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New Lightspeed Data Shows Digital Marketing is Driving Engagement and Growth for Golf Courses

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As Golfers Shift Online, Strong Digital Strategies Are Crucial for Course Success
60% of golfers ages 18-34 said they actively follow golf courses on social media
64% of golfers discover new courses on social media with an additional 7% who always use this channel to find new courses they want to play

MONTREAL, Sept. 19, 2024 /CNW/ – Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (NYSE: LSPD) (TSX: LSPD) (“Lightspeed”), the unified commerce platform powering merchants to provide the best omnichannel experiences, today released data that highlights the need for golf courses to maintain a strong online presence in order to grow their business. According to new survey data from Lightspeed, 75% of golfers believe it’s important or very important for golf courses to offer a good website experience, and nearly half (49%) say a strong online presence is important or very important.

“With golfers increasingly using digital channels to engage with courses, having a well-optimized online presence can help drive bookings and customer loyalty – this is why we offer Digital Marketing Solutions (DMS) as part of Lightspeed Golf,” said David Hope, General Manager, Golf at Lightspeed. “Our data shows that golf courses embracing digital marketing strategies like DMS are seeing significant results, from heightened visibility to increased rounds and sales.”

The data also shows that social media engagement and website performance can contribute to a course’s ability to attract new players and keep regular golfers coming back. Lightspeed Golf data reveals that the longer courses are live with DMS, generally the more success they can have in driving engagement, sales and bookings. After their initial three months, courses that were live with DMS between 90 and 180 days saw a 64.6% increase in Facebook reach and a 142% increase in website sessions.

Courses that have partnered with Lightspeed’s Digital Marketing Solutions have seen significant growth in online interactions, translating into real-world benefits like increased bookings and greater customer retention. With the rise of social media and online discovery, the traditional methods of attracting golfers are evolving. Golf courses that aren’t leveraging digital marketing are missing out on an opportunity to connect with both new and returning customers.

“Digital marketing isn’t just about visibility; it’s about creating meaningful connections with golfers and driving engagement,” added JD Saint-Martin, President of Lightspeed. “As we see more players discovering courses through online channels and social media, Lightspeed’s tools are designed to help operators harness these trends—whether through targeted campaigns or personalized offers—to drive bookings and grow their business.”

Unlock your golf course’s full potential with Lightspeed’s Digital Marketing Solutions here —empowering you with the tools and insights to elevate your digital marketing strategy.

Methodology

The information in this press release is partly derived from a  survey of more than 300 North Americans conducted throughout June 2024 by Lightspeed using third party survey vendor User Testing. Information herein is also derived from data from courses powered by Lightspeed’s Digital Marketing Solutions for the period of July 2022 to September 2024.

About Lightspeed

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed’s one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions and connection to supplier networks.

Lightspeed powers the world’s best businesses in Golf, including Founders Group International, Landscapes Golf Management, KemperSports, TPC Myrtle Beach, The Sea Pines Resort, Cape Kidnappers and Advance Golf Partners.

Dive into the transformative features of Lightspeed Golf on our website.

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This news release may include forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws (“forward-looking statements”). Forward-looking statements are statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events or conditions and are identified by words such as “will”, “expects”, “anticipates”, “intends”, “plans”, “believes”, “estimates” or similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Such statements are based on current expectations of Lightspeed’s management and inherently involve numerous risks and uncertainties, known and unknown, including economic factors. A number of risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this news release, including, among other factors, those risk factors identified in our most recent Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, under “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Information Form, and in our other filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which are available under our profiles on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. Readers are cautioned to consider these and other factors carefully when making decisions with respect to Lightspeed’s subordinate voting shares and not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are not guarantees of future performance and, while forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that Lightspeed considers reasonable, actual events and results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements made by Lightspeed. Except as may be expressly required by applicable law, Lightspeed does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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MaryRuth’s Celebrates TikTok Shop Super Brand Day With Exclusive Offers and Viral Favorites

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MaryRuth’s, the trusted leader in liquid vitamins and wellness products, is thrilled to announce its participation in TikTok Shop’s Super Brand Day from January 12 to 18, 2025. For this exclusive event, MaryRuth’s is celebrating with up to 40% off shopwide and exclusive multi-pack bundles of their top-selling products including viral favorites.

MaryRuth’s Liquid Morning Multivitamin + Hair Growth became a social media sensation in 2024, with over 369,000 bottles sold and 18,000 5-star reviews from customers who rave about its convenience, taste, and powerful benefits for health and hair growth. With these exclusive deals on TikTok Shop, MaryRuth’s aims to make its most-loved products even more accessible to its community to kick off healthy habits in 2025.

“We are so thrilled to be part of TikTok Shop’s Super Brand Day,” said MaryRuth Ghiyam, Founder and CEO of MaryRuth’s. “Our mission has always been to help people feel their best with high-quality, delicious, easy-to-use wellness products, and this event allows us to reach even more people with great deals on the products they love.”

Customers can take advantage of up to 40% off all products on MaryRuth’s TikTok Shop and shop specially curated bundles, including multi-packs of the Liquid Morning Multivitamin + Hair Growth. Designed to support overall health as well as hair thickness, hair growth, and skin health, this multivitamin has become a must-have for many health-conscious individuals.

MaryRuth’s will also showcase engaging TikTok content to celebrate this partnership, including product demonstrations, customer testimonials, and exclusive offers for TikTok users.

Mark your calendars for January 12-18, 2025, and join MaryRuth’s in celebrating TikTok Shop Super Brand Day. Don’t miss this opportunity to shop viral favorites and stock up to support your wellness for the new year and beyond!

About MaryRuth’s
MaryRuth was inspired to help empower others to take wellness into their own hands after seeing how health issues personally impacted her loved ones. As a health educator, nutritional consultant, culinary chef, and mom to 4 children, MaryRuth was driven to formulate a delicious, easy-to-take multivitamin with quality ingredients for her clients and family. This led to the creation of what is now America’s #1 best-selling liquid multivitamin. Through our growing product line, we aim to continue what was MaryRuth’s original mission: helping you to create small, healthy habits to move forward every day.

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Neusoft Education officially renamed as ” Neutech Group Limited “, accelerating the advancement of the “education-healthcare-wellness and mind tour” strategy in a new stage

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HONG KONG, Jan. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 9 January, Neusoft Education (09616.HK) announced that the Company’s English name will change from “Neusoft Education Technology Co. Limited” to “Neutech Group Limited”. The name change will take effect on the same day.

According to the announcement, the Company’s renaming to “Neutech Group Limited” better reflects its strategic transformation and upgrade, and more accurately demonstrates its five-in-one industry layout of “education-healthcare-wellness and mind tour”. This will establish a new corporate brand image and highlight the Company’s comprehensive strength in technological innovation and integrated development. Starting with the name change, the Company will focus on education and adapt to the aging economy, promoting the parallel development of academic education, continuing education, senior education, and resource output. This will create a business model of “education-assisted healthcare, education-assisted wellness, medical-care conversion, medical-education assistance, care-supported medicine, and care-education assistance”. Driven by technology and platform research and development, the company will achieve integrated development of education, medicine, care, health, and tourism, as well as efficient use of human, financial, and material resources. This will build a harmonious and inclusive “education + technology + medical care + health + tourism” prosperous ecosystem. It is expected to further enhance the Company’s brand reputation and industry influence, and support its sustainable development.

Neutech Group, as a pioneer in the “education-healthcare-wellness and mind tour” ecosystem in China, successfully listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 29 September 2020, becoming the “first stock of IT higher education” (stock code: 9616.HK). With the broad market opportunities brought by the aging population and the positive support of policies for the development of the elderly care industry, the Company leverages its innovative research and development capabilities in “education + technology + medical care” to build a new ecosystem of integrated development of ” education-healthcare-wellness and mind tour”.

In the education technology business sector, the Company will retain the main body of ” Neusoft Education Group” and continue to operate academic education, continuing education, and resource output businesses. Based on IT innovation education, the Company will further develop the “digital media” and “medical care” fields, build an integrated ecosystem of “education-healthcare-wellness”, and consolidate the core competitiveness of education technology in the future. The Company will also establish a characteristic product and service system based on the 4S model, providing first-class platforms, resources, models, and management services to governments, universities, hospitals, and health care institutions, continuously empowering partners’ reform and development.

In the elderly education and elderly care technology business sector, following the concept of “Elderly care starts with prevention, education drives elderly care, and technology empowers elderly care”, the Company has deeply developed elderly education through Neuedu Phoenix Academy and created a unique “LIFECARES” model of integrated elderly education with “leisure, care, medical services, education, and integration”. Using top-notch medical and care services and platform services to empower the elderly to live a happy life, the Company is building a dream university for active seniors. In addition, the Company will strengthen the training of elderly care service personnel by creating a one-stop industry chain of “university training + training + intern + human resource services”. On the other hand, the Company will build a medical and care technology operation service model, create an elderly care solution industrial ecosystem through the output of overall smart elderly care solutions and elderly care technology products and services, and achieve mutually beneficial cooperation with ecological partners.

In the medical and health care service sector, the Company integrates customer management service systems to provide intelligent medical and elderly care information solutions, and create a “medical care and elderly care” integrated development system with treatment-based medical institutions, rehabilitation-based nursing institutions, and care-based elderly care institutions. Its subsidiaries, Ruikang Cardiovascular Hospital, Dalian Ruikang Zhuomei Stomatology Hospital Co., Ltd., and Wecare Family Nursing Home, have been put into operation.

In the wellness tourism sector, targeting energetic seniors, the Company integrates tourism, education, and elderly care into one, with a focus on “leisure learning, slow travel, and peaceful living”. Through the concept of “study-travel-care”, seniors can experience a variety of dimensions of “learning-travel-care” in their travel and learning process, creating a comprehensive elderly education model that provides opportunities for art experiences, promotes physical and mental relaxation, enhances cultural literacy, and expands social interaction.

In addition, the Company expands its industrial management and service sector, with the vision of building a better life and using technology to empower intelligent logistics. It explores diverse, characteristic, and value-added service models to meet the diverse needs of internal and external customers, continuously expanding its brand reputation and social influence.

With its keen market insight and deep accumulation of industry and education resources, Neutech Group Limited actively embraces the development of the silver-haired economy, timely enters new tracks, and improves its position in the industrial ecosystem. Now, the Group’s new layout of “education-healthcare-wellness and mind tour ” has been formed, which not only helps to create a new growth curve but also continuously expands new development margins, moving towards becoming a leader in the development of the “education-healthcare-wellness and mind tour” ecosystem.

CONTACT: Lin Wei, weilin@neuedu.com

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RoboSense and Coco Robotics Forge Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — RoboSense (2498.HK), a global leader in AI-driven robotics technology, and Coco Robotics, an innovator in delivery robots, have announced a strategic partnership to transform last-mile logistics. By combining RoboSense’s advanced sensor technology with Coco Robotics’s delivery solutions, the collaboration aims to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability in urban networks.

Coco Robotics bridges the gap between local businesses and customers through advanced navigation and real-time tracking, prioritizing sustainability by reducing carbon emissions and delivery costs. Since its launch in 2020, the company has expanded operations to major U.S. and European cities, forming partnerships with food delivery leaders like Uber Eats and DoorDash to meet the growing demands of modern logistics and support a greener future.

This partnership addresses key challenges in autonomous last-mile delivery by integrating RoboSense’s perception solutions into Coco Robotics’s fleet to enhance navigation and obstacle detection. Together, the companies are accelerating the deployment of delivery robots to optimize efficiency and scale operations.

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with RoboSense to push the boundaries of what’s possible in last-mile delivery,” said Zach Rash, Co-founder and CEO of Coco Robotics. “This partnership strengthens our ability to provide safe, reliable, and sustainable delivery solutions at scale, helping us better serve businesses and communities.”

Mark Qiu, CEO of RoboSense, said, “The successful collaboration with Coco Robotics is one of the key milestones in RoboSense’s global strategy. By combining our visual sensor technology with Coco Robotics’ innovative robotics solutions, we aim to redefine what’s possible in autonomous last-mile delivery. RoboSense will continue to innovate, providing superior incremental components and solutions to our global robotics customers. Partnering with Coco Robotics, we will create safer, smarter robotic delivery services and expand into global markets.”  

About RoboSense

RoboSense (2498.HK), founded in 2014, is an AI-driven robotics technology company that supplies industry-leading incremental components and solutions for the robotics market. The company is committed to “Become the global leader in robotics technology platforms”, and its mission is “Safer world, Smarter life”. For more information about RoboSense, visit https://www.robosense.ai 

About Coco Robotics

Coco Robotics is the world’s largest urban robot delivery platform. Founded in 2020, Coco has completed over 500,000 zero-emission deliveries, serving customers in the US and Europe. Coco’s mission is to create a more sustainable, reliable, and affordable last-mile logistics solution in cities around the world. For more information about Coco, visit cocodelivery.com  

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