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LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Earth Design, a premier synthetic turf installer and hardscape construction company that serves the Greater Los Angeles Area, announced it is now an official distributor of products from SYNLawn^®, the largest manufacturer and unrivaled innovator of artificial grass in North America,.

«Providing our residential and commercial clients with the highest quality products is of the utmost importance to us as professional synthetic turf installers,» said Chris Hayman, landscape architect and owner of Earth Design. «We strive to help our customers find the perfect artificial grass that meets the look and feel they desire, so we’re thrilled to expand our offerings to include SYNLawn’s premium, American-made products. We’re also excited to offer the brand’s professional quality golf products to enhance the game of our clients. Our turf surface is your edge!»

Since 1998, Earth Design has provided customized outdoor design and build solutions for residential and commercial properties in Southern California, and expanded its business to artificial grass installations in 2004. Over the years, the company has installed more than 5 million square feet of turf, including picnic areas at the Hollywood Bowl; a synthetic turf pit for TV personality, Lisa Ling; a rooftop dog park in Hollywood; and a helipad for a private residence.

SYNLawn’s extensive range of first-rate synthetic grass products are perfect for Southern California since it stays green and pristine year-round with little to no maintenance. Plus, its line of products made with Super Yarn technology offers the cleanest and safest turf on the market with additives like Sanitized^® Antimicrobial, DualChill^® IR Reflective and StatBlock^® Anti-Static. Product categories include: Pet, Golf, Lawn and Landscape, Playground, Sport and Agility, Rooftop, Deck and Patio.

«We are pleased to welcome Earth Design to our network of 100+ distributor locations,» said George Neagle, executive vice president at SYNLawn. «Combining our premium products with Earth Design’s expertise in turf installations will expand our design and service capabilities in this market. We look forward in continuing to offer exceptional service and products to residences and commercial properties across the Greater Los Angeles Area.»

For more information, visit www.earthdesignturf.com, or call (310) 566-8945 for Los Angeles County and (949) 485-6897 for Orange County. Their office is located at 207 N. Aspan Ave., Suite 3 in Azusa.

ABOUT SYNLawn^®
SYNLawn^® is the largest manufacturer and unrivaled innovator of artificial grass in North America. As part of the SportGroup Holding^® family of companies, SYNLawn, along with sister surfacing brands – Astroturf, Rekortan, APT and Laykold – delivers the best products available on the market. SYNLawn’s product offerings also include Calico Greens™, an upscale line of artificial wall displays. SYNLawn’s turnkey network of 100 distributors seamlessly combines environmental stewardship with industry-leading innovations. Manufactured in Dalton, GA, SYNLawn uses bio-based ingredients, such as soy and sugarcane, and consumer-conscious additives such as antimicrobials to meet customers’ wide range of needs. With more than 200,000 residential and commercial installations, the company is raising the bar for global synthetic turf standards and transforming the idea of grass. We have a proprietary system that accounts for more than 70 percent renewable content. For more information visit www.SYNLawn.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube.

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Mackenzie Smith
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877.703.3824 x106

 

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HOUSTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced that Jack Langlois and Jibin Luke have joined the Transactions Practice Group as partners based in the Houston office. These hires diversify our robust energy practice and add strength in a geographically critical area as clients weigh business opportunities with potential federal energy regulations on the horizon. Jack and Jibin both join from DLA Piper where Jack served as US co-chair of the firm’s energy sector and managing partner in Houston.

«Jack is a high-profile dealmaker known in the Texas energy and legal circles, and we’re thrilled to welcome him and Jibin to McDermott. This group will provide clients a direct connection to the United States’ largest economic hub for oil and gas, paving the way for additional mergers and acquisitions and private equity deals,» Harris Siskind, global head of McDermott’s transactions practice group, said. «With this added expertise, we’re advancing our already high-impact, high-volume deal activity while diversifying our fast-growing energy practice. Our broader platform will make McDermott a destination firm for clients’ energy-related transactional and regulatory needs.»

«It’s clear that McDermott is an elite global firm in terms of clients, significant engagements and financial results, while prioritizing a great emphasis on fostering a collaborative environment—it is deeply woven into the culture and sets it apart from other firms,» Jack added. «Add this to an imperative to grow and diversify energy offerings in the US and around the world, and it’s an ideal fit for our group and our clients, as well as other lawyers in the Texas market desiring a successful platform [for themselves and their clients].»

Head of Strategy Michael Poulos noted, «Texas in general and Houston in particular is one of the leading markets in the legal industry, and we are very excited by our continued trajectory and growth in the market. From a client offering perspective, Jack and Jibin complement and diversify an already vibrant energy sector offering at the Firm – this made the decision to have them join us an easy one.» 

Jack advises clients on investments in and financings of energy projects and assets, including mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of assets and stock of energy companies. Jack advises on mineral exploration and development projects, involving acquisition of exploration and development rights, pipelines, gathering, transportation, processing, storage and other infrastructure. He also represents oil and gas production companies in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas properties; and banks in connection with production payment acquisition and financing. Jack has significant experience handling international transactions, including representing drilling companies in connection with sales of drilling rigs in Brazil, Canada and Greece, and representing power producers with the development and financing of power projects in Latin America.

Jibin represents business owners and investors with structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, energy transactions, equity investments and other general corporate matters. He regularly advises clients on domestic and international transactions, corporate governance matters, private debt and equity financing, regulatory matters and portfolio company investments. Jibin represents clients in the acquisition and sale of energy, manufacturing, technology and service-related companies, and negotiating and securing financing. He has experience preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, joint operating agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, transportation and gathering agreements, employment and consulting agreements, credit and security agreements and master service agreements.

With the energy market poised for growth, McDermott has bolstered our renewable and conventional energy practices globally. Notable partner hires over the last year include Carl Fleming, Christopher Gladbach, Neil Levy, Bruce Richardson and David Tewksbury in Washington, DC; Lloyd MacNeil and Edward Zaelke in Los Angeles; and Shashank Krishna in London.

This group further supports the Firm’s growing private equity (PE) deal volume, building momentum on more than 360 deals closed in 2020. McDermott was recently ranked by Pitchbook in its 2020 league tables as #3 in PE in the US and #5 in PE globally.

About McDermott

McDermott Will & Emery partners with leaders around the world to fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. Our team works seamlessly across practices and industries to deliver highly effective—and often unexpected—solutions that propel success. More than 1,200 lawyers strong, we bring our personal passion and legal prowess to bear in every matter for our clients and the people they serve.

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DENVER, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Business intelligence from Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN), an enterprise software, leading compliance technology provider, and developer of the cannabis industry’s first seed-to-sale enterprise resource planning (ERP) software technology (MJ Platform®), shows that one year since the Covid-19 pandemic has altered daily lives of North Americans, cannabis shoppers and patients are spending about 25-30% more per purchase and are increasingly purchasing more volume of products per visit. 

Over the past year (2020-2021), the average recreational cannabis purchase was $60 – climbing up from $48 in the previous year (2019-2020), with consumers’ basket size growing from an average of 2.25 products to 2.6. For medical purchasing, the average sale size is up to $123 per purchase, up from $100 in the previous year, and basket volume grew from 2.9 items to 3.02. 

«This past year was a booming one for cannabis, even amid the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The biggest change we see in our data is that patients are buying more products per visit, and it’s important for cannabis businesses to take these changes into mind when marketing their products,» said James Ahrendt, Business Intelligence Architect at Akerna. «With flower continuing to be the go-to product, brands should focus on differentiating their flower from the competition as well as education and benefits around other product categories.»

Additional Insights 

Cannabis consumer shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic (2/1/2020 – 1/31/2021):

Average Order Sale (ticket):

• Male (Rec) – $59.02
• Male (Med) – $121.06
• Female (Rec) – $64.50
• Female (Med) – $125.22

Average basket size:

• Male (Rec) – 2.48 items
• Male (Med) – 2.93 items
• Female (Rec) – 2.76 items
• Female (Med) – 3.10 items

Gender Sales Market Share

• Rec – Male 67% / Female 33%
• Med – Male 61% / Female 39%

Age Group Sales Market Share:

• Under 30 – 27%
• 30 – 40 – 29%
• 40 – 50 – 19%
• 50 – 60 – 13%
• 60+ – 12%

Category Sales Market Share:

• Flower – 43%
• Cartridges / Pens – 35%
• Infused Edible – 8%
• Concentrate – 12%
• Non-Medicated – 1%
• Infused Non-edible – 1%

About MJ Freeway

MJ Freeway is more than software as a service. Its flagship solution, MJ Platform, includes Platform Insights. Now operators, investors, and regulators can access the industry’s largest and most statistically relevant database to drive data-driven business decisions.

Platform Insights provides:

• The greatest statistical relevance across countries
• Normalized data (not farmed from various disparate POS platforms)
• Full cannabis supply chain data
• Business insights founded in category management methodology

Platform Insights can eliminate the guesswork and provide answers to questions like:

• What is the gross margin return on inventory?
• What SKUs should be carried?
• How do basket adjacencies influence discounting and retention strategies?
• What does a medical market look like a year or five years after decriminalizing cannabis?

Click here for more information about MJ Platform.

About Akerna:

Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN) is an enterprise software company focused on compliantly serving the cannabis, hemp, and CBD industry. First launched in 2010, Akerna has tracked more than $20 billion in cannabis sales to date and is the first cannabis software company listed on Nasdaq. The company’s cornerstone technology, MJ Platform, the world’s leading infrastructure as a service platform, powers retailers, manufacturers, brands, distributors, and cultivators.

For more information, visit https://www.akerna.com/.

About the Akerna Flash Report:

Flash Report is a look at buying trends in the cannabis market as captured by Akerna’s MJ Freeway subsidiary.

MJ Freeway provides operators with MJ Platform, the industry-leading solution for regulatory compliance technology, from seed-to-sale-to-self. Some instances of the flash report may include business intelligence derived from Akerna’s family of companies, including Ample Organics, Leaf Data Systems, solo sciences, and Trellis.

Data is derived from MJ Platform, the leading provider of cannabis compliance software for the marijuana industry. Sales projections are based on market adjustment calculations and represent the entire US market as an aggregate.

Reporting Data is obtained from operators using Akerna’s MJ Platform solutions. Akerna has one of the largest seed-to-sale footprints in the cannabis industry, operating in 15 countries and 23 U.S. states, including Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Arizona, California, Utah, Michigan, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Maine, Vermont, New Mexico, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Maryland, Washington D.C., Kansas, Arkansas, New York.

Increases are relative to the prior period. Additional business intelligence data sources may include proprietary tools used by Akerna’s family of companies.

Forward-Looking Statements:

Certain statements made in this release are «forward-looking statements» within the meaning of the «safe harbor» provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words «estimates,» «projected,» «expects,» «anticipates,» «forecasts,» «plans,» «intends,» «believes,» «seeks,» «may,» «will,» «should,» «future,» «propose» and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such terms or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the ability of the MJ Platform team to help operators make decisions through analytics and reporting. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other important factors, many of which are outside Akerna’s control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others that may affect actual results or outcomes, include (i) Akerna’s ability to maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees, (ii) changes in applicable laws or regulations, (iii) changes in the market place due to the coronavirus pandemic or other market factors, (iv) and other risks and uncertainties disclosed from time to time in Akerna’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including those under «Risk Factors» therein. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. All information herein speaks only as of the date hereof, in the case of information about Akerna, or the date of such information, in the case of information from persons other than Akerna. Akerna undertakes no duty to update or revise the information contained herein. Forecasts and estimates regarding Akerna’s industry and end markets are based on sources believed to be reliable; however, there can be no assurance these forecasts and estimates will prove accurate in whole or in part.

 

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AEP Energy Partners (AEPEP), a subsidiary of American Electric Power Company (Nasdaq: AEP), is seeking proposals for off-take from new solar, new/repowered wind facilities, and stand-alone or co-located Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) located in PJM. 

For the PJM sited projects, the company is seeking renewable energy purchase agreements of 10, 12 or 15 years for solar, wind facilities (including incremental power from repowering), and BESS that begin operation between 2021 and 2024.

AEPEP will use the contracted offtake to support the company’s growing retail, which includes the company’s Integrated Renewable Energy (IRE) solution, and wholesale loads in PJM. 

Notice of intent to bid must be received by AEPEP by Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Proposal packages are due no later than 5 p.m. ET, Friday, March 26, 2021 and should be submitted by e-mail to beduckworth@aepes.com. Complete details about the Requests for Proposals are available at http://aep.com/rfp or by calling Ben Duckworth at (614) 583-7453.

American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is focused on building a smarter energy infrastructure and delivering new technologies and custom energy solutions to our customers. AEP’s approximately 16,800 employees operate and maintain the nation’s largest electricity transmission system and more than 223,000 miles of distribution lines to efficiently deliver safe, reliable power to nearly 5.5 million regulated customers in 11 states. AEP also is one of the nation’s largest electricity producers with approximately 30,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including more than 5,300 megawatts of renewable energy. AEP’s family of companies includes utilities AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana, east Texas and the Texas Panhandle). AEP also owns AEP Energy, AEP Energy Partners, AEP OnSite Partners, and AEP Renewables, which provide innovative competitive energy solutions nationwide. For more information, visit aep.com.

 

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DALLAS, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers, today announced a five-year extension to its partnership with Ooredoo Qatar, the leading telecommunications operator in Qatar. The renewal enables MoneyGram customers to continue to send money in near real-time to family and friends through Ooredoo Money Wallet, a virtual account that allows customers to easily deposit, access or withdraw money.

«We’re excited to extend our partnership with Ooredoo Qatar for another five years as we continue to build upon the strong momentum in our digital transformation,» said Alex Holmes, MoneyGram Chairman and CEO. «As our first fully digital partner back in 2012, Ooredoo has been a driving force in our shift to digital in the Middle Eastern market, and we look forward to seeing our partnership continue to flourish in the years to come.»

Ooredoo was recently awarded «MoneyGram Global Agent of the Year» due to the explosive triple digit year-over-year transaction growth it experienced in 2020 as well as its collaborative strategy to further improve customer experience. As consumer demand for account deposit services and digital options continues to increase, MoneyGram and Ooredoo Qatar are giving consumers the opportunity to send and receive money from the comfort of their own homes, which has been especially important in the last year.

«With Qatar being one of the largest outbound international remittance markets, our strategic partnership with MoneyGram continues to help connect friends and family around the world through fast, convenient and affordable money transfer services,» said Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Chief Consumer Officer at Ooredoo Qatar. «The length of the new contract term is a testament to the strength and ongoing success of this partnership, and we are excited about what this means for the future of digital remittances in the Middle East.» 

About MoneyGram International, Inc.
MoneyGram is a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers. Its consumer-centric capabilities enable family and friends to quickly and affordably send money in more than 200 countries and territories, with 90 now digitally enabled.

MoneyGram leverages its modern, mobile, and API-driven platform and collaborates with the world’s leading brands to serve millions of people each year through both its walk-in business and its direct-to-consumer digital business.

With a strong culture of innovation and a relentless focus on utilizing technology to deliver the world’s best customer experience, MoneyGram is leading the evolution of digital P2P payments.

For more information, please visit MoneyGram.com and follow @MoneyGram.

About Ooredoo
Ooredoo is Qatar’s leading communications company, delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses. As a community-focused company, Ooredoo is guided by its vision of enriching people’s lives and its belief that it can stimulate human growth by leveraging communications to help people achieve their full potential.

MoneyGram Media Contact
Stephen Reiff
media@moneygram.com

 

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