Favor Heads West

Popular delivery app Favor expands to Katy and Sugar Land with free chicken sandwiches

Favor has arrived in Katy and Sugar Land.

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On Thursday at 11 am, life will get a little easier for people living in Katy and Sugar Land. Favor, the popular delivery app that allows users to have just about anything delivered, has added the two Houston suburbs to its roster.

People in downtown, west Houston, and The Woodlands have already come to rely on the app as a convenient way to have food, groceries, household items, and more delivered. A Favor "runner" purchases the items and delivers them for a $5 fee plus an optional tip.

According to Favor, the average delivery time is about 35 minutes, which helps it attract devoted fans. Over 40 percent of orders are made by people who use the app at least five times per month. The app is so popular that sales are projected to grow four times in 2016 compared to 2015.

In Sugar Land, the delivery stretches from Highway 90 almost all the way to the Bravos River north to the south; it includes most of First Colony, New Territory, and Sugar Creek but not points north like Sugar Mill or Covington Woods. The Katy delivery area runs from on the north I-10 to the Westpark Tollroad on the south east-to-west between Fry Road and Katy Mills Mall, which includes Cinco Ranch and its surrounding neighborhoods. Hours of operation in both cities are 11 am until 10 pm seven days per week.

To celebrate the new cities, Favor will deliver a free Chick-fil-A Original Chicken Sandwich starting at 11 am on Thursday, October 27, (one per customer, no additions, no substitutions) in Sugar Land, Katy, and Houston. Simply click on the special banner in the app to take advantage of the promotion. (Customers will need to pay tip, not delivery, and supplies are limited

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Medical Center builds bridges for global impact with new Netherlands partnership

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The Texas Medical Center visited the Netherlands to secure a deal that creates a BioBridge to the country and Houston.

The Texas Medical Center may be based in Houston, but the organization has again grown its global impact.

Since 2016, TMC’s BioBridgeshave worked with 88 startup companies. Those include strategic alliances with four other countries. Australia, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland are all among TMC’s BioBridges partners. As of today, add the Netherlands to that list.

On September 27, TMC president and CEO, William F. McKeon, and Carmen van Vilsteren, chair of Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH), signed an agreement in Rotterdam. The TMC Netherlands BioBridge Memorandum of Understanding codifies the innovative goals of the partnership. Essentially, the BioBridge program provides a means for entrepreneurs, researchers, clinicians and industry partners from other countries to access the US market, as well as TMC experts.

“The TMC Netherlands BioBridge represents an unparalleled opportunity for collaboration and growth,” Ashley McPhail, chief external affairs & administration officer at Texas Medical Center said in a press release. “The Netherlands has solidified its position as a global leader in the field of life sciences and health, with a thriving ecosystem of research institutions, innovative companies, and highly skilled professionals. This strategic partnership will bring positive benefits to patients, clinicians and industry partners on a global scale.”

This lifeline for international healthcare companies makes expansion into the United States far smoother. The Global Innovators Launch Pad allows for startup founders to take part in a 10-week residency at the TMC Innovation Factory that will teach them about foundational infrastructure, clinical evidence and funding in the US.

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