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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Avetta Rounds Out First 2025 Summit Series Event by Joining Intersociety Forum, Awarding Top North American Customers and Revealing Details on International Summits
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 18, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avetta®, the leading provider of supply chain risk management (SCRM) software, today concluded its North America Avetta Summit Series event in Nashville, Tennessee by announcing the company's participation in the Intersociety Forum (ISF). The ISF is a coalition of leading organizations dedicated to improving worker safety and health while promoting safety practices as a strategic advantage. Avetta also revealed its 2025 North America customer award winners—13 companies and three individuals making a significant positive impact through innovation, safety leadership and sustainability. Lastly, the company unveiled the dates for upcoming Avetta Summit Series events in London and Sydney this fall. Joining the ISF in protecting workers and driving successful businesses At the event, Avetta pledged its support for the ISF's occupational health, safety and environmental core principles, which are designed to better protect workers and serve as a foundation of economic competitiveness. Those principles are: Business-driven practice: Standards and worker well-being. Beyond compliance: Embracing risk and safety management systems. Leading indicators: Revolutionizing record keeping for predictive insights. "We believe improving the safety and protecting the health of workers isn't just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do," said Arshad Matin, President, CEO and Board Member at Avetta. "Safe, well-supported workers are the foundation of operational excellence, innovation and long-term growth. By joining the ISF, we're reinforcing our commitment to advancing workplace safety as both a moral imperative and a strategic advantage for companies." Avetta is the first technology company to join the ISF and unites with its partners the American Society of Safety Professionals and the National Safety Council as members of the coalition. Select other members include the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, the National Electrical Contractors Association and the National Environmental Health Association. Awarding top customers for outstanding performance Each year, Avetta awards customers across a series of performance categories based on a set of objective criteria. For 2025, the judges were Avetta's safety, sustainability and compliance experts along with a panel of third-party industry leaders: Adele Abrams, Senior Counsel at Littler; Dylan Short, Managing Director at The Redlands Group; and Dustin Hickey, Senior Vice President, HSEQ at Industrial Specialty Services. "Our customers are at the heart of everything we do," said Abid Yousuf, Chief Customer Officer at Avetta. "These awards are our way of celebrating the incredible progress they're making to improve supply chain safety, sustainability and security across their networks. Their commitment inspires us to keep innovating and partnering more closely to help them achieve even greater impact." This year's winners and other finalists are: Health and Safety Leader Companies that have built outstanding health and safety programs and leveraged Avetta solutions to drive measurable safety improvements. Winners: Caterpillar, Heat Shock 2 and RT Technical Solutions. Other finalists: Bee-Clean Building Maintenance, BGIS, Brock Canada, Ervin Cable Construction, Martin Industrial Contracting Services, Schneider Electric and Verizon. Operational Excellence Leader Companies using Avetta solutions to enhance business efficiency—time savings, streamlined workflows and successful automations. Winners: ABM, Ainsworth, Innomotics and RF MacDonald Co. Other finalists: AmSpec, Black Hills Energy, Cushman & Wakefield, JoyRide Logistics and Verizon. Sustainability Trailblazer Companies that are advancing sustainability within their operations and supply chains. Winners: Kleinfelder and Progressive Logistics. Other finalists: BGIS, Buckeye Partners, Bunzl, Harvard Maintenance, LBC and Quanta. Premier Partner Companies exhibiting strong collaboration and partnership with Avetta across multiple initiatives. Winners: Black Hills Energy, KCCTech and Northline Utilities. Other finalists: BGIS, Dubak Electrical Maintenance Corp. and Verizon Safety Transformation Innovator Companies that have enhanced their safety processes, either by implementing new systems or by significantly improving existing ones. Winner: D.C. Taylor Other finalists: Alterman, Inter Technologies Corporation and Constellis Holdings. Changemaker Individuals who are using Avetta solutions to drive meaningful change within their organizations. Winners: James Armstrong, AmSpec; Dami Jaiyeoba, Cushman & Wakefield; and Aubrey Robinson, Cargill. Other finalists: Will Amos, Parking Mates; Donald Burton, DK Burton Doors; Katie Dolan, Ainsworth; Lisa Saner, ABM; and Phil Varney, Amazon. "I'm honored to be named a Changemaker," said Dami Jaiyeoba, Vice President and Head of Procurement Technology and Operations at Cushman & Wakefield. "I'm passionate about leveraging technology and collaborating with clients to identify and reduce supply chain risks. I'm excited to continue pushing boundaries in creating safer, more resilient supply chains that protect people and operations alike." Looking ahead to upcoming international Avetta Summit Series events The 2025 Avetta Summit Series will continue with customer events in London on September 25 and Sydney October 21-22. Like the North America summit, these international conferences will provide engaging discussions, invaluable learning experiences and meaningful networking opportunities. Avetta will also announce the 2025 customer of year award winners for EMEA and APAC, respectively. Sign up for updates on these summits here. About Avetta The Avetta SaaS platform helps clients manage supply chain risk and their suppliers to become more qualified for jobs. For the hiring clients in our network, we offer the world's largest supply chain risk management network to manage supplier safety, sustainability, worker competency and performance. We perform contractor prequalification and worker competency management across major industries, all over the globe, including construction, energy, facilities, high tech, manufacturing, mining and telecom. View source version on Contacts Media Contact Aaron
Business Wire
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Avetta Rounds Out First 2025 Summit Series Event by Joining Intersociety Forum, Awarding Top North American Customers and Revealing Details on International Summits
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Avetta ®, the leading provider of supply chain risk management (SCRM) software, today concluded its North America Avetta Summit Series event in Nashville, Tennessee by announcing the company's participation in the Intersociety Forum (ISF). The ISF is a coalition of leading organizations dedicated to improving worker safety and health while promoting safety practices as a strategic advantage. Avetta also revealed its 2025 North America customer award winners—13 companies and three individuals making a significant positive impact through innovation, safety leadership and sustainability. Lastly, the company unveiled the dates for upcoming Avetta Summit Series events in London and Sydney this fall. Joining the ISF in protecting workers and driving successful businesses At the event, Avetta pledged its support for the ISF's occupational health, safety and environmental core principles, which are designed to better protect workers and serve as a foundation of economic competitiveness. Those principles are: Business-driven practice: Standards and worker well-being. Beyond compliance: Embracing risk and safety management systems. Leading indicators: Revolutionizing record keeping for predictive insights. 'We believe improving the safety and protecting the health of workers isn't just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do,' said Arshad Matin, President, CEO and Board Member at Avetta. 'Safe, well-supported workers are the foundation of operational excellence, innovation and long-term growth. By joining the ISF, we're reinforcing our commitment to advancing workplace safety as both a moral imperative and a strategic advantage for companies.' Avetta is the first technology company to join the ISF and unites with its partners the American Society of Safety Professionals and the National Safety Council as members of the coalition. Select other members include the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, the National Electrical Contractors Association and the National Environmental Health Association. Awarding top customers for outstanding performance Each year, Avetta awards customers across a series of performance categories based on a set of objective criteria. For 2025, the judges were Avetta's safety, sustainability and compliance experts along with a panel of third-party industry leaders: Adele Abrams, Senior Counsel at Littler; Dylan Short, Managing Director at The Redlands Group; and Dustin Hickey, Senior Vice President, HSEQ at Industrial Specialty Services. 'Our customers are at the heart of everything we do,' said Abid Yousuf, Chief Customer Officer at Avetta. 'These awards are our way of celebrating the incredible progress they're making to improve supply chain safety, sustainability and security across their networks. Their commitment inspires us to keep innovating and partnering more closely to help them achieve even greater impact.' This year's winners and other finalists are: Health and Safety Leader Companies that have built outstanding health and safety programs and leveraged Avetta solutions to drive measurable safety improvements. Winners: Caterpillar, Heat Shock 2 and RT Technical Solutions. Other finalists: Bee-Clean Building Maintenance, BGIS, Brock Canada, Ervin Cable Construction, Martin Industrial Contracting Services, Schneider Electric and Verizon. Operational Excellence Leader Companies using Avetta solutions to enhance business efficiency—time savings, streamlined workflows and successful automations. Winners: ABM, Ainsworth, Innomotics and RF MacDonald Co. Other finalists: AmSpec, Black Hills Energy, Cushman & Wakefield, JoyRide Logistics and Verizon. Sustainability Trailblazer Companies that are advancing sustainability within their operations and supply chains. Winners: Kleinfelder and Progressive Logistics. Other finalists: BGIS, Buckeye Partners, Bunzl, Harvard Maintenance, LBC and Quanta. Premier Partner Companies exhibiting strong collaboration and partnership with Avetta across multiple initiatives. Winners: Black Hills Energy, KCCTech and Northline Utilities. Other finalists: BGIS, Dubak Electrical Maintenance Corp. and Verizon Safety Transformation Innovator Companies that have enhanced their safety processes, either by implementing new systems or by significantly improving existing ones. Winner: D.C. Taylor Other finalists: Alterman, Inter Technologies Corporation and Constellis Holdings. Changemaker Individuals who are using Avetta solutions to drive meaningful change within their organizations. Winners: James Armstrong, AmSpec; Dami Jaiyeoba, Cushman & Wakefield; and Aubrey Robinson, Cargill. Other finalists: Will Amos, Parking Mates; Donald Burton, DK Burton Doors; Katie Dolan, Ainsworth; Lisa Saner, ABM; and Phil Varney, Amazon. 'I'm honored to be named a Changemaker,' said Dami Jaiyeoba, Vice President and Head of Procurement Technology and Operations at Cushman & Wakefield. 'I'm passionate about leveraging technology and collaborating with clients to identify and reduce supply chain risks. I'm excited to continue pushing boundaries in creating safer, more resilient supply chains that protect people and operations alike.' Looking ahead to upcoming international Avetta Summit Series events The 2025 Avetta Summit Series will continue with customer events in London on September 25 and Sydney October 21-22. Like the North America summit, these international conferences will provide engaging discussions, invaluable learning experiences and meaningful networking opportunities. Avetta will also announce the 2025 customer of year award winners for EMEA and APAC, respectively. Sign up for updates on these summits here. About Avetta The Avetta SaaS platform helps clients manage supply chain risk and their suppliers to become more qualified for jobs. For the hiring clients in our network, we offer the world's largest supply chain risk management network to manage supplier safety, sustainability, worker competency and performance. We perform contractor prequalification and worker competency management across major industries, all over the globe, including construction, energy, facilities, high tech, manufacturing, mining and telecom.
Indian Express
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Why TMC's appointment of a Sufi shrine cleric is a significant move as Bengal politics simmers
As the political rhetoric in West Bengal intensifies in the run-up to the Assembly elections next year with the BJP looking to push a polarising narrative, the Trinamool Congress's (TMC) response has been to shore up its position among the minority community, and this is reflected in its recent decision to appoint Pirzada Kasem Siddiqui of the powerful Sufi shrine of Furfura Sharif a state general secretary. Siddiqui's appointment comes at a time when the BJP has been trying to politically gain from painting the Mamata Banerjee-led party as 'anti-Hindu' over the situation in Bangladesh, Murshidabad communal violence, the Sharmistha Panoli case, and this week's violence on the outskirts of Kolkata between two communities. Though the TMC has no reason to be apprehensive about its Muslim vote shifting — the party has been the minority community's choice since the 2009 Lok Sabha elections — given the BJP's strategy in the run-up to the elections, the party wants to ensure it has a lock on the community's support and does not want to provide a smaller outfit such as Indian Secular Front (ISF) a way in to muddy the waters. Floated by Furfura Sharif's top cleric Abbas Siddiqui before the Assembly polls in 2021, the ISF contested that election alongside the Congress and the Left and ended up being the only party in the alliance to win a seat. It won in Bhangar, with Abbas Siddiqui's younger brother Naushad getting elected from the constituency in what was earlier a TMC stronghold in South 24 Parganas district. Though it does not pose a big threat to the TMC's Muslim vote, the ISF nonetheless held its ground and never really went away. In the 2023 panchayat elections, it picked up around 400 gram panchayat seats, mostly in the TMC bastion of South Bengal. The ISF's support base comprises poor agricultural workers and Bengali-speaking, working-class Muslims who are the followers of Furufura Sharif. The ISF's brand of social justice politics, which is also aimed at other vulnerable groups such as Dalits and tribals, is what has helped the party gain traction among voters from these communities. If left unchecked, the TMC believes this has the potential to pose a challenge to its hold over minority votes. In contrast, the TMC till now has relied mostly on political symbolism and fear in the community about the BJP coming to power to keep its hold on the Muslim vote. It is in this context that Siddiqui's entry into the TMC is politically important. His link to the Furufura Sharif — he is the cousin of Abbas and Naushad — provides him with a heft that the ruling party can utilise to reach out to Muslim voters and negate the ISF's influence ahead of the Assembly election battle, when it will need the entire minority vote behind it. 'Kasem Siddiqui has good organisational skills. That is why he was appointed general secretary,' said TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh. For the TMC, widespread support of women (because of its welfare initiatives) and minority community voters, and the success in portraying the BJP as a party of outsiders have been the ingredients of a winning combination till now. At the same time, it has helped the TMC that the Hindu vote has not consolidated behind the BJP in equal measure despite the latter's best attempts. Trinamool and ISF While the ties between the TMC and Furfura Sharif took a hit after the formation of the ISF, and worsened further when Naushad was arrested ahead of the 2023 panchayat elections — he and his supporters clashed with the police after refusing to lift a blockade in Kolkata while protesting against violence in Bhangar — the ruling party of late has tried to mend fences and even reached out to the Bhangar MLA. In March, Mamata Banerjee made her first visit to the Sufi shrine in Hooghly district in nearly a decade and announced a polytechnic college in the area and a bus stand for pilgrims. During the visit, Kasem was seen by her side, sparking speculation about his entry into the party for the first time. The following day, on March 18, Naushad dropped in to meet the CM at the state secretariat to discuss, as he claimed, matters related to his constituency. Denying that there were any plans to join hands with the TMC, Naushad asked how he could join the ruling party in the state when he spent 42 days in jail for a 'movement against this government' and more than 10 ISF workers had died in the last four years. However, at the time, those in the know said the two sides were considering reaching an 'understanding' and a senior TMC leader said the idea behind the meeting was to 'ensure 100% Muslim consolidation in the 2026 elections'. In April, the TMC and the ISF MLA were back to targeting each other publicly, with Naushad alleging that Abhishek Banerjee had abstained from voting on the Waqf Amendment Bill and the ruling party's second-in-command calling for legal action against Naushad for making 'false remarks'. In the end, the crux of the matter is that Kasem Siddiqui was one of the TMC's vocal critics when his cousin was arrested, and now he holds a post in that very party. Whether this is part of some understanding between TMC and the ISF or represents the ruling party's success in regaining a toehold among the Furfura Sharif clerics remains a million-dollar question. Naushad on Friday welcomed his cousin's political entry but warned him that he had chosen the wrong side. 'I have no problem with my 'bhaijan' joining politics. We have realised that a political platform is required to work for people, but he has the wrong party. That party is corrupt and does not work for people,' the Bhangar MLA told The Indian Express.
Time of India
10-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Bengal produces 1,623cr eggs in FY24, surpasses nat'l avg
Kolkata: Bengal surpasses the national average in egg production with 1,623.9 crore eggs produced in the fiscal year 2023-24, accounting for 11.37% of India's total production, according to data presented in the state assembly on places Bengal fourth in the national rankings. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Animal resource development minister Swapan Debnath, responding to a question from ISF MLA Nawsad Siddiqui, said that Bengal's egg production continues to exceed the national average by a significant margin. While the national growth rate for egg production stands at 3.78%, Bengal boasts a much higher rate of 18.07%. The state's domestic demand for eggs during the same period was around 1,528 crore, meaning production slightly outpaced consumption. The govt aims to not just meet internal demand but also to establish Bengal as an exporter of poultry products, officials said. "We are now focusing on increasing productivity and strengthening Bengal's position nationally," Debnath said. A few months ago, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that Bengal overtook Uttar Pradesh in the production of eggs, milk and meat. The animal resource development department launched multiple initiatives to boost both egg and meat production. Notably, under the open-space poultry farming model, the state distributed approximately 2.5 crore chicks and ducklings over the past three years. Nearly Rs 180 crore have been spent on these efforts.
India Today
09-06-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Pirzada Kasem Siddiqui appointed Trinamool Congress's General Secretary
Ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has appointed Pirzada Kasem Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif as the party's general secretary. The appointment is being seen as a strategic step by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to consolidate the Muslim vote bank and counter the growing influence of the Indian Secular Front (ISF).The decision carries considerable political weight, especially given the ISF's performance in the last Assembly elections. Before the previous polls, Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif had launched the Indian Secular Front, which made a strong electoral debut. His brother, Naushad Siddiqui, won the Bhangar seat in South 24 Parganas- traditionally a TMC stronghold - marking a significant breach in the party's Muslim support then, the ISF has been steadily expanding its presence in several Muslim-majority areas beyond South 24 Parganas, raising concerns within the TMC about erosion of its traditional vote bank. In this context, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee's move to bring Kasem Siddiqui into a prominent position within the party - without even a formal joining ceremony - is being seen as a strong signal of the importance the TMC places on retaining Muslim support. Kasem Siddiqui, a well-regarded figure in Furfura Sharif, is closely related to Abbas and Naushad Siddiqui. His influence in the religious and social fabric of the region is expected to help TMC reconnect with voters who may have drifted toward the ISF. The appointment also suggests that Kasem Siddiqui could be given a larger role in the upcoming Banerjee's outreach to Furfura Sharif has been evident in recent months. During Eid-ul-Fitr, she visited the religious site, where Kasem Siddiqui was seen alongside her. The two were also spotted together at an Iftar party in Kolkata's Park Circus area, fueling speculation about a deeper political alliance in the the ISF's Muslim voter base and its roots in the religiously significant Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district, the TMC appears to be bracing for a serious electoral challenge. With this appointment, the party is attempting to reclaim lost ground and prevent further fragmentation of the Muslim vote in the Reel
