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Kia Motors has officially expanded its base of operations in India, with the recent opening of its new production plant in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. It is spread across 23 million square feet and can produce up to 300,000 units per year.It is also equipped with more than 450 robots to help with the assembly and is currently responsible for producing the Seltos SUV. As of November 2019, 40,649 units of the car have been sold. The company is also gearing up to launch the Carnival MPV, which should arrive in India before the 2020 launch at the Auto Expo. It is also developing a sub-4-metre compact SUV while aiming to add 50 more touchpoints and service centres in India by March 2020.The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Bongkil Shin, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to India. It was led by Han-Woo Park, President, and CEO of Kia Motors Corporation, Kookhyun Shim, Managing Director and CEO of Kia Motors India, and key … [Read more...] about Kia Motors officially opens India production facility

By 2050, farming will have to change if the world is going to keep feeding itself. We’ve already passed peak chicken and peak milk. At the same time climate change keeps making it harder to grow food, two billion more people will need to eat. advertisement advertisement In 2015, as one response to the challenge, urban farms went mainstream. Vertical farms popped up in unexpected places, like a vacant lot in Wyoming and an abandoned steel factory in New Jersey. New tech made it easier to manage farms remotely, and a Japanese company designed an indoor farm entirely run by robots. Elon Musk’s little brother planned hundreds of urban vegetable gardens, and L.A. passed a law allowing residents to plant free gardens on city land. Since meat is one of the biggest causes of climate change, 2015 also saw a proliferation of meat alternatives. The lab-grown hamburger got a whole lot cheaper. Designers offered bugs for dinner. A startup tried to market seaweed that tastes … [Read more...] about We Need To Get Ready To Feed 2 Billion More People: 2015 In Food

The best present I ever got was from my mom on my seventeenth birthday. It was a green, football-shaped dongle called the Sony eMarker. I’ve never met anyone who had one or even remembers it. I was beginning to think I’d dreamt it up until I found pictures of it and a blog review from 2000. advertisement advertisement The eMarker was magical. This little green dongle clipped to my keychain, and whenever I heard a song on the radio I liked I’d click “record.” Later, I’d connect the eMarker to my family computer and get a spit-out of the artists and song names I’d heard since the last sync: Shazam years before Shazam. Sony figured I’d buy the CD. But Sony did not figure on Napster, and within 30 minutes of hearing a new song, I’d have a Memorex CD-R labeled “Spring ’01 new new mix,” with my prized track sandwiched between some filler Ja Rule and Goo Goo Dolls. I’m not particularly proud of that last … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide To Building Products People Absolutely Love

If weed is now on the verge of billions in legal big business, as well as a creative tool of choice for some of Hollywood’s most productive and popular stars, then Rick Bakas is hoping the drug is ready for its own mainstream media. advertisement Bakas has launched Weedhorn, a media startup “sophisticated weed enthusiasts” will be able to safely read at work. While most marijuana media typically skews low brow, the new site has teamed with social publishing platform RebelMouse to target professionals who may want to read about weed issues without Bongzilla banner ads popping up all over their screen. “High Times is the big daddy that has existed for 40 years bringing news to marijuana lovers,” says Bakas. “But many of the existing media properties have been in the shadows of society unable to cross over the line to mainstream. We feel they are well rooted in that subculture space whereas we are starting from day one as a mainstream property. By … [Read more...] about BuzzRead: A New Media Startup Takes Marijuana News Mainstream

When designers Monica Zwirner and Lucy Wallace Eustice launched their women’s handbag startup, MZ Wallace, in 2000, they spent a lot of time pondering what they should call their new brand. They considered following the path of many other American designers—Kate Spade, Tory Burch, Rebecca Minkoff—and simply using their own names. But they were worried that approach would make their brand sound overly feminine, something they wanted to avoid. “Neither of us has a particularly feminine sensibility,” Zwirner says. “We think of ourselves first as a design company, and we think really good design isn’t gender-specific. We wanted to leave open the possibility of making men’s products in the future.” advertisement advertisement Transitioning from a women’s brand to a unisex brand can be a smart business move, one that potentially doubles the size of your market. But it’s also tricky, thanks to deeply … [Read more...] about As gender norms shift, ‘women’s brands’ are going after a new demo: men