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OwnersEdge Acquires Illinois-based Communications Direct

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OwnersEdge, a 100% employee-owned ESOP holding company, has a vision of growing from its current five operating companies to ten and delivering the American Dream to all of its current and future employee owners. The acquisition of Communications Direct is a significant step in advancing that plan.

WAUKESHA, Wis., July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In a strategic move to accelerate growth, OwnersEdge Inc., a 100% employee-owned ESOP holding company based in Waukesha, Wis., has acquired Communications Direct (CommDirect), an Illinois-based, mission-critical communications business that is a Motorola Solutions channel partner and a national leader in communication system rentals.

“We’re excited to welcome the employees of CommDirect to our business and are always looking to bring additional companies into OwnersEdge,” said Christine Adee, co-CEO of OwnersEdge.

This is the first acquisition for OwnersEdge in Illinois, and the first since it announced a new leadership structure in June 2023, in which Lisa Reardon, founder and CEO, transitioned to the role of executive chair, while Christine Adee and Rob Dillon were appointed as co-CEOs.

OwnersEdge has a vision of growing from its current five operating companies to ten and delivering the American Dream to all of its current and future employee owners. The acquisition of CommDirect is another significant step in advancing that plan.

CommDirect is headquartered in St. Charles and has rental offices in four key cities that host large trade shows and conventions and high-profile events – Morton Grove, Illinois (which is close to Chicago); Orlando; Carrollton, Texas (just outside of Dallas/Fort Worth); and Las Vegas. All 26 CommDirect employees are now employee owners and will benefit from the company’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).

“During its 30-plus years, CommDirect has established itself as a premium provider of critical communication systems with differentiated capabilities in the large system rental market. This acquisition is a strategic move that allows us to expand our geographic footprint into Illinois with a business that perfectly complements two of our existing operating companies,” said Rob Dillon, co-CEO of OwnersEdge. “CommDirect clients will now have access to additional solutions that BAYCOM and Implecho offer, including video surveillance and door access control security systems, mobile computing products, headsets and tour guide systems.”

OwnersEdge Leadership Structure

Lisa Reardon, executive chair of OwnersEdge, said the acquisition demonstrates the effectiveness of the new leadership structure, which allows her to focus on finding and acquiring high-quality businesses that align with the OwnersEdge culture and purpose.

“Our structural changes have provided the necessary capacity and focus to accelerate our vision of building sustainable businesses throughout the Midwest,” Reardon said. “By adding CommDirect to our portfolio, we are able to continue to deliver on our purpose of enabling current and future employee owners to live out their own American Dream.”

CommDirect Insight

Tim Van Hiel and Bill Chmelik, the owners of CommDirect, said they chose to partner with OwnersEdge because of its technical expertise, customer focus and commitment to employee ownership.

“Their philosophy of treating employees with respect and rewarding them with the gift of employee ownership gave us tremendous confidence that they will be great stewards of this business going forward,” Van Hiel and Chmelik said. “We are proud to join the OwnersEdge portfolio and contribute to its growth and success.”

OwnersEdge Growth

OwnersEdge was established in 2015 as an ESOP holding company to provide revenue stream diversity and greater returns for its employee owners. During the past nine years, OwnersEdge has executed nine acquisitions and expanded its workforce to more than 300 employees.

“I believe the ESOP model is one of the best ways to create a committed and engaged workforce where employees view their contributions as vital and impactful to the overall success and financial health of the business,” said Christine Adee, co-CEO of OwnersEdge. “We’re excited to welcome the employees of CommDirect to our business and are always looking to bring additional companies into OwnersEdge.”

About OwnersEdge

Based in Waukesha, Wis., OwnersEdge Inc. is a 100% employee-owned ESOP holding company that strives to invest in and build sustainable businesses throughout the Midwest. The operating companies within the OwnersEdge portfolio utilize their industry expertise to drive business growth and create value for stakeholders including customers, communities and the ESOP employee owners. The existing companies in its portfolio – Asche & Spencer, BAYCOM, CC&N, Implecho and QComp Technologies – provide diverse products and services to a variety of market segments ranging from public safety to construction to manufacturing and music production.

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Monica G Baer, OwnersEdge, 1 4148815053, mbaer@baercarlson.com, https://www.ownersedge.com/

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New agentic AI platform sounds death knell for manual presentation tools

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Sembly AI launches Sembly 3.0 in biggest evolution since 2019

SYDNEY, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Sembly AI launches Sembly 3.0, an agentic AI platform that transforms an organisation’s documents, meetings, and CRM content into finished, fully branded presentations, proposals, case studies and reports in minutes in over 45 languages.

The launch marks the company’s biggest evolution since it was founded in 2019, repositioning Sembly as an “AI execution layer” for businesses. It turns everyday business knowledge into the finished materials companies use to sell, deliver and communicate.

Users simply need to specify their goal (eg, “Sell my services”) and the client’s website, then watch Sembly get to work: pulling information from business materials, deriving appropriate branding, researching the customer, and producing a bespoke on-brand pitch deck.

“Prompts make people think about how to talk to AI. But dialogue lets them focus on what they want to accomplish,” said Gil Makleff, CEO and co-founder of Sembly AI. “That makes creating business documents faster and more efficient, turning time saved into real business impact.”

“Manually creating presentations is a thing of the past,” said Artem Koren, Chief Product & Technology Officer and co-founder of Sembly AI. “Business materials are the substrate of decision-making: they are how companies communicate, persuade and decide. Sembly 3.0 changes how they are made entirely.”

“Your customers want to hear how you serve them in their specific world and their specific situation, and Sembly makes that possible for every customer,” Koren added. “With Sembly 3.0, your results are as good as how clearly you can state your goal. That’s all you’re limited by.”

Early users of Sembly 3.0 report saving two to three weeks of work on reports and presentations that traditionally pass through multiple hands before they are delivery-ready.

Heorhii Tulchyi, Chief Technology Officer at market research company, Bell & Holmes, is one of those early users of Sembly 3.0.

He said: “Sembly has fundamentally changed how I prepare presentations and client communications. It has saved my team and me weeks of work and dramatically accelerated how we turn ideas and information into polished deliverables. I haven’t seen anything else on the market quite like it.”

Sembly 3.0 is available from today at www.sembly.ai.

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Lion Announces Plan to Implement ADS Ratio Change

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lion Group Holding Ltd. (“Lion” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: LGHL), operator of an all-in-one trading platform that offers a wide spectrum of products and services, today announced that it plans to change the ratio of its American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) to its Class A ordinary shares (the “ADS Ratio”), par value US$0.0000001 per share, from the current ADS Ratio of two hundred ninety-two thousand and five hundred (292,500) Class A ordinary shares, to a new ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to five million eight hundred and fifty thousand (5,850,000) Class A ordinary shares (the “ADS Ratio Change”). The Company anticipates that the ADS Ratio Change will be effective on or about September 10, 2026 (the “Effective Date”).

For the Company’s ADS holders, the change in the ADS Ratio will have the same effect as a one-for-twenty reverse ADS split. On the Effective Date, registered holders of company ADSs held in certificated form will be required on a mandatory basis to surrender their certificated ADSs to the depositary bank for cancellation and will receive one (1) new ADS in exchange for every twenty (20) existing ADSs then-held. Holders of uncertificated ADSs in the Direct Registration System (“DRS”) and in The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) will have their ADSs automatically exchanged and need not take any action. The exchange of every twenty existing ADSs for one (1) new ADS will occur automatically, with existing ADSs being cancelled and new ADSs being issued by the depositary bank on the Effective Date.

Lion’s ADSs will continue to be traded under the ticker symbol “LGHL” on the Nasdaq Capital Market. No fees will be charged to ADS holders, for both certificated or uncertificated ADSs, in connection with the exchange of existing ADSs for new ADSs.  No fractional new ADSs will be issued in connection with the change in the ADS Ratio. Instead, fractional entitlements to new ADSs will be aggregated and sold by the depositary bank and the net cash proceeds from the sale of the fractional ADS entitlements (after deduction of fees, taxes and expenses) will be distributed to the applicable ADS holders by the depositary bank. The ADS Ratio Change will have no impact on Lion’s underlying Class A ordinary shares, and no Class A ordinary shares will be issued or cancelled in connection with the ADS Ratio Change.

As a result of the change in the ADS Ratio, Lion’s ADS trading price is expected to increase proportionally, although the Company can give no assurance that the ADS trading price after the ADS Ratio Change will be equal to or greater than twenty (20) times the ADS trading price before the change.

About Lion Group Holding Ltd.

Lion Group Holding Ltd. (Nasdaq: LGHL) operates an all-in-one, state-of-the-art trading platform that offers a wide spectrum of products and services, including (i) total return service (TRS) trading, (ii) contract-for-difference (CFD) trading, and (iii) Over-the-counter (OTC) stock options trading. Additional information may be found at http://ir.liongrouphl.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Lion’s actual results may differ from their expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “might” and “continues,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about: Lion’s goals and strategies; our ability to retain and increase the number of users, members and advertising customers, and expand its service offerings; Lion’s future business development, financial condition and results of operations; expected changes in Lion’s revenues, costs or expenditures; competition in the industry; relevant government policies and regulations relating to our industry; general economic and business conditions globally and in China; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Lion cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Lion cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Lion does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, subject to applicable law. Additional information concerning these and other factors that may impact our expectations and projections can be found in Lion’s periodic filings with the SEC, including Lion’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Lion’s SEC filings are available publicly on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

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Lion Group Holding Ltd.
Tel: +65 8877 3871
Email: ir@liongrouphl.com 

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Repurchases of shares by EQT AB during week 36, 2026. The current share buyback program has been finalized

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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Between 31 August 2026 and 4 September 2026 EQT AB (LEI code 213800U7P9GOIRKCTB34) (“EQT”) has repurchased in total 707,203 own ordinary shares (ISIN: SE0012853455). In total, 4,368,899 shares, for an amount of SEK 1,448,620,146.93, have been repurchased and as a result, the current program has been finalized.

The repurchases form part of the repurchase program of a maximum of 4,368,899 own ordinary shares for a total maximum amount of SEK 2,500,000,000 that EQT announced on 12 May 2026. The repurchase program, which ran between 20 July 2026 and 4 September 2026, was carried out in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052.

EQT ordinary shares have been repurchased as follows:

                                   

                                   

Date:

                                   

Aggregated volume (number of shares):

                                   

Weighted average share price per day (SEK):

                                   

Aggregated transaction value (SEK):

                                               

                                   

31 August 2026

 

142,000

 

336.4061

 

47,769,666.20

 

                                   

1 September 2026

 

142,000

 

322.2911

 

45,765,336.20

 

                                   

2 September 2026

 

142,000

 

316.1294

 

44,890,374.80

 

                                   

3 September 2026

 

142,000

 

323.0104

 

45,867,476.80

 

                                   

4 September 2026

 

139,203

 

322.4232

 

44,882,276.71

 

                                   

Total accumulated over week 36

 

707,203

 

324.0585

 

229,175,130.71

 

                                   

Total accumulated during the repurchase program

 

4,368,899

 

331.5756

 

1,448,620,146.93

 

All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB on behalf of EQT.

Following the above acquisitions and as of 4 September 2026, the number of shares in EQT, including EQT’s holding of own shares is set out in the table below.

                                   

Ordinary shares

                                   

Total

                                               

                                   

Number of issued shares1

 

1,306,963,746

 

1,306,963,746

 

                                   

Number of shares owned by EQT AB2

 

61,033,664

 

61,033,664

 

                                   

Number of outstanding shares

 

1,245,930,082

 

1,245,930,082

 

1 Total number of shares in EQT AB, i.e. including the number of shares owned by EQT AB
2 EQT AB shares owned by EQT AB are not entitled to dividends or carry votes at shareholders’ meetings

A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.

Contact

Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15
EQT Press Office, press@eqtpartners.com, +46 8 506 55 334

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https://mb.cision.com/Main/87/4392881/4255531.pdf

EQT – Repurchases of shares – Weekly press release W36 2026

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EQT Transactions 20260831 to 20260904

https://news.cision.com/eqt/i/eqt,c3562758

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