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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The following shareholders have been identified as the three largest shareholders as of 2020-09-30 who are willing to be part of the Nomination Committee and they have appointed the following members:

Nortal Investments AB: Fredrik Persson

Marcel Warntjes: Marcel Warntjes

Swedbank Robur: Joachim Spetz

In total, the Nomination Committee represents approx. 45 percent of the total number of shares and votes in the company. Fredrik Persson and Joachim Spetz are independent in relation to the company and its executive management. Marcel Warntjes and Joachim Spetz are independent in relation to Nortal Investments AB, which is the largest shareholder in the company in terms of votes.

The Committee’s assignment is to present to the Annual General Meeting proposals regarding Chairman and other members of the board as well as remuneration to the Board ́s members. The Nomination Committee shall also submit proposals for appointment and remuneration of financial auditors. Further, the Committee shall submit proposals to the process to appoint the Nomination Committee for the AGM in 2022.

Shareholders who wish to submit proposals to the Nomination Committee can do so by email to chairman of the board: [email protected]

CONTACT:

For further information, please contact chairman of the board Johan Sedihn, [email protected], tel + 44 7920 154333

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NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Purcell Julie & Lefkowitz LLP, a class action law firm dedicated to representing shareholders nationwide, is investigating a potential breach of fiduciary duty claim involving the board of directors of Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI).

If you are a shareholder of Vuzix Corporation and are interested in obtaining additional information regarding this investigation, free of charge, please visit us at:

http://pjlfirm.com/vuzix-corporation/  

You may also contact Robert H. Lefkowitz, Esq. either via email at [email protected] or by telephone at 212-725-1000.  One of our attorneys will personally speak with you about the case at no cost or obligation.

Purcell Julie & Lefkowitz LLP is a law firm exclusively committed to representing shareholders nationwide who are victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty and other types of corporate misconduct. For more information about the firm and its attorneys, please visit https://pjlfirm.com.   Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. 

 

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TORONTO, Nov. 12, 2020 /CNW/ – Robert Eadie, President & CEO, Starcore International Mines Ltd. (TSX: SAM), shares his company’s story in an interview with TMX Group.

The C-Suite at The Open video interview series highlights the unique perspectives of listed companies on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange.  Videos provide insight into how company executives think in the current business environment.  To see the latest C-Suite at The Open videos visit https://www.tmxmoney.com/en/csuite.html.

About Starcore International Mines Ltd. (TSX: SAM)

Starcore International Mines Ltd. is into the business of exploration, development, and production of minerals. It has got products in various stages The San Martin being the primary source of operating cash flows. In Mexico, the business holds an interest in the silver and gold processing plant. Some of its projects include San Martin, El Creston and Toiyabe among others. Majority of the organization’s revenue comes from Bernal, Mexico. For more information visit: https://www.starcore.com/ 

About TMX Group (TSX: X)

TMX Group’s key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities and fixed income. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montréal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, Trayport and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, technology solutions, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across North America (Montréal, Calgary, Vancouver and New York), as well as in key international markets including London, Beijing and Singapore. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on Twitter: @TMXGroup.

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JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Consumers Energy Foundation and Jackson YMCA today announced they have achieved a $6 million challenge for the YMCA’s campaign to build a new building – overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic to meet the milestone in only 10 months.

A $200,000 donation from Jackson business owner Ric Walton of the Walton Insurance Group has pushed the YMCA’s campaign fundraising since January to $3 million. That qualifies the YMCA for a full $3 million matching pledge the Consumers Energy Foundation made at the time, the largest in the Foundation’s history.

“We are proud to serve a world-class hometown every day, so we’re not surprised Jackson has shown a world-class response to this once-in-a-generation opportunity,” said Patti Poppe, Consumers Energy’s president and CEO. “We are excited to see the YMCA move closer to a new building that will transform our community.”

The Jackson YMCA continues to progress in its fundraising to replace its nearly 60-year-old building. A contemporary new downtown facility will enable the 124-year-old nonprofit organization to enhance existing programs, develop new offerings and expand services. The Y’s campaign has raised close to $20 million.

“The YMCA does so much for kids and families. For kids who are less fortunate, the Y gives them a glimpse of another world, of what they could be and do. The Y gives kids hope,” Walton said. “A new Y is very important to downtown. It will be an anchor and a catalyst, drawing people downtown and bringing us all together.”

“I continue to be overwhelmed by the generosity of Jackson. The challenge posed by the Consumers grant has helped keep the Y’s capital campaign alive in the community’s heart and mind this year,” said Shawna Tello, Jackson YMCA chief executive officer. “Raising $6 million is amazing in any one year. With all that is going on, to raise those funds this year speaks to the vision our donors have for Jackson and the role they believe the Y can play in bringing our shared vision to life.”

The Consumers Energy Foundation is Consumers Energy’s charitable arm. The Foundation supports community efforts across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, ensuring that residents have access to world-class cultural, natural and educational resources.

In 2019, the Consumers Energy Foundation, Consumers Energy, its employees and retirees contributed more than $11.5 million to Michigan nonprofits. For more information, visit www.ConsumersEnergy.com/foundation.

Since 1896, the Jackson YMCA has worked to provide opportunities for individuals of all walks of life. The Y serves men and women of all ages, religions and economic backgrounds through programs focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The Jackson YMCA moved into its current facility in 1962 and has undergone numerous renovations since that time. Visit www.JacksonYMCA.org to learn more.

Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest energy provider, is the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS), providing natural gas and/or electricity to 6.7 million of the state’s 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.

For more information about Consumers Energy,
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Roughly 300 million children have been without school meals and are at risk of hunger since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food banks are working to prevent the health crisis from becoming a hunger crisis, but their resources can only go so far. Lisa Moon, CEO of The Global FoodBanking Network and Stephanie Slingerland, Kellogg Company Sr. Director of Philanthropy and Social Impact share how school-based feeding programs can help fill that feeding gap.

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By: Lisa Moon, CEO of The Global FoodBanking Network and Stephanie Slingerland, Kellogg Company Sr. Director of Philanthropy and Social Impact

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) recently release Healthy Nations Start with Healthy Children – A View from the Field¹. Commissioned in 2019, the study evaluated just how much GFN’s member food banks help their communities. According to the study, food banks in 30 countries serve an estimated 3.49 million school-age children. Even before COVID, an estimated 73 million vulnerable children were not being reached with food at school. That number has no doubt risen – and will continue to rise without urgent action by government, the private sector, and civil society.

Without intervention, childhood hunger can have devastating effects, like damaging a child’s physical and cognitive development with consequences that may last a lifetime if not addressed. This not only threatens a child’s future, but also harms families, communities, and nations’ economic growth. The study’s results prove that school-based feeding programs are among the most cost-effective means of addressing child hunger.

Programs Needed to Drive Greater Impact

Kellogg has been a founding partner of GFN, which has a shared mission of helping to end childhood hunger. GFN food banks serve as a lifeline for children. The food banks provide school breakfasts, school lunches, backpacks or weekend take-home rations, summer or holiday food rations, and nutrition monitoring and education.  More programs like these are essential to avoid an even greater hunger crisis. We must take action now in two main ways:

• Strengthen government social support systems through school meals. The public and private sectors should make critical investments in school-based feeding programs as a means of promoting a society’s educational, employment and economic success.
• Strengthen the role of food banks and other private-sector actors. Food banks can support the ongoing development of food aid to vulnerable populations and can help secure public investments in social protection, health, education and economic development.

There’s an urgent need to act now. Many models for successful school-based programs exist and, when scaled, the potential to quickly and efficiently reach vulnerable children is huge.

For example, since 2013, FoodForward South Africa (FFSA) has partnered with Kellogg’s South Africa to provide breakfast for thousands of children each school day. In 2019, FFSA distributed breakfast to primary and secondary schools in areas of high poverty and unemployment in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, and Port Elizabeth, serving 30,035 students daily.

Established in 2001 with 17 schools, Foodbank Western Australia developed the first School Breakfast Program run by a food bank in the GFN Network. By 2019, 490 schools participated in the program. The program directly reached over 21,500 children, serving more than 69,900 breakfasts each week.

We Must Act Now

These are real examples of why we believe governments, and food and beverage companies – including manufacturers and retailers – can be instrumental to providing healthy surplus food to food banks. Governments can also sponsor policies that encourage food donations, which would engage the private sector to support government programs and invest in school meals. We understand these entities have a lot on their plates right now. But millions of kids do not. We must act now. Please help us help more kids by donating to The Global FoodBanking Network.

About Kellogg Company
At Kellogg Company (NYSE: K), we strive to enrich and delight the world through foods and brands that matter. Our beloved brands include Pringles®, Cheez-It®, Special K®, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes®, Pop-Tarts®, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes®, Rice Krispies®, Eggo®, Mini-Wheats®, Kashi®, RXBAR®, MorningStar Farms® and more. Net sales in 2019 were approximately $13.6 billion, comprised principally of snacks and convenience foods like cereal and frozen foods. Kellogg brands are beloved in markets around the world. We are also a company with Heart & Soul, committed to creating Better Days for 3 billion people by the end of 2030 through our Kellogg’s® Better Days global purpose platform. Visit www.KelloggCompany.com or www.OpenforBreakfast.com.

¹ Kellogg Company Fund is a sponsor of the Healthy Nations Start with Healthy Children – A View from the Field study.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

• FICO announces panel of independent industry judges for 2021 awards.
• Entries for the FICO® Decisions Awards are due December 4, 2020
• The eight award categories are AI and Machine Learning, Cloud Deployment, Customer Onboarding and Management, Debt Management, Fraud & Security, Decision Management Innovation, Financial Inclusion and Regulatory Compliance.
• Entry form and information are at www.fico.com/decisionsawards

FICO has announced its panel of independent judges for the 2021 FICO® Decisions Awards which honor clients achieving outstanding results using analytics and decision management technology to grow their business, manage risk and reduce costs.

The bench of eight global industry experts bring a variety of views and knowledge to the table along with deep industry expertise. They will evaluate nominations based upon measurable improvement in key metrics; demonstrated use of best practices; project scale, depth and breadth; and innovative uses of technology.

For more information and to enter a nomination, visit www.fico.com/decisionsawards

This year our judges, in alphabetical order, are:

• Prasanna Dhoré, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Equifax
  Prasanna is responsible for developing the strategic vision that leads Equifax through the chaotic world of Big Data. He has over 30 years’ experience working in senior roles across the technology, financial services and publishing industries and has a passion for using technology and pioneering approaches to drive outstanding business growth and customer retention. Prasanna’s business achievements have been featured in numerous media outlets such as Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
• 
  David Dittman, vice president, Data & Analytics (previous winner)
  With more than 20 years of experience at P&G, David’s career has focused on leveraging analytics across P&G’s marketing, product supply and sales organizations. His organizations have been recognized with numerous industry awards. David is a frequent industry speaker and is passionate about using data and analytics to make unconventional connections across all aspects of business. In 2018, he was recognized as an “Analytics Visionary” by Consumer Goods Technology.
• René Javier Guzmán, market & liquidity risks director at Banreservas (previous winner)
  
  René is a banking and regulation professional with a decade of experience and a special interest in risk modeling, measurement and management. René is currently responsible for the market and liquidity risks teams and the risk modeling team, overseeing credit, market and liquidity models, contributing to policy design and governance at Banreservas; the largest bank in the Dominican Republic and one of the largest in the region.
• 
  Tomas Klinger, decision science and data director at Home Credit (previous winner)
  
  Tomas is a hands-on data science and big data leader with international experience in the financial services industry. He is currently responsible for decisions science and data integration for Home Credit’s China business where he focuses on research, development and implementation predictive models, sourcing and testing of data and general risk analytics. Tomas has also been overseeing the risk decision systems and analytical infrastructure. In the past he worked for KBC Group as a founding member of big data, advanced analytics and AI competence center.
• Marcel Le Gouais, managing editor at Credit Strategy
  Marcel has been working as an editor in financial media publications since 2007. From 2007 he has specialized in financial services and consumer credit. Marcel has written for a wide variety of business and consumer publications including: MoneySavingExpert.com – the UK’s largest consumer website, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, FT Adviser and Raconteur.net
• 
  Tiffani Montez, analyst at Aite
  
  Tiffani Montez is a retail banking senior analyst at Aite Group covering digital channel interactions, marketing analytics, artificial intelligence, conversational banking, and financial wellness. She has more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning, strategic execution, and consumer experience design in roles at Terafina, Wells Fargo and Forrester Research.
• 
  Lisa Morgan, journalist & analyst at InformationWeek
  
  Lisa Morgan is a seasoned journalist, industry analyst, and content strategist who focuses on the business impact of emerging technologies. Her insights are frequently quoted verbatim as the launching point for intellectual discourse about what businesses and IT departments should be doing in the age of AI, cloud, digital, and hyper-competitiveness. In addition, Lisa is an Executive Committee member of the IEEE’s Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.
• 
  Ignazio Provinzano, Head of Risk Operations at Swisscard (previous winner)
  Ignazio is currently responsible for a team of over 100 employees in the Risk Operation Department at Swisscard, a leading credit card company in Switzerland. Ignazio oversees authorizations, fraud prevention, cardholder disputes, credit collections, solvency/underwriting and operational Compliance & Risk Administration at the lender and has a keen interest in collections optimization technology.

Awards will be presented in eight categories: AI and Machine Learning, Cloud Deployment, Customer Onboarding and Management, Debt Management, Fraud & Security, Decision Management Innovation, Financial Inclusion and Regulatory Compliance. Nominations are due December 4, 2020, and winners will be announced January 22, 2021.

Winners will receive recognition at FICO® World, which will be held in November 2021. Winning implementations will be featured in conference activities, and two representatives of each winning company will receive complimentary conference passes.

“We have some fantastic industry experts on board this year to help judge the awards,” said Nikhil Behl, chief marketing officer at FICO. “The caliber of people on the panel, with over 150 years of experience between them, means we can expect a very thorough and diverse analysis of the submissions. We thank the judges for their time and attention as well as the independence and objectivity they bring to selecting the most impressive projects for 2021.”

Last year’s winning firms were Bank of America and Grupo Fleury (AI, Machine Learning and Optimization); ACT and Vodafone UK and SA Taxi (Cloud Deployment); Banreservas (Customer Onboarding & Management); Swisscard AECS GmbH (Debt Management); Procter & Gamble (Decision Management Innovation); Home Credit China (Financial Inclusion); PULSE, A Discover Company (Fraud Control); and BNSF (Regulatory Compliance).

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 195 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.

Learn more at http://www.fico.com.

Join the conversation at https://twitter.com/fico & http://www.fico.com/en/blogs/

For FICO news and media resources, visit www.fico.com/news.

FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

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