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18 hours ago
- Yahoo
LIVE UPDATES: St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway winners
POOLER, Ga. (WSAV) — The 2025 St. Jude Dream Home giveaway campaign is wrapping up right now. There are four prizes that will be drawn by WSAV's Ben Senger live on WSAV News 3 from the Dream Home. Janis Barrett of Hinesville was the lucky winner for the first bonus prize! The first drawing was for a luxury vacation to Montage Palmetto Bluff, which is valued at $10,000. It's a three-night stay in a River View Cottage. It includes breakfast for two daily, one dinner in the River House and after-dinner drinks in Hush. You will also receive a private tour of the nature preserve with a naturalist. The second prize is a new car. Courtesy of Southern Motors, the winner gets to choose between a 2025 Jeep Compass and a 2025 Honda Civic LX. The final bonus prize is tickets to a Savannah Bananas game courtesy of WSAV. One lucky winner will receive WSAV's four club seats for the game on Friday, Aug. 22, at Grayson Stadium. The final drawing is for the St. Jude Dream Home! Landmark24 Homes and its subcontractors built the home at zero cost to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the Harmony subdivision. It will have three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms and will be around 2,300 square feet. The estimated value is $580,000. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
2 beloved Hampton Roads radio veterans who died days apart remembered
Two beloved radio veterans heard on Hampton Roads airwaves for years have gone silent. Mark 'McKay' Cunningham, 55, died after a battle with leukemia on May 25, just a couple days before Robert 'Jeff' Moreau, 67, died on May 27. Listeners knew Cunningham as Mark McKay, who spent close to 20 years — from 1999 to 2019 — hosting both morning and afternoon shows as a DJ, music director and assistant program director for Max Media's 97.3 The Eagle. He rose to program director in 2012. In 2019, he moved on as southeast regional director of promotions at Riser House, a Nashville-based record label. McKay also held an annual radiothon to raise money for WTKR News 3's Dream Home giveaway telecasts to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Jimmy Ray Dunn, afternoon disc jockey at The Eagle, remembers his former colleague as the ultimate professional. 'His show was always tight on the board — very positive and forward moving,' Dunn said. John Shomby, former director of programming and operations for Max Media, noted McKay's old-school approach, exceptional music taste and ability to predict hits. He said McKay helped launch careers for a long list of local talent. From the day Shomby walked into the radio station, he said he and McKay were 'joined at the hip': 'He was like a little brother to me — a pain in the butt, but he always had my back.' A happy hour kicked off on the Eagle at 5 p.m. Friday in honor of McKay with the same theme he seemed to live his life by: nothing sad, nothing sleepy, nothing slow, nothing weepy. Moreau, a 1976 graduate of Princess Anne High School, was a familiar voice on several radio stations. He worked in the market for more than 25 years, including on 101.3 2WD, Mix 105 and 97 Star. Eric 'Morning Guy' Worden on 93.7 BOB FM fondly recalls doing voiceover work alongside Moreau in recent years at Studio Center. 'His baritone voice was exceptional,' Worden said of his good friend. 'He was a pro's pro and 100% gentleman.' Mare Carmody, a former disc jockey at The Eagle, met Moreau decades ago early on in her career and said he was just a fun person to be around. 'He could be really silly, but he was also super kind-hearted,' she said. 'I can still hear his voice in my head. He had a wonderful, resonant voice.' Following his illustrious career in radio, Moreau became a professional pilot and flew commercial jets for United Land Corp. based in Charlottesville. He became a certified flight instructor and, over the course of five years, built his own airplane he named Patience. Tim Moreau said his older brother — and lifelong protector — got the bug for flying early on in his career when he did the traffic report from the sky. 'Like many things that Jeff did, he would master it and then move on,' Tim Moreau said. He reinvented himself a third time as a real estate agent and broker for North Star Real Estate. 'He was a very accomplished man,' Tim Moreau said. 'And he was the consummate showman — entertaining right up until the end.' Services for Jeff Moreau were held on Friday and Saturday. A celebration of life for McKay is planned for 1-4 pm on June 7 at Three Notch'd Brewery & Craft Kitchen in Virginia Beach. Sandra J. Pennecke, 757-652-5836,
Business Times
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Times
Labubu maker Pop Mart flagged for global expansion potential; CGSI initiates coverage
[Hong Kong] CGS International (CGSI) has initiated coverage on Pop Mart's stock with an 'add' rating, citing the group's transformation from a toy retailer to an intellectual property (IP)-centric platform. CGSI set the price target for the Chinese stock at HK$249.60, versus its last price of HK$208 at Tuesday's (May 20) close. That represents an upside of about 20 per cent. 'We expect Pop Mart to trade at a premium vs its global peers, considering Pop Mart's faster growth momentum and larger potential for global expansion,' said CGSI analysts in the note. Founded in 2010, Pop Mart first rose to fame due to its blind boxes, with popular characters including Labubu, Skullpanda and more. CGSI analysts noted that Pop Mart's management said it will focus on expanding to the US and Europe markets, versus South-east Asia in 2024. It plans to open 100 new stores in overseas markets. It said that the South-east Asia (SEA) market is key to Pop Mart's global expansion: it contributed 50 per cent of its overseas revenue in FY2024. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up Currently, Pop Mart has a higher penetration rate in East Asia with 49 retail stores, compared with 20 in the US and 15 in Europe in 2024. CGSI estimates the company has potential to reach a total of 350 overseas stores by FY2027. 'SEA market's pop toy industry is still in the early stage, with a relative small market size currently,' the note said. 'We believe that SEA's pop toy market will achieve faster growth than the world average.' CGSI named factors such as region's higher proportion of youth, increasing penetration rate of social media and e-commerce, and growing disposable income. The securities firm forecasts its domestic revenue to rise by 38 per cent in FY2025, and its overseas revenue to hit a sales compound annual growth rate of 68 per cent between FY2024 and FY2027. Pop Mart has successfully transformed from a toy retailer to an IP-centric platform, shifting from product sales to IP development and diversified operations, CGSI noted. Besides trendy toys, Pop Mart's IP is also widely used in cultural and creative products, food, cosmetics and other fields, it said. 'We also observe that Pop Mart is gradually expanding into theme parks, games and animated cartoons,' said CGSI. The firm opened its first city park, Pop Land, in September 2023. In June 2024, it launched its first self-developed mobile game Dream Home, marking 'another frontier in IP content diversification'. 'We believe (Pop Mart) has built up a competitive advantage in IP platform and operations, and exploring multi-category mediums to improve IP commercialisation. We like the company due to its huge potential in overseas markets, and IP commercial value (beyond toys) in the future,' CGSI said. It added that any impact from US tariffs will be limited for Pop Mart, as they will be offset mainly by price hikes of American products.
Business Times
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Times
Labubu maker Popmart flagged for global expansion potential; CGSI initiates coverage
[Hong Kong] CGS International (CGSI) has initiated coverage on Pop Mart's stock with an 'add' rating, citing the group's transformation from a toy retailer to an intellectual property (IP)-centric platform. CGSI set the price target for the Chinese stock at HK$249.60, versus its last price of HK$208 at Tuesday close (May 20). That represents upside of about 20 per cent. 'We expect Pop Mart to trade at a premium vs its global peers, considering Pop Mart's faster growth momentum and larger potential for global expansion,' said CGSI analysts in the note. Founded in 2010, Pop Mart first rose to fame due to its blind boxes, with popular characters including Labubu, Skullpanda and more. CGSI analysts noted that Pop Mart's management said it will focus on expanding to the US and Europe markets, versus South-east Asia in 2024. It plans to open 100 new stores in overseas markets. It said that the South-east Asia (SEA) market is key to Pop Mart's global expansion: it contributed 50 per cent of its overseas revenue in FY2024. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up Currently, Pop Mart has a higher penetration rate in East Asia with 49 retail stores, compared with 20 in the US and 15 in Europe in 2024. CGSI estimates the company has potential to reach a total of 350 overseas stores by FY2027. 'SEA market's pop toy industry is still in the early stage, with a relative small market size currently,' the note said. 'We believe that SEA's pop toy market will achieve faster growth than the world average.' CGSI named factors such as region's higher proportion of youth, increasing penetration rate of social media and e-commerce, and growing disposable income. The securities firm forecasts its domestic revenue to rise by 38 per cent in FY2025, and its overseas revenue to hit a sales compound annual growth rate of 68 per cent between FY2024 and FY2027. Pop Mart has successfully transformed from a toy retailer to an IP-centric platform, shifting from product sales to IP development and diversified operations, CGSI noted. Besides trendy toys, Pop Mart's IP is also widely used in cultural and creative products, food, cosmetics and other fields, it said. 'We also observe that Pop Mart is gradually expanding into theme parks, games and animated cartoons,' said CGSI. The firm opened its first city park, Pop Land, in September 2023. In June 2024, it launched its first self-developed mobile game Dream Home, marking 'another frontier in IP content diversification'. 'We believe (Pop Mart) has built up a competitive advantage in IP platform and operations, and exploring multi-category mediums to improve IP commercialisation. We like the company due to its huge potential in overseas markets, and IP commercial value (beyond toys) in the future,' CGSI said. It added that any impact from US tariffs will be limited for Pop Mart, as they will be offset mainly by price hikes of American products.
Business Times
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Times
CGSI flags global expansion potential for Pop Mart, maker of Labubu toys; initiates coverage
[Hong Kong] CGS International (CGSI) has initiated coverage on Pop Mart's stock with an 'add' rating, citing the group's transformation from a toy retailer to an intellectual property (IP)-centric platform. CGSI set the price target for the Chinese stock at HK$249.60, versus its last price of HK$208 at Tuesday close (May 20). That represents upside of about 20 per cent. 'We expect Pop Mart to trade at a premium vs its global peers, considering Pop Mart's faster growth momentum and larger potential for global expansion,' said CGSI analysts in the note. Founded in 2010, Pop Mart first rose to fame due to its blind boxes, with popular characters including Labubu, Skullpanda and more. CGSI analysts noted that Pop Mart's management said it will focus on expanding to the US and Europe markets, versus South-east Asia in 2024. It plans to open 100 new stores in overseas markets. It said that the South-east Asia (SEA) market is key to Pop Mart's global expansion: it contributed 50 per cent of its overseas revenue in FY2024. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up Currently, Pop Mart has a higher penetration rate in East Asia with 49 retail stores, compared with 20 in the US and 15 in Europe in 2024. CGSI estimates the company has potential to reach a total of 350 overseas stores by FY2027. 'SEA market's pop toy industry is still in the early stage, with a relative small market size currently,' the note said. 'We believe that SEA's pop toy market will achieve faster growth than the world average.' CGSI named factors such as region's higher proportion of youth, increasing penetration rate of social media and e-commerce, and growing disposable income. The securities firm forecasts its domestic revenue to rise by 38 per cent in FY2025, and its overseas revenue to hit a sales compound annual growth rate of 68 per cent between FY2024 and FY2027. Pop Mart has successfully transformed from a toy retailer to an IP-centric platform, shifting from product sales to IP development and diversified operations, CGSI noted. Besides trendy toys, Pop Mart's IP is also widely used in cultural and creative products, food, cosmetics and other fields, it said. 'We also observe that Pop Mart is gradually expanding into theme parks, games and animated cartoons,' said CGSI. The firm opened its first city park, Pop Land, in September 2023. In June 2024, it launched its first self-developed mobile game Dream Home, marking 'another frontier in IP content diversification'. 'We believe (Pop Mart) has built up a competitive advantage in IP platform and operations, and exploring multi-category mediums to improve IP commercialisation. We like the company due to its huge potential in overseas markets, and IP commercial value (beyond toys) in the future,' CGSI said. It added that any impact from US tariffs will be limited for Pop Mart, as they will be offset mainly by price hikes of American products.
