Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Founder Chip Wilson nominates three directors - ex-On co-CEO Marc Maurer, ex-ESPN marketing chief Laura Gentile and ex-Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg - for the 2026 annual meeting and proposes declassifying Lululemon's board.

The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.

Saks Global failed to make a bond interest payment of more than $100 million that was due on 30 December 2025, entering a grace period while it negotiated with creditors, just under five months after its last debt restructuring.

One of the world's largest gas plants began processing associated gas from the offshore Marjan and Zuluf fields, heading for 2.6 billion cubic feet a day of raw gas capacity in 2026, as the Marjan crude increment came on stream.

A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

Former Tesco chief executive Sir Dave Lewis took over as Diageo's CEO on 1 January 2026 on a £1.5 million salary, ending Nik Jhangiani's six months as interim chief after Debra Crew's exit.

Suntory Global Spirits halted distillation at the main James B. Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, for all of 2026 amid a bourbon glut, keeping bottling, warehousing and the visitor centre open.

A new theatrical anime film of Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina is announced, bringing Jougi Shiraishi's traveling witch Elaina back to the screen for the first time since C2C's 2020 TV series.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.