Retail & Consumer Goods

Garland, Texas – October 15, 2026 -- Massimo Group (NASDAQ: MAMO) is developing a retail program to widen sales of its powersports products across Ace Hardware, a network of more than 5,000 U.S. stores, and has submitted a dedicated 2026 holiday program for Black Friday and Christmas.

The company has historically sold through a number of independently operated Ace locations. It is now building programs that can be offered to Ace retailers on a wider basis.

Massimo submits holiday program for participating Ace stores

The holiday program would supply participating stores with select Massimo products for the Black Friday and Christmas selling periods. It is being structured around inventory availability, retail pricing, merchandising and logistics.

No purchase commitments or minimum store participation levels have been established. Retailer participation remains subject to applicable approvals and ordering decisions.

Stamford – October 15, 2026 -- Curaleaf Holdings (TSX: CURA; OTCQX: CURLF) has raised its Florida footprint to 79 dispensaries and its nationwide total to 189 stores with the opening of Curaleaf Wellington in Palm Beach County.

Curaleaf Wellington targets Palm Beach County patients from State Road 7

The store is at 2495 S State Road 7, Suite 101, in the Wellington Green commercial district. It sits near The Mall at Wellington Green and the Forest Hill Boulevard intersection. Curaleaf says the location serves patients in Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Greenacres and Lake Worth.

The Village of Wellington has more than 61,000 residents. It hosts the Winter Equestrian Festival each winter, which the company describes as the largest and longest-running horse show in the world. The store carries a custom mural of locally inspired artwork celebrating the community's equestrian heritage.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Zipline has launched ZipCoach, an embedded AI capability that analyzes more than 300 performance, operational and behavioral data signals to generate store-specific coaching actions for multi-location retailers.

ZipCoach links frontline behavior to store-level results

The engine connects frontline and operational behaviors, external variables and business outcomes to learn what drives success at each individual store. It then flags improvement opportunities unique to each location and delivers personalized guidance to field leaders and store managers.

Zipline CEO and Co-Founder Melissa Wong said every brand's fleet follows a performance bell curve, with a few stores executing brilliantly, a few struggling and most in the middle. In her view, the gap stems from missing historical knowledge, context and next steps rather than talent. ZipCoach is designed to carry what top stores know to the rest of the fleet.

Charlotte – October 14, 2026 -- TOPPAN Packaging ranked first for both product quality and value for money among eight major foodservice packaging suppliers in a Technomic survey of operators, leading the runner-up by two percentage points on quality and five on value.

Survey measures satisfaction among existing buyers, not brand awareness

Technomic ran the custom study (Study #20371) in April 2026. Foodservice operators rated only the packaging suppliers they currently buy from, rather than ranking an unaided list of competitors. The study was commissioned, and the source describes it as a direct measure of satisfaction among existing buyers.

The base for TOPPAN Packaging's scores was current customers, with 66 respondents (n=66). The margins over the second-highest supplier were two percentage points for quality and five for value.

Paris – October 14, 2026 -- Dilmah has reached the SIAL For Change final as one of just five large companies selected from 226 entries worldwide, while three of its products were also chosen for SIAL's innovation selection.

Three Dilmah products enter the SIAL Innovation Area

An independent jury of international food-industry experts judged entries on originality, technical innovation and sustainability impact. The selected products will be showcased in the dedicated SIAL Innovation Area:

Shanghai – October 14, 2026 -- Chinese luxury label EP YAYING is using its second consecutive appearance at the Shanghai Fashion Week MODE trade show, October 8 to 12, 2026, to launch its Spring/Summer 2027 collection to international buyers across five product directions.

The brand is exhibiting at Booth F17-01, Tower T2, Jingyao Hongqiao, 688 Tianshan Road, Changning. It first joined MODE in March 2026.

Three Chinese natural materials anchor the SS27 offer

EP YAYING builds the collection on what it calls the "YAYING Three Treasures." The first is 6A-grade mulberry silk from the brand's organic sericulture base in Ningnan, Sichuan, used for lightweight spring/summer apparel and textiles.

The second is snowfield yak down, sourced through supply-chain collaboration with Aba and Nagqu. It is naturally collected and processed with low-dyeing methods for knitwear and light outerwear.

Barcelona – October 14, 2026 -- Temu has received the Cross-Border Magazine Award for its role in Europe's digital economy, with a company survey showing 34% of EU-based local sellers have expanded into new international markets since joining the platform.

The award was presented at a ceremony in Barcelona on 1 October 2026. Cross-Border Magazine founder Jeroen Leenders said Temu has become "a significant part of Europe's e-commerce landscape."

Local Seller Programme gives merchants ERP and carrier access

Temu launched the Local Seller Programme in 2024 as an additional sales channel for European businesses, both in their home markets and abroad. Sellers can connect existing business software through more than 200 ERP integrations. They can also use a network of more than 150 delivery providers across Europe, including DHL Group and La Poste.

High Point – October 14, 2026 -- S&H Rugs, a designer and wholesaler of hand-knotted rugs, has unveiled its Fall 2027 Collection at High Point Market (HPMKT) Fall 2026 in North Carolina, with all rugs shown on its website listed as in stock and ready to ship immediately.

S&H Rugs blends sustainable materials with traditional weaving in the new line

The collection combines sustainable materials with traditional weaving techniques. It uses organic textures and a palette of earth tones. The company says each piece is designed for modern living spaces.

Senior partner Ori Wilbush said the line aims to connect buyers to nature through touch and color.

Vancouver – October 14, 2026 -- GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) has released gtinfetch.ai, a GTIN resolver that lets AI agents check any of 84 million barcodes in a single call, which the company describes as the largest open resolver on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

GreenCore targets grocery agentic commerce in 20 countries

The service runs on Microsoft Azure and the Cloudflare edge and answers in milliseconds from wherever the agent sits. GSC built it for retail grocery agentic commerce transactions at scale across 20 countries.

GSC says $2 trillion of annual grocery procurement is about to move through AI agents, with every order tied to a GTIN. In its view, agentic procurement drifts without a second check. gtinfetch confirms the GTIN before the order is placed, then settles payment in the same call.

Boise, Idaho – October 14, 2026 -- Clean Form Nutrition has become the first brand to earn NSF Certified for Sport® certification for a finished product containing NNB Nutrition's Pürest CreatineTM, adding a finished-product check to an ingredient already certified by Informed Choice and tested by two independent laboratories.

Eurofins tests find no quantifiable impurities in three Pürest Creatine lots

In comparative testing by Eurofins, three separate production lots of Pürest CreatineTM were evaluated alongside a premium creatine described as an industry purity benchmark. In all three lots, dicyandiamide (DCD), dihydrotriazine (DHT) and creatinine fell below the laboratory's limits of quantification.

The benchmark sample contained measurable levels of both DCD and creatinine. DHT stayed below the quantification limit in both products. Mérieux NutriSciences has also tested Pürest CreatineTM for creatine manufacturing impurities.