Month: September 2026

Seaside community offers elevated coastal living in a premier location

MARION, Mass., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL), the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, today announced the grand opening of its new luxury waterfront community, Marion Pointe by Toll Brothers, in Marion, Massachusetts. This exclusive, seaside neighborhood offers modern home designs and upscale amenities in a spectacular waterfront location. The Sales Center is now open at 2 Breakwater Way in Marion.

Ideally situated in a quintessential New England locale, Marion Pointe by Toll Brothers provides residents with easy access to downtown Marion, public beaches, championship golf courses, and renowned yacht clubs such as The Kittansett Club and Beverly Yacht Club.

The community offers home shoppers a choice of five home designs featuring 2 to 3 bedrooms and up to 2,759 square feet of living space. Open-concept floor plans include spacious lofts, private offices, first-floor primary bedroom suites, outdoor living options, and optional finished basements. Onsite amenities will include a private clubhouse, onsite boat dock, and scenic walking trails throughout the community. Homes in Marion Pointe by Toll Brothers are priced from $1,085,995.

 

“This exceptional community offers the rare opportunity to purchase a new construction luxury home in a waterfront setting,” said Ryan O’Rourke, Division President of Toll Brothers in Massachusetts. “Marion Pointe by Toll Brothers provides elevated coastal living in one of New England’s most picturesque waterfront locations just minutes from downtown Marion.”

Marion Pointe by Toll Brothers will also feature low-maintenance living, with lawn care and snow removal provided to residents.

Toll Brothers customers will experience one-stop shopping at the Toll Brothers Design Studio. The state-of-the-art Design Studio allows home shoppers to choose from a wide array of selections to personalize their dream home with the assistance of Toll Brothers professional Design Consultants. 

For more information on Marion Pointe by Toll Brothers and other new home communities in Massachusetts, call (866) 232-1632 or visit TollBrothers.com/MA. 

About Toll Brothers

Toll Brothers, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, is the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes. The Company was founded in 1967 and became a public company in 1986 with common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TOL.” Toll Brothers builds new homes and communities in over 60 markets across the United States, serving first-time, move-up, active-adult, and second-home buyers. The Company also operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development, smart home technology, landscape, and building components manufacturing businesses. 

Toll Brothers was named the #1 Most Admired Home Builder in Fortune magazine’s 2026 list of the World’s Most Admired Companies®, the ninth year the Company has achieved this honor. Toll Brothers has also been named Builder of the Year by Builder magazine and is the first two-time recipient of Builder of the Year from Professional Builder magazine. For more information visit TollBrothers.com. 

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Contact: Andrea Meck | Toll Brothers, Senior Director, Public Relations & Social Media | 215-938-8169 | ameck@tollbrothers.com 

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Nazareth (Belgium)/Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 29 September 2026 – 6 PM CET

Disclosure of a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc.

Pursuant to the Belgian act of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of major shareholdings in listed companies, Fagron received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc., dated 24 September 2026.

Notification from BlackRock, Inc.

• On 25 September 2026, Fagron received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. informing the Company that its shareholding has crossed the 3% disclosure threshold upwards, following the acquisition of voting securities or voting rights attached to shares in Fagron, and the acquisition of equivalent financial instruments that are treated as voting securities.
• The notification was submitted by ‘a parent undertaking or a controlling person’.
• According to the notification, as of 23 September 2026, BlackRock, Inc. holds:
  • A total of 2,119,073 voting rights attached to shares in Fagron, consisting of:
    • 150,737 shares held through BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited;
    • 40,294 shares held through BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited;
    • 53 shares held through BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.;
    • 1,163,186 shares held by BlackRock Fund Advisors;
    • 672,120 shares held by BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association;
    • 193 shares held by BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited;
    • 70,816 shares held by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited and;
    • 21,674 shares held by BlackRock Investment Management, LLC.

The total number of 2,119,073 shares corresponds to the same number of voting rights.

• A total of 111,702 equivalent financial instruments (Securities Lent and Contracts for Difference) in Fagron, consisting of:
  • 25,531 contracts held by BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited;
  • 955 contracts held by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited;
  • 31,555 contracts held by BlackRock Advisors, LLC;
  • 39,078 contracts held by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc;
  • 7,436 contracts held by BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association, and;
  • 7,147 contracts held by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited.

The total number of 111,702 equivalent financial instruments corresponds to the same number of voting rights.

• According to the notification, BlackRock, Inc. is the parent company of the underlying intermediate holding companies disclosed above.
• Based on the total number of outstanding voting rights (73,817,024 as the applicable denominator), this shareholding of 2,230,775 voting rights held by BlackRock, Inc. represents 3.02% of the total voting rights.
• The full transparency notifications from BlackRock, Inc. are available on the Fagron website via the link.

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About Fagron

Fagron is the leading global company active in pharmaceutical compounding, focusing on delivering personalized medicine to hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, and patients in more than 38 countries around the world.

The Belgian company Fagron NV is based in Nazareth and is listed on Euronext Brussels and Euronext Amsterdam under the ticker symbol ‘FAGR’. Fagron’s operational activities are managed through the Dutch company Fagron BV with head office in Rotterdam.

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PRESS RELEASE 
Vertou,September 28, 2026 

AVAILABILITY OF THE 2026 HALF-YEAR FINANCIAL REPORT 

Maisons du Monde announces that it has made available to the public and filed with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) its half-year financial report as of September 28, 2026. 

This report includes:
– The activity report for the first half of 2026;
– The condensed interim consolidated financial statements;
– The Statutory Auditors’ report on the half-year financial information;
– The statement by the person responsible for the half-year financial report.

It can be consulted on the website Financial reports | Corporate Maisons du monde. The French version is also available. 

About Maisons du Monde 

Maisons du Monde est l’acteur de référence de la maison inspirante, accessible et durable. L’enseigne Maisons du Monde is the leading player in inspiring, accessible, and sustainable home decor and furniture. The brand offers a rich and constantly renewed range of furniture and decorative accessories across a wide variety of styles. Leveraging an omnichannel model and direct access to consumers, the Group generates over 50% of its sales through its digital platform and operates in 8 European countries. corporate.maisonsdumonde.com  corporate.maisonsdumonde.com

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Investor Relations  Denis Lamoureux,  Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer investor.relations@maisonsdumonde.com

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Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V. Reports Outcome
of 2026 Annual General Meeting

Halle (Saale) / Munich, Germany, September 29, 2026 – Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V. (Euronext Amsterdam: VVY; NL00150002Q7) (Vivoryon), a clinical stage company developing small molecule medicines for inflammatory and fibrotic disorders, with a primary focus on kidney diseases, held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) today at 11:00 a.m. (CEST). The shareholders approved all items on the agenda of the meeting, including the appointment of Marcus Irsfeld, CFO of Vivoryon since December 2025, as well as the re-appointment of Dr. Frank Weber and Dr. Michael Schaeffer as executive directors to the Company’s Board.

All documents relating to the AGM, including presentation and voting results, are available on the Company’s website: https://www.vivoryon.com/2026-annual-general-meeting/

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About Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V.
Vivoryon is a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative small molecule-based medicines for the treatment of inflammatory and fibrotic disorders of the kidney. Driven by its passion for ground-breaking science and innovation, the Company strives to improve patient outcomes by changing the course of severe diseases through modulating the activity and stability of pathologically relevant proteins. Vivoryon’s most advanced program, varoglutamstat, a proprietary, first-in-class orally available QPCT/L inhibitor, is being evaluated to treat diabetic kidney disease. www.vivoryon.com

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Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V.
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Brand signs first lease in New York (Queens)
Enters into three development agreements for 15 area restaurants over the next five years

COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — El Pollo Loco, the nation’s leading fire-grilled chicken restaurant chain, today announced its planned entry into New York, including a signed lease for its first restaurant in the region, targeted to open in Queens in mid-2027. The company has agreed to terms for three development agreements for 15 area restaurants over the next five years, and also announced two leadership appointments that strengthen the team supporting El Pollo Loco’s next phase of growth.

New York development will be led by one longtime El Pollo Loco franchise partner and two new franchise partners. The expansion marks an important step in El Pollo Loco’s evolution into a national brand and builds on three consecutive quarters of positive same-store sales growth, improved restaurant economics and continued progress against the company’s transformation plan. The agreements also reflect growing consumer interest in protein-forward meals made with quality ingredients. With its signature fire-grilled chicken, El Pollo Loco believes it is uniquely positioned to meet that demand and introduce its differentiated offering to new communities across the country.

“New York represents an important milestone for El Pollo Loco and a clear proof point in our disciplined growth strategy,” said Liz Williams, Chief Executive Officer of El Pollo Loco. “We have strengthened our brand and operations, enhanced our business model, and assembled an experienced leadership team to support sustainable expansion. With committed franchise partners and our first New York lease secured, we are excited to introduce the East Coast to the fire-grilled flavor and hospitality that have defined El Pollo Loco for five decades.”

El Pollo Loco Appoints Damon Thomas as Chief Operating Officer and Tara Hinkle as Chief Development Officer

To support this growth, Damon Thomas has been appointed Chief Operating Officer. Thomas brings extensive experience scaling high-growth restaurant brands across the country and leading operations across large, multi-market systems. His experience includes senior operations leadership roles at Shake Shack and Raising Cane’s, two high-growth restaurant concepts.

“El Pollo Loco has a distinctive brand, a strong operating foundation and significant room to grow,” said Thomas. “I look forward to partnering with our company and franchise teams to drive operational excellence, strengthen the guest experience and build the systems that will support the brand as it enters New York and expands into other new markets.”

Further support for the brand’s growth trajectory comes from new Chief Development Officer Tara Hinkle. Hinkle joined El Pollo Loco in July 2026 and brings nearly 20 years of experience in franchising, development and operational planning. She most recently served as President and Head of Americas for The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and previously held franchise strategy and business partnership leadership roles at Taco Bell and Starbucks.

“Entering New York is a meaningful step in building a thoughtful, scalable development pipeline for El Pollo Loco,” said Hinkle. “We are working with experienced franchise partners who believe in the brand, known for delicious fire-grilled chicken and fresh, high-quality ingredients, and understand the opportunity in this market. We are focused on choosing the right sites, selecting and supporting strong operators, and growing in a way that creates lasting value for our guests, franchisees and shareholders.”

The company plans to share additional location, franchisee and opening details as East Coast development progresses.
  
About El Pollo Loco
El Pollo Loco (Nasdaq: LOCO) is the nation’s leading fire-grilled chicken restaurant known for its craveable, flavorful, and better-for-you offerings. Named by USA Today 10 Best Reader’s Choice Awards as a “Best Restaurant for Quick, Healthy Food” three years in a row, our menu features innovative meals with Mexican-inspired flavors made daily in our restaurants using quality ingredients. At El Pollo Loco, inclusivity is at the heart of our culture. Our community of over 4,000 employees reflects our commitment to creating a workplace where everyone has a seat at our table. Since 1980, El Pollo Loco has successfully expanded its presence, operating more than 500 company-owned and franchised restaurants across ten U.S. states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Washington. The company has also extended its footprint internationally, with licensed restaurant locations in the Philippines. For more information or to place an order, visit the Loco Rewards app or ElPolloLoco.com. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or X. 

Contact:
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Thousands of real estate operators at FUTURE are winning the next era of property management with Real Estate Performance Management. The new Realm-X extends that advantage — handling multi-step work, remembering business context, and building custom workflows and dashboards from a prompt, across all plans.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  AppFolio (Nasdaq: APPF), the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry, today announced new innovations at FUTURE: The Real Estate Conference by AppFolio, expanding AppFolio Realm-X and the AppFolio Performance Platform. The Performance Platform already holds each customer’s permissions, policies, workflows, and business context; the new Realm-X puts more of that context to work. The announcements advance the vision AppFolio has for Real Estate Performance Management (RPM), helping operators move beyond task efficiency to deliver outcomes for teams, residents, and investors.

The New Realm-X Handles Multi-Step Work, Remembers, and Builds From a Prompt

The new Realm-X stays through the whole ask, handling multi-step work, remembering the conversation, and building what’s described in the moment. Realm-X Flows and Realm-X Performers handle the processes a business has already defined; the new Realm-X handles what comes up in between. New capabilities put that power within reach of every team member:

• Memory provides more personalization by remembering and understanding the user based on previous conversations.
• Knowledge Base gives Realm-X a repository of a customer’s documents and policies for additional context.
• Skills let a user create and share prompts, making them repeatable across teams. For example, when a leasing agent calls in sick, a manager can use a “reassign showings” Skill to redistribute tours to available team members, with user approval.
• Prompt-to-Flow and Prompt-to-Dashboard let a user describe the workflow or dashboard in plain language for Realm-X to build.

Together, these capabilities make it easier for teams to build and scale repeatable ways of working. Realm-X AI actions completed on AppFolio are up sevenfold year-over-year — real work performed on operators’ behalf. The new Realm-X is available with all AppFolio plans, now including the Realm-X Connector for Anthropic’s Claude, first introduced in June 2026.

“We believe the most powerful technology in this industry should be available to every customer. The Performance Platform already knows how our customers’ businesses run, and the new Realm-X uses that knowledge. The result isn’t simply more efficiency. It’s better performance for teams, residents, and investors,” said Kyle Triplett, chief product officer at AppFolio.

A Connected System of Action, A Growing Suite of Performers

Realm-X and the Realm-X Performer suite work from the same platform, business context, and governance, rather than operating as disconnected agents sitting in different parts of a technology stack, and operate within the permissions and guardrails each customer sets, with human oversight. The goal is connected AI that gets more capable the more of it a business puts to work – and that’s showing up in what each Performer delivers.

• Leasing Performer boosts showings by up to 35%, a third of them from after-hours leads.
• Maintenance Performer resolves one in four work orders directly with the resident.
• Resident Messenger Performer fully resolves over 30% of conversations on the spot, day or night.
• Accounting Performer beta customers report saving an average of 17 hours per month.

Receptionist Performer is the newest example of this approach. It answers incoming calls, handles simple questions on the spot, and routes anything else to the right person or Performer — so every caller reaches someone who can help, at any hour. Receptionist Performer is customizable with a range of voice options available at launch.

Built In, Not Bolted On

The AppFolio Performance Platform gives customers an AI-native foundation to practice RPM: a system of record that connects their business, a system of action that does the work, and a system of growth that creates value across their ecosystem. One data model ties it together, giving customers the flexibility to work with their data where they work and build their business their way.

At FUTURE, AppFolio announced new capabilities that expand the platform across accounting and resident experience.

• In accounting, AppFolio is expanding entity-based accounting, portfolio cash management, and credit card accounting. The Realm-X Accounting Performer, now available to customers, automates bill entry, financial close, and budgeting. Coming soon, it will add reconciliation, connecting bank data directly to the ledger through AppFolio’s partnership with Column.
• In resident experience, AppFolio is extending the platform across the moments that matter most in a resident’s journey. A new partnership with Snappt adds document fraud detection inside FolioScreen™ Trusted Renter, catching fraudulent income documents before an application is approved. Online Certified Funds at Move-In enables residents to pay move-in costs with guaranteed funds instead of a check or a trip to the bank. All of it now runs through FolioSpace™, AppFolio’s resident experience app, to which every resident has transitioned.

Proof in Practice

Across the platform, customer performance is showing up in the numbers:

• Stratton Vantage Property Management: Nearly 40% of residents upgraded their move-in package through Resident Onboarding Lift in August 2026, paying about a third less than they’d pay for the same services on their own.
• Enclave Property Management: 57 Realm-X Flows have completed more than 25,000 workflows in the past 12 months.
• MultiFamily Property Group: After-hours leads are converting 42% more often — demand that used to go unanswered overnight is now revenue.

Eucalyptus Real Estate, a family-owned operator managing nearly 14,000 units and 106 separate tax entities across Oklahoma City, Wichita, and Topeka, previously ran its three cities independently — on paper checks, paper work orders, scanned applications, and fax machines. Since moving to the AppFolio Performance Platform less than a year ago, 85% of Eucalyptus’s receivables are now paid online, leasing runs digitally from application to signature, a single automated Flow delivers move-in disclosures consistently across every property, and 53% of maintenance requests now resolve without a work order ever being created.

“We didn’t move to AppFolio just to change tools. We moved to change how we run this business,” said Megan McGinnis, president of Eucalyptus. “Three cities now work the same way, on the same platform, with one source of truth. That’s what lets us grow with confidence instead of just growing.”

About AppFolio
AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative performance platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which statements are subject to considerable risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not statements of historical fact contained in this press release, and can be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “potential,” “future,” “predicts,” “projects,” “target,” “seeks,” “contemplates,” “should,” “will,” “would” or similar expressions and the negatives of those expressions. In particular, forward-looking statements contained in this press release include statements relating to the anticipated features, benefits, availability and timing of the new Realm-X , Realm-X Performers, and the new accounting and resident experience capabilities announced in this press release, including those offered through AppFolio’s relationships with Anthropic, Column and Snappt; the results customers may achieve using these capabilities; and AppFolio’s plans, objectives and expectations for the AppFolio Performance Platform and Real Estate Performance Management.

Forward-looking statements represent AppFolio’s current beliefs and expectations based on information currently available and speak only as of the date the statement is made. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause AppFolio’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. The risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to materially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements include AppFolio’s ability to successfully develop, launch and deliver the new Realm-X capabilities as and when anticipated; customer adoption of and satisfaction with these capabilities; the accuracy, reliability and performance of AI-enabled capabilities, including actions taken on customers’ behalf; the costs of making AI-enabled capabilities available across all AppFolio plans; AppFolio’s reliance on third parties, including Anthropic, Column and Snappt, and the continued performance and availability of their technology and services; the extent to which results reported by individual customers, including beta customers, are indicative of results other customers may achieve; evolving laws and regulations governing artificial intelligence, data privacy and security, tenant screening, fair housing, consumer protection and payments; and competition in the market for AI-enabled real estate technology as well as those risks, uncertainties and other factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in AppFolio’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, which was filed with the SEC on February 5, 2026, and the section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in AppFolio’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as well as in its other filings with the SEC. You should read this press release with the understanding that AppFolio’s actual future results may be materially different from the results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

AppFolio undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

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