Horton PR: And they're off! Tirol cycles to London 2012 MarketWatch (press release) Over the next 8 days the Tirol cycle team will ride 1300km through Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium before crossing from Ostend to Ramsgate. Spending an average 6-8 hours on the road and covering up to 200km per day, they will arrive at Tower Bridge ... |
четверг, 19 июля 2012 г.
Horton PR: And they're off! Tirol cycles to London 2012 - MarketWatch (press release)
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вторник, 17 июля 2012 г.
Online 'shopping mall' for health care eyes Wisconsin - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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After a successful launch in the Paul marketin January, is exploring entering Milwaukese and the Fox Valleyg area, said Jim a spokesman with the Bloomington, Minn.-based company. Anecdotalo interviews with area health care system show little progress has been made to bring Carol.com to Milwaukee, but system officials say they are willinhg to talk. Carol.com offers “care put together by health care providers on medicakl conditions such asback pain, heart disease, diabetes and women’ss health so consumers can see how serviceas and price vary among the different providers.
For a woman could schedule a mammogram, annuall physical exam and dentalk visit using the site and find out what all of thosee exams wouldcost her. The servicse is free to consumers and paid for by participatinhhealth providers, who pay a monthlyu fee to be listesd on the Web site and a transaction fee if a customee schedules an appointment to see one of the Poulter said the site gets 800 to 1,000 hits dailuy in Minneapolis. The Web site is one more tool that couled become more valuable to as employers optfor high-deductibles insurance plans that require consumers to pay out-of-pocket for more of theif own health costs.
If so-called “consumer-driven” healtj care is going to be successful, it has to be consumeer friendly, said Andy president of the Healt h Care System Consultants divisionof , “What makes this (Web site) attractiv e is it’s set up along the same lines as how you would shop for wedding gifts online,” Seriok said. “This makes purchasing health care like anyothef commodity, and that’s ultimately where health care has to At least one area health care system — in Waukeshza — is interested in learning more aboutt Carol.com. “This is something we would beinginvolved in, said Sandra Peterson, spokeswomanh for ProHealth.
“We are aware of the site and followingf its developmentwith Carol.com moved into the Seattle market earlier this Web site officials hope to continue to move to areasx like Milwaukee, where the market is highl y competitive but at the same time doesn’t have too many smal providers, said Poulter. Carol.com was foundecd by Tony Miller, former chief executivse officerof , whicu was acquired by Minneapolis-based in 2004. The push for transparencty in health care has prompted Wisconsin and several commercial insurance companies to offer a service similarto Carol.comm on their Web sites. For earlier this year, UnitedHealthcare, Louisville, Ky.
-based and and Blue Shiel d of Wisconsin began offering customers cost comparison toole onWeb sites. , Fitchburg, operatesd PricePoint, a Web site that uses voluntaryu information from hospital systemz to compare the cost of variouxsinpatient procedures.
After a successful launch in the Paul marketin January, is exploring entering Milwaukese and the Fox Valleyg area, said Jim a spokesman with the Bloomington, Minn.-based company. Anecdotalo interviews with area health care system show little progress has been made to bring Carol.com to Milwaukee, but system officials say they are willinhg to talk. Carol.com offers “care put together by health care providers on medicakl conditions such asback pain, heart disease, diabetes and women’ss health so consumers can see how serviceas and price vary among the different providers.
For a woman could schedule a mammogram, annuall physical exam and dentalk visit using the site and find out what all of thosee exams wouldcost her. The servicse is free to consumers and paid for by participatinhhealth providers, who pay a monthlyu fee to be listesd on the Web site and a transaction fee if a customee schedules an appointment to see one of the Poulter said the site gets 800 to 1,000 hits dailuy in Minneapolis. The Web site is one more tool that couled become more valuable to as employers optfor high-deductibles insurance plans that require consumers to pay out-of-pocket for more of theif own health costs.
If so-called “consumer-driven” healtj care is going to be successful, it has to be consumeer friendly, said Andy president of the Healt h Care System Consultants divisionof , “What makes this (Web site) attractiv e is it’s set up along the same lines as how you would shop for wedding gifts online,” Seriok said. “This makes purchasing health care like anyothef commodity, and that’s ultimately where health care has to At least one area health care system — in Waukeshza — is interested in learning more aboutt Carol.com. “This is something we would beinginvolved in, said Sandra Peterson, spokeswomanh for ProHealth.
“We are aware of the site and followingf its developmentwith Carol.com moved into the Seattle market earlier this Web site officials hope to continue to move to areasx like Milwaukee, where the market is highl y competitive but at the same time doesn’t have too many smal providers, said Poulter. Carol.com was foundecd by Tony Miller, former chief executivse officerof , whicu was acquired by Minneapolis-based in 2004. The push for transparencty in health care has prompted Wisconsin and several commercial insurance companies to offer a service similarto Carol.comm on their Web sites. For earlier this year, UnitedHealthcare, Louisville, Ky.
-based and and Blue Shiel d of Wisconsin began offering customers cost comparison toole onWeb sites. , Fitchburg, operatesd PricePoint, a Web site that uses voluntaryu information from hospital systemz to compare the cost of variouxsinpatient procedures.
понедельник, 16 июля 2012 г.
Advanta agrees to refund customers up to $35M in FDIC agreements - Orlando Business Journal:
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That agreement addresses charges that theSprintg House, Pa.-based company violated federal tradee laws through its pricing strategies on business credit and in its marketing of cash-back rewards on the cards. Advanta said it did not admiy wrongdoing and that it entered theagreements “in the interesrt of expediency and to avoid litigation.” Advanta said it took a $14 millionb charge to cover refunds tied to the alleged marketing violations in third-quarter 2008 and will take a second-quarter 2009 charge to cover refundas over its pricing strategies, which it said coulf total $21 million. Advanta also agreed to a $150,000o fine.
In a separate agreement with the Advanta’s ability to use cash and pay dividends hasbeen restricted. The company must submit a plan toremaijn "well-capitalized," and submit a plan to terminat its deposit-taking operations and deposit insurance once its deposits are repaid in a process expected to take a few years. The second agreement with the FDIC places restrictionsaon Advanta’s use of its cash assets, paymenf of dividends and transactions that would materially alterf its balance sheet compositiob and taking of brokeresd deposits.
Advanta said the second order does not in any way restricft it from continuing to service itsmanagedd credit-card accounts and receivables. In an effort to limift losses and erosion of its capital ascredity deteriorates, Advanta said in early May that its securitizationj trust will go into early amortization — wherde the company uses receivables from customers to acceleratw payment to investor bondholders. While that protects investors from prolonged exposures to a pool of receivablexs whose credit performancehas deteriorated, Advantas would have needed an alternativs way to fund new purchases on its credit cards. So it had to shut down future use, effectivde May 30.
It has since referred some customersa to AmericanExpress Co. Advanta’s stock closede 2 7 percent lower Wednesday at42 cents.
That agreement addresses charges that theSprintg House, Pa.-based company violated federal tradee laws through its pricing strategies on business credit and in its marketing of cash-back rewards on the cards. Advanta said it did not admiy wrongdoing and that it entered theagreements “in the interesrt of expediency and to avoid litigation.” Advanta said it took a $14 millionb charge to cover refunds tied to the alleged marketing violations in third-quarter 2008 and will take a second-quarter 2009 charge to cover refundas over its pricing strategies, which it said coulf total $21 million. Advanta also agreed to a $150,000o fine.
In a separate agreement with the Advanta’s ability to use cash and pay dividends hasbeen restricted. The company must submit a plan toremaijn "well-capitalized," and submit a plan to terminat its deposit-taking operations and deposit insurance once its deposits are repaid in a process expected to take a few years. The second agreement with the FDIC places restrictionsaon Advanta’s use of its cash assets, paymenf of dividends and transactions that would materially alterf its balance sheet compositiob and taking of brokeresd deposits.
Advanta said the second order does not in any way restricft it from continuing to service itsmanagedd credit-card accounts and receivables. In an effort to limift losses and erosion of its capital ascredity deteriorates, Advanta said in early May that its securitizationj trust will go into early amortization — wherde the company uses receivables from customers to acceleratw payment to investor bondholders. While that protects investors from prolonged exposures to a pool of receivablexs whose credit performancehas deteriorated, Advantas would have needed an alternativs way to fund new purchases on its credit cards. So it had to shut down future use, effectivde May 30.
It has since referred some customersa to AmericanExpress Co. Advanta’s stock closede 2 7 percent lower Wednesday at42 cents.
воскресенье, 15 июля 2012 г.
It's official: 15 General Motors dealers in Colorado to lose franchises - St. Louis Business Journal:
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It was the first definitiv statement of exactly how many GM dealers in the statw were informed thay will lose theit franchise agreementsin 2010. The Colorado Automobile Dealers Associationm previously had estimated the numberf at 13 to 15 based on report sfrom dealers. GM still is not releasinyg the names ofthe 1,323 dealers it plans to drop nationwide, including the 15 in The information came in a list released by the House Energty and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, basefd on information provided by GM. Executives of GM and which plans to shed 14Colorado dealers, testified beforde Congress about their dealer planzs Friday.
GM's car lines include Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, GMC, Saab, Saturn and Hummer. It has some 6,000 dealerships Letters sent in mid-Mayt to GM dealers the company plannedto drop, a copy of whichj was obtained by the Denver Busineszs Journal, said the automaker reviewed each of its sales volume, profitability, capitalization, location and facilities alonf with other "market patterns." . "Based on our review and currenf and foreseeable market conditions andyour dealership'zs historical performance, we do not see that GM can have a productivwe business relationship with [name of dealership] over the long said the letter, dated May 14.
About 92 of Colorado's 264 auto dealershipsa sell one or more GM said Tim Jackson of the state autodealers group. Additionao dealers may lose theirfranchises later, GM has
It was the first definitiv statement of exactly how many GM dealers in the statw were informed thay will lose theit franchise agreementsin 2010. The Colorado Automobile Dealers Associationm previously had estimated the numberf at 13 to 15 based on report sfrom dealers. GM still is not releasinyg the names ofthe 1,323 dealers it plans to drop nationwide, including the 15 in The information came in a list released by the House Energty and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, basefd on information provided by GM. Executives of GM and which plans to shed 14Colorado dealers, testified beforde Congress about their dealer planzs Friday.
GM's car lines include Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, GMC, Saab, Saturn and Hummer. It has some 6,000 dealerships Letters sent in mid-Mayt to GM dealers the company plannedto drop, a copy of whichj was obtained by the Denver Busineszs Journal, said the automaker reviewed each of its sales volume, profitability, capitalization, location and facilities alonf with other "market patterns." . "Based on our review and currenf and foreseeable market conditions andyour dealership'zs historical performance, we do not see that GM can have a productivwe business relationship with [name of dealership] over the long said the letter, dated May 14.
About 92 of Colorado's 264 auto dealershipsa sell one or more GM said Tim Jackson of the state autodealers group. Additionao dealers may lose theirfranchises later, GM has
пятница, 13 июля 2012 г.
Report: Columbus holding its own amid recession - Baltimore Business Journal:
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A report from Washington, D.C.-based liberak public-policy think tank dubbes the MetroMonitor bills itself asa “beneath the recession-era look at metros with more than 500,000 residentws as of 2007. The report placed the Columbus metropolitan statisticap area 40th among those ranked for its basedon employment, unemployment, wage, output, home prices and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Daytonj found slots from 61stto 80th. Toledoo was ranked the 10th-weakest major metropolitan area Leading the pack in the report was San one of four Texas citiese amongthe nation’s top five. Detroig was ranked last, followed by Cape Fla.
, and Stockton, Calif., two areas devastated by the foreclosure Brookings found that the metropolitan perspectiveon states’ performancre amid the recession “suggests that recoveru may be quite uneven as posing particular challenges for policymakers seekin to ensure a truly national risin economic tide.” Columbus’ strengths and weaknesses in the repory varied. The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percent declind in employment since its peak earlierthis decade. Columbus found itself at 32nd for itsmodes 0.
4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the firstt three months of 2008 compared with the same period this But the city was ranked near the bottom of the list, at for the 4.8 percent decline in its gross metropolitan product – a measure of the goodw and services produced in the area – in the firstg quarter of 2009 comparex with its pre-recession peak. Comparing the last thred months of 2008 with the first quarter this year the GMPdropped 1.7 percent, representinyg the 14th-worst decline among the citiez measured. To download the full report, clic .
A report from Washington, D.C.-based liberak public-policy think tank dubbes the MetroMonitor bills itself asa “beneath the recession-era look at metros with more than 500,000 residentws as of 2007. The report placed the Columbus metropolitan statisticap area 40th among those ranked for its basedon employment, unemployment, wage, output, home prices and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Daytonj found slots from 61stto 80th. Toledoo was ranked the 10th-weakest major metropolitan area Leading the pack in the report was San one of four Texas citiese amongthe nation’s top five. Detroig was ranked last, followed by Cape Fla.
, and Stockton, Calif., two areas devastated by the foreclosure Brookings found that the metropolitan perspectiveon states’ performancre amid the recession “suggests that recoveru may be quite uneven as posing particular challenges for policymakers seekin to ensure a truly national risin economic tide.” Columbus’ strengths and weaknesses in the repory varied. The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percent declind in employment since its peak earlierthis decade. Columbus found itself at 32nd for itsmodes 0.
4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the firstt three months of 2008 compared with the same period this But the city was ranked near the bottom of the list, at for the 4.8 percent decline in its gross metropolitan product – a measure of the goodw and services produced in the area – in the firstg quarter of 2009 comparex with its pre-recession peak. Comparing the last thred months of 2008 with the first quarter this year the GMPdropped 1.7 percent, representinyg the 14th-worst decline among the citiez measured. To download the full report, clic .
четверг, 12 июля 2012 г.
Orange resort tax collections sink 16% - Orlando Business Journal:
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The tax, collected primarily from hotelsand motels, is used to pay for tourism promotion campaigns, operations at the and construction of three downtown Orlando sports and entertainment Collection fell to $13.3 million in Aprilk from $15.9 million a year ago. The drop reflects the downturn in travel that is a byproducty onthe recession. Revenue per availablew room in April droppedto $69.612 from $84.17 last year, a 17.3 percenft decline, according to Smith Travel Research. The Smitg Travel numbers, however, do not includer hotels operated by andHarris Rosen’s sevej hotels.
Orange Comptroller Martha Haynie said her officd generally combines March and Apri l results together to compensat e for the shift in when the Easteholiday falls. Using the two months, collections fell 22 percent yearover “While this is hardly cause for celebration, it is a bit bettert than the 30 percent declines we saw earlied this year,” Haynie said in a statement accompanying the Rich Maladecki, president of the , said the losses in hotel revenue that resulted in the decline in tax revenuw are having a broad impact on the economy. He said hotelsz and companies that service hotels and tourists are cutting employeesw asrevenues decline.
“This is both a loss of revenue and jobs for our Maladecki said. “There is a domino effect. One in everyh five jobs in our regioj is related directly or indirectly to thehospitality
The tax, collected primarily from hotelsand motels, is used to pay for tourism promotion campaigns, operations at the and construction of three downtown Orlando sports and entertainment Collection fell to $13.3 million in Aprilk from $15.9 million a year ago. The drop reflects the downturn in travel that is a byproducty onthe recession. Revenue per availablew room in April droppedto $69.612 from $84.17 last year, a 17.3 percenft decline, according to Smith Travel Research. The Smitg Travel numbers, however, do not includer hotels operated by andHarris Rosen’s sevej hotels.
Orange Comptroller Martha Haynie said her officd generally combines March and Apri l results together to compensat e for the shift in when the Easteholiday falls. Using the two months, collections fell 22 percent yearover “While this is hardly cause for celebration, it is a bit bettert than the 30 percent declines we saw earlied this year,” Haynie said in a statement accompanying the Rich Maladecki, president of the , said the losses in hotel revenue that resulted in the decline in tax revenuw are having a broad impact on the economy. He said hotelsz and companies that service hotels and tourists are cutting employeesw asrevenues decline.
“This is both a loss of revenue and jobs for our Maladecki said. “There is a domino effect. One in everyh five jobs in our regioj is related directly or indirectly to thehospitality
вторник, 10 июля 2012 г.
Lane Bryant parent's 1Q loss bests expectations - Business First of Columbus:
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For the quarter ended May 2, Charminb Shoppes (NASDAQ:CHRS) had a loss of $6.6 million, or 6 centa a share, compared to a year-earlier loss of or a penny a share. The compan had given guidance forecasting a loss of 9 to 13 centssa share, and shares were trading 4 percent higher at $3.734 Wednesday. Sales in the quarter totaled $538.1 They were down 16 percenyt from $641.3 million a year and down 13 percen t at the same stores that were open inthe year-earlierf period. Sales declined at all three majotrbrands — Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug and Catherines.
“While our performance for the first quartetr reflected a difficult retail environment and did exceed ourearningss guidance, our results were nevertheless disappointing. Our results reflectr comparable store sales performance that was not on par with other and a disappointing level of earningb power for our saidJim Fogarty, president and CEO. In the first Charming took a noncash restructuring chargeof $11.6 including $8.7 million related to accelerated depreciation on discontinued or divested catalogh businesses. Charming Shoppes, which is based in Pa.
, owns 2,272 stores in 48
For the quarter ended May 2, Charminb Shoppes (NASDAQ:CHRS) had a loss of $6.6 million, or 6 centa a share, compared to a year-earlier loss of or a penny a share. The compan had given guidance forecasting a loss of 9 to 13 centssa share, and shares were trading 4 percent higher at $3.734 Wednesday. Sales in the quarter totaled $538.1 They were down 16 percenyt from $641.3 million a year and down 13 percen t at the same stores that were open inthe year-earlierf period. Sales declined at all three majotrbrands — Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug and Catherines.
“While our performance for the first quartetr reflected a difficult retail environment and did exceed ourearningss guidance, our results were nevertheless disappointing. Our results reflectr comparable store sales performance that was not on par with other and a disappointing level of earningb power for our saidJim Fogarty, president and CEO. In the first Charming took a noncash restructuring chargeof $11.6 including $8.7 million related to accelerated depreciation on discontinued or divested catalogh businesses. Charming Shoppes, which is based in Pa.
, owns 2,272 stores in 48
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