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Personio has become a Certified B Corp, with the certification independently verified by B Lab. The human resources and payroll software provider for small and medium-sized businesses joins a European community of more than 4,500 certified companies, including customers such as Ecosia, Fairphone, RECUP and Tomorrow. B Corp certification assesses companies on social and environmental performance, governance and transparency.

atNorth plans to develop a new data centre in Salo, Finland, as part of its wider expansion across the Nordic region. The planned site, known as FIN05, will be built on a 28.6-hectare site in the south-west Finnish town. Power for the first phase, set at 75MW, has already been secured, with a route to as much as 230MW for the wider development through a Fingrid substation connection. atNorth expects to invest about EUR €2 billion in the Salo site.

Kesko has selected Manhattan Active Warehouse to replace its grocery warehouse management system. The rollout will cover five distribution centres and terminal hub operations in Finland. The project focuses on Kesko's grocery logistics network, as the retailer moves away from a legacy warehouse system and seeks a new operational base for its supply chain. The deployment will also include Manhattan's AI tools, Manhattan Active Agents and Agent Foundry.

GWI has launched an expanded agentic AI portfolio, adding an AI intelligence layer to its product suite. The new offering lets businesses access and analyse more than 45 billion verified datapoints through existing AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot, or through their own agentic infrastructure. The portfolio is designed to connect GWI's consumer attitudinal and behavioural datasets to AI assistants and agents through Model Context Protocol and the Spark API.

Amperity has introduced an AI agent called Pér for customer data and marketing workflows. The tool is designed to help brands move from customer questions to approved actions inside existing software. Built around Amperity's customer profiles, Pér is intended to bring analysis, recommendations and workflow steps into a single process. It is aimed at replacing work that often stretches across dashboards, manual data requests, analysis, meetings and activation tools.

Forever New has completed a global eCommerce migration from Magento to Shopify across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. The Australian fashion retailer completed the nine-month project with Convert Digital, replacing a platform setup that had been in place for more than a decade. The change comes as the Melbourne-founded womenswear business marks its 20th anniversary. Forever New operates almost 400 stores and concessions across more than 25 countries.

ANYbotics has launched Shift, an operations platform for managing fleets of autonomous industrial inspection robots. It is aimed at processing industries including energy, metals, mining and chemicals. The Zurich-based robotics company said the platform combines plant models, robot fleet management, inspection data and maintenance systems in a single workflow.

UK organisations are adopting artificial intelligence across their businesses faster than peers in any other country, according to research from SAS with input from IDC. The study found, however, that returns on those investments are lagging deployment. The share of UK organisations describing their AI approach as integrated or transformative rose to 60% from 29% in a year, the fastest shift among the 28 countries surveyed.

B&M has created a digital twin of its Worthington Way store in Wigan with Apollo3D, using it as a reference point for refurbishment and expansion planning across its estate. The project covered the retailer's 55,000 sq ft flagship site, including the garden centre and non-customer areas, ahead of a seven-phase rebuild tied to B&M's "store of the future" concept.

Pagabo Group has launched ImpactOS, a platform for managing social value commitments and reporting. The system is designed to link local needs analysis with procurement, project delivery and measurement. The product combines Pagabo's existing Loop software with an impact reporting tool acquired by the group. It is aimed at organisations that need to set social value targets in tenders, track delivery through supply chains and demonstrate what has been achieved in local communities.