Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

AWL Agri Business takes 80% of G.D. Foods Manufacturing, owner of the Tops sauces and pickles brand, making it a subsidiary; the other 20% is due by fiscal 2028-29.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2025 collection, "The Modern Romantics," at an off-calendar runway show inside the newly opened Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca, drawing a front row that included Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Anna Wintour.

LVMH shareholders approved raising the company's chairman-and-CEO age limit from 80 to 85 with 99.18% of the vote, clearing Bernard Arnault, then 76, to keep running the group without having named a successor.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.

A bonus Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 episode, bundled with the season's fifth Blu-ray volume, adds a standalone story to spirit-sighted teenager Takashi Natsume's ongoing run-ins with the yokai around him.

Kering reports first-quarter 2025 group revenue of €3.9 billion, down 14%, as Gucci's sales fall 25% on a comparable basis to €1.6 billion amid low store traffic and a 33% wholesale decline.

Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.

Mytheresa closed its purchase of YOOX Net-a-Porter from Richemont, giving Richemont a 33% stake in Mytheresa in exchange, after signing the binding agreement in October 2024; the combined company was renamed LuxExperience.

Vuori welcomed Michigan tight end Colston Loveland, a 2023 national champion from Idaho, as a Vuori Athlete as the Chicago Bears took him 10th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Vuori opened a 3,412 sq ft, two-floor store at 18-21 Duke of York Square on Chelsea's King's Road on 25 April 2025, with a studio and events space on the lower floor.

OpenAI reverts the latest GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it made responses overly agreeable.

Food products and plantations lifted the quarter while tropical-oil refining stayed tough and sugar volume fell 41.5%; Wilmar warned US tariffs made the rest of the year uncertain.

Shenman Entertainment releases Shen Yin Wangzuo Movie: Yi Lai Ke Si Chuanqi, a spinoff film in the Throne of Seal donghua franchise retelling the legend of the Holy Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si and his war against the undead.

Chef Isao Yamada opens a minimalist kaiseki counter on Elizabeth Street, serving the seasonal Japanese multi-course form without spectacle.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales fell 13.8% to $2.81 billion and adjusted EPS 32% to $2.09 as it lapped last year's pre-ERP stock build and a later Easter; it held its 2025 outlook and put Q2 tariff costs at $15-20 million.

President Trump ended duty-free de minimis treatment for shipments worth $800 or less from China and Hong Kong at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 2 May 2025. The change subjected packages from platforms such as Shein and Temu to full customs duties and formal entry.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

De Beers Group said it intends to close Lightbox, the lab-grown diamond jewellery brand it launched in 2018, after wholesale lab-grown prices fell 90% and diverged sharply from natural diamonds.

The FDA approves Teal Health's Teal Wand, the first device that lets women collect their own vaginal sample at home for HPV-based cervical cancer screening instead of a speculum exam.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.

Qualcomm added Christopher Young, Microsoft's executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures and a former McAfee CEO, to its board and its HR and Compensation Committee.

At the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, Qualcomm and Saudi Arabia's national AI company HUMAIN agreed to develop AI data centres and supply Qualcomm data-centre CPU and AI chips, with a Qualcomm chip design centre for the Kingdom.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong officiated the groundbreaking of Terminal 5 on the Changi East site, launching the airport's largest expansion. PM Wong said T5 will be as big in land area as all of Changi's current terminals combined and will expand the airport's capacity by more than 50 per cent, serving about 50 million more passengers a year.

Tic Tac's new sugar-free mint is twice the size of the original, with two layers of contrasting flavour, in Raspberry & Lemon, Strawberry & Lime and Fresh & Mild Spearmint.

PLDT's first-quarter 2025 telco core income fell 6% to ₱8.8 billion, but overall core income held at ₱8.9 billion as digital bank Maya contributed ₱127 million in its first profitable quarter.

Agentforce moved from $2 per conversation to consumption pricing: each agent action costs 20 Flex Credits, or $0.10, sold in $500 packs of 100,000 credits.

The FCC approved Verizon's $20 billion Frontier purchase after Verizon committed to ending its DEI practices, with Chairman Brendan Carr citing fiber builds of 1 million or more homes a year and commitments to tower crews.

Nordstrom shareholders approved the $6.25 billion take-private merger with the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool at a virtual special meeting, with more than 99% of votes cast backing the deal and minority shareholders separately clearing the required majority.

A 5.5-mile walking and biking path on an abandoned freight line along Slauson Avenue, from near the K Line's Fairview Heights station to the A Line's Slauson station, built for $166 million.

The WNBA's 2025 expansion team made its regular-season debut before 18,064 at San Francisco's Chase Center, losing 84-67 to the Los Angeles Sparks.

Backing out from Pier 17 with 277 people aboard, the Mexican Navy training ship drifted astern into the Brooklyn Bridge, breaking the tops of all three masts; two cadets were killed and at least 19 people injured.

After six months and 73 hearings, a Senate commission said the French state hid Nestlé Waters' use of banned treatments on Perrier, Vittel, Contrex and Hépar, a fraud France's fraud-control agency puts at over 3 billion euros.

Qualcomm's CEO took the COMPUTEX 2025 keynote stage in Taipei a year after Snapdragon X entered the PC market, citing 85+ Snapdragon X PCs launched or in development and joined by Microsoft, ASUS, HP and Lenovo executives.

Chanel reported 2024 revenues of $18.7 billion, down 4.3%, and operating profit down 30% to $4.5 billion, even as it made record capital investments of $1.76 billion in boutiques and client experience.

Nordstrom's take-private merger with the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool became effective, ending 36 years as a New York Stock Exchange-listed company as shareholders received $24.25 a share in cash and the retailer returned to family control.

Six years after pulling out in 2019, Nike confirmed it will again sell its products directly to Amazon for the US store, part of Elliott Hill's push back into wholesale and marketplace partners.

A Cessna Citation flying a night instrument approach to Montgomery-Gibbs in dense fog hit power lines and came down on a military housing street, igniting a house and 20 vehicles.

Ling Long 2, a Chinese ONA continuing the original series, begins release, following former Wilderness Hunter Commander Marc as he confronts a lighthouse-destroying apocalypse guided by the mysterious Bai Yuekui.