03/28/2024

EY voices on the energy transition

The nationwide transition to a renewables-led energy future that is underway brings benefits to both customers and utilities. With dramatic change and industry progress comes new technologies that demand a reset of organizational culture and operational focus within utilities.

AUSTRALIAN LESIURE MANAGEMENT • 02/27/2024

Fitness on Demand’s Andy Peat advises of trends to transform businesses in 2024 - Asian Leisure Business

Andy Peat, Chief Executive of virtual access platform Fitness on Demand has told Australasian Leisure Management that it’s time for the fitness industry to change again.

Advising of trends that will transform fitness businesses in 2024, Peat explains “of course, club operators might argue ‘haven’t we changed enough since 2020?’ … and they’d be right.

“But there are critical demographic changes and significant shifts coming in consumer behaviour in 2024 that will have real impacts on which fitn

Optum Livewell.com • 05/27/2023

Too Close for Comfort -Helpful Tips for Stressed Out Couples Working from Home

In 2011 the European Space Agency conducted a preparatory study for future missions to Mars. Six people lived in a small space barely bigger than a garage for 520 days. They survived and demonstrated human resilience dealing with things like isolation and cramped living conditions. When asked about the experience, Patrik Sundblad, human life sciences specialist at ESA, said the simulation had proven successful. "Yes, the crew can survive the inevitable isolation that is [essential] for a mission to Mars and back. Psychologically, we can do it.” Of course, most of us aren’t professional astronauts training for confinement, but working from home and living with our partners 24 hours a day can become similarly claustrophobic very quickly and require resilience.

EY.com • 07/18/2022

Can utilities move EVs into the fast lane?

Three major roadblocks are standing in the way of more rapid EV adoption. The first two, the real road readiness of EV vehicles and consumer concern over battery range are being addressed quickly by advancing technology and improved design, but utilities are holding the keys to a solution for the third. The ability to charge any form of EV quickly, easily and reliably – and in urban, rural and radically different landscapes – hinges solely on charge point operators (CPOs) being able to secure pe

LODGING Magazine • 01/04/2022

Five Things to Know About Rethinking Hotel Fitness Facilities — LODGING

When every guest checks in, they have a multitude of wants: exceptional service, restful sleep, clean rooms, and more. Tech and app-driven convenience can help provide the experiences guests are searching for, which can encompass everything from on-click app check-in before guests arrive, room service or third-party food ordering, and even a hotel fitness experience. Long considered difficult to pull off at scale in guestrooms—and costly to manage in physical fitness clubs—the hotel fitness expe

Hospitality Technology • 12/21/2021

Five Principles for Next Gen Guest Fitness

It’s been a while since the hotel fitness center was little more than a lesser-used room on the lower floor of most hotels. From humble beginnings in the basement, the average workout facility evolved over time into something closer to the chic, spa-like interiors we know today. But the actual fitness experience – the feeling of stress and calorie busting workouts at the end of a long day of meetings or sightseeing? That, hamstrung by the combined need for expensive equipment and finite square f

ZiZZO.bike website blog • 10/27/2021

Making the Most of Fall for Fun and Rides

OK, we can’t pretend any longer. It’s fully fall. And while that means the long days of summer are officially over, that doesn’t mean fun with your ZiZZO has to be. In fact many places around the U.S. call fall the best weeks of the year. Mild days and cool nights are perfect riding weather whether it’s cruising around the neighborhood or folding up your ZiZZO and hitting the road for a weekend away. So before many of us hit the breaks for winter check out a few ideas and inspirations here ...

Hospitality Technology Magazine • 10/27/2021

FitnessOnDemand Launches New LIVE Streaming Feature for Hotels

As families and business guests return to hotel travel, FitnessOnDemand, a provider of on-demand fitness content from the world’s most innovative fitness brands and celebrities, introduces Live Streaming, the next evolution of FOD’s hospitality fitness platform. Live Streaming combines on-demand digital fitness classes and workouts in hotel fitness clubs with the ability to offer live streamed instructor classes to guests.
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TRAX: The Road Ahead • 10/27/2021

Staying Liquid - The New Rules of Cash Flow Optimization in Transportation

Controlling Cash to Drive Efficiencies and Better Returns in a Performance Hungry Market

In times of crisis and upheaval, a win can mean simply keeping the boat afloat. It’s about steering out of the stormy skies and choppy waters of a volatile, constrained market and waiting until the sun rises over calmer conditions and better terms. That was very much the MO for every shipper in 2020 when doing business was all about simple survival...

TRAX: The Road Ahead • 10/27/2021

What to Do When the Future is Unfortunately “Crystal Clear”

Predictions and Strategies for Weathering the Supply Chain Storm into 2022

Remember when predicting the future in the global supply chain was “easy”? You didn’t even need a crystal ball. A keen eye on market conditions and solid, reliable data across your operation – and especially from your partners – could provide a first foundational step in understanding when things would get better – or worse. But then 2020 came along, rewrote the rules, and brought a storm of pricing escalations ...

FXB website • 10/27/2021

Step Back To Work Bootcamp

Whether you’re excited about it, still waiting for it, or wondering how it will go, the return to work was always inevitable. But just because you’re back at work from 8 to 5, or working round the clock shifts, doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the easy options and flexible schedule that you had when your gym was right in your living room. As we all make the transition back to the workplace over the coming weeks and months, take time to seize opportunities for exercise ...

LL STYLE • 10/27/2021

Flooring Showcase: Gold Medal Style with the New Americana Collection

Olympics themed article on new flooring product launch

LL STYLE • 10/27/2021

8 Beach Bag Must-Reads for Sizzling Summer Design Inspiration

Summer beach reads for LL Style - brand magazine for LL Flooring

Business Wire • 10/27/2021

FitnessOnDemand Launches New Live Streaming Feature for all Fitness Clubs and their Members

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FitnessOnDemand, the leader in on-demand content from the world’s most innovative fitness brands and celebrity trainers, this month introduces a new platform evolution for all club operators and their customers. The launch offers club operators the ability to broadcast live streaming, instructor-led fitness classes and integrate them seamlessly with their on-demand content libraries as well as in-studio, live classes in order to give members a total brand experience

Club Solutions Magazine • 10/01/2021

Best Practices for Livestreaming

Uday Anumalachetty, the divisional vice president of Fitness OnDemand, shares how to engage members in the evolving fitness landscape through livestreaming.

It’s good to have options. For your club members, that means live, in-studio classes when it works for their schedule, on-demand workouts at home accessed from your club content library, and now livestreamed classes from your top instructors to devices and screens wherever members choose to workout ...

Optum Livewell.com • 05/27/2021

Staying Connected with Colleagues when Some or All are Remote

Aristotle said it best. “Man is, by nature, a social animal.” We are wired to want to connect, to share our thoughts and experiences with others. In fact, neuroscientists are only now learning more about the “social brain” – synchronous brain activity between two or more people that happens when we come together, enabling us do things we could never achieve individually. In short, we are meant to live, socialize and work together. But when we work from home, cut off from colleagues for long periods of time, what can at first seem fun, can often lead to feelings of isolation that may affect our wellbeing and work performance.

Optum Livewell.com • 05/27/2021

When Workplace Anxiety Hits Home-Dealing with Work from Home Stres

Working from home temporarily can be a welcome break and even fun. Suddenly there are no long commutes in traffic, or unexpected interruptions from colleagues. But when working from home lasts more than a few days, or stretches out indefinitely, like in a pandemic, the line between work and home can become blurred, leading to confusion, anxiety, stress and even work from home burnout – a condition recently recognized by the World Health Organization.

Twin Cities Business • 10/16/2020

Embracing the Octopus: What 2020 Just Taught us About Work

2020 has challenged how we work in so many ways. If you are still employed, able to work primarily from home, and your biggest challenges are juggling Zoom calls and kids or other home issues, you are one of the lucky ones. Yet you also probably have a healthy dose of survivors’ guilt for hanging on to your job amid everything else falling down in the world. Given how things could be, you might feel like keeping your head down right now. But this year is actually a huge opportunity for organizat

Pazazz brand website • 05/19/2020

Pazazz Apple | Find Yours

Pazazz website for client Honeybear brands: copy, art direction, production

PAZAZZ RECIPE VIDEO: GALETTERS • 05/14/2020

Galettes with Pazazz Apple

Seasonal recipe video for client Pazazz

steve gill • 05/14/2020

SOCIAL RECIPE VIDEO: Chopped Winter Salad

Healthy Chopped Winter Salad using Pazazz Apples for client Honeybear Brands

Rank Crankers • 05/14/2020

Community Connections + Local Impact

So much of Rank Crankers’ work occurs in the digital space, so it’s important to take a moment to purposefully engage with the physical community around us. To us this means everything from connecting at local events and volunteering with local charities to choosing catering options that better represent the community we all live in.

This month, Rank Crankers’ community giving program topped $50,000 in donations to local charities, and we’ve slated $24,000 in additional giving in 2020. Our Comm

Rank Crankers • 05/14/2020

RC Heads North with Plans for Growth

Big changes are coming to Rank Crankers this summer after we signed a lease in December 2019 for new office headquarters in Northeast Minneapolis’ historic Soap Factory building. While plenty of agencies relocate, this move – and destination – is pretty special to us as it’s a chance to become part of one of the most vibrant and diverse neighborhoods in the Twin Cities today. It’s also a return to Northeast Minneapolis where our first office opened in 2012.

Only a block north of St. Anthony Mai

Fitness On Demand™ • 04/24/2020

Work(out) From Home Strategies

If you’re not a front line essential industry worker right now, you’re most likely stuck at home. It can be tough to keep to daily exercise habits during times of change or upheaval, but maintaining a routine can actually help reduce stress. And following these few simple steps will keep your home workouts energizing, engaging and on track until the gym opens again.

When you’re at the club you don’t really think about what makes up a great workout because you’re in your groove, headed to a clas