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SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Modern vehicles and infrastructure have made roads significantly safer in recent decades, but new findings from the DEKRA Road Safety Report 2025 show that certain "classic" crash scenarios remain stubbornly dangerous and will require a combination of smarter assistance systems, better infrastructure and targeted awareness campaigns to reduce fatalities and serious injuries further.

Persistent high-risk crash scenarios despite overall progress

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - As DEKRA concludes its 100th anniversary year, the global testing, inspection and certification (TIC) organization is reporting resilient performance, mid-single digit revenue growth and a clear strategic course focused on Mobility, Digital Trust and Sustainability despite a volatile macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop.

Resilient TIC Performance in a Challenging Environment

In 2025, DEKRA operated against a backdrop of elevated volatility, geopolitical uncertainties and weak economic conditions in several European markets. Even so, the group expects mid-single digit revenue growth for the full year and overall stable results at the level of the previous year. In the first ten months alone, revenue growth in the core TIC business stood at around 4 percent, underscoring the robustness of its service portfolio.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - As urban mobility systems evolve and traffic volumes rise, new data from DEKRA's Road Safety Report 2025 show that "Vision Zero" - the target of eliminating road fatalities and serious injuries - is already a reality in hundreds of cities worldwide, with the German city of Detmold now receiving the DEKRA Vision Zero Award 2025 for its outstanding performance.

Vision Zero Moves from Utopia to Measurable Reality

"Vision Zero" - the goal of zero traffic fatalities or, ultimately, serious injuries - is not unattainable. Hundreds of cities around the world have achieved zero road fatalities in at least one calendar year since 2009, according to official national statistics. Among them are now several with around 300,000 inhabitants. The DEKRA Vision Zero Award for the best performance among cities over 50,000 inhabitants has been presented to the German city of Detmold.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Farizon New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group is strengthening its position in the European commercial vehicle market with a new spare parts warehouse and a three-way strategic cooperation that aims to boost parts availability, fleet uptime and green logistics performance across the region.

Strategic Partnership Anchored in London

On 24 November 2025 in London, Farizon, Duvenbeck Logistics Group and AGN LEANWAY International Logistics, part of Amass Group, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to support mutually beneficial growth in European logistics operations. The agreement was signed by Cook Xue, CEO of Farizon International Company, Marco Nazzari, Chief Commercial Officer of Duvenbeck, and Peter Wenren, Chairman of AGN Leanway, and witnessed by Farizon Group CEO Mike Fan alongside senior management from all three companies.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Beyless, a Seoul-based mobility software technology company, has secured Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) Capability Level 2 (CL2) certification for its vehicle system software, underscoring its readiness to meet the stringent quality expectations of global automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.

ASPICE CL2 as a Quality Benchmark for Automotive Software

ASPICE CL2 is an international process assessment model that validates whether software development is carried out in a systematic and consistent way across the entire lifecycle. For automotive OEMs and Tier-1s, ASPICE has effectively become a de-facto prerequisite for collaboration, especially in complex domains such as in-vehicle infotainment and connected mobility platforms.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Chinese tire manufacturer Linglong Tire is stepping up its global brand-building strategy in the Automotive & Mobility sector with a new partnership agreement with the Chicago Bulls, leveraging one of the NBA's most iconic franchises to accelerate its visibility and market penetration across North and Latin America.

Global Sports Marketing as a Strategic Growth Lever

On 25 November 2025, Linglong Tire announced a global partnership with the Chicago Bulls, adding another high-profile sports collaboration to a portfolio that already includes European football giants Chelsea and Real Madrid. The deal underlines Linglong's ambition to position itself alongside internationally recognised sports brands as it competes for mindshare in mature and emerging tire markets.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - As the global electric vehicle charging ecosystem races to standardize secure Plug & Charge and other transaction models, the SAE Industry Technologies Consortia's Electric Vehicle Public Key Infrastructure (EVPKI) Consortium has launched a Production Certificate Trust List (CTL) that brings multiple certificate authorities and OEMs into a shared, interoperable security framework.

Production CTL Marks Milestone for Interoperable EV PKI

The newly announced Production CTL is built to enable real-world quality assurance testing with six EVPKI root certificates from major PKI providers and automotive OEMs, including DigiCert, Hubject, Irdeto, ISS, General Motors and Tesla. Using the EVPKI production testing platform, the consortium can now validate its PKI interoperability model against a diverse set of roots that reflect the emerging EV charging market structure.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - MWC25 Doha has closed its doors after a high-profile two-day debut that drew almost 9,500 unique attendees and positioned the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as an increasingly influential hub in the global connectivity and digital innovation ecosystem.

A Landmark Debut for MWC in the GCC

Hosted in partnership with the State of Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, MWC25 Doha marked a strategic expansion of the GSMA's flagship event series into the GCC region. The show brought together senior leaders from both policy and industry as discussions focused on digital transformation, innovation and the next wave of 5G and beyond.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - The BMW Group is extending its footprint in sustainable urban mobility by licensing two of its micromobility concepts, "Dynamic Cargo" and "Clever Commute", to Chinese electric two-wheeler specialist LUYUAN Group, opening the door to new lightweight vehicle offerings for city transport worldwide.

Strategic Licensing Deal Targets Global Urban Mobility Demand

Under the new agreement, the BMW Group grants LUYUAN licenses to further develop and industrialize the two concepts and bring them to market under LUYUAN's own brands. The move underscores how automotive and mobility players are broadening their portfolios beyond cars and motorcycles to capture the rapidly growing micromobility segment.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 27, 2025 - The 26th BHB-Baumarktkongress in Bonn has brought together a record number of DIY retail leaders this week, as 509 executives from trade, industry and service providers gather under the former Bundestag's Federal Eagle to discuss how the home improvement sector can navigate prolonged consumer caution and reshape its future.

Full House in Bonn as the "Branchenfamilie" Regroups

The World Conference Center Bonn, long the favorite venue of the "Branchenfamilie", is more than full this year-an indicator of how urgent the need for strategic exchange has become. For the third year in a row, the long-awaited turnaround for the DIY and garden trade has not yet materialized, and the sector is collectively searching for new synergies and concepts to counter hesitant consumer spending.

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.