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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Major fireworks fail: entire show ignites in 28 seconds - Examiner.com
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Trans World stock rebounds above $1 - The Business Review (Albany):
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Shares in Trans Worldc (Nasdaq: TWMC) closed June 25 at the highest closing pricesinced Jan. 8. Trans World closed Friday at up10 cents, or 8.5 Trans World, based in Albany, owns the f.y.e. (For Your Entertainment) chain. “I never thought I’d be happyg to see it at $1.28,” quipped Chiedf Financial OfficerJohn Sullivan. On Jan. 22, the stock pricse fell below $1 for the first time since the companyy went publicin 1986. Sharew hit a low of 52 centxs during the first weekof March. It took thred months to climb backabovs $1, hitting $1.
04 on early Trans World has been struggling with decliningv CD sales for several years due to the growing use of electroniv downloading for music and competition from big-boxc retailers. Sales have taken a further hit during the recession. Trans World lost $11.98 million during the fiscal first quarterd of 2009 on saleesof $191.4 million. Sales at stores open at least a a critical gauge in the retail fell9 percent. Trans World operated 704 storess at the close of the which endedMay 2.
Edward Woo, an analysrt at in Los Angeles who tracks Trans speculatedthe company’s stock rose along with otheer retailers this week because of a belief amony investors the economy may be Those sentiments don’t change the fundamental challenges facinhg Trans World, he said. Even with the recent the company’s stock is still trading at less than half its closinfg price ayear ago, $2.76. Sullivan said he had no idea why the stocok hasrisen lately, although he noted tradingy activity was very active on June 25, with 813,100 shares exchanged. That comparez with just 2,500 shares the day An investor bought a blocof 750,0000 shares on the heavy trading day.
Sullivan said he didn’t know the identity of the investor, however if it was a directord or other officer in the compant the information will soon be discloserd in aregulatory filing.
Shares in Trans Worldc (Nasdaq: TWMC) closed June 25 at the highest closing pricesinced Jan. 8. Trans World closed Friday at up10 cents, or 8.5 Trans World, based in Albany, owns the f.y.e. (For Your Entertainment) chain. “I never thought I’d be happyg to see it at $1.28,” quipped Chiedf Financial OfficerJohn Sullivan. On Jan. 22, the stock pricse fell below $1 for the first time since the companyy went publicin 1986. Sharew hit a low of 52 centxs during the first weekof March. It took thred months to climb backabovs $1, hitting $1.
04 on early Trans World has been struggling with decliningv CD sales for several years due to the growing use of electroniv downloading for music and competition from big-boxc retailers. Sales have taken a further hit during the recession. Trans World lost $11.98 million during the fiscal first quarterd of 2009 on saleesof $191.4 million. Sales at stores open at least a a critical gauge in the retail fell9 percent. Trans World operated 704 storess at the close of the which endedMay 2.
Edward Woo, an analysrt at in Los Angeles who tracks Trans speculatedthe company’s stock rose along with otheer retailers this week because of a belief amony investors the economy may be Those sentiments don’t change the fundamental challenges facinhg Trans World, he said. Even with the recent the company’s stock is still trading at less than half its closinfg price ayear ago, $2.76. Sullivan said he had no idea why the stocok hasrisen lately, although he noted tradingy activity was very active on June 25, with 813,100 shares exchanged. That comparez with just 2,500 shares the day An investor bought a blocof 750,0000 shares on the heavy trading day.
Sullivan said he didn’t know the identity of the investor, however if it was a directord or other officer in the compant the information will soon be discloserd in aregulatory filing.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Facetime with Patricia Alvey, Temerlin Advertising Institute - Houston Business Journal:
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DESCRIBE YOUR FAMILY. There’s my husbanc of 17 years and mytwo cats, Leo and WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND RAISED? Ky., across the river from Ind. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY FROM GROWING UPTHERE Grass. The way the earth smells. I can smel l it when I cross the WHERE DID YOU GET YOUREDUCATION ? I got my undergraduatd degree — a bachelor of fine arts — from Murray State Universitt in Murray, Ky., and my doctorate degree in advertisingf from the University of Texas at Austin. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRSy JOB? The summer that I was 13, I was cook and housekeeper for five five daysa week. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB AFTE R COLLEGE?
I worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority for eightf years as communications specialistdoing promotions, tourism and We designed about 400 publications per year and had exhibition spacese for four visitor facilities. HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS INDUSTRY?? I thought I would get a quick master’s and go back into my career. The facultu at UT said I needed to geta Ph.D insteafd of a master’s, so I did and then UT hired me and put me on faculty. SMU starteed calling me in 1999, tryin g to recruit me. I took a hiatuz from UT and went to Virginiza to run the graduate program for the Virginia CommonwealthgUniversity Adcenter. SMU called two more yearas in a row.
Finally, Jim Goodnight, chairman of the Temerlin Advertising Institute, Stan Richards, founder of The Richards and Liener Temerlin, president of Temerlibn Consulting and the name behind the TemerlinhAdvertising Institute, ganged up on me and, along with my convinced me to move back to Texas and join SMU in 2002. DESCRIBw A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM EARLY IN YOUR I learned early on to never walk intoyour boss’s officed with a problem without having a possible solution. WHO ARE YOUR ROLE MODELa IN YOUR INDUSTRY?
In advertising, it’s Keith chairman of DDB Worldwide, and Liener In education, it’s Pat Stout, a professord at UT who is a premie r scholar and a woman with thehighest integrity. HOW DO YOU RELAX?? There’s a 25-foot sailboat on Lake Ray I can be on the boat in30 minutes. WHAT IS YOUR PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT? Thousands of students have foundc something useful insomething I’ve give n them, and this latest project (the new graduate might be my best effort. TELL ME ABOUTy THE NEW GRADUATE PROGRAM. We start with a core of classese that ground students in theoriez of persuasion and the fundamentals ofour business.
Then we grounsd them in what social responsibility We spent a year looking at 150 graduate programsd inthe U.S. and Canada and looked at all of the thingxs they offer and what their criteria And then we came up with a program that offerexd what we felt sure were the best thing s tooffer students. WHAT DO YOU TELL YOUR STUDENTS TO LEAD ANDINSPIREs THEM? That being able to understand the huma condition is the most important gift they can give to helpingb brands grow and connecting them to humans at the othet end. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE ? People who can’t get stuff WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL ALIVE?
Standing in front of a room full of 100 andknowing I’m giving them somethinvg they can use. WHAT ARE YOUR GREATESTr STRENGTHS? I’m really good at growinb things: programs, careers, students. WHAT IS YOUR GREATESgT WEAKNESS? Impatience. ARE YOU AN EXTROVERT OR AN INTROVERT? Introvert; I grew up excruciatingly bashful. WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST/DUMBEST/MOSTr FUN THING YOU’VE EVER DONE? I took off with a backpaci and traveled through Centralp America for six weeks in thelate ’70s. WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE THE WORLDe ABETTER PLACE? Create better worl citizens. HOW ARE CREATIVE BEHAVIORS CHANGING BECAUSE OFTECHNOLOGY TODAY?
I’m not sure the act of bein g creative is changing, but the ways it is manifestinyg are. There’s less vetting of creative product. That creates more of the sublimse and more ofthe ridiculous. HOW ARE ADVERTISING JOBS FARING IN THERECESSION NOW? It’s a fairly horrible time to be looking for a job. Some hirinf is being done, but not much, and often it’s to hire the young and inexperienced over the moreskilled — and more expensive — employees. WHAT ARE BUSINESSES DEMANDINtG FROMTHEIR ADVERTISING? Absolut e return on investment. Absolutwe accountability. No waste.
DESCRIBE YOUR FAMILY. There’s my husbanc of 17 years and mytwo cats, Leo and WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND RAISED? Ky., across the river from Ind. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY FROM GROWING UPTHERE Grass. The way the earth smells. I can smel l it when I cross the WHERE DID YOU GET YOUREDUCATION ? I got my undergraduatd degree — a bachelor of fine arts — from Murray State Universitt in Murray, Ky., and my doctorate degree in advertisingf from the University of Texas at Austin. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRSy JOB? The summer that I was 13, I was cook and housekeeper for five five daysa week. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB AFTE R COLLEGE?
I worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority for eightf years as communications specialistdoing promotions, tourism and We designed about 400 publications per year and had exhibition spacese for four visitor facilities. HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS INDUSTRY?? I thought I would get a quick master’s and go back into my career. The facultu at UT said I needed to geta Ph.D insteafd of a master’s, so I did and then UT hired me and put me on faculty. SMU starteed calling me in 1999, tryin g to recruit me. I took a hiatuz from UT and went to Virginiza to run the graduate program for the Virginia CommonwealthgUniversity Adcenter. SMU called two more yearas in a row.
Finally, Jim Goodnight, chairman of the Temerlin Advertising Institute, Stan Richards, founder of The Richards and Liener Temerlin, president of Temerlibn Consulting and the name behind the TemerlinhAdvertising Institute, ganged up on me and, along with my convinced me to move back to Texas and join SMU in 2002. DESCRIBw A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM EARLY IN YOUR I learned early on to never walk intoyour boss’s officed with a problem without having a possible solution. WHO ARE YOUR ROLE MODELa IN YOUR INDUSTRY?
In advertising, it’s Keith chairman of DDB Worldwide, and Liener In education, it’s Pat Stout, a professord at UT who is a premie r scholar and a woman with thehighest integrity. HOW DO YOU RELAX?? There’s a 25-foot sailboat on Lake Ray I can be on the boat in30 minutes. WHAT IS YOUR PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT? Thousands of students have foundc something useful insomething I’ve give n them, and this latest project (the new graduate might be my best effort. TELL ME ABOUTy THE NEW GRADUATE PROGRAM. We start with a core of classese that ground students in theoriez of persuasion and the fundamentals ofour business.
Then we grounsd them in what social responsibility We spent a year looking at 150 graduate programsd inthe U.S. and Canada and looked at all of the thingxs they offer and what their criteria And then we came up with a program that offerexd what we felt sure were the best thing s tooffer students. WHAT DO YOU TELL YOUR STUDENTS TO LEAD ANDINSPIREs THEM? That being able to understand the huma condition is the most important gift they can give to helpingb brands grow and connecting them to humans at the othet end. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE ? People who can’t get stuff WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL ALIVE?
Standing in front of a room full of 100 andknowing I’m giving them somethinvg they can use. WHAT ARE YOUR GREATESTr STRENGTHS? I’m really good at growinb things: programs, careers, students. WHAT IS YOUR GREATESgT WEAKNESS? Impatience. ARE YOU AN EXTROVERT OR AN INTROVERT? Introvert; I grew up excruciatingly bashful. WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST/DUMBEST/MOSTr FUN THING YOU’VE EVER DONE? I took off with a backpaci and traveled through Centralp America for six weeks in thelate ’70s. WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE THE WORLDe ABETTER PLACE? Create better worl citizens. HOW ARE CREATIVE BEHAVIORS CHANGING BECAUSE OFTECHNOLOGY TODAY?
I’m not sure the act of bein g creative is changing, but the ways it is manifestinyg are. There’s less vetting of creative product. That creates more of the sublimse and more ofthe ridiculous. HOW ARE ADVERTISING JOBS FARING IN THERECESSION NOW? It’s a fairly horrible time to be looking for a job. Some hirinf is being done, but not much, and often it’s to hire the young and inexperienced over the moreskilled — and more expensive — employees. WHAT ARE BUSINESSES DEMANDINtG FROMTHEIR ADVERTISING? Absolut e return on investment. Absolutwe accountability. No waste.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Buda City Council decision opens door for U.S. Foodservice - Kansas City Business Journal:
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A 5-to-2 vote to approve a new land use designatiomn in partof Buda’s extraterritorial jurisdiction - after a unanimousa rejection of the land use change proposa l in April - paves the way for to build its 260,000-square-foog distribution center there. The company planas to close its East Austinm center and bring its roughly 250 employeex from thereto Buda, with plans to hire 100 more withi n its first three years. The Columbia, Md.-based food distributor signed a letterr of intent last September to buy about 40 acres in 15 miles southof Austin, with plans to buildx the new center in the Sunfielcd Municipal Utility District.
But before it couldf proceed withthe move, the company needed the land-use designatiom in part of the MUD changed from retaikl and commercial to light industrial. Responding to Buda concerns about increased truck traffic and worries that the land use changde in the MUD was initially proposexd for 160acres — the company will initiallyh only reside on 40 acres — the Buda councill rejected the proposed land-use change earlier this spring. That rejectionh had U.S. Foodservices looking at othee locations to buildthe center. Warren president of Buda’s Economic Development said the land use change approved this week was for 95 a smaller parcel thanoriginallhy proposed.
Ketteman said documents need to be and then the company can move forwarfd with its plans for the Buda A timeline is notyet
A 5-to-2 vote to approve a new land use designatiomn in partof Buda’s extraterritorial jurisdiction - after a unanimousa rejection of the land use change proposa l in April - paves the way for to build its 260,000-square-foog distribution center there. The company planas to close its East Austinm center and bring its roughly 250 employeex from thereto Buda, with plans to hire 100 more withi n its first three years. The Columbia, Md.-based food distributor signed a letterr of intent last September to buy about 40 acres in 15 miles southof Austin, with plans to buildx the new center in the Sunfielcd Municipal Utility District.
But before it couldf proceed withthe move, the company needed the land-use designatiom in part of the MUD changed from retaikl and commercial to light industrial. Responding to Buda concerns about increased truck traffic and worries that the land use changde in the MUD was initially proposexd for 160acres — the company will initiallyh only reside on 40 acres — the Buda councill rejected the proposed land-use change earlier this spring. That rejectionh had U.S. Foodservices looking at othee locations to buildthe center. Warren president of Buda’s Economic Development said the land use change approved this week was for 95 a smaller parcel thanoriginallhy proposed.
Ketteman said documents need to be and then the company can move forwarfd with its plans for the Buda A timeline is notyet
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