Melbourne – September 23, 2026 -- Australian performance brand 2XU has appointed Aaron Brown as Head of Wholesale & Business Development, North America, tasking a two-decade sporting goods veteran with expanding the company's commercial footprint across the United States and Canada.

Milan – September 23, 2026 -- Four cashmere manufacturers from Yulin, China signed Brand Market Entry Cooperation Agreements with Italian buying companies Casile & Casile and IWC on September 22, 2026, establishing direct access to Europe's high-end retail networks.

Knoxville, Tenn. – September 23, 2026 -- ResultStack has completed a national benchmark evaluating hundreds of convenience-store brands to rank the 100 strongest digital ecosystems in the industry, with results to be shared privately at NACS 2026 in Las Vegas.

Los Angeles – September 23, 2026 -- Fashion Trust U.S. has appointed Dr. Omar Mir to its Board of Directors and named him the lead figure behind its 2027 Sustainability Award, the nonprofit fashion platform announced.

Paris – September 23, 2026 -- A 200-gram smartphone requires more than 266 kilograms of raw material extraction, part of an annual global total exceeding 319 million tons of upstream materials pulled from the earth to manufacture smartphones alone, according to data cited by refurbished-tech marketplace Back Market.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Instacart (Nasdaq: CART) and Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) have launched a partnership to offer same-day delivery of the discount retailer's products through the Instacart App and website, with plans to scale to roughly 20,000 stores across 48 states this fall.

New York – September 23, 2026 -- SureDone has introduced Taska AI, an artificial intelligence listing agent now live with select pilot customers on its multichannel e-commerce platform, designed to automate listing creation and error resolution across connected sales channels.

Taska AI merges product data, channel integrations and listing workflows into a single conversational tool

Sellers can direct Taska to examine products, refine titles and descriptions, prepare channel-specific fields and generate scoped listing plans for review before submission.

Beijing – September 23, 2026 -- Roborock ranked No.1 globally in both unit shipments and sales value among robotic vacuum brands in H1 2026, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Smart Vacuum Robotics Tracker for 2026Q2. The company also held the top spot in cumulative sales value among robotic vacuum brands for the period spanning Q1 2023 through Q2 2026.

Las Vegas – September 22, 2026 -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) outlined its artificial intelligence strategy at GroceryShop 2026, disclosing a phased approach that moves from assisted to fully autonomous AI use across customer and operational functions.

New York – September 22, 2026 -- Métaphores, the French textile Maison within Hermès' textile division, will launch its first U.S. designer-led showroom partnership on October 7, 2026, debuting a furniture textile capsule called Fragments at Lemieux et Cie in SoHo.