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LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW DELIVERS 19% GROWTH IN 2025 AS GLOBAL MOMENTUM ACCELERATES

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Quality Danish confectionery brand reports another year of robust omnichannel growth, expanding global markets, and a strengthened leadership platform following its acquisition by IDG Capital

COPENHAGEN, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW reports another year of strong financial and operational performance, achieving 19% revenue growth in 2025 and reaching total revenue of DKK 449 million (€60 million), up from DKK 376 million (€50 million) the previous year. The company delivered broad-based growth across all channels and geographies, maintained profitability despite considerable one-off costs and unprecedented increases in cocoa prices, and entered a new strategic era following its acquisition by IDG Capital.

The brand’s international expansion continued at pace, with 76% of sales now coming from markets outside Denmark, reaffirming LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW’s position as a leading global player in high-end confectionery.

“2025 was a defining year for LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW. We delivered strong double-digit growth across all channels and all regions, maintained profitability in the face of extraordinary global cost pressures, and continued to strengthen the foundations of our business. I am incredibly proud of how our teams across markets performed, and how our global community – particularly our community taste panel LAKRIDS LOVERS – helped drive both engagement and growth throughout the year,” says Fredrik Nilsson, CEO of LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW.

“Despite unprecedented increases in the price of cocoa – our single most important ingredient – we protected EBITDA and continued to invest in international expansion, digital development and product quality. Our retail stores performed exceptionally well, our online business now represents 35% of total sales, which is rare in the confectionery category, and our B2B channel grew strongly as we added several prestigious partners.”

He continues: “To support our ambition to grow into a truly global brand, we established a new internationally experienced board together with IDG Capital, which was founded in Boston and today operates across key global markets. This strengthened international board has a wealth of experience from Tiffany, Mars, Starbucks and Acne Studios, and we are better positioned than ever to take LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW into its next chapter. Our ambition is clear: to become a truly global, high-end confectionery brand, proudly made in Denmark. With renewed energy, a robust financial foundation, the company has established a resilient foundation for 2026, positioning us to maintain double-digit revenue expansion and enhanced profitability.

Strong Omnichannel Growth in 2025

The company’s omnichannel strategy, combining own-brand retail, a fast-growing e-commerce platform and a strong B2B network, continued to deliver strong results, confirming the strength of a model designed for both scale and engagement, with an 18% increase in retail sales driven by strong in-store performance and 6% like-for-like growth in existing locations.

The company opened strategic new stores in Germany and Austria, reinforcing its footprint in high-potential European marketsOnline sales grew by 25%, and now represent 35% of total revenue, an unusually high share for the confectionery categoryThe company’s LAKRIDS LOVERS community – a unique way for the company to interact and foster loyalty – grew by over 34% to 295,520Across all direct-to-consumer touchpoints, the brand benefitted from the expansion of the community, which grew by 15% to 855,000 members, playing a vital role in both product engagement and conversionB2B sales increased by 15%, driven by strong performance of established partners and the onboarding of new prestigious retail and hospitality accounts

Direct-to-consumer channels (DTC) – retail and e-commerce combined – accounted for 66% of total revenue, up from 64% in 2024.

Germany Leading Strong Growth Across Europe

LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW delivered significant growth across all major markets with particularly strong performance in Northern and Central Europe:

All Nordic markets delivered double-digit growth, reaffirming the region’s enduring strengthDenmark increased by 11%, showing continued customer loyalty in its home marketGermany reinforced its position as the company’s largest market, representing39% of total revenue anddelivering 27% year-on-year growthThe UK also continued its strong upward trajectory following an exceptionally strong 2024International markets accounted for 76% of revenue, compared to 74% the year before

This strong geographic performance demonstrates the brand’s ability to successfully scale Danish premium craftsmanship internationally.

Maintaining EBITDA Despite Extraordinary Cost Pressures

Net profit reached DKK 56 million and EBITDA for the year reached DKK 39 million, up slightly from DKK 38 million in 2024, despite:

Historically high cocoa prices resulting from global supply constraints, which tripled compared to pre–2023 levels and exceeded USD 10,000 (DKK 70,000) per metric ton in early 2025A 4 percentage-point decline in gross margin (to 65.8%)Significant costs linked to the ownership transitionContinued long–term investment in internationalisation and infrastructure

New Ownership and Leadership Evolution

In 2025, LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW was acquired by IDG Capital, a global investment firm founded in Boston in 1993 and now headquartered in Hong Kong. The acquisition marked a turning point for the company as it prepares to scale globally.

Following the ownership change:

A new international board was appointed, reflecting the company’s global ambitionsMajor leadership team changes were implemented to strengthen execution capabilities

These initiatives provide a strong financial and organisational foundation for the future.

Outlook For 2026

By focusing on our core strengths across all markets and channels, the company has set itself up to be robust for 2026, with a clear path toward continued double-digit revenue growth and improved earnings margins, supported by:

Normalisation of cocoa input costs due to advantageous hedgingStrengthened international presenceContinued investment in innovation, community, and sustainability

Reflecting the strength of the company’s strategy and execution, LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW was also recently recognised as one of Denmark’s Best Managed Companies 2026 in Deloitte’s global Best Managed Companies programme. An independent jury particularly highlighted the company’s innovative community-driven business model and its ability to create authentic customer engagement while maintaining a strong operational foundation.

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Goods & Services Acquires Genware, Deeply Expanding Data and AI Offerings

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ATLANTA, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Goods & Services, an Atlanta-based leading provider of enhanced-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) products, systems, and platforms, announced today that it has acquired Genware, a New Jersey-based data advanced analytics firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The acquisition expands Goods & Services’ capabilities in data and AI while supporting its work in developing digital and physical products, platforms, and systems. Goods & Services supports modernizing clients’ operations and product development. Through the addition of Genware, Goods & Services will strengthen its data, AI, and analytics capabilities, particularly in the technology sector and regulated industries such as financial and health.

“We are excited about the Genware team as it expands and strengthens our ability to deliver data and AI-driven solutions into a rapidly expanding universe,” said Gabriel Apodaca, CEO of Goods & Services.

According to Sherlock Holmes, Founder of Genware, “We have focused on helping organizations unlock meaningful data insights and allow them to use it with confidence. Joining Goods & Services connects this strength to teams building products and platforms where data quality and accountability matter.”

Apodaca added, “Clients will benefit from enhanced capabilities related to the growing demand for AI-enabled solutions, where data quality drives performance and decision-making, and builds on existing collaboration across analytics programs in regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services.”

For more information, please visit: www.goodsandservices.com

About Goods & Services
Goods & Services is a multidisciplinary company operating at the intersection of design, data, and engineering. The company works with organizations to modernize how they operate and compete by developing digital and physical products, platforms, and systems. Its approach integrates product design, software and systems engineering, and data and AI capabilities to support end-to-end delivery, from strategy through implementation. Goods & Services serves clients across a range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, and technology.

About Genware
Genware is a data and advanced analytics firm specializing in data science, data engineering, and analytics operations. The company helps organizations manage, structure, and analyze complex data to support operational visibility and decision-making. Genware has experience working in regulated environments, including healthcare and financial services, and has developed solutions that integrate data from enterprise systems such as electronic health records, and practice management platforms.

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Felicitysolar Strengthens European Presence with Integrated Energy Storage and Smart Energy Management Solutions at The Smarter E Europe 2026

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MUNICH, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Felicitysolar participated in The Smarter E Europe 2026 in Munich, Germany, from June 23 to 25, presenting its latest residential energy storage, C&I energy storage, and smart energy management solutions. Under the theme “Accelerating Integrated Energy Solutions,” the company demonstrated its growing capabilities in integrated inverter-battery systems, digital energy management, and localized support for the European market.

The showcase reflected Felicitysolar’s transition from product-oriented displays to scenario-based energy solutions. Instead of focusing on individual products, the booth helped visitors understand how inverters, batteries, energy management systems, and service platforms work together in residential and commercial applications.

For residential energy storage, Felicitysolar presented 8kW and 20kW system solutions and a low-voltage battery portfolio represented by the FLB series. Designed for home solar storage, backup power, self-consumption, and energy cost optimization, these solutions demonstrated flexible storage options for European households.

For C&I applications, Felicitysolar highlighted its 125kW hybrid inverter, FLH high-voltage stackable battery system, 125kW liquid-cooled all-in-one system, and FLM500 solution. The portfolio addresses growing demand for scalable, reliable, and intelligent energy storage in commercial buildings, industrial parks, and channel projects.

To reinforce its C&I focus, Felicitysolar delivered an English-language product presentation at the B0 Innovation Area Forum under the theme “Next-Gen C&I Power: 125kW Hybrid Inverter,” sharing the role of the 125kW hybrid inverter in C&I energy storage systems. Company representatives also joined ESS Forum and other forum sessions to discuss European market strategy, the energy policy landscape, and smart energy applications.

Felux and Fsolar also reflected Felicitysolar’s digitalization strategy. Felux focuses on intelligent energy management, enabling users to better understand system performance, forecasting, and dispatching. Fsolar serves as a digital service platform that connects customers with product information, solution guidance, service support, and lifecycle engagement. Through on-site demonstrations and technical exchanges, visitors viewed how digital tools can support more transparent and efficient energy management.

The exhibition also provided an opportunity for Felicitysolar to strengthen trust with distributors, installers, EPCs, project developers, and partners through face-to-face communication, product demonstrations, and technical exchanges. Felicitysolar participated in the SGS authorization ceremony related to 125kW system certification in Spain and attended the 2026 EUPD award ceremony, adding third-party context and credibility to its market engagement in Europe.

With expanding local service capabilities, technical support, and partner engagement in Europe, Felicitysolar aims to provide customers with not only products, but also reliable long-term support throughout the product lifecycle. Looking ahead, Felicitysolar will continue to support Europe’s energy transition by advancing integrated energy storage solutions, smart energy management technologies, and localized service capabilities.

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Felicitysolar Marketing Department
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Doceree Closes the Measurement Loop Across Every HCP Channel

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A unified Closed Loop Measurement framework now connects Investment, Reach, Performance, and Outcome across nine HCP channels: Point of Care, Programmatic, Account-Based Marketing, Copay, CTV, DOOH, Social, Email, and Text. The framework is powered by Clinical Intent Signals, attention-based creative effectiveness, and physician-level data.

SHORT HILLS, N.J., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Doceree, the world’s first AI-powered operating system for healthcare marketing, today announced a significant expansion of its measurement capabilities: a unified Closed Loop Measurement (CLM) framework that reads every channel in a brand’s mix through a single lens, from media investment to downstream clinical and commercial outcome.

For the first time, brand and agency teams can put a Point of Care campaign and a CTV campaign next to each other and compare them directly, because both are measured on the same stages, the same navigation, and the same clinical signal underneath — and every dollar spent can be traced to what it produced.

The problem: as channels multiply, the truth gets harder to find

Pharma brand teams now run HCP campaigns across as many as nine channels at once, and each has historically been measured on its own terms, by its own vendor, against its own definition of performance. A brand manager who wants to know what is actually working has to stitch together as many separate reports as there are channels before any real comparison is possible. Impressions, clicks, and reach describe activity; they do not describe whether the campaign is producing an outcome. And the lag between a channel underperforming and a team noticing often stretches into weeks.

Closing that gap is exactly what this expansion was built to do: connect investment to reach, reach to performance, and performance to outcome, consistently, across every channel.

Why now: activity metrics no longer defend a budget

Signal loss from cookie deprecation and tightening privacy regulation has made traditional attribution harder to trust, shifting the useful question from “which exact ad drove this script” to “how does each channel contribute to real lift.” At the same time, attention-based measures such as time in content and scroll depth are proving more honest signals of engagement than impressions and clicks. Both trends point toward outcome-linked, cross-channel measurement, and Doceree’s expansion answers that shift with what makes outcome measurement credible in healthcare: deterministic clinical signal rather than modeled audience data.

What’s new

Closed Loop Measurement (CLM), applied uniformly – Every channel, campaign, and sub-campaign is mapped across the same four stages, Investment, Reach, Performance, and Outcome, so the entire mix speaks one measurement language from spend through to script. The loop is closed inside the platform, not in a brand manager’s spreadsheet after the fact.

Clinical Intent Signals (CIS) breakdown – A live view of HCPs tracked, total signals captured, intent-stage movement, and average time spent in each clinical intent stage. It connects media performance to the clinical decision-making it is meant to influence, so a team can see that a physician was not only reached but actually moved. No modeled audience can show that. It takes real clinical signal.

Creative effectiveness, measured by attention – Beyond impressions and clicks, brand teams can now see whether the creative actually held an HCP’s attention, using measures such as time in content and scroll depth. Creative decisions get made on whether a message landed, not simply whether it was served.

Physician-Level Data (PLD) access – For clients who opt in, physician-level engagement data is now available directly from the dashboard, rather than through a delayed export or a separate request. Teams with the appropriate entitlement can see individual prescriber engagement without waiting for a scheduled report to catch up.

Five-level drill-down – One continuous flow from a portfolio-level view down through Brand, Channel, Campaign, Sub-Campaign, and Audience, with no tool-switching or separate exports to reconcile along the way.

Channel-level breakdown and brand-ready reporting – Full performance detail across every HCP channel, alongside scheduled reports on a team’s own cadence, whether that is a weekly performance summary, a monthly attribution report, or a quarterly executive summary. Each one arrives automatically as a finished document, built for how brand managers work rather than how an analyst would prefer to read the data.

This measurement layer is the same foundation that powers Daily Command, Doceree’s commercial operating system for pharma.

“For twenty years, healthcare marketing has measured motion instead of medicine. Impressions and clicks tell you a channel was busy, not whether a physician moved toward the right decision for a patient,” said Harshit Jain, MD, Founder & Global CEO of Doceree. “Closing the loop across every channel, on the same clinical signal, changes the question a brand team can finally answer. Not what did we run, but what did it change. As a physician, that is the only measurement that has ever mattered, and now a brand manager can see it in one place, the same way for Point of Care as for CTV.”

Availability

The expanded measurement capabilities are rolling out to Doceree clients over the coming weeks. PLD access is available to clients with the appropriate data entitlement. For more information, visit doceree.com.

About Doceree

Doceree is the only healthcare marketing platform that can measure and adapt to the actual clinical intent of both physicians and patients. Built on the industry’s largest real-time clinical signal network, Doceree’s infrastructure unifies the entire healthcare journey – from physician awareness to prescription and patient fill to refill.

 

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