Dublin – October 28, 2026 -- Temu plans to invest about $200 million in compliance and quality assurance worldwide in 2026, twice its 2025 spending, as it adds in-house product testing laboratories inside its logistics partners' warehouses.

Bureau Veritas confirms the labs can run defined European-standard tests

Bureau Veritas audited the labs' testing equipment, premises, technical staff, workflows and quality assurance systems. It confirmed the labs meet the technical requirements for the intended tests under selected European standards.

HELSINKI – October 28, 2026 -- UPM-Kymmene reported a third-quarter comparable EBIT of €131 million from continuing operations, down 8% from €142 million a year earlier. Operating cash flow nearly doubled to €420 million from €218 million, driven by working capital measures.

MILTON KEYNES – October 28, 2026 -- CookieYes, a consent management platform used by more than 2 million websites, has won Shopify's Built for Shopify badge for its cookie consent app, with daily installs up 59% since a 23 September update.

Shopify awarded the badge on 9 October 2026. It goes to apps that meet the platform's highest standards for performance, design and integration, including storefront speed and ease of use. More than 8,600 Shopify stores have installed the app to date.

OSLO – – October 28, 2026 -- Photocure ASA raised its 2026 product revenue growth guidance to 10% to 12% on a constant currency basis, up from 8% to 11%, after Hexvix/Cysview revenues of NOK 134.2 million in the third quarter matched the prior-year level of NOK 134.1 million.

ESPOO – October 28, 2026 -- Valmet Oyj's third-quarter orders received rose 30 percent to EUR 1,408 million (EUR 1,083 million), or 25 percent organically, while comparable EBITA climbed 6 percent to EUR 169 million (EUR 159 million).

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.

ATHENS – October 28, 2026 -- Greek and Serbian business leaders and tourism professionals meet at the InterContinental Athenaeum Athens on 29 October to build partnerships ahead of EXPO 2027 Belgrade, backed by €884 million in bilateral goods trade and roughly €1.27 billion in services trade in 2025.

Serbia's trade ministry reports €884 million in goods trade with Greece for 2025

According to Serbia's Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade, bilateral trade in goods reached €884 million in 2025. Services trade totalled approximately €1.27 billion.

Oslo – October 28, 2026 -- BlueNord ASA posted third-quarter 2026 EBITDA of USD 219.6 million, up from USD 146.8 million in the second quarter, as higher production and stronger commodity prices lifted revenue to USD 346 million.

Revenue rises 25% quarter on quarter on higher volumes and prices

Revenue climbed from USD 276.8 million in Q2. The company attributed the gain to higher oil and gas sales volumes and increased commodity prices, partly offset by a higher hedge effect. EBITDA grew roughly 50% over the same period.

Oslo – October 28, 2026 -- Aker Solutions guided 2027 revenue down to NOK 35-40 billion, well below its 2026 outlook of NOK 53-55 billion, and said it is cutting its cost base to match the lower activity.

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.