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Fliggy Reports Strong Growth as 22 Top Brands Surpass RMB100 Million in Sales During Double 11

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Platform drives significant rise in transactions and expands user base amid challenging market conditions

HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Fliggy, a leading online travel platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988), has posted strong growth during the 2024 Double 11 shopping event, marking a standout finish to this year’s Global Travel Festival. The platform reported robust double-digit year-on-year sales growth, with a 40% increase in the number of shoppers and 22 brands generating over RMB100 million in gross merchandise value (GMV).

As of midnight on November 12, the GMV for reserved promotional items increased by nearly 90% compared to last year, indicating a faster pace of bookings. Fliggy’s official content-driven sales channels, including its Fliggy Super VIP livestream, performed strongly, with 19 individual products exceeding RMB10 million each.

Zhuoran Zhuang, CEO of Fliggy, said, “Our strong performance during Double 11 underscores our commitment to enhancing the travel experience for consumers and empowering tourism businesses. Despite a challenging market, we’ve delivered robust and high-quality growth. By continuously innovating our systems and marketing tools, we provide greater value to both travelers and partners, reinforcing our role as more than just a traditional online travel agency (OTA). This year’s record-breaking achievement reflects the trust we’ve earned from our clients.”

“Buy Now, Plan Later” drives growth

The “Buy Now, Plan Later” model – where consumers purchase travel products for future use without committing to immediate travel dates or visa arrangements at the time of purchase – emerged as the dominant trend in tourism. This year’s Double 11 event saw a 40% increase in the number of shoppers compared to last year, with new users making up about one-third of the total number of shoppers.

Fliggy reported record-breaking sales across a wide array of travel products. Nearly 1 million flexible “All You Can Fly” tickets and multi-trip flight passes were sold, along with nearly 3 million hotel packages and over 1.1 million amusement park tickets and leisure packages. New offerings, including RV travel passes, car charter tours, Arctic cruises, and hotel stays across 32 global cities, further bolstered the platform’s growth. These products spanned nearly 200 countries and regions, from domestic destinations like Nujiang in Yunnan to Bomi in Tibet, and from Svalbard in Norway to Queenstown in New Zealand.

Outbound travel, in particular, saw strong demand, with Fliggy data revealing that the share of outbound travel products in this mega campaign increased by 30% year-on-year. Popular destinations included Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Macau SAR, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, US, Singapore, Vietnam, and Australia. Meanwhile, Iceland, Turkey, Cambodia, Fiji, and France were among the fastest-growing destinations compared to last year.

Fliggy’s success during Double 11 also highlighted the appeal of its “Buy Now, Plan Later” offerings. As of midnight on November 12, the platform reported a nearly 90% year-on-year surge in GMV for reserved promotional products. High demand has been evident across popular theme parks, with Shanghai Disney Resort, Beijing Universal Resort, and Universal Studios Japan all seeing significant increases in reservation rates. Some tour activities have reached booking rates of nearly 50%, while flight passes are also experiencing strong demand. For example, China United Airlines’ seasonal unlimited one-way tickets have seen reservations top 40%. Car rental pass bookings have risen sharply, while hotel packages are seeing a notable uptick, with bookings for ski resorts approaching one-third of total reservations.

A strong season for merchants

Fliggy’s Double 11 event sets a new benchmark for merchant success. This year, a record 22 major brands – 8 more than last year – surpassed RMB100 million in GMV. These included Shanghai Disney Resort, Beijing Universal Resort, Chimelong Tourist Resort, Songtsam, Hong Kong Disneyland, and major hotel groups like Marriott, Wanda Hotels & Resorts, New Century Tourism Group, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Banyan Group, Accor, Club Med, Senbo Resort, as well as airlines such as Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Loong Air, Sichuan Airlines, All Nippon Airways (ANA), and Qatar Airways.

Fliggy capitalized on the momentum by offering dynamic pricing products with set purchase and redemption dates, which quickly gained traction. The platform partnered with major brands, including 40 airlines – such as Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines – and over 6,000 hotel brands, including Marriott, Hilton, Accor, Hyatt, Wanda, and Narada to offer flash sales, with some offering deals starting at RMB1 and additional loyalty points. The strategy proved successful, with Fliggy recording a 120% year-on-year increase in GMV for hotel bookings and an approximately 70% rise in conversion rates.

Double 11 solidifies its role in tourism

For travel businesses, the Double 11 event and the “Buy Now, Plan Later” model have become essential tools for customer acquisition and revenue growth during the off-season. Beyond immediate sales, these initiatives help travel companies manage inventory and generate medium- to long-term customer insights, improving operational decision-making and product offerings.

This year’s Double 11 event has reinforced Fliggy’s position as a key player in the travel industry. With its combination of innovative offerings, a customer-centric approach, and extensive partnerships, Fliggy is poised to continue to lead the way in the global tourism market.

About Fliggy

Fliggy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988 (HKD Counter) and 89988 (RMB Counter)), and is one of the leading online travel platforms in China. Fliggy places a strong emphasis on innovation in its products and services, catering to the increasingly personalized and diversified needs of consumers in both China and overseas markets.

Leveraging Fliggy’s advantage as part of the Alibaba ecosystem, merchants can benefit from the vast user base within the Group. Fliggy also collaborates with partners through a full-service management format, helping more merchants, especially small and medium-sized ones, easily and efficiently share opportunities enabled by digitalization.

Fliggy’s long-term strategy is to promote the digital transformation of the tourism industry, using an open platform and mechanisms to help the industry make better use of digital business infrastructure for their operations.

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Hexagon Composites ASA: Third quarter 2026

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OSLO, Norway, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hexagon Composites (OSE: HEX.OL), world leader in composite cylinder technology and related systems for storage and transportation of gaseous energy, reported revenues of NOK 929 million for third quarter 2026 (Q3’25: 538 million). The reported EBITDA was NOK 108 million (Q3’25: NOK -54 million), resulting in a 12% EBITDA margin (Q3’25: -10%).

“This quarter marks a significant step-up year-over-year, delivering our strongest quarterly performance since the record fourth quarter of 2024,” said Philipp Schramm, CEO of Hexagon Composites. “Over the past year, we have built a stronger foundation for our next phase of growth. We have entered new regions, consolidated markets and delivered into exciting new verticals such as aerospace and data centers. Alongside this important progress, we have also improved our financial strength, with a strong free cash flow conversion, and are well on track to deliver on our full-year targets.”

Outlook

Based on the progress delivered during the first three quarters of the year, the strengthening of our financial position, and normalizing demand in our key markets, we reconfirm our full-year EBITDA guidance of around NOK 300 million, with confidence in delivering toward the high side.

For further details, please see the attached third quarter 2026 report and presentation.

Presentation of the results today at 08:30 am CET
Philipp Schramm, CEO, and Eirik Løhre, CFO, will present the results at 08:30 am CET today, broadcasted live via this link.

The presentation of the results will be a virtual event, followed by a Q&A session. The quarterly report, presentation, and webcast recording will be made available at www.hexagongroup.com.

For more information:
Emily Cherry, Senior Communications & Investor Relations Manager, Hexagon Composites
Telephone: +47 480 90 239 I emily.cherry@hexagongroup.com

Berit-Cathrin Høyvik, Senior Director, Communications & Corporate Affairs, Hexagon Composites
Telephone: +47 988 92 161 | berit-cathrin.hoyvik@hexagongroup.com

About Hexagon Composites ASA

Hexagon delivers safe and innovative solutions for a cleaner energy future. Our solutions enable storage, transportation, and conversion to clean energy in a wide range of mobility and industrial applications. Learn more at www.hexagongroup.com and follow @HexagonASA on LinkedIn.

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Zhejiang aims to be highland of AI innovation

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BEIJING, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ –A news report from China Daily:

The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit concluded on Thursday after a four-day run. Beyond Wuzhen, a profound transformation driven by artificial intelligence is underway in Zhejiang’s workshops, laboratories and daily life. Building on years of efforts to deepen the Digital Zhejiang initiative, the province is aiming to become a hub of AI innovation.

In the first eight months, revenue of enterprises above designated size in Zhejiang’s core AI industry reached 582.87 billion yuan ($87.2 billion), up 26.9 percent year-on-year. The number of core industry enterprises rose to 2,112, forming a full industry-chain layout spanning chips, large models, intelligent agents and application services.

Computing power is one of the key infrastructure pillars of Zhejiang’s AI development. At a sock factory workshop in Zhuji, a designer can generate 20 original patterns within three minutes. In Yiwu, traders rely on an AI computing platform to produce high-definition product images and marketing short videos with a single click.

Powering these AI application scenarios is a province-wide integrated computing network built by China Mobile’s Zhejiang branch.

As of the end of September, Zhejiang’s total computing power reached 197 EFLOPS (short for ExaFLOPS, a unit of computing performance that quantifies the number of floating-point operations a computer can perform per second), ranking among the highest in the country. Of this, 54 enterprises and institutions in the province received national computing-power vouchers totaling 408 million yuan, accounting for 37 percent of the national total.

“As the Hangzhou and Jiashan intelligent computing centers are put into operation, Zhejiang can achieve millisecond-level access to computing, integrated computing-network scheduling and one-stop security assurance,” said Qiu Xiaoyuan, a manager at China Mobile’s Zhejiang branch.

Large models are another key factor to the game. With the Qwen and DeepSeek large models iterating continuously, Zhejiang’s model ecosystem aims to take the leading position.

In the 2026 government work report of Zhejiang, the province proposed the goal of gaining a leading position in AI development and striving to build a high-quality open-source ecosystem. Open source has been listed as one of the core levers of the province’s AI strategy.

Located in Xihu district, Hangzhou, the ModelScope community is among China’s largest AI open-source communities. Online, it brings together more than 29 million AI developers and more than 200,000 models worldwide, lowering the threshold for AI-related innovation.

Chen Tianrun, born after 2000, is a doctoral student at Zhejiang University and founder of Moxin Technology, which independently developed MoWorld, a real-time interactive world model built entirely on domestic neural processing units. An NPU is a specialized computer microprocessor designed to mimic the processing function of the human brain.

“The relationship between AI and humans is not about AI replacing humans, but about AI and humans working together to do more to raise productivity,” Chen said.

Backed by new production factors such as computing power, models and data, Zhejiang is breaking through its natural-resource constraints to become a trendsetter in innovation.

The Zhejiang provincial government hosted a series of major events during the 2026 WIC Wuzhen Summit, featuring interactive experiences and surprises.

On Monday, at the Light of Internet Expo, a signature event of the WIC Wuzhen Summit, more than 30 embodied-intelligence robots — from companies such as AgiBot, UBTech, Unitree and Zhongke Fifth Era — brought visitors to the world of perceptual intelligence.

Among them, the world’s first bipedal humanoid robot capable of playing badminton with humans autonomously became the centerpiece. The robot has also mastered table tennis; the faster the ball travels, the faster it reacts.

The Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen” is another highlight event of the WIC Wuzhen Summit. Since registration opened in June, it has attracted 1,347 projects and one-person company entries from 31 countries and regions.

The Digital Economy Industrial Cooperation Conference held on Wednesday was a signature event of the Wuzhen Summit’s permanent venue. Over the past three years, annual signings of digital economy industrial projects at the event have each exceeded 100 billion yuan.

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Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo Processes $7.6 Trillion in October

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October 2026 ADV reaches $345 billion as Broadridge continues to advance institutional tokenization infrastructure

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Broadridge (NYSE: BR), global Fintech leader, today announced that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) processed an average of $345 billion in daily repo transactions during October, with volumes totaling $7.6 trillion. The total settled volume reflects the continued scale of tokenized securities financing activity as Broadridge expands its digital asset infrastructure through its recently launched DLX platform.

“DLR has laid the groundwork for the next phase of tokenization, as institutions increasingly shift their focus from exploring initial digital assets use cases to scaling these capabilities across their businesses,” said Horacio Barakat, Global Head of Digital Innovation at Broadridge. “In 2027, we anticipate further integration of tokenized assets into everyday financial market operations, helping institutions unlock efficiencies across the asset lifecycle. Through DLR and our broader DLX platform, we’re focused on making these capabilities more accessible and practical for financial institutions.”

Building on DLR’s proven infrastructure and institutional experience, DLX extends Broadridge’s tokenization capabilities beyond securities financing into a broader range of assets and workflows, spanning issuance, trading, settlement, servicing and distribution. Together, DLR and DLX equip financial institutions with the trusted, resilient technology and operational controls needed to integrate tokenized assets into existing market operations, helping bridge traditional and digital markets while reducing complexity.

To learn more about DLR, the world’s largest institutional platform for settling tokenized real assets, visit Broadridge’s DLR.

About Broadridge’s Tokenization Solutions

Broadridge is building the governance layer for tokenized equities, ensuring investors have access to trusted, institutional-grade governance as securities move on-chain. Through proxy voting, investor communications, disclosures, and corporate actions, Broadridge helps investors exercise their ownership rights across tokenized and traditional holdings, including across issuer-sponsored and third-party tokenization models. 

Broadridge connects traditional and digital finance with the trusted infrastructure institutions need to put tokenization to work. DLX, its multi-chain digital asset platform, brings together capabilities across issuance, distribution, trading, financing, settlement, custody, and asset servicing. DLX builds on the production experience of Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) solution, the world’s largest institutional platform for settling tokenized real assets, tokenizing more than $345 billion of repo’s a day. 

Through its integrated platform and connected partner ecosystem, Broadridge helps issuers, banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and wealth firms bring tokenized investments to market, mobilize collateral, and connect investors to new opportunities through existing systems and workflows. By orchestrating the ecosystem rather than requiring clients to rebuild it, Broadridge helps firms manage complexity and scale across traditional and on-chain markets. 

About Broadridge

Broadridge is a global technology leader with trusted expertise and transformative technology, helping clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow. Broadridge powers investing, governance, and communications for clients – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.

Broadridge’s technology and operations platforms process and generate over 8 billion communications annually and underpin the daily average trading of over $18 trillion in tokenized and traditional securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing approximately 16,000 associates in 28 countries.

For more information about us, please visit www.broadridge.com.

Broadridge Contacts:

Investors: 
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