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Swappie, a Finnish smartphone reseller aimed at offering people access to the circular smartphone economy has rais <a href=https://www.cup-stanley-cup.ca>stanley ca</a> ed $124 million in a Series C funding round.According to multiple media reports Tuesday Feb. 15 , the funding round was led by growth equity firm Verdane, bringing Swappies total funding to north of $171 million. We truly believe that Swappie can drive consumer awareness and trust in the sector by standardizing quality, championing the role of sustainability, and making buying a refurbished smartphone as common as buying a used car, said Sami Marttinen, the Helsinki-based companys co-founder and CEO.Founded in 2016 by Marttinen and current CMO Jiri Heinonen, Swappie says its goal is to make smartphone economy more accessible and environmentally frien <a href=https://www.stanleycups.pl>stanley termos</a> dly.Swappie says the market for used and refurbished smartphones is projected to increase at an annual growth rate of 10.23% over the next five years, with s <a href=https://www.cups-stanley-cups.us>stanley cup</a> martphones predicted to generate 146 million tons of CO2 emissions in this year. The longer people hold onto the phones, the more emissions they can prevent, the company said. As people and companies progressively move towards a more sustainable lifestyle, the iPhone refurbishment and re-commerce space has grown considerably, and with it Swappie, which has demonstrated the potential to become Europes market leader in refurbished smartphones, said Janne Holmia, partner at Verdane.Read more: Smartphone Procurement Firm everphone Raises $200MSmartphone reCommerce Jjqs Target CEO Steps Down After Data Breach
Small businesses combatting the practice of late invoice payments in the U.K. are proposing a new tactic in the fight.Reports in the BBC on Monday Feb. 18 said the Federation of Small Businesses wants the government to blacklist late payers from receiving government contracts, calling on Scotland to no longer award contracts to companies that pay their small suppliers unacceptably late.Our lamentable payment culture isn ;t a new phenomenon, but that doesn ;t make it any more acceptable, said FSP Scotland policy chairman Andrew McRae in a statement. <a href=https://www.stanleycup.com.de>stanley cup</a> 8220;As we face the possibility of a sustained period of economic turbulence, we can ;t see bigger businesses use their smaller customers as a free source of credit.McRae added that the government has tolerated th <a href=https://www.stanleycup.fr>stanley cup</a> e practice of late payments to small suppliers.At the FSB, our patience has grown thin and we want to see decision-makers pull every lever available to eradicate this corrosive practice.The FSB own resear <a href=https://www.cups-stanley.fr>stanley france</a> ch has found more than one-third of small businesses in Scotland have reported cash flow issues as a result of late payments, with an average of $7,391 owed to each small business in late invoice payments.In another statement, a spokesperson for the Scottish government said the country 8220 trongly encourage<s> all businesses and organizations to ensure the prompt payment of suppliers, and expect<s> those who deliver public contrac
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