Federal Express is just the latest company to face big IRS fines for mishandling contractors. Here’s how to manage ICs the right way. Decide Whether You Need One Goal: Learn what contractors can do for you...
RoadLink, the largest private independentintermodal logistics service provider in North America, announced today thepurchase of Vancouver, Wash.-based international intermodal truckingservice provider American Freight Systems, Inc. AFS. The third suchacquisition of this year, this transaction further supports RoadLink'sposition as the leading provider of intermodal transportation andspecialized warehousing services in North America....
HOUSTON -- Proserv Decommissioning Contractors and Engineers, a business unit of Proserv Abandonment and Decommissioning, announced today it has been awarded three decommissioning projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The total contract, awarded by a major independent oil company, is valued at $8 million. The contract involves the...
COCONUT GROVE, Fla. -- Watsco, Inc. (NYSE:WSO) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 45 cents on each outstanding share of its Common stock and Class B common stock. The cash dividend is payable on July 31, 2008 to shareholders of record...
Tom Stewart, the long-time CEO of Lathrop & Gage who departed the firm under sudden circumstances last year, is re-entering the Kansas City legal scene. Stewart will join the boutique litigation firm Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice on July 1, according to a firm representative. Since leaving...
Tom Stewart, the long-time CEO of Lathrop & Gage who departed the firm under sudden circumstances last year, is re-entering the Kansas City legal scene. Stewart will join the boutique litigation firm Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice on July 1, according to a firm representative. Since leaving...
KENNESAW, Ga., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Automated Logic Corporation ALC has acquired the business of Building Control Technologies, Inc. BCT, an independent controls contractor based in Lincoln Park, N.J. This is ALC's third dealership acquisition in the greater New York City area and follows the purchase of Marietta...
As Eastern medicine meets Western prescription drugs, communication is vital to prevent harmful drug interactions. For example, Ephedra or Ma Huang, an herbal weight loss product, was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after a professional baseball player died during 2003 after consuming the product....
The Missouri Supreme Court refused a plaintiff's invitation to recognize the host employer theory of liability. Describing the plaintiff's theory as "novel," the court said it wasn't willing to hold a landowner liable for an accident that occurred on property under the control of an independent...
Pine Ridge Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PINR)CEO Kevin May announced today that ServeNation has aligned its staff tofollow the quick growth / spin off strategy recently announced by thecompany. May explained, "Andrew Maley has been hired as Vice President of Sales andMarketing for ServeNation to aggressively pursue three areas -- 1)...
Carl Redman of Oregon-based Bear Electric Inc. shared the stage June 16 with Senators Gordon Smith and John Kerry on Capitol Hill as part of the Prepare to Launch: Health Reform Summit 2008, in Washington, D.C. Redman and other contractors from the Independent Electrical Contractors of Oregon...
Halliburton, the American oilfield contractor, has terminated its talks to buy Expro, the oil services group, in a offer which valued the company at more than 1.8m. The collapse of the negotiations in the US yesterday leaves a private equity-led consortium, which includes Goldman Sachs and Candover,...
The owners of Donington Park have rejected claims that the surface of the race circuit is contaminated by fuel dropped by aircraft using the nearby East Midlands Airport, also confirming that they have carried out considerable works to improve levels of grip. Prior to the British Grand Prix...
The US has accepted that foreign contractors in Iraq will no longer have immunity from Iraqi law under a new security agreement now under negotiation, says the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari. Mr Zebari, speaking to The Independent in Washington, said that if there was a further...
The renovation of a 1921 warehouse on Northeast Broadway is three weeks from completion, representing the first finished project for architect Faez Soud since he set out on his own. With 20 years of architecture experience, Soud previously worked for larger firms in the Portland area before...
High real estate costs have conspired with record-high prices for gas and commodities to slow expansion for many restaurant companies, but operators are finding development bargains by converting defunct restaurant spaces into their own concepts. And a flattening-out of costs that had soared in recent years for construction...
In practice, there is less to the American "concessions" than would first appear. The reaction in Iraq to the US demands for the long-term use of military bases and other rights has been so furious that Washington is now offering limited concessions in the negotiations. For example, the US is...
After months of planning and recruiting business partners, the National Association of Minority Contractors of Oregon NAMCO has launched its new nonprofit agency aimed at growing minority participation on construction projects in the Portland region. In April, NAMCO announced plans to form the Metropolitan Contractor Improvement Partnership...
TAMPA, Fla., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Omnia Group, Inc., a leader in providing tools that create employee empowerment, partnership management and enhanced human resources value to operating managers, has established The Omnia Foundation, to provide tax-exempt organizations with management and personnel consulting services. Foundation President John...
When Walter Hendricks returned home from France in 1946 to start a college on his Vermont farm, 35 of the first 50 students were fellow GIs -- young men experienced beyond their years, eager to learn, and grateful for a peaceful place to do so. Sixty-two years...
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