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In the past week, the Riverside-basedx company expanded its Peach State facility froma 6,000-square-footf office to a 40,000-square-foogt building. The new building dwarfs CDO’w local headquarters, which is about 15,0009 square feet. The Georgia expansion — near — comesw after the company received additionap work from anexistiny $96 million contract awarded in 2005. CDO perform s technical data and engineering support atthe , at the The 13,000-person center is a supportr and repair depot for a variety of including the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.
Company Vice President Don Ertek did not disclose how much revenue the additional work will but said it will add 20 new employeess immediately and another 80 by the end ofthe year. CDO currentlg has about 315 employees, 85 of whichb are local, said Dave Stack, CDO director of corporatre developmentand communications. Last January the company had 305 totaol employees with225 local, according to research. The companyg is making the shift aftere programs at dried up or shifted awayfrom CDO’ws expertise. “Wright-Patt used to be our breaed and butter,” Stack said.
Within the past few months, the companyt was selected to bid on a potof $428 million, used to deliverd Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions to federal defense and non-defense users. It will be administered by the . The contracgt is for state-of-the-art methods to monitor and track item sand people. The company also made the shorrt list of contractors in Marcyh allowed to bid on aseparatde $75.5 million from the . The contracft will lay the groundwork for CDO to work with the or the to integrats RFID infrastructure within itssupply chain.
Most of the work will be performed at locations outside theDayton region, but any projects the companu wins will be managed out of the headquarters, thus boosting its locaol staff, Ertel said. The 19-year-old compant is making significant stridezs securing businessoutside Wright-Patt, CDO Presideny and CEO Al Wofford said in an employee “We are fortunate at CDO to have a broad businesx base,” Wofford wrote. “Thisa didn’t happen overnight.” Ertel said the company recently hired a commercial businessdevelopment manager, as CDO seeks to translatee its government success into the commercial marketplace.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
On the menu: Chipotle opening Clifton Park restaurant - The Business Review (Albany):
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in the shopping mall, lateer this year. The Tex-Mex chain will move into new space in thevacanyt Steinbach’s department store. The mall’s owner, , is rebuildin g the former department store to accommodate 10 to 15 individua l storefrontsin 40,000 to 45,00o square feet of leasable The Clifton Park Chipotle is schedulerd to open in early- to mid-December, company spokeswoman Katherine Newel Smith said. Like the recently opened Wilton Chipotler and another plannedfor Latham, the Clifton Park locationj will incorporate such elements as high-efficiency heatin and cooling, low-energy lighting and speciallyy coated glass. Denver, Colo.
-based Chipotle opened up its first CapitalRegiom location—and upstate New York’s first—in at 3057 Route 50 in Wilton, a town abou 15 miles north of Clifton Park. Both towns are locatedr in Saratoga County. The company’s second Capitalp Region restaurant is schedulef to open in Lathamin November, at the intersectioh of Wade Road and Route 7 in The average per-person checkj is $8 to $9.
Entrees typically run betweenn $6 and $7, according to the company’s Web The redesign of the former Steinbach’se space will be similar to the changes DCG made to other sectionsw of the enclosed mall a couple of years ago to creatr storefronts that shoppers can access directlyt from theparking lot.
in the shopping mall, lateer this year. The Tex-Mex chain will move into new space in thevacanyt Steinbach’s department store. The mall’s owner, , is rebuildin g the former department store to accommodate 10 to 15 individua l storefrontsin 40,000 to 45,00o square feet of leasable The Clifton Park Chipotle is schedulerd to open in early- to mid-December, company spokeswoman Katherine Newel Smith said. Like the recently opened Wilton Chipotler and another plannedfor Latham, the Clifton Park locationj will incorporate such elements as high-efficiency heatin and cooling, low-energy lighting and speciallyy coated glass. Denver, Colo.
-based Chipotle opened up its first CapitalRegiom location—and upstate New York’s first—in at 3057 Route 50 in Wilton, a town abou 15 miles north of Clifton Park. Both towns are locatedr in Saratoga County. The company’s second Capitalp Region restaurant is schedulef to open in Lathamin November, at the intersectioh of Wade Road and Route 7 in The average per-person checkj is $8 to $9.
Entrees typically run betweenn $6 and $7, according to the company’s Web The redesign of the former Steinbach’se space will be similar to the changes DCG made to other sectionsw of the enclosed mall a couple of years ago to creatr storefronts that shoppers can access directlyt from theparking lot.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - Business First of Louisville:
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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativesawarded $16.5 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and as well as community colleges in each state. A communitt college in North Carolina alsoreceivedx funding. The initiative seeks to support programa that help students enrolled in remedialprograms so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to grade level in a given subject.
The goal is to improvse classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced coursex and eventually graduate with a degree or The state of Ohio wasawarded $300,000 over a three-yeart period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewardz community colleges for helping students completew remedial and college-level courses. The foundation also said it’w awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followint fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grants will support various state andcollege programs, including effortes to collect data and better track the performancer of remedial students, the foundation Click for a look at awarfd recipients nationwide.
The foundation’s Development Education Initiativesawarded $16.5 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and as well as community colleges in each state. A communitt college in North Carolina alsoreceivedx funding. The initiative seeks to support programa that help students enrolled in remedialprograms so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to grade level in a given subject.
The goal is to improvse classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced coursex and eventually graduate with a degree or The state of Ohio wasawarded $300,000 over a three-yeart period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewardz community colleges for helping students completew remedial and college-level courses. The foundation also said it’w awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followint fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grants will support various state andcollege programs, including effortes to collect data and better track the performancer of remedial students, the foundation Click for a look at awarfd recipients nationwide.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Usai lebaran, Harga Sembako di Magelang Terpantau Stabil - Suara Merdeka CyberNews
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
ProTec diversifies client base with contract to install fiber for police, fire stations - Memphis Business Journal:
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is growing and diversifying its client base afteer recently landinga $1 million fiber installatiom project for police precincts and fire stationas in Memphis. Memphis-based ProTec's clients includr , Mid-America Theological Seminary, Dell, Inc., and . Its work includesa clients in Connecticut, New York, California and Canada. Andy vice president of ProTec, says the company's revenue topped $2.5 milliohn last year. Thanks to large projects for two New York the company couldhit $6 millionj this year.
It was also recently namee to 's list of 5,00 0 Fastest Growing Companiesin "A lot of our work is coming from financial companiesa on the East Coastf looking to build new data Yambrek says. "We'll do smal work for them locallygand that'll grow to national jobs." Because of the securithy involved in financial data centers, Yambrek declinesa to identify the New York clients. He does say one of the clientz lost 900of 1,100 employees in the 9/11 attacks on New "We're working on a new center for them Yambrek says.
"We send guys therwe to work and manage the projects from The data centers for the two financial clientsa will include morethan 12,000 cables, 150 server cabinets and illustrates a new direction Yambrek wants the company to go in. "Wd want to specialize in thingsa thateveryone can't do and get the word-of-mouth with our he says. Yambrek says ProTec's 2007 workload will include 60%-70% out-of-town projects, the firsy time the company's out-of-town work has exceeded local ProTec's national business will not change its Memphis says company presidentAna Martino-Yambrek.
"We want to keep growinb here, and being here has actually helped us win bids in other she says. Darryl Anderson, chief information officef and director of information servicesz for the Cityof Memphis, says the city initiallty was cautious about ProTec. "Theyg seemed like a small start-up, but we'vr been very impressed with the qualitt oftheir work," Anderson says. "It is going to take anotherd year and a half to get all of the work completeed on the fire but they're up to the Professional Technologies, Inc. Technology design, installation and project managemenftcompany Address: 582 Tillman St., Suite 2 Web www.protecinc.
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is growing and diversifying its client base afteer recently landinga $1 million fiber installatiom project for police precincts and fire stationas in Memphis. Memphis-based ProTec's clients includr , Mid-America Theological Seminary, Dell, Inc., and . Its work includesa clients in Connecticut, New York, California and Canada. Andy vice president of ProTec, says the company's revenue topped $2.5 milliohn last year. Thanks to large projects for two New York the company couldhit $6 millionj this year.
It was also recently namee to 's list of 5,00 0 Fastest Growing Companiesin "A lot of our work is coming from financial companiesa on the East Coastf looking to build new data Yambrek says. "We'll do smal work for them locallygand that'll grow to national jobs." Because of the securithy involved in financial data centers, Yambrek declinesa to identify the New York clients. He does say one of the clientz lost 900of 1,100 employees in the 9/11 attacks on New "We're working on a new center for them Yambrek says.
"We send guys therwe to work and manage the projects from The data centers for the two financial clientsa will include morethan 12,000 cables, 150 server cabinets and illustrates a new direction Yambrek wants the company to go in. "Wd want to specialize in thingsa thateveryone can't do and get the word-of-mouth with our he says. Yambrek says ProTec's 2007 workload will include 60%-70% out-of-town projects, the firsy time the company's out-of-town work has exceeded local ProTec's national business will not change its Memphis says company presidentAna Martino-Yambrek.
"We want to keep growinb here, and being here has actually helped us win bids in other she says. Darryl Anderson, chief information officef and director of information servicesz for the Cityof Memphis, says the city initiallty was cautious about ProTec. "Theyg seemed like a small start-up, but we'vr been very impressed with the qualitt oftheir work," Anderson says. "It is going to take anotherd year and a half to get all of the work completeed on the fire but they're up to the Professional Technologies, Inc. Technology design, installation and project managemenftcompany Address: 582 Tillman St., Suite 2 Web www.protecinc.
net
Friday, August 24, 2012
New figures show Arizona tourism industry
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The Governor’s Conference on Tourism is being held this week at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in attracting industry executives and hotelierd from acrossthe state. Numbers released Thursday as part of that event show the impactg of the economic downturn onthe state’s multimillion-dollar hospitalithy industry. “The lodging industry is clearly in Hotel economies track what is happeningt in the rest ofthe world,” said Arizona Touriskm Director Sherry Henry. The state figures show 37.4 million people visited Arizona in 2008 a 3 percent declinefrom 2007. About 26 milliomn leisure travelers spent timein Arizona, a decline of 3.3 while business travel was down 7.
6 to 6.3 million visitors. Direc t spending by visitors to the state declinedd by a little more than 3 percenytin 2008, to $18.5 billion. The numbers also show the impacrt of residents staying closer to While nonresident travel to the state was downaboutt 4.7 percent, to 22.6 million, about 9.8 million Arizonansz traveled within the a decline of only 2.9 percent. And even thoughn overseas visitors madeup 2.8 percengt of the state’s total visitors, more than half a milliom Canadians traveled to Arizona, mostly from Alberta, Ontario and Britisg Columbia. Mexican visitors also played significantly in those with morethan 3.85 million traveling to Arizona.
Whil the average daily rate of a room in Arizona last year was a bit higher than the national ADR of those numbers have not remained Tourism figures released for the first quarter typically the high touristseasonb — show the hospitality industry is stilp challenged by the downturn. Statewide, ADR was down 13.8 from $132.72 in first-quarter 2008 to $114.47 in first-quarter 2009. In metro ADR sank 16 percent, from $160.87 in first-quarteer 2008 to $135.08 in first-quartet 2009. Because metro Phoenix boasts manyluxurious upper-tieer resorts, daily rates in the regiobn are somewhat higher than statewide figures.
hoteliers continue to try to fill their Occupancy rates were 74 percent for the first quarter of 2008 in metro Phoenix thanks to hostinvg aSuper Bowl, but occupancy was just 63 percenrt for the first quarter of 2009 a 14.7 percent decline. Revenue per available room, a measurew of earnings from eachhotel room, dropped 28.3 percent, from $119.1t to $85.37. Henry and othert members of the Tourism Office are trying to build businesd through targeted marketing campaigns andthe “Valuse Arizona” Web site, a one-stop online shop for the state’z hotels and destinations to tout theidr value packages and More than 300 trips, packages and destinationd across the state are featured.
The Tourisjm Office also will launcha “Frew to Be” marketing campaign in select cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and which will focus on how Arizona properties cater to differenyt travelers’ desires, from outdoorsmen to families to the shoppiny crowd. Those cities are being targeted becauss research shows those from more faraway destinations stay in Arizona longer andspend more, bringing new moneyg to the state. In addition, the Tourism Offics has launched Facebook and Twitter options to interact directlyuwith travelers. The downturj also has affected theTouriskm Office, which is subject to the statwe hiring freeze and is facing budget cuts of aboutf 4.
5 million in this fiscal year. Henry said that will impact somemarketing efforts, not dramatically.
The Governor’s Conference on Tourism is being held this week at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in attracting industry executives and hotelierd from acrossthe state. Numbers released Thursday as part of that event show the impactg of the economic downturn onthe state’s multimillion-dollar hospitalithy industry. “The lodging industry is clearly in Hotel economies track what is happeningt in the rest ofthe world,” said Arizona Touriskm Director Sherry Henry. The state figures show 37.4 million people visited Arizona in 2008 a 3 percent declinefrom 2007. About 26 milliomn leisure travelers spent timein Arizona, a decline of 3.3 while business travel was down 7.
6 to 6.3 million visitors. Direc t spending by visitors to the state declinedd by a little more than 3 percenytin 2008, to $18.5 billion. The numbers also show the impacrt of residents staying closer to While nonresident travel to the state was downaboutt 4.7 percent, to 22.6 million, about 9.8 million Arizonansz traveled within the a decline of only 2.9 percent. And even thoughn overseas visitors madeup 2.8 percengt of the state’s total visitors, more than half a milliom Canadians traveled to Arizona, mostly from Alberta, Ontario and Britisg Columbia. Mexican visitors also played significantly in those with morethan 3.85 million traveling to Arizona.
Whil the average daily rate of a room in Arizona last year was a bit higher than the national ADR of those numbers have not remained Tourism figures released for the first quarter typically the high touristseasonb — show the hospitality industry is stilp challenged by the downturn. Statewide, ADR was down 13.8 from $132.72 in first-quarter 2008 to $114.47 in first-quarter 2009. In metro ADR sank 16 percent, from $160.87 in first-quarteer 2008 to $135.08 in first-quartet 2009. Because metro Phoenix boasts manyluxurious upper-tieer resorts, daily rates in the regiobn are somewhat higher than statewide figures.
hoteliers continue to try to fill their Occupancy rates were 74 percent for the first quarter of 2008 in metro Phoenix thanks to hostinvg aSuper Bowl, but occupancy was just 63 percenrt for the first quarter of 2009 a 14.7 percent decline. Revenue per available room, a measurew of earnings from eachhotel room, dropped 28.3 percent, from $119.1t to $85.37. Henry and othert members of the Tourism Office are trying to build businesd through targeted marketing campaigns andthe “Valuse Arizona” Web site, a one-stop online shop for the state’z hotels and destinations to tout theidr value packages and More than 300 trips, packages and destinationd across the state are featured.
The Tourisjm Office also will launcha “Frew to Be” marketing campaign in select cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and which will focus on how Arizona properties cater to differenyt travelers’ desires, from outdoorsmen to families to the shoppiny crowd. Those cities are being targeted becauss research shows those from more faraway destinations stay in Arizona longer andspend more, bringing new moneyg to the state. In addition, the Tourism Offics has launched Facebook and Twitter options to interact directlyuwith travelers. The downturj also has affected theTouriskm Office, which is subject to the statwe hiring freeze and is facing budget cuts of aboutf 4.
5 million in this fiscal year. Henry said that will impact somemarketing efforts, not dramatically.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
On a charity sweep - The Sun Daily
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The Sun Daily | On a charity sweep The Sun Daily Children from Rumah Amal Suci Rohani, Rumah Amal Limpahan Kasih, Rumah Kids and Shelter Home were tested on their speed, accuracy and conscious spending choices during the two-round challenge. Eight teams participated in the first round, with ... |
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