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Lunit to Highlight New AI Evidence in Cancer Screening and Breast Density-Driven Risk Modeling at RSNA 2025

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Eight oral presentations and six posters demonstrate advances in mammography, DBT performance, and density-informed risk modeling

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lunit, a leading provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and precision oncology, today announced it will present 14 studies at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2025 Annual Meeting. Spanning screening mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), breast density science, and risk modeling, this year’s program represents one of the company’s most extensive evidence portfolios to date. Lunit will exhibit at South Hall, Booth #4100, and host expert-led sessions in the Lunit Education Room #1252 throughout the meeting.

Among the highlighted research, real-world results from Capio S:t Göran Hospital in Sweden evaluated more than 193,000 screening examinations before and after the introduction of Lunit INSIGHT MMG. When AI was paired with a single radiologist, the screening program achieved higher invasive cancer detection, greater positive predictive value, and fewer unnecessary recalls compared to human-only double reading—reinforcing findings from the ScreenTrustCAD interventional trial and demonstrating that AI-integrated single reading can maintain or improve accuracy while alleviating workforce pressure.

New evidence from Massachusetts General Hospital assessed AI performance on screening DBT using 1,000 retrospective examinations, showing that Lunit INSIGHT DBT correctly localized 84.4% of true-positive cancers, with particularly strong performance for mass-presenting and invasive ductal carcinoma cases. The study also detailed cancer subtypes less likely to be identified by AI, offering practical insight into the algorithm’s strengths and limitations as DBT adoption accelerates worldwide.

Further expanding the evidence base, two oral presentations from Elizabeth Wende Breast Care explored how volumetric breast density, as quantified by AI-powered algorithms, and family history influence risk stratification across leading models, and how density changes over time affect prediction consistency. In a cohort of 44,651 women, Tyrer-Cuzick classified substantially more women as high-risk than BOADICEA, driven by heavier weighting of density and family history inputs. A complementary longitudinal analysis of 335,000+ images demonstrated that incorporating volumetric breast density over time improved calibration and discrimination, while static or categorical density inputs consistently underestimated cancer incidence. Together, these findings strengthen the role of density-informed and longitudinal risk modeling in supporting risk-adapted screening strategies.

Lunit will also host a series of expert-led sessions in its Education Room #1252, offering deeper clinical and scientific perspectives on key themes presented at RSNA. Highlights include:

  • Image-Based Risk (Nov 30, 1:30–2:00 PM CST)

    A cross-disciplinary discussion featuring Drs. Graham Colditz, Joy Jiang, and Hari Trivedi, exploring how image-based risk complements traditional models and what this means for more personalized, risk-adapted screening strategies.

  • Interval Cancer Detection with AI (Dec 1, 11:30 AM–12:00 PM CST)

    Prof. Fiona Gilbert (University of Cambridge) will present new evidence on the ability of AI to identify interval breast cancers typically missed during routine screening, outlining how AI-supported detection could reduce missed cancers and improve population-level screening outcomes.

  • Academic Leadership in AI Adoption (Dec 2, 10:30–11:00 AM CST)

    Drs. Liz Morris (UC Davis Health) and Elizabeth Burnside (University of Wisconsin–Madison) will compare two distinct approaches to implementing breast AI in academic environments. The session will examine evidence, ethics, and practical considerations for responsible adoption.

  • Real-World DBT Performance (Dec 2, 4:30–5:00 PM CST)

    Dr. Manisha Bahl (Mass General) will share new clinical data on how Lunit INSIGHT DBT performs in digital breast tomosynthesis workflows, highlighting improvements in cancer detection, diagnostic consistency, and the potential to reduce interval cancer rates when integrated into routine practice.

“RSNA is where the field looks to understand whether AI is delivering measurable clinical value, and this year’s program reflects that momentum,” said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. “Across mammography, DBT, and density-driven risk modeling, our studies highlight how rigorously validated AI can enhance screening performance, support radiologists, and strengthen the foundation for risk-adapted care. We remain committed to generating evidence that drives responsible and meaningful adoption in clinical practice.”

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About Lunit

Founded in 2013, Lunit (KRX: 328130) is a global leader on a mission to conquer cancer through AI. Our clinically validated solutions span medical imaging, breast health, and biomarker analysis—empowering earlier detection, smarter treatment decisions, and more precise outcomes across the cancer care continuum.

Lunit offers a comprehensive suite spanning risk prediction and early detection to precision oncology. Our FDA-cleared Lunit INSIGHT suite and breast health solutions support cancer screening in thousands of medical institutions worldwide, while the Lunit SCOPE platform is used in research partnership with global pharma and laboratory leaders for biomarker research, and companion diagnostic development.

Trusted by over 10,000 sites in more than 65 countries, Lunit combines deep medical expertise with continuously evolving datasets to deliver measurable impact—for patients, clinicians, and researchers alike. Headquartered in Seoul with global offices, Lunit is driving the worldwide fight against cancer. Learn more at lunit.io/en.

Appendix – Lunit RSNA 2025 Full Study List

Oral Presentations (8)

Poster Presentations (6)

 

InSkill Receives Frost and Sullivan’s 2025 Global New Product Innovation Recognition for Its Industrial AI Copilot Platform

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The company is honored for advancing industrial performance with GenAI copilots that improve equipment uptime, boost worker productivity, and streamline knowledge capture across industrial operations.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that InSkill has received the 2025 Global New Product Innovation Recognition in the industrial AI copilot platform sector. This recognition highlights InSkill’s outstanding achievements in AI innovation and customer-centric product design. Copilots built on InSkill’s platform are transforming industrial operations by supporting frontline workers, guiding detailed procedures, automating complex tasks, and delivering measurable returns on investment across thousands of industrial sites worldwide.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. InSkill excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align product innovation with the evolving needs of the global industrial ecosystem while executing with efficiency, scalability, and precision.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy centered on AI innovation and customer engagement, InSkill has shown exceptional agility and vision in driving digital transformation across industries. The company’s no-code, vendor-agnostic platform empowers organizations to build, deploy, and share copilots seamlessly across diverse systems, brands, and equipment types. This creates a connected knowledge network that captures, protects, and unifies fragmented industrial expertise.

Innovation is central to InSkill’s mission. GenAI copilots built on the InSkill platform address key operational challenges by streamlining workflows, increasing asset utilization, boosting first-time-fix rates, and eliminating hidden inefficiencies—helping customers realize measurable improvements in productivity and performance.

“Industrial workers can access copilots through mobile apps, web portals, or embedded APIs, ensuring flexibility across job functions and geographies. This simplicity of use, combined with the company’s collaborative culture, allows InSkill to achieve impressive adoption: thousands of published copilots, widespread usage across industrial sites, and an ever-growing network of contributors and users,” said Karthik Sundaram, Research Director, Industrial at Frost & Sullivan.

InSkill’s customer-first culture is deeply embedded in its product strategy. The company’s structured engagement model ensures continuous feedback from users, driving iterative innovation and strengthening long-term partnerships. By combining scientific rigor, transparent improvement cycles, and responsible AI governance, InSkill has positioned itself as both a technology provider and a trusted ally in industrial digital transformation.

“Industrial expertise is one of the most valuable assets in the world, yet too often it is locked in documents, equipment, or the minds of a few people,” said Dale Calder, Founder & CEO of InSkill. “When that knowledge becomes available in the flow of work, organizations can onboard people faster, keep machines and devices running, and feel confident that critical know-how will still be there for the next generation of workers.”

Frost & Sullivan commends InSkill for setting a new standard in product innovation and customer-centric excellence. InSkill’s agentic AI architecture unifies published expertise, internal procedures, site specific knowledge, real time data, and historical solutions. It understands the nuances of industrial equipment and adapts guidance based on device state, asset configuration, and worker role. Copilots built on InSkill provide guidance based on device state, asset configuration, and worker role.

InSkill copilots also help preserve critical know-how from experienced or retiring workers so that this knowledge remains accessible at scale. The company’s approach ensures accuracy and reliability by limiting responses to customer-approved data sources while maintaining strict data governance and privacy across user groups. This approach allows organizations to deploy AI with confidence while strengthening how industrial knowledge is captured, shared, and applied across the production and maintenance lifecycle.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the New Product Innovation Recognition to companies that demonstrate excellence in product design, functionality, and customer impact. The recognition highlights organizations that pioneer new technologies and redefine industry standards through continuous innovation and measurable market results.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Recognition

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.
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About InSkill
The InSkill platform is used to create, distribute, and manage powerful generative AI-Powered Copilots for Industrial Machines and Processes. Copilots built on InSkill are deployed in more than 4,500 facilities worldwide and are being widely used by field service teams, call centers, product groups, channel partners, and customers across the industrial landscape. The InSkill Platform is built with a powerful Agentic AI Engine to handle the unique challenges industrial workers, sites, and OEMs face while scaling expertise across teams, sites, and global operations.

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IMS Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 North America Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition for Connected and Telematics Insurance

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Recognized for driving innovation in connected insurance and telematics solutions, IMS demonstrates leadership in customer engagement, data-driven insights, and digital transformation

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that IMS has received the 2025 North America Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition in the connected and telematics insurance industry for its outstanding achievements in leveraging data-driven solutions to enhance risk assessment, pricing, and customer engagement. This recognition highlights IMS’s consistent leadership in delivering measurable outcomes, strengthening market position, and driving customer-centric innovation in the increasingly competitive Usage-Based Insurance (UBI) landscape.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: business impact and technology leverage. IMS excels in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with efficiency, consistency, and scale. “Beyond the technical layer, IMS focuses heavily on maintaining data integrity and addressing behavioral inconsistencies. The company has developed advanced normalization algorithms to account for differences in policyholder engagement and sophisticated app misuse detection capabilities,” said Parduman Satpal, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy focused on digital innovation, proactive engagement, and scalable telematics solutions, IMS has shown its ability to adapt and lead in a rapidly evolving landscape. The company’s strategic agility and sustained investment in connected insurance technologies have enabled it to scale effectively across North American markets. Its partner-led delivery model and focus on localized support have been key to delivering long-term value across diverse market segments.

Innovation remains central to IMS’s approach. Its suite of software products and services—including smartphone-based usage-based insurance solutions, policyholder engagement and rewards toolset, and real-time behavioral insights—addresses the full spectrum of insurer and policyholder needs, offering flexibility, configurability, scalability and measurable safety outcomes.

On receiving the recognition, Paul Stacy, CEO at IMS, commented “To receive this level of commendation from Frost & Sullivan for a second year running is a source of real pride for our business, and testimony to the relentless efforts of the entire IMS team to being a world-class partner to our customers. We believe that the technological and market conditions for the genuine mainstreaming of ‘connected’ auto insurance have now been met, so to be at the forefront of enabling fairer-priced cover and creating safer roads is an exciting place to be for our business.”

Frost & Sullivan commends IMS for setting a high standard in competitive strategy, execution, and market responsiveness. The company’s vision, innovation pipeline, and customer-first culture are shaping the future of connected and telematics insurance and driving tangible results at scale.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Technology Innovation Leadership recognition to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The recognition identifies forward-thinking organizations reshaping their industries through innovation and growth excellence.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Recognition

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.
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Solace Signals the Future of Real-time Agentic AI with Introduction of Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise

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New solution harnesses Solace’s market-leading real-time data platform to enable enterprises to build and orchestrate robust and reliable single and multi-agent AI applications

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AWS re:Invent 2025, Booth # 1570 — Solace, the real-time data and agentic AI company, today announced general availability (GA) of Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise, an open agentic AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy and operate intelligent and well-governed AI-powered applications – from simple single-agent to powerful multi-agent orchestrated solutions – that interact in real-time with enterprise applications and data.

Agentic AI promises greater productivity and increased competitiveness, with a recent industry report indicating it can accelerate business processes by up to 50 percent and reduce low-value work time by up to 40 percent, thanks to autonomous decision-making and continuous learning capabilities. Getting there remains a challenge, however, as organizations struggle to move agentic AI applications from experiments into production, providing access to enterprise applications and data while ensuring security, observability, and trust.

Additionally, IDC states: “Agentic AI will require event-driven data architectures to continuously provide high-quality, relevant, and contextual data products to support the dynamic nature of agentic business activities. Supporting agentic AI at scale demands use of autonomous agents within enterprise intelligence architectures, automating data management, governance, and synthesis functions.” *

Solace Agent Mesh addresses these challenges, providing the capabilities required to create, deploy and manage agentic AI solutions in a secure, governed and scalable way. Built on a proven event-driven platform, Solace Agent Mesh fundamentally transforms how agentic AI systems serve users, respond to business events and integrate with enterprise data, offering:

  • Faster time to innovation: enterprises can rapidly innovate by integrating and orchestrating native and third-party AI agents, enabling faster experimentation, accelerated development, and quicker time-to-market
  • Improved user experience: business users can talk with their data using their preferred user interfaces, with broad access to enterprise applications and data, whether real-time or static knowledge bases
  • Greater scalability and reliability: Solace Agent Mesh uses parallel agent execution and asynchronous communication between all agents, enabling horizontal scaling to production levels while also providing a stronger level of resilience in response to system failures and implementing hot agent upgrades
  • Increased operational efficiency: Solace Agent Mesh’s unique intelligent data management helps minimize LLM costs, while significantly improving performance and accuracy
  • Comprehensive security: strong agent-based access control, SSO, action-level permissions, and user delegated access deliver the critical security, governance and compliance required for AI agent-driven solutions

“There are many challenges to overcome in relation to enabling AI agents to take automated actions and there is a case to be made for involving experts in inter-application communication,” said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data, ISG Research. “Solace is well-placed to address this opportunity with Solace Agent Mesh, which provides the core capabilities required for communication between agents and will enable Solace customers and prospects to build on existing investments in microservices and EDA as they move towards agentic AI.”

The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025 notes: “Solace’s event-driven agents stand out: they help enterprises build responsive, real-time, event-driven applications and enable high-performance streaming for enterprise applications.” **

Secure, Scalable and Enterprise-grade functionality

Solace Agent Mesh was built from the ground up as an open, flexible platform designed to make it easy for enterprises to experiment with single or multi-agent systems to deliver on their agentic AI objectives, from simple uses cases to the most demanding distributed organization-wide production deployments.

Key features include:

  • No-code Agent Builder: both pro-code agent building, as well as an AI-assisted, form-based interface for creating agents without writing code
  • Dynamic Agent Orchestration: Solace Agent Mesh uses an intelligent orchestrator to break down inputs into tasks and assign them to the right agents in real time. It can also follow prescriptive workflows when it is critical to operate in specific ways
  • Connectors: out-of-the-box SQL, API, and MCP connectors provide simple and broad connectivity to enterprise applications and data, both real-time and static knowledge bases
  • Gateways: business users can use their preferred tools such as web chat, Slack or Microsoft Teams to interact with Agent Mesh, as well as set up Agentic Process Automation workflows invoked through events, enterprise application APIs and Webhook
  • Governance and Access Control: gateways serve as controlled entry points into the framework, granting access to the agent ecosystem through different interfaces like events, APIs, web chat, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Solace Agent Mesh offers single sign-on authentication as well as granular authorization and role-based access control, ensuring agents interact with applications and data with the permissions of the requesting user
  • Intelligent Data Management: innovative intelligent data management helps reduce LLM compute costs and avoids hallucinations through in-platform data operations and passing only relevant information to the LLM
  • Full Activity Observability: built-in workflow viewer and real-time observability tools enable comprehensive monitoring and tracking of LLM interactions, agent workflows, and system performance to build system trust and help debug
  • Enterprise-scale Architecture: decoupled, asynchronous orchestration of agents supports efficient parallelization of operations, enabling agentic AI projects to easily scale from Proof-of-Concept to production

“Agentic AI has completely changed the face of business, and requires revolutionary solutions to continue to fuel its unprecedented growth. Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise is the net result of a bold vision on how organizations can better harness the power of agentic AI,” said Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace. “Organizations can quickly go from experiments to full scale enterprise production with fast development, and secure access to enterprise context, all powered with the proven robustness of an event driven architecture. Agent Mesh is designed to meet the ever-evolving needs of increasingly connected, real-time, and intelligent enterprises.”

Prospective organizations can register to join the Solace Agent Mesh pilot program. In addition to Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise, Solace offers open-source Solace Agent Mesh Community available on GitHub, providing developers with an event-driven framework for seamlessly integrating AI agents with real-world data sources and systems. 

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Market Leadership

Over the past two decades, Solace has built a reputation for delivering real-time data solutions that are trusted by enterprises with the most demanding operational use cases. Today, Solace delivers real-time data orchestration across systems, clouds and AI agents for many of the top organizations spanning key industries, such as Bosch in manufacturing; Heineken in consumer goods; Schwarz Group in retail; RBC Capital Markets in financial services; and PSA Singapore in transportation & logistics.

* IDC Tech Buyer, Agentic AI Impact on Enterprises: From the Tech Stack to the Future of Work and Services, US53272524, April 2025
** Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

About Solace:

Solace helps organizations operate in real-time through the power of events. With its real-time data and agentic AI platform, Solace delivers scalable, event-driven capabilities to bring together agents, applications and data across legacy, cloud, and AI systems. Established enterprises worldwide trust Solace to enable intelligent, time-sensitive experiences; modernize their application and integration landscape; and create seamless digital journeys for their customers, partners and employees. Learn more at solace.com.

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Next Level Aviation® Secures Credit Facility Increase to $80MM with PNC Bank

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The upsized working capital credit facility was increased to $75MM in the U.S. and an additional $5MM for Next Level Aviation-Ireland, Ltd.

DANIA BEACH, Fla. and DUBLIN, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Next Level Aviation® (NLA), a leader in the global distribution of used serviceable materials (USM) for all Boeing and Airbus commercial aircraft and associated jet engine platforms, has secured an increase in its revolving credit facility with PNC Bank for the U.S. based parent company from $50MM to $75MM, as well as an additional $5MM credit facility for Irish subsidiary, Next Level Aviation-Ireland, Ltd (NLAI). Both credit facilities have the potential to expand over time as NLA and NLAI grow.

This significantly upsized working capital credit facility will allow Next Level Aviation® to increase inventory of serviceable material, continue to expand its geographic footprint, as well as support NLA’s diversification into other complementary lines of business.

Next Level Aviation® Chairman & CEO Jack Gordon stated, “We are very appreciative that PNC Bank, one of the largest diversified financial institutions in the United States, has the confidence in Next Level Aviation’s global business model, management team and financial performance to increase our total access to asset-based credit by 60% in less than one year of working together, in addition to extending our Irish subsidiary, Next Level Aviation-Ireland, Ltd., its first revolving credit facility. We would like to again thank the PNC Business Credit team for their commerciality and client-focused, solutions-based approach to our partnership.”

Ray Fernandez-Andes, Next Level’s Chief Financial Officer, commented, “As we continue to grow, the global nature of Next Level Aviation’s business presents both unique challenges and opportunities. The PNC Business Credit team has taken the time to understand all of this, and crafted banking solutions that set Next Level Aviation® up for continued success in the commercial aviation aftermarket.”

ABOUT NEXT LEVEL AVIATION®
Next Level Aviation® is an ASA-100 accredited and FAA Advisory Circular 00-56B compliant supplier stocking commercial aircraft/jet engine used serviceable material (USM) for all Boeing and Airbus aircraft platforms and associated jet engines. Next Level Aviation® specifically focuses on stocking USM for the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 families of aircraft and their associated jet engines, which currently make up about 70% of the global commercial fleet. Founded in March 2013 by Jack Gordon, Mike Dreyer, and Matt Dreyer, Next Level Aviation® has grown into a top global supplier of commercial aircraft/jet engine used serviceable material. www.nextlevelaviation.net

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SPC Group’s Paris Baguette expands its global store count to 700, adding a new location in Westfield London

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  • The new milestone came only 13 months after the opening of the 600th store
  • Paris Baguette is aggressively expanding its franchise footprint in Europe, building on its success in the US and China
  • The multi-unit franchise operation demonstrates the brand’s competitiveness and franchise partnership
  • Paris Baguette is scheduled to open its third franchise location near Portobello Market at end-2025

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Paris Baguette, the global bakery-café franchise under the SPC Group, is adding a new location in Westfield, expanding its global store count to 700. The new milestone came only 13 months after the company celebrated the opening of its 600th store in mid-October 2024.

Paris Baguette Westfield, the 700th global location
Paris Baguette Westfield, the 700th global location

Paris Baguette Westfield is Paris Baguette’s fourth location and second franchise store in the UK, reflecting the company’s success in expanding its franchise footprint beyond the US and China to Europe. Paris Baguette’s first franchise store in Canary Wharf has experienced a steady inflow of customers since the opening in November 2024, establishing a compelling presence in the UK market. Paris Baguette Canary Wharf is now well positioned to thrive, aided by a high repeat purchase rate. Notably, the Westfield location is opened by the owner of the first Paris Baguette franchise store. The multi-unit franchise operation demonstrates Paris Baguette’s solid brand competitiveness and franchise partnership.

The Westfield store is located on the ground floor of Westfield London, a large shopping mall in the Shepherds Bush area of west London. With hundreds of global brands across luxury goods, fashion, lifestyle and home appliance categories, Westfield London is one of the biggest shopping centers in the UK, attracting 50 million visitors annually. Paris Baguette Westfield features marble countertops, metal frames in the brand’s signature blue color, and wood finish, with the modern look accentuating the refined brand image. The Westfield store serves a diverse range of products including sandwiches, pastries, and cakes that have been well received by the UK and other European markets, creating unique experiences for both local customers and international visitors.

Wayne Stevenson, the owner of Paris Baguette’s first two franchise stores in the UK, said, “I am excited to be opening in a second location, as my first Paris Baguette in Canary Wharf has made its mark in the local community since its opening last year. What I have learned is that Paris Baguette leads the field in quality and innovation. I look forward to seeing Paris Baguette becoming a household name here.”

Paris Baguette launched in the UK in 2022, with a back-to-back opening of two sites in Battersea Power Station and Kensington High Street. In mid-December this year, the bakery-café chain is scheduled to open its fifth location and third franchise store in the UK, near Portobello Market, the setting for the movie Notting Hill, kicking its franchise business into high gear.

A Paris Baguette spokesperson said, “Building on the success of the first franchise store in the UK, we are adding two more franchise stores here. We are committed to enhancing brand awareness and competitiveness in Europe, where bread is a staple food, to take the lead in shaping the global bakery market.”

Paris Baguette made its initial foray into the global market in 2004 and has opened 700 stores in 15 countries over the past two decades across the US, Canada, France, the UK, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Brunei, and Mongolia.

TP Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 African Company of the Year Recognition for Excellence in the Outsourcing Industry

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TP recognized for advancing Africa’s outsourcing landscape through its strategic integration of technology, emotional intelligence, and sustainable growth initiatives.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that global digital services leader TP has been recognized with the 2025 African Company of the Year Recognition in the outsourcing industry for its outstanding achievements in digital transformation, operational excellence, and customer-centric innovation. This recognition underscores TP’s leadership in integrating human expertise and empathy with advanced technology to deliver measurable business outcomes, drive sustainable growth, and transform the African outsourcing ecosystem through scalable, high-value services.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: visionary innovation & performance and customer execution. TP excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with consistency, efficiency, and scale.

“Through a forward-looking blend of GenAI, emotional intelligence, and hyper-automation, TP enables brands to scale personalization, shorten resolution times, and gain predictive insight into customer behavior and operational performance. These capabilities are applicable as part of a unified architecture that balances automation with human touch, differentiating from competing solutions that do so in isolation,” said Bernardin Arnason, Industry Director, Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy focused on digital innovation, local partnership, and sustainable ecosystem development, TP demonstrates exceptional agility in a rapidly evolving market. By embedding itself within Africa’s dynamic technology and service delivery landscape, the company continues to strengthen its regional footprint while aligning its capabilities with global outsourcing trends.

Innovation remains central to TP’s vision. Its unified architecture safely orchestrates AI, experts and technology at scale to create seamless, emotionally attuned customer interactions. This model delivers enhanced customer care that is simpler, faster, and safer for the world’s biggest brands and their customers.

TP’s strong commitment to inclusive growth further distinguishes it in the market. Through its deep engagement with national stakeholders—such as partnerships in Kenya to digitize public services—the company plays an active role in modernizing Africa’s service economy. Its people-first approach, combined with robust infrastructure investments, enables TP to deliver high-quality, multilingual support while creating meaningful local employment opportunities.

Frost & Sullivan commends TP for setting a new standard in competitive strategy, execution, and market responsiveness. The company’s vision, technology roadmap, and inclusive operating model are redefining the outsourcing industry across Africa—building an agile, innovation-driven framework that supports sustainable economic growth and strengthens Africa’s role in the global delivery ecosystem.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Company of the Year Recognition to organizations that demonstrate outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The recognition honors forward-thinking companies that are reshaping their industries through innovation, strategic excellence, and sustainable impact.

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices recognitions identify companies across regional and global markets for their superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic development. Industry analysts evaluate market participants through comprehensive interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices that advance industry standards.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Recognition

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.
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ABOUT TP GROUP 
TP is a global leader in digital business services which consistently seeks to blend the best of advanced technology with human empathy to deliver enhanced customer care that is simpler, faster, and safer for the world’s biggest brands and their customers. The Group’s comprehensive, AI-powered service portfolio ranges from front office customer care to back-office functions, including operations consulting and high-value digital transformation services. It also offers a range of specialized services such as collections, interpreting and localization, visa and consular services, and recruitment process outsourcing services. The teams of multilingual, inspired, and passionate experts and advisors, spread in close to 100 countries, as well as the Group’s local presence allows it to be a force of good in supporting communities, clients, and the environment.

For more information: www.tp.com.

SNC and Applied Intuition Forge Alliance to Fast-track Battlefield Autonomy

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Collaboration will fuse rapid software innovation with combat-tested systems integration to outpace global rivals

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SPARKS, Nev., Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a move signaling how quickly autonomous systems are reshaping modern warfare, physical intelligence leader Applied Intuition and global aerospace and defense company SNC today announced a partnership aimed at accelerating delivery of next-generation autonomous defense technologies.

Everything that moves is quickly gaining autonomy – especially on the battlefield – and Applied Intuition is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to all moving machines on the front lines. The Silicon Valley company’s dual-use autonomy software expertise combines with SNC’s long history of trusted open architecture mission systems development and integration to create a bridge between the need for rapid innovation and operational readiness.

The partnership aims to put mission-ready autonomy into the hands of warfighters, faster. Together, the companies will explore key opportunities to integrate Applied Intuition’s leading autonomy and simulation software with a variety of SNC’s mission-tested systems across domains. The joint work will concentrate on challenges in localized missile defense and counter-UAS operations, areas where distributed autonomy and real-time sensor fusion could dramatically shorten response times and reduce risk in contested environments.

A near-term focus is on SNC’S Expeditionary Area Air Defense (EAAD) systems. These horizontally integrated, ready-to-deploy defense solutions can now be built on Applied Intuition’s vehicle intelligence platform, combining off-road autonomy with TRL-9 air defense. Reinforced by SNC’s proven systems integration and global support structure, Autonomous EAADs reduces both personnel risk and the number of personnel needed, accelerating affordable air defense capability to provide customers with a defense that’s easily adaptable to diverse mission profiles.

Autonomous EAAD systems deliver increased effectiveness while removing personnel from harm’s way, reducing complexity and shortening deployment timelines. They provide scalable, cost-effective protection across multiple platforms and environments. Autonomous EAADs leverages Applied Intuition’s Vehicle OS, Acuity Ground Autonomy, and Axion Mission Control.

“This partnership epitomizes the merger of Silicon Valley’s innovation pace with advanced defense rigor, setting a new standard for rapid, effective and operationally relevant technology deployment,” said SNC CEO Fatih Ozmen. “Together, we are building a future that is responsive, flexible, cost-effective and crucial for safeguarding lives and enhancing mission success in increasingly complex environments.”

“The Department of War is shifting from experimentation to operational autonomy, and Applied Intuition is helping enable that transition through our partnership,” said Applied Intuition CEO and Co-founder Qasar Younis. “Combining Silicon Valley speed, innovation and engineering power with decades of experience in complex defense systems, Applied Intuition and SNC are determined to make battlefield autonomy not just a concept for the future, but a capability ready for deployment now.”

The announcement follows a surge of momentum for both companies. Earlier this year, Applied Intuition closed a $600 million Series F and tender offer at $15 billion valuation. The investment underscored the growing importance of defense applications in the company’s strategy, particularly as the Department of War looks to adopt commercial-grade software to modernize its fleets. Applied Intuition’s Axion and Acuity defense product families have been used across major programs in the Department of War, and the company has become a trusted partner to each branch of the military.

Concurrently, SNC has quickly earned a global reputation for delivering expeditionary counter-drone capabilities with incredible speed and effectiveness. The company’s BRAWLR air-defense platform, part of its EAAD family of systems, has earned praise for its reliability and responsiveness enabled by SNC’s open architecture hardware and software solutions. Developed and deployed on an expedited timeline, this technology represents the latest in a long line of game-changing innovations that SNC has developed swiftly in response to customer needs that have proven to be both highly successful and lifesaving.

The new collaboration between Applied Intuition and SNC reflects a broader shift within the defense industry, where speed and adaptability have become as important as scale. By pairing a software-defined autonomy platform with a leading defense integrator known for rapidly deployable, combat-ready, open architecture systems, Applied Intuition and SNC hope to shorten the cycle between concept and deployment for warfighter-focused solutions that will have a positive impact on the battlefield. That, in theory, could allow militaries to field, test and update capabilities faster, without sacrificing safety or mission assurance.

Together, Applied Intuition and SNC are delivering cutting-edge autonomy fusing commercial software agility with deep defense engineering and integration mastery. To learn more about how Applied Intuition is powering the future of physical intelligence, visit applied.co.

About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co.

About SNC
SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It’s part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen. For more information, visit sncorp.com.

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