GUANGZHOU, China, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global lifestyle brand MINISO has released its 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, outlining the Company’s progress and practices across corporate governance, social responsibility and green operations, as it continues to integrate ESG principles into its global growth strategy.

During the reporting period, MINISO further strengthened its ESG governance framework and long-term value creation capabilities. The Company’s overall ESG performance continued to improve, with its S&P CSA score increasing to 43, ranking among the top 15% of the industry, and its Wind ESG rating maintaining an AA level for the third consecutive year. By embedding ESG principles into its IP-driven strategy, MINISO continues to build a sustainable and resilient foundation for long-term global growth.

Advancing Toward a Global IP Operation Platform

Guided by its vision “To become the world’s leading IP operation platform,” MINISO continues to evolve beyond traditional retail, strengthening capabilities in IP operation, product innovation and content integration.

Through a dual‑engine model combining top‑tier licensed IPs and proprietary IPs, MINISO continues to build a resilient IP ecosystem that balances cultural value and commercial strength. While expanding global IP partnerships, the Company has also reinforced the long‑term cultivation of proprietary IPs, providing a stable and sustainable content foundation to support product innovation and long‑term business development.

The Company remains committed to its long‑term goal of supporting 100 Chinese IPs go global over the next decade, while nurturing original creativity through initiatives such as the Global IP Genius Youth Program.

At the product level, MINISO continued to promote craftsmanship and design innovation across IP‑related products, including vinyl plush and hand‑feel oil craftsmanship, further enriching IP product offerings and strengthening the sustainable foundation of its core business.

Building a Diverse and Inclusive Global Workforce

MINISO continues to strengthen a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce across global markets. As of the end of the reporting period, female employees accounted for approximately 65% of the workforce, with women representing around 55% of management positions, reflecting continued progress in building a more balanced and inclusive organization.

Localization continued to be a key pillar of overseas operations. In directly operated overseas markets such as Vietnam, the localization rate of operational employees reached 99%, while the localization rate of store managers reached 100%.

MINISO is also enhancing its employee incentive and care mechanisms. During the reporting period, MINISO granted share incentives to approximately 475 employees, of whom around 400 were non-senior management employees. In addition, MINISO also established a marriage and maternity incentive fund to foster a more family-friendly workplace. As of the end of the reporting period, the fund had distributed a cumulative total of RMB 3.41 million, benefiting more than 200 employee families.

Leveraging its strengthened governance framework and people‑oriented talent strategy, MINISO received a total of 18 employer brand and workplace‑related awards during the reporting period, including the Harvard Business Review’s High‑Energy Team Globalization Special Award, HR Asia’s Best Employer, and the Great Place to Work global certification from Great Place to Work, among others.

Deepening Community Engagement and Public Welfare

Throughout the year, MINISO advanced public welfare initiatives across key focus areas including children’s development, women’s empowerment and animal welfare, with total public welfare donations amounted to approximately RMB 3 million during the reporting period.

Leveraging its youthful brand identity, MINISO works with partners to expand the reach and impact of its community initiatives. Programs such as “Red Power” support adolescent girls’ health in developing regions through educational outreach and material donations. Animal welfare campaigns including “Hey, Don’t Call Me Village Dog” and “From Strays to Heroes – Give Us a Lift” have promoted adoption and in-store awareness, generating over 100 million impressions.

In overseas markets, MINISO actively integrated into local communities by aligning initiatives with local social needs and priorities. Through well-curated community engagement, material donations and employee volunteer activities, the Company continued to strengthen long‑term trust between the brand and local communities.

Advancing Green Operations and Sustainable Retail Practices

MINISO continued to advance its low‑carbon transformation and enhanced resource efficiency across areas including energy structure, operational models, retail scenarios and product design.

In terms of infrastructure, MINISO expanded its use of renewable energy. The headquarters building obtained LEED Platinum pre‑certification and installed solar photovoltaic panels, while its logistics park installed approximately 77,000 square meters of solar photovoltaic panels, generating approximately 12.5 million kWh of clean electricity annually and reducing carbon emissions by over 6,600 tons per year.

Across logistics and warehousing, MINISO enhanced circular packaging and operational efficiency, introducing reusable plastic boxes to replace single-use cartons and completing the full electrification of delivery vehicles and warehouse forklifts in directly operated stores.

At the store and product level, MINISO integrated environmental concepts into retail spaces and products. Stores such as Ningbo Super MINISO and Foshan Lingnan Tiandi incorporated biophilic and local cultural design elements, while 53 SKUs obtained biodegradable certification, and 580 kilograms of recycled materials were used in Eco-friendly PEN PEN plush toys.

Looking ahead, MINISO continues to advance the deep integration of its IP strategy and ESG practices by coordinating IP operations, talent development, public welfare initiatives and green operations. By embedding ESG principles across its global business, MINISO consistently delivers high‑quality, warm and joyful consumption value to society and consumers.

To view the full MINISO 2025 ESG report, click the link here

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About MINISO

MINISO Group is a global lifestyle brand offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products. The Company serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores, and promotes a relaxing, treasure-hunting and engaging shopping experience full of delightful surprises that appeals to all demographics. Aesthetically pleasing design, quality and affordability are at the core of every product in MINISO’s wide product portfolio, and the Company continually and frequently rolls out products with these qualities. Since the opening of its first store in China in 2013, the Company has built its flagship brand “MINISO” as a globally recognized retail brand and established a massive store network worldwide.

New full-stack offering turns content operations into an agentic growth engine

NEW YORK and MUMBAI, India, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, today announced the launch of a new offering — Agentic Marketing Services — in partnership with Typeface, the marketing orchestration engine for the world’s leading enterprises. The offering is designed to help enterprises move from marketing ambition to scale by transforming, implementing, and operating AI-native marketing systems. It transforms marketing operations into a scalable growth engine and delivers measurable top-line revenue growth beyond operational efficiency alone.

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises think about the customer lifecycle, and marketing content sits at the center of that transformation. Enterprises deploying AI-driven personalization are seeing up to 40% higher revenue compared to their peers. Content operations is both a growth lever and an efficiency play for CMOs: roughly 30% of CMO budgets go to content; approximately 55% of content work is manual — resizing, localization, brand compliance — while 90% of those manual workflows can be AI-enabled.

“At Firstsource, our approach has been about moving beyond traditional boundaries to build adaptive, intelligence-led ecosystems that deliver measurable outcomes. Content operations is now the most disrupted layer of the modern marketing stack, with Large Language Models reshaping the entire value chain — from ideation and production to governance and distribution — making it both the biggest near-term efficiency opportunity and the most exposed surface area in enterprise marketing,” said Ritesh Idnani, MD and Chief Executive Officer of Firstsource.

“CEOs and CMOs are not looking for a consultancy that hands off a roadmap or an agency that operates in silos — they want a partner who can transform, implement, and operate marketing systems end-to-end. By combining micro-segmentation, personalization, and deep industry context, we help clients build acquisition, engagement, and retention engines that are intelligent, compliant, and scalable. Typeface brings the AI technology to generate personalized, on-brand, compliant content at scale, and Firstsource brings deep experience in customer operations, especially in regulated industries like banking, financial services, healthcare, and retail. Together, we enable enterprises to plan, build, and run modern marketing — turning content operations into a compounding growth engine and delivering outcomes, not just effort.”

The partnership extends the capabilities announced with Typeface’s recent Marketing Orchestration Engine launch — bringing governed AI systems into full-stack marketing operations for regulated enterprises.

“AI only transforms marketing when it’s embedded into the workflows that drive real customer outcomes,” said Abhay Parasnis, Founder & CEO of Typeface. “Firstsource brings deep industry expertise and operational rigor in highly regulated environments. Together, we’re helping enterprises turn AI ambition into operational reality, embedding governed intelligence into the systems that power durable growth.” 

While Typeface provides the orchestration layer that unifies brand intelligence, AI agents, and enterprise systems, Firstsource brings the operational expertise and insights to enable effective decision making and implement and run these systems in complex, regulated environments. Together, they redesign how growth is driven — focusing on the moments, segments, and mechanisms that truly move the needle — enabling enterprises to shift from fragmented activity to scalable, revenue-led execution.

Industry view

“In retail, seasonality and micro-segmentation are where revenue is won or lost. Every peak moment demands thousands of personalized variants across marketing, service, and customer operations — and the retailers who get this right see real movement on acquisition, conversion, and retention, not just efficiency. What makes the Firstsource–Typeface offering different is that it is not another tool — it is an operating capability. Pairing agentic AI with embedded marketing operations is exactly what retailers need to move from broad campaigns to true lifecycle-driven engagement. For the industry, this is a meaningful step-change in how growth gets engineered.”
– Dave Kimbell, Ex-CEO Ulta Beauty; Firstsource Advisory Board Member

“Healthcare payers sit on a real paradox: a huge share of member communication is locked inside PHI and claims workflows where the rules are clear and rightly strict — but the biggest lever on affordability lives outside that envelope, in how payers engage members on wellness, prevention, plan literacy, and proactive disease management. That is a white-space opportunity the industry has barely touched. This is where marketing AI services can genuinely move the needle. With micro-segmentation and agentic content, payers can reach the right member with the right nudge at the right moment — entirely within compliant, non-PHI pathways — and shift the engagement model from acquisition and retention to lifelong wellness. That is how you make healthcare more affordable, improve member experience, and strengthen the economics of the plan at the same time. The Firstsource–Typeface offering is one of the few capabilities purpose-built to operate at that intersection of compliance, personalization, and outcomes.”
– Paul Sanford, Ex-EVP Operations, Cigna Group; Firstsource Advisory Board Member

About Firstsource

Firstsource Solutions Limited, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), is a global intelligence partner to enterprises across healthcare, banking and financial services, communications, media, technology, retail, and utilities. Its inch-wide, mile-deep practitioners work collaboratively to reimagine business process management.

With operations across the US, UK, India, Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, and Australia, Firstsource combines over twenty-five years of domain expertise with an agent-first delivery model to design, build, and operate intelligent enterprise operations. Through its Intelligence That Operates promise—powered by Kairos, the operating system that makes it real—the company unifies consulting, implementation, and operations into a single full-stack engagement and underwrites outcomes, not effort, turning deep domain intelligence into a compounding operational advantage for firms in the world’s most regulated industries. (www.firstsource.com)

About Typeface

Typeface is a marketing orchestration engine for the world’s leading enterprises, coordinating brand intelligence, AI agents, and enterprise systems across cross-channel marketing operations. Built for large organizations, Typeface combines shared brand intelligence, governed agent workflows, and deep enterprise integration at scale — connecting seamlessly with platforms like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Google — to help teams scale what works without sacrificing quality or control. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Typeface enables organizations to operationalize AI inside real marketing workflows, turning brand standards, approvals, and performance signals into coordinated systems that improve over time. Typeface is backed by Lightspeed, GV, Salesforce Ventures, Madrona, Menlo, and M12, and has been recognized by Fast Company, Gartner, TIME, LinkedIn, and Adweek as a leader in AI for marketing. Learn more at www.typeface.ai.

With a platform designed to transform existing human-created assets into animated series and films, Nura gives game and animation studios a new way to extend their IP, reach new audiences, and meet growing demand for content.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nura Studios today announced Showcraft™, its animation platform, will enter Early Access on May 19. Nura enables game and animation studios to turn existing characters, environments, and production assets into episodic series and films using AI models designed to work from artist-created content. Unlike tools that generate content from prompts alone, Nura’s platform is built around human-created IP. The result is animated episodic storytelling that carries the emotional depth and artistic intent of the source material and does not look or feel machine-made.

“Game studios and publishers are constantly finding new ways to engage players and grow their worlds, while animation studios are pushing to deliver more stories at a higher cadence,” said Sylvio Drouin, CEO and co-founder, Nura Studios. “There is so much creative value that already exists inside worlds and IP. With Showcraft, teams can extend their characters, environments, and production assets into episodic storytelling unlocking new formats for engagement without starting over. Machines have no talent, humans do. Showcraft is built to amplify that talent.”

Showcraft, Nura’s integrated platform for animated episodic production, connects story development, pre-production, visual and voice creation, and final edit within a single environment. Underpinned by fine-tuned AI models, Showcraft removes production friction and lowers the barriers to entry, enabling both studios and independent storytellers to produce high-quality content with control and consistency. Designed to manage the complexities of AI behind the scenes, Showcraft offers an intuitive, controlled workflow that maintains visual and narrative integrity avoiding the generic outputs often associated with generative tools.

Nura Atelier, the company’s in-house creative studio, leverages Showcraft to bring episodic storytelling to life for a select group of partners. The team brings together Emmy and Academy Award-winning talent across writing, directing, animation, and voice paired with a new generation of AI-native production expertise. The studio also maintains rigorous standards around rights management and IP protection, providing partners with confidence at every stage of production.

Nura Studios was founded by leaders in real-time technology, AI, and creative tools. CEO and co-founder Sylvio Drouin brings more than two decades of experience building platforms for creators. He previously served as Senior Vice President at Unity, where he led advanced research, labs, and AI innovation, and has held executive roles across startups and growth-stage companies globally. He also serves on the board of the UCLA Technology Development Group. CTO Gabriele Farina spent over a decade shaping the architecture of the Unity engine, contributing to one of the world’s most widely used real-time creation platforms. Chairman and co-founder Stefano Corazza, PhD, Head of AI Research at Canva and former Head of Roblox Studio and AR at Adobe, brings deep expertise in AI and immersive media. Nura’s leadership team includes talent from Roblox, Adobe, Unity, Apple, Softimage, Canva, and Disney.

Nura Studios is backed by seed funding from iGlobe Partners, Fellows Fund and Shanda Ventures supporting the development of its AI-enabled creative platform. The company is focused on building long-term infrastructure for episodic storytelling, with plans to scale its platform, creator ecosystem, and production capabilities over time.

Game and animation studios can join the Early Access waitlist at www.nurastudios.com. Studios interested in partnering with Nura Atelier can contact studio@nurastudios.ai. 

About Nura Studios
Founded by pioneers in democratizing content creation, Nura Studios empowers animation creators with human-led tools to bring high-quality, episodic stories to life.

GWACHEON, South Korea, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Park Systems Corp., the world’s leading provider of atomic force microscopy (AFM) solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology LLC (RMN), a Salt Lake City, Utah-based manufacturer of ultra-high-purity solid platinum and platinum-iridium AFM probes. The acquisition marks Park Systems’ first entry into probe manufacturing and represents a strategic step to bring a critical component of AFM-based nanoprobing and electrical measurement in-house.

Park Systems Corp., the world’s leading provider of atomic force microscopy (AFM) solutions, announces the acquisition of Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology LLC, a manufacturer of ultra-high-purity solid platinum and platinum-iridium AFM probes.

Founded in 2003 by Dr. Clayton Williams — former physics professor at the University of Utah and former research staff member at IBM — RMN has built a strong reputation over more than two decades for producing ultra-sharp solid-metal AFM probes with tip radii as small as 10 nanometers. RMN probes support a wide range of advanced and electrical AFM modes, particularly in high-voltage applications, including Conductive AFM(C-AFM), Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM), Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM), Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM), Scanning Capacitance Microscopy (SCM), Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (sMIM), and Nano-IR. RMN’s customer base includes leading universities and corporate research institutions worldwide.

“RMN’s solid-metal probe technology is directly complementary to Park Systems’ advanced electrical measurement modes and next-generation nanoprobing systems currently under development,” said Dr. Sang-il Park, Founder and CEO of Park Systems. “This acquisition represents a step toward that strategy — one that secures a stable supply of high-performance specialty probes our electrical measurement solutions are built upon.”

Following the acquisition, Park Systems plans to establish a dedicated probe production facility in South Korea, through a technology transfer from RMN’s existing operations in Salt Lake City, Utah. RMN’s U.S. facility will continue full production during the transition period to ensure uninterrupted supply for existing customers.

“Joining Park Systems opens new possibilities for Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology — expanding the reach of our probe technology, enabling applications we could not have pursued independently, and strengthening our position in the global AFM probe market,” said Dr. Clayton Williams, Founder of Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology.

Existing RMN customers can continue purchasing products as before. Park Systems is committed to maintaining product continuity while introducing new probes and an expanded lineup under the combined organization.

ABOUT PARK SYSTEMS

Park Systems is a global leader in nanometrology, providing advanced measurement solutions for research and industrial applications. With regional offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, the company supports customers in semiconductor manufacturing, materials science, and nanotechnology research.

Park Systems’ technology portfolio includes atomic force microscopy (AFM), imaging spectroscopic ellipsometry, digital holographic microscopy, white light interferometry, and active vibration isolation systems.

Founded by Dr. Sang-il Park, a contributor to the invention of AFM at Stanford University, the company has grown through continuous innovation and strategic acquisitions—including Accurion GmbH and Lyncée Tec SA—to become a leading force in the global nanometrology industry.

For more information, visit www.parksystems.com  

About Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology LLC

Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology LLC, founded in 2003 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, specializes in the design and manufacture of ultra-sharp solid platinum and platinum-iridium probes for scanning microscopy. RMN probes are used worldwide by researchers and engineers conducting  nanoscale electrical and materials characterization.

For more information, visit www.rmnano.com

GxP-aligned, industrial-grade platform secures the world’s largest Agentic Business Network—enabling trusted, real-time execution across global supply chains

Summary
TraceLink has been named a winner in the 2026 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity, recognizing the company’s leadership in securing complex, multienterprise supply chain operations. TraceLink’s Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions (OPUS) is a GxP-aligned, industrial-grade foundation for the Agentic Business Network—securing third-party interactions, serialized data, and mission-critical transactions to enable trusted, real-time execution across global supply chains.

BOSTON, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As life sciences supply chains transition from fragmented, manual processes to real-time, AI-driven operations, cybersecurity is no longer just a safeguard—it is the operating foundation. In recognition of this shift, TraceLink, the world’s largest Agentic Business Network, has been named a winner in the 2026 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity, honoring the company’s OPUS platform for securing mission-critical transactions across global supply networks.

Leading supply chains are aggressively transforming into agentic, multienterprise operating systems—fueled by end-to-end, real-time trading partner information powering governed AI agents that act, decide, and coordinate across organizational boundaries. This new model enables unprecedented opportunity to increase business productivity and performance, but also introduces new risks. Every business transaction and AI-driven decision must be trusted, governed, and auditable in real time.

Traditional enterprise systems—built on fragmented integrations and point-to-point connections—were never designed for this level of coordination. They lack the shared infrastructure required to securely support continuous, multienterprise execution.

TraceLink’s Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions (OPUS) addresses this challenge by providing a secure, network-native foundation where companies, humans, and AI agents operate within a shared, but governed environment. By linking more than 315,000 authenticated organizations in life sciences and healthcare and enabling standardized, real-time data exchange, OPUS provides a secure, network-native foundation for digital and agentic supply chain operations.

“Trusted supply chains begin with trusted infrastructure,” said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of TraceLink. “OPUS is engineered with security, governance, and reliability built into every process and transaction across the network. That secure foundation is what allows companies to confidently digitalize operations, adopt AI, and deploy governed, no-code AI agents to scale intelligent, agentic execution across their supply chain.”

Security as the Foundation for Agentic Execution

In highly regulated life sciences and healthcare environments—where manufacturers, suppliers, CMOs, logistics and transportation providers, distributors, pharmacies, and regulators exchange sensitive product and compliance data—even a single vulnerability can disrupt operations, delay product availability, or impact patient safety.

OPUS is purpose-built to operate in this environment, providing an industrial-grade, audit-ready foundation for secure, multienterprise collaboration. Within this foundation, OPUS Agents function as governed digital teammates—executing tasks, managing exceptions, and coordinating across partners with full permissioning, auditability, and compliance controls.

As companies scale AI-driven operations, every action—human or agent—remains secure, traceable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.

Independently Validated Security, Reliability, and Governance

The security and resilience of the OPUS platform are independently verified through globally recognized certifications and attestations, including:

• ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System)
• ISO 27001:2022 (Information Security Management System)
• ISO 27017:2015 (Cloud Security)
• SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II Attestations
• GxP-aligned quality and compliance controls supporting regulatory readiness

These validations confirm OPUS as a secure, audit-ready foundation for trusted interactions across global supply networks.

Operating at global scale, the TraceLink network processes approximately 300,000 files daily and maintains 99.98%+ availability in an active-active-active, always-on architecture.

This performance ensures uninterrupted product, information, and financial flow—helping companies prevent stockouts, maintain compliance, and ensure patients receive critical therapies without delay.

From Secure Infrastructure to Intelligent Operations

As supply chains evolve toward continuous, real-time execution, the ability to securely coordinate across partners—and increasingly, across AI agents—will define industry leaders.

By embedding security, governance, and trust directly into its network and platform architecture, TraceLink is enabling a new operating model: an Agentic Business Network where companies can scale operations, automate complex processes, and collaborate seamlessly across their ecosystem—without compromising control or compliance.

“Congratulations to the 2026 winners for their exceptional contributions to strengthening our digital world,” said Sam Madan, President of the Globee® Awards. “Your innovation and leadership continue to advance cybersecurity and set new standards across industries.”

About TraceLink 
TraceLink is the world’s largest Agentic Business Network, enabling life sciences and healthcare companies to build and manage a scalable digital workforce of governed, no-code AI agents that execute and coordinate mission-critical supply chain operations alongside human teams.

Powered by the Integrate-Once™ OPUS platform, which links 300,000+ authenticated network entities that exchange hundreds of billions of product transactions annually, only TraceLink delivers the industrial foundation required to develop, train, and continuously optimize agentic supply chain talent—governed AI agents—operating across multienterprise processes.

This agentic workforce model redefines how work gets done—expanding capacity, accelerating execution, and enabling safe, secure supply chain ecosystems that serve the greater good and operate with unprecedented agility, intelligence, and productivity beyond the limits of human-only operations, ensuring patients receive safe, high-quality therapies and products when and where they are needed.

Learn more at www.tracelink.com.

About the Globee® Awards
The Globee® Awards, a business awards program with worldwide participation, organize 10 awards programs that recognize achievements and innovations across multiple industries and sectors. These include programs focused on business, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, leadership, innovation, customer excellence, technology, and more.

To learn more about the Globee® Awards, visit: https://globeeawards.com.