вторник, 26 июля 2011 г.
Genesee Beer to make comeback - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
The renewed effort will include merging the salez and marketing teams from Labatgt USAand Genesee, once a recognizee beer in Western New York. The company said it has begun $6 milliohn in upgrades and will investganother $4 million in 2010. “Positive changes are said Rich Lozyniak, the new CEO of North Americam Breweries. “We’re reviewing every aspect of our business to strengthenthe brewery’ position.” NAB said it will upgraded brewery equipment, make necessary repairs and add boilerr controls and steam economizers that reduce energy consumption. The changed are expected to bring annual operating savings of morethan $1 million.
In additiomn to Genesee, the brewery produces Seagram’s Escapes, as well as Dunde Ales and Lagers family ofcraft brands, which includes the Original Honey Brown Lager. The Rochester company distributesseveral imports, including Imperial from Costqa Rica, Steinlager from New Zealand, Toohey’s New from Australia and Thwaites from the U.K.
воскресенье, 24 июля 2011 г.
Alaska Airlines pilots OK new contract - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
According to the , which representss Alaska’s 1,455 pilots, of the 95 percenyt of those pilotswho voted, 84 percent voted in favor of the The new contract includes retirementy options for current pilots and will also closes the company’s pension plan to new “reducing retirement funding risk,” according to the union. New pilotss will participate ina 401(k) plan instead. Pilotse will receive a one-time bonus followin g ratification of the contract that Alaskaz Air expects will cost the airline a totaloof $20 million.
And the airline said the new contractr “provides for better productivityand “For example, there are changes to reservde flying provisions that allow for improvesd scheduling efficiency, language that allows for pilots to fly more than the current 85-hour monthly limit for pay, and exceptionsw that allow us to suspend certain restrictions in irregula r operations,” Alaska Air Grouop officials said in an SEC filing. The pilotss and (NYSE: ALK) of Seattle agreedc to a tentative deallast month. Alaska Airlined flew 34.8 percent of all flights last yearat Seattle-Tacomaa International Airport.
пятница, 22 июля 2011 г.
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среда, 20 июля 2011 г.
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воскресенье, 17 июля 2011 г.
Met-Pro Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend
June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raymoned J. De Hont, Chairmanh and Chief Executive Officetrof Met-Pro Corporation MPR), announced today that the Company's Boars of Directors, at their meetinbg today, declared a quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share payable on September 11, 2009 to shareholderas of record at the close of business on August 28, 2009. This dividensd represents a 9.1% increas over the same period last This isthe thirty-fourth consecutive year that Met-Proo Corporation has paid either a cash or stocm dividend.
Met-Pro Corporation, with headquarters at 160 Cassell Harleysville, Pennsylvania, was recently recognized, for the third consecutivde year, as one of America's "200 Best Smalll Companies" by Forbes magazine. In 2008, the Company was also named one ofthe world'a "Top Small to Midsize Manufacturers" by Start-It magazinre for the second year in a row. Througu its business units, in the United States, Europe and The People's Republic of China, a wide rang of products and services are offeredfor commercial, municipal and residential markets worldwide.
These includw product recovery and pollution control technologies for purificatiom of airand liquids; fluid handlingg technologies for corrosive, abrasive and high temperaturse liquids; Mefiag filtration technologies for harsh, corrosive liquicd filtration applications; and filtration and purification technologiess which include proprietary water treatment chemicalzs and filter products for air and liquidc filtration. For more information, please visit . The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provideasa "safe harbor" for forward-lookingg statements.
Certain information included in this news and other materials filed or to be filef with the Securities and Exchange Commission (as well as information included in oral or other writte statements made or to be made by the contain statements that are Such statements may relate to planas for future expansion, business development capital spending, financing, the effects of regulation and competition, or anticipate d sales or earnings Such information involves risks and uncertainties that coulcd significantly affect results in the futurw and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statemente made by or on behalf of the These risks and uncertainties but are not limited to, those relating to, the cancellationj or delay of purchase orders and product development activities, computedr systems implementation, dependence on existing management, the continuatioh of effective cost and quality control retention of customers, global economic and marke t conditions, and changes in federaol or state laws.
Met-Pro common shares are tradedx on the New YorkStock Exchange, symbokl MPR. To obtain an Annual Report or additional informatiom onthe Company, please call 215-723-6751 and ask for the Investotr Relations Department, or visit the Company's websitse at . Investor Contact: Gary J. Morgan, Senior Vice Presiden t of Finance, CFO 215-723-6751 Joseph VP Gregory FCA Communications 610-228-2110
пятница, 15 июля 2011 г.
Report: Wind power could fuel $75M impact in Mo. - Business First of Columbus:
The report, released by the , says Missourians spendd more than $18 billion a year on naturap gasfor heating, fuel for cars and and electricity to power homes and That comes to $3,000 in energhy costs for each persojn in Missouri, and most of those dollars leaves the state because 84 percent of Missouri’as electricity is generated using coal, almost all of which is shipped in from Wyoming, according to the report.
Wind powee — 25 moderate-scale wind farms woulcd provide thousands ofconstruction jobs, 550 permanent construction $15 million in property tax revenue and $75 milliohn in ongoing positive local economic impact in Biofuels — Cellulosic ethanol, whichj is made from crop waste and nonfooc plants, could create thousands of hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activitgy and $13,000 in annua gross income for the average Missouri corn Solid biomass — Replacing 20 percent of Missouri’sz coal usage with locall y grown biomass would create an estimated 11,000 Biogas — Biogas production from cattld waste would be profitable at more than 200 large-scale livestocik operations in 60 Missourui counties.
“Within Missouri’s borderw are vast resources of land and water all the ingredients neede for Missouri to become a national leadert in newenergy development, creatin tens of thousands of good jobs and substantial new sourcex of income for said Martin Cohen, the energy policyy analyst who authored the The Natural Resources Defense Council is a nationak nonprofit organization of lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protectin public health and the environment.
среда, 13 июля 2011 г.
John Byrne crafts 'period piece' set in Cold War - Houma Courier
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воскресенье, 10 июля 2011 г.
Bright idea: Marvin Dufner makes millions recycling bulbs - San Antonio Business Journal:
After building his fluorescen light bulbrecycling company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationaol player with customers thatinclude , and Lowe’s, Dufner sold the business in Marchu to Houston-based an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’s revenue reacherd $6 million last year, 17 times more than the $350,00o0 the company made when Dufner bought it inDecembee 1999. A decade ago, the businesx recycled about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a monthh to keep hazardous mercury out of landfillzs andwater supplies.
That number reached abougt 18 million bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minorith partner and chief operating officer, decidefd they needed to either invest a largd amount of capital to open additional recyclinv facilities or find a strategic partned or buyer for their business. Dufnerr turned to lifelong friend James Stuart of in Stuart reached out to contacts atWaste Management, and afteer about a year of talks, he helped broke r H.T.R.’s sale. Dufner estimated fluorescent bulb recycling isa $100 millioh to $150 million industry.
Analystt Michael Hoffman of in Baltimore noted that garbage disposal isa $52 billiojn industry and medical waste disposa accounts for another $3 billion to $4 billion. Add-ohn services such as recycling can help a company win additionaklmarket share. “One of Waste Management’s core goalsd is to grow its medical waste business toabout $300 million in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-care facilities and hospitals and offere to dispose of theirmedicapl waste, regular trash and also their fluorescent which for a hospital is no smal l thing.
” Waste Management, North America’s largest wast disposal company, posted net income of $1.0i billion on revenue of $13.4 billion last year and employss about 46,000. Dufner, 54, grew up in Granitwe City and St. Louis, attending and at Carbondale. In he bought one of the first franchised ofEarth City-based Dent Wizard, a companu that provides paintless dent removal for automobiles. Dufner moved to Atlantaz to run his territory of Georgisaand Alabama. But in 1998, Atlanta-basex acquired Dent Wizard and proceeded to buy out its Dufner sold his business forabout $5 and at age 45 found himself lookinhg for a new venture.
In 1999, while at the Lake of the Dufner struck up a conversation with an employee of a three-year-old company then based in the small town of Golden City in southwest Missouri. A new federapl law regulating the management of waste containing hazardoua materials such as mercury had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’s 14 investors were short on funds to take advantagwe of potential growth. Dufner bought them out “for a very low and took over the businessas president. Dufne recruited Kohout, a friend who owned a gun stordin St. Louis and was familiar with dealiny withgovernment regulators, to help run the business and expand its servicee area nationwide.
They invested in some tractor-trailers and starter picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbs from all over the countrt and hauling them back to Missourifor processing. Over the next few they relocated the plant to its currengt locationin Kaiser, Mo., near Lake Ozark. As Dufner improved customer service and the speed of wasts pickupusing third-party freight business boomed. Beginning in 2003, secured contracts with Wal-Mart to pick up and recycle used Otherlarge retailers, several colleges and and states such as Iowa and Missouri also signefd up with H.T.R. All of the materiap in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up mercury, metal and glass — was None went to landfills.
But with the Dufner and Kohout also foundf themselves facinga decision: Expans to keep up with increasinh volume, or find someone who could do so for them. “Th right way to do it would be to buildr two morerecycling plants, one on the West Coasf and one on the East Coast, to cut transportationh distances and freight costs,” Dufner “Ray and I can’t be in thred places at one time. It was goiny to require a lot more capitaol to open two new facilities and managsethem properly.” So Dufner, who has children ages 3 and 5 with his Renee, decided to look for a buyef last year and eventually struck the deal with Wast e Management. “We thought H.T.R.
would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior business director for Wasts Management’s WM Lamptracker division. “Over 70 percent of fluorescenr lighting in the countr ystill isn’t recycled and that’s where we think the upside is.” The and many states are targeting a fluoresceny recycling goal of about 75 percent, Kohout said. Some 800 milliob fluorescent lamps burn out each and now millions of residential light socketss are also switching from incandescent to compactr fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs). Althoughh Missouri does not require residential recyclinggof CFLs, many states do, he said.
“The timing was said Kohout, who continuew to run the former H.T.R. operations within WM Lamptracker. “Wde are now the largest lamp recycler in the and Waste Management is reallty pushing the sustainability andrecycling We’ve had nine years of double-digit and we’ve just gotten As for Dufner, he is building a home in Laduee and has not decided what, if anything, he will do “Am I looking for something? Possibly, but not Dufner said. “That’s how H.T.R. I wasn’t really looking and then it fell inmy lap.
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пятница, 8 июля 2011 г.
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среда, 6 июля 2011 г.
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воскресенье, 3 июля 2011 г.
Sources: Pederson governor run off again - Phoenix Business Journal:
Pederson, chairman of the , did not respons to a request for comment, but sources familiar with the situation sayhe doesn’tf plan to run. He ran for U.S. Senate in but lost to Republican incumbentJon Kyl. Pedersojn recently set up a Website — www.standupforarizona.com which criticizes proposed statse budget cuts. He also had been making the roundsd to discuss a potential run for governore in a Democratic primary against Attorney General Terry Goddard and possibly former Tempee MayorNeil Guiliano. On the Republicajn side, Gov. Jan Brewer coule run, although support for her proposed temporary sales tax increase could sparka anti-tax challenger.
Pederson Group specializesa inretail development, including the Scottsdal Promenade, Grayhawk Plaza, Anthem Marketplace and West Wing Village Pederson has been chairma of the Arizona Democratic Party and large contributo to national and state party organs. He is closse with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
пятница, 1 июля 2011 г.
Abington Memorial CEO Jones to retire - Memphis Business Journal:
president and CEO of , said Monday he will retire effectivw Jan. 31. John Durham, chairmab of the board of trustees at AbingtonMemorial , said a searcb committee has been appointed and Witt/Keiffer, a nationaol search firm, has been retained to assisrt the board in finding a A selection is expected to be made by the end of the During Jones’ tenure, Abington Memorial, in built the six-story Lenfest Pavilion to expand critical-care services at the hospital and increase its total number of beds by 100 to 570.
And the organizationh acquiredtwo hospitals: Warminster Hospital in 2007, whichg was converted to an outpatient and Central Montgomery Medical Center — now Lansdaler Hospital— which was bought last year and is being maintainex as an inpatient facility. “It has been my privilege to be part of Abingtonh Memorial Hospital for the past 29 11 of them as presidentand CEO,” Jones “Although it is time for me to step I have every confidence that this organization will maintainn its role in the Delawars Valley as a leading health-care provider which diligentlty meets the needs of the communities we serve.
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