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Associated Press
27-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
AG Organica Expands International Reach in Essential Oils and Botanical Cosmetic Exports
Transform your wellness journey with premium essential and carrier oils—pure, potent, and crafted to elevate your mind, body, and soul naturally. DELHI, DELHI, INDIA, May 27, 2025 / / -- AG Organica Private Limited has expanded its international operations, now exporting to over 30 countries, the company announced today. Known for its expertise in natural essential oils and botanical-based cosmetic formulations, AG Organica continues to strengthen its presence in global wellness and personal care markets. The company's production facility is certified under internationally recognized standards, including ISO, GMP, and USDA Organic, supporting AG Organica's alignment with regulatory and quality benchmarks across multiple regions. Its growing export base includes clients in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and other key markets where demand for clean-label, plant-based products is steadily rising. 'International buyers seek transparency, quality, and regulatory compliance—and that's where we stand out,' said Arpit Gupta, Director of AG Organica. 'We maintain rigorous quality controls and offer reliable global logistics to meet international expectations consistently.' AG Organica's export offerings include a diverse range of essential oils, carrier oils, plant butters, skincare and haircare formulations, and cosmetic raw materials. The company has focused on ensuring ethical sourcing and sustainability while enabling product customization based on regional compliance and preferences. This development underscores a broader industry trend: the global personal care market's shift toward natural, ethically sourced, and customizable formulations. AG Organica's expansion reflects both growing international interest in wellness-oriented products and India's increasing role in the global supply chain for cosmetic ingredients and clean beauty solutions. About AG Organica Private Limited Headquartered in New Delhi, AG Organica is an Indian manufacturer and exporter of essential oils, cosmetic raw materials, and personal care products. The company specializes in sustainable formulation development and offers private label and OEM services for global partners. AG Organica is certified under ISO, GMP, and USDA Organic standards. ARPIT GUPTA A.G Organica Private Limited +91 99118 39839 [email protected] Visit us on social media: LinkedIn Bluesky Instagram Facebook YouTube X Other Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nesi's Notes: April 12
Happy Saturday! Here's another edition of my weekend column for — as always, send your takes, tips and trial balloons to tnesi@ and follow me on Twitter, Bluesky and Facebook. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now 1. People much smarter than me have no idea what's going to happen with the economy under President Trump's new tariff policy, so you won't find any predictions here. But even after Tuesday's partial reversal, tariffs remain at their highest level since the Great Depression. Consumer sentiment is down, U.S. Treasury interest rates are up, and the dollar is weakening. Does that lead the White House to change course, limiting any damage? Or is Trump set on reorienting American trade, whatever the disruption? We'll find out. Many analysts thought the economy was already softening before the tariff announcement, which is part of why recession concerns are on the rise. That led NYU finance professor Arpit Gupta to warn Friday he is expecting 'a lot of pain for state and local governments,' particularly those like Rhode Island that were already forecasting deficits when the economy was healthier. For local leaders entering the height of budget season, that's a sobering prognosis. Yet not all the business news is negative for Rhode Island. Hasbro is delaying its decision on a headquarters relocation amid the tariff turmoil, raising at least the possibility its executives will decide the time isn't right to head to Boston. And CVS stock jumped 12% this week after the Trump administration awarded insurers an unexpectedly generous increase in Medicare Advantage rates. 2. How will the current economic turmoil affect Rhode Island's housing crisis? Hard to say with so much in flux. Mortgage rates topped 7% on Friday and tariffs could raise building costs; even before all that, Zillow flagged the Providence area as having some of the biggest rent increases and fastest price appreciation in the country. In a TV piece this week, I took a look at one of the factors driving up prices: spillover demand from Massachusetts and other neighboring states that are also plagued by tight supply. The share of Rhode Island homes purchased by out-of-state residents climbed from 15% in 2016 to 25% in 2022, and was still 23% as of last year. Considering how high prices have gotten across Eastern Massachusetts, there's little reason to think such cross-border pressure will ease up. That's something current Rhode Island residents need to take into account as they weigh how much the state should allow its housing stock to grow. 3. If your eyes glaze over at each new development in the fight over control of the Providence schools, it's hard to blame you. The situation is starting to feel like an endless cycle of sniping between R.I. Education Commissioner Angelia Infante-Green, who appears in no hurry to wind down the state takeover, and Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, who wants it to end. Never forget the stakes, though: Providence schools educate roughly 20,000 students, the most in Rhode Island, and test scores remain abysmal. If nothing else, Infante-Green is forcing City Hall to get concrete about exactly how the schools will be run once they're back under municipal control, as my colleague Alexandra Leslie lays out in this story. 'Whether you have kids in the Providence Public School System or not, we all have a stake in a high-quality, high-performing school district,' Smiley told her. 'That's our future workforce. It's our future neighbors, it's the future of our community.' 4. Governor McKee uses every opportunity he can to tout RI 2030, a 45-page document that his administration cites as its comprehensive vision for state policy. It's divided into four sections, focused on education, the economy, health care, and infrastructure/energy. Now McKee is using some state money to get more Rhode Islanders to read it, via RI 2030 billboard ads that motorists may have noticed while driving on the highway (including the I-195 approach to, yes, the Washington Bridge). Rhode Island Commerce spokesperson Matt Touchette says his agency and the governor's office hired marketing firm RDW Group under an existing contract to do the billboards. The state has spent $31,000 on them so far, with the ads set to continue through at least April 20. 'Any potential continuation of the billboards will be evaluated on a month-to-month basis,' Touchette said. 5. The governor also weighed in this week about the closure of Anchor Medical. 6. Now that the March 31 fundraising deadline has passed, we are starting to get word of how much money Rhode Island politicians have been taking in as they prepare for 2026. An aide to gubernatorial hopeful Helena Foulkes says she took in over $600,000 during the quarter, bringing her cash on hand to over $1.5 million. At the federal level, Congressman Seth Magaziner's campaign says he now has over $1 million cash on hand, and drew more than 300 donors to his annual women's luncheon this week. Federal fundraising reports are due Tuesday, while state reports are due at the end of the month. 7. Speaking of Congressman Magaziner, he's hoping that the roller-coaster stock market could give new momentum to his bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. Magaziner and other Democrats were quick to point out that the president's sudden 90-day pause on most tariffs could have delivered a huge windfall to anybody who knew the move was coming, and a group of them sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding early disclosure by lawmakers of their recent trades. 'We need to know which insiders had knowledge of this action in advance, and furthermore, Congress needs to pass my bill to ban stock trading by its members immediately,' Magaziner said Wednesday. 'The opportunity for corruption is just too great.' But there is plenty of resistance. A New York Times article last weekend noted the case of a freshman lawmaker who campaigned against stock buying by lawmakers — only to become one of the House's most active traders once in office. 8. Eye on Congress … Senator Reed was one of three Democrats who voted for Elbridge Colby, the controversial Pentagon appointee fiercely opposed by Mitch McConnell; the region's other three senators all voted no … Reed also cast the only local votes in favor of two other nominees, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. John Caine and Ambassador to Japan George Glass … Senator Whitehouse called a Republican bill that would impose carbon tariffs 'a good first step,' as he continues to seek a bipartisan deal on that issue … Gabe Amo, Seth Magaziner, Jake Auchincloss and Bill Keating all voted against both the House budget resolution and the SAVE Act … Amo joined a group of House Democrats pushing for Elon Musk to leave the federal government by May 30. 9. Washington County Superior Court was packed with reporters once again this week, all tracking each day's testimony in the high-profile trial of former high school coach Aaron Thomas. Our own Tim White and Eli Sherman have been filing daily stories from Judge Melanie Wilk Thunberg's courtroom — you can catch up with all their reporting here. 10. Speaking of court, the New England First Amendment Coalition and other good-government groups are calling the way the Rhode Island judiciary wants to implement its new online records system 'a major disappointment.' 11. Governor McKee has opted against granting a posthumous pardon to Thomas Cornell Jr., a Portsmouth man who was executed in 1673 on the basis of 'spectral evidence.' Here's the rationale. 12. For the second time in less than two years, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence has a new leader: Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, a 57-year-old Redemptorist who grew up on a farm in Ohio and comes to Rhode Island by way of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. During an introductory news conference at the cathedral, Lewandowski said people should just call him 'Bishop Bruce,' and confessed to a weakness for sweets. Lewandowski sounded very much in the Pope Francis mold when asked about how he would handle politically contentious issues, describing a four-pronged approach: prayer, education, advocacy, and accompaniment. 'When something's wrong, it's wrong,' he said. 'And we need to advocate and stand up for people's rights, for the dignity of every person — that every person reflects the image and likeness of God.' Lewandowski speaks fluent Spanish as well as Portuguese, and he has long worked with immigrant communities, making him a noteworthy choice in the current climate. He will also face the same challenges as his predecessors, from ongoing parish closures to the attorney general's pending review of abuse cases. (An interesting counterfactual: if Francis had died during his recent illness, as many feared he would, Providence could have ended up with a different bishop, depending on whom the subsequent conclave chose as the new pope.) 13. Local political junkies looking for a fix in this odd-numbered year should keep an eye on Taunton, which is poised to host some interesting elections over the coming months. First up is the June 10 special election to fill the seat vacated by the late state Rep. Carol Doherty, a Democrat who died of cancer in February. The Democratic nominee is Lisa Field, well-known in political circles for her years with the Massachusetts Nurses Association; the Republican nominee is Larry Quintal, a two-term city councilor who owns a funeral home. Both parties have reason for optimism. The GOP controlled the seat until 2019, when Republican Shaunna O'Connell stepped down following her election as mayor; Doherty flipped the seat in the subsequent special election. Taunton is also a purple city by Massachusetts standards; last November's election saw Donald Trump receive 47% of the vote there, and Republican Kelly Dooner flipped the state Senate seat long held by Democrat Marc Pacheco (who retired). Then after the special election, attention will turn to a potentially competitive race for mayor. O'Connell is planning to seek reelection, despite her prosecution for domestic assault last year, but she is facing a credible opponent in City Councilor Estelle Borges. The pair have a history: O'Connell defeated Borges 62% to 36% when the mayor's seat was last open back in 2019. 14. People in the news … M. Night Shyamalan and Jake Gyllenhaal will be making a movie in Rhode Island … Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos hosted the three-day spring meeting of the National Lieutenant Governors Association at the Renaissance Hotel in Providence … Call & Times publisher Jody Boucher is switching the newspaper from traditional home delivery to distribution by mail … Rhode Island PBS/The Public's Radio has tapped Richard Popovic as its new chief revenue officer … state Rep. Joe McNamara wants to use Rhode Island's 1663 Royal Charter to get around tariffs … Gina Raimondo made it into CNN's 2028 Presidential Bracket … Xay Khamsyvoravong, Jessica Key and Tracey Wiley were all named to the Governor's Workforce Board. 15. Considering my day job, you won't be surprised to hear I spend a lot of time thinking about our changing news environment and what it means for civic life. So I was struck by an observation that Politico's Jonathan Martin made during a recent 'Firing Line' episode on PBS. 'What is really I think going on,' Martin said, 'is that we're living through the end of the post-World War II consensus — in politics, in media, in culture, in everything else — where you had a society that was really sort of pushed toward the center in every conceivable way, and pushed toward a certain level of common language, common views, common values. And we're back to a 19th-century model that's much more fragmented.' 16. Weekend reads … Kathy Gregg on the governor's office fighting a bill to ban bid-rigging … Kate Wilkinson on a disabled woman battling the mayor of East Providence … Nancy Lavin on this year's push for a Rhode Island inspector general … Steph Machado on good news about the state's Early Intervention wait list … Cate Latimer and Ciara Meyer on how Brown's president is navigating the White House … Bloomberg's John Holland and Celine Castronuovo on how Rhode Island allegedly bilked Medicaid. 17. Set your DVRs: This week on Newsmakers — a reporters' roundtable. Watch Sunday at 5:30 a.m. on WPRI 12 and 10 a.m. on Fox Providence, or listen on the radio Sunday at 6 p.m. on WPRO. You can also subscribe to Newsmakers as a podcast via Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you back here next Saturday. Ted Nesi (tnesi@ is a Target 12 investigative reporter and 12 News politics/business editor. He co-hosts Newsmakers and writes Nesi's Notes on Saturdays. 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