Canada’s leading fresh-bread franchise chain deploys Deliverect to give every bakery a unified connection between third-party ordering and in-store operations

NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Deliverect, the global restaurant technology company powering digital ordering for restaurant brands worldwide, today announced a partnership with COBS Bread, one of the largest hand-crafted breads and treats bakery franchises in North America.

The partnership will create a more consistent ordering experience for customers while simplifying digital order management for COBS Bread bakery teams and franchisees across 200 stores. Every bakery will now have a standardized digital connection between third party ordering market places and its Boomi integration platform.

Through the partnership, orders placed on delivery marketplaces will be managed through the Deliverect Delivery Management App (DMA), with menu updates and pricing changes pushed across every location and every channel instantly. The result is a consistent digital ordering experience for customers and a materially simpler operational footprint for the franchisees running each bakery.

“Our bakery teams should be able to focus on baking fresh products and serving their customers, not managing disconnected ordering systems. Deliverect gives COBS Bread a consistent and scalable foundation for digital ordering across our bakery network,” said Ligia Costa, Senior Director of Technology at COBS Bread. “By bringing delivery and Click & Collect orders into one workflow, we are reducing manual effort and operational complexity while improving visibility and consistency. This allows our franchisees and bakery teams to spend less time managing multiple channels and more time focused on serving customers and growing their businesses”.

Built for an Independently Operated Bakery Network

COBS Bread bakeries are independently operated, making simplicity, reliability, and consistency critical to the successful adoption of new technology. Any new platform must reduce complexity at the bakery level and support a consistent experience without taking bakery teams away from serving customers and their communities.

Deliverect’s platform is designed for exactly that model. Third-party orders are processed in the same workflow as any other order, without separate tablets or manual re-keying. Menu updates, pricing adjustments, and item availability changes propagate instantly across every marketplace and every location, so franchisees can focus on baking and serving the community rather than on maintaining digital channels.

“COBS Bread is one of the most respected franchise brands in North America — a business built on quality, consistency, and community. Powering their digital ordering across 200 bakeries means giving every franchisee the same reliable connection to today’s ordering marketplaces, without adding operational overhead to their day-to-day. That’s exactly what our platform is built for,” said Noah Hayes, VP at Deliverect.

A Foundation for Continued Growth

COBS Bread is one of the fastest-growing bakery concepts in Canada, with a track record of opening more than 20 new bakeries per year. Standardizing digital ordering on Deliverect gives the brand a proven platform that new franchisees can plug into on day one, ensuring every new bakery joins the network with the same digital foundation as every existing location.

About COBS Bread
COBS Bread (BD Canada Ltd.) bakeries are a one-of-a-kind family-owned bakery franchise with a vision to be the favourite bakery in every community. Every morning at each of its +180 bakeries, all bread, treats, buns, scones (and more) are baked-from-scratch and hand-crafted. All leftover products are donated to local charities at the end of each day, allowing COBS Bread to donate over $50 million of retail products annually. 

About Deliverect
Deliverect is a global restaurant technology company that connects digital ordering channels directly to in-store operations, serving more than 80,000 restaurant locations worldwide. With an API-first platform and over 1,000 certified integrations, Deliverect streamlines digital ordering across carryout, delivery, catering, and in-store fulfillment. It is the only digital ordering platform to have earned DoorDash’s Excellent integration rating. By leveraging AI-driven innovation, Deliverect empowers restaurants to anticipate demand, recover lost revenue, and grow smarter at scale. The company processes 30 million API calls daily, has powered 1.5+ billion orders to date, and is trusted by many of the world’s largest and most innovative restaurant brands. To learn more, visit deliverect.com.

Media Contact:
Oier Fano Dadebat
Senior Content Marketing Manager, PR & Communications, Deliverect
oier.fano@deliverect.com

COBS Bread Media Contact:
Madison Rankine, Marketing Specialist, Social Media, Content, PR
madison.rankine@cobsbread.com

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Single service agreement covers sample collection, point-of-care and lab-grade analysis, and
multivariate data analytics

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Detect-ION, developer of next-generation mass spectrometry-based sensors and diagnostic platforms, today announced the launch of Detect-ION Analytical Services, making the volatilomics capabilities behind its clinical diagnostics and chemical sensors available to external collaborators for the first time.

For years, Detect-ION’s in-house volatilomics laboratory, anchored by high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), has served as the reference foundation for the company’s own diagnostics and detection technologies. The new service offering extends that same infrastructure, and the team’s experience using it, to academic, clinical, government and industry partners, building on lessons from successful clinical research pilots spanning lung cancer, malaria and several respiratory infections including tuberculosis. The company’s work has been funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Gates Foundation.

Services are delivered across three complementary tiers, allowing partners to match analytical power to the needs of each project:

CLARION for in situ, point-of-care analysis wherever samples are generatedShimadzu TD-GC-MS for routine and targeted laboratory analysisAgilent TD-GC-HRMS (>25,000 FWHM resolution, <2 ppm mass accuracy) for untargeted discovery and reference-grade confirmation

Offerings include untargeted volatilomics discovery, targeted volatile and semi-volatile organic compound (VOC and SVOC) identification, method development and validation, confirmatory analysis, custom spectral library building, feasibility studies for new sample matrices, and multivariate data analytics. Supported sample types include breath, aerosols, urine headspace, environmental air, water, food and beverage, agricultural volatiles and chemical threat signatures. Services are provided for research and development purposes and are not intended for diagnosing or treating disease.

Unlike conventional contract laboratories, Detect-ION combines sample collection, analysis and data analytics under a single, customizable service agreement, sparing partners the cost and complexity of coordinating separate vendors. Standardized sample collection and analysis protocols keep results comparable across studies, sites and instruments. For projects with the right research fit, Detect-ION also offers clinical study development through its Breath Research Laboratory, including protocol design, IRB submission and support via its established relationship with WCG IRB, and participant enrollment.

Partners engaging with Detect-ION Analytical Services today will also be positioned to benefit from the company’s upcoming product lines, which are designed to democratize volatilomics by making reference-grade volatile analysis accessible, affordable and deployable well beyond the traditional laboratory.

“We built this capability to answer our own hardest questions, in clinical breath diagnostics and in chemical threat detection, and we learned that generating the data is only half the job,” said Ashish Chaudhary, Ph.D., founder, CEO and CTO of Detect-ION. “Our partners get the whole pipeline: collection, reference-grade chemistry and the analytics to turn thousands of features into answers they can publish and defend. Standardization has been a focus for us from day one, because volatilomics only earns its place in the clinic when results hold up from one study, one site and one instrument to the next. And as our CLARION and SPECTRAL product lines come to market, our service partners will be first in line to put them to work. Their questions; our collection, analysis and analytics; one contract.”

To learn more or discuss a project, visit https://detect-ion.com/services/. Details on clinical study support are available at https://detect-ion.com/capabilities/.

About Detect-ION

Detect-ION is a deep-tech startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in a 4,000-square-foot laboratory in Tampa, Florida. The company solves complex, high-value detection problems that demand a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on organic chemistry, biochemistry, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, vacuum technology, data analytics, systems engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop next-generation diagnostics and detection platforms. The company’s diagnostics arm advances breath- and urine-based testing with leading clinical research institutions, including Mayo Clinic, the University of South Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center and Tampa General Hospital, and runs an on-site Breath Research Laboratory that accelerates clinical enrollment when needed. Detect-ION’s mission is to democratize mass spectrometry through innovative solutions with wide-ranging applications in national security, public health, environmental monitoring and life sciences. Learn more at https://detect-ion.com.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MHC, a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for document, customer communications, and payment automation for highly regulated industries, has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Customer Communication Management (CCM) 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54131626, September 2026).

MHC NorthStar is a unified platform that combines advanced data integration and document composition, governed AI capabilities, workflow orchestration, customer journey management, and omnichannel delivery — enabling organizations to create, manage, and deliver compliant communications across print, email, SMS, web, mobile, and customer portals. MHC NorthStar is designed to support organizations of all sizes and communication volumes — managing mission-critical customer communications while using AI-powered automation to reduce dependency on IT resources and accelerate time-to-market for communication changes.

In this year’s report, MHC was recognized for the following strengths:

Workflow automation. MHC’s unified platform spans cloud-native capture, business process automation, and CCM for customer, vendor, and employee document workflows.Intelligent forms. MHC offers dynamic and intelligent forms support through MHC NorthStar’s low-code, drag-and-drop form designer, which lets business users build and adapt forms without IT involvement.Accessibility support. MHC’s accessibility-by-design approach departs from the traditional post-composition remediation model by building accessibility directly into templates before content is generated.

Amy Machado, Research Director, IDC:
“MHC builds compliance into the platform instead of leaving it for cleanup after documents are produced. With a unified platform that spans capture, workflow, and CCM across the full document lifecycle, MHC NorthStar is especially well suited to organizations in regulated or accessibility-sensitive industries generating high volumes of communications.”

Chris Hartigan, CEO, MHC:
“Our customers work in industries where an inaccurate or inaccessible document has real consequences for the people who receive it. We believe the IDC MarketScape’s recognition emphasizes what we’ve focused on delivering: one platform that takes a document from intake through workflow to delivery, with accessibility and compliance built into the template instead of checked after the fact. As AI takes on more of the work inside CCM, we’ll keep building in the governance our customers need, so they can simplify complexity and unlock intelligence in every communication they send.”

To read the IDC MarketScape report excerpt, visit our IDC MarketScape page.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Learn more at idc.com.

About MHC

MHC simplifies complexity and unlocks intelligence for organizations in highly regulated industries — enabling them to deliver exceptional experiences with confidence. Our AI-powered SaaS platform automates mission-critical document, customer communications, and payment processes at scale, helping organizations eliminate manual work, ensure compliance, and drive better business outcomes. MHC customers generate over 10 billion documents and communications and process billions in AP payments annually using our solutions.

Learn more at mhcautomation.com.

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