black-owned brand badge came just in time. While we’re all making an effort to shop more from this community, Target is helping make it a little easier. It’s not perfect (I have some issues with this badge and I’ll explain) but it’s a great step in the right direction.
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When Brown Girl Jane launched the BrownGirlSwap pledge on social media, the founders of the CBD-based beauty and wellness brand knew they were just getting started. The hashtag began as way to encourage people to buy Black, asking Instagram users to replace (at least) five of their go-to products with brands owned by Black women, and became a directory for people to discover new Black-owned businesses through the BrownGirlSwap tag. Now, the women behind the brand — Malaika Jones Kebede, Nia Jones, and Tai Beauchamp — are gearing up to take their already impactful initiative to a whole new level in partnership with SheaMoisture, the Black-owned global brand that values at close to a billion dollars.The BrownGirlSwap caught the attention of SheaMoisture this year, and the company reached out to help the indie founders take their mission of reinvesting in the community even further. In coming together, the two brands reimagined the newly expanded BrownGirlSwap, which will now offer extensive support to Black-owned independent beauty and wellness brands and aspiring interns. “We quickly got together with our teams and brainstormed what it could mean to impact Black women-owned businesses in the beauty and wellness space — and how we could change the face of these spaces in a meaningful way,” Beauchamp tells Refinery29. For a mass-market behemoth and a smaller independent brand, the collaboration was surprisingly seamless.“ “We were so inspired by Brown Girl Jane’s three dynamic founders, and the ability of other Black beauty founders to build dynamic businesses,” says Cara Sabin, Sundial Brand and SheaMoisture CEO. “Our brands connected even further over the shared mission to support and uplift these businesses as we continue SheaMoisture’s long history of meeting Black women’s unique needs in personal care.”To create real systemic change, the brands knew they had to offer more than one solution. So they conceived five pillars: Amplify, Fund, Empower, Diversify, and Swap. Under these points, they aim to give Black female founders a platform to amplify their brands, enable them to receive entrepreneurial mentorship from industry veterans, and award funding with an investment of a $250,000 grant fund. Additionally, the initiative will be offering a semester-long, paid internship program for Black college students in 2021 — and that’s not all. The brands are also set to host a free virtual summit that serves as a business boot camp and networking space this September. Whether you switch out your own products with the pledge, show support as a company, or get investment and mentorship as a Black-owned indie beauty or wellness business, there’s something for everyone. “We wanted to make sure that the approach was not only comprehensive, but touching people in different stages,” says Jones Kebede.> “It’s important for us to create and partner on opportunities and spaces that encourage the growth of women of color in business.”> > Cara Sabin, Sundial Brand and SheaMoisture CEOFar from just another advantageous partnership, every aspect of the initiative is rooted in personal experience. Venture capital currently invests in fewer than 1% of Black female founders, and major beauty and wellness companies have less than 5% Black representation — when Black Americans spent over $1 trillion on the consumer market in 2019. The founders of BROWN GIRL Jane are all too familiar with the racial economic divide in these industries, and want to change that reality for Black-owned women entrepreneurs. “Everything we do and the way that we do it is really about our personal experience and centering women who are like us,” says Beauchamp. Sabin adds, “It’s important for us to create and partner on opportunities and spaces that encourage the growth of women of color in business.”Ultimately, SheaMoisture and Brown Girl Jane hope to not only help remove the roadblocks for current and future Black women entrepreneurs but also inspire big corporations to contribute in more significant ways — including by supporting smaller brands. “It’s not about competition. It’s more about the power of collaboration and recognizing that we all have a role to play in creating and supporting change,” says Beauchamp. Jones Kebede adds, “Big brands should look to the communities that they’re aiming to serve for both partnership and feedback as they build.”According to the Brown Girl Jane founders, the mission of the BrownGirlSwap will continue to grow from here, and they’re excited to see its continuation and ongoing impact. As Jones Kebede says, “Just to be able to point to these future or current entrepreneurs and know that the BrownGirlSwap has a small role in helping to power and push us all forward is why we’re doing this. That’s our fuel to keep this going.”Follow @itsbrowngirljane and @sheamoisture on Instagram to stay updated on the new initiative. Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?
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Alicia Keys’ naturally glowy complexion has always made us wonder what beauty products the singer-songwriter has in rotation, even before she first committed to going without makeup in 2016. Now, Keys’ dedication to the beauty revolution is going one step further with the upcoming launch of a lifestyle beauty brand, announced today in conjunction with e.l.f. Beauty.Not to be mistaken for a collaboration, Keys will be launching her very own brand under the e.l.f. Beauty portfolio, which acquired W3LL People earlier this year. The company dropped the news today, revealing that the line is expected to launch in 2021. “We are beyond thrilled to leverage our strengths to help realize Alicia’s vision, as it not only aligns with our mission to make the best of beauty accessible but infuses it with an even deeper dimension,” said Tarang Amin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, e.l.f. Beauty, in a press statement. While we don’t know the specific categories Keys will be entering or the name of the brand just yet, we do know that the formulations will be dermatologist-developed and cruelty-free, according to the company. The fact that it’s operating under the e.l.f. umbrella might also suggest that the prices will be wallet-friendly, like the company’s two other brands.Keys’ new venture will also have a lifestyle component, as the press release explains: “A culmination of Keys’ personal skincare journey and her passion for bringing light into the world, this new lifestyle beauty brand will enable Alicia to further explore conversations about inner beauty, wellness and connection…. The brand aims to bring new meaning to beauty by honoring ritual in our daily life and practicing intention in every action.” Keys hasn’t officially spoken out about the announcement, but we’re eagerly awaiting product specifics — and following the news closely for more updates in the future.Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?
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Fans of Selena Gomez have been eagerly awaiting a launch date for her cosmetics brand, Rare Beauty, which the singer previously said would arrive in the summer of 2020. Well, now that moment is finally here. This afternoon, the brand founder took to Instagram to reveal the official drop date — and it’s a lot sooner than we expected.“I’m SO excited to finally share that @RareBeauty will be launching September 3rd only at @Sephora, @SephoraCanada, @SephoraMx and RareBeauty.com,” wrote Gomez in the caption. “I’ve had so much fun creating everything and can’t wait for y’all to try it all! I hope you love it as much as I do!”> View this post on Instagram> > A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Aug 4, 2020 at 9:31am PDTGomez also appeared in a video on Rare Beauty’s official Instagram to speak more on the brand’s mission, and her vision as the founder. “I live in a time where it’s all about face. It’s all about makeup. It’s all about how you look in a lot of ways. That could be exciting and fun, but at the same time, it could just be a bit dangerous,” she says in the video. “So, I wanted people to feel like makeup is something that you could enjoy. It’s not something that you need. I felt like that’s kind of who I am. I’m very authentic. I’m very real with my fans, so I’m excited that I got to venture into this.”Gomez also told her followers who the brand is for and what she hopes they feel when shopping for these products. “Any girl, woman, boy, whoever they are, can just feel beautiful just exactly how they are,” she says.> View this post on Instagram> > A post shared by Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez (@rarebeauty) on Aug 4, 2020 at 9:34am PDTWhile Gomez hasn’t revealed the exact products that will be available at launch, we know there’s probably a red lipstick in the mix, and the founder previously shared that fans can expect a wide range of complexion products, too. No matter what she has planned, we’re sure the products will fly off the shelves given the anticipation around this release. But just in case September sneaks up on all of us — because what is time in 2020? — you can add your name to the waitlist at rarebeauty.com. Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?
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Transparency. That’s a word that Camila Coelho has kept top of mind throughout her decade-long career as a content creator, ensuring that she only ever recommends brands and products she truly loves to her over 1 million YouTube subscribers. But transparency took on a whole new meaning for the Brazilian influencer at the beginning of the year, when she kicked off 2020 by publicly sharing her epilepsy diagnosis — and the struggles she’s faced because of it — for the first time. Now, Coelho is bringing the spirit of vulnerability to her newest project: a mindful beauty brand that stands for much more than just the products. Dropping today, Elaluz, which translates to “she is light” in Portuguese, is a a curated luxury collection that focuses on essentials across all categories, including makeup, skin, and hair. Still, Coelho doesn’t just want consumers to walk away with new beauty buys; she wants them to stop and think about the brand’s name, and how they can draw inspiration from it. “I truly believe that everyone has a beautiful, individual light shining inside of them. Sometimes depending on what we go through or what happens to us, we block that light ourselves,” she tells Refinery29 via Zoom, two weeks ahead of the launch. “It will be a reminder for people that every time they touch or see our products to remember the power of their light within and how it can completely change their lives.”Coelho has a deep connection to the importance of finding one’s light: The founder recalls the personal hardships she faced as a result of epilepsy, especially during her teenage years, after her diagnosis at age nine. Coelho says she grew up as an outgoing kid who loved to dance, but she found herself changing as she came to terms with the neurological disorder, which is characterized by seizures caused by sudden surges of electrical activity in the brain. “I lost my light in a way,” she shares. “I became more not like myself, from the way I used to dress to the way I was putting makeup on. After a few years, I realized that I needed to get my life back. I needed to be like myself again.” > “I realized that I needed to get my life back. I needed to be like myself again.” > > Camila CoelhoPutting her energy into her platform led Coelho back to that light. With two successful YouTube pages offering beauty tutorials in English and her native Portuguese, numerous collaborations — including a 10-lipstick line with Lancôme — and an eponymous fashion brand, the 32-year-old is ready to manifest more of her visions with Elaluz. This brand has been a longtime dream for the one-time pro makeup artist (she worked the Dior makeup counter at her local Macy’s), who remembers her grandmother giving her her first red lipstick at six years old for her passport photo. “I grew up playing with makeup, and I have all of these memories of myself in my grandmother’s house,” she recalls, also crediting her mom for allowing her to “dream big.”The social media star fights back tears as she describes how she never imagined launching brands in the United States when she emigrated from a small town in Brazil at 14. “Sometimes, it seemed impossible. It gets me emotional because it’s such a big dream coming true,” she says. Her love for her South American roots is exactly why Coelho set out to incorporate touches of her cultural background in her brand, from the Portuguese name and messages to the Brazilian ingredients included in her formulations. “I really wanted to bring my heritage into this because I’m so proud of where I come from and how I grew up,” she adds. “I want everyone to feel a little bit of Brazil and Latin America.” The attention to detail doesn’t stop there: In addition to considering feedback from her social followers over the years, Coelho also committed to mindfulness in everything from the packaging to the formulations. The brand uses recyclable, reusable materials when possible and FSC-certified boxes, if boxes are needed at all. The products will also leave out any and all of the 1,600 known toxins banned by the European Union. Instead of entire collections, Coelho intends to focus on key products, adding one or two to the lineup each month. For the inaugural launch, Elaluz is releasing the hydrating 24K Lip Therapy treatment and Lip & Cheek Stain. In addition to makeup, Coelho plans to venture into hair, skin care, and more. “We’re looking more to have less product and instead products that work for us and that we’re actually going to use, rather than having all of these things that we don’t touch,” she tells us. Ultimately, this project, with all of its personal touches and thoughtful details, signifies a full-circle moment for the beauty lover who once lost her light. 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Sophos has published a new report showing how Apple device users are being targeted by applications that overcharge users through costly subscriptions or unscrupulous in-app purchases.
Sophos calls this kind of app “fleeceware” and researchers have found more than 30 iOS fleeceware apps available on Apple’s official App Store. Between them they appear to have been installed around 3.6 million times, according to publicly available data.
The fleeceware apps include image editors, horoscope/fortune telling/palm reader, QR code/barcode scanner, and face filter apps, with some charging weekly subscriptions of $9.99 (or $520 a year).
Sophos first alerted mobile users to fleeceware in September 2019, when it found a number of such apps available for Android phones. In January 2020, the researchers published a further paper, Fleeceware Apps Persist on the Play Store, detailing the discovery of another 20 such applications, with nearly 600 million alleged installations between them, as reported by Google Play.
“The main purpose of the iOS fleeceware apps we found seems to be severely overcharging users,” said Jagadeesh Chandraiah, senior security researcher at SophosLabs and the report author. “As was the case with the Android apps discovered in 2019, the app developers take advantage of monetization practices widely used by legitimate free apps, but take them one step further. For example, in the hands of the fleeceware app developers, short free trials followed by a monthly subscription soon add up to hundreds of dollars a year in charges, and in-app purchases turn out to be essential for good app functionality rather than optional enhancements or extras.


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The one thing investors were probably most concerned about in this week’s report was iPhone sales, which were weaker than expected. Wall Street was hoping the company shipped 55 million iPhones, but it only shipped 51 million. Nonetheless, as Apple bulls point out, the company did beat revenue and earnings per share estimates. The strength just didn’t come from the place most thought it would.
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Reflecting on Apple’s results
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek and his team continue to rate Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as a Buy with a $650 per share price target. They note that strength in iPad and Mac shipments offset the weaker than expected iPhone shipments during the December quarter. Apple reported shipping 26 million iPads, compared to expectations of 25 million and Mac shipments of 4.8 million, compared to estimates of between 4.5 million and 4.7 million. Apple came up light in iPod shipments too, however, reporting 6 million shipments during the quarter, compared to expectations of between 8 million and 10.3 million.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported $57.6 billion in revenue, compared to guidance of between $55 billion and $58 billion and expectations of between $57.1 billion and $57.5 billion. Gross margins were 37.9%, beating the company’s guidance of between 36.2% and 37.5% and expectations of between 37.2% and 37.4%.
Apple guides weak as well
Another key area of concern for investors is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s guidance, which was also lower than expected. Revenues were a little lower than expectations and imply earnings per share of between $9.37 and $10.25 for the current quarter, which ends in March. Expectations for the quarter are running between $10.84 and $11.11 per share.
Nonetheless, Misek expects that the projected strength in margins in the December quarter bodes well for the quarter in spite of the miss on iPhones. He describes himself as remaining “bullish ahead of the iPhone 6 launch.”
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Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White believes the March quarter guidance will give activist investor Carl Icahn more “ammunition” in his battle for a greater share buyback. He has been pushing Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) to buy back billions of dollars’ worth of its stock as soon as possible. His initial push was for $150 billion in share buybacks, although he dialed that back a bit in his non-binding shareholder proposal, which will be on the proxy at next month’s annual shareholder meeting.


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WestCoast Hospitality Corp., of Spokane, soon will launch a new version of its Internet ticketing site that will allow customers to book hotel rooms, event tickets, and entertainment packages on line, all at once.
The site, www.ticketswest.com, will bring together in one place the services provided by WestCoasts various businessesWestCoast Hotels, WestCoast Entertainment (formerly G&B Presents, a theatrical presentation company), and TicketsWest.com (formerly G&B Select-a-Seat, an Internet ticketing service). Until now, customers had to buy tickets on one Internet site and reserve rooms on another.
Don Barbieri, president and CEO of WestCoast Hospitality, says he envisions customers going on line to book a weekend trip to Seattle, for example, that would include a hotel stay, a theater show, and a Mariners baseball game.
We view the 70-some million aging baby boomers in the U.S. and the 17 million in Canada to be prime prospects for easy consumption of leisure activities, Barbieri says of WestCoasts strategy.
To make the site, and the concept, work, WestCoast Hospitality will begin creating packages of services in markets where such synergy doesnt already exist for the company, he says. For example, WestCoast could seek to acquire hotels in cities where it already has ticketing operations or where it produces theatrical shows, or could begin presenting big-name shows in cities where it owns hotels, he says.
Were, generally speaking, going to be taking WestCoast Entertainment into the same markets that were taking WestCoast Hotels and taking our ticketing operations, he says. Barbieri says the packaging of hotels, shows, and tickets is very unique in the hospitality industry.
WestCoast Hospitality owns, operates, or manages 46 hotels in nine Western states. Cavanaughs Hospitality Corp. purchased Seattle-based WestCoast Hotels Inc. late last year, and in March renamed the company WestCoast Hospitality. TicketsWest.com operates in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Colorado, and WestCoast Entertainment presents shows in selected cities throughout the West, including the Best of Broadway series in Spokane.
In separate news, Barbieri says that WestCoast Hospitality will rename all of its Cavanaughs hotels on July 1. In Spokane, Cavanaughs Inn at the Park will become the WestCoast Grand at the Park, while Cavanaughs River Inn will be called the WestCoast River Inn.
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*FUBU founder and “Shark Tank” staple Daymond John has signed with Gersh for representation in TV, film and transmedia, and in January will release his new book, Rise and Grind, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
John has been with the ABC entrepreneurial reality series “Shark Tank” since its launch in 2009. He famously founded FUBU in his mother’s basement in 1992, and has grown the streetwear brand to more than $6 billion in global retail sales, pioneering an entire $20 billion industry.
“We are thrilled to work with the incredible Daymond John on a multitude of exciting and dynamic business opportunities,” Gersh said in a statement. “From a global perspective, he is the head of an unequaled brand, and we look forward to working with him in finding unique partnerships and developing new content.”
Last year John released the New York Times best-seller The Power of Broke, which won the 2017 NAACP Image Award for outstanding instructional literary work.
John also runs consulting firm The Shark Group as its CEO and last year opened Blueprint + Co, a shared workspace in midtown Manhattan for executives and entrepreneurs who have notched at least $250,000 in sales or annual revenue. Appointed during the Obama administration as a presidential ambassador for global entrepreneurship, John sits on the boards of The Petco Foundation and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and is an ambassador for Global Citizen, the Global Poverty Project and the My Brothers Keeper initiative.


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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- What do you do when your endorser works too well?
Kirstie Alley's Weight Is Jenny Craig's Loss
How the Brand Plans to Keep Expanding Without Successful Spokeswoman
If you're Jenny Craig, you hire another fat actress. Kirstie Alley helped the weight-loss chain reap 1 billion media impressions last year and nearly double its number of customers after she went on its program and shed 75 pounds.
But two years later, she has no weight left to lose. So Jenny Craig has signed another classic TV star: Valerie Bertinelli.
Following the formula that has helped the once-faded diet plan curry favor with a contemporary audience, the chain is inviting the public to share in the weight-loss story of "One Day at a Time" actress Ms. Bertinelli. She was featured on "The View," "Rachael Ray" and "Larry King Live" and on the cover of People during the first week of the campaign. In initial ads, Ms. Alley is featured as her diet mentor.
The Kirstie Alley campaign was "dramatic in that it has helped change consumers' perception of the brand to a more contemporary choice," said Scott Parker, Jenny Craig VP-marketing. The Nestle chain would not break out sales figures, but Mr. Parker said from the start of the Alley campaign in January 2005 through December 2006, Jenny Craig doubled its number of weight-loss customer leads.
Mr. Parker attributes some of the success to a more dynamic media strategy that included adjusting spending levels weekly to match the relative effectiveness of ad copy, created by JWT, New York. "The campaign clearly gave us traction and allowed us to spend more media at profitable levels," Mr. Parker said. Spending overall for Jenny Craig grew roughly 25% during the past two years, he said. TNS Media Intelligence numbers show Jenny Craig spent $27 million in media in 2005, a number that jumped to $36 million in 2006.
Lowest weights at highest peaks
Key to the campaign's success was the PR strategy, crafted with Jenny Craig PR firm Lippe Taylor and orchestrated to "reveal" Ms. Alley's weight-loss efforts at seasonal peaks in its business: in January, April and September. Covers of People, Ladies Home Journal and Good Houskeeping, as well as two Oprah appearances (including one in which a trim Ms. Alley donned a bikini) helped seed the brand.
According to John LaRosa, research director for diet-research firm Marketdata Enterprises, the Alley campaign likely helped Jenny Craig a lot. But he said most commercial diet chains, including Weight Watchers and NutriSystem, have gotten a boost from delays in prescription weight-loss drugs coming to market and the demise of the low-carb trend. Current sales figures for Jenny Craig are unavailable. The chain's 2005 sales were $462 million.
Mr. Parker said the Bertinelli campaign debut marked the highest level of calls to Jenny Craig in its history.
Such an auspicious start gives him hope the new campaign will bear as much fruit as its predecessor, especially because it incorporates lessons learned. Instead of only shooting commercials featuring weight-loss updates of Ms. Bertinelli three times a year, Jenny Craig will update existing spots with visuals of Ms. Bertinelli's progress every few weeks. In addition, JennyCraig.com will feature Ms. Bertinelli in written and video blogs; entries will be sent to Jenny Craig clients at various stages of their weight losses. It's hoped this tactic will appeal to the younger audience that Ms. Bertinelli, nine years Ms. Alley's junior, is expected to attract.


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- Philip Shaw: Brexit and the outlook for a UK-EU trade deal: 2:22-11:54
- Victoria Clarke: the economy, Covid-19, the risk of a second wave: 11:54-22:57
- Kiran Russell: currencies, Covid-19 and the outlook for the pound: 22:57-33:06
- Kate Calvert: the outlook for the retail industry and physical stores: 33:06-43:12
- Paul Rablen: logistics, supply chains and key risks facing the sector: 43:12-53:12
- Q&A: a V-shaped recovery, retail winners, localising supply chains: 53:12-59:58
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The Brexit backdrop
After leaving the European Union (EU) in January, the UK finds itself in a transition period until the end of the year. Before 30 June, the UK could have extended this period by up to two years but chose not to do this. The clock is now ticking for the two sides to reach a new trading relationship or default to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.
The UK's current approach indicates that Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to establish a looser trading relationship with the EU than his predecessor, Theresa May, according to Philip Shaw, Chief Economist at Investec.
"Boris Johnson is seeking to strike a bespoke free trade deal with the EU, several deals with third-party countries such as the US, Japan and Australia, and to diverge from EU rules. This is clearly a mountain to achieve in a short space of time,” Shaw said.
The question is then - why not extend the EU transition period?
Shaw explained that there are two reasons. The first is that the UK would need to pay in the region of £10 billion per year. The second is a belief in government that an extension would be kicking the can down the road.
Against this complex backdrop, Shaw believes the critical outcome is whether we get a free trade agreement, maybe similar to the EU-Canada arrangement, or the two sides fail to reach an agreement.
The economic impact
If there is no deal, Shaw sees two key economic impacts.
"Firstly, exports to the EU would be subject to its WTO tariffs, which are particularly onerous in certain sectors, particularly food. The second is around shipments, which would be subject to checks at the point of entry, bringing unwelcome lengthy hold-ups."
Mr Johnson has indicated he would like to see a trade deal struck in July, but Shaw believes this is extremely optimistic.
"Trade experts are now determining whether a deal can be struck by the end of the year. The sticking point is around the so-called level playing field, related to EU standards around government subsidies, animal welfare, climate change and workers' rights.
"Primarily, the EU is concerned about a competitor lying on its doorstep gaining advantage through lowering domestic costs and cheap imports. The good news is pandemic-induced economic uncertainty will focus minds on both sides to get something over the line that will diminish the economic impact.
"A sensible base case is that the UK and the EU agree on a broad set of parameters in time, and they both agree on a light touch to product checks until all the fine print is settled and more infrastructure at the ports is ready."
Metrics such as electricity consumption and transportation volumes help us understand the impact. For example, during the peak of the pandemic, electricity fell 40%, and while it is coming back, it remains far below normal.
The shape of the recovery
If Brexit wasn't enough to be dealing with, the global outbreak this year of the coronavirus known as Covid-19 initially pushed Brexit concerns into the background. Due to the pandemic's sudden impact, the UK economy contracted by 2.2% in the first quarter, the biggest decline since 1979.
"This was a disappointing number," said Victoria Clarke, an economist at Investec. "But we have already seen the impact of the full weight of lockdown in April's figure – a record drop of 20%."
While high-frequency data is showing a resumption in economic activity, it is "far from business as usual", Clarke said.
"Metrics such as electricity consumption and transportation volumes help us understand the impact. For example, during the peak of the pandemic, electricity fell 40%, and while it is coming back, it remains far below normal patterns."
Clarke said she sees a slow, grinding recovery slowly bringing the economy back to pre-Covid-19 levels. Also, concerns about job losses when government stimulus ends and the risk of a second wave in the pandemic are creating uncertainty.
"We are already seeing worrying signs from the US and localised outbreaks in the UK. Medical data, such as the government's ability to suppress the R number, treatments, and the newsflow around potential vaccines, will be critical in directing forecasts."
Analysing currency markets
After the Brexit-induced turbulence in currency markets last year, Covid-19 arrived just as a sense of normality had returned, according to Kiran Russell, a director of Corporate FX Sales at Investec. "The rule book had to be torn up again," he said.
What surprised markets was the sheer speed of the impact, he explained. As the UK government was criticised for delaying its response, currency markets descended into chaos.
"One-month implied volatility in the sterling-dollar options market went up from 5.5% in mid-February to 26% a month later. Sterling plummeted against the dollar before Boris Johnson had a chance to announce the lockdown."
The crisis saw us enter a new world, where risk-on, risk-off investor sentiment drives currency markets, according to Russell.
"While some analysts have said sterling has behaved like an emerging-market currency, this price behaviour is more a function of distressed markets. In this environment, as markets correlate, investors move out of riskier assets and into safe havens, such as the Japanese yen, Swiss franc and US dollar."
We will continue to exist in a risk-on, risk-off environment, as the coronavirus continues to dominate the newsflow. However, the macro picture won't take a back seat forever; further ahead, it's important to keep an eye on the US election and the US-China trade war too.
What's next for foreign-exchange?
Russell said when currency volatility spikes and foreign-exchange markets correlate, it changes the hedging landscape for corporates.
"Firms that adopt portfolio hedging strategies find certain hedging solutions look more attractive in a high-volatile environment than a low-volatile environment, and vice versa."
The easing of the UK lockdown has reduced implied volatility and put the pound on a firmer footing. But uncertainty remains. Russell said two key events in July are critical to sterling's fortunes.
"The approach of the government in containing any second wave of the virus is the first. Secondly, its ability to secure a free trade agreement with the EU, which many traders believe is underpriced, could provide a boost to sterling.
"More broadly, we will continue to exist in a risk-on, risk-off environment, as the coronavirus continues to dominate the newsflow. However, the macro picture won't take a back seat forever; further ahead, it's important to keep an eye on the US election and the US-China trade war too."
How will retail recover?
Another sector in the spotlight amid the twin challenges of Brexit and Covid-19 is the consumer industry. Kate Calvert, Head of Retail in Investec's Equity Research business, said 2020 would be remembered as "the lost year for retail". However, she explained that a challenging environment is nothing new for the sector, which has already had to evolve with the structural shift online.
She explained that online sales during lockdown have not been enough to mitigate lost sales instore, resulting in a collapse in profits. Short-term winners have been e-commerce retailers, such as Amazon and Argos. Sectors such as DIY, electrical, fitness and children-related retailers have also done well.
Big-ticket items, such as cars and furniture, have felt the pain. Landlords of retail premises have also suffered, with just 20 percent of rents due at the 24 June quarterly rent day expected to be collected.
From a corporate perspective, the mantra has been to batten down the hatches, cut costs and capital expenditure and focus cash preservation. Retailers are also accessing banking facilities and tapping equity markets.
The next hurdle for retail is the re-opening of stores. Most non-food retailers are expecting sales to be down between 40 percent and 60 percent initially.
"If it weren't for government support, many good businesses would have gone under. Already we have seen household names, such as Laura Ashley, go into administration – but many of these companies were struggling with high leverage and weak competitive positions.
"The next hurdle for retail is the re-opening of stores. Most non-food retailers are expecting sales to be down between 40 percent and 60 percent initially. Online demand is falling back, as more sales return to the physical channel, but penetration levels are unlikely to return to pre-Covid-19 levels.
"The macro picture is challenging and the removal of job support will be critical. That said, companies should never let a good crisis go to waste. Retail is continually evolving, and there will be opportunities in the months ahead."
Covid-19 shakes up supply chains
A sector tied to the fortunes of the retail industry and the broader economy is logistics and supply chains, and Covid-19 has had an enormous impact on the transportation of goods, said Paul Rablen, a director in Investec's Growth and Leveraged Finance business.
"Logistical trends, such as e-commerce growth and just-in-time management, have been accelerated and impacted respectively, putting more pressure on constituents within supply chains. Initially, we saw a supply-side shock when trade from China dried up, but now, as we see global demand impacted, warehouses are filling up, while deliveries are reduced comparatively."
Rablen sees volumes returning, but the crisis has revealed inherent inflexibility in the supply chain.
"While some operators have richly benefitted from being plugged into the Amazon or e-commerce network, some niche operators have been effectively locked out as their customers closed temporarily.
"We have, however, begun to see a lot of lateral thought, the use of subcontractors and collaboration between players, with asset-light networks the clear winners, in the vein of the Uber model. That is encouraging and we hope this will be a positive legacy within supply chains post-crisis."


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The poultry sector has made progress reducing incidence of woody breasts, but it still impacts a significant portion of fillets.
“Breeders will tell us that we should see a 10% year-over-year reduction in woody breast levels,” said Parker Hall, PhD, vice president of research and development at Perdue Farms, Salisbury, Maryland. “And that’s about what we see.”
In a webinar hosted by the Poultry Science Association, Hall outlined the status of poultry quality, options to address it and how best to use the meat.
Woody breast remains the leading quality concern, and it is found throughout the world. In a 2022 Canadian study, 70.5% of fillets received a severe woody breast score, with another 11.8% identified as modest; only 17.7% scored normal.
Complicating matters is the fact that woody breast and other myopathies known as white stripe and “spaghetti meat” — because of its frayed, stringy appearance — often occur together, Hall said. In that same Canadian study, two myopathies were recorded in 85% of breast fillets.
These meat-quality challenges not only pose a risk to consumer satisfaction but also increase costs throughout production and processing. “You have to sort meat differently; treat it differently. So, there are processing costs.”
A 2016 study estimated $200 million in annual losses associated with woody breast, but Hall said “it’s much higher than that now.”
As for the consumer, “There’s no price you can put on a disappointed consumer,” he added. “People will switch proteins if you don’t produce something they like.”
Complex and multifactorial
Woody breast has been well researched, but spaghetti meat deserves, and is now getting, more attention. “These are complex and multifactorial conditions,” Hall noted. “They are influenced by demographics, health, husbandry and environmental factors.”
In a Canadian study that looked at eight significant variables for spaghetti meat and nine for woody breast, the results showed that as live weight increases the odds of developing spaghetti meat and woody breast both increase. Woody breast, in particular, is strongly linked to heavy, fast-growing birds.
So, one way to address woody breast is to slow down the birds’ growth and feed-conversion ratio, Hall said. “But there are economic consequences, so you have to weigh that.”
Another common factor is the grow-out environmental temperature. “The higher the temperature, the higher the odds of developing both conditions,” he added.
Other factors — coccidiosis vaccination, source of chicks and lairage hold time — were linked to higher levels of spaghetti meat but lower incidence of woody breast. It’s also possible that post-harvest handling, such as mechanical separation and water chilling versus air chilling, may impact spaghetti meat levels, Hall said.
At Perdue, they investigated whether organic or no-antibiotics-ever production influenced the woody breast outcome and found no differences between the production methods. “We saw 2.6% and 2.5% severe scores, respectively, from 62,599 and 30,723 head; that’s still a lot,” he noted.
Utilization of woody breast
In a series of studies, Perdue evaluated how best to use woody breast meat, the traits of which include higher pH — 5.8 or 5.9 versus 5.6 or 5.7 for a normal breast — higher drip loss, a paler color, lower protein, higher fat and moisture content, and greater cook loss.
The study looked at chopped and formed nuggets and ground-meat patties, evaluating various mixes of normal and woody breast meat. Flavor, texture, appearance, color and preference were all scored.
In general, consumer taste panels preferred a range of mixes; 100% woody breast meat can get too soft/mushy, but 100% normal meat can be too firm and dry. For breaded nuggets, up to 75% woody breast meat is acceptable; for par-fried nuggets it’s 25%.
“You do get a lower cooked yield at 20% inclusion,” Hall noted. “So, that’s the penalty.”
For patties, no more than 33% of severe woody breast meat should be added in order to retain product performance, he said. “It’s product and situation dependent, but that’s the guidance we use and have not had a problem with performance or quality. We found a way to use the woody breast meat effectively.”
And, for more good news, he added, “Over time, normal levels are increasing and severe [woody breast] is decreasing.”


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