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Vuori hired Rothy's former chief product and merchandising officer Heather Archibald into a new chief product officer role over design, development, merchandising, sourcing and production.

Patek Philippe unveiled 20 new watches at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026, headlined by the CHF 350,000 white-gold Ref. 6105G Celestial Sunrise/Sunset, its first wristwatch to show sunrise and sunset times adjustable for summer and winter time, alongside its first automaton wristwatch and four Nautilus 50th-anniversary pieces.

Nutella's first new flavour since 1964 blends its cocoa spread with roasted peanuts and goes on sale at major US retailers nationwide.

A federal jury in Manhattan found Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally monopolised primary ticketing and amphitheatres and overcharged fans $1.72 a ticket, a win for 33 states and the District of Columbia that pressed on after the Justice Department settled.

At its 159th Annual General Meeting in Lausanne, Nestlé's shareholders re-elected Pablo Isla as Chair and elected former Swiss National Bank chairman Thomas Jordan and P&G executive Fama Francisco to the board. They also approved a CHF 3.10 dividend, the 30th consecutive increase.

Three months after leaving 529 Broadway, Nike opened a smaller street-level SoHo store a few blocks north at 611 Broadway, pitched as the first of its 'hyperlocal sport worlds'.

DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.

Jacob Wheeler finally won Major League Fishing's championship, catching 21 scorable bass for 51 pounds 11 ounces on Table Rock Lake's final day to beat Takahiro Omori by 13-3 and take $300,000.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

Tesla's Robotaxi service reached its second and third Texas cities, Dallas and Houston, with Model Y rides that had no safety monitor aboard from day one.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

On appeal, the Jakarta High Court raised the sentence of Wilmar's former legal head Muhammad Syafei from six to eight years and his fine to Rp 500 million for helping bribe the judges who acquitted Wilmar.

Kaia Gerber fronts "For Kaia", Vuori's Spring 2026 campaign of new-season styles picked for her - AllTheForm, Sedona and Sunday track pieces - shot by Anthony Seklaoui, at $48 to $128.

The 2.25-mile automated people mover linking LAX's terminals to the Metro Rail system and the rental car centre began demonstration running without passengers, aiming for 30 consecutive days of error-free operation before it can carry anyone. Construction was originally due to finish in March 2023; Los Angeles World Airports has since agreed to more than $880 million in dispute payments on top of the $4.9 billion, 25-year contract, and has not announced an opening date.

Over three days in April 2026 the Recording Academy took artists to Capitol Hill, honoring Sen. Chris Coons and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar for the NO FAKES Act and lobbying on AI protections.

TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.

Tesla's first-quarter 2026 revenue rose 16% to $22.4 billion and adjusted EPS of $0.41 beat the $0.37 estimate, but the shares fell 3.6% the next day after Tesla said 2026 spending would run $5 billion above prior guidance.

Nestlé agreed to sell Blue Bottle Coffee, bought in 2017, to Centurium Capital, the biggest shareholder of China's Luckin Coffee, with the deal expected to close in the first half of 2026. The sale covers Blue Bottle's more than 100 cafes and most of its packaged-coffee business; Nestlé keeps the Blue Bottle Nespresso pods.

Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in the first quarter, led by coffee, even though its infant formula recall cut about 0.9 points off growth; reported sales fell 5.7% to CHF 21.3 billion on the strong franc. It kept its 2026 guidance.

Antoine Fuqua's musical biopic stars Michael Jackson's nephew Jaafar Jackson as the pop icon, tracing his life from childhood through his early solo career.

Noah Kahan's fourth album, co-produced with Aaron Dessner and Gabe Simon, opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 389,000 units, the largest week for a rock album since Billboard began counting units in 2014.

Construction begins on Stix Asia's 18,000-square-foot Las Vegas food hall in the former Sundry space at UnCommons, with a dozen restaurants planned and a fall 2026 opening. A sakura tree will anchor the centre of the room.

Microsoft's license to OpenAI's models and products becomes non-exclusive through 2032 and OpenAI may sell on any cloud, while OpenAI's revenue-share payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 under a total cap and Microsoft stops paying one back.

Vinted completed an €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Schroders Capital, lifting its valuation to €8 billion, a 60% jump from the €5 billion it fetched 18 months earlier.

Former Unilever chief growth and marketing officer Esi Eggleston Bracey joins Lululemon's board and will stand at the 2026 annual meeting in place of retiring director Shane Grant.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, and its section 241 took effect at once: no woman commits an offence under abortion law by acting in relation to her own pregnancy.