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Curated to showcase Rankin’s work and vision in its purest form, the works on display are not the conspicuously clean shots of social media or advertising, rather an exploration of personality, performance and, in many cases, natural imperfection.

Rankin says: “This exhibition is a fresh realisation with my fascination with life and death, and the real vs. the unreal. These are themes which have fascinated me most throughout my career.

As I get older, all these ideas become more intertwined in my imagination. They are not mutually exclusive to me, and I am able to find one within another.

To showcase my new floral works alongside archival beauty and portraiture is to draw a line in theme and intent. I always strive to find the reality in beauty. The real person behind any image I take. This is the purest my photography can be.”

Rankin co-founded the seminal magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1991 and has since published the likes of AnOther and AnOther Man, alongside over 40 books and the biannual fashion, culture and lifestyle print and digital platform, Hunger.

His photography has been published everywhere from his own publications to Elle, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Wonderland, and exhibited in galleries around the world, including MoMA, New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
He lives in London with his wife Tuuli and their dogs.

Exhibition PURE: RANKIN, In The Pink, Gallery for Fine Photo Art

24th of June 2023
Tuesday to Friday, from 11am to 7pm, and Saturdays, from 10am to 2pm

Praça da República 69-75, 8100-270 Loulé

For further information or requests for images with resolution, please contact:

IN THE PINK
Pedro Vasconi & Patrícia Oliveira
press@in-the-pink.com
+351 289 462 320

RANKIN
Ellen Stone
ellens@rankin.co.uk
+447 535 172 511

Full press image list available upon request. Exclusive interviews with Rankin are also available by contacting Ellen Stone.

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Pour Moi, a brand that spreads positivity, empowerment and encourages people to be themselves, collaborates with the embodiment of girl power itself: Mel B.

The Own Your Confidence campaign is dedicated to women celebrating women. Mel B and Pour Moi join forces with the shared belief that everybody deserves to feel confident no matter what shape, size or skin tone they may be.

Supporting women is at the core of everything Pour Moi does. Michael Thomson CEO and founder of Pour Moi says “We believe that everybody should feel confident and empowered to be unapologetically themselves. That’s why we couldn’t resist sharing this journey with Mel B. Charismatic, confident and a true inspiration to many women, Mel B embodies everything our Own Your Confidence campaign stands for. It was a no brainer to have her, and her family help us spread the feel your fabulous vibes!” Introducing ‘Mel B’ AKA ‘Scary Spice’, her daughter Phoenix Brown and mother Andrea Brown, the multi-generational Brown family are here to show you how to feel confident, comfortable and fabulous in whatever you’re wearing.

Mel B, along with Pour Moi, hand-selected a range of fabulous products across lingerie, swim and beachwear that will make you feel your most confident self. Mel B’s favourite confidence boosting pieces include the Paradiso, Cali, and Casablanca swimwear lines, alongside Pour Moi’s Constance, Logo and India Eyelash lingerie sets and showstopping Leopard Couture Padded Bustier, which emulates Mel’s Iconic Scary Spice look.

Speaking of the campaign, Mel B says “I love that Pour Moi’s philosophy is about feeling fabulous, feeling confident and celebrating women of all shapes, sizes and ages. It’s about being real, not being edited and not taking ourselves too seriously. I love that it was a collaborative experience – it was my idea to include my mum and my daughter at the shoot and we had so much fun!” I love their lingerie and swimwear and how it makes me feel. It means a lot to me that Pour Moi are making a donation to Women’s Aid to support the campaign.”

As part of the campaign Pour Moi and Mel B both agreed on no airbrushing on all campaign imagery. Pour Moi are also making a donation to Women’s Aid, of which Mel B and her daughter Phoenix are proud patrons.

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Credit details:
Own Your Confidence with Pour Moi’s lingerie, swimwear and beachwear. To shop Mel's favourite confidence boosting pieces head to https://www.pourmoi.co.uk/own-your-confidence

PHOTO CREDIT for all Images: Jay Mawson for Pour Moi

About Pour Moi:
Pour Moi champions inclusivity with sizing from A-J Cup, believing that every body deserves to feel confident and sexy in their own skin, no matter their age, size or shape. All Pour Moi’s products are designed with every body in mind, ensuring they are confident and supported, knowing they have found the perfect fit.

For further information, high-res images or samples, please contact Brandnation helena@brandnation.co.uk / +44 (0) 207 940 7185, lola@brandnation.co.uk / +44 (0) 207 940 7183, polina@brandnation.co.uk /+44 (0) 207 940 71812

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ROCHESTER, NY (USA), LEUVEN (BELGIUM) - May 30, 2023 – Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, and Materialise NV (NASDAQ: MTLS), a 3D printing pioneer, have announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the design and production of smart eyewear using 3D printing technology. By integrating 3D printing into the manufacturing process, Vuzix and Materialise aim to accelerate the development of new innovations for enterprise applications, from warehouses to operating rooms. Moreover, the collaboration will enable third party technology, sports, and entertainment brands to rapidly introduce functional, fashionable and affordable smart eyewear to consumers, reducing the average manufacturing cycle from 18 months to just 3.

Vuzix, an optical technology company specializing in the design, manufacturing, and sale of optical components and smart glasses, utilizes augmented reality (AR) to deliver a perfect balance of engagement between the digital and the real world. By collaborating with Materialise, a 3D printing pioneer with over three decades of experience, Vuzix gains access to the full potential of 3D printing to support companies in offering an exciting new series of smart eyewear.

Augmented reality enhances user effectiveness in various industries by connecting them to key information in a digital world while staying hands-free and completely aware of the physical environment. Medical professionals rely on smart eyewear to access remote expertise during lengthy surgeries, while manufacturing and logistics companies utilize AR features to drive efficiency and reduce operational errors. Leveraging the flexibility of 3D printing in smart eyewear production can significantly reduce design cycles, enabling a more agile response to the fast-paced introduction of technological advancements.

While smart eyewear has transformed the workplace, consumer adoption has been limited due to the lack of compelling consumer applications and the lack of fashionable and affordable designs. Vuzix and Materialise aim to address these challenges by creating exciting and innovative designs that cater to companies seeking to introduce fashionable and affordable smart eyewear to consumers.

Exciting consumer applications of smart eyewear include on-screen displays of speed and heart rate for athletes, push notifications and navigation, speech-to-text translation, and augmented reality gaming. Many companies in the technology, fashion, entertainment, and sports sectors today lack the manufacturing expertise to bring these innovative applications to life, and on a timely basis. The collaboration between Vuzix and Materialise provides these third-party OEM companies with a flexible platform for producing smart eyewear with creative designs, rapid prototyping services, and fast and flexible production of small series.

Materialise runs one of the largest 3D printing factories in the world and is the largest manufacturer of 3D-printed eyewear. 3D printing holds multiple advantages for eyewear production with manufacturers increasingly turning to 3D printing for its unique design capabilities and its fast and flexible production process. It offers virtually unlimited freedom of design, allowing designers to create innovative shapes that are cost-prohibitive or impossible with traditional manufacturing technologies. Additionally, 3D printing drastically reduces time-to-market, enabling the transition from initial design to finished product in less than 3 months, compared to the eyewear industry's typical 18-month design-to-shipment cycle.

“With its speed and flexibility, Materialise’s dedicated 3D printing factory for eyewear offers eyewear brands a competitive edge by allowing them to drastically reduce their time-to-market while meeting customers’ aesthetic requirements,” says Fried Vancraen, CEO of Materialise. “We believe that collaboration with Vuzix will bring new innovations to industrial smart eyewear and accelerate consumer adoption of smart eyewear.”

“As our OEM solutions ramp up in support of defense, consumer, and other markets, our manufacturing capabilities need to match pace for scalability, production speed and above all quality,” said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix. “Materialise offers several key advantages that align with our strategic outlook. We look forward to seeing what’s possible together.”

About Materialise

Materialise incorporates more than three decades of 3D printing experience into a range of software solutions and 3D printing services that empower sustainable 3D printing applications. Our open, secure, and flexible end-to-end solutions enable flexible industrial manufacturing and mass personalization in various industries — including healthcare, automotive, aerospace, eyewear, art and design, wearables, and consumer goods. Headquartered in Belgium and with branches worldwide, Materialise combines the largest group of software developers in the industry with one of the world's largest and most complete 3D printing facilities. For additional information, please visit www.materialise.com

About Vuzix Corporation

Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the enterprise, medical, defense and consumer markets. The Company’s products include head-mounted smart personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality, as well OEM waveguide optical components and display engines. Vuzix holds more than 300 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the fields of optics, head-mounted displays, and augmented reality Video Eyewear field. Moviynt, an SAP Certified ERP SaaS logistics solution provider, is a Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2023 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in: Rochester, NY; Oxford, UK; Munich, Germany; and Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit the Vuzix website, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer

Certain statements contained in this news release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements contained in this release relate to Vuzix Smart Glasses, our evolving potential business relationship and collaboration with Materialise, and future business opportunities and among other things the Company's leadership in the Smart Glasses and AR display industry. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.

Materialise press contact:

Materialise
Kristof Sehmke
Email: Kristof.sehmke@materialise.be
Or press@materialise.com
Twitter: @MaterialiseNV
Visit: www.materialise.com

Vuzix Media and Investor Relations Contact:

Ed McGregor, Director of Investor Relations
Vuzix Corporation
ed_mcgregor@vuzix.com
Tel: (585) 359-5985

Vuzix Corporation, 25 Hendrix Road, West Henrietta, NY 14586 USA,
Investor Information – IR@vuzix.com www.vuzix.com

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From the 18th to the 20th of May in the Wolverhampton showroom and 25th to the 27th of May in Harborne, Rudell The Jewellers will have the privilege of being the first UK retailer to showcase the amazing pieces.

Rudell The Jewellers, located in the heart of the West Midlands is home to Chopard as well as other prestigious brands including Patek Philippe, Rolex, Tudor, OMEGA, IWC, Grand Seiko, Longines, Fope, Roberto Coin, Mikimoto, George Jensen, Antonini, Mont Blanc and Lalique.

A brand synonymous with luxury, Chopard have been astonishing the world with their creations for over 100 years. Founded by the watchmaker Louis-Ulysse Chopard in 1860 Switzerland, the brand has evolved from watch manufacture into one of the leading names in the luxury watch and jewellery industry. Renowned for creativity and state-of-the-art technology, it is a reliable brand with a reputation for fine quality.

With a wide variety of new jewellery and watches, there will be something for everyone amongst the creations available to view. One example includes the timeless and classic Happy Sports watch with a 25mm case in Lucent Steel. A watch with the perfect blend of sport and elegance, ideal for an everyday look. For those after something a little sportier, Chopard has the answer with the Mille Migla Classic – celebrating speed and style while capturing Chopard’s sportive spirit of a race.

Alongside the remarkable watches, Chopard will also be showcasing their jewellery novelties such as new additions to the beloved Happy Hearts collection with a beautiful pendant selection set in precious natural stone. The Happy Hearts collection makes for a perfect loving gift for any occasion and with a choice of pendants and bangles, it can be mixed and matched to suit an individual style. The same can be said of the new creations from the Ice Cube collection with an urban elegance embodied by modern cubes of 18ct ethical gold. With pendants, bangles, rings and earrings, the Ice Cube collection enhances any style.

From ice cold chic to sultry sophistication comes Chopard Happy Diamonds Planet collection, crafted in ethical gold and adorned with natural stones of various colours for a multitude of styles. Caroline Scheufele, Artistic Director and Co-President of the Maison, has chosen minerals symbolising nature and life to adorn Happy Diamonds Planet jewellery. It is a collection which pays tribute to the Earth, as well as to the environment that Chopard has consistently sought to preserve.

“Be amongst the first to experience this unique event. Chopard’s creativity and innovation can be seen in each of the stunning pieces that will be available to view,” says Rudells’ Chopard ambassador, Paulina Jaworska.

Clients can view the new collections by appointment only in the Wolverhampton and Harborne showrooms.

To book your place please contact lisa@rudells.com

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Notes to Editors
For further information, please contact:
Paulina Jaworska - Social Media Executive
Rudell the Jewellers
Phone: 01902 423308
Email: marketing@rudells.com
City Centre, 97 Darlington St, Wolverhampton WV1 4HB
www.rudells.com

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The couple founded the business in 2000 after spotting a gap in the market for a UK made reusable nappy. They grew it from a kitchen table, work-at-home business to becoming a leading cloth nappy brand, exporting nappies all over the world and employing 55 staff in their factory in Glasgow. With over 20 years of experience, TotsBots now boasts a high-quality, eco-friendly range of nappies made from sustainable materials, including bamboo and recycled plastic waste. The company has also expanded its offering to include reusable period wear brand NORA.

In 2020, TotsBots was acquired by True Global, a company that invests in sustainable and purpose-driven businesses. As part of this acquisition, TotsBots joined forces with Frugi Organic Childrenswear, which was already a part of the True Global portfolio, to form a group of companies with shared values and goals. Magnus and Fiona Smyth stayed on as consultants to continue to provide TotsBots with their experience and expertise.

The excitement was short lived as a few months after the sale, COVID hit the UK and Brexit took hold. Three very difficult trading years followed culminating in Frugi going into administration in November 2022. Frugi was purchased by Celtic & Co in a pre-pack deal to save the brand, and the couple began plans to purchase TotsBots back from True Global - the buy-back deal was concluded on the 16th March; returning it safely into their family fold after three years away.

The couple's key focus will be on reversing some of the previous decisions made while under group management, primarily bringing all production back into the UK, focusing on introducing new and innovative products and injecting a bit of cheeky sparkle back into the heart of TotsBots.

"We are delighted that we can bring the TotsBots brand back into our family," said Magnus and Fiona Smyth. "Our focus now is to get back to the roots of the brand and we are especially excited to be bringing all our production back home; the decision to start offshore production wasn’t something we were particularly happy with, but it wasn’t our baby anymore and we had to let it go. We are really loving getting back into New Product Development and have some very exciting things in the 2024 pipeline. We are also looking forward to growing our NORA reusable period wear brand which launched last year. It’s definitely not where we expected to be, but we are very happy to be here as things could have turned out so differently. It’s great to have TotsBots back!”

With TotsBots' return to Scottish ownership comes an exciting new chapter for one of the UK’s most loved reusable nappy brands. As Magnus and Fiona embark on this new journey together, they look forward to creating innovative products that make parenting easier - all while reducing waste from single use nappies! Their renewed passion for providing eco-friendly alternatives to single use products and their experience running two successful brands over 20 years, will ensure that it will be another success story for the couple - enabling them to continue on their mission to prove that small changes can make a mighty difference, for all of us!

Stockists: www.totsbots.com

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Notes to Editors:

Please contact adeline.scott@totsbots.com for supporting images and further information (Tel: 0141 774 6437)
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hello@totsbots.com

Fiona and Magnus Smyth set up TotsBots at the kitchen table in 2000 after the birth of their baby girl, Maia. Appalled at the waste created by disposable nappies, they spotted a gap in the market for a UK made eco-friendly cloth nappy. With the aim to make a positive difference to the world by enabling parents to reduce their plastic consumption and waste, they designed their own nappies and TotsBots were born. The original products were made from simple cotton toweling, but fast-forward to today and their revolutionary and award- winning nappy designs are now made using recycled plastic bottles and eco-friendly bamboo fabrics. Not content with tempting parents away from disposable nappies, TotsBots also design and manufacture reusable sanitary pad brand Nora, helping people to have plastic-free periods too.

They are suppliers to the Scottish Baby Box (TotsBots) via PHS, and also to the DfE Period poverty scheme (NORA) and Excel (NORA)providing free period products to all local authority education establishments helping to put an end to period poverty throughout the UK.

The majority TotsBots & Nora products are made using Oekotex-certified fabrics and are manufactured in their factory in the East End of Glasgow.

Employees: 55

Background information

TOTSBOTS - Why Parents choose cloth:

They perform better than disposables

They save money - disposable nappies cost up to £1800 per child. Reusables will cost £150 to £350 depending on the brand and system chosen. They will last until potty training and can often be used for more than one child.

They divert waste - 5000 nappies thrown away per child amounts to 2 tonnes of waste per child.

They reduce raw material consumption by over 98% - Reusables will use around 2.5KG of reusable nappies whilst disposables will use around 150KG per child. (NB soiled nappies are much heavier than unused disposables)

They don't contain chemical gels, perfumes or known irritants, often found in disposables

They are much easier to use and wash compared to the nappies of days gone by.

They are much more attractive than throwaways; cloth nappy fans are known to proudly show their stash shots on instagram, inspiring other parents to make the switch.

Children potty train sooner in reusables.

TOTSBOTS - Some Facts & Stats

It is estimated that 2 in 10 parents are now using cloth. This has increased from 6%, 3 years ago. It is anticipated this figure will continue to grow.

8 million nappies are thrown away every day to landfill, that’s 3 billion per year

Disposable nappies take 500 years to degrade.

Landfill is running out in the UK so this waste will soon have to be incinerated releasing toxins and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

Including the energy to wash, reusable nappies are 25% better for the environment than disposables and eco disposables and use 98% percent less raw materials

Eco disposables are not the answer, they use the same amount of energy and raw materials to produce as disposables and what’s worse is they don’t actually biodegrade in landfill. Very little biodegrades in landfill as it is so tightly compressed there is no air and they end up preserving waste. Landfill sites are only designed to store waste not break it down. What little does break down releases methane, further contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

NORA - Why people choose reusable period wear:

They perform better than disposables, more absorbent and much more comfortable.

They save money - Reusables will cost £50 depending on the brand and system chosen, compared to £500 in disposables.

They will last for up to 10 years

They divert plastic waste from landfill.

They reduce raw material consumption by over 98%

They don't contain chemical gels, perfumes or known irritants, often found in disposables

They are much more attractive than throwaways

NORA – Some facts and stats (source Womens’ Environemental Network)

Women use more than 11,000 disposable menstrual products in their lifetime - based on average of 38 years of menstruation using 22 items of sanitary products per cycle, 13 cycles per year. 1

Statista estimated that in 2016, an estimated 1.8 million women (aged 15+) in the UK used 25 or more menstrual towels a month.

Average menstrual flow is around 85g per cycle. Barely enough to fill a small teacup. Most women and people who menstruate will do so for on average of 38 years and have approx. 500 periods in their lifetime.

The average of commencement for menstruation is 12 yrs old, although it can be as early as 8 for some girls and people who menstruate. 3

There are around 18 million women of menstruating age in the UK.

Disposal of single use menstrual products - tampons, pads and applicators generates 200,000 tonnes of waste per year.

NORA - Environmental impact by the numbers

Most menstrual pads are made from 90% plastic.

Plastic products can take up to a thousand years to decompose in landfills or in the ocean.

Half of UK women flush tampons away. It has been estimated that 1.5-2 billion menstrual items are flushed down Britain’s toilets each year.

There are approximately 370,000 sewer blockages throughout the UK every year, of which up to 80% are caused by fats, oils and grease, wipes, sanitary waste and other unflushable items.

As many as 51 trillion microplastic particles - 500 times more than the stars in our galaxy —litter our oceans and seas, seriously threatening marine wildlife.

Microplastics can be twice as harmful leaching toxic additives into the ocean while they break down while also acting like a sponge absorbing other harmful chemicals from the sea water onto their surface. This makes them a very toxic morsel for fish, sea mammals and the humans that eat them.

Plastic waste kills up to 1 million seabirds, 100,000 sea mammals, marine turtles and countless fish each year. Plastic remains in our ecosystem for years, harming thousands of sea creatures every day.

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The family-run firm of fourth generation growers has been working hard researching and trialing peat free alternatives for the last two and a half years. They have now developed a carefully balanced blend of potting soil packed with sustainable ingredients to provide optimum growing conditions, allowing plants to flourish and thrive without compromising the environment.

Co-owner of The Little Botanical, Morag Hill comments: “We are responsible, as growers and plant producers, to protect our natural environment. Our move to peat free growing is challenging, but exciting and we hope to lead the way for other growers to follow.

With our breadth of growing experience, we are thrilled to be able to launch our first 100% peat free range of indoor plants, that still continue to be high-quality, healthy and long-lasting while reducing our carbon footprint.

We want to be part of the change towards a more environmentally friendly houseplant industry and with education at our heart, we are passionate about supporting customers in making informed, greener choices and offering sustainable alternatives wherever possible.”

As the UK government continues with their recent pledge to remove all peat compost from sales to amateur horticulturalists and gardeners in the coming years, The Little Botanical are now planting or rooting all of their plants in peat free compost at their nurseries in West Sussex, which accounts for over 70% of their current range. They are also working closely with their specialist growers in the continent to help them transition to 100% peat free.

The new range, which is available from this spring, is not only a powerful step towards The Little Botanical’s sustainability goals but is also an important response to the growing demand for peat alternatives from consumers who are increasingly striving towards a greener home and lifestyle.

Why is peat bad for the environment?

As a finite, naturally occurring resource, peatlands, bogs and moors have developed over thousands of years from decaying compressed vegetation throughout Europe. It is a unique ecosystem covering 3.7 million square kilometers and works as an efficient and effective carbon sink. Since 1990 the removal of peat has released over 31 million tons of carbon dioxide, one of the direct links to climate change. Home to a rich diversity of plant and wildlife, the UK’s already vastly depleted native species can not afford to lose any further habitats.

Morag adds: “By choosing peat free houseplants by The Little Botanical, customers can feel confident that they are making an eco-friendly choice that also supports local growers.”

The peat free range includes Calathea, Ferns, Devil's Ivy, Yucca, Begonia, Monstera and Dracaena, all of which come in The Little Botanical's signature stylish ceramic pots, plant stands and belly baskets. Prices start from £9.50.

To shop the peat free range click here - https://thelittlebotanical.com/peat-free-houseplants

NOTES TO EDITORS

References:
Government peat free pledge
Why is peat so important

ABOUT THE LITTLE BOTANICAL
Established in November 2017, The Little Botanical is a family-run business that combines their expertise in horticulture with stylish and contemporary design flair to create a versatile and high-end collection of indoor plants. Available to buy online via www.thelittlebotanical.co.uk and in a range of UK retail outlets.

The brand takes the hassle out of home styling, providing carefully curated pots with every plant to create a collection that will work across any space. In addition, 70% of its plants are grown on their nursery in West Sussex, which sets the company aside from its competitors.

For further information, please contact:
Rachel Soothill, BrightWord PR, Rachel@brightword.co.uk, 07974108796

Samples available on request.

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- Why We Love Wilton Eco Laundry Capsules

· Packed with Essential Oils
· Great for Cool Washes
· No Nasty Chemicals
· Plastic Free Packaging
· Plant and Mineral Based Formula
· Powerful Cleaning

Laundry capsules are the fastest growing laundry detergent [1] making them the most popular way of doing the laundry in the UK. But only 0.1% of laundry capsules sold come from eco-friendly brands.[1] That’s why Wilton have reinvented the laundry pod to make it more eco-friendly than ever.

The new plastic-free Eco Laundry Capsules were the first ‘powder laundry capsule’ to hit UK supermarket shelves. The innovative plant-powder based formula means Wilton are able to use more sustainable plant and mineral derived ingredients avoiding environmentally troublesome ingredients required in traditional liquid laundry capsules.

They’re packed with essential oils to leave laundry with a lasting and luxurious scent. The clever formulas have the added benefit of offering powerful cleaning abilities at lower temperatures supporting the brands carbon neutrality. The unique powder formula has the added benefit of being safer around children as powder is much harder to swallow accidently.

The new carbon neutral capsule range comes with the added benefit of 100% plastic free packaging, which includes the removal of any plastic linings from the container.

Wilton is launching two botanical scent variations of their Eco Laundry Capsules (£8.50 RSP/22Capsules) which includes their popular Jasmine fragrance and a new Patchouli scent.

Founder, Sam Whigham, comments “Liquid laundry capsules are so convenient, but they’re just not that great for the environment, so we had to start fresh. Powder capsules use much kinder ingredients and let us use more naturally derived ingredients including loads of lovely essential oils”

The scent: Patchouli
The Patchouli scent is the perfect balance of sweet and fresh, yet warm and earthy, with aromatic notes of pine and anise.

The scent: Jasmine
The Jasmine scent is dominated by notes of jasmine, ylang-ylang and sweet orange blossom. Floral and sharp yet warm and woody.

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[1] Nielsen GB Total Coverage - Latest 52 Weeks to WE 11 February 2023 vs PY

For more information, photos, interviews and samples please contact:

Contact: press@wiltonlondon.co.uk

Contact: Sam@wiltonlondon.co.uk

I: @wilton_london
FB: @wilton.of.london
www.wiltonlondon.co.uk

-- About Wilton London

Wilton London is a on a mission to make housework less of a chore with its plant-based eco-friendly products in stylish packaging that smell amazing and elevate home cleaning and fragrance to a new level. As a certified B Corp, Wilton London meet the highest verified standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

Founded in 2018, by ethical entrepreneurs Sam Whigham and Mike Perry, "the business has recently become carbon neutral – a first for the UK cleaning market."

The idea for Wilton London was conceived in their kitchen on Wilton Way, after Sam got fed up of the cheap and nasty scents found in most laundry and cleaning products. Sam started adding his own essential oil scents to shop scent-free laundry liquids. People noticed the fragrance, and when friends asked, ‘what are you wearing?’, Wilton was born.

Comments Sam, “I’m pretty obsessed with scent, so I began to think about how I could match my passion for botanicals, and creating a company for good.

"I started blending my own kitchen counter laundry liquids and when friends started asking me to make up bottles for them, we knew we were on to something."

But Wilton is a brand dedicated to more than just cleaning. Wilton add premium fragrances more akin to fancy candles, with kind and sustainable cleaning formulas that truly elevate your home.

The new Sainsbury’s listing follows a successful launch of their fragrance-led liquid laundry and fabric conditioner range in May 2022.

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Berlin, 9 May, 2023: Productsup, the leading Product-to-Consumer (P2C) software company, today announced it has been selected as one of the first companies to join Informatica’s new partner program, Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Innovate. Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, announced early access for the program at its annual customer conference in Las Vegas, Informatica World 2023.

The program enables Productsup to accelerate growth by expanding its market reach to Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) customers. By showcasing Productsup solutions through technical integrations between its P2C platform and Informatica’s Product360 platform, ISV Innovate provides Productsup with direct access to enterprises worldwide.

“The cornerstone of any strong technology partnership is finding a way to simplify operations for end users by bringing different capabilities together,” said Vincent Peters, CEO at Productsup. “We’re grateful to be a part of the ISV Innovate ecosystem, as it builds a bridge between cloud companies and the data-driven solutions they need to be successful in today’s digital landscape.”

The Productsup-Informatica partnership provides their joint customer bases with more control over their product content journeys. With more agility to enhance product data as it moves between suppliers and buyers and more visibility of data performance across marketing and selling channels, businesses can deliver high-quality shopping experiences that strengthen brand loyalty and drive revenue.

“ISV ecosystems, and the talented partners they attract, are invaluable for cloud companies like ours to accelerate platform and revenue growth, scale demand, and bring the latest complementary innovations to our customers. Now, we are ready to build a vibrant ISV program on top of our foundational IDMC platform, one that’ll broaden the capabilities for our customers with new verticals, use cases, and solutions, and give our partners the chance to participate in the most diverse cloud data management ecosystem in the market today,” said Rik Tamm-Daniels, GVP, Technology Alliances at Informatica. “Solutions like Productsup’s Product-to-Consumer platform are crucial for any commerce business today, and we're thrilled to welcome the Productsup team to our ISV community.”
Learn more about the benefits of Productsup’s partnership with Informatica here

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About Productsup
Productsup helps brands, retailers, service providers, and marketplaces navigate commerce complexity. The Productsup Product-to-Consumer (P2C) platform processes over two trillion products a month, empowering long-term business success as the only global, strategic, scalable platform managing all Product-to-Consumer information value chains across any platform, any channel, any technology. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Berlin, Productsup has grown to over 300 employees spread out across offices worldwide and works with over 1,000 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI. Learn more at www.productsup.com.

About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader, brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets. We have pioneered a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC), powered by AI and an end-to-end data management platform that connects, manages and unifies data across any multi-cloud, hybrid system, democratizing data to modernize and advance their business strategies. Customers in more than 100 countries and 85 of the Fortune 100 rely on Informatica to drive data-led digital transformation. Informatica. Where data comes to life.

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Berlin, 27 April 2023: Productsup announced today that Kimberly-Clark, the global manufacturer of brands such as Huggies, DryNites, Kleenex, and Cottonelle, has overcome their content syndication challenges to achieve the desired business results with the company’s powerful Product-to-Consumer (P2C) platform. With Productsup, Kimberly-Clark creates customized content per country and automatically sends it to Amazon’s marketplace worldwide.
"Every retailer has its own online content needs. Whether it concerns ecommerce players or brick & mortar customers, every algorithm is different,” said Sophie van Logtestijn, Customer Business Manager eCommerce at Kimberly-Clark. “That is why it’s important to have a correct foundation to build on. Productsup helps us in building this foundation. Our goal is to continuously improve our online shelf presentation. Productsup offers a fully automated content platform and the necessary support to make this happen."
Kimberly-Clark leverages Productsup to ensure all of its brands provide customers with a personalized yet unified experience across any channel. For instance, Productsup’s partnership with Amazon allows it to automatically publish product content worldwide within all of Amazon's product categories. Kimberly-Clark can now optimize its commerce performance on Amazon with the assurance that all product data, images, and videos are published with the highest quality and at maximum speed to achieve optimal conversion.
“Managing a consistent brand across the globe provides many challenges, such as ensuring all online website visitors are presented with accurate and consistent product content in the correct language,” said Koen Looijmans, Executive Vice President, Retail at Productsup (formerly Founder & CEO of World of Content). “Since working with Kimberly-Clark, we’ve been able to ensure that all of its product content is always optimized and published correctly, enabling the company to reach more consumers around the world and provide them with a positive experience.” This partnership started between Kimberly-Clark and World of Content, which was acquired by Productsup in June of 2022.
Read the full case study to learn more about how Productsup works with Kimberly-Clark. For more information about Productsup’s advanced product content syndication capabilities for marketplaces, visit https://www.productsup.com/products/marketplaces-px/.
About Productsup
Productsup helps brands, retailers, service providers, and marketplaces navigate commerce complexity. The Productsup product-to-consumer (P2C) platform processes over two trillion products a month, empowering long-term business success as the only global, strategic, scalable platform managing all product-to-consumer information value chains across any platform, any channel, any technology. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Berlin, Productsup has grown to over 300 employees spread out across offices worldwide and works with over 1,000 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI. Learn more at www.productsup.com.

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London, April 2023:

For centuries, the breakup has been the prerogative of men. In the 19th century, romantic love emerged as the basis for marriage and changed the game. In the days of arranged unions, one could blame society if things didn't work out. But since the conceptual evolution of the marriage towards a sentimental vision, the breakup becomes an attack on the inner self.

Today, about half of all marriages in Europe and the UK end in divorce, and significantly, 75 per cent of divorce applications are filed by women. Perhaps that last statistic explains why women suffer more emotional hurt and find it more challenging than their ex-partners to build a new lifestyle and relationships. The cruel logic would be that if the woman marries for love and then decides it is a bad idea, the fault must be hers. So she suffers psychological and social consequences – self-blame, stigma, or both.

The project 5-Minute Bedtime Stories courageously resists this logic. London-based artist Maria Gvardeitseva (divorced after 20 years of marriage, four children, numerous countries, and shared challenges) takes a pronounced political and feminist approach to the story of her separation, which transforms grief, sorrow, and hatred to let them go. She offers artistic tools that help women to look at the situation with self-love, rediscovers the socio-political aspects of marriage, and cope with this life trauma and the challenges of patriarchy.

She surprisingly does this – by reference to fairy tales. In this structuralist masterpiece, The Morphology of the Folk Tale, Vladimir Propp described the typological similarity between a fairy tale and an initiation rite. The initiatory nature of marriage – to the secrets of sex (as it used to be), childbirth, etc. – is not in doubt: the number of hallucinations and fantasies explicitly associated with marriage and weddings in modern popular culture spills over.

Think only of the diamond engagement ring. It is a marketing success of the ruthless De Beers diamond monopoly and not a widespread tradition: diamonds are rare because De Beers controlled supply, and they are popular because the company backed substantial marketing campaigns, which made diamond engagement rings de rigueur. The ring on a severed finger in Gvardeitseva's installation emphasizes this irony.

What particularly interests Gvardeitseva is Propp's idea that, in the fairy tale, the hero's initiation to an adventure and a new status depends on stepping outside an institution and violating an interdiction. The hero – or heroine – is told, "Don't, on any account, go out of the garden!". But they do go out, and then the impossible and fantastic happens.

If the only status imagined by our culture following divorce, the end of love or betrayal of a partner is drowning in a lake, retirement to a nunnery, or waiting for the next love-and-marriage opportunity, we perhaps need to think again about divorce and separation as an initiation and not always and inevitably as a tragedy.

The institution of marriage is less powerful now than it was in the past (in Slavic countries, almost within living memory, girls who died before marriage were buried in a wedding dress as if to atone for sin). No doubt there are reasons for that. However, women's experience of divorce and separation as victims or guilty parties is worse than inexpedient.

Using the parallel with fairy tales, Gvardeitseva suggests that violating an interdiction or stepping outside an institution can be a brave step with transformative consequences. Could there be a fairy-tale divorce? A more intense life in the self-revealed sense, initiation to a new stage, or ultimate return to the same marriage institution in a more satisfactory form. A variety of possible "happily ever afters."

MARIA GVARDEITSEVA, Artist: “For me personally, this exhibition is important, first of all, by the discovery of large layers of problems that seem to be recognized, but are not on the agenda. Each of my heroines, whose stories became fairy tales, spoke about the refraction of pain, about the fact that there is light at the end of the tunnel. And this light is self-love, we ourselves."

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For more information, please contact NOVA RELATIONS –
anna@novarelations.com
https://novarelations.com/

Notes to Editors
Links:

Website: https://mariagvardeitseva.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maria.gvard/?hl=en

The Fitzrovia Gallery:
Website: http://fitzroviagallery.co.uk/
Instagram: http://fitzroviagallery.co.uk

Exhibition Details:
 Exhibition: 13.04 – 29.04.23
Tuesday – Saturday, 12– 6 PM

Location:
The Fitzrovia Gallery 139 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 5EN

About Maria Gvardeitseva

Born in 1982 in Minsk, Belarus
Currently lives in London, UK

Maria Gvardeitseva is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in London. Gvardeitseva holds a diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK (2007), completed the New Media Course at the University of Denver, Denver, CO (2011), and is working on an MA in Art and Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London (2022-current).

In her works, Maria Gvardeitseva works ironically with themes of memory and sublimates pain in ways that are at once realistic and fantastical. The political plays a crucial role in her installations, and in one of her recent exhibitions, Maria placed her Belarusian passport in a jar of formaldehyde, comparing torn documents to scattered anatomies in naturalistic and medical museums. In the spirit of Didi Huberman's montage technique, Gvardeitseva works with notions of severance, splitting the essence of objects away from their socially reproducible roles – all things necessary to film-montage our lives.

Maria speaks clearly and straightforwardly of the pain and emotional experience of exile, the collapse of time and the strangeness of love, leaving room for a metaphorical reading where the versatility of emotions is the key focus. As a principle of Gvardeitseva's artistic practice, aesthetic distancing creates room for thought and gives physical awareness of the surrounding space.

Gvardeitseva has taken part in group and solo exhibitions, staged performances and was a finalist in the national selection to create the collection for the Belarusian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.

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ASICS insists that society is facing huge environmental challenges that will affect participation in sports; risk to the athlete’s health from the heat, restrictions on people to play outside, shorter game time, limited audience for sports, and so on. It is crucial to protect a healthy planet for people to play on as ASICS stands for “Anima Sana In Corpore Sano”, a Sound Mind in a Sound Body and believes that "Exercise has a positive impact on mental wellbeing".

ASICS has set an ambitious goal of reducing 63% greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030 (2015 baseline) and using 100% renewable energy across business facilities. By 2050, the company is aiming to achieve net-zero. To achieve these goals, ASICS encourage suppliers to align with its targets, to maintain earth temperature rise within 1.5℃, and shift to renewable energy.

Main contents of the film include interviews with Yasuhito Hirota, President, CEO and COO, Representative Director on ASICS heritage, philosophy, vision and sustainability goals.

About ASICS Corporation:
A Japanese sporting goods company founded by Kihachiro Onitsuka in 1949 who had aspiration to contribute to nurturing youth and the development of society through sports. Learn more about ASICS’s CSR and sustainability activities at http://corp.asics.com/en/csr

About TBD Media Group:
TBD Media Group is an international, purpose-driven media developer that helps businesses, organisations and governments tell their brand stories in a human and direct way. Learn more at https://www.tbdmediagroup.com/

Speakers in the film:
Yasuhito Hirota, President, CEO and COO, Representative Director
Kenichi Harano, Executive Officer, Institute of Sport Science
Minako Yoshikawa, Senior General Manager of Sustainability Division
Tomoko Koda, Managing Executive Officer

Media Contact:
Supprija Sanmuganathan
Marketing Coordinator
TBD Media Group
s.sanmuganathan@tbdmediagroup.com

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Introducing a variety of new products for retail and hospitality POS at the event, Star will be exhibiting its latest printer in the Star mCollection, mC-Label. Ideal for a range of applications and environments including food labelling in QSR, retail, healthcare and logistics, this versatile printer can print on a variety of media including die cut, linerless and continuous labels. Offering flexible connectivity including USB-C, LAN and Star CloudPRNT™, the printer is designed to work with traditional systems, network, web-based systems or connected to a wide range of tablets or mobile devices, where the printer’s USB-C port can power and charge the device as well as provide network tethering via Star’s SteadyLAN+ technology.

Furthermore, Star’s new TetherLAN technology included with the mC-Label allows a tablet or device with an active cellular (4G, 5G) or WiFi connection to share that connection with the mC-Label printer. This enables the printer to then print directly from cloud-based services, including StarPrinter.Online, whilst also enabling remote management and diagnostics, as well as making any supported, connected USB peripherals “Cloud Enabled”.

Building on its POS printer expertise, Star has expanded its portfolio to encompass a range of POS peripherals. As a result, businesses can develop POS systems in the knowledge all products and peripherals are successfully integrated and provided by a single manufacturer. At the event, Star will be exhibiting its versatile tablet stands for retail and hospitality POS, visitor management and self-service applications, alongside its CD4 series of cash drawers.

The universal mEnclosure tablet holder for a wide range of Apple, Android and Windows tablets provides a versatile and secure solution that is compatible with Star’s new mUnite stands. Available in black or white, the mUnite stands maintain a clean design, concealing all the cables that keep devices connected whilst routing power supplies under the counter to recapture space in busy environments. With desk mounted, wall mounted and floor standing versions available, the mUnite stands offer a flexible solution for retail, hospitality, visitor management and any environment in which customer interaction is key.

The new CD4 series of cash drawers is available in two sizes for medium and high cash volume applications. With a black or white finish and stainless steel front design, this series complements the Star printer and mUnite tablet stand range and provides the versatility retail and hospitality businesses demand.

Alongside hardware, Star offers additional software and integration tools for enhanced connectivity. Star’s CloudPRNT technology benefits retail and hospitality by enabling customer orders to be sent directly to the printer from an online ordering service or app, eliminating the need for an additional tablet in the store, bar or restaurant.

For a fully managed service, Star will be demonstrating its unique StarPrinter.Online dedicated service for businesses to manage the printer estate with minimal setup time and cost as well as near zero integration. This allows printing direct from an ordering website through the REST API or direct from the page with JavaScript, or even via email. The ordering service can not only communicate directly with the printer to create print jobs but also receive the status of the printer estate. Thanks to an online dashboard, users have an overview of all devices and activity including reliable tracking of print jobs with notification of device status changes, barcode scans, new device connections to a group, etc. Additional printers and peripherals can simply be added without the need for server upgrades.

A commitment to creating innovative solutions, combined with Star’s renowned expertise in the thriving kiosk market, has resulted in successful integrations of both its Sanei and packaged printer ranges with Star looking to further expand its range of Sanei printers in response to growing demand for compact kiosk printing solutions.

Based on an established long-term partnership with Evoke, Star printers have been integrated into a diverse range of kiosks for tier one retail and hospitality chains for retail check-out and Click & Collect applications as well as food and beverage ordering. On the stand, visitors will find the Star mC-Print3 front loading kiosk printer integrated with the versatile Evoke EV Serve food ordering kiosk. Also on display will be SumUp’s recently launched food ordering kiosk, designed in partnership with Melford Technologies Ltd and incorporating the Star mC-Print3.

“At the Retail Technology Show 2023, visitors to the Star stand will find an extensive range of innovative and versatile POS solutions”, states Simon Martin, Director & General Manager, Star Micronics EMEA. “Designed for a variety of POS and kiosk applications, Star’s solutions successfully provide the flexibility and unique features that allow businesses of all sizes to fully leverage the potential of retail technology.”

About Star Micronics
Founded in 1947, Star Micronics is one of the world's largest printer manufacturers and has facilities for worldwide production, marketing and support. Employing over 1500 staff and achieving turnover in excess of £400 million, Star Micronics has developed a POS printer portfolio that spans thermal and dot matrix printers and mechanisms, designed for barcode, ticketing, receipts and labelling. Star's proven technology is also being utilised to install print mechanisms in multimedia kiosk environments. The Star Micronics' range is available internationally via a distribution channel comprising distributors and dealers.
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For further information, please visit www.Star-EMEA.com or contact:

Claire Smith
PR Manager
Star Micronics EMEA
Tel: +44 (0)1494 471111
Email: csmith@Star-EMEA.com

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Beccles, Suffolk, 21 April 2023. PCE Automation Ltd today announced that the company has been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise, in recognition of its excellence in innovation.

PCE Automation Ltd specialises in bespoke automation, repeat automation, and value-added services, including pre-automation and aftercare services to address the varying needs of customers across a range of industry sectors including ocular, medical and pharmaceutical. Its product handling, assembling, and testing systems have a global reputation for innovation and quality. Founded in 1961 by Ernest James Cook, the company was previously awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2020 for international trade putting it in a select group of companies who have won both the Queen’s and King’s Awards for Enterprise. PCE is a trusted partner to many blue-chip, industry-leading life science organisations around the world.

The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Rishi Sunak MP, recommended that the company should receive one of the inaugural King’s Awards for Enterprise, in recognition of a key innovative project in the ocular sector - which it delivered for a major global manufacturer of contact lenses. The project enabled the manufacturer of ‘made to order’ on demand (MTO) silicone hydro lenses to reduce its lead times to the end-user and greatly enhance the efficiency, flexibility and scalability of the manufacturing process. In doing so, the company has uncovered major commercial opportunities and an increase in market share. Not only was the manufacturing time cut, but the productivity output was increased by circa 360%.

CEO, James Cook commented “The King’s Award for Enterprise is the most prestigious British business award because of its provenance as the Queen’s Award. To be recognised for our contribution to innovation reflects the huge team effort made by each member of our staff to develop a range of world-leading solutions with innovation incorporated across the board - in design, project management, engineering and software programming.”

Employing 99 staff at its Beccles headquarters and 22 at its Lutterworth site, PCE is focused on staff empowerment, achievements and well-being and has exciting expansion plans to develop its site, recruit more staff and expand its presence within Europe. In 2022 PCE announced an ongoing acquisition of an Irish organisation, which will see it become a multinational corporation, helping to expand its geographical presence and diversification into numerous automation growth sectors.

MP for Waveney, Peter Aldous MP, supported the application for the King’s Award for Enterprise and has taken an active interest in the company. He commented, “Congratulations to the team at PCE Automation on this prestigious accolade. With a focus on empowering employees, PCE is a business of which East Anglia and Suffolk can be proud”.

In its inaugural year, the King’s Award for Enterprise follows 57 years of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, where previous winners included J.P Morgan, iCandy, Veolia and Willmott Dixon.

The next celebratory steps for PCE include a listing in a special edition of the London Gazette, published in April, which will carry the names of all of the winners. The London Gazette is the oldest English newspaper and is an official journal of record of the British Government. A Grant of Appointment ceremony will take place at PCE’s office (date tba) with the county’s Lord Lieutenant and local VIPs. The Lord Lieutenant is His Majesty The King’s local representative and will personally present a crystal trophy to the PCE team. In addition, CEO, James Cook will visit Buckingham Palace in the summer for a celebratory reception, which is hosted by His Majesty King Charles III.

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Notes to Editors:
To arrange media interviews commencing 21st April 9am, contact Ollie Cook at PCE Automation Ltd on o.cook@pce-group.co.uk 07808 549600
Images attached:

1. James Cook
2. Beccles Site (drone image)
3. Manufacturing process
4. PCE logo

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18 APRIL 2023, KUBECON, RAI CONVENTION CENTRE, AMSTERDAM - VictoriaMetrics, the leading scale-up in open source time-series data monitoring solutions, today announced a time-saving toolkit for those who need next-level monitoring for their time series database.

Time series databases are at the heart of the innovation driving online streaming services across videogames, online music services, scientific research and more. Monitoring how these databases perform in real-time means mastering the metering of millions of metrics which may be spread across multiple cloud deployments and physically located anywhere in the world. It’s a tough challenge and one which MetricsQL was specifically designed to meet.

Key highlights & functionality of MetricsQL include:

Fully open source

User-focused interface solves most-common metrics queries

Functional compatibility with industry-standard Prometheus PromQL

HDR-like histograms for accurate analysis of extreme data ranges

Support for a wide range of metrics including counters, gauges and summaries

The power of MetricsQL comes into its own for under-pressure teams who need enhanced observability of complex systems and their interactions. This means they will need to rapidly identify data outliers and anomalies or identify site reliability and availability.

Roman Khavronenko, Co-Founder of VictoriaMetrics said “The VictoriaMetrics ethos is all about simplification. Complexity and unexpected behaviour from legacy tech can hold back engineering innovation. So, like many of the most useful open source technologies, MetricsQL was designed ‘for engineers by engineers’. We think it is the definitive language for time series monitoring.”

He added: “Everyone who has ever had to deploy and then manage complex tech infrastructure appreciates the power of monitoring. Our team can't reduce the complexity of distributed systems users want to run; instead, we make monitoring simpler for them by reducing the cognitive load engineers experience every day. Our aim is to put deeper monitoring capabilities into the hands of the community so they can better understand the underlying complexity of the systems they are dealing with daily. MetricsQL helps do just that.”

The VictoriaMetrics team distributes MetricsQL with VictoriaMetrics Single-Node and Cluster, as well as an external library with the open source code on GitHub and Apache2 license. MetricsQL is the latest in a range of next-level monitoring technologies developed by the VictoriaMetrics team and is available to download from the VictoriaMetrics page immediately.

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About VictoriaMetrics

Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, now globally led and headquartered in the US, VictoriaMetrics is the scaleup leader in the category of open source time series database monitoring. The VictoriaMetrics management team came together following successful careers at Google, Lyft and Cloudflare to solve the hard problems around very large, constantly changing data types which they themselves had encountered. VictoriaMetrics now boasts 100+ million downloads and customers include Adidas, Grammarly and Wix.

Resources
GitHub MetricsQL Page

MetricsQL

PromQL tutorial for beginners and humans

Improving histogram usability for Prometheus and Grafana

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