GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As emotional value becomes a key consumption driver, consumers are increasingly willing to pay for fun, companionship and peace of mind, offering an everyday interpretation of what “Better Life” truly means. This trend was on display throughout Phase 3 of the 140th Canton Fair.

Small Products, Big Feelings

In the Office Supplies Section, beyond traditional business supplies, vibrant products are capturing attention. Pens are expected to be visually appealing while staplers are designed to be cute as well as functional. Products that provide a burst of pleasure are gaining popularity.

3D stickers have emerged as a favorite among journaling enthusiasts. These stickers double as puzzles, requiring no glue and allowing users to assemble them for fun, turning decorations into interactive toys.

In the Toys Section, bag charms in various designs are ubiquitous. Meanwhile, animal-shaped sofa cushions in lazy, prone poses offer a healing touch. Filled with eco-friendly weighted glass beads, they provide a gentle hugging sensation, offering comfort and relaxation.

Emotional Comfort Across Categories

Emotional comfort was equally evident in products designed for children and pets.

A duck-shaped toy created for infants and toddlers aged 6 to 36 months attracted interest from overseas buyers. Simulating the movements of a real duck through head-turning and waddling motions alongside lights, sounds and voice guidance, the toy supports crawling, early learning and emotional comfort. Educational and bedtime-soothing modes offer music, stories, nursery rhymes and bilingual content, helping nurture development and providing a sense of security.

Meanwhile, the Pet Products and Food Section demonstrated how emotional needs also extend to animal companions. From creatively designed cat climbing structures to interactive automatic toys, exhibitors presented products aimed at enriching pets’ daily lives and strengthening the bond between pets and their owners.

As consumers increasingly seek products that deliver emotional as well as practical benefits, Phase 3 of the 140th Canton Fair offers a glimpse into evolving lifestyles and expectations. The message behind “Better Life” is clear: better living is no longer defined solely by utility, but by products that bring comfort, connection and joy.

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fidivio connects loyalty operations with enterprise finance to strengthen financial control and improve program economics

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Loyalty Juggernaut, Inc., a global leader in enterprise loyalty technology, and On Point Loyalty, a leading consulting firm specializing in loyalty strategy and finance, today launched fidivio, a purpose-built SaaS platform for the financial management of loyalty programs. Jointly developed by the two companies, fidivio combines IFRS-compliant loyalty accounting, financial planning and analysis, and fidi, an AI-powered financial assistant.

“Enterprises are asking loyalty to contribute more to growth, and that requires greater discipline in how they invest in and manage their programs,” said Shyam Shah, CEO and Co-Founder of Loyalty Juggernaut. “With fidivio, we are extending our commitment to helping brands turn loyalty into an enterprise growth engine. Our ambition is to give finance and loyalty leaders the financial confidence to pursue growth opportunities while maintaining control over program economics.”

“Loyalty programs have evolved into substantial financial businesses, yet their financial management often remains fragmented across systems and spreadsheets,” said Evert de Boer, CEO of fidivio. “This limits executives’ visibility into performance and their ability to assess the financial consequences of program changes. We built fidivio to address that gap, embedding specialist financial models and methodologies into everyday accounting and planning. fidi AI makes that expertise more accessible, helping teams understand the drivers behind financial outcomes, evaluate scenarios, and make more informed decisions.”

fidivio combines Loyalty Juggernaut’s enterprise technology expertise and experience powering loyalty programs for iconic global brands including Emirates, Liverpool, WestJet, Global Hotel Alliance, Shoppers Stop and Deutsche Telekom through its flagship GRAVTY® platform with On Point Loyalty’s specialized expertise in loyalty economics, financial modeling and program valuation, drawing on experience advising more than 40 airlines worldwide.

The platform provides three connected capabilities:

IFRS-compliant loyalty accounting: Automates deferred-revenue and program-liability calculations, with configurable accounting assumptions, financial statements and reconciliation outputs.Financial planning and analysis: Connects program performance with budgets and forecasts. Teams can model scenarios for issuance, redemption and breakage, evaluate financial sensitivities and identify the actions needed to achieve specific financial targets.fidi AI: Enables users to investigate trends and financial variances through natural-language questions, generate tailored reports and dashboards, and explore financial scenarios using authorized program data.

fidivio runs on AWS and comes pre-integrated with GRAVTY®, connecting loyalty operations directly with financial accounting, forecasting and scenario planning. This integration gives finance and loyalty teams a shared view of program activity and its financial impact. fidivio also supports integration with other loyalty management and enterprise finance systems, serving programs across industries and operating models, including in-house programs, profit centers and standalone loyalty businesses.

fidivio is already in production at Nexxia, a Mexico-based loyalty and data solutions company serving brands across Latin America, bringing the platform’s capabilities into a live enterprise environment.

“As our loyalty business grows, we need accounting processes and financial controls that can grow with it,” said Liliana Galeano Pardo, Chief Financial Officer of Nexxia. “fidivio helps us maintain a consistent view of deferred revenue and program liabilities, with reporting that supports reconciliation and financial oversight. It gives our team a stronger foundation for managing the obligations associated with our programs.”

“Well-designed loyalty programs create lasting value for customers and businesses alike, combining meaningful customer engagement with strong financial performance,” said Roberto Muñoz Guillen, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexxia. “At Nexxia, we are building world-class enterprise loyalty programs that demand the same level of sophistication in financial management. The implementation of fidivio strengthens our ability to understand the economic impact of our decisions and allows us to continue scaling with greater visibility, discipline, and confidence.”

About fidivio

Jointly developed by Loyalty Juggernaut and On Point Loyalty, fidivio is an enterprise-grade, cloud-native platform serving finance, loyalty, and executive teams responsible for the financial performance of loyalty programs. Combining specialized financial expertise with purpose-built technology, fidivio enables enterprises to manage their loyalty programs as financial businesses with greater clarity and control over their financial performance. Learn more at www.fidivio.com.

About Loyalty Juggernaut

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Loyalty Juggernaut is a global leader in enterprise loyalty technology. Its flagship AI-native platform, GRAVTY®, powers over 80 programs across airlines, retail, hospitality, telecommunications and financial services. GRAVTY® helps brands turn loyalty into an enterprise growth engine through deeper customer engagement, expanded partner ecosystems and stronger program economics. The platform brings together agentic capabilities, U.S.-patented AI and ISO/IEC 42001-certified AI governance, enabling brands to individualize offers for millions of members within minutes and detect fraud as it happens. Loyalty Juggernaut was recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025. Learn more at www.lji.io.

About On Point Loyalty

On Point Loyalty is a global advisory firm specializing in loyalty strategy, program economics, financial modeling and valuation. The firm helps organizations design, manage and optimize loyalty programs to maximize their contribution to enterprise value. It publishes the Top 100 Most Valuable Airline Loyalty Programs report, whose 2026 edition analyzes more than 170 airlines. Its experts have authored books on loyalty strategy and currency economics, with research published in Harvard Business Review. Learn more at www.onpointloyalty.com.

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When the customer’s own agent does the transacting — FMCG brands bring theirs to the A2A hubs. Discovery, volume, security, transactions.

VANCOUVER, BC and LONDON, Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) today announces the Agentic Shopping Hub for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands — where a brand’s agent is sourced, verified and transacted by the agents that now shop retail grocery. Bring your agent.

Search was “find it.” E-commerce was “buy it.” For twenty-five years they were two businesses with a click between them. The shopper’s agent does both in one call, and the click is gone. With hundreds of millions of AI agents coming online, an FMCG brand’s agent on its own is neither discovered nor visibly secure.

The hub. A brand brings its own agents. On A2A-Grocery.ai they are listed where the shopping agents read, their products verified by barcode, their orders transacted — 20 markets, 1.97 million points of sale, 8,619 retail banners. The brand sets what its agents list, claim, price and sell, market by market; the hub gates every order against it.

gtinfetch.ai, the GTIN resolver for AI agents, is the second factor on every order: 84 million barcodes confirmed before the money moves. Know your transactions (KYT). One record answers the shopper’s assistant and the retailer’s agent.

Discovery — listed where the agents shop: 1.97 million points of sale, 20 markets.

Volume — 84 million barcodes answered, one call each.

Security — gtinfetch.ai as the second factor on every order.

Transactions — x402 available to FMCG brands: agents settle in the same call, for speed to market.

The quarter it happened. On October 21 the world’s largest retailer, at roughly $700 billion in annual sales, introduced Agent Profiles, the Walmart Agent Gateway and terms for AI agents: approved agents now search its inventory and buy on a shopper’s behalf over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), under spending limits the customer sets. Leading grocers in France, Germany, the Czech Republic, India, Singapore and Korea have opened their shelves the same way. No search box, no cart, no click — the customer’s own agent does the transacting.

Faster to market. A brand going it alone has to build its own MCP door, get it listed, get the labs’ agents to connect it, and keep it running. GSC’s A2A-Grocery.ai hub is already listed on the Official MCP Registry and the Microsoft Azure API Center, and already read by the agents. A brand that brings its agent to A2A-Grocery.ai is where the AI agents do the shopping.

Adoption is here. AI shopping adoption in the USA reached 37% in Q3 2026, rising for an eighth straight month, with grocery the leading category at 32% (CivicScience, October 2026). 81% of US consumers and 53% in Europe expect to use AI agents when shopping (BCG, 2026); more than half of 13,500 Europeans surveyed already do, and a further 27% intend to (Deloitte, 2026). Nearly a quarter of US consumers have bought on an AI recommendation — and nearly half of them returned the item, most often because it was not as described (Blue Yonder, November 2026).

“The customer’s own agent now does the shopping — it asks, it picks, it orders. An FMCG brand’s agent on its own is neither discovered nor secure from the retailer’s point of view at scale,” said Matthew Keddy, Chief Executive Officer, GSC. “Our Agentic Shopping Hub is solely for retail grocery, where customers’ agents now do the shopping — replacing the era of search and e-commerce clicks. Bring your agent.”

Bring your agent — over MCP. FMCG brands onboard at a2a-grocery.ai. Agents connect at mcp.gtinfetch.ai and mcp.a2a-grocery.ai. Powered by gtinfetch.ai.

About GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC)

GSC built the first agentic commerce hub for retail grocery. GSC developed gtinfetch.ai — the GTIN resolver for AI agents in retail grocery agentic commerce transactions — and runs the A2A hubs A2A-Grocery.ai, A2A-Cosmetics.ai and A2A-Retailmedia.ai, where FMCG brands’ AI agents are sourced, verified and transacted over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A). GSC is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner operating across 18 Azure regions and on Google Cloud Enterprise. For more information visit gsc-em.com.

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