Month: December 2021

LOS ANGELES, CA, Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Foothills Exploration, Inc. (OTC: FTXP) (“Foothills” or the “Company”), an oil and gas exploration and development company focused on delivering the energy needs of today and tomorrow is pleased to announce that it has closed on the acquisition of an oil and gas operator in the Illinois basin with producing leases. The Company, through its direct subsidiary, Anaconda Energy, LLC, has closed on the acquisition of (a) one hundred percent (100%) of the membership interest and one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding shares of common and preferred stock of the operating companies and working interest held in certain oil and gas wells and leases; and (b) five percent (5%) overriding royalty interest in certain leases and wells. The transaction includes the...

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Oportun (Nasdaq:OPRT), a mission-driven fintech company, today announced that on December 30, 2021, it granted a total of 385,268 restricted stock units under the Oportun 2021 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan (the “Inducement Plan”) to 16 employees who joined Oportun as a result of the acquisition of Hello Digit, Inc. (“Digit”), which closed on December 22, 2021 (the “Closing Date”). These inducement grants of restricted stock units vest between one and four years, subject to continued employment or service through each applicable vesting date. For grants with a one-year vesting term (covering 29,416 restricted stock units in the aggregate), fifty percent will vest on the six-month anniversary of the Closing Date with the balance vesting in two equal quarterly installments thereafter....

Stamford, CT, Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Freedom Holdings, Inc. (“FHLD” or the “Company,” OTC: FHLD) wholly-owned subsidiary Carbon Zero Asset Management, Inc. (“Carbon-Zero”) intends to become the leading blockchain-driven market participant to strengthen voluntary carbon markets. The trading of and access to high-fidelity voluntary carbon credits can help companies of all sizes and the world to meet aspiring goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a large scale. As previously announced, only 12 billion tonnes of pollutants were offset, out of 55 billion tonnes meeting approximately 22% of the demand. Of that 12 billion tonnes, the voluntary carbon credits contributed a fractional offset. Increasingly, many companies have promised to help stop climate change by reducing their own...

MIAMI, Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ayr Wellness (CSE: AYR.A, OTCQX: AYRWF) (“Ayr” or the “Company”), a leading vertically integrated U.S. multi-state cannabis operator (MSO), today announced the opening of Ayr Wellness Bryn Mawr, the Company’s eighth affiliated dispensary in The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jonathan Sandelman, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ayr, said “The Pennsylvania medical marijuana market continues to show excellent growth and we are excited to be opening our eighth affiliated dispensary in the Commonwealth. We consistently strive to deliver the highest quality product at an accessible price and look forward to bringing more of our branded products to the Pennsylvania patients in 2022.” The ~3,000 sq. ft. dispensary continues the rapid expansion of the Company’s presence in Pennsylvania’s burgeoning medical...

DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Humacyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: HUMA), a clinical-stage biotechnology platform company developing universally implantable bioengineered human tissue at commercial scale, today announced the appointment of Surgical Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) Alan P. Kypson, M.D., FACS; Luigi Pascarella, M.D., FACS; and Todd E. Rasmussen, M.D., FACS, (Col, ret. USAF MC), to new advisory positions. In these roles, the KOLs will lend their expertise and support to guide the education and clinical advancement efforts of the Human Acellular VesselTM (HAV) and help identify opportunities to advance the Company’s early stage complex tissue constructs pipeline and platform.   Humacyte’s HAV are engineered off-the-shelf replacement vessels currently being evaluated in advanced-stage clinical trials in vascular...

Completing CHF 4.85 Million Placement from August 2021 Board Director Christophe Laurent to Retire Appoints Adam O’Keeffe as Ad Interim Chief Financial OfficerZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR – Achiko AG (OTCQB: ACHKF; SIX: ACHI; ISIN CH0522213468) (“Achiko”, the “Company”) is moving to complete a CHF 4.85 million funding transaction with strategic investors that began in August 2021, and includes the retirement of the outstanding portion of its obligations to Yorkville Capital Management LLC, and the capital increase announced earlier this month.   The financing will be used to restructure operating costs and support the Company’s commercialization of its unique healthtech ecosystem—an affordable, non-invasive Covid-19 rapid test AptameX™, integrated with Teman...

HRC WORLD PLC NASDAQ FIRST NORTH, COPENHAGEN TICKER: HRCISIN: GB00BZ3CDY20 31 December 2021 INTERIM RESULTS TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 The Board of Directors of HRC World Plc (HRC), a company that provides restaurant management services especially in developing tourist-based and event-based revenues in member restaurants as well as implementation of HRC Music initiatives, is pleased to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2021, which is appended to this announcement. The interim financial statements have not been reviewed by the Company’s auditors. For the said financial period, the Group generated net profit of USD 55,000, while cash and cash equivalents stood at USD 136,000 Food and beverage businesses had been adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, which presented significant challenges to almost all companies...

Corporate CommunicationsADVERTISEMENT. This announcement is an advertisement for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended (the “Prospectus Regulation”) relating to the intention of Iveco Group N.V. (the “Company”) to proceed with the proposed first admission to listing and trading of all of the common shares of the Company on the regulated market of Euronext Milan (the “Admission”). This announcement does not constitute or form part of a prospectus within the meaning of the Prospectus Regulation and has not been reviewed nor approved by any regulatory or supervisory authority in any jurisdiction, including any member state of the European Economic Area (each, an “EEA Member”), the United Kingdom and the United States. This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute, and should not...