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24.09.26 - 12:36
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Grismer Tire & Auto Service Appoints New Senior Leadership (Business Wire)
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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grismer Tire & Auto Service (“Grismer” or the “Company”), a portfolio company of CenterOak Partners LLC (“CenterOak”), today announced the appointment of Chris Blanchette as Chief Executive Officer and Mark Hedstrom as Chief Financial Officer. Grismer is a leading operator of tire and automotive service centers.
Mr. Blanchette brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in multi-site consumer services, with deep expertise in operations, strategy and business development.
Prior to joining Grismer, Mr. Blanchette served as Chief Executive Officer of Service Minds, a residential electrical, plumbing and HVAC services company. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of QAS, an operator of Valvoline Instant Oil Change locations, and held senior operational roles at Advance Auto Parts, Bridgestone Retail Operations and Best Buy.
Mr. Hedstrom brings more than 30 years of finance experience and most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of W.S. Conn...
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23.09.26 - 15:06
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Spellbook Names Meltem Kuran-Berkowitz as Chief Marketing Officer Amid Multi-Product Expansion (Business Wire)
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Kuran-Berkowitz joins as Spellbook scales its growing multi-product suite for in-house legal teams in the agentic eraTORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spellbook, the leading AI infrastructure for contracts used by over 5,000 in-house teams and law firms, today announced that Meltem Kuran-Berkowitz has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer, following several months leading the function in an interim capacity. She leads all growth and marketing as Spellbook expands its product offering for in-house legal teams across the globe.
Spellbook serves customers in over 80 countries, including LG, Dropbox, Panasonic, eBay and Atkins Réalis. Its growing product suite includes:
Spellbook Autonomous Contract Management (ACM), an AI-native alternative to legacy contract lifecycle management that runs contracts from intake through renewal.
Spellbook Review, the #1 contract AI tool for drafting, reviewing and complex multi-step legal work
"We've scaled our original product: AI contract review, massively. Now we'r...
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18.09.26 - 13:12
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Oriola and Takeda expand Nordic partnership in Finland (Cision)
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Oriola will start distributing Takeda's product portfolio in Finland from 1 October, expanding the long-standing Nordic partnership between the companies. The agreement reflects Takeda's confidence in Oriola's customer-centric way of working and ability to combine operational quality with flexibility and close collaboration.
Takeda is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies and a strategic customer for Oriola. Oriola has distributed Takeda's products in Sweden for more than 10 years, and the companies have also collaborated through Oriola's Advisory Services.
The new...
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18.09.26 - 08:36
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Japan raises interest rates to 31-year high as central bankers fight inflation; retail sales rise in Great Britain – business live (The Guardian)
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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsDespite the inflationary squeeze on households, retail sales across Great Britain have risen over the summer.The heatwave, a pick-up in web shopping, and the joys (and pain and disappointment!) of the men's football World Cup, helped to lift spending over the three months to August, new data shows.“Retail sales increased in the latest three months, with a particularly strong June for online outlets helping to boost their sales across the period. Food store sales also rose, with supermarkets doing well in July and August.“Meanwhile, retailers selling alcohol and beverages performed well across all three months, which they attributed to promotions, the hot weather and the World Cup.”So although the central bank reiterated that it will continue raising rates if economic and inflation conditions evolve as projected, the market has reacted to the two high profile dissenters. The Yen is -0.72% lower at 157.10, having been at around 153.40 at the s...
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14.09.26 - 18:00
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Key Events This Week: Fed, BOJ And BOE; Also Retail Sales, Import Prices And Bessent (ZeroHedge)
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Key Events This Week: Fed, BOJ And BOE; Also Retail Sales, Import Prices And Bessent
It's a bumper week for central bank decisions, with the Fed (Wednesday), BoE (Thursday) and BoJ (Friday) all meeting. Central banks aside, key data releases include US retail sales (Wednesday) and industrial production (Friday), UK inflation (Wednesday) and labor market data (Tuesday), economic activity in China (tomorrow), and inflation and trade in Japan (Friday and Wednesday respectively). Other events include the annual testimony of the US Treasury Secretary namely Bessent (tomorrow), and the State of the Union address in Europe (Wednesday).
Delving into more detail now, DB's Jim Reid writes that the main event for markets will be the Fed's decision on Wednesday. Deutsche economists have long expected a 25bp rate hike with the market now at 87% this morning up from around 35% two Friday's ago just before Warsh's Jackson Hole speech. Such a move would take the target range to 3.75%-4.00%. DB economist...
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14.09.26 - 10:30
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Chubu Electric Leaders to Resign over N-Plant Data Fraud (Nippon)
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Nagoya, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)--Chubu Electric Power Co. said Monday that President Kingo Hayashi and Chairman Satoru Katsuno will step down Sept. 30 to take responsibility for an earthquake risk data fraud involving its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan. Senior Managing Executive Officer Minoru Yasui is set to become the next president. Honorary adviser Akihisa Mizuno will also r......
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11.09.26 - 09:18
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Kobe Bussan Backs Annual Guidance (AFX)
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TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - Kobe Bussan Co., Ltd. (KOBNF, 3038.T), a Japanese food producer, wholesaler, and retailer, on Friday reaffirmed its annual outlook.For the 12-month period to October 31, the comp......
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11.09.26 - 09:06
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Kobe Bussan Co., Ltd. Nine Months Income Retreats (AFX)
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TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - Kobe Bussan Co., Ltd. (KOBNF) released a profit for nine months that Dropped, from the same period last yearThe company's bottom line totaled JPY23.354 billion, or JPY104.93 per ......
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