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Edinburgh Reporter
4 days ago
- Sport
- Edinburgh Reporter
Third time lucky for Braid Ladies in the Scottish Cup
Braid Ladies recently triumphed in the Scottish Cup after losing to Newlands in the final for the last two years. They played Newlands in a very nerve racking final which was eventually decided on a match tie-break which Braid won 10-7. The captain, Suzie Provan, said 'We can't believe we are holding the Scottish Cup. It means the world to the team, they've wanted it for so long, it feels amazing'. To add to their cup success the team went on to win the VMH East of Scotland League a couple of weeks later. It's been quite a season for the Edinburgh Club. Like this: Like Related
Otago Daily Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Use of natural fibres impresses design award judges
The garments submitted for the 2025 MLT Hokonui Fashion Design Awards show a strong use of natural fibres and unconventional materials, judges say. After going through more than 200 entries for the awards, the judges said they were impressed by the calibre of ideas this year. The two-day event started last night at the Gore Town & Country Stadium with a catwalk show of all designs. The awards will be announced tonight. The judges this year are former Viva Magazine fashion and creative director Dan Ahwa, Natalie Newlands of Queenstown-based brand New Lands Studio, and Biddie Cooksley of Tuesday Label. On Thursday, Mr Ahwa said it was great to see new designers using natural textiles this round, which he appreciated and which boded well for the future of the industry. "I think we're in a state in the industry where it's so confronting to see so much synthetic fibres around and, obviously, it's ultra-fast fashion," he said. "It's really promising for the future of the event to see designers thinking about the materials that they're using." Ms Newlands said in judging the garments she was looking for construction, storytelling, cohesion, an overall "feeling" and something that was not overly "done". She also appreciated the natural fibres used, particularly the use of wool and heavy linens, which she said hung beautifully with more of a focus on draping or old sewing techniques. "It's got a bit of weight to it and that changes the form hugely rather than using a synthetic, which might be quite light and breezy," she said. Ms Newlands said she had also seen really "practical" and "brilliant" uses of repurposed materials in a way that was refreshing. "Instead of putting sustainable, repurposed materials into something that's quite bizarre, it's actually like, 'hey, let's wear this every day'," she said. Ms Cooksley said the three of them had been in sync for the majority of their decisions but disagreeing and arguing over a particular design had also been fun. Having overlapping but different perspectives had given their selections a broader view, she said. "That makes it more objective." "But what it comes down to is an arm wrestle at the end of the day," Mr Ahwa said. The awards have seven general sections, four school sections and 11 special awards, each with prize money and, in some cases, a trophy and sewing machine up for grabs. The top award of the night, the "Open Section award of excellence", boasts a $16,500 prize package.
The Guardian
23-07-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
West Indies turn to Lara and co after record Test low, but future looks bleak
'People are coming and going like the walking dead, padding up and unpadding.' Michael Clarke surveys the hallucinogenic scene in front of him at Newlands in November 2011, the grand view of Table Mountain unlikely to ease the agony, his first-innings 151 now chip-shop paper. Clarke's Australia are 21 for nine, sliding towards the lowest total in Test history. Nathan Lyon and Peter Siddle get them to 47 to avoid record-breaking embarrassment but it's barely consolatory. 'By the time we go back into the field, we're still unable to accept what's happening,' Clarke writes in his autobiography. 'We look like a cricket team, but we are 11 ghosts, unable to believe this reality.' South Africa have a target of 236 – hardly straightforward – but Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla ton up in an eight-wicket procession. Well, at least West Indies didn't have to field. Their 27 all out against Australia last week at Sabina Park, completing a 176-run loss and series whitewash, bears a couple of explanations. This was a low-scoring three-Test series all the way through, the highest individual effort Brandon King's 75, and the pink ball is more dangerous than any other weapon in Mitchell Starc's hand. But this also bears repeating: twenty-seven. Tragic for rock'n'roll, a new low point for the Caribbean game. Cricket West Indies' president was quick with the state-of-emergency announcement. 'There will be some sleepless nights ahead for many of us, including the players, who I know feel this loss just as heavily,' said Kishore Shallow. He called for a meeting and invited the legendary triumvirate of Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Brian Lara to contribute their views. 'This engagement is not ceremonial,' Shallow added, before immediately harking back to 'our golden eras'. An impromptu nostalgia fest seems unlikely to solve decades-long decay. Deep introspection is a natural reaction to a two-digit total. In 2013, Brendon McCullum won the toss under blue skies in Cape Town and chose to bat in his first Test as New Zealand captain. South Africa were batting by lunch, McCullum's men cooked for 45 inside 20 overs. Mike Hesson, New Zealand's head coach, knocked on McCullum's door that evening and was joined by other members of the backroom staff as the discussion turned to something bigger than technique and selection. 'We just spoke from our hearts,' McCullum later recalled. 'About who we were as a team and how we were perceived by the public. It was agreed that we were seen as arrogant, emotional, distant from our public, and we were up ourselves … We were full of bluster but soft as putty.' Two years later, after a run of six Test series without defeat, they found adoration on the way to their first World Cup final. West Indies are not new to this kind of distress. Lara experienced it first-hand and moved on from it with his own stubborn extravagance. In 1999, when Steve Waugh's Australia bowled West Indies out for 51 in Trinidad, Lara responded with a double hundred in Jamaica that same week. His magnum opus 153 not out followed in the next Test. In 2004, England's tour of the Caribbean began with Steve Harmison taking seven for 12. 'The English now had these towering brutes bowling chin music,' Lara later wrote, noting the role reversal, his own quicks no longer the ones to fear. The hosts were shot out for 47, their lowest total until this month. Lara still found room for his world-record 400 at the end of the four-match series, a luxury not afforded to the current generation. India experienced the pain in December 2020 when undone for 36 in the first Test against Australia in Adelaide – another pink-ball collapse – but that performance continues to grow in significance. Prithvi Shaw and Wriddhiman Saha were discarded for the next Test, replaced by Shubman Gill, on debut, and Rishabh Pant. The series turned India's way and the pair have done pretty well for themselves since. Sri Lanka produced their lowest total just eight months ago, bowled out for 42 in Durban, but they at least showed ticker with 282 in the fourth innings. The in-game recovery doesn't quite match that of Australia's women against England in the second Test in Melbourne 67 years ago. The hosts were dismissed for 38 in the first dig on a wet surface. 'England were killing themselves laughing,' Betty Wilson, the great Australian all-rounder, told Cricinfo. Wilson twirled to figures of seven for seven to bowl them out for 35 in reply. She failed to clock her hat-trick to finish the innings, notified only on the way off the field. 'This sudden revelation caught me unawares and I started crying,' she said. 'I was just determined that they wouldn't get the runs.' Will any of these comebacks, collective and individual, provide hope to West Indies supporters? Probably not. Unlike India, who were bowled out for 46 by New Zealand last October, West Indies have no world-beating reserves to call upon, no control of the game's financial model, no recent triumphs to talk about in the other forms. It used to be that the men's red-ball failures were partly assuaged by their Twenty20 excellence, World Cup victories in 2012 and 2016 something to cling to, the power of Chris Gayle and co enough to rally round. But there is decline in that sphere, too. As West Indies perished to two 3-0 series defeats in England last month, Nicholas Pooran – Wisden's leading T20 cricketer in the world – announced his retirement from international cricket at 29, his remaining days to play out in the far more profitable franchise world. 'I'm pretty sure more will follow in that direction,' warned Daren Sammy, their head coach, adding that there are challenges in 'trying to keep our players motivated to play for the crest'. No wonder the desire to go back in time. 'When we came that morning, there was a slight silence but a focused silence in the changing room,' Keshav Maharaj tells the Spin. The morning, of course, is from last month at Lord's, with South Africa still 69 runs away from winning the World Test Championship. 'I wouldn't say it was nerves because I've seen our team nervous.' No, this time was different. After all the last-four failures and a lost final the year before, they got it done, that dreaded c-word told to do one. When did Maharaj know that the title was theirs? 'Definitely in the last 10 runs, although it was a nervy 10 runs, but I think the five wickets in hand was our saving grace at the time.' Maharaj spoke tearfully minutes after victory, with Graeme Smith, the former South Africa captain, asking the questions. 'I couldn't hold back my emotions. I was never going to do it. If you saw Dale Steyn in that interview as well, he burst into tears. It just shows how much it meant to us as a nation. I know Graeme was a little bit stronger than all of us, but I could see the passion and raw emotion within his eyes as well.' The win 'hasn't fully sunk in yet', says Maharaj, who then captained a new-look South Africa side against Zimbabwe at the end of June, the match including the 35-year-old's 200th Test wicket. Maharaj is the first South African spinner to reach the mark. 'Spin is a dying art in the world,' he says. 'I just want to pave the way for the next generation to believe that spin, the art of bowling spin, is something you can pursue and make a career from and be one of the world's best.' That'll explain the respect for Liam Dawson. Maharaj faced his fellow left-armer when Dawson last played Test cricket on South Africa's tour of England in 2017. 'He's come on leaps and bounds,' says Maharaj. 'To see how he's done in SA20, and he's dominated quite significantly in the last three years of county cricket. Always rated him as a bowler. He's also a great human being. When I had my achilles injury, he reached out to me because he had a similar injury, so it was quite nice. He's a wonderful asset, not just from a bowling perspective, but as a package because he bats as well.' I asked him a few questions about the tactics, whether you're going to stick with the 3-4-3 this season' – Kuldeep Yadav got his chat on with Ruben Amorim after India met up with Manchester United. With this week's Test match in Manchester, we take a look back at a painful experience there in 2014 for an England great when the home nation defied the loss of Stuart Broad at Old Trafford with a broken nose, romping to a second consecutive victory over an India team whose spirit then had been fractured, as Andy Wilson reported here. India's captain, Shubman Gill, reckons that England breached 'spirit of the game' during the third Test at Lord's, Simon Burnton reports, while Ali Martin tees up the fourth Test at Manchester. Gary Naylor shares the frustration of county cricket fans left waiting until September for the T20 Blast quarter-finals. And while Australia's selectors took a punt on Sam Konstas as Test opener – he is left with the debt, writes Geoff Lemon. … by writing to To subscribe to The Spin, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Miami Herald
07-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Analysts reboot Corona Beer owner stock price target in face of market pressures
This was no time for crying in your beer. Constellation Brands (STZ) CEO Bill Newlands faced analysts on July 1 after the beer, wine and spirits company missed Wall Street's first-quarter earnings and revenue expectations. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter "I think it's important to point out that the quarter was as we expected," Newlands said during the company's earnings call. "We saw a significant amount of consumer concern that has continued from the past quarters into this quarter. But this quarter was as we expected." The Rochester, NY-based company generates roughly 80% of its revenue from beer sales, primarily through Mexican beer imports like Corona and Modelo. Beer sales slipped 2% for the quarter, the company said, driven by a 3.3% decline in shipment volumes "reflecting socioeconomic headwinds affecting consumer demand." RBC analyst Nik Modi asked about concerns related to the company's Hispanic customers, in light of the Trump Administration's stepped up efforts on deportation and border security. "It almost feels like it's getting a bit worse in terms of just at least from the headlines of the raids and where they're targeting consumers in normal places of shopping," Modi said. "Do you have any perspective from the administration in terms of when some of these raids will start to calm down?" More Wall Street Analysts: Analysts reboot Olive Garden parent's stock price targets as earnings loomAnalysts revamp forecast for Nvidia-backed AI stockIntuitive Surgical analyst raises eyebrows with new stock price target "First and foremost, our loyalty is very strong and remains very strong with the Hispanic consumer base," Newlands responded. "Both Hispanic and non Hispanic consumers are concerned about inflation and about cost structure." Hispanic consumers, reflects roughly half the company's business, he said, "and that consumer is very interested in beer." "What has occurred is that occasions on which beer is consumed have decreased because of concerns of the socioeconomic area," Newlands said in response to another question. "When we look at the fact that consumers are not going out to eat as much as they had, they're having less social occasions at home, it doesn't change their interest in consumption of beer," he added. "It simply has been that those occasions have been decreased." Americans overall say they will cutting back on alcohol, according to survey released in January by advertising and sales measurement technology firm NCSolutions. Forty-nine percent of the respondents said they intend to drink less in 2025 – up from 41% a year earlier, with Generation Z, or adults ages 18 to 28, leading the way. The company reaffirmed its forecast for fiscal 2026, although Chief Financial Officer Garth Hankinson acknowledged that "there are still some macroeconomic we continue to monitor and there continues to be some uncertainty in the macro backdrop." "We've seen from our banking partners and from the Fed some reductions in expectations around GDP growth as well as some softening in expectations with inflation, unemployment and interest rates," he said. "That being said," Hankinson added, "there's a lot of guesswork, I think, more so in this year's forecast as it relates to things like the impact of potential tariffs or the potential impact of tariffs and the potential impact of unemployment of government related layoffs." Related: Corona beer owner raises red flag about alarming consumer trend Constellation Brands are down 23% this year, and the stock is down nearly 34% from this time in 2024 Jefferies upgraded Constellation Brands to buy from hold on July 7 with a price target of $205, up from $194, according to The Fly. Hispanics are drinking less beer, but this won't last forever, and Constellation's compares are easing at an accelerating pace, the firm said. Jefferies said the company's "solid" balance sheet provide it time while the stock's valuation is "too cheap." On July 1, UBS raised the firm's price target on Constellation Brands to $205 from $195 and kept a buy rating on the shares. Constellation Brands reported a tough start to fiscal 2026, but maintained their outlook for the year, the firm said. Despite a choppy near-term set-up, UBS said that it still sees a path to low-single digit top line and mid-single digit bottom line growth over the long-term. And Citi raised the firm's price target on Constellation Brands to $174 from $170 and kept a neutral rating on the shares. Constellation posted "a soft start" to FY26, but reiterated its FY26 guidance, which drove a positive stock reaction given negative positioning and several investors having expected a cut, the firm said. Despite easier comps in July and August, the firm believes a return to growth "looks challenging given weakness in the category," Citi said. Related: Fund-management veteran skips emotion in investment strategy The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
Miami Herald
05-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Corona beer owner raises red flag about alarming consumer trend
Constellation Brands (STZ) , which owns top beer brands Corona and Modelo, has been struggling to attract customers over the past few months, and its CEO is calling out the source of the problem. In Constellation Brands' first-quarter earnings report for 2025, it revealed that its net sales in beer declined by 2% year-over-year, while net sales in wine and spirits decreased by a whopping 28%. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter The sharp decline in sales contributed to the company generating only $714 million in operating income, which is 24% lower than what it earned during the same time period last year. Related: Coca-Cola suffers an alarming loss from major boycott In the report, Constellation Brands said that "the current socioeconomic environment" contributed to weak consumer demand. During an earnings call on July 1, Constellation Brands CEO Bill Newlands said the company saw a "significant amount of consumer concern" during the quarter, especially among Hispanic and non-Hispanic consumers, which has prompted a sharp change in their spending habits. "Both Hispanic and non-Hispanic consumers are concerned about inflation and about cost structure," said Newlands. "But I also would point out that the percentage of alcohol in the basket has remained constant, even though the basket has gotten smaller relative to what consumers are doing with consumer goods." This concern comes at a time when inflation remains high, and President Donald Trump's tariff policy has led to uncertainty about the economy, raising worries about a possible recession. According to a recent survey from market research company Numerator, 64% of consumers are worried that tariffs will raise prices on everyday goods. Related: Corona beer owner flags a startling shift in consumer behavior Newlands emphasized that Hispanic customers reflect about half of Constellation Brands' business, and they still remain "very interested" in beer. However, they are, like many other consumer groups, scaling back social gatherings to save money. "So when [we] look at the fact that consumers are not going out to eat as much as they had; they're having less social occasions at home, [but] it doesn't change their interest in consumption of beer," said Newlands. "It simply has been that those occasions have been decreased." Constellation Brands recently conducted a survey of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic consumers and found that 70% of consumers are concerned about their personal finances. In response to these worries, consumers said that they have scaled back social gatherings with friends and family in public spaces and at homes over the past three months. They are also shopping less at convenience stores or gas stations, two of the top places to purchase alcoholic beverages. To help combat this alarming consumer trend, Constellation Brands is making a few tweaks to its pricing. "I would point out where we're spending a lot of time is in price pack an area where as the consumer may be more concerned about inflationary trends, it would be important to have the right pack set at the right price points, so that no matter what the consumer has available to them to spend, we have a product available," said Newlands. The weak consumer demand also comes during a time when many Americans are changing their tune about alcohol consumption. More Retail: Costco quietly plans to offer a convenient service for customersT-Mobile pulls the plug on generous offer, angering customersAT&T makes generous offer to older customers A survey from Gallup last year found that 45% of Americans believe drinking one or two alcoholic beverages a day is harmful to one's health. This is a six-percentage-point increase, compared to results from last year, and a 17-point increase compared with responses in 2018. Amid this change in attitude, beer, wine, and spirit sales in the U.S. declined in 2024. In addition, then-U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released an advisory in January that highlights a direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. The advisory may make it extra challenging for the alcohol industry to experience a quick recovery in sales. Related: Chick-fil-A angers customers with major change in stores The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
