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Partnership integrates Kore.co’s reservation technology directly into Google Search and Maps to simplify table bookings and boost restaurant visibility.

FRISCO, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Kore.co, a leading innovator in business and customer engagement platforms, has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with Reserve with Google to bring its Table Reservations technology directly into Google Search and Maps. The integration empowers diners to book tables instantly-right from where they’re already searching-and gives restaurants an all-in-one solution to manage reservations, optimize seating, and enhance every guest interaction.

“This collaboration puts Kore.co restaurants right where diners are already searching,” said Ornis Mala, CEO of Kore.co. “Working with Google gives our partners the visibility they deserve, and the convenience customers crave. From search to seat, we’re simplifying how guests connect with restaurants.”

The collaboration represents a major leap forward for hospitality technology. By embedding Kore.co reservation system into Google’s powerful discovery platforms, Kore.co is creating a seamless bridge between diners and restaurants-offering real-time availability, instant booking, automated confirmations, and waitlist management in one unified experience.

Restaurants using Kore.co Table Reservations platform will now benefit from:

• Instant Google Integration – Appear directly in Google Search and Maps with live booking options.

• Smart Reservation Management – Streamline operations through Kore.co dashboard, including table optimization and guest flow control.

• Enhanced Guest Experience – Deliver faster, smarter, and more personalized dining experiences without adding operational complexity.

The collaboration reflects Kore.co’s ongoing mission to empower local businesses with enterprise-grade technology that drives visibility, efficiency, and growth. As the integration rolls out, diners can expect a one-tap path from craving to confirmed reservation-while restaurants gain a powerful edge in a competitive digital marketplace.

“Kore.co platform was built to help businesses focus on what they do best: providing great service,” added Mala. “By connecting directly through Google, we’re helping restaurants fill more seats, strengthen customer relationships, and make hospitality simpler for everyone.”

For more information, visit www.kore.co.

Contact Information

Ornis Mala
CEO
contact@kore.co
(888) 744-7388

SOURCE: Kore.co

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RICHARDSON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Optex Systems Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPXS), a leading manufacturer of precision optical sighting systems for domestic and global military and commercial applications, is pleased to announce the promotion of Chad George to President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 20, 2025. Mr. George previously served as President and will now assume full executive leadership of the organization.

Mr. George brings an extensive record of operational excellence, strategic vision, and defense industry expertise to his new role. Before joining Optex, Mr. George served in senior operations and supply chain leadership roles within the defense industry, most recently as Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain at Leonardo DRS, where he successfully streamlined production processes and enhanced strategic sourcing capabilities. His background also includes impactful roles at Raytheon, where he developed a strong foundation in defense manufacturing and operational strategy.

Mr. George began his professional career as a manufacturing engineer for Raytheon, then transitioned to the consumer goods sector for Dr. Pepper for 4 years before returning to the defense sector, in which he has spent more than 20 years throughout his career.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Oklahoma State University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas, equipping him with both the technical expertise and strategic insight necessary to lead Optex into its next phase of expansion.

“Chad has demonstrated exceptional leadership and a clear strategic vision since joining Optex,” said Danny Schoening, outgoing CEO of Optex Systems Holdings. “His deep understanding of defense manufacturing, his operational leadership, and most importantly, his commitment to innovation makes him the ideal choice to guide Optex forward. After 13 years as serving as CEO, I am delighted to transition stewardship of Optex to Chad. I have the utmost confidence that under his leadership, the company will continue to strengthen its position as a leader in defense optics and prosper.”

“I am honored to step into the role of Chief Executive Officer,” said Chad George, President and CEO of Optex Systems Holdings. “Optex has a proud legacy of delivering mission-critical optical systems, and I look forward to expanding our product portfolio, advancing our technological capabilities, and exploring adjacent markets to create new opportunities for growth. I am excited to lead this exceptional team into the future.”

In his role as President and CEO, Mr. George will oversee the company’s strategic direction, drive innovation across product lines, and continue efforts to expand Optex’s presence in both core and emerging market verticals. As part of this transition Mr. George has also been appointed to Optex’s board of directors. Mr. Schoening will continue to serve on the board in his role as Chairman for Optex Systems Holdings, Inc.

ABOUT OPTEX SYSTEMS HOLDINGS

Optex, which was founded in 1987, is a Richardson, Texas based ISO 9001:2015 certified concern, which manufactures optical sighting systems and assemblies, primarily for Department of Defense (DOD) applications. Its products are installed on various types of U.S. military land vehicles, such as the Abrams and Bradley fighting vehicles, Light Armored and Armored Security Vehicles, and have been selected for installation on the Stryker family of vehicles. Optex also manufactures and delivers numerous periscope configurations, rifle and surveillance sights, and night vision optical assemblies. Optex delivers its products both directly to the military services and to prime contractors. For additional information, please visit the Company’s website at www.optexsys.com.

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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the products and services described herein. You can identify these statements by the use of the words “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” “likely,” “forecast,” “probable,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continued funding of defense programs and military spending, the timing of such funding, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company’s markets, effects of continued geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, changes in the U.S. Government’s interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, changes in spending due to policy changes in any new federal presidential administration, market acceptance of the Company’s products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions and restructurings or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, changes to export regulations, increases in tax rates, changes to generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining key employees and customers, unanticipated costs under fixed-price service and system integration engagements, changes in the market for microcap stocks regardless of growth and value and various other factors beyond our control.

You must carefully consider any such statement and should understand that many factors could cause actual results to differ from the Company’s forward-looking statements. These factors include inaccurate assumptions and a broad variety of other risks and uncertainties, including some that are known and some that are not. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary materially. The Company does not assume the obligation to update any forward-looking statement. You should carefully evaluate such statements in light of factors described in the Company’s filings with the SEC, especially on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. In various filings the Company has identified important factors that could cause actual results to differ from expected or historic results. You should understand that it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors. Consequently, you should not consider any such list to be a complete list of all potential risks or uncertainties.

Contact:

IR@optexsys.com
(972) 764-5718

SOURCE: Optex Systems Holdings, Inc.

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SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / CMG Financial, a leading privately held mortgage lender, proudly announces that Erin Sorensen, Joint Venture Project Manager, has been selected as a 40 Under 40 honoree by National Mortgage Professional. Her outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact within CMG’s Joint Venture division have earned her a place among the mortgage industry’s rising stars.

CMG Financial, a leading privately held mortgage lender, proudly announces that Erin Sorensen, Joint Venture Project Manager, has been selected as a 40 Under 40 honoree by National Mortgage Professional. Her outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact within CMG’s Joint Venture division have earned her a place among the mortgage industry’s rising stars.

“Collectively, this year’s National Mortgage Professional’s 2025 Class of 40 Under 40 honorees represents every corner of the mortgage world – from originators, marketers, and team leads to executives driving strategy and growth,” noted the feature. “Whether interacting directly with clients or leading transformation behind the scenes, these professionals are building on past accomplishments while setting the pace for the future.

Erin brings over five years of dedicated experience to her role at CMG Financial, where she has played a central role in supporting and scaling the company’s joint venture partnerships. In her capacity, she specializes in cross-functional project management, operational efficiency, and partner support – skills that have been instrumental in launching and growing successful mortgage ventures across the country.

Erin has been a driving force behind the division’s remarkable growth from inception to over $2 billion in annual loan volume. She successfully led the companywide project plan to launch eight new mortgage companies, overseeing every step from licensing and project management to product implementation and financial oversight. By working collaboratively across all CMG departments, Erin has streamlined operations, ensured regulatory compliance, and built scalable structures that support continued growth and innovation.

“Erin is truly the heartbeat of our Joint Venture Channel,” said Chris Harris, EVP of Joint Ventures at CMG. “The level of ownership she brings to every initiative is unmatched. She takes complex challenges and executes them with confidence and a smile, always focused on improving the experience for our partners and the teams around her. Erin’s ability to drive our growth while elevating everyone she works with has made her indispensable to our organization.”

Erin’s contributions have elevated CMG’s performance and advanced best practices within the mortgage industry. Her work reflects not only her personal commitment but also CMG’s core value of building scalable, partner-focused solutions that deliver long-term value. This recognition as a 40 Under 40 honoree is a testament to the influence she has had on the business and the promise of even greater leadership to come.

To read more about this year’s honorees, click here.

About CMG Financial

CMG Financial is a well-capitalized mortgage lender founded in 1993. Founder and CEO, Christopher M. George, was Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association in 2019. CMG makes its products and services available to the market through three distinct origination channels including retail lending, wholesale lending, and correspondent lending. CMG currently operates in all states, including the District of Columbia, and holds approvals with FNMA, FHLMC, and GNMA. CMG is widely known throughout the mortgage banking and housing markets for responsible lending practices, industry and consumer advocacy, product innovation, and operational efficiency. CMG Mortgage, Inc. NMLS ID# 1820 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org, http://www.cmghomeloans.com).

SOURCE: CMG Financial

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Fashion is one of the most complex supply chains in the world. It moves across continents, blends dozens of fiber chemistries, and generates more than one hundred million tons of waste every year. Only about 1% of that waste becomes new fiber. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or downcycled into low-value fillers.

The industry does not struggle because textiles are impossible to recycle. It struggles because it cannot measure what they are made of. CETI in France, CARTIF in Spain, and A*STAR in Singapore each highlight the same truth. The textile economy only works when materials have identity. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) delivers that identity.

CETI’s work with advanced fiber recovery exposes the central challenge. Most textiles contain blends. Cotton mixed with polyester. Elastane integrated into sportswear. Nylon reinforced with specialty dyes. Mechanical recycling systems cannot reliably separate these blends, and chemical recycling systems require accurate input data. A facility may receive 10 tons of material labeled as containing 70% polyester, but the actual content might be 50%. That discrepancy kills yield.

Verified, Not Speculated

With SMX’s molecular-level marking, the composition can be verified with near-perfect accuracy. A sorting line that once operated on assumptions can now classify inputs with measurable confidence. Recovery rates jump. Waste volume drops. Circularity becomes scalable.

CARTIF’s position in Spain reflects the downstream implications. Europe is moving toward mandatory thresholds for recycled content across fashion, packaging, and textiles. Brands will need to prove the recycled inputs used in garments, not simply declare them. CARTIF’s role in circularity R&D demonstrates what the system requires. Traceable fibers. Certified blends. Digital material passports that identify every component in a textile article from manufacturing to reuse. SMX’s identity markers allow that data to travel with the fiber itself. This is not a QR code printed on a hangtag. It is molecular memory embedded in the material. A resale platform gains authentic verification. A recycler gains precise classification data. A regulator gains transparency. A brand gains compliance without friction.

A*STAR adds the global industrial dimension. Asia is the center of garment manufacturing, and Singapore’s ecosystem focuses on high-performance materials, fiber chemistry, and applied ESG technologies. Their work mirrors CETI and CARTIF but solves problems for the upstream side of the system. Manufacturers need process stability. They need to confirm real recycled content. They need to prevent counterfeit material substitution, which continues to drain billions from the global fashion economy.

SMX solves these challenges by applying an identity that cannot be removed, forged, or overwritten. A verified fiber retains 25% higher resale value in secondary markets. A verified garment moves through international trade with less documentation friction. A verified recycled feedstock becomes premium-grade input for manufacturers who must meet precise ESG commitments.

The Sum Total Can Be Massive

The financial implications are massive. The global counterfeit fashion market exceeds $500 dollars. The lack of traceability leads to double-digit efficiency losses for recyclers. The inability to verify blends prevents the recovery of billions of dollars in reusable fibers every year. CETI, CARTIF, and A*STAR all point toward the same solution. Give textiles identity. Once identity exists, authenticity becomes measurable. ESG claims become provable. Circularity becomes industrial.

SMX provides the backbone that ties these nodes together. France strengthens recovery. Spain strengthens compliance. Singapore strengthens manufacturing integrity. The common thread is verification. Without it, the global textile market continues leaking value at every stage. With it, the industry gains a circular architecture that preserves materials instead of discarding them.

Fashion has always communicated identity. Now the materials themselves finally have it.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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MCLEAN, VA / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Gladstone Alternative Income Fund (“Gladstone Alternative” or the “Fund”) announced today that its board of trustees declared monthly cash distributions to shareholders for the month of December. The December distribution amount is $0.00196 per calendar day for each issued and outstanding Class A share, Class C share, and Class I share for the period beginning December 1, 2025 and ending December 31, 2025 (for shareholders who own shares all 31 days in December, the distribution will total $0.06076 per share). The distributions will be paid on December 31, 2025 for Dividend Reinvestment Plan (“DRIP”) participants and January 2, 2026 for non-DRIP participants.

John Sateri, President of Gladstone Alternative, noted, “We are pleased to announce the tenth consecutive monthly dividend for Gladstone Alternative, continuing our commitment to delivering consistent income to our investors. We look forward to continuing to create long-term value in the months and years ahead by generating sustainable returns for our shareholders while providing them access to a diversified portfolio of private credit and equity investments.”

About Gladstone Alternative Income Fund

Gladstone Alternative Income Fund is a non-diversified, unlisted, closed-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and is operating as an interval fund. The Fund seeks to achieve and grow current income by investing primarily in directly originated loans to lower and middle market private businesses in the United States, broadly syndicated loans and commercial real estate loans.

Investors are advised to carefully consider the investment objectives, risks and charges, and expenses of Gladstone Alternative Income Fund before investing. The prospectus, dated July 29, 2025, which has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and as supplemented from time to time, contains this and other information about the Fund and should be read carefully before investing. You may get these documents for free by visiting the Fund’s website at www.gladstoneintervalfund.com or by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. To obtain a copy of the prospectus, you may also contact Gladstone Securities, LLC, the dealer manager and distributor for this offering, which will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling toll-free at (833) 849-5993.

For further information, please visit our website at www.gladstoneintervalfund.com.

SOURCE: Gladstone Alternative Income Fund

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Plastics are a six-hundred-billion-dollar global industry operating on unreliable data. More than four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, yet less than 10% are recycled into meaningful second-life applications. The world is not short on plastic. It is short on verified plastic. Tradepro, REDWAVE, and A*STAR highlight how quickly that gap closes once SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) brings identity into the system. When materials carry molecular memory, recycling stops being a waste-management activity. It becomes an industrial supply chain.

Tradepro represents the upstream side of this shift. Their work across post-industrial and post-consumer plastics exposes a structural problem. Recyclers cannot command premium pricing when they cannot prove what they are selling. A bale that claims to be 85% polyethylene often trades at a discount because buyers assume the actual content may be closer to 60%.

SMX changes that by delivering identification accuracy that approaches 100% across complex polymers. In practical terms, a recycler that once sold commodity-grade feedstock can now sell certified, specification-verified material. Price differentials in that category often reach twenty to forty percent. Identity is not an attribute. It is revenue.

Building the Infrastructure

REDWAVE brings the scale. Their sorting infrastructure moves materials at nearly two meters per second. Historically, that speed came with a cost. Mixed plastics, flame-retardant compounds, and especially carbon-black plastics often went undetected in recovery because optical systems could not reliably detect them. That exclusion locks away billions in recoverable value.

When SMX markers enter the equation, identification becomes instant regardless of color, density, or chemical additives. Early tests have produced accuracy rates of 99% to 100% at full industrial throughput. That precision turns previously unrecoverable waste streams into supply-ready commodities. It also lifts recovery efficiency by double-digit percentages across facilities that process hundreds of thousands of tons per year.

A*STAR’s presence exemplifies how important this shift is for national-level strategy. Countries intending to reduce landfill dependency and strengthen recycling sovereignty need infrastructure that proves, not claims, circularity. A*STAR’s engagement signals how governments view data-backed materials. They become economic assets. They support manufacturing resilience, compliance readiness, and trade negotiation leverage. They also reduce reliance on imported petrochemicals by increasing the usable share of domestically recovered plastic. Circularity stops being a social initiative. It becomes industrial policy.

System-Level Benefits

The system-level benefits compound. Brand owners who must meet mandatory recycled-content quotas now have a technical path to real compliance. Regulators who historically relied on voluntary reporting can now measure actual recovered volumes. Manufacturers gain predictable feedstock quality, increasing production efficiency and reducing defect rates.

A verified plastic pellet does more than carry recycled content. It carries data. That data becomes the foundation for smarter pricing, circular incentives, and digital marketplaces where every kilogram converts into a monetizable unit.

This is why the plastics sector is moving toward identity infrastructure. Tradepro reveals the value locked in verification. REDWAVE provides the industrial engine capable of scaling it. A*STAR demonstrates why countries want it embedded in national systems. SMX supplies the molecular backbone that connects them.

The numbers tell the story. Recovery rates rise. Sorting accuracy strengthens. Market premiums widen. Landfill pressure declines. Circular output finally becomes competitive with virgin material.

Plastics circularity missions are not failing because they are unrecyclable. Plastics recycling efforts are failing because they are unverifiable. Now it can be both. Identity will rebuild the gold market. Identity will rebuild the textiles market. And identity is about to rebuild the world’s most challenging waste stream of all: plastic.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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A photographic study of art and its audience, a bold anti-design portfolio, and a colorful impact report take top honors

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Readymag, the design tool for creating websites, has announced the winners of the Websites of the Year 2025 award. 25 websites have been shortlisted, and one winner was selected in each of three categories: Jury Choice, Community Choice, and Readymag Choice.

Websites of the Year is an annual award presented to outstanding designs created with Readymag. The award recognizes projects for visual expressiveness, design innovation, content, and narrative. The mission of Websites of the Year is to orient designers within the evolving landscape of web design, spotlighting standout examples and celebrating the community’s achievements.

The Jury Choice went to People Look at Art or Art Looks at People by Anton Repponen-a New York-based designer whose 20-year career includes work for clients such as Nintendo, Balenciaga, and cultural institutions like The Met and M+ Museum. Tea Uglow from Dark Swan Institute noted that the site elegantly reflects its content, while Marcos Rodrigues from Porto Rocha gave a “special shout-out to the typeface,” saying that “it does a fantastic job of shaping the overall archival/analog tone.”

The Readymag team selected the portfolio of NYC-based designer Jo Ilijima, noting its originality and immediate impact. As Readymag’s head of design Alexander Moskovskiy put it, “We loved the website creator’s approach-a mix of bold colors and shapes with precise, accurate typography. The contrast works beautifully.” The team emphasized that the winning portfolio is a standalone piece of artwork with its own style, idea, and logic.

The impact report from a Dutch coffee brand Wakuli won the public vote. It received almost 15% of all votes and became the community’s favorite.

Speaking about this year’s award, CEO of Readymag Diana Kasay said: “Now in its 12th edition, Websites of the Year is our way of centering creators. We hold ourselves and the participants to high standards while keeping in mind the practical nature of web design. This balance helps surface the avant-garde in a way that remains accessible within a broader design context.”

Alexander Moskovskiy also highlighted broader patterns in this year’s submissions, including a growing blend of brutalist, convention-breaking visuals with the clean, restrained aesthetics of contemporary product design. “We’re seeing very neat, nuanced typography and animation combined with rough, bold, expressive colors and shapes,” he said. He added that designers continue to experiment with unconventional storytelling formats, and that motion remains a powerful tool for both narrative and visual impact.

The winning and shortlisted projects are available on the awards website.

Readymag is a design tool for creating websites. Since its founding in 2012, the company remains independent and bootstrapped, with a strong focus on visual expressiveness. Readymag is used by designers, studios, media outlets, brands, and anyone who needs flexible, visually rich websites without coding. Learn more at readymag.com.

SOURCE: Readymag Inc

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