Canada captures just 2% of global farm tech investment

Canadian farms are navigating a mixed reality.  Farm cash receipts climbed to $25.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 3.1% from last year. And while a country-wide ‘elbows up’ push to buy Canadian goods has proven successful, farmers continue facing tariff-related geopolitical uncertainties and worsening climate change, including increasingly intense wildfires. Behind the numbers, a […]

Siemens warns US tariffs causing investment caution

Siemens warned on Thursday that US tariffs were prompting its customers in key sectors to slow investment decisions, even as the German industrial giant reported forecast-beating quarterly profits. The group booked net profits of 2.2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) from April to June, up five percent from a year earlier, as strong orders at its […]

Hyundai announces new $21 billion investment in US manufacturing

South Korean auto giant Hyundai on Monday announced a multi-billion-dollar investment in the United States, including a new $5.8 billion steel plant. The plant, which will be based in the US state of Louisiana, “will create 1,300 American jobs,” Hyundai executive chairman Euisun Chung told reporters at a White House event alongside President Donald Trump. […]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Joins Plus Brand with $30 Million Investment

Plus Brand Industries Inc, a leader in the healthy-living and technology-focused consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector, has announced the closing of a significant strategic investment from boxing legend and global entrepreneur Floyd Mayweather Jr. The $30 million equity investment, completed in February, makes Mayweather Jr. a minority shareholder in Plus Brand, which is valued at […]

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