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AlphaGraphics Earns Spot on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Franchises for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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The printing and marketing solutions franchisor says its commitment to diversity is part of the company’s core values

DENVER, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — AlphaGraphics, a leading franchisor of printing and marketing solutions, has been named as one of the 100 brands selected as the Top Franchises for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2024 by Entrepreneur magazine.

The list is featured in the May/June issue of Entrepreneur, a leading business and franchise management news magazine.

“Being named one of Entrepreneur’s Top 100 Franchises for DEI is a great honor, and a testament to our company’s core principles,” AlphaGraphics Vice President of Retail Network Development Bill McPherson said. “It is through our diversity and inclusion efforts that we ensure our global workplaces are dynamic, supportive of all team members and representative of our customers and communities. Our dedication to fostering an inclusive atmosphere is reaffirmed by this recognition.”

All of the companies recognized in Entrepreneur’s Top Franchises for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion list were chosen editorially, and are listed in alphabetical order.

The editors based their decisions on information submitted by the companies, as well as their own independent research. Brands were selected for a variety of reasons. Some offer franchise fee discounts and other assistance to help those who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), women, or LGBTQ+. Some promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in other ways, including the communities they serve and the services they offer; initiatives and programs they have implemented at both the corporate and franchise level; representation among their leadership team, franchisees, and employees; and more.

“Franchising is truly an opportunity that’s available to all, but not everyone is aware that it’s within their reach,” said Jason Feifer, editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine. “That’s why we want to celebrate the brands that do the most to expand opportunities for everyone—and who are improving their businesses by ensuring that many different voices and experiences are welcomed.”

To view AlphaGraphics in Entrepreneur’s list, check out the May/June issue of Entrepreneur magazine, on newsstands April 30th, or visit https://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/directory/top-diversity-ranking.

AlphaGraphics was founded in 1970, and the company began offering franchise opportunities in 1979. Today, there are more than 270 AlphaGraphics centers across six countries.

For more information, visit https://www.alphagraphicsfranchise.com.

About AlphaGraphics
AlphaGraphics, Inc., with more than 285 locations in 6 countries, is one of the largest U.S.-based networks of locally owned and operated Business Centers offering a complete range of print, visual communications, and marketing products. Solutions include full-service digital, offset, and large format printing; design services; mailing; one-to-one marketing solutions; promotional products; and web to print solutions. For more information about AlphaGraphics’ services, visit www.alphagraphics.com. To learn about franchise opportunities, visit https://www.alphagraphicsfranchise.com..

About MBE Worldwide

MBE Worldwide S.p.A. (“MBE”), a privately-owned company with its headquarters in Italy, is a Global Commerce enabler for SMBs and consumers thanks to its platform providing e-commerce, fulfillment, shipping, marketing and print solutions via multi-brand operations: PrestaShop, Mail Boxes Etc. (except the U.S. and Canada), PostNet, PACK & SEND, Spedingo.com, AlphaGraphics, Multicopy, World Options UK and Print Speak. The combination of our retail platform – that currently counts 3,190+ service centers in 58 Countries with more than 12,000 associates – our PrestaShop ecommerce platform served almost one million business customers in FY 2023 €1.4 bln (US$1.5 bln) of System-wide Gross Revenue  and  €22 bln (US$23.8 bln) of e-commerce Gross Merchandise Value.

For additional information please visit MBE Worldwide Group websites at: www.mbecorporate.com – www.prestashop.com/en – www.mbeglobal.com – www.postnet.com – www.packsend.com.au – www.packsend.co.uk – www.spedingo.com/en  – www.alphagraphics.com – www.multicopy.nl – www.printspeak.com – www.mbe.it – www.mbe.es – www.mbe.de – www.mbefrance.fr – www.mbe.pl – www.mbe.pt – www.mbe.co.uk – www.gelproximity.com/en –  www.worldoptions.com

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Infinitus Launches FieldForce to Extend the Reach of Pharmaceutical Sales and Reimbursement Teams

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AI agent solution helps field teams become AI first, preparing for HCP meetings, staying connected between visits, and extending provider and reimbursement support without adding additional headcount

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infinitus, healthcare’s agentic communications platform, today announced FieldForce, a new set of secure AI agents designed to extend the capacity of pharmaceutical field teams. Pharma companies can deploy FieldForce to support sales representatives, field reimbursement managers (FRMs), or both, depending on the needs of their organization. For both roles, FieldForce enables teams to become AI-first, using AI agents to extend their capacity across activities before, after, and in between HCP interactions. Importantly, it gives pharmaceutical companies another way to support more providers while giving HCPs access to information and assistance between field visits that can help them better serve their patients.

Pharmaceutical companies are under growing pressure to increase commercial productivity while managing costs. A May 2026 analysis from Deloitte found that sales representatives spend roughly two-thirds of their workday on activities such as research, product and prescribing information, scheduling, and administrative work, leaving less than one-third for customer interactions.

The pressure to do more with existing resources is also playing out across the industry. One recent analysis found that the 17 largest pharmaceutical companies collectively reduced their workforces by more than 22,000 employees in 2025, as companies looked to improve efficiency and prepare for patent expirations and other market pressures. FieldForce is specifically designed to help organizations like these extend field capacity without requiring a corresponding increase in headcount.

Supporting sales and reimbursement teams around HCP interactions

FieldForce gives sales representatives and FRMs agentic support to help manage the work around HCP interactions. The agents connect with field teams’ CRMs to pull together information for preparation before a meeting, capture notes, and update systems afterward. Additional FieldForce agents can be available for inbound calls 24/7 to support providers by answering questions between visits.

For FRMs, AI agents can answer questions about prior authorization status, claims and reimbursement, and help onboard provider offices with approved access materials. Across these interactions, Infinitus Lens provides same-day compliance monitoring and surfaces trends and insights, such as: prescribing trends per provider or provider tier; emerging question themes or support topics; and recommendations for proactive and compliant content or education that can be shared.

Extending provider reach without adding field headcount

FieldForce is also designed to help pharmaceutical companies support providers who may not have regular contact with a sales representative or FRM. A dedicated AI agent can be available between visits, giving providers a direct path to information and support when a field team member is unavailable. For HCPs, that can mean more timely access to information and reimbursement support as they work to help patients access and navigate their treatment. For pharmaceutical companies, it can expand coverage across a larger provider population without requiring a corresponding increase in field hires.

“Our pharma customers need their field teams to cover more providers while managing significant cost and productivity pressures,” said Ankit Jain, CEO and co-founder of Infinitus Systems. “They’re also seeing that the companies embracing AI are finding new ways to scale and operate more efficiently, making an AI-first approach increasingly essential to staying competitive. FieldForce gives sales and reimbursement teams AI support across the work that happens before, after and in between HCP interactions, extending their capacity so they can spend more of their time on the relationships and issues that require their attention.”

Connecting commercial and medical conversations safely

Infinitus FieldForce is built around the distinction between promotional and medical communications within pharmaceutical organizations. The sales agent can support appropriate promotional conversations with HCPs. When a provider asks a clinical or safety question that falls outside the sales representative’s role, the agent can hand the conversation off to a member of the organization’s Medical Information team along with full context. This gives HCPs a direct path to the appropriate resource while helping sales representatives stay within their role.

Built for pharmaceutical organizations

FieldForce brings Infinitus’s trusted, healthcare-native AI to power internal tools for the first time. AI agents are trained on specific data and resources provided by each individual pharma organization along with Infinitus’s proprietary knowledge graph that leverages historical data from millions of payor interactions. This gives pharmaceutical leaders a consistent source of approved information across provider engagement and reimbursement workflows, while providing a way to measure the impact of AI through metrics such as provider coverage, interactions, and cost per interaction.

In July, Infinitus announced its AI-first, human-backed hub solution, designed to streamline patient, provider, and payor communications traditionally managed through legacy call-center infrastructure. FieldForce extends Infinitus’s AI agent capabilities into pharmaceutical commercial and market access teams, giving sales representatives and FRMs around-the-clock support while helping HCPs get timely answers and support to help patients.

About Infinitus

Infinitus is healthcare’s agentic AI communications platform, coordinating conversations and workflows across providers, health plans, specialty pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and patients to make sure care reaches those who need it. Infinitus’s system combines industry-leading safety guardrails with the largest dynamic knowledge graph built on millions of real-world interactions. The company has raised over $100M from investors including Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, and Coatue. Infinitus was recently named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies and is trusted by over 50% of the Fortune 50 healthcare companies. Learn more at www.infinitus.ai

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JND AutoRedact™ Wins 2026 Relativity Innovation Award

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AutoRedact recognized for delivering redaction accuracy at scale inside Relativity aiR.

SEATTLE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JND Legal Administration, the U.S. leader in legal management and administration services, announced that its AutoRedact™ AI-assisted redaction tool has received the Relativity Innovation Award in the Act category at Relativity Fest 2026, the premier event in the eDiscovery industry. The Act Award honors solutions that enhance Relativity’s redaction, quality control, reporting, case strategy, or production features, delivering meaningful results.

AutoRedact uses both AI and deterministic rules to find and redact sensitive information like personal data or privileged content within images stored in Relativity aiR (formerly RelativityOne). Legal teams describe in plain language what needs to be redacted, iterate and test the results on sample documents in the Detector Lab, and then apply the calibrated instructions at scale across their document populations. AutoRedact also has a dedicated detector for data subject access requests (DSARs) that redacts personal and sensitive information while keeping the requesting individual’s own data visible, a common and time-consuming challenge in privacy compliance. AutoRedact provides confidence levels for redactions to assist legal teams with focusing their human QC efforts and every redaction can be reviewed and adjusted before documents are produced.

“I’m incredibly grateful to our team, whose expertise and relentless testing made AutoRedact possible,” said Ben Sexton, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Strategy at JND. “We’re excited about what AutoRedact can do for our clients.”

“Innovation at JND has always meant building tools that deliver real, measurable results,” said Jennifer Keough, CEO and Co-Founder of JND. “AutoRedact reflects the ingenuity and dedication of our team, and this award is a testament to their work. We congratulate everyone who made it possible.”

Headquartered in Seattle, JND continues to solidify its status as the industry leader in end-to-end eDiscovery solutions. Its eDiscovery service line supports corporations, law firms, and government agencies in deploying the best solutions and technology to meet their goals using Relativity aiR, the market’s leading cloud-based technology solution. JND is one of only two Relativity Platinum Provider Partners.

This award marks JND’s second Relativity Innovation Award in three years. In 2024, Ben Sexton received the Relativity Innovation Award in the Artificial Intelligence category for his leadership in the adoption and development of generative AI tools in eDiscovery. JND’s team also includes three Relativity AI Visionary award recipients.

To schedule a demo of AutoRedact, contact autoredact@jndla.com.

About JND Legal Administration

JND eDiscovery, a RelativityOne software reseller and a division of JND Legal Administration, a Sedgwick company, is the nation’s foremost legal services and settlement administration solutions provider. JND’s fully-featured Relativity aiR instance and professional services team support a broad network of plaintiff and defendant law firms, corporate legal departments and government agency clients in future-proofing their eDiscovery systems. For more information, visit https://www.jndla.com/ediscovery.

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Joe Sexton
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L8P8 Launches Tru8 Connect, Free Messaging That Uses Usernames Instead of Phone Numbers

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Messages are end-to-end encrypted, kept only on users’ phones and deleted after eight days

GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — L8P8 Inc. today launched Tru8 Connect, a free messaging feature inside the Loop8 app for iOS and Android. People on Tru8 Connect find each other by username, so neither person ever sees the other’s phone number.

Giving someone your number is a bigger step than it used to be. A phone number can lead to your name, your address and the accounts tied to it. Once you hand it out, you can’t take it back. On Tru8 Connect, if a conversation goes badly, you block the person and that’s the end of it. They never had your number in the first place.

Messages are end-to-end encrypted. Loop8’s servers pass them along but can’t read them, and they delete each message once it’s delivered. After that, the message exists only on the two phones in the conversation, and opening it takes Face ID or a fingerprint. Every message deletes itself eight days after it’s sent.

When the app detects a screenshot or screen recording of a chat or a shared photo, it alerts everyone in the conversation and shows who took it.

“People think twice before giving a stranger their phone number, and they should,” said Zarik Megerdichian, founder and CEO of L8P8. “With Tru8 Connect, you don’t have to. And since we delete messages once they’re delivered, there’s no pile of old conversations sitting on our servers for someone to break into later.”

Tru8 Connect is open to users 16 and older. It’s available now in the Loop8 app, which is free on the App Store and Google Play. Loop8 also includes a password manager and an authenticator, both unlocked with biometrics instead of a master password.

About L8P8 Inc.
L8P8 Inc., based in Glendale, Calif., makes privacy and identity software that uses biometrics in place of passwords. Its products include Loop8, a consumer app, and Loop8ID, an age verification and identity platform for businesses. Learn more at loop8.ai and loop8id.com.

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L8P8 Inc.
pr@l8p8.com
‪(818) 208-0238‬

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