New York – October 14, 2026 -- Foot Locker has signed a multi-year partnership with Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (NYSE: MSGS) to become the Official Athletic Footwear Retailer of the New York Knicks, starting with the 2026-27 NBA season. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Garland, Texas – October 14, 2026 -- Massimo Group (NASDAQ: MAMO) is developing a retail program to widen sales of its powersports products across Ace Hardware, a network of more than 5,000 U.S. stores, and has submitted a dedicated 2026 holiday program for Black Friday and Christmas.

The company has historically sold through a number of independently operated Ace locations. It is now building programs that can be offered to Ace retailers on a wider basis.

Stamford – October 14, 2026 -- Curaleaf Holdings (TSX: CURA; OTCQX: CURLF) has raised its Florida footprint to 79 dispensaries and its nationwide total to 189 stores with the opening of Curaleaf Wellington in Palm Beach County.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Zipline has launched ZipCoach, an embedded AI capability that analyzes more than 300 performance, operational and behavioral data signals to generate store-specific coaching actions for multi-location retailers.

Charlotte – October 14, 2026 -- TOPPAN Packaging ranked first for both product quality and value for money among eight major foodservice packaging suppliers in a Technomic survey of operators, leading the runner-up by two percentage points on quality and five on value.

Paris – October 14, 2026 -- Dilmah has reached the SIAL For Change final as one of just five large companies selected from 226 entries worldwide, while three of its products were also chosen for SIAL's innovation selection.

Three Dilmah products enter the SIAL Innovation Area

An independent jury of international food-industry experts judged entries on originality, technical innovation and sustainability impact. The selected products will be showcased in the dedicated SIAL Innovation Area:

Shanghai – October 14, 2026 -- Chinese luxury label EP YAYING is using its second consecutive appearance at the Shanghai Fashion Week MODE trade show, October 8 to 12, 2026, to launch its Spring/Summer 2027 collection to international buyers across five product directions.

The brand is exhibiting at Booth F17-01, Tower T2, Jingyao Hongqiao, 688 Tianshan Road, Changning. It first joined MODE in March 2026.

Barcelona – October 14, 2026 -- Temu has received the Cross-Border Magazine Award for its role in Europe's digital economy, with a company survey showing 34% of EU-based local sellers have expanded into new international markets since joining the platform.

The award was presented at a ceremony in Barcelona on 1 October 2026. Cross-Border Magazine founder Jeroen Leenders said Temu has become "a significant part of Europe's e-commerce landscape."

High Point – October 13, 2026 -- S&H Rugs, a designer and wholesaler of hand-knotted rugs, has unveiled its Fall 2027 Collection at High Point Market (HPMKT) Fall 2026 in North Carolina, with all rugs shown on its website listed as in stock and ready to ship immediately.

S&H Rugs blends sustainable materials with traditional weaving in the new line

The collection combines sustainable materials with traditional weaving techniques. It uses organic textures and a palette of earth tones. The company says each piece is designed for modern living spaces.

Vancouver – October 13, 2026 -- GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) has released gtinfetch.ai, a GTIN resolver that lets AI agents check any of 84 million barcodes in a single call, which the company describes as the largest open resolver on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

GreenCore targets grocery agentic commerce in 20 countries

The service runs on Microsoft Azure and the Cloudflare edge and answers in milliseconds from wherever the agent sits. GSC built it for retail grocery agentic commerce transactions at scale across 20 countries.