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The anticipation surrounding the release of the Avanza Veloz 2023 in Indonesia is palpable among automotive enthusiasts and consumers alike. As Toyota gears up to unveil its latest iteration of the popular Avanza series, expectations are high regarding its price, features, and impact on the Indonesian automotive market.
First and foremost, one of the most eagerly awaited pieces of information is the pricing of the Avanza Veloz 2023. Given its reputation as a reliable and affordable vehicle, many prospective buyers are eager to learn how Toyota will position the Veloz in terms of pricing. With competition in the MPV segment heating up, especially with the emergence of newer models from other manufacturers, Toyota faces the challenge of balancing affordability with the incorporation of new features and technologies.
In addition to pricing, consumers are keen to discover the enhancements and upgrades that the Avanza Veloz 2023 will bring to the table. As technology continues to evolve rapidly in the automotive industry, there is speculation about the inclusion of advanced safety features, improved fuel efficiency, and upgraded infotainment systems. These factors play a crucial role in influencing purchasing decisions, particularly among Indonesian consumers who prioritize value for money.
Moreover, the launch of the Avanza Veloz 2023 holds significance for Toyota’s market position in Indonesia. The Avanza has long been a best-selling model in the country, known for its versatility, durability, and widespread appeal. By introducing a refreshed version of the Veloz, Toyota aims to maintain its stronghold in the MPV segment while also attracting new customers with innovative features and a competitive price point.
Furthermore, the reception of the harga avanza veloz 2023 will undoubtedly impact the overall dynamics of the Indonesian automotive market. As one of the largest automotive markets in Southeast Asia, Indonesia serves as a battleground for manufacturers vying for market share. The success of the Veloz will not only influence Toyota’s fortunes but also shape the strategies of its competitors, prompting them to respond with their own offerings and innovations.
In conclusion, the impending arrival of the Avanza Veloz 2023 in Indonesia has generated widespread interest and speculation within the automotive community. With its price, features, and market implications under scrutiny, Toyota faces the challenge of meeting consumer expectations while staying ahead of the competition. As the unveiling date draws near, all eyes are on Toyota as it prepares to redefine the standards of the MPV segment with its latest offering.


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St. Louis — Panera Brands Inc., which includes the fast-casual and hospitality brand Panera Bread as well as Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Brands, has appointed long-time industry executive Paul Carbone as chief financial officer, effective August 15, 2023. He brings decades of operational, IPO and public company experience.
“I am excited for Paul to join the team as we continue to focus on long term value-creation for Panera Brands,” says José Alberto Dueñas, CEO of Panera Brands and Panera Bread. “Paul’s depth of knowledge and history of success across multiple industries, particularly in the restaurant space, and his dynamic leadership qualities make him an ideal partner as we take Panera Brands to the next level.”
Carbone joins Panera Brands with significant financial executive experience in the restaurant, consumer goods and retail industries, including spending 9 years at Dunkin’ Brands where he was CFO from 2012 until 2017. He also has been the CFO of YETI Holdings, Inc. and SharkNinja. Carbone will be based out of Panera Bread’s support center in Newton, Mass.
Panera Brands is one of the world’s largest fast-casual restaurant platforms, with 3,852 locations across 11 countries. Panera Brands is comprised of Panera Bread®, Caribou Coffee® and Einstein Bros. Brands. As of July 25, 2023, there were 2,140 Panera Bread bakery-cafes in 48 states (including the District of Columbia) and in Ontario, Canada, operating under the Panera Bread® or Saint Louis Bread Co.® names. Caribou Coffee has 769 coffeehouses in 11 countries. Einstein Bros. Brands, consisting of Einstein Bros. Bagels®, Bruegger’s Bagels®, Noah’s New York Bagels® and Manhattan Bagel®, operates 984 company-owned and licensed units across the U.S.
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The company’s 2018 dealer gathering was highlighted by a strong commitment to dealers as Ricoh looks to make deeper inroads into the SMB space.
(Pictured above: Jim Coriddi addresses dealers during the opening session of ConvergX 2018.)
Ricoh held its ConvergX 2018 dealer meeting in Las Vegas the last week of June. In many ways this meeting was more about a resurgence than a convergence.
The theme of the meeting was disruption and innovation, and it was described as two sides of the same coin. You can allow yourself to be disrupted or innovate to differentiate yourself versus your competition. Another core message was the emerging importance of data, device and network security. Security developments and trends were prioritized with two breakout sessions for dealers focused on how Ricoh and dealers themselves can enhance the security of the network and networked devices within its customers’ locations.
The attendance for this year’s meeting was at an all-time high with 1,200 dealer owners and personnel attending from the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Jim Coriddi, vice president, dealer division, Ricoh Americas, who is expected to increase the channel’s production of revenue by 25% in the coming fiscal year, pointed out that some dealers brought as many as 15 people to ConvergX. In 2017, Ricoh dealers were responsible for 43% of all unit placements across the enterprise, government, production, and SMB.
Among the parade of Ricoh executives who addressed dealers during ConvergX’s two General Sessions was Jake Yamashita, president and CEO, Ricoh Co., Ltd. It is not unusual for the CEO of a Japanese manufacturer to speak at a dealer meeting. It is another thing to remain through the closing gala as he did where Ricoh awarded its leading dealers for their outstanding contributions. That is more than a subtle signal to the dealers in attendance that Ricoh is deadly serious about counting on its dealers to lead a resurgence of increased MFP placements in the SMB space.
Unlike some of its competitors, Ricoh continues to display new hardware at dealer meetings. We saw a host of new and recently released products at the Dealer Experience Center.
Steve Burger, vice president, general manager, international business, Imaging Systems Business Center, Ricoh Co. Ltd., who has been working in Japan for 5½ years, provided a deep dive into some of the new products and applications coming from Ricoh during the event’s second General Session on Wednesday morning. You will read more about that from Scott in our July-August print issue and our Access Japan issue slated for publication later this year. Burger also discussed how Ricoh is enhancing its service capabilities, including initiatives for helping dealers reduce service and installation costs by 50% as well as how the company is expanding its capabilities in industrial print, most notably with the previously released 9200 and the new 7200 production print machines.
Glenn Laverty, senior vice president of marketing, shared services, Ricoh Americas, and president and CEO, Ricoh Canada, Inc., raised the most important question of this conference, asking, “Can (Ricoh) dealers stay relevant?” He laid the groundwork as to why he believes they can.
- By taking advantage of the best security ratings in the industry (for its products), according to IDC.
- By helping customers better leverage workflow solutions within their organizations, an area where Ricoh excels.
- By continuing to employ a go-to-market strategy with Ricoh positioned as the number one provider of A3 color and black and white MFPs, according to IDC.
- By taking advantage of the solutions, support, and training available from Ricoh.
The message during the second day of the meeting was, “The Future is Now!” Ricoh had resurgence in 2017 and Yamashita announced that the new slogan is “Ricoh Ignite in 2018.” He also reported the company is in fine financial health despite the write-off of $2 billion in 2017, which some competitors have used to disparage the company.
Overall, ConvergX’s main message to dealers was let’s disrupt the market. As Ricoh Americas President & CEO Joji Tokunaga concluded in his General Session remarks, “kick ass in 2018.”
Judging by some of our conversations at the conference, dealers were buying into that message and seem to be buoyed by Ricoh’s outward commitment to the channel.
In the end it will all come down to the deliverables. Will Ricoh be able to sufficiently entice its leading dealers who carry multiple lines to give a great portion of its business to Ricoh? If they do not, Ricoh cannot succeed in raising its ambitious goals in 2018.
In my opinion this was a very motivational sales meeting. The goals were clearly defined and the way to get there was spelled out explicitly. The answer as to whether Ricoh and its dealers can realize those goals will be revealed at ConvergX 2019.
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HYDERABAD: Motorola India today opened its first “Moto Hub” in Hyderabad in partnership with mobile retail chain BigC and personalised mobile store chain Lot Mobiles so as to strengthen its offline retail presence across India.
This is the first “Moto Hub” to be launched under the collaboration that will let prospective buyers experience the latest Motorola technology and get a hands-on demo of the entire product portfolio.
“With the launch of first ever ‘Moto Hub’ in partnership with BigC, we aim to provide access to Motorola’s premium product experience to the people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana,” Sudhin Mathur, Managing Director, Motorola Mobility India, said in a statement.
“We are also partnering with Lot Mobiles to give the people of Hyderabad a seamless experience of the entire portfolio of Motorola products,” Mathur added.
The Lenovo-owned brand is planning to open “Moto Hubs” in 185 BigC stores and 140 Lot Mobiles stores across 55 cities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.


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Big Iron Shines at Hot Chips Slideshow 8/29/2013 6 comments IBM and Oracle showed competing Power 8 and M6 server CPUs at the annual Stanford event where Microsoft and others put in a few surprises.
The Archives of Factory Automation Slideshow 8/29/2013 7 comments I love slideshows. Here’s one on what automated manufacturing, robotics, the factory floor, automotive, and production used to look like. Can you imagine working in these environments today?
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ARM Preps Near-Threshold Processor for IoT News & Analysis 8/15/2013 17 comments ARM has been researching logic operation at near-threshold voltages and at clock frequencies of the order of tens of kilohertz. Its CTO says a core that uses such low voltages and clock frequencies could support low-power processing in applications that rely on energy harvesting.
MEMS Nixes Quantum Light Fluctuations News & Analysis 8/14/2013 9 comments Caltech researchers harnessed MEMS resonators to nix the tiniest quantum fluctuations in laser light, potentially enabling a new generation of ultra-precise measurement instruments.
Apple to Boost Pure-Play Foundry Growth News & Analysis 8/14/2013 9 comments Thanks largely to expectations that Apple will move at least some of its chip manufacturing to TSMC, overall pure-play foundry sales are expected to grow more than 20 percent this year.
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WRC 9 update 1.05 is now available for PS4 and Xbox One players. According to the official WRC 9 1.05 patch notes, the latest update brings tweaks and fixes to the game. Apart from this, the WRC 9 version 1.05 also includes stability improvements.
Previously, a big update added new stages for Rally Finland, the Team Paddon livery, and the highly requested Photo Mode.
Unfortunately, since the release, players are experiencing several issues while playing the game. Today’s WRC 9 version 1.05 update will fix a few of these issues.
Fixed an issue where players see infinite loading while searching for an online lobby.
Addressed a bug where the user remains stuck in a neutral position when starting another race after the host as left the previous one.
Addressed navigation bug in the main menu.
Fixed issue that dismissed crew member instead of putting them in the reserve.
Addressed a bug where the points already earned on a challenge is reset when giving up on the same Challenge.
Fixed issue where the sound of engines could disappear during a race.
Download free WRC 9 update 1.05 for PS4 and Xbox One.


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Keolab Spicy Guitar Updated
Keolab has updated its acoustic guitar simulation software Spicy Guitar to v1.1.
This update includes the following improvements:
- 12 new types of chords detected.
- "no 3rd" and "no 5th" chords now detected.
- Inversions detection system improved.
- "strum up" and "strum down" control keys can now be used for any notes on the fretboard which allows custom chords strumming and easy tremolo.
- Turning off the sustain will now only mute sustained notes that the user has released.
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Lucid VR shows its hand-held VR camera at the 2017 Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Festival
By Eric Walz
Lucid VR made an appearance at the 2017 Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Festival on Tuesday, May 2nd to show off the company's LucidCam, a virtual reality handheld camera. The company's head of marketing, Joe Hill, made a presentation to audience members at the event highlighting the camera's features.
The camera looks like a standard digital camera, however, there are two lenes on the front to capture virtual reality video that can be viewed with a virtual reality headset such as the Oculus Rift or Google Daydream.
With a headset a user can view footage recorded with the camera in an immersive video as if they were present at the event. The camera is capable of capturing VR video with 2K resolution at 60 frames per second.
The Entrepreneurs Festival held at the Santa Clara, California Convention Center is an international event is intended to introduce opportunities to both entrepreneurs and investors companies to investors in China and the U.S. Lucid VR is seeking funding to develop, market, and manufacture the company's VR camera.
At the event, world leading venture capital investors had the opportunity to learn about new technologies in many fields, including virtual reality, augmented reality, as well as the development of public cloud and enterprise computing.
The LucidCam's unique technology was created over the last two years by Han Jin and his co-founder and company CTO Adam Rowell, a Stanford Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering who is specialized in computer vision and image processing. The LucidCam breaks down expensive Hollywood 3D production camera systems to a small compact size, making it more affordable for the masses while eliminating the lengthy post-production process of 3D video.
The camera features binocular lenses to create true depth, as well as peripheral vision, and utilizes two microphones, to mimic human eyes and ears with a 180-degree field of view. The LucidCam allows users to stick to the traditional point-and-shoot approach, simply pressing the shutter and holding the camera steady to capture everything – no panoramic sweeps required.
A multi-camera setup is possible using three LucidCams, which enables 360° 3D capture. The camera is also equipped with advanced image stabilization, and can upload data to a cell phone for video sharing and live streaming. The camera offers 32GB of internal storage for videos.
In a press release from April 2016, Lucid VR announced it has received $2.1M in seed funding and has signed a partnership agreement with Wistron Corporation, a top five global ODM (original design manufacturer) based in Taiwan.
"With our relationship with Wistron we will be developing a beautifully designed and engineered camera that is going to surpass our original plans. We are very excited to announce that we will be upgrading our backers with a first production version of the LucidCam with double the resolution and frame rate, in addition to extended battery capacity. The viewing experience in VR headsets will be so much smoother with 2K and 60 frames per second." said company founder and CEO Han Jim.
Lucid VR, has received additional investments from S2 Capital, Lab360, TEEC Angel Fund, 17 Miles Technology as well as other angel investors. The funding coupled with the Wistron manufacturing agreement provides the means for Lucid VR to bring its affordable VR camera to mass production.
Lucid VR was chosen as one of the top 10 emerging startups in VR/AR at Launch Festival 2016, held in San Francisco, the company was also the winner of TechLABS Innovation Center's start-up competition in 2016.
The company's website is taking orders for the camera which is priced at $499. The LucidCam starts shipping in July of 2017.
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Pinterest now lets Creators earn money on its platform from affiliate links, brand partnerships, and by turning Idea Pins shoppable.
Pinterest has announced the launch of a new set of tools that will allow creators to earn money off shoppable items they suggest in their posts.
As the recent announcement explains, content creators will be able to use the new tools to build their business and earn money by making their Idea Pins shoppable, earn commissions through affiliate links, and partner with brands on sponsored content.
With ‘Idea Pin’ product tagging, creators can effectively put together an inspiration board and tag their Idea Pins with practically any of the hundreds of millions of Product Pins on the massive catalog uploaded on Pinterest by retailers. The vast catalog is ingested by the platform via a partnership with Shopify and saved by Pinners.
Now, influencers creating content on Pinterest can tap into that catalog and harness shopping intent by tagging specific products in their own Idea Pins, and generate commissions from the now shortened shopper journey from inspiration to purchase.
Pinterest’s recent studies point to the consolidation of a trend in which Pinners are set on exploring the inspirations offered on the platform intending of making actual purchases. Pinterest internal data from July 2021 reveals that Pinners are 89% more likely to exhibit shopping intent on products tagged in Idea Pins than on standalone Product Pins.
In addition to the above, Pinterest is introducing a new paid partnerships tool (in beta) that allows Creators to disclose their paid partnerships. Content creators with existing brand-influencer partnerships now have an easier way to disclose paid relationships with a new tool that will add a “paid partnerships” label directly on Idea Pins.
“Pinterest is the place where creators with inspiring and actionable ideas get discovered. With this latest update, we’re empowering Creators to reach millions of shoppers on the platform and monetize their work,” explains Aya Kanai, Pinterest Head of Content & Creator Partnerships. “Creators deserve to be rewarded for the inspiration they deliver to their followers, and the sales they drive for brands. Creators are central to our mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and we’ll continue working with them to build their businesses and find success on Pinterest.”
These updates make content more actionable and shoppable, and allow influencers to make a living and easily partner with brands. Pinterest is launching the Idea Pins product tagging tool to all business accounts in the US and UK. It will also continue rolling out access over the coming months to international creators.
The paid partnerships tool is now live for select Creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Spain, Italy Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
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LogMeIn has launched a brand new free mobile app equipped with its trademark remote desktop abilities, and aimed at the ever expanding iPhone and iPad markets.
According to the company, the new offering is quite capable of giving users almost the same sort of remote access experience which eventually made the company's earlier products win the best grossing third party iPad application award last year.
LogMeIn further bragged that the new app allows virtually any iOS users to view, access as well as control their Macs and PCs right from their iPad and iPhone.
Apparently, the new application works in sync with the company's massively popular free remote access offering dubbed LogMeIn Free, meaning users can stay connected with their remote Mac or PC virtually from anywhere with an Internet connection, and that too without any additional cost.
"Mobile devices, most notably the iPad, have given rise to an entirely new audience looking to remotely access their computer files and applications on the go," Michael Simon, president and CEO of LogMeIn said in a statement.
"By combining our mobile and free service strengths, we can bring the benefits of top-shelf remote access to virtually anyone and everyone with an iPhone or iPad," he added.
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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of China’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of China has suspended the import into and sale within Hong Kong of raw oysters from Zwembesi Farms in South Africa.
This follows four cases of food poisoning by the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health which involved consumption of raw oysters at three restaurants supplied by the same local supplier
“In its follow-up investigations, the CFS noted from the information provided by the supplier that the affected raw oysters were harvested in Zwembesi Farms of South Africa,” the Department said in a statement.
While it traces the distribution of the affected product, the CFS has instructed the concerned supplier to stop supplying and selling the affected raw oysters.
Oysters feed by filtering a large volume of seawater and pathogens such as norovirus, chemical contaminants or natural toxins can accumulate in them if they are grown in or harvested from contaminated water. Raw or partially cooked ones, in particular, carry an inherent food safety risk.
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It has taken four years for the British to finally leave after their referendum against remaining in the European Union. Despite the last-minute trade deal, the impact of the Brexit on the Pharma and Medtech industries is huge, and they are left with only a little concrete information.
In 2016, just over half of the Britons voted for the UK to leave the EU. The pharma and MedTech industries have faced a big question mark ever since. It was not clear for a long time whether there would be an agreement and how this would affect the highly regulated industries. After countless debates and postponements in the past years, the EU and the UK agreed on a trade agreement of around 1400 pages before the turn of the year, on Christmas Eve. The transition period finally ended on 31.12.2020.
- 23.06.2016: Referendum day in the UK. 52% of Britons vote to leave the EU.
- 31.01.2020: Great Britain leaves the EU for good, a one-year transition period is agreed upon
- 24.12.2020: EU and Great Britain agree on a trade agreement, which comes into force on 01.01.2021
- 31.12.2020: The transition period ends, the trade agreement comes into force
Brexit impact on Pharmaceutical Industry: New rules
As for all other goods, the open border with Northern Ireland does not make the discussions easier. The following guidelines apply to England, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands:
- Single Market Packs (SMPs) that entered the UK market before the end of the transition period will remain in the market and are still to be sold.
- MAHs/OBPs from the UK will remain linked to the EU hub and will not be excluded as previously feared. The link remains in place to allow medicines exported from the UK to the EU to continue to be serialized and reported to EMVO following the EU FMD.
What will fall apart
- SMPs to be exported to the UK will no longer have to be serialized and reported to the EU hub. Should they still be reported to the EU hub, they must be marked as “exported”.
Exporting to the UK
- All medicines are generally subject to the general conditions and agreements for commercial goods.
- Medicines to be imported into the UK from the EU must be certified by a Qualified Person (QP) and inspected by a Responsible Person (RP).
- Existing Wholesaler Authorisation Agreements remain in place.
Special case Northern Ireland
- The SecurMed system in Great Britain has been inactive since the beginning of 2021. For Northern Ireland, it remains active as UKNI MVS (no longer UK MVS).
In principle, there are no explicit provisions in the trade agreement for topics such as pharma serialization and the corresponding regulatory requirements. Therefore, EMVO has compiled some concrete instructions for action in this regard. Nevertheless, there will be more detailed agreements and regulations coming in the future. Besides, Great Britain has announced that it is striving for its regulations concerning pharmaceutical serialization and protection against counterfeit medicines. However, it is not yet clear when and to what extent this will happen.
Brexit impact on the medical technology industry?
For the medical technology industry and the implementation of the MDR, Brexit means a step backward. The Notified Bodies certified in the UK will lose their competence and thus also their certification. Therefore, they will no longer be available to European medical technology manufacturers for the far-reaching recertification for the MDR.
Medical devices are not included in the agreement between the EU and the UK. They are part of the general regulations that affect all CE marked products. For CE products from the EU, this means that they will continue to be accepted in the UK (until 30 June 2023). From 01.01.2021, CE marking in GB will be replaced by the UKCA system. For two years, both systems will run in parallel. Both standards must be met for imports from the UK into the EU as only CE-marked products will be recognized in the EU.
To continue selling medical devices from the EU on the UK market, they need an RP. In this case, the same rules apply to pharmaceutical manufacturers. Conversely, manufacturers from the UK must appoint an EU Authorised Representative.
The trade agreement between the EU and the UK leaves many questions unanswered. It remains to be seen what new regulations the UK will draft for topics, such as serialization or patient safety for medical devices, and whether and how much additional effort this will cause for manufacturers.


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Factory pay settlements edge up
Despite the boom in manufacturing seen last year, wage growth remained stable in the three months to December, it was announced yesterday. Pay settlements increased to 2.2 per cent from 2.1 per cent in the three months to November, manufacturers body EEF reported. One in five settlements are still ending in a pay freeze, reflecting the ongoing downward pressure on wages, EEF said. “The key now is whether the recent upsurge in inflation results in significant upward pressure on settlements,” said Lee Hopley, chief economist at the EEF.


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Endurance Doors says its latest announcement of a 3mm bowing guarantee for its solid and secure composite doors has been ‘warmly welcomed’ by its nationwide network of Installer Partners.
Endurance reports that the performance of some solid core composite doors has come under great scrutiny during the year, and product liabilities have become a major issue for some businesses. But with Endurance Doors embracing its unique Moisture Barrier System, CoolSkin PVC-U door skins and wet-sealed glazing apertures, the company says product remedials ‘have all but disappeared completely’.
Now that autumn has arrived, the UK’s entrance doors will be subject to rain, wind and even snow. It’s this time of year where product failures start to increase and with record consumer demand for doors and windows, installers will find it difficult to service these issues, particularly if they’re door supplier rejects the claims or makes it difficult to raise an issue, says Endurance.
Stephen Nadin, managing director of Endurance Doors, commented: “Our price freeze for 2020 went down very well with our Installer Partners and now our 3mm bowing guarantee will give them even more confidence and trust in us, with the promise of the long-term, trouble-free performance of an Endurance Door.
He continued: “Product liabilities have been an issue for the composite door sector at times and so that’s why we’ve invested in better materials and production processes since 2002. This is to make our doors a standout performer, backed with exceptional customer service and a powerful marketing programme.”
For further information on the Endurance Solid and Secure composite door range and a free marketing pack, please call the sales office on 01652 659259, visit the new website at https://endurancedoors.co.uk, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Admeld, an on-line advertising optimisation firm, is to be acquired by Google for a reported $400 million The transaction is likely to undergo regulatory review. If the deal goes ahead it will give Google a stronger foothold in te display advertsising market.
Admeld was founed in 2007 by Ben Barokas and Brian Adams. Current Admeld customers include Answers.com, FOX News, IDG TechNetwork, Hearst Television, Discovery, The Weather Channel, ITV, Mail Online, Dennis and Future Publishing and more than 500 others worldwide. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, London, Berlin, and Toronto.
Neal Mohan, Vice President of Display Advertising at Google said, “By combining Admeld’s services, expertise and technology with Google’s offerings, we’re investing in what we hope will be an improved era of flexible ad management tools for major publishers. Together with Admeld, we hope to make display advertising simpler, more efficient and more valuable, provide improved support and services, and enable publishers to make more informed decisions across all their ad space. These are all things our publisher partners have been asking us to further invest in. Of course, Admeld will continue to support other ad networks, demand side platforms, exchanges and ad servers, to yield the best possible results for publishers.”
Michael Barrett, CEO at Admeld said, “What’s driving this relationship is a shared belief that managing display advertising is still far too complicated for publishers, and together Admeld and Google can help address some of the underlying inefficiencies. Though we have no specific integration plans yet, we imagine our combined offerings can help publishers make more informed, efficient, and profitable decisions across all tiers of their inventory.”
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- Groupon files for a $750 million IPO Posted on June 3, 2011
- Groupon buys Pelago Posted on April 29, 2011
- Groupon completes a huge $950 million round of financing Posted on January 11, 2011
- Groupon rejects Google’s $6 billion offer Posted on December 7, 2010
- Has Google bought Groupon? Posted by Fusion DigiNet on November 30, 2010
- Groupon has acquired European competitor Citydeal Posted on May 18, 2010
- Groupon acquires mob.ly Posted on May 7, 2010
- Groupon raises more funds at a $1.2 million valuation Posted on April 18, 2010
- Groupon has raised a Series B financing round of $30 million December 2, 2009


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Shirine Khoury-Haq, CEO, does not have a typical cooperative background
It’s a very rare event, especially when prices are through the roof, for staff to say thanks but no thanks when bosses offer them a raise.
Yet, says Shirine Khoury-Haq, the Cooperative’s executive director, that’s exactly what happened at the funeral food group.
“When we found out that the cost of living crisis was really going to affect our colleagues, we asked them what we should do,” he recalls.
Other supermarket chains have raised their hourly pay rates to more than £11 this year, but Co-op staff rejected an increase “because they might end up earning less, when you look at the tax and benefit implications.”
Instead, they asked for spending money to be paid on their co-op membership cards (the group is owned by its members) plus a deep discount on food purchases.
So £12m piled up on the cards and a whopping 30 per cent discount on food was offered. The Cooperative also took charge of the tax to be paid on these new benefits.
As it turned out, not a bad move for the 55,000 people who work in the group’s food, funeral, insurance and legal services businesses, because the UK’s annual rate of food inflation is the highest in Western Europe, reaching a rate of 45 years. high of more than 19 percent in April.
Thus, cooperative workers have been at least partially shielded from price increases that have pushed interest rates to a 15-year record.
Khoury-Haq, who oversees 2,400 stores, was not among the supermarket bosses who recently appeared before lawmakers to explain why prices have soared and to answer questions about whether they have been profiting.
But she maintains that there have been no excessive charges or opportunism. “I don’t think anyone is profiting,” she says. “Meat, dairy, vegetables, fats and oils are up 20 to 30 percent. Our big intention now is to bring prices back down to make sure we offer the absolute best value.”
To that end, the Co-op membership card now offers special prices, open to all and costing £1, just like Tesco’s Clubcard prices and the new Sainsbury’s Nectar.
Currently, some 4.5 million people are members of the Cooperative and Khoury-Haq’s goal is to recruit another million within five years.
> Who wins the supermarket loyalty card price war?
The 51-year-old is not your usual cooperative boss.
She is their first boss and the first from an ethnic minority. She hasn’t risen through the ranks either. She has never stacked cans on shelves or managed a grocery store. She is a finance and operations professional who has worked her way up through McDonald’s and IBM in the US.
He worked at Lloyd’s of London before coming to Manchester to manage the co-op’s finances, along with its legal and funeral services businesses, in 2019, just before covid struck.
However, she is not happy with the suggestion that she may not know enough about the difficult and complex world of food retailing.
“I worked for McDonald’s,” she says. I know how to run a retail operation. The work I did there was to take underperforming regions and turn them around. So I absolutely know how supply chains work, how logistics work, how stores work, how you treat customers and how you sell.’
Born in Beirut to a Turkish mother and a Palestinian father who was in the oil business, Khoury-Haq had lived on every continent except Antarctica by the age of 12.
He has attended three universities, in Australia, the US and the UK, speaks five languages and holds four passports. Her husband is Pakistani and her six-year-old twin daughters are British.
He was given the top job, with a salary of £750,000, in the spring of last year and quickly went to work tackling the group’s growing problems. The company’s supermarkets had huge gaps in the shelves because a computer reordering system was failing, runaway inflation was looming and the group was at risk of sinking under a massive £920m of debt.
“There was a job to do very, very quickly,” he says. With experience working as a ‘fixer’ at IBM, he says he ‘knew what we had to do’ to fix the problematic computer system. Twelve months later, store availability is now 96 percent.
Then he moved on to the threat of inflation. “We had to make sure we could weather that storm, so we had to cut costs,” she says.
Members’ prices in the Co-op are compared to Sainsbury’s expanded nectar prices and Tesco’s successful Clubcard pricing scheme
By the end of September, 400 jobs had been cut, mainly in the head office, resulting in cost savings of £100m. The upgraded IT system has boosted cash generation and over £300m was removed from the debt pile by selling the Co-op’s 129 petrol stations to Asda.
But clearly there is more work to be done and more debt to be paid. The Co-op recently reported annual profits of just £247m on total revenue of £11.5bn, and that was after the boost from the sale of service stations. Khoury-Haq says the group has gone through “decades of inefficiency” and it will take time to fix it.
There will soon be a new face joining her in the boardroom to offer advice. Last week, the Cooperative named Debbie White, 61, to take over as group president. An accountant by training, White was previously CEO of the Interserve outsourcing group.
Khoury-Haq points out that the Cooperative will never make the same profits as other supermarkets because that is not their goal. “We serve communities where there are no other stores,” she says. “We want to do that and it costs money.”
The Co-op has always put people and communities first since it opened its first store in Rochdale in 1844. Khoury-Haq says she shares those values and has therefore initiated a series of new policies to help people to “bring your whole being” to work. . That includes a new bereavement leave and unlimited fertility treatment leave.
These are issues especially close to Khoury-Haq’s heart. He lost his first daughter, conceived after years of fertility treatment, just hours after she was born.
It has also introduced a menopause policy that “opens up the conversation for men to understand and support women in the workplace.”
She adds: ‘There’s nothing wrong with understanding what might be going on with your wife or your partner or your mother.
“We see a lot of women drop out of the workforce or slow down in their careers because of this thing that hits them at a certain age.”
Another change Khoury-Haq has embraced is working from home, which workers at the Cooperative’s head office have enthusiastically embraced. The nine-story headquarters in Manchester now has several floors without lighting as many employees work from home.
The building, he admits, is now too big. Before Covid, more than 3,000 people piled in to work there every day. Now there are 500 to 600 at their desks at the beginning and end of the week and maybe 800 on a couple of weekdays.
She is completely unconcerned and says she sees no problem. “We’ve seen zero decline in productivity,” she says proudly.
Khoury-Haq laughs out loud at the thought that some might consider her a smart boss.
“I think being awake is just jumping on the bandwagon,” she says. “I just want everyone to live their best life and be treated equally.”
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Clock Ticking for Michigan Recreational Cannabis Legalization Effort
By John Schroyer
Marijuana advocates in Michigan have just two weeks to get thousands of additional signatures for a recreational cannabis legalization measure that promises to create a massive new market in the Midwest.
The effort is turning into a nail-biter, and whether the proposal qualifies for the November ballot will likely come down to the wire.
If the bid fails, the cannabis industry will lose a prime shot at launching a business-friendly recreational market in the tenth-largest state in the nation.
“We’re in a mad dash and scramble to get as many signatures as we can still,”
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DDR Sells Brazilian Retail Investment for $344M
- Apr 29, 2014
DDR Corp. has sold its 50 percent ownership interest in Sonae Sierra Brazil BV Sarl, a Brazilian retail center, to German investor Alexander Otto for $344 million.
Sonae Sierra Brasil’s portfolio consists of 10 regional malls totaling 4.6 million square feet. DDR purchased 50 percent of the property as part of a joint venture in 2006 for $147.6 million, with an additional $52.6 million funded over the next three years.
By selling the asset, DDR has now exited Brazil completely. As a result of the sale, DDR’s pro rata share of NOI from consolidated assets will increase from 89 percent to 93 percent.
“After receiving interest and entering discussions with several strategic buyers, we believed that this transaction was in the best interest of both Sonae Sierra Brasil and DDR,” Daniel Hurwitz, DDR’s CEO, said in a company statement. “Our decision to exit Brazil at the negotiated price is consistent with our intense focus on capital allocation and our strategy to create value for shareholders by reducing our risk profile, simplifying our structure, and generating outsized investment returns as we remain focused on investing in high-quality domestic power centers.”
DDR is an owner and manager of 396 value-oriented shopping centers representing 108 million square feet in 39 states and Puerto Rico, with its assets concentrated in high barrier-to-entry markets with stable populations and high growth potential.
According to David Oakes, DDR’s president & chief financial officer, the proceeds from the sale are expected to be used for general corporate purposes, including for reinvestment in prime shopping center acquisitions and redevelopments in major U.S. markets.
“By exiting our investment in Brazil, we reinforce our commitment to lowering sovereign, currency, and development risk in a transaction with little friction and with strategic merit for all parties,” Oakes said in the release. “In addition to the sale of our Brazilian investment, current market conditions in the U.S. have presented us with the opportunity to double our original disposition guidance from $200 million to $400 million, exclusive of Brazil.”


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2018 Year in Review
We are proud of our work this year serving small businesses and independent entrepreneurs. As we prepare to expand this work in 2019, we’re taking time to reflect on our successes over the last year.
This was certainly a year of expansion for Small Business Majority. We worked hard to bring new resources to underserved communities and supported new policies that will benefit small business owners. Here are six of our biggest accomplishments in 2018:
1. Re-launched and expanded Venturize
In early 2018 we took over an online resource portal called Venturize, which was designed to help small business owners find the financial resources they need to start and grow their businesses. Over the course of the year, we added videos, blogs and new partners to Venturize in order to better serve the small business community. In less than one full year overseeing Venturize, more than 500,000 people visited the website.
2. Expanded our Spanish language resources
With the help of our National Latino Outreach Manager Xiomara Peña, we committed to making our resources more accessible to Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs. This included creating a Spanish version of our retirement portal, offering Venturize resources in Spanish and hosting more educational events held in Spanish.
3. Launched the Women’s Entrepreneurship Program
In July, we launched our Women’s Entrepreneurship Program to support women in the entrepreneurial space by providing extra workshops, panel events and resources of women small business owners. We celebrated the launch in September with an event in Los Angeles at City Hall, and Illinois Outreach Manager Geraldine Sanchez Aglipay was named our National Women's Entrepreneurship Manager to support this program. In October, Missouri Outreach Manager Maximilianah Zales hosted a five-part event series in St. Louis on women in business, and other outreach managers hosted additional events online and in person in recognition of National Women’s Small Business Month.
4. Supported America’s first small business truth-in-lending law
California passed the nation’s first truth-in-lending law for small businesses, SB 1235, in September of this year. Based on the Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights, this new law will standardize disclosure of financing terms offered to small businesses. This will give small businesses the ability to compare products and make informed borrowing decisions, making it safer to small businesses to access capital. Small Business Majority helped lead a coalition of more than 60 organizations in support of SB 1235 because greater transparency in lending products will help more small businesses grow and succeed. We hope that SB 1235 will set a precedent in lending laws and that other states will soon follow California’s example.
5. Worked successfully to expand retirement savings options in California and Illinois
Working closely with the California State Treasurer’s Office, we supported the launch of the state’s retirement savings program, CalSavers, which will allow small businesses and employees to make contributions to a personal IRA retirement account administered by the state. Our California staff attended launch events in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and several small business owners in Small Business Majority’s network signed up to participate in the CalSavers pilot program. Additionally, we supported the launch of Illinois’ Secure Choice program, which was also in its pilot stage in 2018.
6. Launched a new online community for small businesses
This week we launched our new Small Business Majority Community, which will allow small business owners to share their favorite resources and ask experts as well as their peers questions on a variety of topics. Sign up today!
This was a tremendous year for small businesses, but we hope to do even more for entrepreneurs in 2019. We will continue to bring new resources to our network, partner with more organizations and advocate for small business owners. We wish you a wonderful new year, and we’re looking forward to 2019!


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WorldCoin is busy doing activations in front of supermarkets in Kenya unchecked.
Despite the well-stipulated Data Protection Laws in Kenya, many citizens are not aware of the dangers they are exposing themselves to.
Part of the sign up to the crypto project is the requirement for iris scanning. Iris is the colored tissue at the front of the eye that contains the pupil in the center.
Worldcoin developed a device called Orb, which scans the iris of a person to prove their uniqueness and humanness and assigns them a World ID that can be used as a global digital passport.
The crypto which was founded by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT is accused of perpetuating the black maerket for iris data
Many government surveillance cameras exploit the use of iris data to identity and track citizens. This has ben well covered in China.
Now, fraudsters are reportedly buying detailed scans of people’s irises in order to claim coins for the still-unreleased Worldcoin project.
The Kenyan WorldCoin sales people often ambush people in malls and in front of supermarkets, they sell them the idea of crypto, with ponzi scheme catch phrases, throwing words about Bitcoin and such.
Many have signed up oblivious of what will befall them.
Edward Snowden warned.
“This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people’s iris scans (for ‘fairness’), and waves away the implications by saying ‘we deleted the scans,’” Snowden said. “Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans. Don’t catalogue eyeballs,” Snowden added.
According to the Kenya Financial Sector Stability Report, Kenya’s financial systems, including mobile banking lost over 444 million in the year ending June 2022.
This was a sharp rise from Sh158.4 million the previous year.
Without good data prpotetion mechanism including civic education, the trend is set to rise as more and more people are being onborded online for payments and data processing.
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Don't '˜waste' chance to help recycling drive
Local people have been urged to make sure they start the New Year fully aware of the different types of waste which can be recycled in their blue bins.
As most local households will have seen packaging and wrapping piling up over the festive season, Derry people are being reminded of the range of items that can be recycled- and those that can’t.
Over the past month Derry City & Strabane District Council have been stepping up efforts to deal with the issue of contamination in the recycling bins. Teams have been out checking bins and tagging any bins that are contaminated.Anyone who has had their bin tagged needs to check it and remove the contamination and leave it out again for collection.
Paper items which can be placed in the blue bin for recycling include newspapers, magazines, brochures, catalgoues, phone books, Christmas cards and greeting cards, envelopes, brown paper, flyers, junk mail, emvelopes, hard back and paperback books and office paper.
All cardboard boxes and card packaging including cereal boxes, kitchen and toilet roll ends can also be recycled, along with cleaned out food and drink cans and tins.
Empty hair spray, air freshners and body spray cans can all go into the blue bin.
Rinsed out plastic milk, juice and soft drink bottles, washing up liquid, shampoo, medicine, bleach, detergent, household cleaner, ketchup and sauces bottles can be recycled along with bottle tops, plastic jar lids, as well as drink, soup and milk cartons can be recycled.
Other recyclable goods for the blue bin include washed out platic butter, magrarine tubs, yoghurt pots, food trays, takeaway containers, disposal cups, plastic egg cartons, and glass wine, beer, spirit, jam, aftershave, medicine, perfume bottles, whole or broken.
The blue bins can also be used to recycle clothes and shoes, although the Council advised preference should be given to donating to charity shops and clothing banks.
Small waste electrical items can be recycled, including electrical tools, irms, toasters, kettles, hair dryers, radios, Christmas tree lights (but no glass electrical goods).
If any of the following items are placed in blue bins however they are deemed contamination: General household waste, black bags and plastic carrier bags, food waste, nappies, tissues, polystyrene, batteries (AA, AAA, Car), windows from envelopes, duvets and quilts and large electrical items i.e. tvs, computer monitors, microwaves.
Letters reminding householders of efforts to tackle the issue of contamination were issued several weeks ago.
Conor Canning, Head of Environment with Derry and Strabane Council said people who are putting non-recyclable items in their blue bins is resulting in entire loads of recyclable material being rejected, costing the Council thousands of pounds that could be better spent elsewhere.
He said: “It is an ongoing problem and we are seeing nappies, plastic bags, food waste and general rubbish, which are contaminating the entire contents, being disposed of in the blue bins. The onus is on the public to take responsibility for their waste and to use the bins that are provided correctly. Our teams will not be collecting bins containing contaminated items,” he said.
Conor Canning said that there are some areas in the north west are doing really well, with figures for April to June 2017 showing a recycling and composting rate of 43.2%.
“Unfortunately there are a number of areas that could be doing better and we are dealing with the issue proactively,” he said. “We want to remind people that with their co-operation, and by making a few simple changes to how they dispose of their waste, Council can significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. This in turn helps to keep our rates down. Any savings can also be invested in the provision of key services throughout the city and district.”


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AMOREPACIFIC Group and Alibaba Group inked a global strategic cooperation agreement on September 11 to further deepen their partnership and provide high-quality products to Chinese customers. AMOREPACIFIC China president Charles Kao and Alibaba Group general manager of Tmall’s Fast-moving Consumer Goods Division Mike Hu both attended the signing ceremony in Hangzhou.
The company also set up a work place named A2 Hangzhou Camp, about 2.4 kilometers from the Alibaba Group Corporate Campus in Hangzhou.
Amorepacific story began when founder Suh Sungwhan’s mother Yun Dokjeong manually sold camellia oil, making one bottle at a time with devotion and a sincere heart in Gaeseong, now a part of North Korea.
In 1948, the company launched Korea’s first-ever brand product, Melody Cream. In 1951, it launched Korea’s first purely plant-based ABC Pomade. It was Amorepacific too that introduced ‘door-to-door sales’ as an alternative method of distribution in 1964, breaking away from the traditional distribution structure in an era of transformation, and launched a dedicated brand named ‘Amore”. It is in the same year that they exported around 20 types of cosmetics of the ‘Oscar’ brand for the first time in the country’s history, opening doors to the global market.
In 1971, Amorepacific held Korea’s first makeup campaign under the name ‘Amore Bright Tone Makeup ’ titled, ‘Oh My Love’. It became a window into viewing the most recent trend, a legacy that continues to live on today.
In 1973, it established Pacific Scholarship and Cultural Foundation and the Pacific Welfare Foundation in 1982. In 1989, it launched its first green tea product Miro. Flagship products, Laneige and Etude House were launched 1994 and 1995 respectively. Meanwhile Innisfree came in 2000. In 2008, its innovative product Iope took the market by storm. In 2013, it declared a ban on unnecessary animal testing for cosmetics to respect all forms of life, pursuing harmony among nature, people and company.
Amorepacific is a global company with over 20 cosmetics, personal care and health care brands. Among these are the immensely popular global brands Sulwhasoo, LANEIGE , Mamonde, ETUDE HOUSE, and innisfree.
It entered the Chinese market in 1992 and since then it has been thriving through efforts in diversified product strategy and innovative products. So far, all the 10 beauty brands of AMOREPACIFIC China have been already operating a Tmall flagship store. It maintains close ties with Alibaba which began in 2012 when LANEIGE became one of the first premium beauty brands to be launched on Tmall platform.
In the conference last Saturday, it was emphasized that the focal point of the collaboration includes new product incubation, new retail marketing, consumer insight management and overseas market expansion. It intends to maximize the advantages of Alibaba’s resources and experience in digital transformation and Amorepacific’s leading strength in the cosmetics industry. Amorepacific intends to integrate digitalization into its full life cycle management in new product research and development, consumer insight and marketing.
AMOREPACIFIC and Alibaba will jointly set up an internal information cloud system, which provides strong support for internal digitalization and information management. Some other overseas brands will debut their products via Tmall as it attempts to enter the Chinese market.
The two companies will also combine its online and offline resources to benefit consumers through setting up smart retail stores with the aim to strengthen the relationship between brand and consumer.
Indeed China’s beauty and cosmetics market is developing rapidly. It becomes understandable why there is increased interest in online marketing and product innovation. Hence, the two companies vow to continue to work jointly to further innovate and provide better products and experiences to consumers.


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Discount supermarket king Rami Levi found himself at the center of a storm this week as one former employee accused him of illegal work practices while another said his chain had fired Jewish female workers who dated Arabs.
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The fight erupted on Tuesday when Elki Alon, who had been head of the food retailer’s cellular telephony business, accused Levy of a list of transgressions in a lengthy Facebook post. Among other things, he accused Levy of covering up a sexual harassment case by a senior executive; employing unqualified family members; and violating conditions set by the Communications Ministry for its cellular license.
Levy, who has become a consumer icon as much for his rags-to-riches ascent to the top of the supermarket business as for his low prices, dismissed the accusations on Tuesday, saying they didn’t merit a response.
Wednesday, however, he responded more forcefully, publishing what he said was a threatening WhatsApp message from Alon sent to him and another executive, Ophir Attias, before Alon put his accusations on Facebook.
“More than getting the money I deserve, I would be happy to see you crucified from every tree. More than getting the money I deserve, I would be happy to see you passing time in an interrogation room and in prison. The fact is you deserve it ” the message said.
Another message from Alon demanded that Levy transfer 450,000 shekels ($114,000) to his bank account, calling the sum money he was owed and deserved as compensation for alleged mistreatment. Levy filed a complaint with police, who have opened an investigation.
Meanwhile, an unnamed former employee told Army Radio that the supermarket chain fired Jewish female workers who dated Arabs. “It’s a directive from above, who tell the human resources professionals to be on the lookout for women who date Arabs,” she said.
Shares of Rami Levy closed down 3.2% Wednesday to 180.60 shekels, even as a rival supermarket chain was experiencing deep troubles that lifted the share price of their mutual rival, Supersol. Nevertheless, an analyst who covers the stock said the damage to Levy’s name and the food retailer would likely be brief.
“We believe the damage to his reputation will be short-lived,” said Michal Alshech, who follows supermarket stocks for Excellence Brokerage, and who retained her Market Perform rating on the stock and said it could reach 200 shekels.
“It’s the nature of affairs like these to fade and be forgotten," added Alshech. "If Rami Levy continues to provide low prices, customers will continue shopping at his stores.”
Alon’s accusations of nepotism have been an issue with the retailer for some time. In addition to Attias, who is Levy’s son-in-law, Levy’s wife, Adina, works as a deputy CEO and treasurer, and was paid 1.3 million shekels in 2014.
Adina Levy’s compensation became a point of contention between Rami Levy and institutional investors two years ago. They pointed out that the compensation was 2.8 times that of Ran Efrati, the company’s legal counsel and who is not a family member. In the end, however, the institutions lost a shareholders’ vote on the matter
Levy himself, who owns 49.9% of the company, was paid 2.7 million shekels last year.


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Credit unions jockeying for position in crowded payments arena
Note: CU Payz rebranded as CU Railz on Nov. 5, 2019.
Apparently the payments space is where the money is.
There have been a number of announcements about credit unions and others in the industry getting involved in payments in recent months. That’s in addition to the Federal Reserve finally unveiling plans for its long-awaited real-time payment service called FedNow last month.
Credit unions and others are interested in payments because it can help drive fee income and deepen member relationships.
“Payments is one of the most substantial product lines in the entire industry, and it is the link to the member relationship,” said Mark Sievewright, founder and CEO of the consulting firm Sievewright & Associates. “The member experience is everything. There is not a single one of my clients that is not focused on improving the member experience and dialing the friction meter down.”
There have been a number of new credit union entrants into the payments space over the last year.
In August, digital payments company Payrailz launched CU Payz, a new credit union service organization. VyStar Credit Union in Jacksonville, Fla., was also part of a $10 million capitalization of PayverisCU, another recently formed digital payments CUSO. Earlier this year Sherpa Technologies, also a CUSO, was formed to focus on payments innovations.
The same day the Fed dropped the news about FedNow, Member Access Processing, a Kent, Wash.-based aggregator of the Visa Debit Processing Service platform for credit unions, announced the formation of Payments Consultancy. MAP said this team of payment consulting firms will develop strategies and products to help credit unions deliver better credit card services to their members.
Goodbye legacy, hello future
There are greater opportunities ahead not only for CUs, but also for fintech companies if credit unions are able to embrace new technology, said Cyndie Martini, CEO and president of MAP. Fintech companies are moving legacy systems into the cloud, she noted, leading to cloud-based solutions that allow changes in 24 hours instead of months.
The payments products most CUs use today are legacy products that were launched 20 years ago and do not allow CUs to keep up with their bank competitors, said John Carew, senior vice president of strategy and product management for Georgia’s Own Credit Union in Atlanta.
The $2.4 billion-asset institution had been looking for next-generation technology to improve the member experience, which is why the credit union joined the CU Payz CUSO, Carew said. CU Payz will include consumer payments, business and loan payments, internal transfers, and deposit openings, all on one platform.
“We want to take it out of the home banking experience. We remove it from that corner and make money movement available to all members,” Carew said. “If the members keep more money in their checking account, that deepens the PFI relationship. It is a differentiator that does not exist with other payments solutions.”
Fran Duggan, CEO of Payrailz, said leveraging AI will lead to fundamental changes in the bill payment experience compared to what consumers have gotten used to over the past 15 years. He said the capability is coming soon to allow CUs to give members push notifications. For example, a member could get an alert that says, “You have three bills coming due next week. You get paid on Thursday. How would you like to set up those payments now?”
“Not only is this about simplifying the experience, the member knows, ‘the credit union is developing a digital relationship with me,’” Duggan said.
Martini said CUs are “slowly coming to terms” with the fact the old way of doing business is no longer an option. For instance, members are forgoing plastic credit and debit cards and instead are using digital wallets on their phones.
“To cover all bases, credit unions should still issue a plastic card, but the world is moving forward to a no-card experience,” Martini said. “It is about transitioning a whole generation of card users to make the change.”
As the payments space evolves, credit unions need to understand the importance of their debit and credit cards being top of wallet, Martini said. Members using debit and credit cards lead to fee income from interchange, overdraft and ATM usage. Credit cards can boost interest income. Offering strong loyalty and rewards programs and good interest rates is part of the solution.
“This is the time for credit unions to get very serious in creating top-of-wallet solutions with their members,” Martini said. “They have to create value in the minds of the members, because it is going to be dog-eat-dog in the future.”
Credit unions need to be aware of the convenience their nontraditional competitors are offering for certain products. For instance, consumers can get the Apple Card in 28 seconds.
But credit unions shouldn’t give up the payments space to disruptors, such as Apple, Sievewright said. They can compete by meeting four critical areas – ease of use, convenience, personalization and security.
“If you do all of those well, you offer a great member experience,” Sievewright said. “It is all about innovation, which can be accomplished by sharing resources through the CUSO model. The CUSO model shares resources and risk. There are 3,700 credit unions at or below $100 million in assets. That is a very tough road to keep up with. CUSOs give them a lifeline, an opportunity to stay in the game.”


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