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Beijing and Tel Aviv – October 01, 2026 -- ADAMA Ltd. (SZSE: 000553) has launched Actavan®, a plant-based fungicide for grapes, in Australia and New Zealand, offering growers a zero-residue tool against Botrytis with no pre-harvest interval.

Beet-extract compound activates grapevine immune defenses before infection

Actavan® is a Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) elicitor derived from beet extract. It triggers genes that produce enzymes degrading pathogen cell walls while stimulating antimicrobial phytoalexins, activating the plant's own defense response ahead of fungal attack.

Birkirkara – October 01, 2026 -- Gentoo Media Inc. has called an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders for 2 November 2026 in Stockholm to approve a capital structure overhaul that would pave the way for a directed share issue fully underwritten by three of its largest shareholders.

Board seeks to raise authorized Common Stock to 250 million shares and create a new Class Z class

The Board of Directors is proposing a Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation that would lift authorized Common Stock from 200,000,000 to 250,000,000 shares, $0.001 par value each, while creating an additional class of 100,000,000 shares designated Class Z Common Stock. As of the notice date, Gentoo Media had 134,707,976 shares of Common Stock outstanding, each carrying one vote.

Los Angeles – – October 01, 2026 -- Legacy Distribution has acquired global content distributor Vision Films, merging two catalogs spanning feature films, documentaries, TV series and reality programming into a single operating entity under the Vision Films name.

Dana Webber takes CEO role of combined company

Dana Webber, CEO and Managing Partner of Legacy Distribution, will lead the expanded business, which will continue operating under the Vision Films brand. Lise Romanoff, founder and Managing Director of Vision Films, moves into a consultant role and will represent the company at the American Film Market in November.

Dublin – October 01, 2026 -- Temu has added a dedicated geographical indications (GI) category to its Brand Registry Portal, giving rightsholders a direct channel to flag potential GI infringements across all of the platform's markets.

Temu builds GI tool after 100+ meetings with European trade groups

The feature stems from feedback gathered across more than 100 meetings with trade associations, chambers of commerce and start-up networks in Europe, where sellers cited complexity as a recurring barrier to online trade. GI products derive their value from a specific geographical origin, carrying economic and cultural weight for the producers and regions behind them.

A Temu spokesperson said the company aims to give GI rightsholders a clearer path to work directly with the platform to protect the authenticity tied to their products' heritage.

New York – – October 01, 2026 -- Nuveen has completed its acquisition of Schroders, creating a combined asset and wealth manager with $2.6 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2026.

Combined firm claims top-ten rank across three asset classes globally

The merged entity holds a top-ten global position in active equities, active fixed income and private markets, based on year-end 2025 data from Preqin, P&I, eVestment and company reports. It operates in more than 40 markets with significant presence across the US, UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

TIAA backs deal as parent shareholder

TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett said the acquisition strengthens investment capabilities feeding TIAA's retirement and annuity products. TIAA paid out more than $6.17 billion in annuity income to retired clients in 2025.

Stockholm – October 01, 2026 -- SciBase Holding AB has closed its rights issue fully subscribed, raising approximately SEK 57.5 million before issue costs to fund continued commercialisation of its Nevisense melanoma-diagnostics platform in the United States.

Shareholders cover nearly three-quarters of the offering

The subscription period, which ran through 29 September 2026, saw 2,681,085 shares subscribed with the support of subscription rights, equal to roughly SEK 40.2 million, or 69.9 percent of the issue. An additional 133,116 shares were subscribed without subscription rights, adding SEK 2.0 million, or 3.5 percent. In total, 2,814,201 shares were subscribed with and without rights, covering approximately SEK 42.2 million, or 73.4 percent of the SEK 57.5 million target.

Bangkok – October 01, 2026 -- Infineon Technologies AG has officially opened a new backend semiconductor manufacturing site in Samut Prakan, Bangkok, designed to scale up to five production modules and employ up to 1,000 workers as it ramps.

Infineon inaugurates greenfield site with Thai Prime Minister in attendance

The facility was inaugurated jointly by Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister of Thailand, and Alexander Gorski, Chief Operations Officer of Infineon Technologies. The company frames the site as a strategic diversification move for its global manufacturing network, complementing ongoing frontend capacity expansion elsewhere.

Anyang, South Korea – October 01, 2026 -- Vieworks will exhibit a complete CoaXPress-over-Fiber machine vision system supporting data transmission speeds of up to 100 Gbps per channel over distances of up to 10 km at VISION 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany, running October 6 to 8.

Vieworks integrates camera, fiber cable, transceivers and frame grabber into one high-speed setup

The South Korea-based industrial imaging supplier will present the full CoaXPress-over-Fiber configuration as a single-source package at Hall 10, booth 10E30. The company positions the bundled offering as a way to simplify system integration for high-speed machine vision deployments.

Area scan camera lineup spans 0.4 to 1152 megapixels

Vieworks' VZ Series area scan cameras, built on GigE, 2.5GigE and USB 3.0 interfaces, will be shown alongside the VL Series line scan cameras, which cover 2k to 16k resolutions over 5GigE and 10GigE interfaces.

Taipei – October 01, 2026 -- Cervoz Technology has launched the T449 and T459 Series, a new line of MIL-STD-810H compliant M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs built for defense, aerospace, transportation, and industrial automation systems operating in harsh environments.

Drives deliver PCIe Gen4 speeds of up to 5,085 MB/s read and 4,765 MB/s write

The T449 and T459 Series support PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe interfaces, pairing industrial 3D TLC NAND with LDPC error correction, wear leveling, and End-to-End Data Protection to sustain performance during continuous workloads such as mission computers, AI edge platforms, video recording, and industrial data logging.

Dublin – – October 01, 2026 -- Ensera, a global CDMO specializing in commercialization support for injectable drug programs, has launched the Ensera Alliance Network, uniting device platform and fill-finish specialists to streamline the commercialization of drug-device combination products.

Five specialist firms join the new coordination network

The network currently comprises injector platform providers SHL Medical, Stevanato Group and Ypsomed, alongside fill-finish specialists Argonaut Manufacturing Services and American Injectables. Ensera said it plans to expand the network over time by adding organizations whose capabilities and standards complement existing members.