February 3, 2023

Gordon Brothers to Sell Machinery & Equipment Formerly Used by José Sánchez Peñate

Madrid, Feb. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gordon Brothers, the global advisory, restructuring and investment firm, is offering for immediate sale by private treaty machinery and equipment from four plants in the Canary Islands formerly leased by the firm to the Spanish food products manufacturer and distributor José Sánchez Peñate.

José Sánchez Peñate primarily produced dairy products from two plants in Tenerife, Spain and manufactured and supplied coffee and bakery products from two plants in Gran Canaria. The complete plant and available machinery equipment are as follows:

Milk plant, including preparation, mixing, sterilization, cooling, packaging and palletizing systems.
Yoghurt plant, including raw material reception, pasteurization of milk, mixing station, pasteurization of yoghurt, addition of starter, fermentation, packaging, palletizing, cooling and storage.
Coffee plant, including raw materials reception, recipe preparation, roasting, milling, packing of coffee beans for restaurants or ground coffee, packaging, palletizing and storage.
Bakery plant, including raw materials reception, kneading machines, forming machines, cutting and boarding, fermentation area, baking and cooling, packaging and palletizing.

“This unprecedented food manufacturing plant sale is already generating global interest and is an amazing opportunity to acquire machinery and equipment worth millions of euros,” said Duncan Ainscough, Managing Director, Commercial & Industrial at Gordon Brothers. “With over €95 billion of assets appraised and disposed in the food and beverage industry, we are a trusted partner with a deep understanding of this sector and a strong history in maximizing asset value for companies in Spain and throughout Europe.”

The machinery and equipment is installed and inspections are available by appointment only. To view the full list of available assets, visit Gordon Brothers’ website: www.gordonbrothers.com/JSP.

About Gordon Brothers

Since 1903, Gordon Brothers (www.gordonbrothers.com) has helped lenders, management teams, advisors and investors move forward through change. The firm brings a powerful combination of expertise and capital to clients, developing customized solutions on an integrated or standalone basis across four services areas: valuations, dispositions, financing and investment. Whether to fuel growth or facilitate strategic consolidation, Gordon Brothers partners with companies in the retail, commercial and industrial sectors to provide maximum liquidity, put assets to their highest and best use and mitigate liabilities. The firm conducts more than $100 billion worth of dispositions and appraisals annually and provides both short- and long-term capital to clients undergoing transformation. Gordon Brothers lends against and invests in brands, real estate, inventory, receivables, machinery, equipment and other assets, both together and individually, to provide clients liquidity solutions beyond its market-leading disposition and appraisal services. The firm is headquartered in Boston, with over 30 offices across five continents.

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Gordon Brothers
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February 3, 2023

World Health Organization deploys Emergency Medical Team to support cholera outbreak response in Malawi

As part of the continued support to the Malawi Government in the cholera outbreak response, the World Health Organization (WHO) has activated its Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) network following the recent request for assistance from the government. Two EMTs have been deployed to Malawi under partnership of WHO, UK-EMT (supported by Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and Save the Children. They will respond to the current cholera outbreak by managing patients in the cholera treatment centers, providing essential medication and supplies, and training local colleagues. These teams will be in Malawi for six weeks starting from first of February to support the surge response while helping to build the capacity of national health workers and surge responders in country. A third international Emergency Medical Team, Samaritan’s Purse, is also currently mobilizing and will arrive in the coming days.

EMTs are groups of health professionals that provide direct clinical care to people affected by emergencies and disasters and support local health systems. The deployed EMT teams comprise of medical doctors, nurses, infection prevention and control specialists, WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) and logistics experts, and coordinators. Their objective is to enhance the capacity of the Ministry of Health in the cholera outbreak response to reduce loss of life and halt the spread of cholera.

The EMTs will work with national health workers, and partners in cholera hotspot districts across the country. They are deployed according to an analysis of the epidemiological situation and an assessment of the needs of each targeted area and treatment center. WHO has also deployed an EMT Coordinator who is supporting the Ministry of Health to establish and manage the EMT surge coordination mechanisms. Presently, Malawi has a high cholera case fatality rate of 3.24 percentage(expected is <1 with over 1,133 deaths as of 31 January 2023.

“Cholera death is avoidable with proper tools and resources in place. The EMT is bringing crucial expertise in clinical care which will help to improve patient outcomes in cholera treatment centers.” Said Dr Neema Rusibamayila Kimambo, WHO Representative for Malawi.

“The EMTs will not only help to treat those in need, but also provide the mentorship and on-job trainings that will strengthen the knowledge of our local health officers in general critical care skills.”

“We are really pleased to be able to arrange the rapid deployment of the UK’s Emergency Medical Team to work side by side with local health workers as they respond to the worsening cholera outbreak and bring down the number of preventable deaths. We saw how effective they were when they last deployed to Malawi in late 2021 to support the Covid-19 response. And because we know that Malawi will continue to face shocks such as cyclones and outbreaks of infectious diseases, we are also committed to our ongoing partnership with the government of Malawi to improve the capacity of the health system to better prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies.” said Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s Development Director Olympia Wereko-Brobby.

“We, Save the Children International Emergency Health Unit, have deployed our Specialised Care Team to support the Cholera response. Specifically, our team has been deployed to Balaka where they will support case management, triaging, patient flow, IPC, WASH and supply chain at the Cholera Treatment Unit with a focus on the high number of paediatric and maternal cases currently in the country. This deployment builds on our existing cholera response efforts. The scale and impact of the outbreak is painful and unacceptable. We all need to redouble our efforts and stop the outbreak.” Said Kate Jarman, Save the Children EMT Team lead.

“The cholera outbreak presents a clear challenge to the country’s healthcare system. The additional support that EMT teams is bringing will help us to improve and provide quality of care that meet the minimum standards,” said Dr Charles Mwansambo, Secretary for Health in the Ministry of Health.

As cholera cases continue to rise, WHO and partners are working together with the Ministry of Health to improve access to clean water and sanitation, establish treatment centers, vaccinate, deliver supplies, distribute public health guidance, train health workers, and work with communities on prevention.

Source: World Health Organization

February 3, 2023

NFL Will Offer Free CPR Training During Super Bowl Week

Inspired by the lifesaving medical attention Damar Hamlin received on the field during a game last month, the NFL and American Heart Association will provide free CPR education in Arizona throughout Super Bowl week as part of the NFL Experience at the Phoenix Convention Center.

Hamlin, the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills defensive back, needed to be resuscitated after making a tackle in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Bills assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington performed CPR on Hamlin on the field.

“Being able to deliver care in emergency situations is not just important at sporting events, but in all walks of life,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.

People who visit the mobile training unit will receive hands-only CPR training from experts and receive CPR information that can be shared in their communities. Also, the American Heart Association is working with Hamlin and his #3forHeart CPR Challenge, a social media initiative that encourages people to learn CPR, donate money to support CPR research, education and training, and share the word with others.

“Coming out of the events from last month with Damar Hamlin on the field and the remarkable work that the emergency responders performed, we thought about what opportunities existed for us to share some of the learnings that came from that experience more broadly, which is part of our responsibility throughout the world of football and maybe the world of sports,” NFL executive Jeff Miller told The Associated Press.

“There’s a long history of the NFL trying to share learnings on the health and safety side from what we experienced at the NFL level, whether that be about concussions, concussion education or about emergency action plans. We take as an obligation to share what we’ve learned and highlight some of the best health and safety approaches that we can with other levels of sport,” Miller added.

Anna Isaacson, the NFL’s vice president of social responsibility, said the league approached the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross with a simple question: “What can we do here? We saw one life saved. How can we save many more?”

“The world was watching,” Isaacson told The AP. “I think that while we face challenges, we use these moments to try to make a positive impact.”

In addition to free CPR training in Arizona, the league throughout February is raising money to support CPR education and youth sports safety efforts across the country.

These include a Super Bowl 50/50 raffle open to Arizona residents and fans attending the game at State Farm Stadium. The winner of the raffle will receive half of the jackpot total from raffle ticket sales; the other half will benefit the NFL Foundation to support CPR-related initiatives, including through the American Heart Association, the Red Cross and their local affiliates.

“Only one out of three high schools has full-time access to an athletic trainer and only about another third even have part-time access to one,” Miller said. “That’s a huge gap in sports and in sports medicine that the league, over a period of time with partners like AHA and others, is going to hopefully try to rectify or address at least a little bit.”

Source: Voice Of America

February 3, 2023

US May Lift Protections for Yellowstone, Glacier Grizzlies

The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said state officials provided “substantial” information that grizzlies have recovered from the threat of extinction in the regions surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.

But federal officials rejected claims by Idaho that protections should be lifted beyond those areas, and they raised concerns about new laws from the Republican-led states that could potentially harm grizzly populations.

“We will fully evaluate these and other potential threats,” said Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Friday’s move kicks off at least a year of further study before final decisions about the Yellowstone and Glacier regions.

State officials have insisted any future hunts would be limited and not endanger the overall population.

However, Republican lawmakers in the region in recent years also adopted more aggressive policies against gray wolves, including loosened trapping rules that could lead to grizzlies being inadvertently killed.

As many as 50,000 grizzlies once roamed the western half of the U.S. They were exterminated in most of the country early last century by overhunting and trapping, and the last hunts in the northern Rockies occurred decades ago. There are now more than 2,000 bears in the Lower 48 states and much larger populations in Alaska, where hunting is allowed.

The species’ expansion in the Glacier and Yellowstone areas has led to conflicts between humans and bears, including periodic attacks on livestock and sometimes fatal maulings of humans.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte welcomed the administration’s announcement and said it could lead to the state reclaiming management of a species that’s been under federal protections since 1975. He said the grizzly’s recovery “represents a conservation success.”

The federal government removed protections for the Yellowstone ecosystem’s grizzlies in 2017. Wyoming and Idaho were set to allow grizzlies to be hunted when a judge restored those protections in 2018, siding with environmental groups that said delisting wasn’t based on sound science. Those groups want protections kept in place so bears can continue moving into new areas.

“We should not be ready to trust those states,” said attorney Andrea Zaccardi, of the Center for Biological Diversity.

U.S. government scientists have said the region’s grizzlies are biologically recovered but in 2021 decided that protections were still needed because of human-caused bear deaths and other pressures. Bears considered problematic are regularly killed by wildlife officials.

A decision on the states’ petitions was long overdue. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Thursday had filed notice he intended to sue over the delay. Idaho’s petition was broader than the ones filed by Montana and sought to lift protections nationwide.

That would have included small populations of bears in portions of Idaho, Montana and Washington state, where biologists say the animals have not yet recovered to sustainable levels. It also could have prevented the return of bears to other areas such as the North Cascades region.

Source: Voice Of America