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Mississauga, ON – Le mardi 2 décembre 2025/3BL/ – Saint-Gobain Canada, leader de la construction légère et durable, est honoré de célébrer une reconnaissance spéciale, alors que l’entreprise fait partie pour la première fois de la prestigieuse liste des Meilleurs Employeurs de la Grande Région de Toronto 2026 de MediaCorp. Saint-Gobain favorise une culture de travail unique ancrée dans trois piliers solides : la Confiance, l’Autonomisation et la Collaboration (TEC). Les valeurs, attitudes et Principes de Conduite et d’Action de l’entreprise découlent tous de cette culture TEC, une force qui accélère la croissance des employés, tant personnelle que professionnelle.

“En tant qu’entreprise mondiale avec une riche histoire de plus de 360 ans dans le monde et une présence de 120 ans au Canada à travers nos différentes marques, nous avons construit une culture intemporelle où nos employés peuvent s’épanouir, » déclare Jean-Claude Lasserre, PDG de Saint-Gobain Canada. « Nous croyons fermement à l’importance d’offrir à nos employés un but significatif vers lequel ils souhaitent travailler chaque jour : Faire du monde une maison plus belle et plus durable.”

Saint-Gobain Canada cultive un environnement de travail dynamique où les nombreuses occasions en fabrication et en ingénierie offrent non seulement des salaires compétitifs et des possibilités d’apprentissage précieuses, mais garantissent également que chaque membre de l’équipe se sente soutenu, reconnu et habilité à réussir.

“Nos employés jouent un rôle essentiel dans la transformation d’une industrie de la construction plus durable au bénéfice de tous les Canadiens, » a déclaré Steve Desgagné, Vice-président des Ressources Humaines de Saint-Gobain Canada. « Nous avons bâti une culture où les gens ressentent un véritable sentiment d’appartenance, sont motivés par un but significatif, et sont équipés avec les outils nécessaires pour grandir et créer des solutions qui rendent les maisons et les communautés plus résilientes pour les générations futures.”

Basé à Mississauga, Saint-Gobain Canada opère certaines des marques de construction les plus renommées au Canada et dans la région du Grand Toronto, notamment CertainTeed, Bailey, Kaycan, Agway et GCP. Au cours des trois dernières années, l’entreprise a triplé sa taille dans le pays grâce à des investissements stratégiques de 4 milliards de dollars, augmentant sa présence d’un océan à l’autre à 80 sites et employant près de 4 000 collaborateurs.

Ce qui distingue Saint-Gobain en tant que meilleur employeur

Saint-Gobain Canada croit fermement en l’importance de soutenir, d’habiliter et de donner les moyens à ses employés de développer leur plein potentiel, y compris :

• Leur bien-être physique
  Offrant une gamme d’options de plans médicaux, dentaires et de vision, ainsi que des avantages en matière de bien-être et un soutien en santé mentale conçus par et pour chaque employé.
• Leur bien-être émotionnel
  Pour se ressourcer avec des congés payés et des jours fériés qui aident à équilibrer travail, famille et vie du quotidien, ainsi que des ressources en santé émotionnelle pour soutenir leur bien-être.
• Leur bien-être financier
  Soutenir l’avenir que les employés envisagent grâce à des salaires compétitifs, des primes de performance et des régimes de retraite pour aider à garantir un avenir solide.
• Leur bien-être social
  Établir des liens significatifs avec un congé parental payé, des ressources pour la planification familiale et des opportunités de bénévolat. Développer des compétences et façonner leur avenir grâce à un soutien pour les frais de scolarité, à l’apprentissage en ligne et à des programmes de développement de carrière.

Il y a une place pour vous chez Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain a développé une communauté inclusive et prête pour l’avenir qui offre plus que des emplois en ingénierie et en fabrication, avec des occasions en marketing, en ventes, en finances, en ressources humaines, en chaîne d’approvisionnement, en recherche et développement, en gestion générale et bien plus encore.

Ne vous fiez pas seulement à notre parole, entendez-le directement de la part des employés.

Vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur les occasions de carrière chez Saint-Gobain Canada? Visitez: saint-gobain-northamerica.ca/careers.

À propos de Saint-Gobain

Leader mondial de la construction durable, Saint-Gobain conçoit, produit et distribue des matériaux et services pour les marchés de l’habitat et de l’industrie. Développées dans une dynamique d’innovation permanente, ses solutions intégrées pour la rénovation des bâtiments publics et privés, la construction légère et la décarbonation du monde de la construction et de l’industrie apportent durabilité et performance. Le Groupe, qui fête en 2025 ses 360 ans, est plus que jamais guidé par sa raison d’être FAIRE DU MONDE UNE MAISON PLUS BELLE ET PLUS DURABLE.

46,6 milliards d’euros de chiffre d’affaires en 2024 
Plus de 161 000 collaborateurs, présence dans 80 pays 
Engagé à être zéro émission nette de carbone d’ici 2050

Contact pour les médias seulement:
Alexandre Lainesse
Responsable des relations publiques, Canada, Saint-Gobain Amérique du Nord
alexandre.lainesse@saint-gobain.com
514-973-1187

Approximately 129 million Americans are living with at least one chronic condition, and fragmentation of care creates a significant hurdle as these individuals often find themselves navigating a complex web of health care services.

“When you have a chronic condition, you end up engaging with your specialist significantly more — over three times as often — than you do with your primary care physician,” Joel Haugen, chief product officer for DaVita, said at the 2024 AHIP Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum on Sept. 25. “This means [people with chronic disease are] engaging with nurses…cardiologists, nephrologists to address things like medication adherence, to drive updates in requests that have nothing to do with that specific chronic condition.”

Fragmentation in care can leave patients feeling lost in a system that doesn’t always prioritize their unique needs while contributing to inefficiencies, worse patient outcomes and increased spend.

“There’s a little more than $4 trillion dollars of medical spend in the industry,” Haugen said. “About 90% of that happens within specialty care.”^[1]

The good news? Today’s technological solutions hold potential to enhance patient engagement and transform the specialty care landscape. From telehealth platforms to integrated care management tools, technology is reshaping the way health care providers can connect and engage with patients. In a landscape where fragmented care is a widespread challenge, DaVita leaders are helping shed light on the pressing need for a more integrated approach to care and how DaVita is using its technological capabilities to help improve the care experience.

For example, the patient mobile app DaVita Care Connect is designed to increase patient engagement — and deepen trust. According to DaVita patients, their reasons for using the app include telehealth visits and care appointment reminders, secure messaging with their team, access to their lab results, always-available education and recipes, and virtual support group sessions among others.

As the health care community continues to explore how technology can transform the care experience, Haugen emphasizes the importance of designing solutions that work for patients. By adopting effective engagement tools that echo the user-friendly interfaces people encounter elsewhere — whether it’s social media, online shopping platforms or other digital experiences — can provide a more intuitive and accessible experience, one with which patients will be more engaged.

“Technology helps drive greater engagement, greater timeliness of information and more holistic information,” Haugen said.

However, as progress continues, Haugen points to the need for intentional change that prioritizes creating the right solutions for everyone involved:

“Focus on the experience. We often forget about the care team’s experience in addition to patients’. How are we optimizing sharing information using technology to drive the best experience for both our patients and our care teams?”

Haugen concluded by underscoring the need for collaboration to enable success. As he explained, collaboration with key stakeholders — including payors, other providers and patients — will help unlock the ability for organizations like DaVita to scale solutions. This collective effort can help create a future where integrated data systems can help optimize experiences and reduce care fragmentation for both patients and clinicians, regardless of location.

^[1] Benavidez GA, Zahnd WE, Hung P, Eberth JM. Chronic Disease Prevalence in the US: Sociodemographic and Geographic Variations by Zip Code Tabulation Area. Prev Chronic Dis 2024;21:230267. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd21.230267.

In the absence of U.S. federal climate disclosure rules, states are stepping up more than ever to deal with the climate crisis. California is a prime example, with the potential to play a particularly important role, and it showed up with muscles flexed (com força) at the year’s biggest global climate event – the annual COP meeting.

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference – known as COP 30 – is convening in Belem, Brazil from November 10-21. Tens of thousands of political officials and negotiators, scientists, advocates, and activists attend each COP meeting in person, and millions more look on from around the world.

But this year, not a single official from the U.S. administration – the world’s biggest carbon emitter historically – is attending. As California Governor Gavin Newsom and his delegation of state leaders draw the spotlight in Belem, we are reminded of California’s economic power. The state’s economy is the fourth-largest in the world, following just three countries (the U.S., China, and Germany), and far larger than Texas or New York.

In Brazil, Newsom announced that his state is “going to compete” in the world economy by leaning into climate-smart policies and investments, signaling there are economic and political winnings to be reaped from climate leadership. Any other direction is “dumb,” he said, citing President Donald Trump’s efforts to encourage other countries to increase investment in fossil fuels. This “is about our economic competitiveness, period, full stop,” Newsom has said.

Described by Bloomberg News as sweeping into COP 30 “with all the fanfare of a head of state,” Newsom has “effectively become the highest-ranking US emissary” in Belem. His presence has underscored the “growing influence of state-level leadership” for climate action on the world stage, Reuters wrote. Asked whether California is standing in for the U.S., Newsom said “absolutely,” per the LA Times.

It is worth watching whether other U.S. states – and even cities – can build on CA’s momentum and position themselves as added counterweight to the U.S. federal administration’s absence. Wisconsin’s and New Mexico’s governors were also in attendance at COP 30; the three states are members of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of bipartisan state leaders.

At the same time, Newsom is widely discussed as a leading candidate for the Democrats’ presidential ticket in 2028. It is from this elevated platform that he demands attention for climate action as key to the U.S.’ economic success and physical security.

We will see if a climate-forward strategy returns political strength to Newsom. If so, it may embolden the Democratic Party to make climate change a bigger issue in their strategy over the next several years.

Linking climate action with affordability is beginning to emerge as a Democratic talking point. Newsom has said Democrats should consider climate change a “cost of living issue,” the New York Times reported. At least one U.S. city leader is sending the same message: the incoming mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, reportedly considers climate and quality of life “in fact, one and the same” concern.

If the Brazil trip boosts Newsom’s global profile and his favorability at home, it could point to climate leadership as a political strength as the country moves forward.

This is just the introduction of G&A’s Sustainability Highlights newsletter this week. Click here to view the full issue

Originally published on GoDaddy

TEMPE, Ariz., December 2, 2025 /3BL/ — GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is packing even more agentic AI power into its recently launched Airo.ai online experience with the addition of six brand-new AI agents.

Building on the recent debut of Airo.ai public Beta, these latest tools and capabilities are designed to help simplify marketing, operations, and website management for small businesses – saving valuable time and making it easier to attract customers, strengthen their online presence, and grow with confidence.

The Airo.ai agentic framework brings the entire experience together behind the scenes. Airo determines the next best action for each customer, invokes the corresponding agent, and completes that action. It coordinates the work end to end to drive customer success.

New Airo.ai agents:

• Conversations Inbox – Keeps customer communication organized across email, chat, and social channels. Small business owners can now respond faster, prioritize conversations and stay on top of every customer interaction – all in one place.
• Marketing Calendar and Social Posts Agents – Helps small businesses plan and launch marketing campaigns and create social posts, videos, and blog content for channels like Facebook, Instagram and more, driving engagement and saving countless hours each week.
• Online Appointments Agent – Streamlines scheduling for service-based businesses using GoDaddy Websites + Marketing. The agent guides owners through setup, helping them list services, manage availability, and start booking appointments within minutes.
• Domain Activation Agent – Simplifies the technical side of connecting GoDaddy domains to websites, online stores and email providers. The guided setup provides users step-by-step through DNS connections, helping them launch online faster.
• Domain Protection Agent – Gives business owners peace of mind by helping them strengthen domain security. It checks domain protection levels, recommends upgrades and explains plan options clearly. This helps safeguard small businesses’ digital assets without technical guesswork.
• DIFY (Do-It-For-You) Agent – Connects entrepreneurs with human experts for professional website design, search engine optimization, and marketing support. The agent automates the matchmaking – pulling in saved business details – so owners can hire trusted GoDaddy pros to get work done without repeating the setup process.

Real AI momentum for real businesses

“Every minute matters for small businesses, and faster, impactful outcomes are real wins,” said GoDaddy Vice President of Airo Laka Sriram. “With Airo.ai, we are expanding an ecosystem, not just a product. The modular architecture allows us to deploy specialized agentic capabilities as needs evolve, giving entrepreneurs help that keeps getting smarter.”

GoDaddy continues to grow the Airo.ai ecosystem with new AI agents to meet the real-time needs of small business owners, ensuring that entrepreneurs always have intelligent, easy-to-use tools to support their success. To explore the new agents firsthand, visit Airo.ai – the digital assistant built for small business owners. These agents can then be deployed to GoDaddy.com for customers using Airo.

To see the latest AI developments at GoDaddy, visit www.godaddy.com/ai.

About GoDaddy
GoDaddy helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to GoDaddy to name their idea, build a website and logo, sell their products and services and accept payments. GoDaddy Airo^®, the company’s AI-powered experience, makes growing a small business faster and easier by helping them to get their idea online in minutes, drive traffic and boost sales. GoDaddy’s expert guides are available 24/7 to provide assistance. To learn more about the company, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

Source: GoDaddy Inc.

NEW YORK, December 2, 2025 /3BL/ – Partnering with Trust for Public Land, the national conservation non-profit focused on connecting people with nature and each other, LG Electronics USA is supporting its mission to transform asphalt schoolyards into healthier green spaces.

According to Trust for Public Land, most of the 90,000 public schoolyards nationwide – spanning some two million acres – are covered in asphalt. The organization is working with local communities and partners like LG to transform these spaces and connect everyone with the outdoors, one schoolyard at a time.

Launching the partnership, nature conservation advocates and student groups gathered in Manhattan ahead of Trust for Public Land’s Giving Tuesday takeover of LG’s Times Square billboard. The video content spotlights transformative outdoor projects across the country — including schoolyards that have gone from ‘asphalt to awesome.’

“We are honored to see the work of Trust for Public Land illuminated in the heart of Times Square–

a validation of how essential parks, trails, schoolyards and shared landscapes are to us all. These are the places where communities are strengthened, stories are told and memories are made, and where we come together,” said Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, President and CEO of Trust for Public Land.

“We are grateful to LG for supporting the growing movement to expand access to the outdoors in every neighborhood and every city across the country,” she added. “When we invest in these spaces, we are investing in the future we want to see.”

According to LG Electronics USA’s Corporate Marketing Director Jeannie Lee, Trust for Public Land and LG are well positioned to lead the paradigm shift around schoolyards and public parks. For example, both believe that access to the outdoors is a fundamental human need and that green spaces are essential to promoting mental and physical wellbeing for all.

“In the spirit of #GivingTuesday, we’re proud to shine a light on the great work of Trust for Public Land, which helps the next generation connect to the benefit and joys of the outdoors,” she said. “Together with Trust for Public Land, our vision is simple: give more kids the opportunity to spend more time outdoors and help create green spaces in communities where they’re needed most.”

Lee said this partnership “aligns with LG’s Better Life for All mission and our focus on healthier people and communities.” For more information on LG’s commitment to conservation, mental wellness and more, visit lg.com/us/sustainability. To join LG in supporting Trust for Public Land, visit www.tpl.org or text LAND to 53440 to donate.

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About Trust for Public Land

Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national nonprofit that connects everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. As a leader in equitable access to the outdoors, TPL works with communities to create parks and protect public land where they’re needed most. Since 1972, TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land, created more than 5,500 parks, trails, schoolyards and iconic outdoor places, raised over $112 billion in public funding for parks and public lands, and connected nearly 10 million people to the outdoors. To learn more, visit www.tpl.org.

About LG Electronics USA

LG Electronics USA Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., a smart life solutions company with annual global revenues of more than $60 billion. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and vehicle components. LG is an 11-time ENERGY STAR^® Partner of the Year. www.LG.com

Media Contacts:

LG Electronics North America
John I. Taylor
john.taylor@lge.com
+1 202 719 3490

LG Electronics USA
Laura Barbieri 
laura.barbieri@lge.com
+1 631 848 9818

Trust for Public Land
Andy Orellana
andy.orellana@tpl.org
+1 775 391 3132

CALGARY, Alberta, December 1, 2025 /3BL/ – Benevity, Inc., the leading global provider of social impact software, today announced it has joined Anthropic’s new Claude for Nonprofits program as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Integration Partner – a significant milestone in harnessing responsible AI to accelerate social impact.

Through this partnership, Claude will be able to seamlessly leverage Benevity’s  enterprise impact platform capabilities, with the MCP server serving as foundational infrastructure to enable countless use cases in the future. Powered by the more than two million validated nonprofits in the Benevity cause database, Claude will deliver verified nonprofit choices, empowering people to confidently find and support the causes they care about most – advancing impact with profound efficiency and scale.

“At Benevity, our purpose has always been to make it easier for people and companies to do good in the world,” said Soraya Alexander, CEO, Benevity. “Benevity’s partnership with Anthropic and Claude for Nonprofits brings that purpose to life in a new way, using responsible AI to connect people with causes that matter to them. It’s another step in our journey to help companies activate purpose at work, empower employees to make meaningful impact, and help nonprofits reach more supporters with greater efficiency and trust.”

The Benevity vision for responsible AI is holistic and is being thoughtfully applied across its enterprise impact platform. Designed to unlock new efficiencies across every stage of corporate purpose-led programs, the agentic strategy is designed to enable changemakers to drive greater impact by advancing more strategic work. The new Anthropic partnership aligns with the Benevity AI vision to drive personalized purpose at work experiences that connect corporate employees more seamlessly to causes.

“Anthropic’s mission is to build reliable AI systems and lead research that ensures this technology benefits humanity safely and ethically,” said Elizabeth Kelly, Head of Beneficial Deployments, Anthropic. “Our values guide how we choose our partners and work together. Our shared mission with Benevity goes beyond building smarter tools. By combining Benevity’s AI-enabled social impact platform with Claude’s advanced AI, we aspire to make it possible to serve more communities and deliver measurable impact with safety and responsibility at the core.”

“Expanding access to our work starts with meeting donors where they are,” said Tunde Wackman, Chief Development Officer, World Central Kitchen (WCK). “At WCK, we recognize that AI search is becoming an essential part of how people find and support nonprofits. We’re pleased to see Benevity and Claude collaborate on a responsible, forward-looking tool that opens new avenues for donor engagement across the sector.”

About Benevity
Benevity, a certified B Corporation, is the global leader in enterprise social impact software. Benevity’s all-in-one platform empowers the world’s most purpose-driven companies to seamlessly integrate corporate social responsibility into their core business strategy – driving measurable, scalable, and lasting impact. Benevity has supported more than $34.5 billion to more than 500,000 nonprofit organizations and enabled more than 8.5 million changemakers worldwide since 2008, empowering organizations to build trust, engage employees, boost retention, and drive innovation. Its unified platform supports giving, volunteering, granting, and employee mobilization – backed by intelligent insights and a secure, global infrastructure. For more information, visit benevity.com.

Media Contact: Indrani Ray-Ghosal I press@benevity.com

 Landfills have long been the end of the road for waste. Today, they’re becoming the starting point for transformation. What if instead of disposal, we saw energy, materials and opportunity. Today we’re exploring how waste to energy is reshaping the global circular economy. Hosts Phil Dillard and Angie Dickson, President of Inogen Alliance, are joined by Sofiane Kessouar Senior EHS Consultant for Baden Consulting in Switzerland and Meiling Xu, Senior EHS Consultant, from Anew Global Consulting in China.

 

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Guest Quotes

“ It keeps surprising me that people from other region of the world often still seem to consider landfills an acceptable method of waste treatment, and that waste to energy seems somewhat utopian to them. These plants don’t just burn waste. They produce electricity and heat, often supplying homes or industry.” – Sofiane

In China, landfill sectors is in the rapid transition, hundreds of old sites, , being closed or mined for the west. As of 2023, the number of municipal waste landfill sites across the country has decreased from 640 in 2015 to 366. The closed sites are now transforming into equal parks, industrial parks, or other land usage after soil remediation and the land redevelopment.” – Meiling

Originally published in Principal Financial Group 2024 Sustainability Report

Our approach

Encouraging Principal employees to bring their passions and purpose to work is the core of the Principal For Good program, which connects them to our philanthropic culture through volunteering opportunities and giving program. The program draws on the expertise and resources of the business to strengthen communities and create lasting impact in the cities where our employees live and work.

True to our culture, our participants supported 5,330 causes across 30 countries and volunteered over 95,616 hours. By dedicating their time, expertise, and resources, Principal employees made significant contributions to the communities near and far. They took part in a variety of activities such as giving to community- based organizations through match giving and Dollars for Doers programs, packaging food and hygiene kits for underprivileged families and unhoused individuals, and mentoring school children and young people

Philabundance

In 2024, 44 Principal volunteers came together and volunteered over 285 hours, donated thousands of pounds of food, and raised funds to fight hunger in the Greater Philadelphia area with Philabundance through Preston & Steve’s Camp Out for Hunger.

This weeklong food drive, which has become the nation’s largest single location food drive, is a great display of the employee volunteer culture at Principal and our commitment to supporting the communities where our employees live and work.

Principal Malaysia

As stewards of the environment, we recognize the importance of sustainability and are committed to making a positive impact in our communities around the globe. Our employees’ passions came to life once again, as part of the celebration of the new eco-friendly office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In collaboration with Free Tree Society, an environment organization dedicated to changing the way people interact with the planet, 60 employees volunteered over 236 hours, planting trees in the Taman Tugu Forest. Their efforts not only contributed to creating green spaces for the community but also helped improve air quality and the local ecosystem for future generations.

Our actions and performance in 2024

In 2024, Principal employees supported our communities with:

• 95,616 volunteer hours logged by eligible users
• $6.2M matching dollars given to eligible organizations by Principal® Foundation

To learn more, read the Principal Financial Group 2024 Sustainability Report.

Insurance products issued by Principal National Life Insurance Co (except in NY) and Principal Life Insurance Company®. Plan administrative services offered by Principal Life. Principal Funds, Inc. is distributed by Principal Funds Distributor, Inc. Securities offered through Principal Securities, Inc., member SIPC and/or independent broker/dealers. Referenced companies are members of the Principal Financial Group®, Des Moines, IA 50392.

About Principal® Foundation

Principal® Foundation is a duly recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit entity focused on providing philanthropic support to programs that build financial security in the communities where Principal Financial Group, Inc. (“Principal”) operates. While Principal Foundation receives funding from Principal, Principal Foundation is a distinct, independent, charitable entity.

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C., December 2, 2025 /3BL/ – Discovery Education and Dell Technologies today announced the launch of a new educational initiative, Tech Career Circuit. Tech Career Circuit is a one-stop hub offering complementary learning resources to prepare students in grades 6-12 for success in the IT industry.

Using Tech Career Circuit’s unique hands-on learning opportunities and digital literacy resources, students can develop the essential workforce skills required in the IT industry. The Tech Career Circuit resources are standards-aligned, making integration in any classroom environment simple. The Tech Career Circuit resources include wrap-around lesson plans, activities, and educator supports available in multiple formats such as web-based content, PDFs, learning management system integrated designs, and more. The resources are designed to fit into any 6-12 classroom and support career and technical education tracks.

“Technology is moving at an incredible speed. At Dell, we want to prepare students for the future workforce, and technology and career skills are critical to participation. With Tech Career Circuit, we are providing access to opportunities and learnings that help K-12 educators anywhere in the world prepare students for skills needed in a career tomorrow,” said Carly Tatum, head of Giving and Impact at Dell Technologies. “We’re proud to partner with Discovery Education to connect students everywhere to critical future ready skills.”

Tech Career Circuit builds upon Dell Technologies’ work to support education through Dell Student TechCrew, Girls Who Game and other programming aimed at strengthening K-12 educational institutions in our communities. Dell Student TechCrew, a student-led help desk, enables students to become Dell technicians, certified to repair and refurbish devices for their school. Girls Who Game builds STEM interest in young girls through gaming and experiential challenges.

“The latest research shows that 87% of high school students find school more engaging when they see real career connections. With Tech Career Circuit, students gain engaging classroom lessons that support the development of work-ready skills,” said Catherine Dunlop, Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships at Discovery Education. “We are thrilled to partner with Dell Technologies to prepare students for in-demand careers.”

To access the Tech Career Circuit resources, visit techcareercircuit.discoveryeducation.com.

For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions, visit www.discoveryeducation.com.

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About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the AI era.

About Discovery Education 
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art, PreK-12, digital solutions help educators engage all students and support higher academic achievement. Through award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, and innovative classroom tools that are effective, engaging, and easy to use, Discovery Education helps educators deliver powerful learning experiences. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Through partnerships with districts, states, and trusted organizations, Discovery Education empowers teachers with essential edtech solutions that inspire curiosity, build confidence, and accelerate learning. Learn more at www.discoveryeducation.com.

Contact 
Grace Maliska
Discovery Education
Email: gmaliska@discoveryed.com

Holiday Demand Is Rising — and So Are the Risks

U.S. consumers just spent a record $11.8 billion on Black Friday, indicating robust consumer spending in the face of tariffs and inflationary pressures. The stakes are high – and as the holiday shopping season continues to peak – consumers expect products to arrive faster, cheaper, and more reliably than ever. Yet according to DP World’s Without Logistics: Retail Edition report, retailers face more than 18,000 logistics disruptions every year – driven by capacity constraints, port congestion, labor shortages, and shifting trade routes.

These disruptions pose a major challenge during the busiest shopping period of the year, where every delay or stockout can lead to frustrated shoppers, lost revenue, and weakened brand trust.

The High Cost of Disruption During Peak Season

The average logistics disruption now costs $420,000, contributing to more than $7.5 billion in annual sector-wide losses. And 56% of retailers say disruptions eliminate more than a month of operational capacity — a near-impossible setback during the crucial final weeks of the year.

In a season defined by speed and consumer expectations, a single logistics failure can derail an entire holiday strategy.

Holiday Shoppers Feel Logistics Breakdowns Immediately

After a logistics disruption:

• 84% of retailers reported a rise in customer complaints
• 71% lost contracts or business
• 63% said their brand reputation suffered

In December – when shoppers demand precise delivery windows and have endless alternatives – logistics becomes the frontline of customer experience.

Resilient Retailers Are Investing Strategically

While 84% of retail leaders believe they are more resilient than peers, the data reveals gaps: nearly half require more than a month to recover from major disruptions.

Retailers investing across four or more logistics areas reduced disruption costs by 47%, especially through digitization, ESG initiatives, warehouse optimization, and stronger inbound logistics.

The takeaway: logistics is no longer a behind-the-scenes function – it is a strategic differentiator during the holiday surge.

The Holiday Season Runs on Logistics – And Logistics Runs on Insight

Behind every doorstep delivery, gift order, and replenished shelf is a global ecosystem that must operate flawlessly. DP World’s logistics network helps retailers navigate:

• Demand surges
• Cross-border complexities
• Warehouse and capacity constraints
• Changing trade routes
• Increasing sustainability expectations

When disruptions occur during peak season, shoppers notice immediately — which is why resilience matters more than ever.

Explore DP World’s Full Retail Report

As holiday shopping accelerates, the retailers that win will be those treating logistics as a strategic growth engine—not a background function.

Download the full report and explore the Retail Edition of DP World’s “World Without Logistics” campaign.