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Combines modern aesthetic design with expert-managed facility services

WILMINGTON, Mass., May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — UniFirst Corporation (NYSE:UNF), a North American leader in providing customized business uniform programs, facility service products and first aid and safety services, today announced the launch of the Essential Series.™ This fully managed restroom solution bridges the gap between modern design aesthetic and operational simplicity, helping businesses maintain clean, welcoming facilities without the traditional maintenance hassle.

The Essential Series™ shifts restroom hygiene from a procurement hassle to a seamlessly managed service. The collection features a suite of eight dispensers for soap, paper, and air fresheners that pair a modern, timeless design with a proactive, expert-led service model, ensuring facilities stay fully stocked, clean, and visually cohesive.

Modern design meets operational ease
The Essential Series™ represents a sophisticated departure from traditional dispensers currently on the market. By offering a curated, unique design with a cohesive and intentional look, the collection is specifically tailored for the modern and professional feel of today’s work environments.

• Timeless Design: Available in two classic design options (sleek black and white), the series will match any décor. The minimalist look ensures that the dispensers remain a modern classic avoiding the pitfalls of seasonal color trends and ensuring a perfect match during future facility renovations.
• Easy-Clean Surfaces: Form follows function with smooth, contoured surfaces. By eliminating unnecessary ridges and textures, the design allows for rapid wiping and sanitization, keeping the environment looking sharp with minimal effort.
   
• The “One-Key” Efficiency: To streamline facility management, the dispensers use a single lock and key system. This eliminates the “key ring clutter” often found in commercial buildings, making servicing easy for on-site staff and UniFirst service teams.

Restoring Peace of Mind Through Service Certainty
The Essential Series™ helps eliminate the worry that empty dispensers will negatively impact a company’s brand reputation. By shifting from a reactive “order and refill” model to a professionally managed service, the program provides peace of mind through:

• Proactive Service: UniFirst service-certified experts take full ownership of inventory levels. Businesses no longer need to monitor stock or handle emergency refills. UniFirst local service teams stay ahead of customer needs, so facilities remain fully stocked.
   
• High-Capacity Dispensers: Engineered for high-traffic environments, the dispensers hold a larger volume of product than standard units to reduce the risk of runouts. By decreasing the frequency of required refills, the Essential Series™ minimizes operational interruptions and reduces the time staff must spend on restroom upkeep.
   
• Predictable Billing: With a fixed service model and no upfront capital investment, operations leads can expect no surprise fees, just seamless service with expert inventory management. Transparent billing replaces the stress of fluctuating wholesale costs and unexpected equipment repairs.

“Our facilities are often the first point of contact for our customers and home base for our team, so maintaining a professional environment is important for us. Our team loves the look and feel of the dispensers,” said UniFirst customer Charles Grandll, General Manager, Ballard Truck Center. “We transitioned to UniFirst because we needed a partner who valued transparency and proactive service as much as we do. Their Essential Series has not only elevated the look of our locations with its modern design, but the proactive service has also given our management team the freedom to stay focused on our core trucking operations without worrying about facility maintenance.”

Closing the “Labor Gap” Through Operational Efficiency

The Essential Series™ also combats “operational drain,” the lost productivity businesses spend on manual inventory tracking. By combining high-capacity restroom dispensers with proactive service, the program addresses the industry’s labor gap by significantly reducing the frequency of required maintenance intervals, allowing on-site staff to stay focused on core business tasks.

“The Essential Series™ is about providing customers with one less thing to worry about,” said Steven Sintros, President and CEO of UniFirst. “By turning restroom maintenance into a dependable, expert-managed service, UniFirst gives business owners the assurance that their facilities are aesthetically appealing, clean, and professional, allowing them to reallocate their most valuable resources, their people and time, to their most critical business priorities.”

The UniFirst Essential Series™ is available for installation across the United States and Canada. For more information on how the Essential Series™ can help optimize business operations, visit UniFirst.com.

About UniFirst

UniFirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF) helps businesses of all sizes keep their workers safe, comfortable, and professional with work uniform and facility service solutions, as well as first aid and safety supplies and services. Headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., the company manages specialized garment programs through its subsidiaries for the cleanroom and nuclear industries. Alongside partnerships with leading brands, UniFirst manufactures its own branded workwear, protective clothing, floorcare products, and restroom supplies at three company-owned facilities. Guided by a commitment to Always Deliver™ for its customers, Team Partners, and communities, UniFirst operates 270-plus service locations across North America, serves more than 300,000 customer locations, and outfits over 2 million workers daily with the support of 16,000-plus Team Partners. For more information, contact UniFirst at 888.296.2740 or visit UniFirst.com. Follow UniFirst on  LinkedIn, Facebook,  X,  YouTube,  Instagram.

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GUANGZHOU, China, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HUYA Inc. (“Huya” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HUYA), a leading game-related entertainment and services provider, today provided an update on its ongoing share repurchase program.

Reflecting the Company’s confidence in its long-term prospects and continued commitment to enhancing shareholder value, Huya has been actively executing the 2026 Share Repurchase Program authorized by its board of directors on March 18, 2026. As previously disclosed, under the program, the Company may repurchase up to US$50 million of its American depositary shares (“ADSs”) and/or ordinary shares over a 24-month period ending on March 18, 2028.

Mr. Junhong Huang, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Huya, commented, “We believe the Company’s current market valuation does not fully reflect the progress we have made in expanding our game-related services ecosystem, improving our revenue structure and driving operational efficiency. We will remain committed to disciplined capital allocation and sustainable value creation for our shareholders.”

Going forward, Huya will continue to evaluate market conditions and repurchase shares from time to time under its share repurchase program. The timing, frequency, volume and other specific terms of any future repurchases will be at the Company’s full discretion, subject to market conditions, the share repurchase program and applicable law. The Company will provide timely updates to shareholders as and when appropriate in accordance with rules and regulations.

About HUYA Inc.

HUYA Inc. is a leading game-related entertainment and services provider. Huya delivers dynamic live streaming and video content and a rich array of services spanning games, e-sports, and other interactive entertainment genres to a large, highly engaged community of game enthusiasts. Huya has cultivated a robust entertainment ecosystem powered by AI and other advanced technologies, serving users and partners across the gaming universe, including game companies, e-sports tournament organizers, broadcasters and talent agencies. Leveraging this strong foundation, Huya has also expanded into innovative game-related services, such as game distribution, in-game item sales, advertising and more. Huya continues to extend its footprint in China and abroad, meeting the evolving needs of gamers, content creators, and industry partners worldwide.

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For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

In China:

HUYA Inc.
Investor Relations
Tel: +86-20-2290-7829
E-mail: [email protected] 

Piacente Financial Communications
Jenny Cai
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
E-mail: [email protected] 

In the United States:

Piacente Financial Communications
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050 
E-mail: [email protected] 

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• Strategic Framework Alliance to Power Next-Generation Turnkey Autonomous Vehicle Development
• ECARX to Develop High Performance AI Compute System for May Mobility
• Future Compute System to Utilize ECARX Self-Developed Integrated Sensor Suite
• ECARX and May Mobility to Jointly Select and Define Base Vehicle
• Joint Collaboration Ta
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  gets 50% Cost Efficiency Gains and Global Fleet Scaling by 2028

LONDON and ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ECARX Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: ECX) (“ECARX”), a leading global automotive intelligence company, today announced a strategic framework agreement with May Mobility Inc., a leading U.S.-based autonomous vehicle (AV) technology company, to bring ECARX’s intelligent driving capacity to May Mobility’s future autonomous fleet for scaling ride-hail deployment. The partnership has identified a third-party vehicle platform for initial targeted deployment starting next year, with commercialization scale-up in 2028.

A Strategic Framework for Advanced Autonomous Mobility

Under the agreement, ECARX is expected to develop and deliver up to thousands of autonomy-enabled vehicles, including customized central computing platforms and a full stack sensor suite, for May Mobility’s next-generation autonomy system. The collaboration will unlock significant new growth opportunities for ECARX and will accelerate the rollout of May Mobility’s autonomous vehicle fleet.

By bringing together ECARX’s deep expertise in full-stack intelligent driving solutions and May Mobility’s industry-leading autonomous driving system, this framework agreement will leverage the best of both companies’ core competencies in intelligent hardware and software development.

May Mobility’s autonomous driving system understands the physical world through a predictive world model and reasons through it. Simulating up to 10 seconds into the future, the reasoning model evaluates multiple competing driving strategies and executes the one best suited to the current situation. May Mobility’s autonomy enables safe, reliable autonomous driving for ride-hail services in cities across the U.S. and Japan.

ECARX and May Mobility are jointly aiming to reduce the all-in cost of May Mobility’s autonomous vehicles, targeting at least 50% cost reduction by 2028.

ECARX to Deliver Custom L4 Central Computing &
Complete Sensor Suite

As the intended exclusive technology provider for this partnership, ECARX is expected to design the following integration components on the selected vehicle platform to deliver a turnkey AV:

• Custom L4 Central Computing Platforms: High-performance, automotive-grade Central Computing Units (CCUs) developed by ECARX, optimized for May Mobility’s driverless requirements.
• Complete Sensor Suite: A tailored, high-precision sensor package—including LiDAR, radar, cameras, and IMUs—engineered for 360° environmental perception and L4 safety standards.

Accelerating Global Autonomous Vehicle Deployment

The partnership is expected to enable May Mobility to scale its AV fleet with ECARX’s robust, scalable, and cost-effective technology, while potentially providing ECARX with a significant new revenue stream in the robotaxi market. The custom solutions will be deployed on the selected vehicle platform across May Mobility’s commercial ride-hail AV services, advancing the AV company’s Autonomy-as-a-Service (AaaS) business model. The total value of the project is estimated to be approximately US$750m over its entire duration.

The actual scope and details of this collaboration, and the actual project value, remain subject to further negotiations and execution of definitive agreements. The successful deployment of these autonomous platforms is also subject to regulatory determination.

Ziyu Shen, Founder and CEO of ECARX, said:
“This partnership marks a major milestone for ECARX as we expand our global footprint in autonomous driving. May Mobility is a proven trailblazer in safe, scalable AV deployments, and we are proud to have the potential to deliver our cutting-edge L4 central computing to power their next-generation vehicles. This collaboration is expected to open exciting new revenue growth avenues for ECARX and further reinforce our position as a global leader in intelligent mobility technologies.”

Dr. Edwin Olson, CEO and Founder of May Mobility, said: 
“Autonomous ride-hail at scale isn’t built by one company alone. It takes a lot of pieces, assembled well, and our strategy is to bring the industry’s best partners together to do that. ECARX brings the engineering depth and supply chain expertise that turn a great autonomy stack into thousands of autonomous vehicles on the road at a cost structure that actually works at scale.”

About ECARX

ECARX (Nasdaq: ECX), headquartered in London, is a leading global automotive intelligence company. ECARX provides the intelligent brain that powers the next generation of software-defined and AI defined vehicles. The company delivers end-to-end, full-stack solutions spanning advanced system-on-chip hardware, high-performance central computing platforms, intelligent cockpit technology, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, cloud connectivity and physical AI, alongside bespoke vehicle software and intelligent operating systems.

As automakers transition to software-first and AI-first vehicle architectures, ECARX empowers automakers to streamline integration, reduce systemic complexity and optimize long-term cost efficiency. ECARX’s proven technology is deployed across over 11 million vehicles worldwide, and is currently partnered with 18 global automakers and 28 vehicle brands to shape the future of automotive intelligence.

Founded in 2017 and listed on Nasdaq in 2022, ECARX operates from 13 major international locations across Europe, the Americas and Asia, with a global team of over 1,400 employees. For more information please refer to ECARX Investor Relations website.

About May Mobility

May Mobility develops autonomous vehicle technology for commercial ride-hail services. Its patented in-situ AI integrates deep learning, a dynamic world model, and a real-time reasoning engine to navigate through new and complex situations on the road. In partnership with Toyota Motor Corporation, NTT, Lyft, Uber, and Grab, May Mobility delivers Autonomy-as-a-Service (AaaS) at commercial scale and has completed more than half a million commercial autonomous rides across deployments in the U.S. and Japan. For more information, visit www.maymobility.com.

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For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, see ECARX’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ECARX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law.

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PRINCETON, N.J. and MIAMI, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIAX^®) (NYSE: MIAX), a technology-driven leader in building and operating regulated financial markets across multiple asset classes, today announced the successful launch of Tini Bloomberg 100 Index Futures — the first in a suite of equity index products based on Bloomberg Indices’ portfolio of equity indices launching exclusively on MIAX Futures™.

Additionally, Tini Bloomberg 500 Index Futures will launch on May 31 (June 1 trade date), and Bloomberg 500 Futures will launch on June 7 (June 8 trade date). These three new products will be listed on MIAX Futures and will clear at the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC).

“MIAX’s new products based on Bloomberg indices are designed to help both retail and institutional investors gain and manage exposure to the largest companies in the U.S.,” said Thomas P. Gallagher, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MIAX. “We believe that Bloomberg Indices’ transparent, rules-based methodology provides a meaningful structural advantage among competing futures and options market benchmarks, designed to eliminate subjectivity and delays that the market will come to appreciate particularly as the IPO pipeline improves.”

“This launch marks an important step forward in the evolution of equity index markets,” said Emanuele Di Stefano, Head of Index Product, Bloomberg Index Services Limited. “The Bloomberg 500 and 100 were built to set a new standard for U.S. equity benchmarks; transparent, systematically constructed, and designed to quickly adapt to changes in market composition.

Mr. Gallagher added, “We’re grateful to Bloomberg for its ongoing collaboration in the development of these products, and are confident in the long-term opportunity this product suite creates for MIAX, Bloomberg, and our members.”

MIAX previously announced its licensing agreement with Bloomberg Index Services Limited (Bloomberg Indices) to develop a suite of index futures, options on futures, and cash options products based on Bloomberg Indices’ portfolio of benchmarks.

For more information, visit www.miaxglobal.com/bloomberg-equity-index-products.

About MIAX
Miami International Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MIAX) is a technology-driven leader in building and operating regulated financial markets across multiple asset classes and geographies. MIAX operates eight exchanges across options, futures, equities and international markets including MIAX^® Options, MIAX Pearl^®, MIAX Emerald^®, MIAX Sapphire^®, MIAX Pearl Equities™, MIAX Futures™, The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) and The International Stock Exchange (TISE). MIAX also owns Dorman Trading, a full-service Futures Commission Merchant. To learn more about MIAX, please visit www.miaxglobal.com.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Designer Brands Inc. (NYSE: DBI), one of the world’s largest designers, producers and retailers of footwear and accessories, announced the Company will issue its first quarter 2026 earnings on June 9, 2026. Management will host a conference call to discuss the results at 8:30 am E.T. A press release detailing the Company’s results will be issued prior to the call.

Investors and analysts interested in participating in the call are invited to dial 888-317-6003, or the international dial in, 412-317-6061, and reference conference ID number 6930887 approximately ten minutes prior to the start of the call. The conference call will be broadcast live over the internet and can be accessed through the following link: Designer Brands Inc 1Q26 Earnings Call

For those unable to listen to the live webcast, an archived version will be available at the same location until June 23, 2026. A replay of the teleconference will be available by dialing the following numbers: 

Replay:

North American callers: 1-855-669-9658 

International callers: 1-412-317-0088 

Passcode: 7496602

About Designer Brands


Designer Brands is one of the world’s largest designers, producers, and retailers of the most recognizable footwear brands and accessories, transforming and defining the footwear industry through a mission of being shoe obsessed. With a diversified, world-class portfolio of coveted brands, including Topo Athletic, Keds, Vince Camuto, Kelly & Katie, Jessica Simpson, Lucky Brand, Mix No. 6, Crown Vintage and others, Designer Brands designs and produces on-trend footwear and accessories for all of life’s occasions delivered to the consumer through a robust direct-to-consumer omni-channel infrastructure and powerful national wholesale distribution. Powered by an approximately billion-dollar digital commerce business across multiple domains and over 660 DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, The Shoe Co., and Rubino stores in North America, Designer Brands delivers current, in-line footwear and accessories from the largest national brands in the industry and holds leading market share positions in key product categories across women’s, men’s, and kids’. Designer Brands also distributes its brands internationally through select wholesale and distributor relationships while also leveraging design and sourcing expertise to build private label products for national retailers. Designer Brands is committed to being a difference maker in the world and the footwear industry. By leading with our corporate values of We Belong and We Do What’s Right, Designer Brands supports the global community and the health of the planet by donating more than thirteen million pairs of shoes to the global non-profit Soles4Souls since 2018. To learn more, visit www.designerbrands.com.

 

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