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Dear Friends,

Hope you had a meaningful holiday season and are off to a strong start to 2026. As we close the chapter on 2025, I’m tremendously grateful for our Axcess Worldwide community and proud of the momentum across it. As you’ll see throughout this edition, it’s been a continued period of growth, innovation, and execution across the Axcess ecosystem. I’m also excited to welcome Curator as a new Axcess family member. Owned by my long time friend Adam Sandow, Curator is a beautifully produced luxury publication created exclusively for 10,000+ private jet travelers, distributed across 350+ private airport FBOs and reaching a highly captive, ultra-high-net-worth audience in a premium environment.

This quarter, two themes continue to define Axcess: world-class partnership execution and trusted global relationships. In Featured Work, you’ll see how that comes to life,  from bringing Artisans of Wine & Food back to The Boca Raton for a standout weekend of culinary excellence and philanthropy, to co-hosting the Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi alongside The Rock-It Company, and supporting the continued evolution of its brands through our work with Creature Studio, a growth-focused transformation partner spanning brand, product, and performance creative.

I’m also proud to recognize members of our Axcess family making defining moves across media, sport, and culture, including a special shout-out to my dear friend Mark Lazarus, as he leads Versant into an exciting new chapter as an independent public company. I’ve had the privilege of knowing and working with Mark for more than 20 years, and few leaders have shaped the modern sports and media landscape as meaningfully as he has, including during his tenure as Chairman of NBCUniversal.

As always, we invite you to reach out if there are meaningful opportunities to collaborate with the brands highlighted here, or any of our Axcess family members.

Warmly,
Kirk, Brett, and the Axcess Team

Artisans of Wine & Food Returns to The Boca Raton

Axcess was proud to partner with The Boca Raton as Artisans of Wine & Food returned for its second edition from January 15–18, 2026 — a four-day celebration of culinary excellence, Napa Valley winemaking, and purpose-driven philanthropy set within one of America’s most iconic five-star resorts. Building on the success of its inaugural year, the 2026 program expanded meaningfully, welcoming 100+ distinguished Napa Valley wineries and 20+ celebrated chefs for an exceptional lineup of experiences, from vintner-hosted dinners and intimate winemaker sessions to a progressive tasting pavilion and a grand gala headlined by Chef Mario Carbone.

Artisans of Wine & Food reflected Axcess’s core strength at the intersection of hospitality, culture, and partnerships — bringing together extraordinary talent, storied brands, and a deeply engaged community to create moments that resonated well beyond the weekend itself. The event culminated in a Gala & Charity Auction benefiting Place of Hope and the Napa Valley Vintners Youth Wellness Initiative, reinforcing that the most meaningful luxury experiences are those that give back, while further cementing The Boca Raton’s position as a premier destination for world-class dining, wine, and community-driven programming. (Learn More)

The Rock-It Company at the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Season Finale

Axcess partnered with The Rock-It Company to co-host a high-impact weekend at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, bringing together a curated group of brand leaders, partners, and friends of the Axcess community for the final race of the Formula 1 season. Coinciding with the launch of The Rock-It Company’s new global brand, the weekend reflected the breadth and momentum of the platform across live events and global moments.

Leveraging several years of relationship-building across Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi, the private-suite experience across practice, qualifying, and race day created a natural environment to deepen trust, spark new introductions, and advance strategic conversations across Live Events, as well as Luxury Goods represented by The Rock-It Company brands DIETL and CARS, with multiple relationships already translating into meaningful partnership opportunities heading into 2026.

Creature Rebrands GCL as The Rock-It Company

Axcess partner Creature supported Global Critical Logistics (GCL) through its evolution into The Rock-It Company, uniting a global logistics platform for Live Events and Luxury Goods under one iconic, internationally recognized brand. The engagement included the development of an evolved brand system and digital presence that reflect Rock-It’s scale, heritage, and end-to-end capabilities—successfully bringing the new identity to life across the organization and its family of brands, and marking a new chapter of growth for a company trusted to deliver the world’s most extraordinary moments. (Read the full press release here)

VERSANT Begins Trading on Nasdaq as Independent Company Following Completion of Comcast Spin-Off

NEW YORK, January 05, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) today announced the completion of its spin-off from Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA). VERSANT will commence trading today on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol VSNT. VERSANT is an industry-changing media and entertainment business that operates in four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf and athletics participation and sports and genre entertainment.

The company serves these markets primarily through a portfolio of iconic brands across TV networks and complementary digital businesses, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. (Read More)

Bilt Launches Bilt Card 2.0, Expanding Rewards from Rent to Homeownership

Bilt announced the launch of Bilt Card 2.0, a major evolution of its platform that, for the first time, allows members to earn rewards on both rent and mortgage payments—with no transaction fees—while continuing to reward everyday spend. Introduced on January 14, 2026, the new suite of three cards expands Bilt’s mission of rewarding how people actually live, offering industry-leading value through points, Bilt Cash, and housing-related benefits across a growing national footprint of more than 5.5 million homes.

Led by Founder & CEO Ankur Jain, Bilt has grown into a $10.75B private company redefining the intersection of housing, loyalty, and neighborhood commerce, with leadership that includes Ken Chenault, Roger Goodell, and Tim Mayopoulos. The launch of Card 2.0 marks a significant milestone in Bilt’s continued expansion—bringing renters and homeowners into a single, integrated rewards ecosystem designed for long-term value and financial empowerment. (Read More)

Osmo Publishes More New Fragrance Ingredient Patents Than Entire Industry Combined

Proprietary AI-powered olfaction technology enables Osmo to rapidly develop new fragrance ingredients transforming fragrance innovation

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Osmo, the digital scent design company, today announced that its proprietary Olfactory Intelligence technology led to more published fragrance ingredient patents in 2025 than all of the other major industry players combined. The milestone demonstrates how Osmo’s AI-first approach is reshaping fragrance discovery by enabling the company to explore and analyze billions of potential molecules and identify entirely new ingredient families that traditional methods cannot access, with more precision and speed.

“Osmo is changing the way fragrance molecules are discovered and developed,” said Alex Wiltschko, CEO and Founder of Osmo. “In just two years, we’ve demonstrated that AI can deliver tangible value in molecular discovery. The question now is no longer whether this technology works, but how industries will adapt to deploy it most effectively.” (Read More)

TGL Builds Momentum Heading into 2026

TGL continued to build strong momentum into 2026 following a successful launch of Season 2 presented by SoFi, with competitive early matches, expanding broadcast reach across ABC and ESPN, and growing fan engagement on social and digital platforms. Late 2025 activity at SoFi Center included partner summits, private events, and media activations, while the league grew to more than 30 licensed merchandise partners, welcomed new founding and category sponsors, and activated a broad creator network.

In January, TGL’s momentum accelerated further with the announcement of WTGL, a women’s team golf league launching in winter 2026–27 in partnership with the LPGA, extending TGL’s tech-forward, team-based format to the women’s game and reinforcing the platform’s position as one of the most innovative and fast-growing properties in global sports. (Learn More)

Hut 8 Signs 15-Year, 245 MW AI Data Center Lease at River Bend Campus with Total Contract Value of $7.0 Billion

MIAMI, FL, December 17, 2025 – Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq, TSX: HUT) (“Hut 8” or the “Company”), an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive use cases, today announced that it has signed a 15-year, $7.0 billion lease (the “Agreement”) with Fluidstack for 245 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity at its River Bend data center campus in Louisiana (the “Transaction”). The Agreement grants Fluidstack a Right of First Offer (ROFO) for up to an additional 1,000 MW of IT capacity at future expansion phases of the campus, subject to the expansion of power at the site. (Read More)

We make mini supercars for Rihanna and David Beckham

A management buyout has revved up Hedley Studios, the Bicester factory turning out electric mini replicas that match — or even surpass — the classic originals

Most businesses producing replicas of star products can expect a lawsuit on their hands. But not at Hedley Studios, based in Bicester in Oxfordshire. The firm, known as The Little Car Company until mid-2024, makes electric vehicle “scaled reinterpretations” of some of the world’s most legendary cars, generally about £100,000 or more a pop. These are dream partnerships with the permission of — and, indeed, instigated by — super-premium car marques such as Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti and Ferrari. You can even order a Hedley Studios Ferrari in the prancing horse’s own showrooms.

These scaled-down versions of motoring classics are made about 75 per cent to 85 per cent of the size of the original cars. Owners include Sir David Beckham, the former Spain and Real Madrid footballer Sergio Ramos, and music megastars A$AP Rocky and Rihanna. The “ultimate car enthusiast’s Christmas present”, and “a toy car for grown-ups” are the observations Ben Hedley, 48, must endure whenever non-aficionados clamp eyes on the three-metre-long vehicles. But he wants to stress the cars are lovingly made — even down to the badges, which in some cases are produced in the original factories. (Read More).