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Village Farms International Expands Executive Team

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia and ORLANDO, Fla., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Village Farms International, Inc. (“Village Farms” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: VFF) today announced that it is expanding its executive team with the following new roles:

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  • VANCOUVER, British Columbia and ORLANDO, Fla., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Village Farms International, Inc. (“Village Farms” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: VFF) today announced that it is expanding its executive team with the following new roles:
    Chief Operating Officer – Ann Gillin Lefever;
    President, Global Medical Cannabis – Paul Furfaro; and,
    General Counsel, Global Cannabis – John Harloe.
  • It is a testament to the strength of our organization that we have identified the right individuals to take on these critical roles from within our own ranks,” said Michael DeGiglio, President and Chief Executive Officer, Village Farms.
  • Ms. Gillin Lefever is an accomplished business, finance and capital markets executive who served as an external consultant to Village Farms starting in 2020.
  • Mr. Furfaro joined Village Farms in 2023 as Senior Vice President, Strategy, leading, amongst other initiatives, an assessment of international cannabis opportunities and later assuming leadership of the global medical cannabis business.

New to The Street's Leadership Show, Sponsored by Smile Design Manhattan, with Host Lee Gause, Featuring Three Corporate Guest Interviews, Airing on Bloomberg TV as Sponsored Programming, Saturday, March 30, 2024, at 6:30 PM ET

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Friday, March 29, 2024
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New to The Street's "The Business of Blockchain," with TV Host Jane King's interview with Shane Bigelow, CEO/Co-Founder, Champ Titles, Inc. ("CHAMP")

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  • New to The Street's "The Business of Blockchain," with TV Host Jane King's interview with Shane Bigelow, CEO/Co-Founder, Champ Titles, Inc. ("CHAMP")
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  • While providing these human resource and community development services, Abran and his team discovered the power of "Generative AI."
  • Under Abran's leadership, the Company has developed non-biased generative AI platforms that greatly enhance their clients' technological attributes.
  • Generative AI platforms rely on predictive behavior inputs and patterns that learn as they create new "Generative" content.

Swissport is a launch customer for CHAMP's new Cargospot-neo

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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LUXEMBOURG, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- After conducting a competitive market assessment, global ground handling giant Swissport have signed as a launch customer of CHAMP Cargosystems' next-generation cargo management solution, Cargospot-neo. As a long-time customer of Cargospot for almost 20 years, this marks an exciting transformation for both businesses.

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  • The new partnership will see Swissport and CHAMP reimagine air cargo together, further elevating visibility, customer centricity and operational performance.
  • LUXEMBOURG, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- After conducting a competitive market assessment, global ground handling giant Swissport have signed as a launch customer of CHAMP Cargosystems' next-generation cargo management solution, Cargospot-neo.
  • As a long-time customer of Cargospot for almost 20 years, this marks an exciting transformation for both businesses.
  • With shared values of innovation and collaboration, and a commitment to providing high-quality solutions, Swissport and CHAMP are perfectly aligned to launch Cargospot-neo Handling.

MINDTICKLE ANNOUNCES NEW AI-POWERED RELEASES AND PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mindtickle, the global leader in revenue productivity, announced the release of new capabilities designed to streamline workflows for revenue organizations to efficiently scale the use of best practices and winning behaviors. These updates and features, powered by recent, rapid progress in AI, help focus human efforts on impactful decision-making and strategy execution for sales, enablement, marketing, and revenue operations leaders. Customers can look forward to creating relevant, timely experiences that enable internal and external audiences alike through features like AI-guided program creation, self-enablement with real-time answers to field questions, scalable CHAMP and MEDDPICC call scoring, and more.

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  • With these two complementary releases, Mindtickle highlights its dedication to helping focus the time and energy of GTM teams on revenue-generating activities.
  • AI search - Get fast and accurate search results across the Mindtickle platform based on a deeper understanding of language and search terms with Copilot.
  • Save time and effort creating programs that follow best practices based on the thousands of enablement programs created in Mindtickle.
  • Save time and be confident that your Mindtickle content library is up to date with a Sharepoint integration.

Vyluma Announces Positive Results From Second Stage of Phase III CHAMP Study of NVK002 for the Treatment of Myopia in Children

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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During the fourth year of the study, both doses of NVK002 -- the 0.01% and 0.02% concentrations -- continued to exhibit a strong safety profile with a low level (8% incidence) of Treatment Emergent Adverse Events (TAES) and no evidence of meaningful rebound in subjects who had discontinued active treatment and were washed out over one year. In year four, NVK002 0.01% data indicate a continued widening of the previously reported treatment effect1 in both the mean change from baseline in Spherical Equivalent Refraction (SER), and mean change from baseline in axial length endpoints when compared to a matched historical placebo group. There was no evidence of tachyphylaxis in the treatment effect after four years.

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  • Analysis of the results of this multi-center, international study conducted after four years of treatment and follow up, show continued strong safety, the absence of rebound upon washout of the study drug, and continued efficacy for NVK002 as a potential treatment for myopia in children.
  • “With the completion of the second and final phase of CHAMP, Vyluma continues its progress towards bringing NVK002 forward as an important new, first-in-class pharmaceutical treatment option for children with myopia.
  • The NDA for NVK002 is currently under review with the FDA, and a decision is expected in January 2024,” stated Founder & Chairman, Navneet Puri PhD.
  • In June 2023 Vyluma announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for NVK002.

Young people with sexual or gender diversity are at higher risk of stopping their HIV treatment because of stigma and harsh laws

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Monday, September 25, 2023
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These groups are also at higher risk from HIV due to increased levels of stigma, discrimination, violence and criminalisation.

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  • These groups are also at higher risk from HIV due to increased levels of stigma, discrimination, violence and criminalisation.
  • Our research is part of a three-year project on HIV-related stigma linked to young people with sexual or gender diversity.


Our research provided novel evidence on the deeply rooted fears and anxieties around multiple forms of stigma among young MSM and transgender women in southern Africa.

Criminalising sex

    • Recently, Uganda passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023, which punishes same-sex conduct with life imprisonment.
    • Our study also noted that young people had developed various strategies to manage their lives.
    • The constant worry and stress of living with HIV, and the fear of being stigmatised, could have a significant impact on health and wellbeing.
    • The burden of concealing their identities resulted in a range of mental, emotional and physical vulnerabilities.

Fear of being found out

    • Being seen taking antiretroviral therapy or having it found in one’s possession signalled that one was living with HIV.
    • A 19-year-old said:
      It affects me sometimes because, if people reject you, you feel like stopping to take the medication.
    • It affects me sometimes because, if people reject you, you feel like stopping to take the medication.

The way forward

    • There were few services available to assist in coping with these multiple stigmas.
    • Those that came closest were provided by “sexual minority friendly” organisations or led by sexual minority peers themselves.

UnitedHealthcare Donates $500,000 To Three Nonprofit Organizations in Mississippi

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
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In total, UnitedHealthcare is donating more than $11.1 million in grants through its Empowering Health program across 12 states.

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  • In total, UnitedHealthcare is donating more than $11.1 million in grants through its Empowering Health program across 12 states.
  • “UnitedHealthcare is honored to support the important work these local organizations are doing to provide greater access to services for underserved communities in Mississippi,” said Michael Parnell, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Mississippi.
  • Identifying and addressing social determinants of health needs is a core aspect of how UnitedHealthcare serves its members.
  • In Mississippi, this includes more than $2.4 million in contributions over the last three years representing its businesses, foundations and employees.

Melissa Smith Joins ATF Medical’s Adaptive Housing Team

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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Melissa Smith, OTR/L, CAPS, ECHM, CHAMP recently joined ATF Medical as clinical specialist/adaptive housing.

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  • Melissa Smith, OTR/L, CAPS, ECHM, CHAMP recently joined ATF Medical as clinical specialist/adaptive housing.
  • In this role, Smith assesses injured workers and their homes and recommends ways to address barriers to accessibility, mobility and independence.
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    Melissa Smith, OTR/L joins ATF Medical as clinical specialist/adaptive housing.
  • Smith is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association and the Occupational Association of Oregon.

CHAMP Partners with LossExpress to Transform Insurance Claim Operations

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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CLEVELAND, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Champ Titles ("CHAMP"), the leader in delivering advanced title and registration capabilities to DMVs, insurance carriers, and automotive retailers across the U.S., announced it has partnered with LossExpress™ to further transform title processing and to better serve the needs of the insurance, automotive retail, and fleet industries.

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  • CLEVELAND, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Champ Titles ("CHAMP"), the leader in delivering advanced title and registration capabilities to DMVs, insurance carriers, and automotive retailers across the U.S., announced it has partnered with LossExpress™ to further transform title processing and to better serve the needs of the insurance, automotive retail, and fleet industries.
  • As an industry-leading platform that connects users with the largest active lienholder network in the U.S., LossExpress will enhance CHAMP's technology solution for automotive retailers, insurance carriers, and salvage companies.
  • "We are thrilled to partner with LossExpress and leverage our collective capabilities to expand upon our title and registration solutions," said CHAMP Chief Executive Officer, Shane Bigelow.
  • Champ Titles has developed several solutions, all of which are built on a shared platform that serves different industry verticals.

Lincolnshire Management Announces Acquisition of Whitewater Brands

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Monday, December 5, 2022
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Lincolnshire Management, Inc. ("Lincolnshire") , a private equity firm focused on investing in and acquiring growing middle market companies across an array of industries, today announced the purchase of Whitewater Brands , LLC.

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  • Lincolnshire Management, Inc. ("Lincolnshire") , a private equity firm focused on investing in and acquiring growing middle market companies across an array of industries, today announced the purchase of Whitewater Brands , LLC.
  • "Lincolnshire has a track record of success investing in the transportation and transportation servicing industries so we bring significant experience and resources to Whitewater and the management team.
  • Under our ownership, we believe Whitewater has the potential to aggressively grow sales, explore collaboration across its existing brands, and utilize the Lincolnshire operations team to execute recognized efficiencies.
  • Headquartered in New York, Lincolnshire Management invests in acquisitions of private companies, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, management buyouts and growth equity for public and private companies.