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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded $100,000 each to ACCIÓN New Mexico Arizona Colorado, Community Action New Mexico and . ACCIÓN is a microlendeer that also offerstechnical assistance. Lynn vice president of advancement, said the grant will help ACCIÓN provide 250 loans totaling almost $3.1 million. Communityt Action New Mexico will expand its work in asset developmenttamong low-income families in the The nonprofit offers Child Development Accounts, whicnh are matched savings accounts.
It will also move aheacd with plans for an assets trust New Mexico Community Capitap will use its money toassist low-incomse entrepreneurs and small business owners in rurapl areas by expanding business development support and networl facilitation in the southern areas of the said Leslie Elgood, CEO. It will allow a successful business development partnerships between New Mexic Community Capitaland , to be replicatedr in other New Mexico communities.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Finding a niche - St. Louis Business Journal:
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, specializing in gowns for pregnantand plus-sizwe brides, has opened at 2149 Barretgt Station Road in Des Peres. She and her Dan Welcher, refinanced their home to pay the $50,000 in startupo costs and anticipate first-year sales of More than 1.5 million pounds of stone had to be movesdwhen , a fabricator and installer of countertops, moved over the Memoriapl Day weekend. The new 60,000-square-foot showroom and fabricatiomn shop is at 2200 Cassensd Drivein Fenton, a former distributionm warehouse that has been renovated. The previous locationn was at 578Rudder Road. Hallmarlk Stone, owned by Fred Christen, had revenu e of $20.4 million in 2007.
The 118-year-old Stocktoj House at 3508 SamuelShepard Drive, across the street from , has been Listed at $850,000 last year, it sold last week for $400,000 to Roberrt and Natalie Duggan, owners of in Rifle, They plan to restore the which is on the National Registe of Historic Places, for meetings and partiez and possibly a bed and breakfast on the second floor. Jo Ann Keeney of was the listingb and selling agent for ownerFrederick Medler. , whichn has grown to $7.6 million in annual revenuee in its 25 ranks 31st on the 2008 top 100 list of custo m integrators in tradepublication , based on The company has a new operationx center at 18167 Edison Ave.
, near the in Eighty percent of its business is custok installation and integration of audiol and video systems for residential and commercial President David Young said. After almost 10 yearw in business, , which offerds soup-to-nuts office furniture planning, installation and repair, has relocated to the at 11624 PageServicee Drive. It has 6,000 square feet on one floor, compared with 3,800 squarse feet on three floors at its oldleaseds location, at 8770 Rose Ave. in Brentwood. It also has addeed three employees, for a total of 13, said Marcty Handlan, who founded the companhy withNancy Apel. Annual revenude has reached $6.
4 Junior Billikens, 30 years apart Attorneys Joe Mooney, clasw of '64, and Anthony Favazza III, SLUH class of are opening a law practicein Clayton. is scoutingb space, said Mooney, who until last month was tax counselwith 's Private Client Favazza, whose father, Tony Favazza, owns the family's restaurant on the Hill, was with the New York office of until His specialty is mergers and acquisitions. Check out this, mate Philanthropists Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield sankalmosr $1 million into the handsome and , which opene d this week at 4657 Maryland Ave., in the Central West End.
Besides promoting the game atthe center, with 6,000 squared feet on three floors, the club will work with to promotde chess programs.
, specializing in gowns for pregnantand plus-sizwe brides, has opened at 2149 Barretgt Station Road in Des Peres. She and her Dan Welcher, refinanced their home to pay the $50,000 in startupo costs and anticipate first-year sales of More than 1.5 million pounds of stone had to be movesdwhen , a fabricator and installer of countertops, moved over the Memoriapl Day weekend. The new 60,000-square-foot showroom and fabricatiomn shop is at 2200 Cassensd Drivein Fenton, a former distributionm warehouse that has been renovated. The previous locationn was at 578Rudder Road. Hallmarlk Stone, owned by Fred Christen, had revenu e of $20.4 million in 2007.
The 118-year-old Stocktoj House at 3508 SamuelShepard Drive, across the street from , has been Listed at $850,000 last year, it sold last week for $400,000 to Roberrt and Natalie Duggan, owners of in Rifle, They plan to restore the which is on the National Registe of Historic Places, for meetings and partiez and possibly a bed and breakfast on the second floor. Jo Ann Keeney of was the listingb and selling agent for ownerFrederick Medler. , whichn has grown to $7.6 million in annual revenuee in its 25 ranks 31st on the 2008 top 100 list of custo m integrators in tradepublication , based on The company has a new operationx center at 18167 Edison Ave.
, near the in Eighty percent of its business is custok installation and integration of audiol and video systems for residential and commercial President David Young said. After almost 10 yearw in business, , which offerds soup-to-nuts office furniture planning, installation and repair, has relocated to the at 11624 PageServicee Drive. It has 6,000 square feet on one floor, compared with 3,800 squarse feet on three floors at its oldleaseds location, at 8770 Rose Ave. in Brentwood. It also has addeed three employees, for a total of 13, said Marcty Handlan, who founded the companhy withNancy Apel. Annual revenude has reached $6.
4 Junior Billikens, 30 years apart Attorneys Joe Mooney, clasw of '64, and Anthony Favazza III, SLUH class of are opening a law practicein Clayton. is scoutingb space, said Mooney, who until last month was tax counselwith 's Private Client Favazza, whose father, Tony Favazza, owns the family's restaurant on the Hill, was with the New York office of until His specialty is mergers and acquisitions. Check out this, mate Philanthropists Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield sankalmosr $1 million into the handsome and , which opene d this week at 4657 Maryland Ave., in the Central West End.
Besides promoting the game atthe center, with 6,000 squared feet on three floors, the club will work with to promotde chess programs.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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In the six years as presideny and CEOof , Miller has grown a small Nationwidee insurance agency with three associates in Jacksonvillse into a full-service independent agency with 44 locationse across the state. Miller now employs about 200 peopldthroughout Florida. Despite maintaining a company that has doublesd in sizeevery year, Miller has immerserd himself with the employees to the point where they have becomre just as much a part of his familgy as his two brothers that work with him. “We’re everything we are becausw ofour people,” he said. “Wwe see them as our greatesrt asset.
” And Miller continues to bring more into his He expects to grow from 20 locations in Northeasf Florida to 27 by next year and reacgh up to 100 offices in Florida by the endof 2009. In ordedr to expand, Brightway is opening a local employee training facility where Millef said he hopes the agency will traibn up to 60 new employeewper month. He said the agency’ success comes from a focus on empowering whether it is by routinely requestinvgtheir feedback, offering paid time off for a massage, flexiblre schedules for personal needs and helpinbg them excel in their career.
“Wwe take people aside in the very beginninhg andask them, ‘What our your career goals,’ he said. “Their goals become our goalsa for them.” It was Miller’s own goals that accidentallyt led himinto insurance. As a Florida State University graduatein 1992, Miller was determinef to go to law school and was But during his preparation for law school, Miller took a job as an ageny at By the time Miller was supposedd to register for school, he decided to stick with insurancee and “never looked back,” he said.
Milled spent 11 years as an agent and eventuallt became a managerat Boston-basesd Liberty Mutual, where he oversaw severao states, including Mississippi and Tennessee, from an office in Birmingham, Ala. In 2003, Miller pickexd up a book of businese from a retiring agentin “I saw it as an opportunity to build something he said. Miller’s focus was on givingb customers a choice of insurance carrieres and options in one The agency became fully independent in 2008 aftetr Miller renamed the company from to Brightwayin 2007. The agency now offers insurancwe through more than 100 different carriers for both commercial andpersonaol lines.
Brightway wrote $20 million in new premiumss in 2008 and Miller expectws toreach $40 million to $50 million in new premiuma this year. Despite the success in attracting both insurer sand clients, Miller said his biggestr challenge has been executing the vision. “Wr spend a lot more time on the drawingy board thanmost companies,” he said. “Time and time againj in the insurance industry, I’ve seen companiees come out with a plan wherd they took 5 percent of the time to come up with a plan and 95 percen of the time sellingthat plan. The product should, and sell itself.
” When Miller is not at Brightway, servingy on an advisory council for an insurer or fulfilling his role as presideny of the JewishCommunity Alliance, his free time is dedicated to his Miller and his wife Monique have two children, Josh and “He has very much a huma side in addition to a business said Jeff Rommel, regional vice presidenr for Nationwide in the Southeast region.
In the six years as presideny and CEOof , Miller has grown a small Nationwidee insurance agency with three associates in Jacksonvillse into a full-service independent agency with 44 locationse across the state. Miller now employs about 200 peopldthroughout Florida. Despite maintaining a company that has doublesd in sizeevery year, Miller has immerserd himself with the employees to the point where they have becomre just as much a part of his familgy as his two brothers that work with him. “We’re everything we are becausw ofour people,” he said. “Wwe see them as our greatesrt asset.
” And Miller continues to bring more into his He expects to grow from 20 locations in Northeasf Florida to 27 by next year and reacgh up to 100 offices in Florida by the endof 2009. In ordedr to expand, Brightway is opening a local employee training facility where Millef said he hopes the agency will traibn up to 60 new employeewper month. He said the agency’ success comes from a focus on empowering whether it is by routinely requestinvgtheir feedback, offering paid time off for a massage, flexiblre schedules for personal needs and helpinbg them excel in their career.
“Wwe take people aside in the very beginninhg andask them, ‘What our your career goals,’ he said. “Their goals become our goalsa for them.” It was Miller’s own goals that accidentallyt led himinto insurance. As a Florida State University graduatein 1992, Miller was determinef to go to law school and was But during his preparation for law school, Miller took a job as an ageny at By the time Miller was supposedd to register for school, he decided to stick with insurancee and “never looked back,” he said.
Milled spent 11 years as an agent and eventuallt became a managerat Boston-basesd Liberty Mutual, where he oversaw severao states, including Mississippi and Tennessee, from an office in Birmingham, Ala. In 2003, Miller pickexd up a book of businese from a retiring agentin “I saw it as an opportunity to build something he said. Miller’s focus was on givingb customers a choice of insurance carrieres and options in one The agency became fully independent in 2008 aftetr Miller renamed the company from to Brightwayin 2007. The agency now offers insurancwe through more than 100 different carriers for both commercial andpersonaol lines.
Brightway wrote $20 million in new premiumss in 2008 and Miller expectws toreach $40 million to $50 million in new premiuma this year. Despite the success in attracting both insurer sand clients, Miller said his biggestr challenge has been executing the vision. “Wr spend a lot more time on the drawingy board thanmost companies,” he said. “Time and time againj in the insurance industry, I’ve seen companiees come out with a plan wherd they took 5 percent of the time to come up with a plan and 95 percen of the time sellingthat plan. The product should, and sell itself.
” When Miller is not at Brightway, servingy on an advisory council for an insurer or fulfilling his role as presideny of the JewishCommunity Alliance, his free time is dedicated to his Miller and his wife Monique have two children, Josh and “He has very much a huma side in addition to a business said Jeff Rommel, regional vice presidenr for Nationwide in the Southeast region.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
SF Beige Book sees few signs of recovery - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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The report, released Wednesday, said there are signs of stabilizatiobn or improvement insome sectors. But the report was with retail sales still demand for most services softening furtherf and production of manufactured productsextremely low. some of the 12 Fed districts reported seeing signs that the recession may beslightluy easing, but none were expecting the economy to turn aroun d by the end of this In the San Franciscoo report, commodity prices in general were except oil prices, which increased. Pricex fell for professional services such as accounting and business Gas prices rose modestly but were still belowlast year’w highs.
Upward wage pressures were with businesses reportingpay freezes, wage cuts, reducing or eliminating bonuses and reduced benefits. Shoppers continued to favot “inexpensive necessities,” the report said, resulting in salesw gains for large discount retailers insome areas. Grocerxs saw some strengthened sales. Sales of used cars returned to levels insome areas. The Fed said travel activity continued to fall inmajor destinations. In visitor counts and spendiny remained downby double-digit California and Nevada reported ongoing declines in hotekl occupancy, especially in the luxury segmen of the market.
The district’a housing markets remained weak but showed some signs of Demand for commercial real estat eslid further. Banks reported that lendinbg activity weakened and credit conditionsremainedd tight. Demand for commercial and industrial loans fell Banks attributed declines in businessx and consumer loan volumes to the limited number ofqualifies applicants, but noted that lending standards have remained
The report, released Wednesday, said there are signs of stabilizatiobn or improvement insome sectors. But the report was with retail sales still demand for most services softening furtherf and production of manufactured productsextremely low. some of the 12 Fed districts reported seeing signs that the recession may beslightluy easing, but none were expecting the economy to turn aroun d by the end of this In the San Franciscoo report, commodity prices in general were except oil prices, which increased. Pricex fell for professional services such as accounting and business Gas prices rose modestly but were still belowlast year’w highs.
Upward wage pressures were with businesses reportingpay freezes, wage cuts, reducing or eliminating bonuses and reduced benefits. Shoppers continued to favot “inexpensive necessities,” the report said, resulting in salesw gains for large discount retailers insome areas. Grocerxs saw some strengthened sales. Sales of used cars returned to levels insome areas. The Fed said travel activity continued to fall inmajor destinations. In visitor counts and spendiny remained downby double-digit California and Nevada reported ongoing declines in hotekl occupancy, especially in the luxury segmen of the market.
The district’a housing markets remained weak but showed some signs of Demand for commercial real estat eslid further. Banks reported that lendinbg activity weakened and credit conditionsremainedd tight. Demand for commercial and industrial loans fell Banks attributed declines in businessx and consumer loan volumes to the limited number ofqualifies applicants, but noted that lending standards have remained
Sunday, August 21, 2011
4 Teens Dead in Garden State Parkway Accident - NBC Philadelphia
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Analysts cool on rumored Apple rollouts - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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But some analysts are warning investords not to get caught up in the Gene Munster of Piper Jaffrey warned on Thursday theree could be some disappointmenrt about what actually gets announcedby Cupertino-basedd Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). "Regardless of whether or not new iPhonesa are announcedat WWDC, we continue to expecgt a mid-July launch of a family of iPhones," he wrot e in a note to clients. Munster isn't buying talk of a $99 iPhonew and cheaper data plan, He thinks the less expensivw version of the device will go forabouty $149 and only rates the idea that (NYSE:T) will lower its data plan price at 1 in 4 odds.
Yair Reinef of Oppenheimer wrote separately that he believesApplde won't upstage the focus at WWDC on its new Snow Leoparrd and iPhone 3.0 operating systems with new He thinks that may come weeks later as the companyy works off its inventory of old phone that are still in the salesa channels. Kathryn Huberty of Morgan Stanleyg rates the possibility that an announcement of a new carrieer inthe U.S. for the iPhone, which is offered exclusivelgy nowthrough AT&T, is low.
"Wde view this as a 2011 evengt that could boost units 5 million to 7 milliobn and adjusted earnings per share by 50 cents to75 cents," she
But some analysts are warning investords not to get caught up in the Gene Munster of Piper Jaffrey warned on Thursday theree could be some disappointmenrt about what actually gets announcedby Cupertino-basedd Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). "Regardless of whether or not new iPhonesa are announcedat WWDC, we continue to expecgt a mid-July launch of a family of iPhones," he wrot e in a note to clients. Munster isn't buying talk of a $99 iPhonew and cheaper data plan, He thinks the less expensivw version of the device will go forabouty $149 and only rates the idea that (NYSE:T) will lower its data plan price at 1 in 4 odds.
Yair Reinef of Oppenheimer wrote separately that he believesApplde won't upstage the focus at WWDC on its new Snow Leoparrd and iPhone 3.0 operating systems with new He thinks that may come weeks later as the companyy works off its inventory of old phone that are still in the salesa channels. Kathryn Huberty of Morgan Stanleyg rates the possibility that an announcement of a new carrieer inthe U.S. for the iPhone, which is offered exclusivelgy nowthrough AT&T, is low.
"Wde view this as a 2011 evengt that could boost units 5 million to 7 milliobn and adjusted earnings per share by 50 cents to75 cents," she
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Hedge Fund Pershing Square Reports Q2 Portfolio - GuruFocus.com
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Hedge Fund Pershing Square Reports Q2 Portfolio GuruFocus.com Bill Ackman added to his holdings in Jc Penney Co. Inc. by 10.87%. His purchase prices were between $29.92 and $39.42, with an estimated average price of $35.94. The impact to his portfolio due to this purchase was 2.05%. His holdings were 38715571 ... Ackman's Pershing Square Reports Family Dollar, Citigroup Stakes |