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Centric Software Strengthens Centric PLM™ as a Trusted Product Data Foundation for Transparency and Compliance

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August 27, 2026

Expanded capabilities advance trusted product data across the product lifecycle as transparency and regulatory requirements increase

CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Centric Software® today announced expanded sustainability, compliance and product governance capabilities across Centric PLM™, extending trusted product data and processes across product development and commercialization. The enhancements reinforce Centric PLM as the trusted product data foundation for increasingly complex product and regulatory requirements. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, AI-powered enterprise solutions that drive product development from concept to commercialization for brands, retailers and manufacturers across fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care and multi-category retail.

As expectations for product transparency increase, trusted product data is becoming a business imperative. Organizations need accurate, trusted and connected information across products, materials, suppliers and packaging to make informed decisions, accelerate product development and respond to evolving requirements, from Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) to broader initiatives under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), including forthcoming Digital Product Passports.

For many organizations, the challenge is not creating more sustainability information but transforming fragmented product, material, supplier and packaging data into trusted product records that improve compliance and decision-making. Rather than relying on point solutions for individual compliance requirements, Centric PLM embeds sustainability, compliance and traceability directly into product and packaging development, creating a single, trusted source where product information is captured once and reused as regulatory requirements evolve.

“Sustainability is a journey and greater visibility into materials and product data enables us to turn our goals into action,” said Sandy Flint, Senior Materials Manager, STIO. “With Centric PLM, we can integrate these priorities into the way we develop products and track key information such as materials, environmental impact and compliance. Having that information in one place gives us the visibility to make more informed decisions throughout product development.”

The latest Centric PLM enhancements enable brands, retailers and manufacturers to:

Improve sustainability reporting with Sustainability Profiles and automated composition roll-ups for more accurate labeling and reporting.Strengthen compliance governance with centralized Certificate Management, supplier certifications and expiry tracking.Design for circularity earlier with recyclability and circularity insights embedded in product development.Improve supplier collaboration and visibility by collecting and governing sustainability and compliance information in Centric PLM.

“Product transparency is reshaping how products are created and the brands that succeed will be those that make trusted product data the foundation for innovation, sustainability and compliance,” said Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “Centric PLM delivers a connected foundation of trusted product data that enables better decisions, stronger collaboration and greater agility as regulatory and market expectations evolve.”

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From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.Centric Planning & Pricing™, a cloud-native solution powered by Centric AI that unifies planning, pricing and inventory optimization, enabling retailers and brands to increase sell-through, improve margins and optimize inventory efficiency from pre-season through in-season execution.Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, driving up to a 12% increase in average initial price point.Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.

Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM, Centric Planning & Pricing, Centric Market Intelligence, Centric Visual Boards, Centric PXM, Centric PIM, Centric DAM, Centric Shoppingfeed® and Centric DSA (including Centric Digital Shelf Analytics) are trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.

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AT&T to Release Third-Quarter 2026 Earnings on Oct. 21

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3 minutes ago

August 27, 2026

AT&T will host a conference call on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the results

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AT&T will release its third-quarter 2026 results on Oct. 21AT&T will webcast a conference call to discuss results

DALLAS, Aug. 27, 2026 /CNW/ — AT&T (NYSE:T) will release its third-quarter 2026 results before the New York Stock Exchange opens on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. The company’s earnings release and related materials will be available on the AT&T Investor Relations website.

At 8:30 a.m. ET the same day, AT&T will host a conference call to discuss the results. A live webcast of the call will also be available on the AT&T Investor Relations website, and the webcast replay and transcript will be available following the call.

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We help more than 100 million U.S. families, friends and neighbors, plus nearly 2.5 million businesses, connect to greater possibility. From the first phone call 150 years ago to our 5G wireless and multi-gig internet offerings today, we @ATT innovate to improve lives. For more information about AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), please visit us at about.att.com. Investors can learn more at investors.att.com.

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Dr. Alessandra Sala Named to the 2026 TIME100 AI List

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August 27, 2026

The recognition honors Dr. Sala’s leadership in responsible AI development and the advancement of inclusive AI systems

NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a family of brands delivering scalable creative and GenAI solutions to help customers fuel great work, today announced that Dr. Alessandra Sala, Senior Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock, has been named to the 2026 TIME100 AI list, TIME’s annual recognition of the 100 most influential people shaping the future of AI.

The recognition reflects Dr. Sala’s sustained leadership at the intersection of AI, data science, ethics, and global governance. Throughout her career, Dr. Sala has worked to translate responsible AI from an aspiration into practical systems, standards, and operating principles, advancing a vision in which technological progress is strengthened by transparency, accountability, human expertise, and respect for the people whose work makes innovation possible.

As Global President of Women in AI, Dr. Sala has helped expand the organization’s international reach and promote greater participation by women and underrepresented communities in AI development. Through her leadership roles with UNESCO’s Women4Ethical AI, and AI Ethics Experts Without Borders, as well as her work with international standards organizations including ISO, IEC and ITU, Dr. Sala has helped advance practical frameworks for AI governance, inclusion in AI development, and standards for multimedia authenticity, helping build the trust and accountability needed for AI to scale across industries and society.

“AI will earn its place in society not only through what it can create, but through the trust it can sustain,” said Dr. Sala. “I am deeply honored by this recognition, which reflects the collective work of colleagues, researchers, standards leaders, and extraordinary women across industry, Women in AI, and Women4Ethical AI. Together, we are demonstrating that innovation becomes more powerful when accountability, inclusion, and human expertise are embedded at its core.”

At Shutterstock, Dr. Sala has helped shape an approach to AI grounded in rights-cleared data, transparent provenance, and involving creators in this evolving ecosystem. That foundation continues to shape how Shutterstock works with leading AI companies to put its diverse, high-quality data to work, helping advance the next generation of AI.

The full 2026 TIME100 AI list here: ti.me/100ai

Shutterstock Data Licensing & AI Services
Shutterstock is an end-to-end AI model training partner that unifies data licensing, services, and long-term collaboration under a single provider—reducing operational complexity and helping teams bring higher-performing AI systems to market faster and with greater confidence. Shutterstock combines access to one of the world’s largest rights-cleared multimodal datasets with advanced data curation and custom training datasets to power high-performing, deployment-ready generative models. This licensable training data includes high-quality labeled and continuously updated multimodal content with clear data provenance to support AI compliance. Shutterstock leverages ML-assisted evaluation tools to provide model training, fine-tuning, alignment, evaluation, and retraining. Through human-in-the-loop workflows, expert creative feedback, and structured preference data, Shutterstock delivers aesthetic preference signals, benchmarking, and regression testing to drive continuous model improvement. Learn more and start the conversation at shutterstock.com/data-licensing.

About Shutterstock
Shutterstock is in the business of turning ideas into impact. Powered by a global network of millions of creators and our cutting-edge technology, we provide businesses, creatives, and brand leaders with the essential, universal ingredients to make their work more effective. Shutterstock offers access to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of high-quality licensable assets, specialized training datasets, evaluation tools, and end-to-end strategic partnerships for the full model training lifecycle, as well as advertising and distribution solutions, exclusive editorial content, and full-service studio production—delivering unparalleled resources to fuel great work.

Discover our impact at www.shutterstock.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook and YouTube.

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Wesco Declares Quarterly Dividend on Common Stock

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August 27, 2026

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Board of Directors of Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) today declared a quarterly cash dividend on all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock, in an amount equal to $0.50 per share. The dividend is payable on September 30, 2026 to the holders of record of the common stock at the close of business on September 11, 2026.

About Wesco

Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) builds, connects, powers and protects the world. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with approximately $24 billion in annual sales in 2025 and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions. Wesco offers a best-in-class product and services portfolio of Electrical and Electronic Solutions, Communications and Security Solutions, and Utility and Broadband Solutions. The Company employs approximately 21,000 people, partners with the industry’s premier suppliers, and serves thousands of customers around the world. With millions of products, end-to-end supply chain services, and significant digital capabilities, Wesco provides innovative solutions to meet customer needs across commercial and industrial businesses, technology companies, telecommunications providers, and utilities. Wesco operates more than 700 sites, including distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and sales offices in approximately 50 countries, providing a local presence for customers and a global network to serve multi-location businesses and global corporations.

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