Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Shein's shares fell 9% in their Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading debut on 1 September 2026, after an IPO that raised about HK$13.60 billion ($1.74 billion) at HK$48.56 a share and valued the fast-fashion retailer at roughly $26.5 billion. That is close to a quarter of the $100 billion valuation Shein commanded in a 2022 private funding round.

Nestlé agreed to sell its mainstream vitamins business - Nature's Bounty, Osteo Bi-Flex, Ester-C, Gard, Nuun, Puritan's Pride and Sisu, with its US private-label supplements and their plants - to Yellow Wood Partners for $1.0 billion. The business had $1.2 billion of sales in 2025; Nestlé keeps premium brands such as Solgar and Pure Encapsulations.

Ferrero's new structure took effect: Alessandro Nervegna became CEO of Ferrero Core and Lapo Civiletti, CEO since 2017, became President of Ferrero Ice Cream and WK Kellogg Co, both reporting to Giovanni Ferrero.

Broadcom's revenue rose 86% to a record $29.6 billion for the quarter ended 2 August 2026, with AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7 billion, and Hock Tan said Anthropic is on track to become its largest XPU customer in 2027.

Hershey promoted Dave Hulays, its SVP Finance, at Hershey since 2012 after 15 years at P&G, to CFO with immediate effect. Steve Voskuil, CFO for seven years, moved to strategic projects ahead of retiring in early 2027.

H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, was signed on 2 September 2026, four weeks before the fiscal year ran out. Its appropriations run from 1 October to 11 December 2026, pushing the next shutdown fight past the midterm elections.

HPE posted record fiscal third-quarter revenue of $12.2 billion, up 34%, and non-GAAP EPS of $1.11, then raised its fiscal 2026 and 2027 outlook as AI and networking orders ran ahead of memory-constrained supply.

Alo reunited with Joe Burrow for a fall 2026 campaign led by its new Speed sunglasses and men's staples, timed to the start of the NFL season.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth Muse Spark model in five months, trained for long agentic and coding work and still priced at $1.25 per million input tokens; Artificial Analysis ranks its top variant behind only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.

Berlin's abandoned, billion-mark ICC convention centre, nicknamed the 'spaceship', went out to tender for a 99-year ground lease, and the Land Berlin has now tied itself to one bidder: the Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC, which has until 30 June 2027 to negotiate the lease and a reuse plan built around events and the creative industries.

Brown-Forman's first-quarter net sales slipped 1% to $911 million as the Korbel exit, lower used-barrel sales and a 13% tequila slide offset New Mix's growth, and the Jack Daniel's maker reaffirmed flat organic sales for fiscal 2027.

The 74-storey, 1,022-foot tower above Waller Creek opens in stages, starting with its 251-room 1 Hotel, and stacks 703,000 square feet of offices and 352 flats above it. At full height it passes Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, which had been the tallest building in Texas since 1981, by 23 feet.

Volkswagen's supervisory board approved a group-wide cut of about 50,000 more positions, including management roles, on top of earlier programmes that bring planned job reductions to around 100,000 by 2030.