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Avocados From Mexico® Launches Avo.AI on National Avocado Day, Debuting a New Answer Engine Built for the Way Consumers Search Today

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The new digital experience reinforces the brand’s commitment to innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technology to make avocado education as accessible and always good as avocados themselves

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Just in time for National Avocado Day, Avocados From Mexico is launching AVO.AI, a groundbreaking conversational AI platform designed to answer every consumer question — from ripeness and recipes to storage — making the brand the first in the produce industry to deploy a custom AI educational tool.Celebrating a record-breaking season where Americans enjoyed an unprecedented 2.76 billion pounds of Mexican avocado imports, the new tool helps fans make the most of every avocado.Powered by advanced AI and trained exclusively on the brand’s extensive educational library, AVO.AI empowers fans with ultimate produce confidence, taking the uncertainty out of selecting, ripening and storing.

DALLAS, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This National Avocado Day, Avocados From Mexico®, the number one selling avocado brand in the U.S., has launched AVO.AI, a custom AI-powered answer engine designed to transform how consumers find reliable answers to avocado-related kitchen, storage, nutrition and recipe questions. The launch follows a record-breaking season where Americans enjoyed an unprecedented 2.76 billion pounds of Mexican avocado imports, highlighting the brand’s rapid growth and the massive demand for digital consumer resources.

While many brands are experimenting with generic third-party AI integrations, Avocados From Mexico is launching the produce industry’s first custom answer engine. Bypassing traditional search rabbit holes, AVO.AI acts as a knowledgeable kitchen sidekick, delivering tailored answers from the brand’s trusted vault of educational content. It’s a major step forward for produce marketing, proving the immense value unlocked when high-tech and high flavor meet.

Meeting Consumers Where They Are
Consumer search behavior has shifted: people no longer want to click through endless web pages for a single prep tip — they expect immediate, reliable answers.

Unlike a generic public AI tool that pulls from the open web, AVO.AI acts as a dedicated, brand-trusted assistant. By cutting out search clutter, AVO.AI gives consumers a direct, effortless line to exact avocado inspiration and tips, exactly when they need it.

“At Avocados From Mexico, we’ve always been obsessed with what’s next,” said Alvaro Luque, President and CEO. “We’ve spent years using AI to bring unexpected, fun experiences to our fans, and AVO.AI is our next big leap. This goes beyond selling more avocados and puts the focus on making your kitchen life easier and a lot more inspired. By adding this smart, hands-on tool to our digital lineup, we’re continuing to lead the category by redefining how people think about and enjoy avocados.”

A Smarter, Safer Kind of Brand AI
On a technical level, AVO.AI represents a major leap forward for brand owned media. Rather than requiring consumers to browse articles or sift through search results, AVO.AI turns Avocado From Mexico’s extensive content library into a conversational search experience that delivers a tailored answer to each question.

AVO.AI intuitively understands what a user is trying to accomplish and pulls highly accurate, strictly brand-safe advice. For example, when asked about avocado prep, the tool instantly delivers proper safety techniques, completely bypassing unverified or unsafe advice found on the open web.

“In building AVO.AI, we created something truly unprecedented: the first-ever AI tool dedicated exclusively to a single produce item,” said Kristian Bottini, CEO of 270B. “The technology is engineered for genuine dialogue, intuitively understanding consumer intent and context to deliver helpful, conversational answers. By anchoring the AI within a curated, brand-approved vector database, we ensured AVO.AI acts as a highly responsible, trusted ‘produce expert’ that consumers can reliably turn to for all their culinary inspiration.”

Smart Solutions for Everyday Kitchen Questions
For Avocados From Mexico, AVO.AI is more than a consumer tool — it’s a strategic listening post. The anonymous insights gathered will offer an ongoing window into what users truly care about, directly fueling the brand’s broader Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) strategy and shaping future content around real consumer needs. Because AVO.AI understands context, users can skip generic search results and ask highly practical questions, such as:

“How can I make guacamole if I only have half an onion?””I’ve already sliced my avocado, how can I store it so it doesn’t go bad as fast?””What is the safest way to remove an avocado pit?”

AVO.AI is now live, representing the first phase of a broader digital evolution for Avocados From Mexico. As the platform learns and scales, Avocados From Mexico plans to continually expand its capabilities, integrating it deeper into major cultural marketing moments and continuing to redefine the intersection of agriculture and technology.

To experience AVO.AI and learn more, visit https://avocadosfrommexico.com/avo-ai.

For more information about Avocados From Mexico, visit https://avocadosfrommexico.com, and follow the organization on Facebook (facebook.com/avocadosfrommexico), Instagram (@avocadosfrommexico), X (@AvosFromMexico) and TikTok (@avocadosfrommexico).

About Avocados From Mexico
Avocados From Mexico is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association (MHAIA), formed for the purpose of advertising, promotion, public relations and research for all stakeholders of Avocados From Mexico. Under agreements, MHAIA and the Association of Avocado Exporting Producers & Packers of Mexico (APEAM) have combined resources to fund and manage Avocados From Mexico, with the intent to provide a focused, highly- effective and efficient marketing program in the United States. Avocados From Mexico is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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2026 Canton Fair Design Award Winners Showcase China’s Innovation Strength

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GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As the 140th Canton Fair opens, the winners of the 2026 Canton Fair Design Award (CF Award) have also been announced. Winning products are now on display in Area D of the Canton Fair Complex, offering visitors a closer look at some of the latest advances in Chinese manufacturing and industrial design.

Among this year’s top honorees, a domestically developed high-performance sport motorcycle and an intelligent navigation capsule robot gastric endoscopy system received the Best of the Best Award, the competition’s highest recognition.

The Canton Fair also enhanced the visitor experience with a themed showcase area within the award exhibition. Built around four application-oriented concepts, namely Outdoor Pleasure, Smart Living, Cozy Home and Kitchen Elegance, the immersive displays demonstrate how innovative designs can be integrated into everyday life, helping visitors better understand the practical value behind these award-winning products.

This year, 4,218 products from 2,112 companies competed for the award. Following multiple rounds of evaluation, 222 products from 174 companies were selected.

The award-winning products reflect several key trends shaping the next stage of Chinese manufacturing. Innovation remains a defining theme, with breakthrough technologies ranging from upper limb motor function assistance and enhancement system to exoskeleton robots, underscoring the growing momentum of high-end manufacturing.

Meanwhile, intelligent technologies continue to gain traction across industries. Smart products account for more than 30% of this year’s winners, with AI-powered glasses, intelligent conference terminals and smart healthcare devices extending AI applications across home, office, medical and outdoor environments.

Sustainability is also becoming increasingly embedded throughout the product lifecycle. Green products represent over 40% of the winning entries, while innovations such as integrated energy-saving panels and sugarcane paper demonstrate how environmentally conscious practices are being incorporated into product design, materials selection and manufacturing processes.

Established in 2013, the Canton Fair Design Award is widely regarded as a benchmark for design innovation in China’s foreign trade sector. The award recognizes products that combine design excellence with commercial value, promoting the transformation and upgrading of Chinese manufacturing and supporting high-quality trade development. Entries are evaluated across five dimensions: innovation, quality, functionality, aesthetics and sustainability.

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InstaMall Launches Same-Day Fashion Delivery Experience, Bringing 80+ Brands to Shoppers’ Doors in Miami

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First-of-its-kind shopping app pairs artificial intelligence with same-day delivery, bringing luxury
and contemporary brands directly to customers’ doorsteps 

Featured luxury and contemporary brands include AllSaints, John Varvatos and Aritzia

MIAMI, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — InstaMall, a first-of-its-kind shopping app offering same-day delivery and access to real-time inventory across luxury and contemporary fashion, launches today in Miami, Florida. Now available via iOS and Android, InstaMall provides access to more than 80 contemporary and luxury fashion brands across Miami’s five premier retail clusters, including Balmain, Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, Ganni, Coach, Diesel, Reformation, Aritzia, Cult Gaia, Prada and more. InstaMall will add more brands within the app in the coming weeks and seasons. 

Sitting at the intersection of fashion, technology and commerce, InstaMall brings inspiration and purchase together through a more dynamic way to discover and shop for fashion. The experience combines access to luxury and contemporary brands with the convenience of same-day delivery, bringing the speed customers have come to expect across categories like food and groceries to fashion while maintaining the brand experience retailers and shoppers expect.

Within the app, customers will have access to InstaMall’s AI-powered stylist and virtual try-on features, making it easier to browse, discover and shop styles online. InstaMall’s AI Stylist serves as an intelligent shopping assistant that responds to customers’ preferences in real time. Customers can use the AI Stylist to receive product recommendations, build outfits, ask questions and discover new styles, while its virtual try-on feature allows them to visualize select items on themselves before making a purchase.

“InstaMall was founded on the belief that the convenience customers have come to expect from same-day delivery should extend to the way they shop for fashion,” said Elliot Aboud, Founder and CEO of InstaMall. “As fashion and technology continue to evolve together, we saw an opportunity to create a more seamless shopping experience that brings customers closer to the brands they love, combining a curated assortment, AI-powered styling and virtual try-on with the ease and convenience of same-day delivery.”

Prior to founding InstaMall, Elliot Aboud helped build the Aroma360 and Hotel Collection brands, overseeing the launch of the first retail store and expanding the retail footprint to more than 30 stores across the United States and two in Dubai. InstaMall is bringing fashion and luxury to the next generation with its seamless shopping experience and wide selection of brands.

Customers can download InstaMall through the Apple App Store or Google Play, or by going to instamall.co.

About InstaMall 

InstaMall is a same-day fashion shopping and discovery app reimagining how consumers shop for luxury and contemporary brands. Sitting at the intersection of fashion, technology and commerce, InstaMall brings inspiration and purchase together in an experience that gives consumers a more dynamic way to discover and shop. Where on-demand delivery has long existed for categories like food and groceries, InstaMall brings that same convenience to luxury fashion for the first time, delivering the same day without compromising the brand experience fashion retailers and their customers expect. The company launched publicly in Miami on October 16, 2026, and plans to expand nationally. For more information, please visit instamall.co.

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PTC to Announce Fourth Fiscal Quarter and Full Year 2026 Results on Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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BOSTON, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) will release its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full year results on Wednesday, November 4th after the stock market closes. As previously announced on October 5th, 2026, PTC entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Schneider Electric. In light of the pending transaction, PTC is suspending quarterly earnings conference calls and is no longer providing quarterly or annual guidance.

The earnings press release and accompanying financial data tables will be accessible on the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at PTC Investor Relations.

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PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) is a global software company that enables manufacturers and product companies to digitally transform how they design, manufacture, and service the physical products the world relies on. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PTC employs over 7,000 people and supports more than 30,000 customers globally. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com.

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