Zeigler Auto Group Backs Josh Bilicki Aboard Live Fast Motorsports’ No. 78 for 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

Dec 15, 2022 | Business

 Zeigler Auto Group will serve as primary sponsor onboard Josh Bilicki’s new No. 78 Camaro for Live Fast Motorsports through the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season. As the youngest team in NASCAR, Live Fast Motorsports welcomes Bilicki and Zeigler Auto Group in an exciting new partnership driving the No. 78 Camaro. The Zeigler.com Chevy Camaro will make its official debut at Circuit of the Americas on Sunday, March 26, 2023.

“We had a great season last year with Josh, and we are excited to partner with Live Fast Motorsports for 2023. Having our new team onboard gives us a fresh start on the track with owners that are focused on performing among the best at each race,” said Aaron Zeigler, president and owner.

With midwestern roots across Michigan, Chicago, Indiana, and Wisconsin, Zeigler Auto Group is among the top 1% ranking automotive dealerships across the United States. Tying these roots to Bilicki—a Wisconsin-based driver—is a natural connection to Ohio native Matt Tifft, part owner of Live Fast Motorsports with BJ McLeod. McLeod looks forward to working with Bilicki again, as Bilicki formerly raced with McLeod’s NASCAR Xfinity Series team.

Fans will have a chance to cheer on Bilicki as he takes the wheel of the No. 78 Zeigler-branded Camaro in numerous markets throughout the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season. A major highlight will be racing at the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series Race at the Chicago Street Course during July fourth weekend. Additional highlights include the FireKeepers Casino 400 at the Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, August 6, 2023; and the Verizon 200 at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway the following weekend on the 13th, among other races.

Last year, Bilicki drove the Zeigler.com-sponsored Chevrolet, earning a top-10 finish at Daytona and scoring a top-20 finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Other highlights for Bilicki include a top-10 finish at the 2021 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona, 72 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series; nine in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series; plus 71 starts on his NASCAR Cup Series resume. Bilicki is currently the only driver from Wisconsin competing in the NASCAR Cup Series.

“Live Fast Motorsports is thrilled to welcome Josh Bilicki and Zeigler Auto Group to the team in 2023,” said co-owner of Live Fast Motorsports, Tifft, and co-owner and driver, McLeod.

“Bilicki and Zeigler Auto Group share a strong relationship and we look forward to teaming up and becoming a part of that for multiple races next season. With Bilicki’s great talent behind the wheel and our new ECR motor program, we look forward to continued growth in 2023.”

Live Fast Motorsports will now compete under the Chevrolet racing banner after announcing its alliance with ECR engines. By campaigning its new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 throughout the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season, the N.C-based team joins “the winningest manufacturer in NASCAR.” ECR Engines has also earned more than 200 victories, including the 2018 Daytona 500, two Brickyard 400 wins, and championships in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, 24 Hours at Daytona & the 12 Hours at Sebring in the IMSA WeatherTech Series, and NASCAR Gander Outdoor Truck Series.

“I am so happy to have the opportunity to join Live Fast Motorsports for the 2023 season and to once again represent the Zeigler Auto Group. The Zeigler team has become like family to me and I have driven for BJ McLeod in the past in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, so this felt like a very natural fit for all parties. I’m excited and thankful for the opportunity and can’t wait to get to work,” said Bilicki.

New renderings for the Zeigler.com No. 78 Chevy Camaro can be viewed at zeiglerracing.com

About Live Fast Motorsports
Live Fast Motorsports is a single-car Chevrolet Camaro team based in Mooresville, NC., competing in the NASCAR Cup Series under the No. 78. The team is co-owned by B.J. McLeod and Matt Tifft. B.J. McLeod also serves as the team’s driver. Jessica McLeod, CEO of Live Fast Motorsports, gives a progressive outlook in breaking down barriers in the sport of NASCAR and inspiring opportunities for women in the sport for generations to come.

About Zeigler Auto Group
Zeigler Automotive Group is one of the largest privately-owned dealer groups in the U.S. with 78 franchises across 35 locations in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan.

Founded in 1975, the organization employs over 2,300 people, ranking among the top 1% of auto dealers in the nation with estimated annual sales of $2.2 billion for 2022. The family-owned and operated company is well known for its commitment to both customer service and employee satisfaction. Recently, Zeigler came in at no. six in the nation for work-life balance–according to a study conducted by the Glassdoor Economic Research Center.

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Francis Mariela
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Bestway Products Company’s Spyral Coping Saws Combine Flexibility, Versatility & Precision Into One Design

Dec 15, 2022 | Business

 Bestway Products Company’s Spyral Coping Saws are ideal for helping woodworkers, carpenters, hobbyists and fine craftsmen make the precise and intricate cuts that are virtually impossible with conventional flat saw blades. This includes creating a network of close-fitting joints and intricate cuts with a 360° spiral-cutting tooth design that’s not a twisted flat blade and works with materials ranging from plastics, light metals, rubber, wood and bone to foam, wax, greenware and insulation.

“For years, coping saws and their thin, blades were the tool of choice for cutting curved contours,” says Stuart Gordon, the company’s owner & president. “We then developed our Spyral Freestyle Coping Saws with what we believe is one of the best saw blades for cutting shapes in today’s market. As a result, they have become real go-to tools due to their ability to flexibly and meticulously cut intricate networks of close-fitting joints and shapes into wide ranging materials from virtually any orientation or direction, even sideways and backwards.”

Other advantages which have helped Bestway’s Spyral Freestyle Coping Saws stand out from competitive products is their ability to cut sharper angles, curves, grooves, notches and contours without having to rotate the blade in the saw. This is a direct contrast to similar saws, which are typically built with the teeth on one side of a flat blade. As a result, these blades are not only limited to cutting in a forward direction, they also lack the ability to make the sharp, intricate and finite cuts needed for most modeling and fine crafting projects.

Proudly made in the USA, Bestway’s Spyral Coping Saw are now available in kits containing the coping saw handle and a total of five blades – one .040 diameter blade and a sampler pack holding one .028″ blade, two additional .040″ blades and one .050″ blade. For more information, including pricing, please visit: https://spyralsaw.com/products/freestyle-coping-saw-with-sample-blades.

About Bestway Products Company
Founded in 1986, the Bestway Products Company has a history of manufacturing and selling Spyral saw blades that dates back to 1948 as a division of Tyler Manufacturing. During this time, the usage of these versatile cutting tools has grown steadily throughout the marketplace. For more than 30 years, the aerospace industry has used a variety of Spyral blades for trimming formed titanium and stainless-steel sheet at high blade speeds, while more than 100,000 Bestway survival saws have been purchased for use by the U.S Military. Industrial customers have even met their specialized cutting needs with Spyral saw blades in applications ranging from the cutting of 50” slabs of foam to the milling of aluminum components.

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Japan – CP and Toyota to join forces to study path toward carbon neutrality in Thailand

Dec 15, 2022 | Business

Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) will explore collaboration toward carbon neutrality in Thailand. Both companies are willing to welcome any partners who share the same view.

Dhanin Chearavanont, Senior Chairman of CP, and Akio Toyoda, President and CEO of Toyota

Since its establishment in 1921, CP has been operating with the core value of three benefits: to country, to people, and to organization. CP provides accessibility to high quality products and expands its business in Thailand to a wide range of fields, including retail (such as 7-Eleven), distribution, industrial product, and agriculture & livestock. In the distribution field, CP has been supporting the lives of Thai people by transporting and delivering a variety of products through its wide-ranging operations, considering social, economic and environmental impacts and sustainability practices.

In addition, Toyota’s business in Thailand has garnered the support of a number of stakeholders including Siam Cement Group, an important local partner for Toyota, and has grown along with the development of Thai society through products, tax payment, employment and technology transfer, while overcoming a number of challenges such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2011 floods.

Akio Toyoda, President and CEO of Toyota, commented, “The two companies, both of which consider the best for Thailand and the Earth, have agreed to proceed with what we can do now, by using each company’s strengths and assets. I believe that taking this crucial step will allow us to be rewarded with the appreciation from the country, and will change the future landscape.”

Dhanin Chearavanont, Senior Chairman of C.P. Group, responded, “What President Toyoda and I share is affection and gratitude to Thailand, and both of us very much want to give back to the country. I am delighted that both companies have an opportunity to jointly consider collaboration toward carbon neutrality in Thailand and welcome any companies that share the same carbon neutrality ambitions.”

Specifically, CP and Toyota will explore social implementation in the following three areas. With these actions being linked with each other, the two companies will proceed with what can be done now, to consistently reduce CO2 emissions throughout the entire process of producing, transporting, and using energy, toward accelerating carbon neutrality.

1. Production of hydrogen using biogas derived from farm wastes (with the focus on economic zones)
2. Introduction of fuel cell delivery trucks into CP’s fleet, which are to use the above-mentioned hydrogen (provide a variety of solutions such as BEV and FCEV, considering travel distance and load weight)
3. Efficient logistics by proposing optimized delivery routes through connectivity technology

This collaboration will be considered with the participation of True Leasing Co., Ltd, CP’s transportation service business. In addition, the study will be conducted with Hino Motors, Ltd. who will participate into these efforts, which will be made in Asia by Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (capitalized by Isuzu Motors Limited, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd., and Toyota), which has been established with the aim of helping solve challenges faced by the transport sector and achieve carbon neutrality by realizing and spreading CASE technology. Furthermore, as carbon neutrality should be tackled by all people and industries, CP and Toyota are willing to welcome any partners who share the same view toward carbon neutrality.

For more information, visit https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/38429479.html.

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Japan – NEC Listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) three years in a row

Dec 15, 2022 | Business

NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been named three years in a row to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World Index (DJSI World) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Asia Pacific Index, some of the most prestigious global indices of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment.

DJSI is an evaluation indices developed by the S&P Dow Jones Indices that evaluates the sustainable practices of major global companies across the “Governance & Economic,” “Environmental” and “Social” dimensions. Companies that receive high evaluations are selected to the DJSI Indices. NEC received high evaluations once again in the “Information Security/Cyber Security & System Availability,” “Environmental Reporting” and “Social Reporting” categories, and newly this time in “Risk & Crisis Management,” “Environmental Policy & Management Systems” and “Climate Strategy.” In addition, NEC’s evaluation improved in the “Corporate Governance,” “Materiality” and “Talent Attraction & Retention” categories, where NEC is actively promoting efforts and transparency.

Other than DJSI World and DJSI Asia Pacific, NEC is included in the FTSE4Good Index Series and the MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes as part of high evaluations in terms of ESG. NEC has received “A List” ratings four years in a row in the categories of “Climate Change” and “Water Security,” as well as an A List rating for “Supplier Engagement” from the global environmental non-profit CDP. In addition, NEC has been awarded a “Platinum” Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ranking, in recognition for being part of the top 1% of companies evaluated by EcoVadis, a France-based CSR rating platform.

NEC became a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact(1) in 2005, which was founded on the basic principles of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and continues to strive to minimize any burdens that business activities may have on society. NEC aims to contribute to the creation of value for society through its business, and to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched by the United Nations. Over the course of the Mid-term Management Plan 2025, in order to promote sustainable growth, NEC aims to achieve continuous inclusion in ESG indices by advancing initiatives for materiality, which are priority management themes from an ESG perspectiveAS(2).

NEC also aims to create the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. Based on the NEC Way, a common set of values that form the basis for how the entire NEC Group conducts itself, NEC contributes to achieving the SDGs.

(1) The United Nations Global Compact:
An initiative that calls on companies worldwide to align their strategies and operations with ten universal principles in four fields of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. NEC joined in 2005.
(2) NEC’s efforts in support of ESG initiatives are reported in the following:
– NEC Sustainability Report 2022
www.nec.com/en/global/csr/report/index.html
– NEC Integrated Report 2022
www.nec.com/en/global/ir/library/annual/index.html
– External Ratings and Evaluations
www.nec.com/en/global/csr/management/evaluation.html

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation has established itself as a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies while promoting the brand statement of “Orchestrating a brighter world.” NEC enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in both society and the market as it provides for the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. For more information, visit NEC at www.nec.com.

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Hong Kong – Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged and its Dedicated Portion for implementing After-school Learning and Support Programmes open for new round of applications

Dec 15, 2022 | International

Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged and its Dedicated Portion for implementing After-school Learning and Support Programmes open for new round of applications

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     The Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged (PFD) managed by the Social Welfare Department (SWD) is inviting the 16th round Regular Portion applications and the ninth round Dedicated Portion applications for implementing After-school Learning and Support Programmes starting from today (December 15). Welfare non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and eligible primary and secondary schools can submit proposals from today to October 31, 2023. The PFD Secretariat will process and grant approval to the applications in two periods in accordance with the chronological order in which the applications are received.
          
     The Government set up the PFD in 2005 to promote tripartite partnership among the welfare sector, business corporations and the Government for helping the disadvantaged. The Government provides matching grants with regard to the donations made by business partners to support welfare NGOs in running social welfare projects. Up till now, the Government has injected a total of $1.2 billion into the PFD, including $800 million for the Regular Portion to help the disadvantaged and $400 million for the Dedicated Portion. Since its launch in 2015, the Dedicated Portion has been promoting the “Citizens-Business-Government-School” collaboration to implement more after-school learning and support programmes for primary and secondary students from grass-roots families to facilitate their whole-person development.
      
     A spokesman for the SWD said that in the earlier 15 rounds of Regular Portion applications of the PFD, matching grants totalling over $550 million were approved for 220 welfare NGOs to implement a total of 1 122 welfare projects sponsored by over 1 800 business organisations, benefitting more than one million disadvantaged persons. The first eight rounds of Dedicated Portion applications attracted a favourable response. Over $290 million in matching grants have been approved for 453 after-school learning and support projects. Over 450 business organisations have participated in the projects, benefitting more than 130 000 primary and secondary students.
      
     For the new round of applications, the ceiling of grants for each Regular Portion project is $3 million and that for each Dedicated Portion project is $4.5 million. Applications for the Regular Portion and the Dedicated Portion are open today. Details are as follows:
 

   The 16th Round Regular Portion Application The Ninth Round Dedicated Portion Application
Eligible applicants Bona-fide charitable welfare NGOs having tax-exempt status under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Cap. 112)
  • Bona-fide charitable welfare NGOs having tax-exempt status under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance
    (Cap. 112)
     
  • Public sector primary and secondary schools including government schools, aided schools and caput schools, and schools under the Direct Subsidy Scheme
Contents of the projects Social welfare projects for the disadvantaged After-school learning and support programmes for primary and secondary students from grassroots families
Application guides and forms SWD homepage: www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/
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Application periods * Period 1: December 15, 2022, to June 30, 2023
Period 2: December 15, 2022, to October 31, 2023		 Period 1: December 15, 2022, to April 28, 2023
Period 2: December 15, 2022, to October 31, 2023

*Applicants can submit proposals at any time from today till the end of the first and the second application periods. The PFD Secretariat will process and grant approval to the applications in accordance with the chronological order in which the applications are received.

     Details of the Regular Portion and the Dedicated Portion of the PFD are available on the SWD homepage: www.swd.gov.hk. For enquiries about the applications, please contact the Secretariat of the PFD during office hours at 3468 2710 or 3468 2718, or by email to pfdenq@swd.gov.hk.