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New Insights into Americans’ Priorities at the Grocery Store Unveiled by Marine Stewardship Council

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Poll data highlights consumer attitudes around sustainability and affordability amid evolving landscape

WASHINGTON, April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In time for Earth Day, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) released new poll data revealing how Americans are balancing the rising cost of living while keeping the health of the planet top of mind. The poll demonstrated some concern for the environment with grocery planning, but reveals there is significant room for growth. Global food production has a major impact on the planet, generating approximately a third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to climate change. Just one in five respondents say the environmental impact of their choices is frequently a consideration when grocery planning, with a third responding they consider it some of the time.

New poll data reveals how Americans are balancing cost of living and health of the planet.

The MSC poll findings come at a time when the rising cost of living and rapid changes to global supply chains deeply impact consumer shopping behavior. The average price of food in the United States has risen by 2.8% since the beginning of 2024. In 2025, prices for all food are predicted to increase 3.2%. Through the poll, MSC sought to gain insight into whether sustainability remains a priority for Americans in the current economic climate.

Responses also revealed generational differences in consumer behavior. Gen Z and millennial shoppers, aged 18-29, are almost twice as likely as their 55+ counterparts to consider their environmental impact when grocery shopping and meal planning. Furthermore, 36% of consumers believe it’s at least somewhat important for businesses to focus on sustainability even with the rising cost of living, and over a third believe it should be the priority.

“It is not surprising that cost is top of mind when it comes to buying groceries these days. This data, however, shows that even amid rising prices at the cash register, Americans still want to make choices that are good for the environment, especially among younger generations,” said Erika Feller, Americas Director, Marine Stewardship Council. “I’m hopeful that American shoppers will keep the planet in mind when creating a budget-friendly meal plan, and that sustainable seafood is in everyone’s grocery cart, especially as we celebrate Earth Day.”

The poll revealed that a quarter of respondents believe fish and seafood is the most environmentally sustainable animal protein, closely followed by chicken. And while 33% of poll respondents don’t know what the most environmentally sustainable animal protein is, studies show that wild fisheries have a lower greenhouse gas footprint than land-based animal proteins, making it a good choice for people prioritizing sustainability in their grocery shopping. The Marine Stewardship Council, a global nonprofit tackling sustainable fishing, works with fisheries and supply chain companies through its certification and ecolabeling program to give shoppers an easy way to identify certified sustainable seafood with its blue fish ecolabel. The MSC ecolabel can be found on seafood packaging at a variety of price points in grocery stores, convenience stores, independent food retailers, and some restaurants nation-wide. Around 1 in 5 shelf-stable seafood products—like canned, pouched, and tinned options—sold in U.S. grocery stores are MSC certified and carry the blue fish label according to data from the FMI Power of Seafood Report compared to MSC sales data.

During Earth Month 2025 and beyond, MSC is educating consumers on the benefits of purchasing sustainable seafood for both their health and the health of the ocean. Shoppers can follow these three simple tips to make their grocery hauls healthy, affordable and sustainable:

Incorporate one to two servings of fatty fish like salmon, sardines and tuna per week to get the health benefits of anti-inflammatory omega-3s EPA + DHA.Affordable and convenient options are easily available at wallet-friendly prices, such as pantry-staples tinned and pouched fish.To identify seafood that’s wild-caught and certified sustainable, look for the MSC blue fish label.

For more tips on incorporating sustainability into your everyday, visit www.msc.org.

About the Marine Stewardship Council

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is a global, science-based nonprofit organization helping to protect the ocean and safeguard seafood supplies for the future. For over 25 years, the MSC has been working with scientists, fisheries, seafood companies, industry experts, retailers, conservation groups and other nonprofits to improve the way our ocean is fished through the MSC Fisheries Standard and Chain of Custody Standard. The MSC program incentivizes and rewards sustainable fishing practices globally. Through the use of the MSC blue fish label, the MSC makes it easy for everyone to identify and choose sustainable, wild-caught seafood from a certified source. Learn more at www.msc.org.

About the Poll

This poll was completed between February 21 and February 24, using Leger’s LEO panel, among n=1,007 American respondents aged 18+. Results were weighted according to age, gender, region, education, ethnicity, and number of people in the household in order to ensure a representative sample of the American population. For comparison purposes, a probability sample of this size yields a margin of error no greater than ±3.1%, (19 times out of 20).

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Nearmap Backs Australian Small Businesses with Accessible Property Intelligence

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New MapBrowser Essentials and Pro plans give smaller teams greater cost certainty, more flexibility, and room to grow

SYDNEY, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nearmap, the global property intelligence company born in Australia, is making its aerial imagery and property intelligence more accessible to small and medium-sized businesses with two new MapBrowser unlimited data pricing plans designed to meet the needs of smaller teams.

MapBrowser is the Nearmap web-based mapping application, giving businesses access to high-resolution aerial imagery and property intelligence data to explore sites, assess properties, and make more informed decisions.

With businesses navigating ongoing cost pressures and balancing investment with changing project demands, MapBrowser Essentials and MapBrowser Pro give organisations greater choice in how they access and use property intelligence. The new plans introduce user-based pricing for customers requiring five or fewer user licenses, removing consumption-based usage limits and giving teams greater certainty over their costs.

The announcement builds on Australian roots and longstanding commitment Nearmap has to helping organisations of different sizes put property intelligence to work. For smaller businesses, consultancies, agencies, and teams taking on new projects, access to high-quality property and site data can help inform decisions, support more efficient workflows and create opportunities to compete with greater confidence.

“Small businesses are an important part of Australia’s economic fabric, and they deserve access to technology that helps them do their best work,” said Andy Watt, CEO of Nearmap. “We were born in Australia, and supporting businesses as they grow has always been part of our story. These new MapBrowser plans give smaller teams more flexibility in how they get started, with the confidence to use the platform as their work demands and expand their capabilities when they’re ready.”

MapBrowser Essentials offers an affordable entry point for organisations that primarily need aerial imagery, making it easier for new customers to begin using Nearmap on a smaller scale. MapBrowser Pro delivers a broader set of standard capabilities, including 3D and digital surface model (DSM) exports and building footprints, providing additional functionality for customers with more advanced requirements. Both of these new plans include the full range of Nearmap historical imagery, as well as vertical, panorama, and oblique images.

“New drivers learn on Australian roads, so we build our training on real Australian intersections rather than generic ones”, said Schalk Pienaar, Founder and CEO of Nexefy. “Nearmap’s imagery is what makes that practical for a team our size, and paying by user rather than by usage means we can keep building without watching a meter.”

Both plans are designed to give customers greater control over how they access MapBrowser. With user-based pricing and no consumption-based usage limits, teams can use the platform as their projects require without having to monitor usage or worry about exceeding consumption caps.

The plans also provide a flexible path forward. Businesses can start with the functionality they need today, then add users or move to more advanced capabilities as projects develop and their requirements change. This enables smaller organisations to adopt property intelligence at a pace that works for their business, without having to garnish usage to align to monthly data limits.

By making it easier for smaller teams to get started and grow with Nearmap, the new plans extend access to property intelligence across Australia’s diverse business landscape, helping more organisations make informed decisions about the places and properties that matter to them.

To learn more, visit: https://www.nearmap.com/au/products/mapbrowser

About Nearmap

Nearmap is a global property intelligence company redefining how organizations understand and act on the built environment. By owning the entire intelligence value chain—from high-recency geospatial capture powered by patented camera technology to accurate AI-derived analytics and guaranteed building materials data—Nearmap delivers a single, trusted source of truth for property decisions. Insurers, government agencies, and AECO organizations rely on Nearmap to transform property uncertainty into evidence, helping organizations move beyond fragmented data and manual processes with verified, frequently updated insight. These proprietary insights enable faster, more confident decisions across underwriting and claims, assessment and response, and planning and construction so teams can see truth, assess risk, and act with certainty. Founded in Australia in 2007, Nearmap stands as the definitive source of truth that shapes the livable world.

For more information, visit www.nearmap.com.

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Vertiv Simplifies High-Density AI Infrastructure Deployment Across Data Center Environments

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The new Vertiv™ SmartIT platform is a pre-engineered AI infrastructure solution based on NVIDIA MGX™ and OCP ORV3 architecture

The scalable solution supports deployment in existing enterprise facilities, new builds, commercial spaces, colocation and hyperscale environments without redesign

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today introduced the Vertiv™ SmartIT solution, a pre-engineered architecture designed to simplify high-density AI deployments for enterprises, research institutions and colocation providers across existing facilities and new data centers.

Previously deployed with NVIDIA to support the NVIDIA DGX™ GB300, the highest-performing, largest-scale AI system available for enterprises, the Vertiv™ SmartIT solution integrates rack infrastructure, DC power conversion and distribution, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, in-rack cooling distribution and monitoring in a factory-validated design. By integrating and validating these systems before shipment, Vertiv™ SmartIT helps reduce on-site integration complexity and connects to facility power and cooling infrastructure. The solution is available now for AI deployments globally.

“AI is fundamentally changing the demands placed on data center infrastructure, requiring closer coordination across power, cooling and IT systems to support increasingly complex workloads,” said Scott Armul, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Vertiv. “Vertiv™ SmartIT reflects our approach to solving that challenge by bringing these disciplines together in a factory-validated architecture. By combining Vertiv’s expertise across critical infrastructure, we’re helping customers simplify deployment, build greater consistency into their AI environments and establish a foundation that can evolve alongside their computing needs.”

Vertiv™ SmartIT helps customers address key deployment challenges, including:

Deployment timelines compress: Factory validation replaces on-site integration, limiting the commissioning scope to facility connections.Multi-vendor coordination is reduced: Customers benefit from a single order, one partner and one architecture spanning rack, power, cooling and monitoring.Existing spaces become AI-ready: Brownfield enterprise facilities and Class A commercial buildings can support AI-class density without full reconstruction.Scalability becomes repeatable: The same building block supports growth from single rack to multi-rack deployments, without redesign between phases.Operational visibility increases: Integrated leak detection, automated response and continuous monitoring provide visibility from rack to site, with these capabilities built into the solution from day one rather than assembled from separate vendor tools.

Vertiv™ SmartIT is a scalable, pre-engineered infrastructure platform for high-density AI deployments, supporting NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, NVIDIA DGX™ Rubin NVL8 and NVIDIA HGX™ Rubin NVL8 on NVIDIA MGX™ and Open Compute Project (OCP) ORV3 architectures.

Designed to scale from a single rack to multi-rack deployments, it enables customers to deploy and expand AI infrastructure within a common architecture while integrating power, cooling, monitoring and controls. Built-in monitoring, leak detection and support for Redfish, SNMP and Modbus simplify operations, while Vertiv™ Global Services supports deployment, commissioning and lifecycle management.

Vertiv SmartIT can be deployed as part of a broader Vertiv infrastructure architecture, with complementary solutions extending integration and management capabilities beyond the rack. Vertiv™ SmartRun extends integration across the row, while Vertiv™ rack power distribution units (rPDU) provide power distribution and monitoring. Vertiv™ Unify provides integrated monitoring, analytics and controls across power and thermal infrastructure, including leak detection and coordinated response control. Together, these solutions help customers scale from individual Vertiv™ SmartIT deployments to larger AI environments.

Vertiv showcased a Vertiv™ SmartIT with a NVIDIA HGX™ Rubin NVL8 demo unit during NVIDIA GTC Berlin in October, demonstrating an integrated infrastructure architecture designed to support NVIDIA DGX Rubin NVL8 deployments, enabling customers to start at the right scale and expand within a common infrastructure architecture as AI demand grows.

For more information about the Vertiv™ SmartIT and Vertiv’s growing portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services, visit Vertiv.com.

About Vertiv Holdings Co.
Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.

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Graybar Reports Record Third Quarter Performance

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Delivers Second Consecutive Quarter of Record Net Sales and Net Income

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, industrial, automation and connectivity products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, today announced record results for the third quarter of 2026.  

In the third quarter, Graybar achieved net sales of $4.0 billion, an increase of 22.0% compared to the same period last year. The company also reported net income of $171.3 million, a 43.6% increase over the prior year. This was the second consecutive quarter of record net sales and net income for the company.

For the first nine months of the year, Graybar achieved net sales of $11.1 billion, a 15.5% increase from the same nine-month period last year. Net income for the nine months was $471.8 million, an increase of 31.7% over the prior year.

“I am very proud of our strong performance so far this year, including two consecutive record quarters,” said Kathleen M. Mazzarella, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Graybar. “As we transform our business for the future, we remain grounded in the core values that have shaped our employee-owned company for the past 97 years. Looking ahead, we will continue to invest in the people, technologies and capabilities that support our strategy and enhance the value we provide to our customers.”

Select third quarter 2026 highlights:

Acquired New Jersey-based Samson Electrical Supply, marking Graybar’s third acquisition in 2026.

Named to Selling Power’s prestigious annual list of the 60 Best Companies to Sell For. This is the 21st time Graybar has appeared on the list.

Ranked No. 13 on the 2026 Industrial Distribution Big 50 list of top North American industrial distributors, up one spot from its 2025 position. This marks Graybar’s fifth consecutive year on the list.

About Graybar
Graybar, a Fortune 500 corporation and one of the largest employee-owned companies in North America, is a leader in the distribution of high quality electrical, industrial, automation and connectivity products, and specializes in related supply chain management and logistics services. Through its network of 355 North American distribution facilities, it stocks and sells products from thousands of manufacturers, helping its customers power, network, automate and secure their facilities with speed, intelligence and efficiency. For more information, visit www.graybar.com or call 1-800-GRAYBAR.

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