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Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Mar 11: Renault Group has unveiled futuREady, its new strategic plan aimed at strengthening global growth, accelerating electrification, and positioning the company as the reference European carmaker on the global stage.

 Building on the success of the Renaulution Plan, the new strategy transforms Renault’s recent turnaround into a long-term system designed to deliver sustainable and global performance. The futuREady plan places strong emphasis on products, customer experience, technological innovation, and operational excellence, while reinforcing the Group’s commitment to employees, suppliers, dealer networks, and partners.

At the center of the strategy is a strong product offensive. Renault Group plans to launch 36 new models by 2030, accelerating electrification and expanding its global portfolio. Over the medium term, the company aims to achieve an operating margin of 5% to 7% of revenue and average annual automotive free cash flow of €1.5 billion or more.

CEO Perspective

“futuREady, our new strategic plan, is a crucial step in the future of Renault Group. In an increasingly competitive environment, we can build on strong fundamentals—our brands, our products, and our financial results,” said François Provost, CEO of Renault Group.

“Since my appointment last July, our global teams have worked together to design a plan that places the Group on the path toward robust and sustainable performance. Through futuREady, we reaffirm our long-term commitment to innovation, performance, and delivering value for our customers worldwide.”

From Success Story to Success System

The Renaulution plan, introduced in 2021, successfully repositioned Renault Group among Europe’s leading automotive manufacturers by focusing on value creation, clear brand positioning, and a strong product renewal program that included 32 new model launches within five years.

With futuREady, the company now aims to build on this success and create a sustainable long-term growth model based on four strategic pillars:

• Growth Ready

• Tech Ready

• Excellence Ready

• Trust Ready

The Group will continue to strengthen its core position in Europe while expanding aggressively in key international markets such as India, South America, and South Korea.

Four Cornerstones of the futuREady Strategy

Growth Ready: Product Offensive and Customer Experience

Renault Group will complete its second major product cycle with 36 new model launches, including:

• 22 models in Europe, of which 16 will be fully electric

• 14 new models in international markets

Renault Brand

The Renault brand will accelerate growth through:

• 12 new product launches in Europe

• Expansion of electrification across its lineup

• Continued hybrid technology development beyond 2030

• 14 international product launches

By 2030, Renault aims to achieve:

• Over 2 million vehicles sold annually, with half outside Europe

• 100% electrified sales in Europe and 50% electrified globally

Dacia Brand

The Dacia brand will continue focusing on competitive pricing and strong customer value. Its strategy includes:

• Expanding electrification to two-thirds of sales by 2030

• Growing its presence in the C-segment

• Expanding its electric vehicle lineup from one model today to four by 2030

Alpine Brand

The performance-focused Alpine brand will drive growth by:

• Launching the next-generation Alpine A110 built on the Alpine Performance Platform

• Expanding with models such as Alpine A290 and Alpine A390

• Introducing exclusive limited-edition vehicles like the A110 R Ultime

The Group also aims to achieve 80% customer loyalty over a ten-year cycle by 2030, placing its brands among the top three globally in customer satisfaction.

Tech Ready: Technology as a Competitive Advantage

Technology will play a central role in the strategy, focusing on electrification, software-defined vehicles, digital technologies, and advanced platforms.

A key innovation will be the RGEV Medium 2.0 Electric Platform, designed for future C- and D-segment electric vehicles. The platform will support:

• Up to 750 km WLTP range for EV models

• Up to 1,400 km with a range extender

• 800-volt architecture enabling ultra-fast charging in about 10 minutes

The platform will also feature a Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) architecture with over-the-air software updates for 90% of vehicle functions. This system is being developed in partnership with Google and will use an Android-based car operating system.

In the future, the platform will evolve toward AI-defined vehicles, enabling advanced control of infotainment, driver assistance systems, and vehicle dynamics.

Excellence Ready: Operational Performance and Efficiency

To remain competitive globally, Renault Group will prioritize operational efficiency through:

• Two-year vehicle development cycles

• AI-driven manufacturing processes

• Digital twin technology via an industrial metaverse

The company plans to deploy 350 next-generation humanoid robots in factories and reduce production costs through:

• 30% fewer parts per vehicle

• 20% reduction in production costs

• 25% reduction in energy consumption

Additionally, AI-powered quality control systems will monitor more than 1,000 checkpoints during manufacturing, aiming to reduce incidents by 50% and cut customer complaints by threefold within five years.

Trust Ready: Strengthening Stakeholder Partnerships

The fourth pillar focuses on long-term relationships with employees, suppliers, dealers, and strategic partners.

Renault Group employs nearly 100,000 people worldwide, with leadership development and skills investment forming a key part of the strategy.

The company also maintains strong partnerships with global automotive players including:

• Nissan

• Mitsubishi Motors

• Volvo Group

• Geely

• Ford Motor Company

By 2030, Renault Group aims to produce more than 300,000 vehicles annually for partner manufacturers across three continents.

Mar 11: Raipur-based spice brand ZOFF Foods today announced that it has raised $2 million in a Pre-Series B funding round led by existing investor JM Financial Private Equity through JM Financial India Growth Fund III, along with Aman Gupta, Co-Founder of boAt. This marks the second round of investment in the company, reinforcing their continued confidence in the brand’s growth and market potential.

The fresh capital will be used to strengthen offline distribution, marketing, and sales, and accelerate expansion and omnichannel growth across India. The company will also use the funds to scale its presence across quick commerce platforms and expand its General Trade network to drive deeper market penetration. ZOFF Foods, operated by Asquare Foods & Beverages Pvt. Ltd., has built a differentiated position in India’s highly competitive spices market through its focus on purity, hygiene-led processing, in-house manufacturing, and premium packaging.

Vinit Rai, Managing Director, JM Financial Private Equity, said,

“ZOFF Foods stands out as a compelling investment opportunity in the Indian spice category. The founders have not just built a business but created a brand that resonates with consumers, which needs vision, consistency, and a deep understanding of the market. Our partnership is about accelerating their national expansion and helping ZOFF Foods become a leading FMCG brand that delivers sustainable value for years to come across households.”

“I have seen ZOFF Foods evolve from a promising challenger into a brand with strong consumer trust. What truly sets them apart is their unwavering focus on quality, innovation, and disciplined execution. My continued association reflects my strong belief in the founders’ vision and in ZOFF Foods’ ability to build a leading, future-ready brand in India’s dynamic FMCG landscape,” said Aman Gupta, Co-Founder, boAt.

Akash Agrawalla, Co-Founder, ZOFF Foods, said,

“This funding marks a key milestone in our journey as we transition into a rapidly scaling brand. As the spices category shifts towards organised, quality-led players, we believe we are well-positioned to lead this transformation. The fresh capital will help us accelerate our offline expansion, strengthen our distribution, and continue driving innovation. With a significant share of our business coming from quick commerce and general trade, our focus remains on getting even closer to consumers across markets.”

“Over the years, we have focused on innovation and earning consumer trust in a largely unorganised category. With JM Financial’s association, we are well-positioned to accelerate our next phase of expansion, bringing a proudly homegrown brand to every household in India.”Ashish Agrawal, Co-Founder, ZOFF Foods.

With this round, ZOFF Foods aims to deepen its presence across general trade, modern retail, and e-commerce platforms while expanding its product portfolio across blended spices, whole spices, and allied food categories.

Fintech and SaaS veteran with more than 30 years of experience to lead company’s technology initiatives

 

FOLSOM, Calif. — March 11 — One Inc, the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced the appointment of fintech transformation leader Bryan Thompson as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With deep payments expertise, Thompson will lead the vision, strategy, and development of One Inc’s technology. He will oversee the company’s global IT roadmap, innovation initiatives, and enterprise security.

Bryan is an expert in fintech and SaaS transformations, with more than 30 years of experience building high-performing organizations focused on innovation and operational excellence. He has a proven track record in technology development, security, and large-scale platform modernization. Across enterprise and startup environments, Thompson has led financial services and SaaS companies through acquisitions, integrations, and major change initiatives. He has also built data and AI platforms that accelerate growth while improving customer experience, efficiency, and reliability.

Prior to joining One Inc, he served as CTO of professional business platform 8am (formerly AffiniPay), where he helped drive rapid SaaS growth and navigated multiple strategic acquisitions. He also served as CTO at Heartland Payment Systems, where he modernized merchant services for businesses across key sectors. Earlier in his career at EDS, Thompson built expertise in high-volume transaction processing—experience that aligns with One Inc’s mission to process complex insurance payments securely, reliably, and at scale.

“We’re pleased to welcome Bryan to our growing team of Onesters as we advance our mission to create a unified digital payments network that connects the insurance ecosystem,” said Ian Drysdale, CEO at One Inc. “Bryan’s track record leading technology development, engineering, security, and infrastructure will be critical as we build new capabilities that allow carriers to operate more efficiently and deliver on the promise of insurance.”

“Through their relentless dedication to the insurance industry, One Inc has built a reputation for delivering revolutionary solutions that enable a traditional industry to meet the rapidly evolving expectations of today’s policyholders,” added Thompson. “I look forward to working with Ian and the entire team at One Inc to build on this momentum, as carriers adopt technologies that improve operational efficiency and deliver modern, seamless experiences for policyholders.”

 

San Antonio, TX, March 10, 2026 — Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading hybrid multicloud and AI solutions company, today announced a strategic partnership with Uniphore, the Business AI leader backed by NVIDIA and AMD, to deliver the industry’s first Infrastructure-to-Agents architecture, offered as an outcomes-based service. The partnership reflects a shared ambition to unlock $100 million in enterprise AI deployments as customers move from AI experimentation to production at scale, without sacrificing governance, security, or control. This is especially relevant for regulated industries where choice, security and sovereignty are non-negotiable requirements.

Operationalizing AI in production remains a challenge due to the complexity of choices across the stack. By integrating Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud with Rackspace’s private cloud infrastructure, Rackspace will deliver a full-stack secure and governed AI private cloud that includes: advanced inferencing capable of running on both NVIDIA and AMD compute architectures; Data Preparation-as-a-Service; fine-tuned Small Language Models (SLMs)-as-a-Service; and industry-specific AI agents-as-a-Service.

“For the first time, enterprises in regulated industries do not have to choose between moving fast on AI and maintaining the governance and control their business requires. Rackspace is taking on that accountability,” said Gajen Kandiah, CEO of Rackspace Technology.  “We are not just providing infrastructure, we are committing to outcomes, and that changes the nature of the relationship between a technology partner and an enterprise customer.” For enterprises, the conversation has shifted from choosing between GPUs and CPUs, or open versus proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs), to driving measurable business outcomes.

Through this partnership, Rackspace brings deep expertise operating private clouds and optimizing public environments, backed by forward-deployed engineers. These forward-deployed engineers, embedded directly in customer environments, are trained on the Uniphore platform and accountable for delivering measurable outcomes from day one. The architecture is designed to extend across hybrid and public cloud environments, ensuring that enterprises with mixed deployment models can access the same governed, outcomes-based AI stack without compromise. The result is an end-to-end governed operating model delivering an outcomes-based service with control, accountability and measurable results.

“Business AI Cloud adoption is seeing exponential growth globally due to its sovereign and open architecture and what enterprises are telling us is that they need business outcomes. Rackspace’s adoption of Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud allows our customers to access all five layers of our offering spanning Inferencing, Data, Knowledge, Model, and Agents, on Rackspace’s secure and governed enterprise AI private cloud. For customers looking for sovereign AI solutions, this is a game changer,” said Umesh Sachdev, CEO and Co-founder of Uniphore.

Rackspace has over 20,000 mid-market and enterprise customers spanning industries such as healthcare, financial services, insurance and others. Additionally, Uniphore will move select enterprise inferencing workloads to Rackspace’s private cloud to deliver a Sovereign AI offering.

“This Rackspace–Uniphore deal packs real punch for organizations struggling to get beyond AI pilot mode”, said David Cushman, Executive Research Leader, HFS Research. “It couples Uniphore’s ‘get-you-going-fast’ AI platform with a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)-style delivery model and governed private cloud, that gets you to value fast, but with control. That’s something most mid-market organizations simply don’t have and will be particularly welcome in regulated industries.”

“While the drive to scale AI across enterprise systems is high, many organizations find their progress stalled by the dual challenges of technical complexity and regulatory compliance,” said Brian Jones, Chief Information Officer of Valley Medical Center. “It is a significant milestone to see Rackspace and Uniphore join forces. This partnership can be a game changer for organizations in highly regulated sectors, providing a robust framework to scale AI and extract tangible value from complex data landscapes.”

For customers, this partnership will deliver:

• From AI pilot to production at scale: Most enterprises are stuck running AI experiments that never make it to production. This partnership delivers a unified, governed environment spanning infrastructure all the way to agents, enabling the path from pilot to production to be measured in weeks, rather than years.
• Data that is ready for AI: Most enterprises have data, but not in a form that AI can use. Uniphore’s data agents accelerate modernization, so enterprise data is structured, clean, and ready to power real workflows, without a multi-year transformation program standing in the way.
• Industry-specific AI that teams can easily deploy: Pre-packaged solutions built on SLMs and agentic workflows provide business teams with a faster path to automation, with governance built in from the start.
• The right compute at the right cost: Enterprises no longer have to over-provision or lock into a single architecture. Rackspace optimizes CPU and GPU environments, enabling each workload to run efficiently.