April 12, 2023

Escalent Acquires C Space, Hall & Partners

Union gives rise to an impressive global partner to the world’s leading businesses

Melissa Sauter

Escalent CEO

DETROIT, April 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Top data analytics and advisory firm Escalent announces today it has acquired C Space and Hall & Partners from Omnicom. As leading partners to some of the world’s exceptional brands, Escalent, C Space and Hall & Partners have been helping companies innovate, improve, and navigate disruption for years. Now they are coming together to create a bigger, stronger and more capable partner to the world’s leading companies, combining deep industry expertise across brands, customers and products on a focused, global market insights platform to help clients find new sources of growth.

Together, the organizations have earned trusted partner status to the world’s leading brands across fast-growing industries including Automotive & Mobility, Consumer Goods & Retail, Financial Services, Health, and Technology as well as Energy, Telecom and Travel & Tourism.

“This union is rooted in unparalleled expertise in what drives human beings, cultures and markets—an understanding that makes our team incredibly valuable partners and positions our clients for success in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing business climate,” said Escalent CEO Melissa Sauter. “Together, there is tremendous growth potential for our employees, clients and shareholders across the globe.”

Escalent + C Space, Hall & Partners

Escalent Acquires C Space, Hall & Partners

Hall & Partners brings an excellent research and brand management franchise coupled with proprietary technology including an award-winning brand knowledge management platform to the union. C Space brings the market-leading solution for building communities and customer relationships, and Escalent brings a strong global platform with deep industry knowledge, and advanced capabilities in secondary research and analytics. The combined organization creates a powerful global presence with nearly 2,000 consultants, researchers, data scientists, technologists and operational experts in 20 countries.

“This acquisition is a big win for our employees,” added C Space CEO Jessica DeVlieger. “Our organizations are forward-thinking and offer employees an opportunity to nurture their professional growth through expanded products and services that have a real impact on our clients, in an environment that celebrates diversity and recognizes each team member’s valuable contributions.”

“Over the coming year, cross-company teams will work together to develop a thoughtful plan that ensures our clients and employees feel the benefits from our combined organization,” said Hall & Partners CEO Tim Wragg. “We are perfectly balanced to offer deep resources and leading technology while remaining devoted to personal client relationships. We’re eager to start working toward our future.”

DeVlieger and Wragg will continue to lead their organizations as part of Sauter’s executive leadership team. Clients will continue to work with the same experienced teams, and there are no near-term plans to change company locations or merge brand identities.

“We are very excited to put together these amazing capabilities into a focused, yet global leader dedicated to the highest quality research and insights for our clients. Together the companies create a fantastic combination of depth of expertise with scale and growth capability, while still being focused on one shared core mission. As such, the combined organization will continue to differentiate with their clients through exceptional insights and partnership,” said J.T. Treadwell, Managing Director at STG, Escalent’s financial sponsor.

About Escalent
Escalent is an award-winning data analytics and advisory firm specializing in industries facing disruption and business transformation. As catalysts of progress for more than 40 years, we accelerate growth by creating a seamless flow between primary, secondary, syndicated, and internal business data, providing consulting and advisory services from insights through implementation. Escalent is headquartered in Livonia, Michigan with locations across the US and in Canada, China, India, Ireland, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, UAE and the UK. Visit escalent.co to see how we are helping shape the brands that are reshaping the world.

About C Space

C Space is a global customer insight, strategy and innovation agency building customers into the ways businesses work. Partnering with the world’s best-known brands including Walmart, McDonald’s, IKEA and more, C Space helps clients unlock growth through the power of human relationships—co-creating with customers, instead of for them, for increased relevance, deeper loyalty and higher customer lifetime value. C Space’s full-service customer solutions are tailored to meet specific business needs with a focus on private online communities, co-creation events, workshops and powerful storytelling and insights activation. Headquartered in Boston, C Space has offices in London, New York, San Francisco and Mexico City.

About Hall & Partners

Hall & Partners is a team of unconventional thinkers, obsessed with how marketing influences the relationship between people, brands and culture. Born out of adland, we are the insight agency known for weaving creativity with science. We distil data through a strategic lens to reveal ‘uncommon insights’ – human truths tailored to individual brands, not blackbox data available to the masses. We partner with clients to shape brand strategy and optimize brand and campaign performance. Our award-winning approach amplifies insights across every business area, propelling marketing decision-making to create an unmatched competitive advantage. Headquartered in London, Hall & Partners has offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

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April 12, 2023

Climate Change Investigations in Pakistan

Lahore, April 12, 2023 (PPI-OT):Prof. Dr. Athar Hussain, Head CCRD, gave invited talk titled ‘Climate Change Investigations in Pakistan’ in Seminar on Climate Change: Act Now organized by Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and Department of Meteorology, CUI, held at CUI, on 6 December 2022, and in 7th International Water Conference 2022, held at PCRWR, on 29-30 December 2022 (Co-hosted by CCRD). The summary of the talk is as follows:

Essentially all the recent published works and reports related to state of climate of Pakistan are indicative of the fact that the climate of Pakistan is changing its manifestations including the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, resulting in heat waves and floods. This tendency is witnessed in Summers of 2019 and 2022 in Pakistan, as well as globally too. The current rate of warming in Pakistan is about 0.34 degree Celsius per decade, when averaged over recent 30 to 35 years. This means that starting from year 2000, by 2030, a more than 1.0-degree Celsius warming is predicted. By same reasoning, a 3.5-to-4.0-degree Celsius warming is predicted by 2099. This clearly indicates an overshoot of temperature limits (relative to 1.5 to 2.0 degree Celsius), as suggested in Paris agreement at COP 21.

A more integrated and bottom-up approach is needed to address the various issues arising from such a high rate of warming in Pakistan. For comparison, the cumulative rest of world warming rate is somewhat lower than this one, for the same period. This 7th edition of Conference thus has the following four sub-themes: 1. Climate Change and Maritime Security, 2. Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF), 3. Water Pollution and Waste Water Management, 4. Islamic Perspective on Climate Change, Water Pollution and Water Management. The above four sub-themes of this International Water Conference have rightly and timely addressed the selected issues, since contemporary community-based solutions are always key to any adaptation and mitigation strategy against adverse consequences of regional change in climate.

Additionally, the changing precipitation patterns and rising temperatures in Pakistan are redistributing the occurrence patterns of vector borne diseases, including Dengue and Malaria. In particular, a northward moving tendency is noticed for both diseases, in Pakistan. The north west ward shift of monsoon in recent decades in Pakistan is also corroborating this tendency, as this shift contributes towards spatial re-distribution of freshwater resources. This is because of the availability of more favourable environment for mosquito larva to grow (temperature and humidity). These noticed tendencies require a carefully planned coordination between water resources management and health care providers, starting from grass root level.

Being from Climate Science community, through this gathering of experts, I would like to draw attention of all those concerned towards the fact that Pakistan still does not have a weather forecasting model nor a climate prediction model tuned specifically to address the peculiar geography induced factors causing uncertainties in weather forecasting and climate predictions of Pakistan. Having such tuned models will help us in reducing uncertainties that in turn have considerable economic impacts on all sectors of our society. The world around us has already realized significance of this resource development and have addressed it domestically and are benefiting from it.

For more information, contact:
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore Pakistan
Tel: +92 042-99204786,
FAX: +92 (42) 99203100
E-Mail: admissions@cuilahore.edu.pk
Websites: https://lahore.comsats.edu.pk

April 12, 2023

Lahore Journal of Economics

Lahore, April 12, 2023 (PPI-OT):The Lahore Journal of Economics, Volume 27, Issue 1, Jan – June 2022 is now available online here. This issue comprises the following articles:

Differential Impact of Taxation on Food Items by Iffat Ara and Qazi Masood Ahmed

A Spatial Agglomeration Analysis of Firm Productivity: A Case of the Textile Sector of Pakistan Muhammad Zeeshan Younas

Forecasting the GDP Growth in Pakistan: The Role of Consumer Confidence by Syed Ateeb Akhter Shah, Fatima Kaneez, and Arshad Riffat

Pre and Post Evaluation of Pakistan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement by Mazhar Hussain and Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah

Cost Stickiness, Firm’s Dividend Pay-outs, and Family Ownership by Ali Amin, Rizwan Ali, and Ramiz ur Rehman

For more information, contact:
Lahore School of Economics
Intersection Main Boulevard Phase VI DHA,
Burki Road, Lahore – 53200, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-36560935, 36560939
Website: http://www.lahoreschoolofeconomics.edu.pk/

April 12, 2023

IIUI Selected for Alibaba Global Digital Talent Group’s $34000 Grant

Islamabad, April 12, 2023 (PPI-OT):An excellent training and capacity building opportunity in the field of digital transformation and E-Commerce from Alibaba Global Digital Talent Group was referred by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan to all Universities of Pakistan, where more than 22 Universities from all over the country applied for the grant of $34000 for this training opportunity offered by Alibaba Global Digital Talent Group on Digital Economy. Only 02 universities, including the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) have been selected for this training opportunity offered by Alibaba Global Digital Talent Group on Digital Economy.

As per details provided by Coordination Office of the Business Incubation Center of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Dr. Nishwa Iqbal, Assistant Director BIC, coordinated with the Alibaba team and prepared a proposal which was then finalized by the BIC team under the supervision of Director Business Incubation Center (BIC), IIUI and the final proposal was submitted by BIC team IIUI which endorsed by Vice President, Research and Enterprise (R and E), IIUI and approved by the worthy President IIUI. BIC team presented the proposal and highlighted the importance of digital transformation and e-commerce through various online sessions held with Alibaba Global Digital Talent Group. BIC team further discussed how the training will boost the entrepreneurial spirit at the University level.

This is a great achievement on part of IIUI to get the grant among various applicants across the country. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Shujha, Vice President (R and E) congratulated the team BIC, IIUI for getting this opportunity form Alibaba, Global Digital Talent Group on Digital Economy. He added that the training will ultimately bring many intangible and tangible benefits to the IIUI i.e. fame, image building and entrance to the Chinese market through Alibaba.

For more information, contact:
Public Relations,
International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)
Room No.118, Admin Block, New Campus,
H-10 Sector, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-9019249
Fax: +92-51-9257909
Email: iiuipublicrelations@iiu.edu.pk
Website: www.iiu.edu.pk

April 12, 2023

Inaugural session of four-day “Arabic for Understanding the Qur’an” was held at Khawaja Farid Campus, Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur, April 12, 2023 (PPI-OT):The inaugural session of the four-day “Arabic for Understanding the Qur’an” was held at Khawaja Farid Campus, Islamia University, Bahawalpur under the auspices of Saut Al-Qur’an Forum Department of Translation Studies. In which Prof. Dr. Sheikh Shafiq Ur Rahman Dean Faculty of Arabic and Islamic Studies was the chief guest. He appreciated the efforts of Vice Chancellor Engineer Prof. Dr. Athar Mehboob and Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. Naveed Akhtar regarding the translation of the Qur’an, “Rights of the Qur’an”.

Discussed the topic. During the conversation, he said that unless the Holy Quran is read with understanding, then its right cannot be fulfilled, while Professor Dr. Asadullah Madani, Director of QEC and Chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy, discussed the importance of Quran and science in his speech. He said that science is incomplete without Quran, besides Dr. Naeem Amir, Chairman Department of Forensic Science, Dr. Rizwan Arshad, Dr. Nasir Mahmood and Dr. Ayesha Bashir, a large number of teachers and students participated in the ceremony.

For more information, contact:
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB)
University Chowk, Gulshan Colony, Bahawalpur,
Punjab – 63100, Pakistan
Tel: +92-62-9250235
Fax: +92-62-9250335
E-mail: info@iub.edu.pk
Website: https://www.iub.edu.pk/

April 12, 2023

One-day program on the theme of the blessings of Ramadan by Department of Educational Leadership and Management, Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur, April 12, 2023 (PPI-OT):In the Department of Educational Leadership and Management, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, a one-day program was organized on the theme of the blessings of Ramadan in connection with the month of Ramadan. Dean Faculty of Education Prof. Dr. Irshad Hussain Baloch, Special Guest Director Sirat Chair Dr. Sujeela Kausar, Chairperson of Special Education Department Prof. Dr. Nasreen Akhtar, Chairman of Language Education Department Dr. Muhammad Javeed and many teachers participated in the ceremony in large numbers. On this occasion, Professor Dr. Irshad Hussain, Dean of the Faculty of Education, while addressing the participants of the event, highlighted the life of the Prophet PBUH and his moral life and said that the survival of the Muslim Ummah lies in following the life of the Prophet PBUH.

Speaking at the ceremony, the chairperson of the department Dr. Abed Shehzad said that such events play an important role in the development of the department and the spiritual training of the students and reiterated this commitment to encourage the students. That this department will continue to organize co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to highlight the abilities of students in the future. Special guest Dr. Sujeela Kausar, director of Sirat Chair, while speaking, said that Quran is the law of life for us and Sirat Tayyaba is a practical interpretation of this law of life. If we want success in this world and hereafter, then we have to adopt this rule of life in our practical lives in the light of Sirat Tayyaba. Muhammad Ahmad Raza from BS First won the first position in the recitation competition.

Natia Kalam was presented in honour of Rasool Akram Khatam-ul-Nabieen (peace be upon him). In this program, a number of students enlivened the gathering with enthusiastic speeches on the title of the Prophet’s biography, and at the end, a quiz competition was organized on the biography of the Prophet, his practical life and daily affairs of religion, in which three A team competition was held and one team came first Got the position. In addition, Arshad Hasan addressed the participants of the event on the topic of “Ramadan, Prophet’s Life and Students’ Responsibilities”. On this occasion, students from the IUB Recitation and Naat Society also participated and presented a performance. On this occasion, the chairperson of the department appreciated the efforts of Dr. Mehla Jabeen, Dr. Iftikhar Bakht, Dr. Hina Kainat and Arshad Hasan for organizing this wonderful event and encouraged the students.

The program was well attended by students from all departments of the Faculty of Education. Addressed on the topic. On this occasion, students from the IUB Recitation and Naat Society also participated and presented a performance. On this occasion, the chairperson of the department appreciated the efforts of Dr. Mehla Jabeen, Dr. Iftikhar Bakht, Dr. Hina Kainat and Arshad Hasan for organizing this wonderful event and encouraged the students. The program was well attended by students from all departments of the Faculty of Education. Addressed on the topic. On this occasion, students from the IUB Recitation and Naat Society also participated and presented a performance.

On this occasion, the chairperson of the department appreciated the efforts of Dr. Mehla Jabeen, Dr. Iftikhar Bakht, Dr. Hina Kainat and Arshad Hasan for organizing this wonderful event and encouraged the students. The program was well attended by students from all departments of the Faculty of Education.