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ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, today announced the launch of its Tech, Media and Telecom Differentiated Broking Solutions (TMT DBS). This solution adds to the roster of existing DBS programs of General Industry DBS, Financial Institutions DBS and Real Estate DBS.

The TMT DBS will serve clients in several industries, including electronics, hardware, semiconductor, internet, data networking, telecom, print media, broadcast and advertising, and software and tech services. The TMT DBS builds on the current Willis Towers Watson TMT Panel for small enterprises and will provide coverage for clients with $50 million to $5 billon in turnover.

Coverage for TMT DBS is available for the property & casualty sector and includes property, general liability, business auto, workers compensation and umbrella insurance.

“The uncertain and rapidly changing insurance market, combined with increasing exposure to risks faced by our clients, requires an insurance risk transfer strategy to effectively navigate these perilous times,” said Joe Peiser, global head of Broking, Willis Towers Watson. “This product, like our other successful DBS offerings, minimizes clients’ exposure and provides customized, cost-effective, efficient solutions. It’s perfect for clients who value insurance partners that fully understand their business.”

“This new DBS offers innovative solutions for clients in the technology industry, while the DBS brand continues to provide value-driven products and services,” said Jim O’Connor, head of Middle Market and Specialty Broking. “We are pleased to partner with the key carriers Chubb, CNA, Hartford, Sompo, Travelers and Zurich to ensure we can continue to help our clients access the best coverage and services the market has to offer.”

Sara Benolken, global head of Tech, Media and Telecom, Willis Towers Watson, adds, “The TMT industry is constantly evolving to meet the challenges from an emerging customer demand. The TMT DBS provides an opportunity for clients to stay ahead of those ever-changing risks and make sure they have the best coverage to protect them.”

Differentiated Broking Solutions will continue to build customized solutions for industries requiring specialization, including construction, health care, the not-for-profit/public sector, education, transportation, energy/utilities and agriculture.

About Willis Towers Watson

Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW) is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, Willis Towers Watson has 45,000 employees serving more than 140 countries and markets. We design and deliver solutions that manage risk, optimize benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. Our unique perspective allows us to see the critical intersections between talent, assets and ideas — the dynamic formula that drives business performance. Together, we unlock potential. Learn more at willistowerswatson.com.

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NEWTON, Kan., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Park Aerospace Corp. announced the celebration of the 60th anniversary of its initial public offering, which occurred on November 17, 1960. Park’s IPO was for 175,000 shares of Common Stock, $.10 par value per share, at a price of $4.00 per share, or a total value of $700,000. Park’s Common Stock was originally listed on the American Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PKE, and the listing was transferred to the New York Stock Exchange on April 25, 1984, where Park’s Common Stock continues to trade to this day under the PKE symbol. (The Company was originally listed under the name “Park Electrochemical Corp.” The Company changed its name to Park Aerospace Corp. on July 17, 2019.)

Brian Shore, Park’s Chairman and CEO, said, “To me, our 60 years as a public company have been wonderful years, but I would not say they have been easy years. Over those years, Park has faced many challenges, disappointments and set-backs which were necessary to overcome. But, at Park, we don’t quit. We don’t give up. We are not here just to get by. We are here to fulfill our destiny.”

Brian Shore continued, “Although it has been a long and exciting 60 year journey for Park as a public company, we never forget where we come from. We embrace and cherish our humble beginnings. Park is a strange and unusual Company filled with unusual and special People. We are not like the others. At Park, we play for keeps.”

Brian Shore concluded, “Lastly, I would like to thank the people at the New York Stock Exchange (and the American Stock Exchange before them) for providing a wonderful environment for the trading of our company’s stock over the years.”

Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets. Park’s advanced composite materials include film adhesives (undergoing qualification) and lightning strike materials. Park offers an array of composite materials specifically designed for hand lay-up or automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturing applications. Park’s advanced composite materials are used to produce primary and secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport aircraft, military aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs commonly referred to as “drones”), business jets, general aviation aircraft and rotary wing aircraft. Park also offers specialty ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles and specially designed materials for radome applications. As a complement to Park’s advanced composite materials offering, Park designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry. Target markets for Park’s composite parts and structures (which include Park’s proprietary composite SigmaStrut™ and AlphaStrut™ product lines) are, among others, prototype and development aircraft, special mission aircraft, spares for legacy military and civilian aircraft and exotic spacecraft. Park’s objective is to do what others are either unwilling or unable to do. When nobody else wants to do it because it is too difficult, too small or too annoying, sign us up.

Additional corporation information is available on the Company’s web site at www.parkaerospace.com.

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Ramsey, NJ, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), along with its IT Services Division, All Covered, is proud to announce it has received a prestigious Buyers Lab (BLI) PaceSetter 2020-2021 in Managed IT Services from Keypoint Intelligence, the world’s leading independent evaluator for document imaging, software, hardware and services. The award recognizes Konica Minolta’s IT Services from All Covered, which span a range of markets and capabilities.

“It is an honor to be recognized by Keypoint Intelligence, not only for our commitment to innovation in providing industry-leading managed IT services, but for our ability to serve a wide array of markets,” said Todd Croteau, President, All Covered. “Our dedicated IT experts are extremely well-versed in the nuances and regulations of each vertical we serve, allowing us to customize programs to our clients’ business and application needs. Accolades such as this one truly realize their hard work and focus on our clients’ distinct technology needs, and are a testament to their dedication and success.”

Through its All Covered division, Konica Minolta provides dozens of managed IT services in-house for clients, including PC/server and network infrastructure provisioning and deployment, ongoing infrastructure management, helpdesk outsourcing, remote IT support, and security and compliance assessment/remediation. Services are available for customers of all sizes, not just large enterprises, and strategic acquisitions have garnered the company IT expertise specific to key vertical markets such as education, healthcare, and legal.

To determine the vendors that lead the market in each category, Keypoint Intelligence invited the leading document imaging OEMs to participate in an in-depth study that covered areas such as portfolio of offerings, primary differentiators, go-to-market strategy, ability to accommodate remote employees, and much more. Keypoint Intelligence analysts then applied a proprietary scoring rubric to determine the winners.

“Managed services are playing an increasingly important role for office equipment manufacturers and their channel partners,” said Jamie Bsales, Director of Smart Workplace & Security Analysis at Keypoint Intelligence. “In addition to better addressing customer needs and helping solve their pain points, a broad portfolio of services can convert a ‘transactional’ customer into a ‘relational’ one, which opens the door for ongoing sales in all areas a vendor offers.”

All Covered is the nationwide technology services division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc., focusing on the unique computing, networking, and application needs of businesses across all verticals. Learn more online.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is reshaping and revolutionizing the Workplace of the Future^™ with its expansive smart office product portfolio from IT Services (All Covered), ECM, Managed Print Services and industrial and commercial print solutions. Konica Minolta has been recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for thirteen consecutive years, and is proud to be ranked on the Forbes 2017 America’s Best Employers list. The World Technology Awards recently named the company a finalist in the IT Software category. Konica Minolta, Inc. has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for eight consecutive years and has spent three years on the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World list. It partners with its clients to give shape to ideas and work to bring value to our society. For more information, please visit us online and follow Konica Minolta on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Keypoint Intelligence – Buyers Lab

For almost 60 years, clients in the digital imaging industry have relied on Keypoint Intelligence for independent hands-on testing, lab data, and extensive market research to drive their product and sales success. Keypoint Intelligence has been recognized as the industry’s most trusted resource for unbiased information, analysis, and awards due to decades of analyst experience. Customers have harnessed this mission-critical knowledge for strategic decision-making, daily sales enablement, and operational excellence—improving business goals and increasing bottom lines. With a central focus on clients, Keypoint Intelligence continues to evolve as the industry changes by expanding offerings and updating methods, while intimately understanding and serving manufacturers’, channels’, and their customers’ transformation in the digital printing and imaging sector.

About Buyers Lab PaceSetter Awards

Based on exhaustive questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and a proprietary rating scale, Buyers Lab PaceSetter awards recognize those document imaging OEMs that have shown market leadership in a variety of categories, including with technologies, services, and key vertical markets.

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TORONTO, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Generation Mining Limited (TSX: GENM) (OTCQB: GENMF) (“Gen Mining” or the “Company”) welcomes the recent announcement by the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario of the appointment of the Joint Review Panel (JRP) to conduct the environmental assessment of the Company’s Marathon Palladium and Copper Project in Northwestern Ontario.

“Generation Mining and all of our stakeholders look forward to supporting the panel members and both governments as they complete their review of our project in a timely manner. As always, our priority is to ensure that we contribute to a meaningful and collaborative consultation process as the Project comes to fruition,” said Jamie Levy, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

“This Project will bring direct economic benefits to the town of Marathon, the surrounding communities, and Indigenous groups in Northern Ontario. It will also give Canada a strategic position in a globally competitive mineral market for palladium and copper, both essential to Canada’s green economy,” concluded Levy.

About Generation Mining Limited

Gen Mining’s focus is the development of the Marathon Palladium-Copper Project, the largest undeveloped platinum group metal Mineral Resource in North America. The Marathon property covers a land package of approximately 22,000 hectares, or 220 square kilometres. Gen Mining acquired a 51% interest in the Marathon Project from Sibanye Stillwater in 2019 and is in the process of increasing that ownership to 80%. A feasibility study was started in the second quarter of 2020 with completion expected in the first quarter of 2021.

For further information please contact:

Jamie Levy
President and Chief Executive
Officer
(416) 640-2934
(416) 567-2440
[email protected]

Forward-Looking Information

This news release includes certain information that may be deemed “forward-looking information” under applicable securities laws. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address the ability of the Company and Sibanye Stillwater to vary their respective participating interests in the Marathon Property, Mineral Resource and Reserve potential, exploration activities and events or developments that the Company expects is forward-looking information. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the statements. There are certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking information. These include, among other factors, market prices, exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions.

Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. For more information on the Company, investors are encouraged to review the Company’s public filings at www.sedar.com. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward- looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zhang Investor Law announces a class action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders who bought shares of Precigen, Inc. f/k/a Intrexon Corporation (NASDAQ: PGEN, XON)  between May 10, 2017 and September 25, 2020, inclusive (the “Class Period”).

To join the class action, go to http://zhanginvestorlaw.com/join-action-form/?slug=precigen-inc-f-k-a-intrexon-corporation&id=2466 or call Sophie Zhang, Esq. toll-free at 800-991-3756 or email [email protected] for information on the class action.

如果您想加入这个集体诉讼案，请在这里提交您的信息。http://zhanginvestorlaw.com/join-action-form/?slug=precigen-inc-f-k-a-intrexon-corporation&id=2466

If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court before December 4, 2020 DEADLINE.   A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. 

According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things: (1) the Company was using pure methane as feedstock for its announced yields for its methanotroph bioconversion platform instead of natural gas; (2) yields from natural gas as a feedstock were substantially lower than the aforementioned pure methane yields; (3) due to the substantial price difference between pure methane and natural gas, pure methane was not a commercially viable feedstock; (4) the Company’s financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 were false and could not be relied upon; (5) the Company had material weaknesses in its internal controls over financial reporting; (6) the Company was under investigation by the SEC since October 2018; and (7) as a result of the foregoing, defendants’ public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.

Zhang Investor Law represents investors worldwide. Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

Zhang Investor Law P.C.
99 Wall Street, Suite 232
New York, New York 10005
[email protected]
tel: (800) 991-3756

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zhang Investor Law announces a class action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders who bought shares of Cardone Equity Fund V, LLC and/or Cardone Equity Fund VI, LLC pursuant to their public offerings. The lawsuit seeks to recover investor losses under the federal securities laws.

To join the class action, go to http://zhanginvestorlaw.com/join-action-form/?slug=cardone-capital-llc&id=2431 or call Sophie Zhang, Esq. toll-free at 800-991-3756 or email [email protected] for information on the class action.

如果您想加入这个集体诉讼案，请在这里提交您的信息。http://zhanginvestorlaw.com/join-action-form/?slug=cardone-capital-llc&id=2431

If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court before the November 20, 2020 DEADLINE.   A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. 

According to the lawsuit, defendants made materially false and misleading statements and omissions of material fact regarding, among other things, investors’ expected rates of return on their investment. The lawsuit seeks, among other things, an award of rescission or rescissory damages and prejudgment interest under the federal securities laws.

Lead plaintiff status is not required to seek compensation.  You may retain counsel of your choice.  You may remain an absent class member and take no action at this time.

Zhang Investor Law represents investors worldwide. Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

Zhang Investor Law P.C.
99 Wall Street, Suite 232
New York, New York 10005
[email protected]
tel: (800) 991-3756

Washington, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new study published today by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) finds that data and culture gaps are obstacles architects are facing in fighting climate change.

The report, Sustainability in the Architect’s Journey to Specification, identified a number of common obstacles that could be improved by the building products industry to help architects support climate action, including:

• Supplying useful, timely, and accurate product information and data. 
• Reducing barriers—primarily high costs–to products to increase adoption of sustainable products, especially as clients are increasingly concerned about sustainability being too cost-conscious in the short term. 

In other findings, nearly all architects said third-party testing or certification is crucial for new product adoption. Architects also indicated that continuing education from building product companies is the most convenient way to learn about new products and innovations. 

“Architects are increasingly motivated to commit to climate action and evolve the built environment,” said 2020 AIA President Jane Frederick, FAIA. “Our members have an important role to play, but they cannot do it alone. Everyone in the design and building product industry must do their part, and that means more than just making materials that contribute to sustainability. Informed product and material knowledge is essential, if we are going to succeed. Committing to innovation is essential.”
 
Sustainability in the Architect’s Journey to Specification is available on AIA’s website.