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Putting a business’ name on the hoods or door of Sprint Cup Series cars is becoming an increasingl ypopular investment, said Ron Schneider, president of Englewood-basecd , which links companies to racing associations. The cost can run anywhere from $25 million to be the primary sponsor ofa top-tier driver to $250,000 a year to slap a sticker elsewhere on a car and get acceszs to the car’s professional drivet for use in endorsements and personal Sport Dimensions, which opened in 1995, said business rose nearlyy 30 percent from 2006 to 2008 before hittingy the bump that’s affected most marketing companies this Schneider said.
Like many other racing marketing businesses around the Sport Dimensions is seeing both an increasr in companies wanting to get into NASCAR and theitr willingness tospend more, he said. And if eithefr of two potential track projectsin Colorado, which were announced in late May, are developex and can attract a majod NASCAR race, that’s likely to create even more interesf in the sport from Colorado he predicted. “I think the opportunityu for these companies here in Coloradiois great,” said Schneider, who represents mostly out-of-statr clients. “There’s a lot of opportunities and ways to push theidr message outthrough NASCAR.
” Once considered a spory that appealed only to blue-collar Southern and Midwestern men, NASCAR has greatlyh expanded its appeal and marketing potentiao in recent years. Studies show it’s the top spectatod sport in the countryand No. 2 in television ratings behinf the NationalFootball League, and $2.9 billio in licensed NASCAR products are sold each Schneider noted. And, more than any other sport, sponsors of a NASCARR team benefit from the popularity oftheid driver, said Todd Stonis, general managerr for Sport Dimensions. As many as 75 percentr of surveyed fans have said they buy the productsw or services of theirfavorite driver’s When popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
switchef from Budweiser to Amp Energ drink as a primary sponsodrlast year, Amp jumpes from sixth to third for national salesw among energy drinks, Stonis said. But marketingv through NASCAR goes deeper than just puttinga company’ss name on a car and hoping people notic e it, said Schneider and Stonis, whosd company is the only one in Coloradi to specialize in race-car marketing. It also means leveraginvg the driver to do ads for your make public appearances and give you accesse to him before andafter races, a level of connection that sponsorws don’t get with players in any team Johns Manville, the Denver-based roofingf and insulation manufacturer, got involved with the Sprint Cup Seriese four years ago when a drived it had been sponsoring, Paul moved up to the top racing circuit.
The company shared sponsorshipof Menard’s car with nine and gets great exposurs when its logo is displayed on the vehicles hood during about a dozeb races a year, said Chrisa Gerd, retail marketing and motorsports marketing manager. But Johns Manville also takee executives from major customers to the racesd and introduces them to Menard andhis crew, a tremendou s move in building customerr appreciation, Gerd said. And it has Menard attene community functions the company holds with groupzs such as Habitat for Humanity orSpecial Olympics.
“Itr builds excitement, it builds a strong fan base and it reall y portrays Johns Manville in apositive light,” Gerd said of interactionj with the driver. “Iff a track were to come it’s a great opportunity for us to actuallyg build uponJohns Manville’ds reputation in the community.” A handfupl of other Colorado companies also are involvecd in the sport, including Furniture Row, whicbh sponsors the only team based west of the Mississippik River. If potentially competing groups associated with the InternationalSpeedway Corp. or developef Bill Schuck were to build a track and attract a majorerace here, that could Schneider said.
“It’s not a heavy focuws right now,” he said. “I mean, we’re a stick-and-ballo town here, and people know it. But I thin k people are interested and curiousabout
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
GE workers approve pay freeze - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Fairfield, Conn.-based GE (NYSE: GE) is tryingv to trim expenses at Appliance whichlost $72 million in 2008. Jerry president of , said nearlu 70 percent of the 1,638 union workere voted in favor ofthe proposal. Undert the terms of the agreement, GE will freeze pay for unio workers untilJune 2011. And newly hiresd skilled-trades professionals would startat $23 per hour and advancd to $25 per hour over a two-year period. A competitivs wage agreement for hourly production workers calls for new hires to startat $13 per hour and receive annual wage increases after their current contract expires in 2011.
The ratews for skilled and production workers are lower than they woulrd have been withoutthe agreement, Carney said. Also under the agreement, GE will not force production workers to work lessthan five-day work weeks, with the exceptionh of holiday periods or othef special days, Carney said. “That is important because GE already has goneto four-day, eight-hour work weeks at some of its lightingg plants, and that coulc have been the case here if we didn’t vote ” Carney said. In exchange, GE will add 100 positions and brin g anew low-cost dishwasher line to Appliancr Park by Dec. 31.
All new jobs at Appliance except forwarehouse positions, would be bid on by according to a bulletin issued last week by the GE will continue to make 18 cubic-fooy top-mount refrigerators, home dishwashers and 27-inch top-load washing machines at Appliance Park through at leasty June 17, 2011, unless the company decides to exit the product “This is important because now we have a futurw at Appliance Park,” Carneyy said Thursday evening. Kim Freeman, director of publi c relationsfor GE’s Consumer and Industrial division, called the union’d vote “gratifying.
” “When given the our employees have demonstrated time and again that they understandx our business realities and want to be part of a team that will make the necessarh changes to win in this global marketplace,” Freemaj said in an e-mail. “We are grateful to all of our employeews and the union leadership for their willingnesz to work together to make this asuccessfupl business.” More jobs coming?
One stipulation of the agreementr is that the companyh and the union will work together to explorr opportunities for making energy-efficient appliances at the The first step could come when the and the Louisville Metrpo Council are expected to vote on approvingf incentives to GE to facilitatwe the development of a new producyt platform at Appliance Park. GE officials have not disclosexd what product might be destinedx forAppliance Park. Business Firs reported Friday that the city is prepared to offerd to create a tax increment financinh district and the state is prepared to offe r GE as muchas $2.
5 milliom over 10 years to launch a product line that woulsd create as many as 400 jobs at Appliances Park. “Now there is the opportunityu to replace outdated equipment witha new, high-tech product Carney said. “This means a lot to us.”
Fairfield, Conn.-based GE (NYSE: GE) is tryingv to trim expenses at Appliance whichlost $72 million in 2008. Jerry president of , said nearlu 70 percent of the 1,638 union workere voted in favor ofthe proposal. Undert the terms of the agreement, GE will freeze pay for unio workers untilJune 2011. And newly hiresd skilled-trades professionals would startat $23 per hour and advancd to $25 per hour over a two-year period. A competitivs wage agreement for hourly production workers calls for new hires to startat $13 per hour and receive annual wage increases after their current contract expires in 2011.
The ratews for skilled and production workers are lower than they woulrd have been withoutthe agreement, Carney said. Also under the agreement, GE will not force production workers to work lessthan five-day work weeks, with the exceptionh of holiday periods or othef special days, Carney said. “That is important because GE already has goneto four-day, eight-hour work weeks at some of its lightingg plants, and that coulc have been the case here if we didn’t vote ” Carney said. In exchange, GE will add 100 positions and brin g anew low-cost dishwasher line to Appliancr Park by Dec. 31.
All new jobs at Appliance except forwarehouse positions, would be bid on by according to a bulletin issued last week by the GE will continue to make 18 cubic-fooy top-mount refrigerators, home dishwashers and 27-inch top-load washing machines at Appliance Park through at leasty June 17, 2011, unless the company decides to exit the product “This is important because now we have a futurw at Appliance Park,” Carneyy said Thursday evening. Kim Freeman, director of publi c relationsfor GE’s Consumer and Industrial division, called the union’d vote “gratifying.
” “When given the our employees have demonstrated time and again that they understandx our business realities and want to be part of a team that will make the necessarh changes to win in this global marketplace,” Freemaj said in an e-mail. “We are grateful to all of our employeews and the union leadership for their willingnesz to work together to make this asuccessfupl business.” More jobs coming?
One stipulation of the agreementr is that the companyh and the union will work together to explorr opportunities for making energy-efficient appliances at the The first step could come when the and the Louisville Metrpo Council are expected to vote on approvingf incentives to GE to facilitatwe the development of a new producyt platform at Appliance Park. GE officials have not disclosexd what product might be destinedx forAppliance Park. Business Firs reported Friday that the city is prepared to offerd to create a tax increment financinh district and the state is prepared to offe r GE as muchas $2.
5 milliom over 10 years to launch a product line that woulsd create as many as 400 jobs at Appliances Park. “Now there is the opportunityu to replace outdated equipment witha new, high-tech product Carney said. “This means a lot to us.”
Monday, August 22, 2011
McMullen to replace McGeorge as Kroger COO - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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W. Rodney McMullen, currentlyy vice chairman, will replacde McGeorge as president and COOon Aug. 1. 55, will remain until late 2009 as a speciaol adviser to CEODavid Dillon. He began his career with Krogert in 1977 as astore co-manager in and rose to executive vice president in charge of salees and merchandising before being electex president and COO in 2003. 48, joined Kroger in 1978 as a part-time stored clerk. He has held senior executive positions that includewcorporate controller, chief financial officeer and executive vice presidenr of strategy, planning and finance.
At the company’as annual meeting at Music Hall, shareholders by a 53-to-47 percenyt margin adopted a shareholder proposalothat “requests” the board of directors to adopt a majority-vote requiremen for uncontested elections for Kroger’s boar of directors. The proposal was opposes by Kroger’s board. Shareholders rejected by a wide margi n a proposal by the Humane Society of the Unite d States that encouraged the company to establish a schedulw for increasing the percentagde it carries of eggsfrom cage-free hens. The board had also opposesd that measure, although Dillon note d that its salesof cage-free eggs had increased 20 percentr in 2008.
Kroger was sympathetic to the group’ mission, he said, but it does not operatwe any farms and is constrained by a limited supplyuof cage-free eggs. It can only set guidelinesa forits suppliers, he said. Shareholders re-electeds Kroger’s board with more than 91 percenty of thevotes cast. Cincinnati-based Kroged ( : KR) operates more than 2,400 supermarketw and multi-department stores in 31 states.
W. Rodney McMullen, currentlyy vice chairman, will replacde McGeorge as president and COOon Aug. 1. 55, will remain until late 2009 as a speciaol adviser to CEODavid Dillon. He began his career with Krogert in 1977 as astore co-manager in and rose to executive vice president in charge of salees and merchandising before being electex president and COO in 2003. 48, joined Kroger in 1978 as a part-time stored clerk. He has held senior executive positions that includewcorporate controller, chief financial officeer and executive vice presidenr of strategy, planning and finance.
At the company’as annual meeting at Music Hall, shareholders by a 53-to-47 percenyt margin adopted a shareholder proposalothat “requests” the board of directors to adopt a majority-vote requiremen for uncontested elections for Kroger’s boar of directors. The proposal was opposes by Kroger’s board. Shareholders rejected by a wide margi n a proposal by the Humane Society of the Unite d States that encouraged the company to establish a schedulw for increasing the percentagde it carries of eggsfrom cage-free hens. The board had also opposesd that measure, although Dillon note d that its salesof cage-free eggs had increased 20 percentr in 2008.
Kroger was sympathetic to the group’ mission, he said, but it does not operatwe any farms and is constrained by a limited supplyuof cage-free eggs. It can only set guidelinesa forits suppliers, he said. Shareholders re-electeds Kroger’s board with more than 91 percenty of thevotes cast. Cincinnati-based Kroged ( : KR) operates more than 2,400 supermarketw and multi-department stores in 31 states.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Girl Talk and Diplo To Join Jane's Addiction, The Shins, Toubab Krewe and ... - jambands.com
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Coloring Outside the Lines - New York Times
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Survey: Firms slashing salaries, holding off on layoffs - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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More than half (52.4 percent) of humanm resources executives surveyed in May reported their firms had instituted salary cutsor freezes. That’sd up from the 27.2 percent of respondents who reportesd similar cutbacksin January, according to the survet by employment consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. At the same the percentage of employers making permanent cuts fell to 43 percentr in May from 56 percentin January, the surveh found. Overall, 86 percentg of respondents said their companieds hadinstituted cost-cutting measures – a slight improvemen t from January, when 92 percent of firmes were slashing costs.
Companies reported using various methods to improvse theirbottom lines, including salary cuts, cuttingy workers’ hours, reducing or eliminatintg tuition reimbursements, furloughs or forced vacations, and temporarg layoffs.
More than half (52.4 percent) of humanm resources executives surveyed in May reported their firms had instituted salary cutsor freezes. That’sd up from the 27.2 percent of respondents who reportesd similar cutbacksin January, according to the survet by employment consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. At the same the percentage of employers making permanent cuts fell to 43 percentr in May from 56 percentin January, the surveh found. Overall, 86 percentg of respondents said their companieds hadinstituted cost-cutting measures – a slight improvemen t from January, when 92 percent of firmes were slashing costs.
Companies reported using various methods to improvse theirbottom lines, including salary cuts, cuttingy workers’ hours, reducing or eliminatintg tuition reimbursements, furloughs or forced vacations, and temporarg layoffs.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Teach For America gets another Medtronic Foundation gift - Memphis Business Journal:
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million over the next three yearsto . Portionas of the funding will be used to increasee the number of Teach For America teachere with math andscience backgrounds. It will also be used to providre resources for TeachFor America’s programs in Memphisx and Jacksonville, Fla. Medtronic operates its spinal and biologics unitzs from Memphis and also has operations in The funding will also support the possible expansion of Teach For Americawinto Minnesota. The Medtronic Foundation has supporteds Teach For Americasince 1994, including providing $1 million in 2007 and 2008 for the developmentg of the national math and sciencr initiative.
Teach For America launched in Memphis in 2006 and the city is alreadyt considered one ofthe organization’s top It has more than 100 teachers in Memphias at local schools. Teach For Americas recruits successful college graduates to commit to teach for two yearws in innercity schools. The organization’s goal is to attract more graduates to the teaching profession and also create a pool of potentiaschool administrators. Wendy Kopp, foundetr and CEO of Teach For America, says the expansionm of the partnership between her organization and Medtronix will allow Teach For America to provide enhancec training tothe 2,000 teachersx it currently employs.
“Bt placing committed, well-prepared math and science teachersd in areas of greatest we will increase student performance and spark student interestf inthese fields, which is so critical to our nation’x future,” Kopp said in a statement.
million over the next three yearsto . Portionas of the funding will be used to increasee the number of Teach For America teachere with math andscience backgrounds. It will also be used to providre resources for TeachFor America’s programs in Memphisx and Jacksonville, Fla. Medtronic operates its spinal and biologics unitzs from Memphis and also has operations in The funding will also support the possible expansion of Teach For Americawinto Minnesota. The Medtronic Foundation has supporteds Teach For Americasince 1994, including providing $1 million in 2007 and 2008 for the developmentg of the national math and sciencr initiative.
Teach For America launched in Memphis in 2006 and the city is alreadyt considered one ofthe organization’s top It has more than 100 teachers in Memphias at local schools. Teach For Americas recruits successful college graduates to commit to teach for two yearws in innercity schools. The organization’s goal is to attract more graduates to the teaching profession and also create a pool of potentiaschool administrators. Wendy Kopp, foundetr and CEO of Teach For America, says the expansionm of the partnership between her organization and Medtronix will allow Teach For America to provide enhancec training tothe 2,000 teachersx it currently employs.
“Bt placing committed, well-prepared math and science teachersd in areas of greatest we will increase student performance and spark student interestf inthese fields, which is so critical to our nation’x future,” Kopp said in a statement.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
CSI Leasing restructures executive committee, forms office of the chairman - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The new three-person office of the chairman will reporgt to the board of directors and iscomprised of: Chairmanm Kenneth Steinback; Vice Chairman and CEO E. William Gillula; and Kim a director of CSI Leasinhg and managing partnerof . Steinback and Gillula are givingb uptheir day-to-day responsibilities but neither plan to Steinback said in a statement he and Gillula "feel confidenty that these organizational changes are in the best interes for the long term growth and continuedx success of CSI.
The time is right to pass the torcb to those who have helpedx us build this great company and who have trulyg been running the day to day operations for many Steve Hamilton will assume the day to day responsibilities from Gillulaq and Larry Schinsky will assume the direct supervisionb of the Canadian anddomestix U.S. sales force previously handlesby Steinback. The executive committee, which will report to the office of the is comprisedof long-time CSI Leasing employees: Stevd Hamilton, promoted to president and chief operating officer; Arnaldo Rodriguez, promoted to president of ; Larry Schinsky, promoted to executive vice president, national saleas manager for U.S.
and and Dan Fuller, president of EPC, a wholly owne d subsidiary ofCSI Leasing. Manual Ortiz was promotes to head CSI's Central and South America companies. St. Louis-based CSI is an internationapl computer equipment leasing company with morethan $1.2 billion in assets and 600 employeee in 20 countries. The employee-owned companhy is one of the largest privateluy held companies inthe St. Louis area with $266 milliojn in 2007 revenue.
The new three-person office of the chairman will reporgt to the board of directors and iscomprised of: Chairmanm Kenneth Steinback; Vice Chairman and CEO E. William Gillula; and Kim a director of CSI Leasinhg and managing partnerof . Steinback and Gillula are givingb uptheir day-to-day responsibilities but neither plan to Steinback said in a statement he and Gillula "feel confidenty that these organizational changes are in the best interes for the long term growth and continuedx success of CSI.
The time is right to pass the torcb to those who have helpedx us build this great company and who have trulyg been running the day to day operations for many Steve Hamilton will assume the day to day responsibilities from Gillulaq and Larry Schinsky will assume the direct supervisionb of the Canadian anddomestix U.S. sales force previously handlesby Steinback. The executive committee, which will report to the office of the is comprisedof long-time CSI Leasing employees: Stevd Hamilton, promoted to president and chief operating officer; Arnaldo Rodriguez, promoted to president of ; Larry Schinsky, promoted to executive vice president, national saleas manager for U.S.
and and Dan Fuller, president of EPC, a wholly owne d subsidiary ofCSI Leasing. Manual Ortiz was promotes to head CSI's Central and South America companies. St. Louis-based CSI is an internationapl computer equipment leasing company with morethan $1.2 billion in assets and 600 employeee in 20 countries. The employee-owned companhy is one of the largest privateluy held companies inthe St. Louis area with $266 milliojn in 2007 revenue.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
World Telecom Exchange opens HQ in Tysons - Dallas Business Journal:
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World Telecom opened a 2,000-square-foot office recently at 8201 Greensboro Drive, a 361,000-square-fooy commercial building in McLean ownedby D.C.-based B.F. Saul and Co. The a wholly-owned subsidiary of Worldwide Telecoj Xchange CarrierFZ LLC, a Dubai-based telecommunications investmenyt company focused on aggregating wholesale telephony and data traffix in emerging markets, is a network services compan that provides engineering, sale s and marketing, billing and outsourced technicalo support services. To start, about six employees will be basefd at the new headquarterse with room forfurther expansion.
Worldf Telecom’s services include call satellite services, Voice over Internet Protocol TDM network, code division multiple accessw (CDMA), WiMax and network management “WTXC’s success illustrates that our regionm remains a great place to start and grow a said Mike Norris, a vice president at Rockville-basede Scheer Partners Inc., who brokere d the lease. “And the commercial real estate marker is yielding opportunities for business ownersthat haven’t existeed since the early part of the decade.” Scheer Partners brokere Ben Heller, who also worked on the added that the company “evaluated a handful of locations in McLean and Vienna...
decidiny on 8201 Greensboro Drive for several that includedits location, “a very fair market deal” and othe r appealing terms such as a “gooed cure period on defaults.”
World Telecom opened a 2,000-square-foot office recently at 8201 Greensboro Drive, a 361,000-square-fooy commercial building in McLean ownedby D.C.-based B.F. Saul and Co. The a wholly-owned subsidiary of Worldwide Telecoj Xchange CarrierFZ LLC, a Dubai-based telecommunications investmenyt company focused on aggregating wholesale telephony and data traffix in emerging markets, is a network services compan that provides engineering, sale s and marketing, billing and outsourced technicalo support services. To start, about six employees will be basefd at the new headquarterse with room forfurther expansion.
Worldf Telecom’s services include call satellite services, Voice over Internet Protocol TDM network, code division multiple accessw (CDMA), WiMax and network management “WTXC’s success illustrates that our regionm remains a great place to start and grow a said Mike Norris, a vice president at Rockville-basede Scheer Partners Inc., who brokere d the lease. “And the commercial real estate marker is yielding opportunities for business ownersthat haven’t existeed since the early part of the decade.” Scheer Partners brokere Ben Heller, who also worked on the added that the company “evaluated a handful of locations in McLean and Vienna...
decidiny on 8201 Greensboro Drive for several that includedits location, “a very fair market deal” and othe r appealing terms such as a “gooed cure period on defaults.”
Sunday, August 7, 2011
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million grant to the Texas Youthy Commission on a new initiative that will provide support services to 450 youtu returning home fromcorrectional facilities. The new prograkm will create what organizers are callinga “one-stop shop” for juvenile who will receive job education support, life-skills classes, mentorsw and community service opportunities. The Texas Youth Commissiojn is joining the Bexar County Juvenile Probation the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission andSan Antonio-based on this The grant will establish the program for 18 montha with an opportunity to renew. BCFS will hire 31 new staff to work closely with the youtbh and overseethe curriculum.
These services will be offeree at a downtown Youth Transition Center operated by The center will house all transitional services employment strategies, case management, classea to help students earn their high schoopl diploma or GED as well as trainingf courses on non-violent methods for conflictt resolution. BCFS Executive Director of Teen and Youth Servicesw Terri Hipps says BCFS has more than 10 years of experiencs and a proven track record in helping turn juvenile offendersto law-abiding adults.
“Combinerd with our longtime work with youths transitioninbg into life ontheir own, we are confident that this prograj will make a positive impact both in the San Antonio communith and in the lives of many youthz trying to move on toward a brighte r future,” Hipps says. BCFS, formerly Baptist Chilc & Family Services, is a health and humajn services organization with locations and programswthroughout Texas, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa.
million grant to the Texas Youthy Commission on a new initiative that will provide support services to 450 youtu returning home fromcorrectional facilities. The new prograkm will create what organizers are callinga “one-stop shop” for juvenile who will receive job education support, life-skills classes, mentorsw and community service opportunities. The Texas Youth Commissiojn is joining the Bexar County Juvenile Probation the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission andSan Antonio-based on this The grant will establish the program for 18 montha with an opportunity to renew. BCFS will hire 31 new staff to work closely with the youtbh and overseethe curriculum.
These services will be offeree at a downtown Youth Transition Center operated by The center will house all transitional services employment strategies, case management, classea to help students earn their high schoopl diploma or GED as well as trainingf courses on non-violent methods for conflictt resolution. BCFS Executive Director of Teen and Youth Servicesw Terri Hipps says BCFS has more than 10 years of experiencs and a proven track record in helping turn juvenile offendersto law-abiding adults.
“Combinerd with our longtime work with youths transitioninbg into life ontheir own, we are confident that this prograj will make a positive impact both in the San Antonio communith and in the lives of many youthz trying to move on toward a brighte r future,” Hipps says. BCFS, formerly Baptist Chilc & Family Services, is a health and humajn services organization with locations and programswthroughout Texas, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa.
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