SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 27, 2025 - The home improvement and garden retail sector in Germany and the wider European market is still searching for a sustained upswing, as new figures from the Handelsverband Heimwerken, Bauen und Garten e.V. (BHB) reveal a modest decline in sales after the third quarter of 2025 despite a strong second quarter and pockets of category growth.

Cautious Consumers Slow DIY and Garden Spending

Across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, macroeconomic uncertainty and consumer caution continue to weigh on DIY spending. After nine months of 2025, German DIY and home improvement stores generated €16.08 billion in gross sales, down 1.4% year-on-year, or 1.2% on a like-for-like basis. Switzerland also reported a decline, while only Austria managed to end the period with a positive overall result.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Royal Philips has launched Image Management 15, the next generation of its Philips Vue PACS platform, featuring a zero-footprint web diagnostic viewer that brings full radiology workstation capabilities into a standard web browser. Positioned as a cornerstone of Philips' cloud-enabled imaging informatics strategy, the solution is designed to help health systems modernize remote reading, streamline AI integration, and simplify IT across distributed radiology networks.

Anywhere, anytime diagnostic reading via the browser

The new web-based diagnostic viewer is built to address one of radiology's most persistent pain points: lost clinical time due to slow performance and fragmented remote reading setups. Delivering high-performance server-side rendering and workflow automation, it allows radiologists to access advanced clinical tools securely through a browser, without local installation.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Royal Philips has extended its partnership with quantitative neuroimaging specialist Cortechs.ai to integrate advanced AI-enabled neuroimaging analytics directly into Philips MR systems, giving radiologists faster, more objective and reproducible insights into brain health within their everyday workflows. By combining Philips' next-generation MR technologies with Cortechs.ai's quantitative post-processing software, the collaboration aims to set a new benchmark for precision diagnostics in neurology and strengthen Philips' position in data-driven brain imaging.

Meeting surging demand for brain MR with data-driven insight

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Royal Philips is introducing DeviceGuide, an AI-powered device tracking solution that brings real-time, 3D navigation support into one of interventional cardiology's most demanding procedures: minimally invasive repair of leaking heart valves. Built on the company's EchoNavigator platform and previewed at London Valves 2025, DeviceGuide is designed to translate complex imaging into intuitive visual guidance, helping structural heart teams perform mitral valve repair with greater clarity, confidence and reproducibility.

AI-guided navigation inside the procedure room

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - In radiology, the most transformative AI of the coming decade may not be the algorithms that make headlines, but the ones that quietly shave minutes off every case, reduce clicks, and keep worklists flowing smoothly for overburdened imaging teams. That is the vision outlined by Shez Partovi, MD, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader Enterprise Informatics at Philips, who argues that the future of AI in radiology is the AI you barely notice - deeply embedded into workflows rather than bolted on as yet another standalone tool.

From "Will it help?" to "How fast can you implement it?"

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Philips has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for the latest release of its Cardiovascular Workspace (IntelliSpace Cardiovascular, ISCV), enabling U.S. health systems to deploy the cardiovascular imaging and information management platform as a cloud-hosted, SaaS solution on Philips HealthSuite. The move positions hospitals and cardiology networks to modernize IT, scale integrated diagnostics, and accelerate real-world adoption of AI-enabled cardiovascular workflows.

Cloud-based cardiovascular informatics for U.S. health systems

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - As Europe's leading trade fair for secure communications opens in Cologne, PMRExpo 2025 is positioning private 5G campus networks as a central driver of digital transformation across aviation, production, mobility, logistics and critical infrastructure. With a dedicated "5G-Hub for Private Networks", a curated conference program and live demonstrations, the event is turning secure, mission- and business-critical 5G into a concrete investment agenda for enterprises and public authorities.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Nestlé Health Science is deepening its open innovation strategy in nutrition and health through a series of academic and startup collaborations focused on women's health, healthy longevity and weight management, positioning itself at the center of fast-growing therapeutic nutrition markets. By linking university-based science, entrepreneurial talent and its own R&D capabilities, the company aims to accelerate the translation of emerging technologies into differentiated nutritional solutions for consumers and patients.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Nestlé is piloting a novel, patented cocoa processing technique that uses up to 30% more of each cocoa fruit, aiming to boost farmer yields, reduce waste and create new product opportunities for the global food processing and ingredients industry. By turning traditionally underused parts of the cocoa pod into chocolate flakes, the company is testing a more resource-efficient model for chocolate production in the face of climate pressure on cocoa supply.

Turning more of each cocoa pod into value
Conventional chocolate production relies almost exclusively on cocoa beans, leaving pulp, placenta and husk largely underutilized. Nestlé's R&D organization has reframed that paradigm by developing a method that leverages all of the edible material inside the pod, not just the beans. In doing so, it directly addresses both raw material efficiency and the economic potential of each harvested fruit.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Nestlé and its research partners have created a new cocoa core collection that captures more than 95% of the crop's global genetic diversity, laying a strategic foundation for a more resilient cocoa supply chain serving chocolate manufacturers and food producers worldwide. By consolidating genetic resources into a curated set of 96 varieties, the project aims to accelerate breeding of climate-resilient, higher-yield and quality-enhanced cocoa tailored to the needs of the global food and beverage industry.

A 'Noah's Ark' for cocoa genetics
The heart of the initiative is a core collection that condenses thousands of potential trees into a representative set of 96 cocoa varieties. This enables researchers and breeders to work on a manageable but comprehensive portfolio of genetic material, cutting time and complexity from pre-commercial research.