STOCKHOLM – October 28, 2026 -- Hygiene and health company Essity raised its EcoVadis sustainability score to 90 out of 100 from 88 in 2025 and retained the Platinum medal, the highest tier awarded by the rating provider.

Essity ranks in the top 1% of companies EcoVadis assessed over 12 months

The score places Essity among the top 1% of companies EcoVadis assessed worldwide over the previous 12 months. EcoVadis has assessed more than 175,000 companies across over 180 countries.

DUBLIN – October 28, 2026 -- Temu plans to invest approximately US$200 million globally in compliance and quality assurance in 2026, twice its 2025 level, as laboratories inside its fulfilment partners' warehouses pass an independent Bureau Veritas assessment.

Amsterdam – October 28, 2026 -- OLX Group has launched two AI tools, Agentic Selling and DealFinder, taking its live agentic solutions to 14 across 16 marketplaces, as its own surveys show that only 5% of home seekers would trust an AI valuation over a human agent's estimate.

The classifieds operator, which carries nearly 60 million daily listings across 11 brands in seven markets, presented both tools at its CLAIM Online 2026 summit on 27 October. It also runs 86 live machine learning use cases and 28 live generative AI use cases.

TOKYO – October 28, 2026 -- transcosmos has partnered with Tokyo-based Metaverse Creators Inc. to distribute VRChat 3D content to overseas buyers through Geek Jack, its cross-border e-commerce platform for entertainment products.

Avatars, outfits, hairstyles, accessories and other items planned, produced and sold by Metaverse Creators will be added to Geek Jack gradually. Metaverse Creators is led by CEO Kazuo Wakamiya.

Essen – October 28, 2026 -- Hieber's Frische Center, Denns BioMarkt and EURONICS won Gold at the 2026 Deutscher Prospekt Award, which drew 130 corporate entries, the German free-newspaper association BVDA said at its annual conference in Essen.

The association presented the awards before about 170 invited guests. The prize honors mainly printed advertising inserts judged on relevance, design, sensible extension into digital channels and sustainability.

St. Petersburg – October 27, 2026 -- MillerKnoll, which generated net sales of $3.8 billion in fiscal 2026, has deployed 3D product configurators on Knoll.com. The rollout is built on a single library of 3D product content that the company reuses across its design brands, 3D Cloud announced.

Austin – October 27, 2026 -- About 84% of outdoor recreation consumers say product price increases would affect their future purchase decisions, up from roughly 74% in 2023, according to Rollick's 2026 Future of Buying Study. The survey drew on 17,764 recent shoppers across 31 RV, marine and powersports brands.

Chicago – October 27, 2026 -- Meat snack brand Chomps has signed a national partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), committing funds to health and wellness programming that could reach more than 4 million young people a year across 5,500 Clubs.

PORTLAND, Maine – October 27, 2026 -- mainelove's Perfectly Still Water has won Double Gold in the Non-Carbonated Water category at the inaugural 2026 Water Choice Awards, presented by The Daily Pour, as the Maine-sourced brand expands into Florida and adds hotel placements.

TAIPEI – October 27, 2026 -- CoCo Bubble Tea, a chain with more than 5,000 stores worldwide, has opened its first stores in Hungary and Armenia and plans to open a Kyiv location in late December, extending its franchise push into Central and Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.

The three-market rollout comes ahead of the brand's 30th anniversary in 2027. CoCo plans at least three stores in each of the three markets over time.