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• Homebase has chosen Neptune's DX Platform to support the development of IT solutions that will help simplify customer ordering, product inventory and supplier management.
• The new approach is part of Homebase's turnaround plan, helping to streamline its operations, continue to save costs and allow teams to focus on providing the best customer service.
• Paul Cannon, Director of IT, Homebase, commented:"We want to empower our teams with the right, cutting edge technology which allows them to deliver the best possible customer service.
• In our experience companies can cut 60% of development using our solution compared to traditional coding,"added Natalie Kouzeleas, MD Neptune Software UK.

• Hudson News Distributors and Docklight Brands , a pioneering consumer brand company, today announced a distribution agreement under which Hudson News Distributors will make Docklights portfolio of hemp-derived CBD-infused products available to retailers across the Northeast U.S.
• Under the terms of the agreement, Hudson News Distributors will make the entire Docklight Brands portfolio available to major retail accounts within the drug, mass, grocery, convenience, airport and independent channels.
• Hudson News Distributors distribution retailers include: CVS, Walgreens, Target, Walmart, Stop & Shop, GIANT Food Stores, ShopRite, Shaws Supermarkets, Market Basket, Hannaford, Acme Markets, and Safeway among others.
• We are excited to announce this new alliance with Hudson News Distributors to make our portfolio of CBD brands available in the Northeast U.S., said Damian Marano, Chief Executive Office for Docklight Brands.

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• The report commissioned by SodaStream, a leading campaigner on avoidable plastic waste pollution and manufacturer and distributor of sparkling water makers, interviewed over 2,000 British consumers on the single-plastic reduction activities of supermarkets.
• It showed that Britain is a plastic waste conscious nation of shoppers with 89% of respondents saying they specifically do something to reduce their consumption of single-use plastics when doing their supermarket shop.
• Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose and Tesco have all signed up to a new industry-wide initiative that aims to make all plastic packaging recyclable, recycled or biodegradable by 2025.
• "However, despite all this, the vast majority of consumers still feel they could do more or are doing very little when comparing them to other parts of the retail sector.