Exploratory qualitative interviews conducted with purchasing decision makers across various high-tech industries in Eastern Europe are compared to those in Central Europe and the United States. Findings suggest that Information Technology is perceived as less valuable by European firms and is utilized to a lesser degree. Multinational companies operating in...
Market logistics involves strategic transportation of goods from the point of procurement of raw materials until the time the finished goods are distributed in the market for retailing. Aim of the market logistic framework is efficient delivery of goods at the least operational cost to the organization. Market logistics also...
The increased risk from natural disasters in the United States has prompted significant changes in primary insurance markets and changes in related markets for reinsurance and other forms of risk transfer and financing. Among the mechanisms that have been developed to address these needs are Special Purpose Reinsurance Vehicles SPRVs,...
The increased risk from natural disasters in the U.S. has prompted significant changes in primary insurance markets and changes in related markets for reinsurance and other forms of risk transfer and financing. Among the mechanisms that have been developed are Special Purpose Reinsurance Vehicles SPRVs, which have been principally formed...
AIKEN, S.C. -- Long-time South Carolina business, Fluor Corporation, contributed $10,000 to the Aiken, S.C.-based Southeast Universities Nuclear Reactors Institute for Science and Education SUNRISE Consortium becoming a full industry member of the organization. Other members include universities such as Georgia Tech, University of South Carolina, Virginia Tech, University of...
In 1999, the Bureau of the Census documented approximately 35,125 businesses in the 58-county region of southeast Georgia. Each of these businesses provides some combination of goods and services by transforming labor, capital, material, and information inputs into outputs that have value to their customers. This transformation process is called...
Recently, a midwestern U.S. family did what they do best and disregarded the business school professors who might claim they should not exist and went one better. Koch Industries purchased publicly listed and presumably therefore better managed Georgia-Pacific, a deal worth more than $21 billion. Last year, Cox Enterprises took...
Babette C. Freund Chief Financial Officer Ritner Steel Inc. Middlesex Township, Cumberland County Education: Associate's degree in communication; studies in finance and accounting, Georgia State University and Elizabethtown College Primary job function: Finance and operations Company description: Steel design, detailing, fabrication, delivery and installation Definition of a leader: A...
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Wireless Broadband Now Available to Students, Business Travelers and other Visitors to Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia World Congress Center Airpath Wireless, Inc., the leader in enabling management and roaming for wireless broadband networks, today announced that Biltmore Communications, a...
Allied Financial Corportion has made two additions to its staff: Deborah Fossick, vice president in lending and new business, and Levar Gholson, account executive in the operations department. Ms. Fossick is a CPA and has been involved in asset-based lending for the past six years and Mr. Gholson recently graduated...
A family-owned operator based in Spartanburg, S.C., Tindall Corp. designs, fabricates and erects precast and prestressed concrete systems for construction projects of various types in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic states. It also supplies furnished precast prison cells for penal facilities nationwide, as well as deck components...
Glenn M. Renwick 1955– President, chairman, and chief executive officer, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company Nationality: American. Born: May 22, 1955, in New Zealand. Education: University of Canterbury New Zealand, BA; University of Florida, MS. Career: Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, 1986–1988, auto product manager for Florida and then Georgia;...
By Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--A majority of the region's manufacturers expect to add jobs, expand local operations and significantly increase sales over the next three years, a new survey found. Conducted...
By Susan Kreimer, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 14--DAVID WIERSCHEM, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls Age: 41 Position: Assistant professor of business computer information systems Years in...
Business Editors/Travel Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 29, 2004 AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc., (NYSE:AAI), today celebrated the opening of its Carrollton, Ga., prototype call center, which will employ more than 200 people. AirTran Airways currently operates two other call centers in Atlanta and...
By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 8--Durham County leaders are offering as much as $1.5 million in incentives to win expansion of Cree's semiconductor business over rival sites outside the state. ...
The blueprint for running a successful foodservice operation remains basic, and rarely does a business deviate from it when building a path to greater profits. However, as complex issues increasingly clutter that path, technology has come to play a bigger role at leading chains and independents,...
The blueprint for running a successful foodservice operation remains basic, and rarely does a business deviate from it when building a path to greater profits. However, as complex issues increasingly clutter that path, technology has come to play a bigger role at leading chains and independents,...
By Kelly Simmons, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 11--ATHENS, Ga. -- The ongoing controversy between University of Georgia President Michael Adams and the UGA Foundation could prompt the University System to exert more control over how the private...
DEBRA K. WALKER Debra K. Walker, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Deputy Director for Depot Maintenance, Directorate of Logistics, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In this capacity, Ms. Walker develops and directs policy and procedures for conducting depot maintenance operations...
