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Firmenich Unveils Newly Designed West Coast Innovation Center for Rapid End-To-End Product Development

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Taste & Beyond facility offers greater collaboration with customers on food, beverage & nutrition innovation.

ANAHEIM, Calif., March 11, 2021 — Firmenich, the largest privately owned company in the fragrance and taste industry, is unveiling its newly designed West Coast Innovation Center in Anaheim, CA, the long standing home of its 7.5 acre Durarome® production site and West Coast commercial business. The new facilities in the United States are designed to increase creativity, improve collaboration with customers and enable ever more rapid end-to-end product development.

Interior view of Firmenich’s newly designed West Coast Innovation Center in Anaheim, CA, which offers closer collaboration with customers.
Interior view of Firmenich’s newly designed West Coast Innovation Center in Anaheim, CA, which offers closer collaboration with customers.

"Our California facilities have been located in Anaheim since 1926 and this new site is an exciting step on our journey," said Chris Perkins, SVP Taste & Beyond North America, Firmenich. "The West Coast Innovation Center was designed as a rapid collaboration space to work more closely with customers across Food, Beverage and Nutrition, to cut the time from concept to creation and quickly pilot in the market. This new facility will take our capabilities to the next level as our customers’ trusted innovation partner."

"We have an entrepreneurial mindset and a dynamic team, just like our Firmenich founders, and our new facilities are the culmination of our hard work and truly collaborative approach. We’re eager to share this new development with our customers and partners," said Karl Witton, VP New Venture, Firmenich. "Our team at the site focuses on more than just flavor applications; they are product developers first. Taking this approach provides our customers with the unique resources, skills and focus to enable them to scale up their business."

The next phase of site enhancements will expand Firmenich’s current pilot plant capabilities to further prepare customers for scaled-up production, an expanded sample lab to support customers quickly and efficiently, and innovative software and technology solutions to digitally optimize the customer experience.

"This state-of-the-art facility and its integration with the global Firmenich network and regional areas of expertise, mirror our partnership with Stanford University on a next-generation research program and our San Diego taste research and development center. They enable Firmenich to move to the next era of excellence in taste and beyond," said Emmanuel Butstraen, President Taste & Beyond, Firmenich.

The new Firmenich facility is constructed with creative, cutting-edge architectural approaches and designs, leveraging modular construction principles. The facility’s interior design pays tribute to the building’s history in Anaheim and the entrepreneurial spirit of its past inhabitants and surrounding community

Learn more about Firmenich’s West Coast office and their entrepreneurial approach by visiting their website here.

About Firmenich

Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company, was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1895 and has been family-owned for 125 years. Firmenich is a leading business-to-business company specialized in the research, creation, manufacture and sale of perfumes, flavors and ingredients. Renowned for its world-class research and creativity, as well as its leadership in sustainability, Firmenich offers its customers superior innovation in formulation, a broad and high-quality palette of ingredients, and proprietary technologies including biotechnology, encapsulation, olfactory science and taste modulation. Firmenich had an annual turnover of 3.9 billion Swiss Francs at end June 2020. More information about Firmenich is available at www.firmenich.com.

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Annie Grace Offers Advice for Tackling FebFest

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"This Naked Mind" author shares gentle wisdom and insight 

DENVER, Feb. 1, 2021 — Taking a break from something that isn’t good for you is always a good idea. Even better when you can raise money for an important cause at the same time. In asking people to abstain from alcohol for a month and raise money for disadvantaged youth, FebFest does both.

Annie Grace, author of "This Naked Mind" and "The Alcohol Experiment"
Annie Grace, author of "This Naked Mind" and "The Alcohol Experiment"

For some, the energy behind the importance of the fundraising mission will be enough to sustain their commitment to remaining alcohol free. For others, losing the booze will be more difficult.

"Starting a month-long challenge to abstain from alcohol is exciting and empowering," says Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind and The Alcohol Experiment. "But, it can also be daunting. If alcohol is typically part of your daily life, removing it can be difficult. And, relying on willpower alone to drive your success can make it even harder."

Annie Grace offers the following advice to anyone taking a break from alcohol:

Be Kind – First and foremost, meet yourself with compassion, right where you are. Remember, alcohol is an addictive substance. It’s OK if abstaining is hard. There is nothing wrong with you.

Buddy Up – Don’t go it alone. There is strength in numbers. Find an accountability partner or even an entire community of people on the same journey. Support and learn from each other.

Get Curious – Don’t ignore alcohol this month. Rather, use the break to truly explore your relationship with alcohol. Learn how alcohol interacts with your brain and why simply flexing your willpower muscle might not be enough.

Write It Down – Document your experience in a journal. How do you feel? What was hard? What was easy? What did you notice about yourself without alcohol? What makes you want to drink? 

Don’t Quit – If you slip and have a drink, try again. Even though it’s meant to be a month of abstinence, you do not have to declare defeat. Keep going. Do the best you can.

No matter why someone decides to participate in an alcohol free month, ultimately the best thing about their choice is the opportunity they give themselves to learn more about who they are both with and without the substance and determine what role they want alcohol to play in their lives in the future. 

About This Naked Mind
Founded by Annie Grace in 2015, This Naked Mind (TNM) helps people end the conflict between their desire to drink less and their unconscious belief that alcohol is beneficial. Annie Grace overcame a decade of drinking by revamping her own relationship with alcohol. Today she helps others across the globe do the same – the 200,000+ people who’ve bought her books, the 350,000+ people who receive daily emails from her, the listeners who’ve downloaded her This Naked Mind Podcast episodes more than 8 million times, and the 200,000+ people who’ve gone through her free program, The Alcohol Experiment. Rather than teaching people how to be sober, TNM takes away the desire to drink. And, the approach helps people where rehabs have not. Join TNM on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

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“Coffee Matters” Praised for Telling China’s Poverty Relief Story Well

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BEIJING, Jan. 15, 2021 — On November 27th, 2020, Coffee Matters, a Chinese-English bilingual short animation film was jointly released by China Story Database and Fuxing Road Studio, and soon attracted extensive attention globally. It was broadcast on the "China Screen" at New York Times Square on Jan. 13, 2021, Beijing Time.

"Coffee Matters" is praised for telling China's poverty relief story well.
"Coffee Matters" is praised for telling China’s poverty relief story well.

It tells a story about how a coffee bean travels across the seas to China, and eventually helps the once impoverished hinterland of S.W. China’s Yunnan province shake off poverty and achieve prosperity.

This touching story is from a short film titled Coffee Matters.

The 3.34-minute short film shows the cultural and economic interactions between China and the West brought by small coffee beans, and connects the overseas viewers to China’s poverty alleviation campaign. This film went viral after being released on major media and social networking platforms in China and has achieved 400 million views globally so far.

Hu Zhaoming, Spokesperson of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee retweeted it immediately saying "When coffee beans traveled to China, home of tea, and when the taste of daily life meets the needs of livelihoods, a story unfolds how coffee beans help people escape poverty. Fuxing Road Studio and the China Story Database have jointly released an animated short film, ‘Coffee Matters.’ Just like tasting a cup of fresh-made, mellow coffee, we hope you enjoy this video."

Targeted poverty alleviation is an innovative policy to ensure the achievement of the anti-poverty efforts. In its anti-poverty endeavor, Yunnan has been promoting development of coffee industry in its hinterland where policies of poverty alleviation go deep among residents and local conditions are suitable for coffee growing, providing the world with Chinese experience. The short film begins with coffee, the indispensable element in Westerners’ daily life, and proceeds with integrating China’s "coffee poverty-relief" story into the video at the same time. James Kimonyo, Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to China said: "How successful China’s industrialized anti-poverty model has been. The mellow coffee from Yunnan tells the story of China’s targeted poverty alleviation, and we will share and exchange with China on their experience and best practices to apply them in our country."

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TurtleTree Labs, the global leader in cell based milk, launches TurtleTree Scientific

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6, 2021 — TurtleTree Labs, the global leader in cell-based milk, today announced the launch of TurtleTree Scientific, dedicated to the growth of food grade growth factors. Despite the costs of producing cell-based meat declining over the years, the cell culture media and growth factors remain one of the biggest cost contributors, hindering the path to market.

TurtleTree Scientific is commercialising the Growth Factors developed by TurtleTree Labs
TurtleTree Scientific is commercialising the Growth Factors developed by TurtleTree Labs

What does this mean for the cellular agriculture industry? In early 2021, TurtleTree Scientific will be working with cell-based meat companies on the production of food grade growth factors. The prices are expected to be a fraction of pharmaceutical grade equivalents on the market. Singapore, as the first country in the world to approve the sale of cell based meat products, is strategic as the country is bound to attract the attention of more cell-based companies and has existing customers that it can scale with.

The availability of cost-efficient growth factors will be essential for cellular agriculture to validate its economic feasibility. In addition, Singapore is also a regional biotech hub where quality growth factors are in high demand for their use in the life sciences industry.

Bruce Fredrich the executive director of Good Food Institute is very excited for this launch. "Singapore for the win again. The exciting work being done at Turtle Tree Labs is happening with tremendous support from the government, and other governments need to follow Singapore’s lead. Governments are interested in stopping the next pandemic and in keeping antibiotics working, and governments want to meet their climate obligations under the Paris climate agreement, so governments should be following Singapore’s lead and doing all they can to create a welcoming environment for innovative companies like TurtleTree Labs. Right now, Singapore is in a class by itself; other governments need to step up."

"Not only are we collaborating with local research institutes like NUS and NTU, but also global institutions like Wageningen University in the Netherlands. We have already started sending some samples to other cell based meat companies and aim to play a major role in this industry," says Max Rye, Chief Strategist of TurtleTree Labs.

TurtleTree Labs has recently raised US$9.4M from investors which include Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed’s KBW Ventures and Hong Kong venture capital firm Green Monday Ventures. As an arm of TurtleTree Labs, TurtleTree Scientific will have its own team of experienced industry players driving it.

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About TurtleTree Labs – TurtleTree Labs is shaping the future for dairy milk and infant nutrition production with its proprietary, cell-based technology method to produce milk and milk components sustainably. Together with its valued partners, TurtleTree Labs is able to achieve resource efficiency and increase access to healthier, safer, reliable, and higher quality dairy products for consumers.

About TurtleTree Scientific – TurtleTree Scientific was founded out of a desire to solve the challenges of cellular agriculture. We’re producing food grade growth factors and cell culture media to design the necessary foundations for the industry to thrive. TurtleTree Scientific is started by TurtleTree Labs and is led by an experienced team of industry professionals.

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Secoo reached cooperation with Moutai to further penetrate the high-end consumer demand for Chinese liquor

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BEIJING, Nov. 10, 2020 — On September 17, 2020, Secoo (NASDAQ: SECO) and Kweichow Moutai reached cooperation whereby the 53 degrees Feitian Moutai, valued at RMB 1499 per bottle, will officially be launched on Secoo e-commerce platforms. The agreement will provide Moutai liquor access to over 36 million Secoo’s high-end users, delivering the concept of a premium quality lifestyle.

The cooperation reached by the two parties will enhance Secoo’s portfolio of liquor brands and also further satisfied Secoo’s high-end members’ strong demand for Kweichow Moutai. The alliance between Kweichow Moutai and Secoo will not only extend Moutai’s traditional sales & marketing channels but provide a targeted premium sales channel to service the premium Moutai fans.

About Secoo Holding Limited

Secoo Holding Limited ("Secoo") is one of Asia’s largest online integrated premium products and services platform. Secoo provides customers a wide selection of authentic upscale products and lifestyle services on the Company’s integrated online and offline shopping platforms, consisting of the Secoo.com website, mobile applications, and offline experience centers, offering over 400,000 SKUs, covering over 3,800 global and domestic brands. Supported by the Company’s proprietary database of upscale products, authentication procedures, and brand cooperation, Secoo can ensure every product’s authenticity and quality.  For more information, please visit ir.secoo.com.

About Kweichow Moutai

China Kweichow Moutai Distillery Group Co., LTD, is a state-owned enterprise. Moutai Group headquarters located in Moutai town, Zunyi, Guizhou province, China. Moutai’s top products have an established long history and have profoundly penetrated the Chinese culture, exemplary examples of Chinese white liquor, and classic representation of China’s liquor. Moutai is fully bioorganic and the representative of Chinese green organic food and geography-based liquor.

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Nel ASA: Selected by Iberdrola as preferred supplier for a 20 MW green fertilizer project in Spain

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OSLO, Norway, Nov. 4, 2020 — Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser, a division of Nel ASA (Nel, OSE:NEL), has been selected as preferred supplier by Iberdrola for a 20 MW PEM solution for a green fertilizer project in Spain. Contract award is subject to mutual agreement on the final commercial terms. The hydrogen plant is scheduled to commence operations in 2021.

"We are very excited and honored that Iberdrola prefer to use a PEM electrolyser solution from Nel for this landmark green fertilizer project. It is a true testament to our PEM platform, which has been deployed all over the world for several decades. We continuously work to develop larger systems, and with this project our PEM platform will be designed into a 20 MW solution. We have over the course of the last year been working on both alkaline and PEM large-scale solutions, which serve different customer needs, and we look forward to provide our PEM solution for this project," says Filip Smeets, SVP Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser, Nel Hydrogen Fueling.

Iberdrola, one of the largest electricity utilities in the world, has together with a world-leading fertilizer manufacturer Fertiberia launched a project to establish the largest green hydrogen plant in Europe. Located in Puertollano, Spain it will feature a 100 MW photovoltaic plant, a battery installation with a storage capacity of 20 MWh, and a 20 MW electrolyser. The hydrogen produced in the project will primarily be used for green fertilizer production. The 20 MW electrolyser is scheduled to commence operations in 2021.

Contract award is subject to mutual agreement on the final agreement on terms and conditions, technical details, and board approval.

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Jon André Løkke, CEO, +47 907 44 949

Kjell Christian Bjørnsen, CFO, +47 917 02 097

About Nel ASA | www.nelhydrogen.com

Nel is a global, dedicated hydrogen company, delivering optimal solutions to produce, store, and distribute hydrogen from renewable energy. We serve industries, energy, and gas companies with leading hydrogen technology. Our roots date back to 1927, and since then, we have had a proud history of development and continuous improvement of hydrogen technologies. Today, our solutions cover the entire value chain: from hydrogen production technologies to hydrogen fueling stations, enabling industries to transition to green hydrogen, and providing fuel cell electric vehicles with the same fast fueling and long range as fossil-fueled vehicles – without the emissions.

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Surging Australian Wine Exports Powered by Accela

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New federal-level initiative marks the govtech SaaS leader’s first project with new strategic partner DWS and its second Microsoft Azure-hosted project in the APAC region 

SAN RAMON, California, Sept. 23, 2020 — Australia’s AUD2.84 billion wine export sector has recently gone live with a new SaaS licensing and approval system powered by Accela technology that will help regulate the wine export process for the burgeoning Australian wine sector.

The new Wine Australia Licensing and Approval System (WALAS) is projected to process more than 200,000 transactions from more than 3,000 wine exporters from around Australia each year. The system provides end-to-end processing and allows exporters to apply online for licenses and certificates, with greater control of their applications, including review and payment online in real-time and 24/7 access.

"Our team at Accela is excited about this groundbreaking effort to support Wine Australia’s transition of essential workflows online, promote efficiency gains, and regulate a critical market for Australia’s economic growth," said Khaled Jaouni, International Managing Director at Accela. "Our collaboration with DWS in the Australian market demonstrates the collective power of our best-in-class solutions to help agencies at the federal, state, and local levels better serve their citizens and deliver results, and marks a significant milestone in Accela’s commitment to the Asia-Pacific region as our longest-running international operation of over a decade."

Wine Australia is an Australian Commonwealth Government statutory authority that regulates, promotes, and supports a competitive Australian wine sector. Its implementation of Accela’s cloud technology reflects the scalability of the govtech leader’s solutions within emerging, non-traditional areas of regulation to serve thousands of end customers.

"Wine Australia’s new system to manage the country’s growing number of wine exports reflects our commitment to employing modern digital tools to better serve our grape and wine community," said Andreas Clark, CEO at Wine Australia. "Our new Licensing and Approval System will help deliver enhanced services to our sector and help provide critical infrastructure to keep Australian wine flowing to our international markets."

The project marks Accela’s first joint execution with strategic partner DWS Limited (DWS), one of the region’s leading providers of project management services, and Accela’s second Microsoft Azure-hosted implementation in the Asia-Pacific region.

"Australia continues to be a worldwide leader in leveraging modern technology with its focus on SaaS-solutions, and this new system matches the country’s innovation," said Stuart Whipp, DWS CFO and Head of M&A. "We are excited about the execution of our first project in partnership with Accela, which brings together our market-leading project management capabilities with their cutting-edge technology to provide maximum impact at the federal level."

The announcement builds on Accela’s international leadership as the company continues to drive impact with some of the world’s most forward-thinking governments to benefit 275 million citizens globally. In addition to its new solution with Wine Australia, Accela’s Civic Application for Alcoholic Beverage Control empowers government departments to harness the cloud to modernize alcoholic beverage control. The application includes tools to streamline previously paper-based processes such as liquor license application reviews, conduct on-site inspections, and automate the issuance of licenses, renewals, and license transfers. To learn more about Accela’s solutions, please visit https://www.accela.com/solutions/.

About Accela
Accela provides market-leading cloud solutions that empower the most innovative state and local governments around the world to build thriving communities, grow businesses and protect citizens. More than 275 million citizens globally benefit from Accela’s solutions, which are powered by Microsoft Azure, for permitting, licensing, code enforcement and service request management. Accela’s fast-to-implement Civic Applications, built on its robust and extensible Civic Platform, help agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are prepared for any emerging or complex challenges in the future. The company was recently recognized as a 2020 Microsoft US Partner Award winner for its innovative SaaS solutions to help governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Accela is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with additional offices around the world. For more information, visit www.accela.com.

About Wine Australia
Wine Australia supports a competitive wine sector by investing in research, development and adoption (RD&A), growing domestic and international markets, protecting the reputation of Australian wine and administering the Export and Regional Wine Support Package (ERWSP). Wine Australia is an Australian Commonwealth Government statutory authority, established under the Wine Australia Act 2013, and funded by grape growers and winemakers through levies and user-pays charges and the Australian Government, which provides matching funding for RD&A investments and funds the ERWSP.

About DWS Group:
DWS Limited, is an ASX listed, Australian group (ASX:DWS). Encompassing DWS, Symplicit, Phoenix & Projects Assured, the DWS Group provides a wide range of services including IT Consulting Services, Managed Application Services, Program & Project Management, Customer driven innovation, Digital Transformation, Data and Business Analytics, Strategic Advisory and Productivity and Robotic Process Automation. With offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra, the DWS Group provides services to a broad range of blue-chip corporate clients, as well as Federal, State and Local Government agencies. The quality of DWS Group consultants enables organisations to design, develop, manage and maintain technology, business and customer centric solutions providing competitive advantage, streamlined operations, innovation and long-term success. For more information, visit www.dws.com.au.

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Coca-Cola Amatil Invests in Centrapay

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Investment vehicle, Amatil X takes a stake in Centrapay.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept. 3, 2020 — Coca-Cola Amatil’s corporate venturing platform, Amatil X, has completed a minority investment in Centrapay, as part of the payment platform’s seed funding round.

Centrapay specialises in the adoption of digital assets and merchant payments. Its platform is designed to help brands connect directly with consumers and increase revenue and operational efficiency for merchants.

In addition to digital assets, Centrapay is expanding its focus to provide merchants with the ability to accept contactless fiat, Epay giftcards and vouchers without being charged a ‘per transaction fee’ using their existing EFTPOS terminal. 

Consumers will also be able to send fiat or other supported payments as easily as sending a text message, using the Centrapay Wallet.

The investment will accelerate integration with point of sale and payment terminals, enable brands to connect more directly with their consumers and drive more innovation in payments and value exchange.

Centrapay CEO, Jerome Faury, says the two companies have a strong strategic alignment.

"Both Centrapay and Coca-Cola Amatil are committed to preserving consumers’ privacy and data ownership rights, whilst increasing business value.

"The fact that Coca-Cola Amatil has invested in Centrapay through Amatil X, shows that there is a real appetite to provide customers with new ways to engage or to exchange value," he says.

"The global money supply is evolving rapidly with new economic models and the advent of smart, programmable money. The way we exchange value is set to change dramatically. There’s more change likely in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the past 100 years.

"Centrapay is in an ideal position to play a pioneering role in driving acceptance of digital assets with merchants," adds Jerome.

Coca-Cola Amatil’s Head of Amatil X, Alix Rimington, says Coca-Cola Amatil was working with Centrapay to give consumers the option to use their Sylo Smart Wallet to pay for items across Amatil’s vending network using cryptocurrency.

"We already have a commercial relationship with Centrapay and our investment further supports our partnership with the team.

"Amatil’s customers can use their Sylo Smart Wallet at any one of our 2000+ vending machines with a QR code payment sticker. These are located across New Zealand and Australia and will accept payments in cryptocurrency or other digital assets with a scan of your phone’s camera when Sylo Smart Wallet is installed," she says.

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Rachael Joel at Botica Butler Raudon for Centrapay, +64 21 403 504 or rachaelj@botica.co.nz.  

About Centrapay

Centrapay is a digital asset payment platform. It is changing the way consumers engage with brands and exchange value with merchants. Centrapay is a leader in leveraging blockchain for digital product creation, distribution and alternative payments. It provides the technology to integrate with both consumer and merchant systems to enable everyday usage of digital assets.

About Amatil X

Amatil X is Coca-Cola Amatil’s corporate venturing platform. Established in 2018, Amatil X helps us identify, work with, and invest in start-ups and build entrepreneurial capability across Coca-Cola Amatil.

Our multimillion-dollar corporate venturing fund sits at the heart of Amatil X. As a strategic investor, Amatil X seeks to identify new technology solutions and business models that create synergies with our business and present future growth opportunities.

About Coca-Cola Amatil

Coca-Cola Amatil is one of Asia-Pacific’s largest bottlers and distributors of alcoholic and non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages, and one of the world’s largest bottlers of The Coca-Cola Company range. With around 12,000 employees working in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa, the company delights millions of consumers everywhere and every day with their leading range of ready-to-drink non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages and coffee.

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