Boise, Idaho – October 13, 2026 -- Clean Form Nutrition has become the first brand to earn NSF Certified for Sport® certification for a finished product containing NNB Nutrition's Pürest CreatineTM, adding a finished-product check to an ingredient already certified by Informed Choice and tested by two independent laboratories.

Drums, Pa. – October 13, 2026 -- Best Cigar Prices (BCP), an online premium cigar retailer, has appointed John Greeby as Vice President of Merchandising, effective October 2026. He brings 15 years of merchandising, promotions and business leadership experience from the nation's largest business-to-consumer cigar company.

Scottsdale – October 13, 2026 -- Sparkle Grooming Co. will open its Johns Creek salon on Monday, October 19, the first step in a three-unit franchise agreement with local attorney and real estate professional Sean Reaves and the brand's entry into the Atlanta area.

Bedford – October 13, 2026 -- Blo Blow Dry Bar has signed a three-unit development agreement to enter New Hampshire, with local entrepreneur Marissa Gardner as the brand's sole operator in the state.

Gardner will open locations in Bedford, Nashua and Southern New Hampshire. She is currently securing sites, and addresses have not been announced.

Tampa – October 13, 2026 -- HAEVN, a city-by-city matching network, has launched Meetup Spots, a program that charges local businesses $99 per month to be recommended to matched singles deciding where to meet, starting in Tampa, Florida, and Austin, Texas.

Las Vegas – October 13, 2026 -- USA Bobsled/Skeleton (USABS) and heated apparel brand ororo have renewed their partnership through the 2029-30 season, extending a four-year relationship by another four years.

ororo remains the Official Heated Apparel Partner of USABS. It will supply the national bobsled and skeleton teams with heated gear for both training and competition.

Burlington, N.J. – October 12, 2026 -- Eighty percent of U.S. adults expect to spend the same amount or more on holiday shopping this year than last, even as 58% of those respondents worry about exceeding their budgets, according to a Wakefield Research survey commissioned by off-price retailer Burlington Stores.

Exton, Pennsylvania – October 12, 2026 -- Hunt Auctions has brokered a private treaty sale of a Michael Jordan 1998 NBA Finals Game Two road jersey for $14,000,000, a world record for any piece of basketball memorabilia and the second-highest price paid for a game-used jersey in any sport.

The price tops the $12,260,000 realized by Jordan's home jersey from Game Three of the same Finals. That jersey sold at auction on September 29, 2026, so the record has moved up by $1,740,000 within roughly two weeks.

Fort Lee – October 12, 2026 -- VUSSENS Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of KOSDAQ-listed NEWEN AI, has set up its North American operations in New Jersey and launched its ontology-based AI beauty analytics platform in the U.S. market.

The company chose New Jersey for its proximity to New York, which it describes as a major global hub for international business and consumer goods distribution. It plans to draw on its local partnership network, including connections with New York University (NYU) Stern and the Global AI Frontier Lab in New York.

Hong Kong – October 12, 2026 -- DPC Dash (1405.HK), Domino's Pizza's exclusive master franchisee in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, operated 1,634 stores across 87 cities at September 30, 2026. It added a net 84 stores and entered 12 cities in the third quarter, while same-store sales growth stayed negative.