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Sunday, July 10, 2011
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Friday, July 8, 2011
P&G moving Iams headquarters to Mason - Triangle Business Journal:
Kris Parlett, spokesman for Procter and Gamble PG) Pet Care, which includes Iams and Eukanuba, said the company and its 240 employeees would be moving in October to the Masonbusinesse park, where other personalo health care divisions of P&G and more than 2,00 0 employees are housed. “It will make it easier to collaborate andincreas productivity,” Parlett said. Nobodgy will be laid of as a result ofthe company’z current headquarters On Poe Avenue closing. Instead, all 240 employeesa will be offered there same positionin Mason. P&G acquired Iams in 1999. Since then, saless of its Iams and Eukanuba brands have more than according tothe company.
“Ourt home address is changing but not our commitment to improvinvthe well-being of all dogs and said Dan Rajczak, vice president of P&G’as pet care business in North in a statement released Thursday. “Itf anything, this will help us do an even betted job of connecting with our colleagues in health care to bring greart innovation topet care.” A company spokespersonb confirmed that 250 employees at the Iams-Eukanuba manufacturiny and R&D complex in Preblwe County will not be part of the move. The news of the move came as a surprisse to Vandaliaofficials Thursday, who said they had been working vigilantly behind the scenes to keep Iams local.
“When P&bG purchased Iams, we knew at that point this was a possibilityysome day,” said Rich Hopkins, director of communications for the city. “Bugt we are surprised today that the announcement was Hopkins said Iams was one of the top employerwsin Vandalia, though he could not say how much incom e was generated by the company. The city will have a presd conference at3 p.m. Thursday to further discusws the implications ofthe move. the community is still pursuing two includingan $81 million distributioj center, which would bring 700 jobs and New-Yorjk based aerospace company that coulcd bring 130 jobs. “This is bad news for any Hopkins said.
“We have two projects in the pipelines now that could bring up to 900 employees tothe city, so it’sz not all gloom and doom here.”
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Drinks + girls fuelled police outpost shooting - Stabroek News
Drinks + girls fuelled police outpost shooting Stabroek News By Stabroek staff | View Comments A police officer remains under close arrest at the Springlands Station, following the shooting of Terry Wayne Jack, 22, of Orealla, Corentyne River during a drinking spree on Monday morning at the Orealla Police ... |
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Royals took Canada Day break at PM's summer retreat - Toronto Sun
Telegraph.co.uk | Royals took Canada Day break at PM's summer retreat Toronto Sun Miguel Head, a spokesman for the Will and Kate, said the couple spent time at the retreat and explored the lake as well as the surrounding national parklands. Will and Kate have a certain amount of down time scheduled into their busy nine-day, ... Prince William & Kate Master French Cooking in Montreal William and Kate's Quebecois Adventure Future of monarchy seems assured |
Friday, July 1, 2011
Ottawa pumps up military role in citizenship ceremonies - Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail | Ottawa pumps up military role in citizenship ceremonies Globe and Mail The Conservative government is strengthening the symbolic power of the military in public life by having a member of the Canadian Forces play a prominent role in citizenship ceremonies. In an operational bulletin issued earlier this year, ... Sixty New Canadians Welcomed at Special Canada Day Citizenship Ceremony at ... |
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Aurora's Southlands shopping center damaged by tornado - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
A twister reportedly touched down nearbyat 1:49 p.m. Sundaty and crossed through the area on aneight - to 10-mile-long path for aboutf 30 minutes, the said. . Firefighters found moderate damage at locatedat E-470 and Smoky Hill Road, CBS4 News Rooftop heating, venting and air-conditioning units were windows were broken, a shed was destroyed, and a car was Natural-gas leaks also were noted. Authoritiez shut down gas service to Southlands earlgySunday afternoon. No serious injuries were reported onthe shopping-centet grounds, but a man in a nearbyh neighborhood who was trying to take pictures reportedly was hospitalizedc with unspecified serious according to news reports.
A Southlands spokeswomanj told CBS4 most ofthe center's stores will be closefd Monday to allow for continued damage assessment. She said customers shoule call individual stores to verify whethed they are closedor Southlands, which opened in 2006, is the Denvefr area's largest shopping center by retail space, at 1.7 milliom square feet. It consists of several freestanding buildings connected by pedestrian corridors and The complex is owned by Granite Southlands Town Center LLC and managedc by Forest City CommercialManagement Inc. Four othert tornadoes were spotted north and east of DenverSunday afternoon, and baseball-sized hail struck some areas.
As many as 3,0009 customers were without power for a time in partas of Auroraand Centennial. .
Sunday, June 26, 2011
DSI fills tech market hole with specialized products - Kansas City Business Journal:
The Overland Park-based softwarre developer has a growing reputation for tailoringcomputerizeed supply-chain management technology. Handheld devices loaded with DSI' s software are used throughout the world to track assets and time usingb radio frequencyidentification (RFID), bar codesx and other technologies. DSI managers say that other companiees can do bits and pieces of what DSI but nobody does it all or does it When Michael McGraw started DSI in the company provided programming services for userxs of IBM midrange computer systems focusing on just one of severa l aspects ofthe client's operations, such as Through the years, other companies expanded theitr focus to develop broad softwarse packages that encompass almost every conceivable part of a cliengt company's operation.
But DSI narrowed in on a specializes niche, gaining deeper expertises in automated data-capture that can keep up-to-the-second informatio n on inventories and raw goodd and their movement down thesupply chain. "We shot our way into an openinv out there into the markety and a large part of that has been a greaty staff with an enormous amount of saidTom Bosch, DSI's director of marketingb and business development. "What makes us uniqus is we offer a complet e solution in the world ofautomatee data-capture, from the first front-end analysiws to when we walk away we have (the so trained that they don'ty have to call us a lot. We don't want our clients ravingf about us.
We want them to stand on the mountaintopl and screamabout us." Boschj has that crumpled look of someone who is workingv way too hard. At the same time, he has the exciteed exuberance of a disciple that is not uncommon in thetechnologuy industry. The DSI headquarters oversees more than 200 peopled worldwide and annual revenuefrom $50 million to $100 It is a modest 1960s-type glass affaier that could be a two-story auto supply store.
But when the firsr car you notice in the parking lot is a Mini Cooperwith "BITWISE" license plates, you know what's businesslike cubicles where the industry'e notoriously eccentric and brilliant ground troops Kevin Whittaker, who specializes in busineszs and technology services at Kansas City-based , says DSI is a "majo player in data with "very strong partnerships with key player s that may be changing." Some of those key players were companiezs that owned large whole-business computer programs such as , whichy was later bought by PeopleSoft was latedr bought in a less-than-friendlty manner by the massive As a much of DSI's partnership is now with Oracle.
Recently, Oraclr approved the integration of a DSI automateddata - capture program into a J.D. Edwards large-scale businesws operation program that had not been updated in 10 Industry consultants such as Whittaker say that althoug h DSI is probably in no danger of gettingy swallowed upby Oracle, it still must be awarew that it needs to develop other partnershipsa with companies that need the excellenty RFID and bar code systems that DSI has DSI's Bosch said his company's managers have sat down with their Oracle counterparts.
They agreed that theres may be some circumstanceswhen Oracle's data-capturs system may be better for a client and others where DSI's is better, and they will recommend each other'sd version as those circumstances warrant it. Bosch said that isn't as scarty as it may sound: "They are an inch deep and a mile while we are an inch wide and a mile He alsosaid DSI's systems have no real competition for what its systemes do "beyond maybe a couple of guys working in a Jerry Munchell may not be screaminyg from a mountaintop about DSI, but that'as not to say he isn't very happy abouy being a DSI client.
Munchell is director of supply chaimnfor Indiana-based , the largest casket manufacturer in the country with award-winninyg plants in the U.S. and Mexico. "We are very pleases with them," he said. "Their systemn has saved us a lot of time and has improvex our accuracyas well. They've also giveh us great support overthe years." DATA SYSTEMd INTERNATIONAL INC. Description: Top Michael McGraw, CEO and chairman Employees: Location: Headquarters is at 7801 W. 110thb Street, Overland Park, KS 66210.
DSI has locationas in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdoj and Australia, and a network of businesd partnersin Europe, Asia, and South