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8 Harbord Square: London’s First Blank Canvas Homes for the Creatively Adventurous

LONDON, UK – Media OutReach – 22 October 2021 – New to the market, 8 Harbord Square is a collection of 82 loft style apartments, inspired by the history of the London docklands and Canary Wharf and influenced by the warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan. Designed completely open plan with no fixed walls and exposed interior features, purchasers can enjoy lifelong autonomy to shape their homes to match their lifestyle. Completely unique and one-of-a-kind the apartments at 8 Harbord Square are available from £745,000.

 

Brian De’ath, Director of Residential Sales at Canary Wharf Group, comments: “The apartments at 8 Harbord Square are unlike anything else available in London, providing the perfect canvas for purchasers to creatively shape their new home. We are passionate about delivering developments that bring a sense of character and individuality to Canary Wharf and London as whole.

 

“We fully expect the development to appeal to people who want all the benefits of a new-build home yet crave the ‘urban loft lifestyle’ of Manhattan and London, and are attracted to the free-flowing, open yet intimate space, the apartments offer.”

Designed by leading architecture practice Karakusevic Carson Architects, 8 Harbord Square reflects the industrial heritage of Canary Wharf, with exposed brickwork, concrete ceilings, large industrial-style windows and engineered timber flooring.

 

Paul Karakusevic, Founding Partner at Karakusevic Carson Architects, commented: “The solid brickwork façade is organised into simple vertical bays, with rhythmical brick piers. Decorative panels and crisply articulated cornices help define the window bays, roof line and grand two-storey base. Residential park-side entrances and retail units sit behind the deep, glazed-brick colonnades of the ground floor base to create an active frontage to the square.

 

“We hope that the building will help define `Harbord Square’ with a building that, on the one hand echoes the Wharf history, while on the other will perform to highly sustainable modern standards, with a stripped back palette of materials and flexible space.”

 

Designed to offer up unlimited opportunities to create flexible living spaces, there are two apartment types available at 8 Harbord Square – the 809sq. ft. Prospect loft and 1,035 sq. ft. Gramercy loft. The only fixed elements within the apartments are the kitchens and bathrooms, which have been designed with modern features to stylishly contrast with the warehouse-style interior features.

 

The kitchens include stainless steel countertops and matching cabinetry, with metal effect splashbacks. Integrated Siemens appliances include fridge/freezer, induction hob, single oven, dishwasher and combined washer/dryer.

 

Contemporary bathrooms are a feature of each apartment with subway style glazed wall tiles, Crittal walk-in shower enclosures, freestanding double-ended baths, double wash hand basins, wall-mounted WCs and backlit mirrored storage cupboards.

 

The concept of dressing the open plan spaces at 8 Harbord Square will be an exciting challenge for purchasers, with the freedom to create the ultimate loft-style pad. However, for those that may need a helping hand, the sales team will connect owners with some outstanding designers that can inspire, create and curate a standout home.

 

8 Harbord Square forms a crucial part of Wood Wharf, a new and growing neighbourhood of Canary Wharf, comprising a well-considered mix of flexible offices, boutique retail, restaurants and spacious green spaces interspersed with architecturally outstanding residential buildings.  

 

Residents of 8 Harbord Square enjoy direct access to Harbord Square Park, whilst the building will be adjacent to The Lanes, which will bring a vibrant energy reminiscent of Soho, with an eclectic mix of shops, bars, cafes and restaurants.

 

Residents will also benefit from all of the exciting aspects that make Canary Wharf a 15-minute city. With direct access to a wealth of independent and global brands, beautiful homeware stores, galleries, organic health food shops, pop-up street-food vendors and panoramic rooftop restaurants, Canary wharf offers you everything you could want to enjoy on your doorstep. Discover what’s going on around the Estate with the year-round arts and events programme.

 

Prices at 8 Harbord Square start from £745,000 for more information or to book a private tour of the marketing suite contact Canary Wharf Group on residential.sales@canarywharf.com or visit https://residential.canarywharf.com/8-harbord-square/

 

#8HarbordSquare


Become Unbeatable – AOC Launches AGON 4 Series

AOC’s formidable flagship AGON PRO expands with AGON 4 Series for professional and enthusiast gamers

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 22 October 2021 – AOC, the world’s no. 1 gaming monitor specialist, has launched the AGON 4 Series. Part of its newly-branded AGON PRO line for professional team gamers and individuals seeking stardom within the global gaming community, the new AGON 4 series has already received industry acclaim achieving the Red Dot Design Award.  

 

“AOC’s AGON monitors have long been the global gold standard for gamers pursuing victory in eSports, rather than simply the life of a weekend warrior,” comments Kevin Wu, General Manager, MMD Singapore. “For gamers at this level, certain renowned AGON models live on as the legends of a fast-moving high-tech arena.”   

 

All AGON 4 Series models boast unbeatable gaming-monitor specifications for the blistering performance demanded by this target market. MiniLED display technology will, in particular, offer bright, detailed imagery, accurate color reproduction, and an ultra-high contrast ratio with deeper blacks and brighter whites, all for high quality gaming performance.

 

The complete AGON 4 Series uses fast IPS panels and offers a 1.0ms response time (GTG), VESA Display HDR certification, logo projection and lighting effects. Clearly, with the AGON PRO Series, AOC has created top-end gaming monitors with ultra-competitive features designed to blow away any contenders.

 

The first models to fly the AGON 4 Series ‘PRO’ flag will include the impressive AG254FG, featuring a blazingly fast 360Hz refresh rate and Nvidia G-Sync anti-tearing technology for stunning eSports visual impact. The AG274QXM, meanwhile, adopts breakthrough miniLED technology, and the AG274UXP offers 4K resolution visuals and HDMI 2.1 connectivity. At a size of 31.5 inches, the AG324UX boasts twin HDMI 2.1 ports, and 4K resolution in a 16:9 aspect ratio.

 

The ‘AGON’ brand is already well established among the gaming elite. Since its inception by AOC in 2016, AGON has been responsible for shaping monitor development in the gaming industry, leading the way and influencing specifications for the benefit of those who will remain Unbeatable, whether professionals or aspiring enthusiast gamers.

 

Continues, Wu, “The AGON PRO range builds on the already considerable success of our flagship AGON brand. eSports are taking the world by storm, and thousands of new participants are flocking to join. Producing ‘benchmark’ monitors for this global community is our ongoing goal and customer satisfaction at the top of our agenda.”

    

The AGON 4 Series comes in three different panel sizes:

Model

Panel Size

Type

Resolution

Response Time

HDMI2.1

USB-C

HDR

AG254FG

G-sync

24.5″

IPS

1920×1080@360Hz

1ms

 

 

HDR400

AG254FZ

G-sync Compatible

24.5″

IPS

1920×1080@240Hz

1ms

 

 

HDR400

AG274FZ

G-sync Compatible

27″

IPS

1920×1080@260Hz

1ms

 

 

HDR400

AG274QG

G-sync Ultimate

27″

IPS

2560×1440@240Hz

1ms

 

 

HDR400

AG274QX

G-sync Compatible

27″

IPS

2560×1440@170Hz

1ms

 

 

HDR400

AG274QZP

27″

IPS

2560×1440@260Hz

1ms

 

 

HDR600

AG274QXM

27″

Mini LED IPS

2560×1440@165Hz

1ms

 

HDR1000

AG274UXP

G-sync Compatible

27″

IPS

3840×2160@144Hz

1ms

HDR600

AG324UX

31.5″

IPS

3840×2160@144Hz

1ms

HDR400

AG254FG is available in Singapore and Taiwan now, for more product information, please visit : WWW.AOC.COM

 

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About Agon by AOC:

AGON by AOC, offers one of the strongest portfolios of high-performance gaming monitors in the world and a complete ecosystem of gaming accessories grouped in three categories: AOC GAMING for core gamers, AGON for competitive gamers and AGON PRO for esports enthusiasts and professional esports players. Since 2020 AGON by AOC has been one of the leading gaming monitor brands and a top choice of gamers worldwide.

About AOC:

Sold in over 120 countries, AOC is a market leader in electronic displays and is positioned to be one of the top global brands in providing the best display technology to users worldwide. With more than 50 years of experience in market analysis and consumer feedback, AOC is dedicated to designing products that address rising technological trends, as well as the diverse and changing needs of different consumers. Our commitment is emphasized through AOC’s slogan: ‘Vision at Heart’ – at AOC, we’ve kept the hearts of our users in our vision, and we’ve kept their vision in our heart. Find out more about AOC at www.aoc.com

#AOC

Strategic Acquisition Strengthens Tremor’s & Unruly’s End-to-End CTV & Video Technology Stack

$14.7 million acquisition of Spearad, a TV media management platform and ad server, to be integrated with Unruly

TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 22 October 2021 – Tremor International Ltd. (NASDAQ/AIM: TRMR), a global leader in Video and Connected TV (“CTV”) advertising, announces the strategic acquisition of Spearad, a global CTV Video ad server and media management platform purpose-built for broadcasters and TV content companies to deliver seamless TV-like experiences in CTV and Over-the-Top (“OTT”) environments, with the same advanced controls and capabilities of linear TV (the “Acquisition”).

The consideration for the Acquisition is $14.7 million, of which $11.0 million is being satisfied from the Company’s existing cash reserves, with the remaining $3.7 million being satisfied by the issue of 370,000 ordinary shares of NIS 0.01 in the Company, subject to transfer and other contractual restrictions to be released gradually over a three-year period (the “Consideration Shares”).

Spearad’s ad server technology will be integrated into Tremor’s Unruly SSP, enabling CTV header bidding, channel inventory and ad pod management – complementing the Company’s existing robust end-to-end technology stack, which also includes the Tremor Video DSP.

Ofer Druker, Chief Executive Officer of Tremor, commented:

 

“Tremor’s consistent, primary focus on video and CTV has proven prescient in today’s market, leading to meaningful growth across our exchange and putting us ahead of platforms only recently evolving from display. The Acquisition further strengthens our leadership position as a video-first end-to-end platform, which provides real efficiencies for global advertisers, media companies and broadcasters in an ecosystem increasingly centered on Connected TV.

We’re excited to welcome Spearad to Tremor, as well as its founders, Erhard Neumann and Mark Thielen – with their deep expertise in addressable TV – to our leadership team.”

 

Spearad’s technology platform and its proprietary data assets enable publishers to centrally manage both direct-sold and programmatic campaigns and improve ad pod monetization. Spearad was founded in 2019, in Germany, by Erhard Neumann and Mark Thielen. Its customer base spans Europe, the US and Asia.

Erhard Neumann, Chief Executive Officer of Spearad, added:

 

“We are delighted to join Tremor’s CTV team to offer complete media management solutions through a fully-integrated SSP and ad server. With CTV viewership reaching an all-time high, this integration couldn’t come at a better time. We look forward to our partnership with the Tremor team and working on the next generation of features that we believe will ultimately propel the industry forward.”

About Tremor International

Tremor International is a global company offering an end-to-end technology advertising platform, operating across three core capabilities – Video, Data and CTV. Tremor International’s unique approach is centered on offering a full stack of end-to-end solutions which provides it with a major competitive advantage within the video advertising ecosystem.

Tremor Video helps advertisers deliver impactful brand stories across all screens through the power of innovative video technology combined with advanced audience data and captivating creative content. Tremor Video’s innovative video advertising technology has offerings in CTV, in-stream, out-stream and in-app.

The media side of Tremor International, Unruly, drives real business outcomes in multiscreen advertising. Its programmatic platform efficiently and effectively delivers performance, quality, and actionable data to demand and supply-focused clients and partners. Tremor International has a meaningful number of direct integrations with publishers, unique demand relationships with a variety of advertisers and privileged access to News Corp inventory. Unruly connects to the world’s largest DSPs and is compatible with most Ad Age top 100 brands.

Tremor International is headquartered in Israel and maintains offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Australia and is traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TRMR) and NASDAQ (TRMR).

foodpanda and Rebel Foods launch Asia’s largest virtual brands partnership

  • In this new digital-first F&B format in Asia, foodpanda will roll out Rebel Foods’ flagship brands and new jointly-created offerings in more than 2,000 outlets within Asia through an initial five-year partnership, starting in six markets
  • Rebel Foods will extend its culinary expertise, efficient SOPs and food tech innovations to F&B outlets in Asia through foodpanda, Asia’s largest food delivery platform outside of China
  • With a Brands-as-a-Service (BaaS) model, the partnership allows foodpanda’s restaurant partners to easily plug-and-play Rebel Foods iconic brands to grow additional revenue streams

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 22 October 2021 – foodpanda, Asia’s largest food and grocery delivery platform, today announced a long-term, multi-market partnership with Rebel Foods to enable restaurant partners and cloud kitchen operators to grow additional revenue streams, at little or no start-up costs. Rebel Foods is the world’s largest internet restaurant company headquartered in India. The new digital-first F&B format sees foodpanda and Rebel Foods joining forces for the benefit of local and small players in the F&B industry.

Through this partnership — for an initial five years — both companies will aim to launch more than 10 virtual brands in over 2,000 outlets across the region, making this the largest virtual brand partnership in Asia, and the first of its kind in the region at this scale.

As part of the partnership, Rebel Foods brings their culinary expertise, efficient SOPs and iconic ready-to-deploy brands that are easily customisable for local preferences in any region.

Meanwhile, foodpanda enables hundreds of thousands of restaurant partners and cloud kitchen operators to plug-and-play virtual brands into their current operations to grow additional revenue streams, at little to no start-up costs. Smaller SMEs and restaurant partners on the foodpanda platform can adopt new recipes and utilise their spare capacity to grow additional revenue streams while creating diversity in their menu offerings.

In the first phase of the partnership, which began in December 2019, Rebel Foods introduced four brands across six markets — Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines through the foodpanda network. Orders for Rebel Foods’ brands on the foodpanda app on average grew 40% month-on-month in the past six months, with more than 200 outlets across the six markets signed up to add virtual brands to their existing food and beverage (F&B) offerings.

“This foodpanda-Rebel Foods partnership introduces a new digital-first F&B format to Asia. foodpanda is always seeking new, innovative ways to change the way F&B businesses operate in a hyper-digitalised economy — we want to push our ecosystem further into the future,” said Pedram Assadi, COO, foodpanda. “Most importantly, these virtual brands will give our restaurant partners, especially SMEs, new opportunities to earn additional revenue.”

Virtual brands: revolutionising the food ecosystem for a digital-first future


A virtual brand is an online-only food concept where a brand exists digitally, with no dine-in presence, and offers food that is available for delivery or pick-up from the outlet. Virtual brands can operate from the kitchen of an existing restaurant or through traditional cloud kitchens.

Through this partnership, customers across Asia can enjoy great food options from these virtual brands:

  • Faasos: Rebel Foods’ flagship brand that offers an exciting variety of wraps that stand true to its philosophy, ‘Surprises under wraps’.
  • Behrouz Biryani: A category leading royal biryani brand that makes every moment special with its choicest spices and premium ingredients.
  • The Biryani Life: Offering value biryani options as part of daily meals with consistently elevated flavours.
  • Lunchbox: Lunchbox celebrates local food with the motive to evoke a sense of familiarity and nostalgia with fresh ingredients and homestyle cooking.
  • Honest Bowl: A newly jointly-developed localised offering by foodpanda and Rebel Foods that offers a selection of food bowls with global and local flavours.

In addition to introducing Rebel Food’s iconic brands to foodpanda customers in Asia, both companies have also worked together to co-develop new offerings under Honest Bowl. The Honest Bowl menu was especially created to suit the taste buds of customers in Asia, building on Rebel Food’s culinary expertise and foodpanda’s insights on customers’ preferences in the region.

 

“Over the years, we have built some category leading brands in its current markets and a full-stack operating system which integrates culinary expertise, efficient SOPs and technological innovations together. We are glad to partner with foodpanda and scale our iconic brands with localized offerings across their network in Asia”, said Kallol Banerjee, Co-founder, Rebel Foods.

Enabling growth in digital deliveries


Globally, the online food delivery market is worth more than USD 35 billion annually, according to the ASEAN Post. In its H1 2021 Trading Update, foodpanda’s parent company Delivery Hero reported that orders in Asia doubled year-on-year, as GMV for the region grew 175%, surpassing the EUR 10 billion mark. foodpanda alone reported more than 70 million orders completed each month — sure signs that food delivery will continue to grow.

Beyond activating virtual brands, foodpanda restaurant partners are also able to tap into a variety of digital growth tools to attract new customers, boost exposure and visibility on the app to drive sales and reward loyal customers. This includes new merchant-growth features like pandabox, pandaclicks and pandapicks — restaurant partners can take control of their business growth by easily activating these growth tools via foodpanda’s self-service platform on the merchant app.

About foodpanda

foodpanda is a leading delivery platform in Asia dedicated to bringing consumers a wide range of food, groceries and more, quickly and conveniently. Powered by technology and operational excellence, foodpanda is spearheading the growth of quick-commerce (q-commerce) across the region with its network of retail partners, as well as pandamart cloud stores to provide more on-demand options beyond the millions of food delivery options. foodpanda operates in more than 400 cities across 12 markets in Asia – Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Japan. foodpanda is a subsidiary of Delivery Hero, a global leader of the food delivery industry. For more information, visit www.foodpanda.com.

#foodpanda

About Rebel Foods

Founded in 2011 by Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee, Rebel Foods is the world’s largest and fastest growing internet restaurant company, parent to brands such as Faasos, Behrouz Biryani, Ovenstory Pizza, Mandarin Oak, The Good Bowl, SLAY Coffee, Sweet Truth, Wendy’s and more. Rebel Foods currently operates 45+ brands across India, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Philippines and Bangladesh.

With over 4000+ internet restaurants across 10 countries globally, Rebel Foods has developed their own full-stack technology – Rebel Operating System (OS) – through which multiple brands are launched and scaled up in a very short period of time. Through its Brand-as-a-Service offering, Rebel Foods extends its OS including culinary expertise and technology to food operators which allows them to onboard Rebel brands, earn additional revenues and diversify their offerings.

#RebelFoods

Manulife launches holistic ‘Medical Professional Support Service’ to help customers through cancer treatment

New service in strategic partnership with CUHK Medical Centre provides customers with priority access to specialists in oncology

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 21 October 2021 – Today, Manulife Hong Kong announced the launch of a new holistic ‘Medical Professional Support Service’ for customers diagnosed with cancer or suspected cancer. Manulife customers with selected medical plans[1] can now have their cases reviewed by dedicated, in-house healthcare professionals or qualified nurses. This team will be uniquely placed to aid customers throughout the medical treatment process, providing personalized care and professional support, follow ups on claims-related matters and pre-approval services, and recommendations on medical service providers based on their needs.

Manulife Hong Kong today announced the launch of its holistic ‘Medical Professional Support Service’ and the strategic partnership with CUHK Medical Centre. Present at the media briefing were (from left to right): Dr. Aggie Ngan, Chief Medical Officer, Manulife Hong Kong; Mr. Wilton Kee, Chief Product Officer and Head of Health, Manulife Hong Kong; Dr. Fung Hong, Chief Executive Officer, CUHK Medical Centre; and Dr. Jacqueline Choi, Medical Director, Business Development, CUHK Medical Centre.

Cancer is a major health threat in Hong Kong. According to the latest statistics from Hospital Authority, new cancer cases reached a record high of 35,082 in 2019[2], an increase of 35% over the past decade. Cancer also accounted for 31% of all deaths in Hong Kong in 2019[3]. Through the new holistic ‘Medical Professional Support Service’ and expanded healthcare network, Manulife Hong Kong will help customers better understand their diagnoses and treatment options thereby enabling more informed decisions.

An important feature of the new service is underpinned by Manulife Hong Kong’s strategic partnership with CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC). The joint initiative will further enhance Manulife Hong Kong’s health offering, giving customers priority access to oncologists at CUHKMC for a one-time, free independent medical consultation. CUHKMC is Manulife Hong Kong’s first partner for an independent medical consultation initiative on critical oncology.

“Manulife places customers’ health protection needs at the core of the business. This expansion of our healthcare service offering reaffirms our ongoing commitment to making peoples’ lives better with the most suitable care throughout every step of their cancer treatment and recovery. The partnership with CUHKMC and the broadening of Manulife Hong Kong’s in-house capabilities will create more empathetic, holistic, and convenient experiences for our customers,” said Wilton Kee, Chief Product Officer and Head of Health, Manulife Hong Kong.

Dr. Fung Hong, Chief Executive Officer of CUHKMC, said, “CUHK Medical Centre is a non-profit, private teaching hospital wholly owned by The Chinese University of Hong Kong. We are dedicated to offering quality, affordable and transparent healthcare services through our professional medical team, with our state-of-the-art technologies and equipment. We are delighted to partner with Manulife, a like-minded insurer which focuses on health. This is an important partnership with one of Hong Kong’s major health insurers that will enable patients to improve their treatment journey by consulting with our oncologists and making use of what we offer.”

 

CUHKMC offers customized training to upgrade agency knowledge on healthcare

To upskill Manulife agents with relevant and up-to-date healthcare knowledge, CUHKMC will deliver a series of customized training sessions, equipping them with the proficiency and expertise to provide the best possible care to their customers. Themes covered will include fundamental medical knowledge, trends of various diseases and advancements in medicine.

 

Pre-approval cashless services expanded to CUHKMC to offer extra convenience

Under the strategic partnership, CUHKMC is a new addition to Manulife Hong Kong’s expanding cashless service partner network providing various offerings to both Manulife’s individual and group medical members[4]. The service provides pre-approvals as well as cashless credit facilities for hospitalization and outpatient treatments[5]. Customers are not required to pay up front, and the billing will be directly settled by Manulife.

 

CUHKMC is also now part of Manulife Hong Kong’s Cashless Day Surgery eService network. The eService is the market’s first fully digitized cashless service for day surgeries, and will enable eligible Manulife medical insurance customers to enjoy quick and convenient pre-approvals for colonoscopy and gastroscopy (OGD) day procedures at CUHKMC.

 

For more details about the holistic ‘Medical Professional Support Service’, please refer to Manulife’s website.

 



[1] Eligible customers include insured persons of the following medical plans without relevant exclusions: Manulife Supreme VHIS Flexi Plan, ManuMaster Healthcare Series/Benefit and ManuShine Healthcare Series/Benefit. To be eligible, the eligible medical policy must have been in-force for more than 2 years.

[3] Ditto.

[4] The service scope covers inpatient and day-patient for Manulife’s individual members, and inpatient and outpatient for group medical members respectively.

[5] Subject to individual policy coverage and Manulife’s pre-approval.

About Manulife Hong Kong

Manulife Hong Kong, through Manulife International Holdings Limited, owns Manulife (International) Limited, Manulife Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited and Manulife Provident Funds Trust Company Limited. As a member of the Manulife group of companies, Manulife Hong Kong offers a diverse range of protection and wealth products and services to individual and corporate customers in Hong Kong and Macau.

#ManulifeHongKong

About Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and our global wealth and asset management segment, Manulife Investment Management, serves individuals, institutions and retirement plan members worldwide. At the end of 2020, we had more than 37,000 employees, over 118,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 30 million customers. As of June 30, 2021, we had C$1.3 trillion (HK$8.1 trillion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made C$31.3 billion in payments to our customers. Our principal operations are in Asia, Canada and the United States where we have served customers for more than 155 years. We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

About CUHK Medical Centre

CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC) is a non-profit, private teaching hospital wholly owned by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). With a social mission to bridge the service gap between the private and public healthcare systems in Hong Kong, CUHKMC is dedicated to offering quality healthcare service at affordable and transparent package prices. In line with the not-for-profit principle, all surpluses from all healthcare services will be ploughed back to the hospital for hospital development and the CUHK Faculty of Medicine for research and teaching.

Bybit Wins the Most Transparent Exchange at Crypto Expo Dubai 2021

DUBAI, UAE – Media OutReach – 21 October 2021 – Bybit, one of the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency exchanges, has clinched the “Most Transparent Exchange” award at Crypto Expo Dubai (CED) Awards 2021. The award recognized Bybit for its track record of stellar performance, user feedback, scale and financials.

“We are honored to receive this distinction, and will work hard to uphold our pledge of transparency and reliability to the crypto lovers who come to Bybit. We invest about 25% of our budget in security to safeguard our infrastructure — this is nearly twice the industry average. We are constantly tweaking our platform mechanisms to optimize for security and customer experience to provide the next level of trading for our clients. Crypto is never down, neither is Bybit. We will continue to revolutionize the industry by fusing the best of cryptocurrency and traditional finance to provide an unmatched trading experience and price transparency for our traders,” said Igneus Terrenus, Head of Com- munications, Bybit.

“As organizers of CED 2021, the largest crypto event in the Middle East, we witnessed the growth of users in the crypto exchanges recently. We are happy and honored to present Bybit with the award after a thorough evaluation of Bybit’s performance in the past few years.” said Dwain Elias Albores, Project Manager of CED 2021. Other factors considered for this award are customer reviews, online traffic and the cryp- to exchange’s financials.

Terrenus was also a speaker on the “Best of Crypto Exchanges” panel at the conference, where he shared Bybit’s perspectives on regulations — “Regulations don’t have to be a ‘challenge’ per se — as a crypto exchange, Bybit embraces progressive regulations. Because our vision isn’t so different: We want to protect our customers and we want the industry to thrive. In our experience, regulators do listen to feedback from market participants. For the industry to thrive, we need a regulatory framework that is built on dialogues between regulators and ex- perts and people who understand how decentralized finance works.”

Crypto Expo Dubai was held on Oct. 14 to 15 at Festival Arena, Dubai Festival City, and was attended by 8,000 industry influencers, market experts, and crypto professionals.

About Bybit

Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange established in March 2018 to offer a professional platform where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service and multilingual community support. The company provides innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, cloud and DeFi mining products, as well as API support, to retail and institutional clients around the world, and strives to be the most reliable exchange for the emerging digital asset class.

For more information please visit: https://www.bybit.com/
For updates, follow Bybit’s social platforms on Twitter and Telegram.

#Bybit

Midea Boosts Global Manchester City Partnership

The global home appliances giant adds more high visibility assets and bolsters experiential content for football fans

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – Media OutReach – 21 October 2021 – Midea and Manchester City today announced an amplification to its global partnership which kicked-off in January 2020. Throughout this partnership, Midea has produced engaging digital content, which has been extremely popular with City fans around the world. Most notably, the #MideaHomeChallenge that kept fans entertained during lockdowns when several Manchester City players challenged fans to show their football skills interacting with their home appliances in unique ways.

Also, the Midea #WorldClass Awards campaign that celebrated the Club’s, and especially players’ #WorldClass performances during the 2020/21 season. Midea’s innovative, humorous, and funny awards show, moderated by City legends Paul Dickov and Shaun Wright-Phillips, attracted millions of views and engagements from global fans when nine different #WorldClass trophies were voted on, and subsequently awarded to, their favourite City players.

This season, hand in hand with the Etihad Stadium’s new top-notch and world leading two-tier LED display system, Midea now has 12 LED slots at every Manchester City home match to showcase their extensive range of smart home appliances across all categories to over hundreds of millions global consumers and football fanatics.

“Midea’s global visibility is still fairly small compared to our ambitions. Partnering with Manchester City – awarded the most innovative sports team in the world and with their philosophy to combine playing the most attractive football to watch, with a very successful outcome – gives us great global visibility in front of over hundreds of millions of fans, and a business partner with the same high ambitions towards the future.” said Eric Wang, VP Midea Group and President & CEO of Midea Group’s International Business Division.

“There are 55,000 fans in the stadium, but hundreds of millions of Manchester City fans among the 3.5 billion football fans all around the world watching on TV and Social Media at home – and home is where we are. Hence, in Midea we are delighted to showcase our commitment and ambitions to millions and billions of fans who are enjoying football from their homes.

 

“We aim to show all City and football fans our wide range of smart home appliances that enable them, as our slogan states ‘make yourself at home’ to ‘feel even more @home’. Therefore, apart from bolstering our global brand presence, we are looking forward to igniting excitement to our global consumers throughout the entire season and bringing people closer together, enjoying their homes even more – also especially during these still unprecedented times.” Wang continued.

“Manchester City’s partnership with Midea has gone from strength to strength and we are delighted to further deepen our relationship. Midea has shown great understanding in how to engage with City fans around the world by producing some of our strongest performing social media content in recent seasons and we’re now looking forward to expanding this partnership into community outreach and further smart product integration.” said Roel de Vries, City Football Group’s Group Chief Operating Officer.

Midea will also extend its relationship to help support the community by partnering with the Club’s renowned ‘City In The Community’ programme, to explore ways to tackle social challenges. Over the coming months, the Club will also be integrating industry-leading Midea smart home appliances across the Etihad Campus to provide enhanced facilities for players and fans alike.

In addition to the commitment with the Manchester City Men’s team, Midea is also the exclusive global Home Appliances, White Goods and HVAC partner of the Manchester City Women’s team and a main partner of Manchester City’s City Football Group sister club, New York City FC which plays in the MLS.

About Manchester City Football Club

Manchester City FC is an English Premier League club initially founded in 1880 as St Mark’s West Gorton. It officially became Manchester City FC in 1894 and has since then gone onto win the European Cup Winners’ Cup, seven League Championship titles, including five Premier League titles (2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021), and six FA Cups. Manchester City FC is one of 11 clubs comprising the City Football Group and counts New York City FC and Melbourne City FC among its sister clubs.


Under manager Pep Guardiola, one of the most highly decorated managers in world football, the Club plays its domestic and UEFA Champions League home fixtures at the Etihad Stadium, a spectacular 55,000 seat arena that City have called home since 2003. Today, the Stadium sits on the wider Etihad Campus, which also encompasses the City Football Academy, a state-of-the-art performance training and youth development facility located in the heart of East Manchester. Featuring a 7,000 capacity Academy Stadium, the City Football Academy is also where Manchester City Women’s Football Club and the Elite Development Squad train on a daily basis and play their competitive home games.


For more information, please visit www.mancity.com.


#ManchesterCityFC

About Midea & Midea Group

Midea is one of over 10 brands within the smart home appliance business of Midea Group – a leading global high-technology company ranked #288 at 2021’s Global Fortune 500. Midea Group’s business goes beyond home appliances and comprises of five business pillars: Smart Home, Electro-Mechanical, HVAC & Building Technologies, Robotics & Automation, as well as Digital Innovation. All businesses of Midea Group are striving for one credo: #HumanizingTechnology.


The Midea brand offers one of the world’s most comprehensive product ranges in the smart home appliance industry, specializing in air-treatment (commercial and residential air conditioning solutions), refrigeration, laundry, large kitchen and cooking appliances, small kitchen appliances, water appliances and floor care.


Midea believes in providing surprisingly-friendly solutions by adopting a consumer-centric and problem-solving approach. Going above and beyond for the future, constantly exploring, and inventing to meet the ever-changing consumer demand.

Midea is, among many others, the world’s #1 Air Treatment Brand [1], the world’s #1 Small Cooking Appliances Brand [2], the world’s #1 Air Coolers Brand [3], the world’s #1 Cooling Fans Brand [4], and the world’s #1 Rice Cookers Brand [5].


Midea’s globally 34 production centers and over 150,000 employees in more than 200 countries and regions generated an annual revenue of more than USD 41.4 billion in 2020. Midea’s 28 worldwide innovation centers and the strong commitment to R&D have resulted in more than 62,000 authorized patents to-date.


For more information, please visit

https://www.midea.com

https://www.midea-group.com/Our-Businesses/home-appliances/midea

https://www.midea-group.com/newsRoom/News/MIDEA-BOOSTS-GLOBAL-MANCHESTER-CITY-PARTNERSHIP

[1] “Midea – World’s No.1 Air Treatment Brand”

Source: “Euromonitor International (Shanghai) Limited;
Consumer Appliances 21ed, retail volume sales in units, 2020 data”

[2] “Midea – World’s No.1 Small Cooking Appliances Brand”

Source: “Euromonitor International (Shanghai) Limited;
Consumer Appliances 21ed, retail volume sales in units, 2020 data”

[3] “Midea – World’s No.1 Air Coolers Brand”

Source: “Euromonitor International (Shanghai) Limited;
Consumer Appliances 21ed, retail volume sales in units, 2020 data”

[4] “Midea – World’s No.1 Cooling Fans Brand”

Source: “Euromonitor International (Shanghai) Limited;
Consumer Appliances 21ed, retail volume sales in units, 2020 data”

[5] “Midea – World’s No.1 Rice Cookers Brand”

Source: “Euromonitor International (Shanghai) Limited;
Consumer Appliances 21ed, retail volume sales in units, 2020 data”


#Midea

Exclusive Release of the New Bose QuietComfort® 45 Headphones at One Futureworld

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 21 October 2021 – The Bose QuietComfort® 45 headphones has been launched in Singapore. It will be exclusively available at Bose stores and OneFutureWorld.com, the premium authorized reseller of Bose, for the first 4 weeks of its launch. Featuring world class noise cancelling, 24-hour battery life on a single charge, and better voice isolation, Bose’s next generation around-ear headphones is an update of the beloved QuietComfort 35 II headphones. It delivers a higher quality experience for the practical consumer while retaining the comfort, stability, and connectivity that fans love.


Enhanced Acoustic Noise Cancelling™

The Enhanced Acoustic Noise Cancelling™ technology adds an additional external microphone and enhanced signal processing over previous versions of the QuietComfort® 45 headphones. The QC45 headphones feature a total of six discreet microphones to continuously measure, compare and react to outside noise, then cancel it with the opposite signal to minimise distractions.

QUIET and AWARE Modes


Users can experience instant quiet and full audio immersion with the QUIET mode on a noisy train or bus. Microphones inside and outside the earcups combine with a proprietary digital chip to sense and respond to more unwanted sounds in public spaces.  Users can switch to the new AWARE mode to let noise in and carry on a conversation without ever taking their headphones out.

Take Calls Anywhere With Voice Isolation


The QC45 headphones uses a beam-form array to isolate the owner’s voice, while a rejection array dampens and blocks audible distractions around them from being picked up and transmitted – like train announcements or the sound of a coffee machine in the background.

Exceptional Comfort and Durability In The QC45 Headphones’ Iconic Design

The QC45 headphones retain its characteristic sleek design while being upgraded for extra comfort and stability. The simple physical control buttons remain with no touch controls. The gaps between components have been replaced with smooth transitions while pleats and puckers have been removed. Users can choose from exclusive Triple Black and White Smoke colours with a classic matte finish.

Enjoy The Best of Bose’s Sound Quality


The QC45 headphones carries on the Bose legacy of high-fidelity audio technology. The TriPort acoustic architecture adds depth and fullness to the sound. Volume-optimised Active EQ maintains balanced performance at any volume so the bass stays consistent when you turn it down and the music is still clear when you turn it up.

Headphones That Keep Up


QC45 headphones have 24 hours of play time on a single charge for the active, practical consumer. It takes up to 2.5 hours for a full charge via USB-C® and are optimized for Bluetooth® 5.1.

One Futureworld Preorder Promotion


From 18 October to 26 November, consumers who pre-order the Bose QuietComfort® 45 headphones (Triple Black) can enjoy $20 off a pre-order of one unit, and $50 off a pre-order of two units with the use of exclusive promotional codes. Customers only need to type in the promotional code 20BOSEQC45 for a pre-order of one unit and 50BOSEQC45 when they pre-order two units. Terms and conditions apply.

Customers who pre-order also stand a chance to win a free pair of the Bose QuietComfort® 45 headphones (White Smoke). One contest entry will be awarded for each pre-order of one unit, while three contest entries will be awarded for each pre-order of two units.

The Bose QuietComfort® 45 headphones are available for purchase in Singapore at Bose stores and https://onefutureworld.com

About One Futureworld

One Futureworld is a leading lifestyle and innovative brands partner in Singapore and Asia. One Futureworld plans to infuse life to the market by constantly introducing reputable, high quality and state-of-the-art consumer lifestyle products that modernize the way of living. By partnering with Bose, One Futureworld is confident and assured of its position; pledging to continuously understand the ever-changing user requirements, and market new and exciting products to cater to the consumers of today, tomorrow and beyond. Find out more at https://onefutureworld.com/

#OneFutureworld