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The Context Network Joins Kearney to Deepen Support for Clients Across Agriculture and Food Value Chains

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Deal enables broader depth of transformational support for Kearney and The Context Network clients.  

CHICAGO, Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Kearney, a leading global management consulting partnership, today announced its acquisition of The Context Network (Context), a consultancy with deep expertise in agribusiness and more than 30 years of serving clients in the sector. The acquisition increases Kearney’s presence in agriculture and food, two priority areas for the firm, while contributing to the ongoing growth of Context’s business and furthering rewarding career paths for the Context team.

Context’s team of professionals provide strategic advice to clients across the entire food and ag value chain, including crop input manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, and agricultural retailers. Alongside Kearney’s history, presence, and expertise in agriculture and food, Context will bolster the Kearney team to serve our clients with an even greater depth of knowledge. Kearney has prioritized investments across the food system as a key area for the firm’s growth.

“Acquiring The Context Network is a significant step to expand and deepen our client impact across the agriculture and food value chain,” said Carol Cruickshank, Kearney’s Americas region chair. “Kearney keeps a continuous focus on building the capabilities and solutions needed to adapt and support our clients in an ever-changing world.”

For Context, being acquired by Kearney is an opportunity to bring Context’s expertise to more clients and broaden their offerings to help more companies with end-to-end transformation. “The breadth and depth of Context’s network and expertise, combined with Kearney’s, will enable us to do even more toward our mission of advancing agriculture—of delivering meaningful, actionable solutions to our clients’ most pressing challenges,” said James Mann, partner and chair of the board of managers at Context. “That’s the goal that has always driven us, and we’re excited by what being part of Kearney means both for our people and for our clients.”

Kearney partner Rob Dongoski shared that the Context team works similarly to Kearney in their entrepreneurial spirit, focus on innovation, and willingness to roll up their sleeves and get to work. “The Context team has an unmatched understanding of large-scale production of staple crops and the complexity of the agriculture and food value chain,” Dongoski said. “This transaction will combine complementary capabilities to provide a stronger offering for our clients across the agriculture and food spectrum, solving a known gap in the industry.”

The Context acquisition represents a continuation of Kearney’s strategy of using inorganic moves to accelerate its top-line growth and better serve clients. In the past five years, Kearney has also acquired Cervello, a data and analytics provider; Prokura, a procurement and supply chain consultancy; OPTANO, which provides AI-powered operations optimization solutions; TEAMS, an industrial design firm; MSE – Management Solutions Experts, a Middle East consulting firm; and Silicon Foundry, an innovation advisory firm.

The Context Network will be known as “The Context Network, a Kearney Company,” while still offering the same level of service they’ve always delivered to their clients.

About Kearney

Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm. For nearly 100 years, we have been a trusted advisor to C-suites, government bodies, and nonprofit organizations. Our people make us who we are. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we work alongside our clients to regenerate their businesses to create a future that works for everyone. To learn more about Kearney, please visit www.kearney.com. 

About The Context Network

The Context Network® is a global agribusiness consulting firm which helps organizations achieve remarkable results through strategic management insights and a network of agriculture, biotechnology, and food industry professionals, creating business solutions that deliver actionable outcomes. With a rich history of advancing agriculture across the entire food and ag value chain, our passion for agriculture is what drives us and is one of the main reasons we have become the premier global agribusiness consulting firm in advancing agriculture. To learn more, please visit us at www.contextnet.com.

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Eye Level holds its 2024 Eye Level Math Olympiad for students to test out their math skills.

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SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Eye Level is hosting the 2024 Math Olympiad (ELMO 2024), inviting students from grades 1 to 8 worldwide to showcase their math skills. The competition will run from November 9 to December 1, following each country’s schedule across 15 countries.
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This Olympiad, part of the annual Eye Level Math Olympiad series established in 2004, offers students a valuable opportunity to assess and enhance their mathematical abilities. The test lasts approximately one hour and is designed to challenge students across various areas of math skills, covering most arithmetic and critical thinking domains. Questions are tailored to each grade level, allowing students to evaluate their skills objectively.All participants will receive a certificate of participation and a comprehensive analysis of their test results. Official results and winners will be announced in January 2025 on myeyelevel.com, with award ceremonies planned to be held locally for outstanding participants.

Registration is currently open on myeyelevel.com.

About Eye Level

Eye Level is an international provider of supplemental education services in Math and English with more than 2 million students having experienced its programs. Eye Level guides the students to learn at their own pace, and achieve their goals. With a growth-minded learning process, Eye Level helps students build good learning habits that become the foundation of great talent – setting them up for success in school and beyond. 

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Petram Technologies Named “a Top Sustainability Innovator” at Plug and Play Alberta and New York Venture Summit for Revolutionary Rock-Breaking Technology

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Leading the Charge in Eco-Friendly Rock-Breaking Technology with Minimal Environmental Impact.

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Petram Technologies, a leader in rock-breaking technology, has been named a top sustainability innovator by Plug and Play Alberta’s Fall 2024 program and a top clean technology innovator at the 21st Annual New York Venture Summit in New York City. These recognitions, awarded in October 2024, underscore Petram’s role in driving eco-friendly advancements across multiple industries.

Petram’s products break rock using just electrical pulses and a few ounces of water—no chemicals, no dust, and reduced noise & vibration. By collaborating with multiple Fortune 500 industry leaders, Petram has adapted its technology for applications in concrete demolition, bedrock excavation, geothermal and water well development, and the oil & gas sectors, where sustainable rock-breaking demand is projected to increase by 10-15% annually through 2028. Its patented High-Power Electrical Pulse (HPEP) Fracture System reduces noise, dust, and vibration by over 99% while delivering 20 X the efficiency of traditional methods.

“These recognitions are a testament to the groundbreaking work Petram is doing to address the challenges in rock-breaking with cleaner, faster, and more efficient technology,” said Franco Magnotti, CEO of Petram Technologies. “Our HPEP system isn’t just reshaping how rock is broken—it’s reshaping how industries approach sustainability. Built on our ten patents, we’re thrilled by the strong interest in our technology as we expand through strategic partnerships in 2025.”

Earlier this year, Petram presented its breakthrough technology to over 150 investors overseeing $250 billion in capital at the New York Venture Summit, solidifying its position as a top innovator in clean tech and setting the stage for future investments. The broader green technology and sustainability market is expected to expand at a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2030, with clean tech investments approaching $900 billion globally, underscoring strong interest in high-efficiency solutions that deliver both environmental and economic benefits.

With commercialization planned for 2025, Petram’s HPEP system is positioned to transform multiple sectors with cleaner, safer, and more efficient solutions. We invite industry leaders and investors to join us in driving sustainable advancements across infrastructure, energy, and resource extraction. For partnership opportunities or investment inquiries, visit www.petramtechnologies.com

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Brigid Ephault
215-971-5611
B.ephault@petramtechnologies.com

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Huawei Launches New Products and Solutions for Commercial Market and Works with Partners to Accelerate Digital Intelligence for SMEs

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DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — During the 44th GITEX GLOBAL, one of the world’s largest technology exhibitions, Huawei Commercial Market Summit was held with the theme of “Joining Hands with Partners to Amplify Intelligence for SMEs.” At the event, Huawei launched 17 new products and 6 new solutions designed for the global SME market. The company also shared achievements of its continued strategic investment in the commercial market, emphasizing that it will keep adhering to a partner-centric approach. Huawei is committed to working together with partners to serve hundreds of thousands of customers in the commercial market.

In his opening speech, Ernest Zhang, President of the Partner Development and Commercial & Distribution Business Dept in Huawei Enterprise Sales Dept, said: “Over the past year, Huawei has achieved rapid growth in the commercial market in terms of the number of partners and customers, and overall revenue. Huawei will firmly adhere to its partner-led commercial market strategy, join hands with partners to gain in-depth insights into customer requirements across industries and sub-scenarios, develop more competitive products and scenario-based solutions accordingly, build a mutually beneficial partnership system, and empower partners’ digital and intelligent capabilities, so as to achieve success together with our partners in the digital, intelligent future of the commercial market.”

Peter Zhang, Director of the Commercial Business Dept in Huawei Enterprise Sales Dept, said: “Leveraging Huawei’s deep technical expertise in the ICT field and decades of experience in digital transformation, we have launched over 300 innovative products and scenario-based solutions for the commercial market. Through the HUAWEI eFly platform, we have digitally supported our partners in expanding their business with enterprise customers. It is Huawei’s partner policy in the commercial market to build a partner-centric and trustable ecosystem, so that partners can gain more benefits, incentives, and profits.”

For education, healthcare, manufacturing, SMEs, and other key industries, 17 new products and 6 new solutions were released this time. For example, for the education sector, the brand new IdeaHub K3 redefines classroom interaction experiences; for the manufacturing sector, the freshly upgraded high-quality factory network solution becomes a strong backbone for flexible production; for SMEs, the simplified all-flash data center solution offers top-notch full-stack IT infrastructure; and for managed service providers (MSPs) in the commercial market, diverse solutions featuring easy selling, delivery, O&M, and growth are provided.

At the summit, Yusuf Ahmed, CEO of KEMS Zajil Telecom, the largest Internet service provider in Kuwait, shared how enterprises in Kuwait are actively embracing the anything-as-a-service (XaaS) global transformation and how KEMS Zajil Telecom has leveraged Huawei’s leading technologies to provide customers with flexible, diverse, and innovative cloud-based solutions. Richard Pearson, CPDO of SIBCA in the UAE, introduced that there is a growing recognition of green and intelligent concepts as well as technological infrastructure development across industries. SIBCA hopes that their cooperation with Huawei can be expanded from the current network, storage and other product fields to data centers, cloud, and AI, to jointly drive greener and smarter building construction in the near future.

With over three decades of deep cultivation in the ICT field, Huawei has accumulated a wealth of experience in digital transformation and is committed to becoming the core driving force for the rapid development of SMEs in the digital era. In the future, Huawei will keep working with global partners to innovate together, share success, and create a brilliant digital economy for SME customers around the world.

For more about Huawei commercial market solutions, see https://e.huawei.com/cn/industries/commercial-market.

 

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