Starr Companies, a global insurance and financial services company, has appointed Nigel Childs as chief financial officer for its foreign operations. Childs, who will directly report to Starr Companies chief international officer Ed ...
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Towers Watson, a professional services company , effective from November 1, 2012, replacing Walter Bardenwerper, who is retiring at the end of November. Towers Watson chairman and CEO John Haley said Kirkland's proven track record during ...
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Parker Hannifin has appointed Candido Lima, age 47, as Vice President and President - Latin America Group, effective November 1, 2012. Mr. Lima succeeds Ricardo Machado, age 64, who will retire at the end of January, 2013 after 20 years of ...
Versa Capital Management,LLC announced that it has acquired Eastern Mountain Sports,a 69-store outdoor retailer in 12 eastern states,effective immediately.Mark Walsh,a Versa Principal and Chairman of Bob's Stores,a northeastern apparel ...
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Virtual Piggy Inc., an innovator in safe-online youth purchasing, announced that the Virtual Piggy service will be integrated into Lipstik Girls ecommerce operations. Lipstik Girls has been offering fun, wearable and fashionable clothing ...
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After meeting with dozens of dairymen suffering financial distress, Walter sees issues that producers have likely never faced before. By Riley Walter, attorney In my last column, I commented on several observations about common ...
US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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Billabong International Limited(Billabong)announces the appointment of Dr Ian Pollard as a director and Chairman Elect of its Board.Dr Pollard will join the Board as Chairman Elect and interim Chair of the Audit Committee on Wednesday,24 ...
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei has reacted to today's report from a US Congressional Committee that both it, and rival Chinese firm ZTE, represent a "security threat". Further reading US Congress: Huawei and ...
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Cotton producers will find an abundance of information aimed at increasing their profitability at the 2013 Beltwide Cotton Conferences -- set for January 7-10 at the Marriott Rivercenter/Riverwalk hotels in San Antonio, Texas. The ...
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Lunera Lighting, Inc., has added new appointments to its executive team, including Shannon Paul Biggs to Senior Vice President of Operations, George Sigler to Chief Financial Officer and Michael Bremser to the position of Chief Technology ...
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According to Nexxus Lighting,Inc.,an affiliate of Aston Capital,LLC(the"Investor")has agreed to invest$6 million in the Company through the purchase of convertible preferred stock to provide strategic,operational and financial expertise for ...
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Visual 2000 International Inc. has completed a series of new developments, upgrades, and integration points designed to uniquely position its Visual End-2-End fashion solution to meet the numerous and complex challenges of today's ...
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Taipei,Sept.7,2012--In the face of the sluggish economy and rising inflation,the Central Bank of China(CBC)tends to keep the existing low rates,to bolster economic growth,while tightening fund control,to avoid its flow to the realty market ...
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Microsoft has unveiled an app store for MS Office 2013, to support the one billion users of its ubiquitous productivity suite. The app store is designed to provide utilities and add-ons that make working in Office easier. In a blog post ...
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