Monthly Archives: June 2014

Businesses for sale: Many familiar names are among listings of commercial sites

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Quality Bakery FARGO, N.D. – Interspersed among online commercial listings for vacant buildings and undeveloped lots are familiar names – businesses that are open but are also for sale.Only a handful of active businesses that are sold are listed publicly, said Dan Hicks, a business broker for Murphy Business and Financial Corp. of North Dakota, a division of Property Read more [...]

Survival Tips & Vegas Eats | ALA 2014 Preview

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Since Las Vegas is a new venue for ALA’s annual conference, many librarians may be first-time visitors. Vegas veteran Jeanne Goodrich, executive director of the Las Vegas–Clark County Library District, offers her advice for how to survive and thrive in the heat. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Late June can be the hottest time of the year in Las Vegas. Drink and carry plenty of water. Wear lip stuff, moisturizer, sunscreen. Don a hat and sunglasses outside. Wear comfortable shoes. Take a sweater Read more [...]

China Sees Citic Listing as Model for State-Firm Overhauls

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China is poised this week to complete plans for one of the world’s biggest mergers of the year, a $37 billion deal that could be a blueprint for overhauling massive, inefficient state-owned enterprises.

Beijing is using Citic Group, a conglomerate created under Deng Xiaoping as China’s first capitalist enterprise, to change the way the country’s biggest state-owned companies, known as SOEs, are controlled by investors. The merger…

Emerald Frog Marketing listed in census’ top 100

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Local marketing communications agency, Emerald Frog Marketing, has been rated in the top 100 UK small independent marketing agencies in the inaugural UK Independent Agencies Census.The report is the most comprehensive overview of the independent marketing agency landscape.Agencies were ranked against those of a similar staff size in order to provide valuable comparisons with their peers, and were scored on three separate performance indicators: financial performance, client satisfaction, and peer Read more [...]

VA Corruption Tied To ‘Free Market’ Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians

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Last Friday, Eric Shinseki resigned his post as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The sequence of events are fairly well documented, but the resignation itself came within days of an “Interim Report” by the VA Office of Inspector General over allegations of corruption and poor care delivery – specifically at the Phoenix Health Care System. The Interim Report had this paragraph in the Executive Summary: The issues identified in current allegations are not new. Read more [...]

Pub redevelopment planned for listed Leeds site

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A listed building in the historical heart of Leeds will be redeveloped as a pub and restaurant if newly submitted plans are approved. The application by Leeds Brewery, already behind several popular establishments, is for a conservation area site nestled close to some of the city's oldest buildings. The grade II-listed 1 Church Row, located next to Leeds Parish Church, was originally a public house in the 19th century and the proposed refurbishment Read more [...]

Campaign To Save Listed Thame Site From Developers

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Nominate Your Unsung Hero In Thame. Thame town council is inviting you to nominate someone you know that has made a contribution to the welfare and wellbeing of the community. HS2 Campaigners Say Petition Requests Don't Mean Defeat It's cost hundreds of pounds for parish councils to send their views into Westminster, asking for things like improved roads if the line is built. Read more [...]

Profits of listed construction firms down 32% to SR323m

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Net profits of the listed construction and building firms fell by 32.7 percent to reach SR323 million in the first quarter of the current year compared to SR480.4 million in the same period last year, according to a financial report.However, profits of the sector in Q1 were higher by 10 percent compared to profits of Q3, 2013, which stood at SR295 million, an Al-Hayat daily report said.On the other hand, sales of the sector fell by 1.36 percent to reach SR5.94 billion compared to SR 6.03 billion Read more [...]