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Silver Spring, Md. – September 15, 2026 -- The Big Greek Café has partnered with restaurant technology providers Deliverect and Thanx to consolidate first-party ordering, third-party dispatch and loyalty onto a single integrated platform across its U.S. locations.

Menu management failures pushed the brand toward a unified tech stack

Chief Operating Officer Niko Kontos said the Maryland-based Greek fast-casual chain was spending excessive time fixing menu errors and working around platform reliability issues instead of serving guests. The new stack folds the brand's loyalty program directly into checkout rather than keeping it as a separate sign-up process.

Tampa, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- Genstone Companies has secured a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for the second consecutive year, ranking among the Top 100 fastest-growing private firms in the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater metro area.

The company also placed in the Top 400 nationally within the Financial Services category and the Top 500 in Florida, based on Inc.'s three-year revenue growth methodology.

Genstone expands financial services and property offerings through new partnerships

Over the past year, Genstone advanced its financial services and property services capabilities through strategic partnerships, expanded insurance offerings, and new institutional and single-family rental relationships. The company also invested in people, technology, and infrastructure to support growth.

Shanghai – – September 15, 2026 -- FHC Shanghai 2026 will open its doors from November 10-12 at the new Shanghai International Expo Centre, spanning 200,000 square meters and bringing together more than 3,000 global exhibitors and over 180,000 trade buyers.

Event scale expands with 500 foreign exhibitors across 50 international pavilions

The three-day trade show will host more than 500 foreign exhibitors organized into over 50 international pavilions, covering 15 core sectors including meat, seafood, snack food and beverages, dairy, confectionery and chocolate, foodservice supply chains, condiments and oils, coffee and tea, bakery, food processing and packaging, ready meals, canned goods, machinery, hot-pot ingredients, infant and children's nutrition, and food-medicine crossover products. The format allows procurement executives to benchmark suppliers across categories within a single three-day visit.

Quebec City – September 15, 2026 -- Icentia has appointed Sanjay Voleti as President and CEO, tasking the digital health veteran with accelerating the cardiac diagnostics company's commercial expansion in the United States.

Voleti succeeds co-founder Pierre Paquet after the company built operations across four countries

Voleti replaces co-founder Pierre Paquet, who led Icentia from its founding as a Canadian health-tech startup into an international operator with a presence in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States. Paquet said the company's CardioSTAT platform has become a reference point in continuous ambulatory ECG recording and that the time had come to bring in a leader experienced in scaling technology companies internationally.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- AEYE Health published peer-reviewed results in Frontiers in Digital Health confirming its FDA-cleared AEYE-DS system achieved over 99% imageability across three prospective, controlled pivotal trials involving more than 1,200 diabetic patients.

Trial data validate the clinical foundation behind AEYE-DS's two FDA clearances

The study, covering trials AEYE-1, AEYE-2 and AEYE-3, benchmarked the autonomous AI against reading center multi-expert clinical review. AEYE-DS requires only a single image per eye, works with both portable handheld and tabletop cameras, and rarely requires pupil dilation -- making it the only FDA-cleared portable autonomous solution for diabetic retinopathy on the market, according to the company.

Solon, Ohio – September 15, 2026 -- Locus Agriculture is scaling deployment of Unpac, its glycolipid-based soil conditioner, across row and specialty crop systems after third-party lab testing showed reduced soil density and improved water penetration in California agricultural soils.

USDA data shows compaction affects nearly one-quarter of surveyed cropland

A USDA Economic Research Service analysis found growers identified soil compaction as a resource concern on 22% of surveyed wheat, soybean, oat and cotton fields. Compacted soil restricts root development and limits crop access to available water and nutrients, according to Locus.

Bonn, Germany – September 14, 2026 – GS1 Germany is preparing to host ECR iN MOTiON, the central business-to-business convention for the consumer goods industry, scheduled for September 16 and 17, 2026, at the World Conference Center in Bonn. This expansive industry gathering will unite manufacturers, retailers, and logistics service providers to tackle pressing market dynamics, align supply and demand strategies, and drive operational efficiency across the entire value chain.

Greenwood, S.C. – September 14, 2026 -- ES Foundry has secured ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications for its Greenwood, South Carolina facility, passing an integrated audit with zero major and zero minor nonconformities. The certifications follow the company's recent 2 GW expansion, which pushed the plant's annual solar cell manufacturing capacity to 3 GW.

Auditors confirm quality, environmental and safety systems held during rapid capacity growth

The independent Integrated Management System (IMS) audit evaluated ES Foundry's quality, environmental and occupational health and safety frameworks as a single system across manufacturing operations, covering procurement, material handling, quality assurance and worker safety processes tied to monocrystalline photovoltaic cell production.

Reno, Nev. – September 14, 2026 -- The U.S. Department of Energy awarded approximately US$2.7 billion in contracts in January 2026 to expand domestic low-enriched and high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) capacity, cementing the federal government's role as the sector's largest customer, lender and permitting authority in one move.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. – September 14, 2026 -- Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET) has entered a memorandum of understanding with Vaya Defense & Space, Inc. to jointly evaluate captive-carry flight testing and air-launch propulsion, targeting a gap in hypersonic development where demand for test flights has outrun available capacity. The global hypersonic technology market is valued at approximately US$8.49 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach roughly US$15.73 billion by 2030, according to Research and Markets, a compound annual growth rate of about 13.2%.