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MT. LAUREL, N.J., Oct. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) proudly announced the 2024 Innovation Awards winners yesterday during Prego Expo in Chicago, Illinois. The JPMA Innovation Awards recognize the most exciting new baby and children’s products on the market. Four special award recipients and 11 category winners were selected. Winners were determined by a panel of judges comprised of industry experts, media representatives, and retailers. For the JPMA Parents’ Pick Award, more than 1,200 parents voted for their must-have product. 

“Creating innovative baby and children’s products isn’t always about reinventing the wheel,” commented judge Leah Rocketto, Associate Commerce Director for Everyday Health Group Pregnancy & Parenting. “Rather, it’s about tweaking the wheel to help solve those seemingly small problems us parents face every day. I was extremely impressed with the number of JPMA Innovation Awards nominees that prioritized saving parents time and space or just provided peace of mind. And the winners truly lighten the physical and mental load when it comes to raising kids.”

The 2024 JPMA Innovation Awards Winners are:

BEST IN SHOW
Haakaa Shell Wearable Silicone Breast Pump

PARENTS’ PICK
HALO® Easy Transition Sleepsack®

EDITOR’S PICK
Graco® Read-with-Me 4-in-1 Convertible Bookshelf Crib with Drawer by Storkcraft

TRIED AND TRUE
Safety 1st Grow & Go Car Seat

DESIGN/FASHION/STYLE
Maxi-Cosi Tana 360° Rotating Modular Stroller

INFANT/PARENT CARE
Medela Easy Pour Breast Milk Storage Bags

PLAY/ENTERTAINMENT
Skip Hop Discoverosity 3-in-1 Sensory Table

SAFETY
Munchkin Mini Thermometer

ON THE GO
Tula Printed Mesh Explore Carrier

NURSERY
Boppy® Bassinet

CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS
Diono® Connect3® RXT 2-in-1 High-Back Booster

TECHNOLOGY
Cybex e-Gazelle S Stroller

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY/SUSTAINABILITY
Dekor Eko Diaper Pail & Eko Refills

FEEDING/BATHING/CHANGING
Emulait Anatomy Bottle With Responsive Flow

STROLLER
Cybex Libelle Travel Stroller

“From strollers and bottles to car seats and cribs, I’m amazed to see the creativity and convenience infused into the products that won this year’s Innovation Awards,” said JPMA Executive Director Lisa Trofe. “Manufacturers of baby and children’s products continue to invent items that make caring for little ones safer, more convenient, and even more fun. Expecting and new parents will want to add these award-winning products to their wish lists!”

Find full descriptions of the winning products HERE, and high-resolution images of the winning products HERE.

The 2024 Innovation Awards Judges Panel is an esteemed group of industry experts. This year’s panel included:

Sara Delkoski Bakken, Director – Product Safety, Quality and Regulatory (PSQR), TargetAdrienne Gallardo, Program Manager, Doernbecher Injury Prevention Program, Doernbecher Children’s HospitalJessica Hartshorn, Contributing Writer, Good Housekeeping InstituteDani Martinson, Marketing Director, Babies “R” UsLeah Rocketto, Associate Commerce Director, Everyday Health Group Pregnancy & ParentingRachael Shaggot, Founder and President, Best Practice Quality, LLC

The JPMA Innovation Awards thanks our judges; our Editor’s Pick sponsor Everyday Health Group Pregnancy & Parenting, which includes BabyCenter and What to Expect; and Prego Expo, host of the JPMA Innovation Awards winners announcement.

About the JPMA Innovation Awards
The JPMA Innovation Awards began in 1989 as the Most Innovative Product Contest and has become recognized as a highly acclaimed competition. In 2003, JPMA renamed it as the Innovation Awards to more accurately represent the focus on innovation.

About JPMA
The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) is the voice of the industry on quality and safety for baby and children’s products in North America. We work to advance the interests of manufacturers, parents, children, and the industry at large by advocating for safety through product certification programs and legislative and regulatory involvement. Our members uphold The JPMA Promise, which includes our industry’s Core Values. We support our broad and diverse membership through member-only programming and industry promotion. Additionally, we act as a comprehensive source for baby product information, education, and philanthropy through our charitable organization, JPMA Cares. Established in 1962, JPMA has spent more than 60 years helping protect future generations by advancing the availability and safety of products used to care for babies and young children. Learn more at jpma.org.

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LG ELECTRONICS’ PRISM AI WINS THREE HONORS AT 2026 AMEC AWARDS

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LG’s AI-Powered Platform Recognized for Measuring
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LG Electronics’ PRISM AI has won Gold in the Best Use of AI in Communication Measurement category and Silver in both the Best Use of a Measurement Framework category and the Step Change Award at the 2026 AMEC Global Communication Effectiveness Awards.The platform was recognized for its data-handling and impact measurement, which have helped expand LG’s media monitoring from 53 to 200 countries and cut reporting time from about one month to one hour.A notable example of LG Group’s focus on AI transformation (AX), PRISM AI has now been recognized by two major international industry awards this year, including the Best AI Tool or Product category at the 2026 IN2 SABRE Awards Asia-Pacific.

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics (LG) today announced that PRISM AI, its AI-powered communications measurement platform, has won three honors at the 2026 AMEC Global Communication Effectiveness Awards. The awards are presented by AMEC, the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication.

The platform earned Gold in the Best Use of AI in Communication Measurement category and Silver in both the Best Use of a Measurement Framework category and the Step Change Award, which recognizes the best improvement of a measurement journey. The accolades highlight PRISM AI’s potential as a reference point for the public relations and communications industry.

How the Awards Were Judged

This year, the AMEC Global Communication Effectiveness Awards adopted a threshold-based judging model, under which each entry is evaluated against fixed criteria for excellence rather than against other entries. To protect the integrity of the process, judges are not permitted to use generative AI tools to support or inform their evaluations.

The judging places the greatest emphasis on real-world effectiveness: how reliable the findings are, whether they were acted on, and how they shape future communications planning and strategy. These priorities are reflected in PRISM AI’s approach, with its integrated measurement methodology and multilingual contextual analysis designed to address these criteria, delivering dependable measurement and insights that inform business decisions.

Measuring Impact, Not Just Volume

PRISM AI measures the impact of communications, not just the volume of coverage. The platform is built around three core concepts from AMEC’s Barcelona Principles 3.0: outcomes over outputs, quality plus quantity, and transparency. To put these principles into practice, it uses a dual-metric system made up of the PR Score and the Communications Impact Index.

Underpinning this approach is the platform’s ability to handle data at scale. To track coverage across a fragmented global media landscape, PRISM AI processes large volumes of articles in real time and uses large language models to interpret coverage across languages and markets, producing more meaningful and comparable insights.

Measurable Gains in Efficiency and Reliability

Since its introduction, PRISM AI has improved the efficiency and reliability of LG’s global communications workflows. Its AI-powered filtering removes more than 78 percent of spam and irrelevant content with over 95 percent accuracy. Media monitoring now covers 200 countries, up from 53, and tracked brands have grown from 5 to 30. The time spent on reporting has been reduced from approximately one month to one hour.

Growing International Recognition

As LG Group advances AI transformation (AX) across its businesses, PRISM AI has become an internationally recognized example of AI-driven data collection and analysis in a specialized professional field. The AMEC recognition follows the platform’s win in the Best AI Tool or Product category at the 2026 IN2 SABRE Awards Asia-Pacific, held in Singapore this August.

“Winning three AMEC Awards for PRISM AI is especially meaningful, not only because it highlights our efforts in advancing AI-powered communications measurement, but also because the recognition comes directly from the PR industry’s most respected global body,” said Cho Jung-bum, head of the AX Center at LG Electronics. “We will continue to refine PRISM AI’s methodology while expanding its capabilities and scope, further enhancing its value as a solution for driving better business decisions.”

About LG Electronics, Inc. 

LG Electronics is a global innovator in technology and consumer electronics with a presence in almost every country and an international workforce of more than 75,000. LG’s four Companies – Home Appliance Solution, Media Entertainment Solution, Vehicle Solution and Eco Solution – combined for global revenue of over KRW 89 trillion in 2025. LG is a leading manufacturer of consumer and commercial products ranging from TVs, home appliances, air solutions, monitors, automotive components and solutions, and its premium LG SIGNATURE and intelligent LG ThinQ brands are familiar names world over. Visit www.LG.com/global/newsroom/ for the latest news. 

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COMAU RECEIVES NIO QUALITY PREMIUM PARTNER RECOGNITION FOR THE SECOND TIME

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SHANGHAI, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Comau has been recognized with NIO’s Quality Premium Partner at the 2026 NIO Partner Day, marking the second time the company has received this recognition. Jeff Yuan, Chief APAC Officer at Comau, attended the event and accepted the award.

The NIO Quality Premium Partner (NQPP) is part of the supplier evaluation program of NIO, one of the world’s leading premium smart EV pioneers. The program assesses partners across key areas including part quality, delivery execution, engineering support and responsiveness. The recognition is awarded to suppliers that demonstrate consistent operational performance and sustained value creation across the product lifecycle. For Comau, the second recognition further confirms its engineering execution strength and long-term manufacturing support capabilities.

As a partner of NIO’s e-drive assembly lines, Comau has been a key contributor to the automaker’s electric drive manufacturing operations with advanced automation solutions. Since the start of production, the systems have delivered stable performance and supported large-scale production ramp-up and the successful launch of multiple vehicle programs.

Through a modular and flexible design approach, Comau has enabled future-ready capabilities for product upgrades, process optimization and capacity expansion. Supported by a customer-centric philosophy and a fast-response execution model, Comau has ensured technical compliance and on-time delivery while improving coordination efficiency and overall project execution, strengthening the long-term value of the partnership.

“This recognition reflects Comau’s continued commitment to execution excellence,” said Jeff Yuan. “NIO’s high standards in quality and innovation continue to challenge us to refine our processes and improve efficiency. As the partnership evolves, we will continue to support next-generation intelligent manufacturing with our automation and engineering capabilities.”

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Geotab Launches GO Anywhere Plus in Malaysia to Help Businesses Improve Asset Visibility and Utilisation

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New asset tracking solution helps organisations locate and manage valuable powered and non-powered assets across distributed operations

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Geotab, a global leader in connected operations, video telematics and AI-powered insights, today announced the launch of GO Anywhere Plus in Malaysia, expanding access to enhanced asset tracking capabilities that help organisations better monitor and manage valuable powered and non-powered assets across their operations.

Malaysia’s transportation and storage sector continued to expand in 2025. According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia, the transportation and storage subsector grew by 9.0% in 2025, following 10.9% growth in 2024.

For organisations managing vehicles, trailers, equipment and other valuable assets across multiple locations, maintaining visibility can help businesses better understand how resources are deployed and utilised. This comes as Malaysia continues to advance the adoption of smarter logistics technologies, with the Malaysian Investment Development Authority highlighting real-time tracking of goods and assets as one capability that can support greater visibility across logistics operations.

While organisations may use telematics to monitor fleet vehicles, non-powered assets such as trailers, containers and equipment may require different approaches to maintaining visibility. GO Anywhere Plus brings fleet and asset intelligence together, giving organisations greater insight into asset location and usage across their operations.

Fully integrated with MyGeotab®, GO Anywhere Plus enables organisations to manage vehicles and assets through a single platform. Beyond location tracking, the solution provides insights into asset usage, including ignition status and engine hours for powered equipment, to support maintenance planning, asset recovery and more effective resource allocation.

“As Malaysia’s logistics ecosystem evolves, organisations are looking at how technology and data can support more efficient management of the assets behind their operations,” said Ezanne Soh, Associate Vice President, Southeast Asia, Geotab. “For businesses managing vehicles alongside equipment and other mobile assets, bringing fleet and asset intelligence together can provide a clearer operational picture. Greater insight into how assets are deployed and utilised can help organisations make more informed decisions and manage resources more effectively.”

Helping Organisations Improve Asset Visibility and Resource Utilisation

As organisations manage assets across different locations and operations, understanding where those assets are and how they are being utilised can support better deployment decisions, equipment availability and resource allocation.

GO Anywhere Plus helps organisations:

Know Where Assets Are: Monitor the location of powered and non-powered assets through a single platform.Maximise Asset Utilisation: Better understand asset usage to support deployment decisions, improve productivity and reduce unnecessary expenditure.Protect Valuable Equipment: Support the recovery of misplaced or stolen assets while reducing time spent searching for critical equipment.

Together, these capabilities give organisations greater oversight of valuable assets across their operations, helping them manage resources more effectively.

The launch of GO Anywhere Plus further expands Geotab’s connected operations capabilities in Malaysia, helping organisations bring fleet and asset data together to support more efficient, connected operations.

For more information about GO Anywhere Plus, please visit: https://www.geotab.com/apac/products/go-anywhere-plus/ 

About Geotab

Geotab is a global leader in connected operations, video telematics and AI-powered insights. Trusted by more than 100,000 customers — from small and mid-size fleets to Fortune 500 enterprises and public-sector organisations, including the U.S. federal government, Geotab connects approximately 6 million vehicles and assets and processes 100 billion data points daily. With ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC2, FIPS 140-3 and FedRAMP authorisations, Geotab’s open platform and 700+ partner ecosystem unify safety, compliance and operations in a single system. Our mission: a safer, more efficient, and more sustainable world in motion. Learn more at www.geotab.com/apac/ and follow us on LinkedIn or visit Geotab News and Views.

GEOTAB and GEOTAB MARKETPLACE are registered trademarks of Geotab Inc. in Canada, the United States and/or other countries.

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