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Fifty Percent and No Further Talks
The United States imposed 50 percent tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods in the early hours of 22 August, after three days of talks in Washington failed hours before the deadline. The list runs from wine, furniture, dairy and cement to clothing, fishing rods and hockey equipment, covering roughly five percent of what Canada ships south each year. Canada matched it. Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs dollar for dollar from 8...
Thirty-Nine Times the Revenue
Harvey raised $550 million on 9 September at a valuation of $15.5 billion, in a round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Diffusion, a new firm founded by longtime Harvey backer Kris Fredrickson. Sapphire Ventures and Whale Rock joined as new investors alongside returning names including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Coatue, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, GIC and Elad Gil. Total raised since the 2022 founding passes $1.55 billion. Six...
The Weak Spot Is the Biggest Brand
LPP, Poland's largest fashion retailer, reported second-quarter net profit up 64 percent to 768 million zlotys, about $202.5 million. Operating profit rose 63 percent to 1.13 billion zlotys, ahead of the company's own estimates. Revenue rose 18.4 percent, with offline sales up nearly 19 percent and e-commerce up 16.4 percent, helped by restored logistics capacity in south-eastern Europe including a new distribution centre in Romania. Gross...
Coffee Corners Have 8,669 Followers And Nothing To Sell You
The coffee corner has 8,669 followers and nothing to sell you. Interiors accounts carry 4.6 times the median coffee shop's audience while posting the second-weakest link rate in the study - forty percent of them publish nothing to click at all. Sit with the shape of that. Here is a category built almost entirely on coffee imagery, out-reaching the people who actually make and sell the coffee by nearly five to one, and four in ten of them have...
Coffee Never Travels Alone: It Arrives Attached To Family, Travel, Books And Dogs
Read enough Instagram bios and you notice coffee never shows up on its own. It arrives holding hands. It comes in behind the dog, beside the toddler, one comma away from the passport stamp. It is the plus-one that never gets its own invitation, the guest who is always someone else's guest, and once you have seen it you cannot unsee it. People will tell you, in the small print of their own profiles, exactly what they think coffee is for - and it...