German to English Marketing Marketing

I am not certain how the verb should be translated in this context (although I believe I have the rest of the sentence more or less correctly translated otherwise). "appears"? "seems"?

Thanks and happy holidays :)

"Auch der Erfolg der Aktivitäten in Richtung von Unternehmen und Kooperationspartnern stimmt zuversichtlich."

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"Also the success of activities in the direction of business and cooperation partners...????...optimistic."