Including another dip in consumer confidence, Fireball’s senior citizen discount and United’s facility expansion in Houston. 

NEW YORK, March 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists and consumers stay on top of the week’s most newsworthy and popular releases, here’s a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn’t be missed.

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1. US Consumer Confidence Tumbled Again in March
   “Consumers’ expectations were especially gloomy, with pessimism about future business conditions deepening and confidence about future employment prospects falling to a 12-year low. Meanwhile, consumers’ optimism about future income—which had held up quite strongly in the past few months—largely vanished…,” said Stephanie Guichard, Senior Economist, Global Indicators at The Conference Board.
2. Coors Light Turns Obstructed Views into Chill Brews for Baseball Home Openers
   Passionate baseball fans will grab any seat just to soak in the game day energy, but not every seat in the stadium is made equal. That’s why this season, Coors Light is making Home Openers a little more chill with Obstructed Brews, rewarding select fans sitting in obstructed-view seats with Coors Light, on us.
3. Honeywell Announces Leadership Team and Company Name for Advanced Materials Spin-Off
   The newly-named Solstice Advanced Materials will be a publicly traded, sustainability-focused, specialty chemicals and materials pure play. With nearly $4 billion in revenue last year, Solstice Advanced Materials will offer leading technologies with premier brands, including the Solstice® hydrofluoroolefin technology.
4. National Resident Matching Program® Releases the 2025 Main Residency Match® Results, Celebrates the Next Generation of Physicians
   A total of 52,498 applicants registered for the Match, an increase of 2,085 (4.1 percent) over last year. This year the NRMP welcomed two new specialties to the Match; Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine. All told, the 2025 Main Residency Match included 6,626 certified program tracks, an all-time high.
5. 5. Fireball Announces Epic Senior Citizen Discount, Offers Lifetime Cinnamon Whisky Supply to Fans Who Are 90+
   Those 90+ who are ready to prove the fun is far from over can enter for the chance to win a lifetime supply of Fireball. But this red-hot reward is strictly for the winner. No passing it down in the will, no sneaky ‘whisky inheritance’ loopholes, and definitely no ghostly reappearances to claim a refill.
6. Novo Nordisk expands Wegovy® $499-per-month offering to additional cash-paying patients via the Wegovy® savings offer
   Beyond NovoCare^® Pharmacy, the Wegovy^® savings program offers another avenue for people living with obesity to ensure they are receiving authentic, FDA-approved Wegovy^® from reputable pharmacies, helping to avoid the significant risks that can be posed by the compounding marketplace.
7. Databricks and Anthropic Sign Landmark Deal to Bring Claude Models to the Data Intelligence Platform
   Combined with Databricks Mosaic AI, the landmark deal brings Anthropic’s world-class Claude models directly to over 10,000 companies, alongside their business-critical, proprietary data. As a result, customers can build and deploy AI agents that reason over their own data.
8. United Airlines Breaks Ground on New $177M Ground Service Equipment Facility and Opens New State-of-the-Art Technical Operations Training Facility at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
   United expects the new $177 million GSE maintenance facility to open in 2027 – it will support the airline’s fleet of more than 1,800 ground service vehicles and give United’s Ground Service Equipment maintenance team even more resources to perform critical tasks like charging batteries, fabricating metal, and monitoring electronic controls with improved infrastructure and modernized workspaces.
9. Chili’s® Announces the Grand Opening of Chili’s Scranton Branch
   The brand-new, permanent restaurant will pay homage to some of Chili’s most notable on-screen moments, with throwback nods and decor, in addition to being the only Chili’s location to include the fan-favorite Awesome Blossom^® on menus.
10. Kermit the Frog to Deliver University of Maryland’s 2025 Commencement Address
    After a sold-out visit to campus in fall 2024 as part of the College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series, Kermit the Frog returns to the university from The Muppets Studio, part of the Magic of Disney, to share an inspiring message with this year’s graduates. 
11. Dove and RISE.365 Call for Black Hair Representation in Emojis
    Despite 92% of the world’s population using the nearly 4,000 emojis currently available, there is a significant gap in the representation of Black people. While users can choose from 18 emojis representing mythical characters, there is not a single emoji representing real people with natural or protective hairstyles.

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