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- Acquires Australia-based fitness franchisor with nearly 130 open locations across four countries and over 150 additional locations obligated to be opened within the next 12 months- Brings total number of Xponential international studios currently open or obligated to open to over 1,000 studiosIRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xponential Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: XPOF) (“Xponential” or “the Company”), a curator of leading boutique fitness brands, announced that effective today it has acquired Body Fit Training (“BFT”), an Australia-based fitness franchisor for a total of $44 million in a combination of cash on the balance sheet and debt from its existing senior secured loan facility. The acquisition is anticipated to be immediately accretive on an EBITDA margin basis. In connection with the transaction, Xponential acquired all of the intellectual property of BFT. Upon close, Xponential is also expected to enter into a Master Franchise Agreement with the BFT founders to provide support to all of its nearly 130 franchised studios across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, as well as an additional over 150 BFT studios previously sold and contractually obligated to open across the Asia Pacific region within the next 12 months. Xponential will also be directly servicing BFT studios in the United States and Canada.
Preet Gona Joins STACK as CEO, Asia PacificDENVER & CHICAGO & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”), a digital infrastructure partner to many of the world’s most innovative companies, today announced its international expansion to the Asia Pacific region with the opening of its Singapore regional headquarters.STACK is sponsored by IPI Partners (“IPI”), a global investment platform with more than $5.25 billion in total equity commitments specializing in acquiring, developing, leasing, and operating critical digital infrastructure assets to serve the needs of large, high-quality technology companies globally.
Thursday October 14, 2021, Noon EDT (10:00 AM MDT)CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westwater Resources (NYSE: American: WWR), a battery grade natural graphite development Company, will hold a special conference call on Thursday October 14, 2021, at noon EDT (10:00 AM MDT) to discuss the recently announced results of its Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for a battery graphite production facility and its recent acquisition of 90,000 square feet of commercial property
BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tritium Holdings Pty Ltd (“Tritium” or the “Company”), a global developer and manufacturer of direct current (“DC”) fast chargers for electric vehicles (“EVs”), today announced record results for the three months ended September 30, 2021, and provided a business update, including an update on sales orders and backlog for the quarter. On May 26, 2021, Tritium announced it had entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation II (NASDAQ: DCRN, DCRNW, DCRNU), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), that would result in Tritium DCFC Limited (“NewCo”), which will be the going-forward company, becoming publicly listed. Completion of the proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval of DCRN’s stockholders, and is currently expected to occur in either December 2021 or January 2022.
SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Triton Digital®, the global technology and services leader to the digital audio and podcast industry, announced today the release of the latest Australian Podcast Ranker. The Ranker provides insight into the Top 100 Podcasts as well as the Top 10 Publishers in Australia from 1 September through 30 September, 2021, as measured by Triton’s Podcast Metrics measurement service.
Falcon XDR provides defense in depth with shared telemetry, improves security efficacy and accelerates response by automating complex workflowsSUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fal.Con 2021--CrowdStrike Inc., (NASDAQ: CRWD) a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced Falcon XDR, extending CrowdStrike’s industry leading Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) capabilities to deliver real-time detection and automated response across the entire security stack. Falcon XDR provides security teams with the data and tools to respond, contain and remediate sophisticated attacks faster.
Members including Google Cloud, Okta, ServiceNow, Zscaler and others join forces to establish a shared schema for XDR data exchange, providing customers with an integrated, best-of-platform approach to XDRSUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fal.Con 2021--CrowdStrike Inc., (NASDAQ: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, today announced the CrowdXDR Alliance, a unified and open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) coalition formed with security and IT operations leaders and best-of-breed solutions. The CrowdXDR Alliance will offer first-of-its-kind, integrated solutions for joint customers to protect their organizations from sophisticated cyber adversaries in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FOX News Channel (FNC) has signed Alexis McAdams and Brittany Garzillo as New York-based correspondents. They will begin their new roles this month. Alexis McAdams joins FNC from WLS-TV, the ABC owned and operated station in Chicago, IL, where she has worked since 2018 covering the city’s crime beat. During her tenure at WLS, Ms. McAdams has covered major breaking news stories across the Midwest, including natural disasters, mass shootings and major court cases, such as singer R. Kelly’s sexual abuse case in 2019. She also reported extensively on the protests in Chicago following the death of George Floyd.
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Updates support new higher education student data reporting regulations; aids its ‘open access’ model where students can apply and begin to learn anytime, anywhereLAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#RMNI--Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that Open Universities Australia (OUA), the country’s leading online higher education marketplace, engaged Rimini Street to build and deliver regulatory updates for the reporting of new and existing student data as required to comply with the Government of Australia’s new Tertiary Collection of Student Information (TCSI) regulations. Rimini Street has been supporting OUA’s PeopleSoft applications since 2017 and based on OUA’s excellent support experience with the Company, the organization requested that Rimini Street’s tax, legal and regulatory (TLR) team address and maintain the tax, legal and regulatory compliance within its Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions application.
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Australia Seltzer Market, By ABV Content (Less Than and equal to 5%, More Than 5%), By Distribution Channel (Convenience stores, online, supermarkets/hypermarkets, others), By Packaging (Bottle, Can), By Region, By Top 3 States, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Australia seltzer market is projected to show a robust growth with an impressive CAGR in the forecast years, 2022-2026.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$HYM #3Dprinting-- Hyperion Metals Limited (ASX: HYM) is pleased to announce that high grade drill results have confirmed a near surface, high grade critical minerals deposit close to the recently announced Maiden Resource Estimate (“MRE”).The new confirmed discovery, called the Camden Deposit, reaffirms the Titan Project in West Tennessee as a major critical mineral province.
68% of U.S. knowledge workers say video is becoming increasingly important in the workplaceSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canva, the visual communications platform, today launched Canva Video Suite, an end-to-end video creation product that empowers everyone to design and publish professional-quality videos. Available for free on the web, desktop, and mobile, Canva combines intuitive editing, recording, and collaboration features, thousands of customizable video templates, and an extensive media library in one easy-to-use platform.
PHOENIX, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VIQ Solutions Inc. (“VIQ” or the “Company”) (TSX and Nasdaq: VQS), a global provider of secure, AI-driven, digital voice and video capture technology and transcription services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire the assets of Auscript Australasia Pty Ltd (“Auscript”), the leading supplier of secure recording and transcription services for courts and law firms throughout Australia. All amounts in this news release are expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated.
As their popularity rises, managers need to assess the skills development needs of multigenerational teamsNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#LnD--Multigenerational teams are on the rise, with managers and workers embracing benefits. Yet employers need to recognize that diverse teams can present new and different demands on skills training. A recent survey found a significant majority (76 percent) of employees want to work in diverse teams.
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Enterprises now have a best-of-breed pathway to extract high-fidelity insights into their end-to-end business processes MELBOURNE, Australia & PRAGUE, Czech Republic--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apromore, the leading provider of enterprise-grade and open-source process mining technology, today announced a partnership with UltimateSuite, a leading provider of task mining & RPA solutions. The partnership means that businesses will have more choice when looking for complete solutions to create continuous visibility into business operations using these synergistic approaches. Using task mining and process mining in combination, businesses can holistically optimize their processes both at the level of activity flows and handoffs, and at the level of task execution and workforce coordination. Additionally, the combination of task mining and process mining enables organizations to ensure that robotic process automation (RPA) efforts deliver targeted efficiency enhancements at scale and over the long term.
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parse Biosciences today announced a partnership with Decode Science to provide Parse’s single-cell RNA-seq solution to the Australian and New Zealand markets. Under an agreement between the parties, Decode Science has been appointed a distributor of the Parse product portfolio for Australia and New Zealand. Decode Science will provide customer service, technical support, sales and marketing, distribution, and related logistical efforts for the Parse Whole Transcriptome Kit (WTK), Cell Fixation Kit, and Nuclei Fixation Kit.
ALABAMA GRAPHITE PRODUCTS TO PURCHASE 90,000 SQ FT OF INDUSTRIAL SPACE ADJACENT TO KELLYTON SITECENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westwater Resources Inc. (NYSE American: WWR) (“Westwater” or the “Company”), a battery-grade, natural graphite development company, is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors today approved expenditures of $202 million to execute the construction plan for Phase I of the Coosa Graphite Project located in Kellyton, Alabama. Construction activities are expected to begin before the end of 2021.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ryan--Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, has announced that John Condon has joined the Firm as a Principal in Client Services and will be based in the Melbourne, Australia office. Mr. Condon brings a strong background in international tax with more than 30 years of experience in building and leading multinational teams, tax reporting and advocacy, and resolving major tax disputes.
Customers can now automate business workflows and build a single source of truth through deep integration between Revnue and external applications, systems, microservices, or data. LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Revnue Corp., an AI-powered digital contract management company, announced the launch of its full feature REST APIs. With this new release, customers can now automate business workflows and build a single source of truth through deep integration between Revnue and common business systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, PandaDoc, Device42, Odoo, and Avalara. Integrations have been key to Revnue’s strategy to allow a non-disruptive implementation as well enabling multiple common business workflows. Combined with unlimited extensibility and the ability to use any software development language, customers can bring in any attribute from any other system into Revnue, allowing a single source of truth for all contracts, assets, services, and saas intelligence.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto’s vaccination hub at Perth Airport has opened today, enabling fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers in the mining industry to easily access COVID-19 vaccination when they touch down in Perth. Rio Tinto and Western Australia’s Department of Health partnered to establish the new hub, which will operate at Perth Airport T2 and T3 and is specifically designed to be accessible for FIFO workers from the resources sector travelling through Perth Airport.
Marks BRUKINSA’s second approved indication in Australia, on the heels of its recent initial approval in Waldenström’s macroglobulinemiaTo date, BRUKINSA is approved in mantle cell lymphoma in nine countriesCAMBRIDGE, Mass. & BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$BGNE #BTKi--BeiGene (NASDAQ: BGNE; HKEX: 06160), a global, science-driven biotechnology company focused on developing innovative and affordable medicines to improve treatment outcomes and access for patients worldwide, today announced that BRUKINSA
Marks BRUKINSA’s second approved indication in Australia, on the heels of its recent initial approval in Waldenström’s macroglobulinemiaTo date, BRUKINSA is approved in mantle cell lymphoma in nine countriesSYDNEY & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$BGNE #BTKi--BeiGene (NASDAQ: BGNE; HKEX: 06160), a global, science-driven biotechnology company focused on developing innovative and affordable medicines to improve treatment outcomes and access for patients worldwide, today announced that BRUKINSA
TOKUSHIMA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The consumer policy department of the Tokushima Prefectural Government is promoting initiatives for consumer administration and education in cooperation with the Consumer Affairs Agency’s Strategic Headquarters for Frontiers of Consumer Policy, a Japanese governmental body established in Tokushima Prefecture as a national hub of policy development and international operations in consumer administration.
Represents BRUKINSA’s second recent approval in the Asia-Pacific region, following October 1 approval in Singapore for treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphomaThe TGA approval is based on results from ASPEN, an Australia-inclusive head-to-head clinical trial evaluating BRUKINSA compared to ibrutinib in patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemiaSYDNEY & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$BGNE
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smokeball has streamlined its end-to-end experience for family law professionals with the acquisition of the industry-leading platform FamilyProperty, an innovative product that empowers families to resolve parenting and financial issues more efficiently, amicably, and cost-effectively. Created by accredited family law specialist Fiona Kirkman and technologist Tim Kirkman, FamilyProperty offers a better way to manage family law matters online and collaboratively. The platform addresses the unique challenges faced by the entire family law ecosystem. The concept was originally created by Professor Patrick Parkinson, a leading contributor to the Australian family law community.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fintech payments disruptor, Till Payments (Till), has closed its Series C funding round, raising $110 million Australian dollars in private capital, equivalent to approximately $80 million USD. The funding will be used to strengthen Till’s operational capabilities in North America, bolster global consolidation, and further innovate its cutting-edge payments technology.
ANZ and Quest Payment Systems to launch Visa Installments, bringing popular buy now, pay later financing to credit card customers buying in-person or online – no extra form filling, no need for a new card or credit lineSYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Visa (NYSE: V), the world’s leader in digital payments, today announced the expansion of Visa Installments in Australia in partnership with ANZ, one of the country’s largest financial institutions, and merchant payment provider Quest. The Visa solution lets Australian shoppers access popular “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) financing via their existing ANZ credit cards, during checkout and without any extra steps.
New Leadership Structure Supports Expanded Services for Channel Partner ProgramsATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incentive Solutions, a leader in channel marketing technology, today announced an executive reorganization following the company’s recent acquisition of OneAffiniti, a pioneering through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) provider. The changes aim to transition support and operational flow to bolster the company's newly expanded scope of services.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is developing the “TIME TO ACT” climate action movement to accelerate viable decarbonization efforts. The TIME TO ACT: Climate Action Forum, which will be held right before COP26, will focus on discussion of definitive actions to halve CO2 emissions by the year 2030.In the high level session, leaders from various fields will convene to share their perspectives on accelerating efforts to curb climate change as we head into 2030.
Climate-focused product from premiere investment manager now available to Australian investors.SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global investment manager Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (GMO) has launched a new Australian investment trust for wholesale investors. The trust, led by investment veteran Lucas White, will provide Australian investors with access to GMO’s Climate Change Strategy, which invests in companies GMO believes are positioned to benefit either directly or indirectly from efforts to mitigate or adapt to the long-term effects of global climate change. The strategy builds upon the work of GMO Co-Founder Jeremy Grantham, who is widely recognized as a leading global advocate for climate change efforts and investment and in 1997 founded the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.
