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Month: June 2023

Celebrating the big wins in Europe

Celebrating the big wins in Europe

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KC Crain, left, Automotive News Group publisher, catches up with Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo at the Automotive News Europe Congress in Paris last week. De Meo outlined how he turned around the French automaker, which suffered an $8.6 billion loss in the first half of 2020 before his arrival in July that year.

The Automotive News Europe Rising Stars Class of 2023 accepted their awards during a gala event.

Automotive News Europe News Editor Peter Sigal, right, moderates a panel on New Distribution Models in Europe with, from left, Lars Himmer of Semler Gruppen, Mathais Holst of Lynk & Co and Steve Young of ICDP Limited.

Automotive News Europe Managing Editor Douglas A. Bolduc, left, moderates “The Road to Sustainable Battery Production, Assembly and Usage” panel, with, from second from left, PowerCo SE’s Sebastian Wolf, Ascend Elements’ Anna Sosnowik, Rio Tinto’s Colin MacKey and Valeo’s Pascale Herman.

Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi in conversation with Automotive News Europe‘s Sigal read more

Orlando’s Pups Pub dog bar prevails in case versus state health department

Orlando’s Pups Pub dog bar prevails in case versus state health department

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The owner of Pups Pub is wagging his tail from relief after a judge agreed with the downtown Orlando dog bar that the state Department of Health had changed its intepretation of a rule to ban pooches in bars.

“This would have been catastrophic for all dog bars in the state,” said Alex Wright, who owns the Pups Pub bars in Orlando and Tampa with Sheila Suhar.

On Thursday, administrative law judge Lynne Quimby-Pennock concluded the Department of Health had “interpreted the rule for over four years to allow dogs in bars with certain restrictions in place.

“The evidence clearly established that in mid-2022, DOH changed its interpretation to prohibit dogs in bars,” Quimby-Pennock wrote.

Pups Pub opened in Tampa in 2020, and the Orlando location followed last July. No food is prepared or served at Pups Pub, and dogs aren’t allowed behind the bar.

Last year, a cease and desist from the Department of Health ordered Pups Pub in Orlando to stop allowing dogs in the building, the whole idea the business is built upon. read more