Day: October 21, 2020

With four additional fields completed in 2020, The Scotts® Field Refurbishment Program has now renovated two dozen fields with nearly $1.75 million of support since the program launched in 2016MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Scotts Company LLC (Scotts) and Major League Baseball are excited to announce that field refurbishments for all four 2020 grant recipients have been completed. The Scotts® Field Refurbishment Program awards modern, playable youth baseball and softball field refurbishments to local communities of need within the United States each year.In July, MLB and Scotts announced that they received nearly 500 grant applications from more than 400 cities in 48 states and Washington, D.C. for the 2020 installment of the Scotts® Field Refurbishment Program. Following a careful review process by a Blue...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Level One Bancorp, Inc. (“Level One”) (Nasdaq: LEVL) announced that the Board of Directors of Level One declared a quarterly cash dividend of $47.92 per share on its 7.50% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series B, represented by depositary shares (Nasdaq: LEVLP) each representing a 1/100th interest in a share of the Series B preferred stock. Holders of depositary shares will receive $0.4792 per depositary share. The dividend is payable on November 15, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 31, 2020.Level One Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Level One Bank, a full-service commercial and consumer bank headquartered in Michigan with assets of approximately $2.51 billion as of June 30, 2020. The Company operates sixteen banking centers throughout...

TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MERCER PARK BRAND ACQUISITION CORP. (“Mercer” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Charles Miles has been appointed to the board of directors of the Company. Mr. Miles previously served on the Company’s board of directors prior the Company’s annual general meeting of class B shareholders held on October 14, 2020.Mr. Miles is a Managing Director at Recapture Partners. Prior to that, he held roles with Bloomberg LLP as an equity option trader, Deutsche Bank as a volatility arbitrage hedge fund portfolio manager and Managing Director and Del Mar Asset Management as a portfolio manager.The following individuals are now directors of the Company:Jonathan SandelmanLawrence HackettAndrew SmithCharles MilesAbout Mercer Park Brand Acquisition Corp.Mercer Park Brand is a special purpose acquisition...

Skeljungur hf. will publish its Q3 2020 financial results after the market has closed on Wednesday, October 28, 2020.Skeljungur will host a webcast for investors, analysts and the press on Thursday, October 29, at 8:30 where CEO Árni Pétur Jónsson and CFO Ólafur Þór Jóhannesson, will give an overview of the financial results and operational highlights. Attention is drawn to the fact that the investor meeting will only be a webcast.The webcast will be available here: http://www.skeljungur.is/fjarfestakynningMarket participants can send questions to fjarfestar@skeljungur.is, questions will be answered after the presentation on October 29.The presentation will be available on Skeljungur‘s website, https://www.skeljungur.is/fyrir-fjarfesta after the meeting.For further information please contact Árni Pétur Jónsson, CEO, investors@skeljun...

Skeljungur hf. mun birta uppgjör þriðja ársfjórðungs 2020 eftir lokun markaðar miðvikudaginn 28. október nk.Vefstreymi fyrir markaðsaðila verður fimmtudaginn 29. október kl. 8:30 þar sem Árni Pétur Jónsson, forstjóri, og Ólafur Þór Jóhannesson, framkvæmdastjóri fjármálasviðs, kynna uppgjörið og helstu þætti úr rekstrinum. Vakin er athygli á því að fundurinn verður einungis rafrænn að þessu sinni.Hægt verður að nálgast streymið hér: http://www.skeljungur.is/fjarfestakynningMarkaðsaðilar geta sent inn spurningar á fjarfestar@skeljungur.is og verðum þeim svarað eftir kynninguna þann 29. október nk.Kynningarefni af fundinum verður gert aðgengilegt á heimasíðu Skeljungs, https://www.skeljungur.is/fyrir-fjarfestaNánari upplýsingar veitir Árni Pétur Jónsson, forstjóri, fjarfestar@skeljungur.is.www.skeljungur.ishttps://www.linkedin.com/compa...

Revocan is designed to evaluate the abrogation by AsiDNA™ of tumor resistance to a PARP inhibitor in relapsed ovarian cancerFirst results from Revocan are expected early 2021PARIS, Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Onxeo S.A. (Euronext Paris, NASDAQ Copenhagen: ONXEO), (“Onxeo” or “the Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company specializing in the development of innovative drugs targeting tumor DNA Damage response (DDR), in particular against rare or resistant cancers, today announced a new milestone in the clinical development of AsiDNA™ with the treatment of the first patient in the Revocan1 phase 1b/2 study designed to evaluate the effect of AsiDNA™, Onxeo’s first-in-class DDR inhibitor, on the acquired resistance to PARP inhibitor (PARPi) niraparib for second line maintenance treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer. First...

CORNELIUS, N.C., Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aquesta Financial Holdings, Inc and subsidiaries (“Aquesta”) (OTC Market symbol AQFH) – including its subsidiary Aquesta Bank announced today net income for the third quarter of 2020 (three month period ending September 30, 2020).  For the third quarter of 2020, Aquesta had unaudited net income of $1.1 million (20 cents per share) compared to third quarter of 2019 net income of $1.0 million (19 cents per share). Thus, earnings grew at 10.7 percent for the third quarter of 2020 compared to the third quarter of 2019. Jim Engel, CEO and President of Aquesta, said “Despite the continued economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we at Aquesta experienced another quarter of solid growth in earnings, core deposits and loans.  In addition to our strong performance, we continue...

ISELIN, N.J., Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Middlesex Water Company (NASDAQ:MSEX) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.2725 per share on its common stock, an increase of 6.3% from the $0.25625 per share dividend declared in July of 2020.  This increase raises the annual dividend rate to $1.09 from $1.02 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable December 1, 2020 to shareholders of record as of November 13, 2020. Middlesex Water Company has paid cash dividends in varying amounts continually since 1912 and has increased its annual dividend for 48 consecutive years.“We are pleased that despite the operational challenges posed by the ongoing pandemic, the prudent management of our operations by an extraordinary group of people has enabled us to increase the dividend,” said Chairman,...

NVIDIA Extends Lead on MLPerf Benchmark with A100 Delivering up to 237x Faster AI Inference Than CPUs, Enabling Businesses to Move AI from Research to ProductionSANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVIDIA today announced its AI computing platform has again smashed performance records in the latest round of MLPerf, extending its lead on the industry’s only independent benchmark measuring AI performance of hardware, software and services.NVIDIA won every test across all six application areas for data center and edge computing systems in the second version of MLPerf Inference. The tests expand beyond the original two for computer vision to include four covering the fastest-growing areas in AI: recommendation systems, natural language understanding, speech recognition and medical imaging.Organizations across a wide...

ELMIRA, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Elmira Savings Bank (NASDAQ:ESBK)HighlightsNet income was $948,000 and $2,875,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared to $901,000 and $2,546,000 for the same periods in 2019.Diluted earnings per share were $.27 per share and $.82 per share for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared to $.26 per share and $.73 per share for the same periods in 2019.Return on average assets was .55% and .60% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared to .58% and .56% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019.Return on average equity was 6.27% and 6.44% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared to 6.08% and 5.80% for the same periods in 2019.“We continue to be concerned about the economic impact...