In 2004, Metro Group launched an industry-leading RFID Innovation Center in Neuss, Germany, which provides a unique testing facility environment to further the retail's use of RFID and wireless LAN WLAN technologies across the supply chain. This was a high-risk strategy, not only in terms of deploying new, emerging technology,...
The premier real-world roll-out of new information technologies excites an industry. The METRO Group's Future Store FS by a group of companies organized as the Future Store Initiative FSI is such a roll-out. It demonstrates how to significantly change today's worldwide shopping, retailing, and value chain logistics. FS is based...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- MAPEI Americas (www.mapei.us), a leading manufacturer of tile and stone installation systems, floor covering installation systems and concrete restoration products, has signed a multi-year agreement with 1Vault Networks (www.1vault.net), a South Florida provider for hosted IT services, colocation and disaster recovery services. MAPEI Americas,...
Questex Media Group's ICCM Canada Conference &Exposition (iccmcanada.com), Canada's premier customer contact managementconference and expo, today announced its 2008 conference program. Filledwith high-profile keynote presentations and more than 30 sessions, theconference program, presented by industry leaders, offers actionable advicefor maximizing the financial and operational performance of a contactcenter. ...
Questex Media Group's ICCM Canada Conference &Exposition (iccmcanada.com), Canada's premier customer contact managementconference and expo, today announced its 2008 conference program. Filledwith high-profile keynote presentations and more than 30 sessions, theconference program, presented by industry leaders, offers actionable advicefor maximizing the financial and operational performance of a contactcentre. ...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-14 July 2008-Metro International SA increases holding in Mexican joint ventureC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Swedish-controlled international media group Metro International SA (OMX Stockholm:MTRO SDB A) (OMX Stockholm:MTRO SDB B) said on Friday (11 July) that it has exercised its option to increase its shareholding from...
Oncology Med, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ONCO), aPittsburgh-based cancer treatment solutions group, announced today thatduring this month of July, 2008 it will begin providing prostate cancerbrachytherapy treatment services under a new multiple year exclusivecontract with Eastern Massachusetts Ambulatory Surgery Center; a physicianowned surgery center being managed by Ambulatory Surgery Centers of Americawith...
LOS ANGELES, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures MGM has acquired and green lit THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, on which Goddard will also make his directorial debut and Whedon will produce. The project is the studio's first movie to get...
Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in E-Services Category NEW YORK -- NASDAQ: KNOT, a leading lifestage media company, today announced that David Liu, CEO received the Metro New York Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year([R]) 2008 Award in the E-Services category. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the...
Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AVLN) is pleased to announce that the Company has closed on $3 Millionfunding commitment for fulfilling current purchase orders, additionalemployees and establishing a government sales office in the Washington DCMetro area in this quarter. Avalon Technology Group, Inc. ATG arrangedthe revolving funding facility thru private...
BOSTON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Hotel Group invites current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces to stay in any of its 35 premier hotels across the country. The hotel group is honoring these patriotic men and women and their families by offering them a special internet...
Since Hurricane Katrina flooded most of New Orleans, volunteers have poured into the metro area to help with the recovery. In the wake of recent flooding in the Midwest, some New Orleans groups are using their recovery expertise to come to the aid of residents in Cedar...
Award-Winning Campaign Dominates Pentagon and Capitol Hill South Metro Stations ORADELL, N.J. -- Sigma Group, a full service advertising agency, combines award-winning creative execution and key strategic positioning in a hard-hitting "Station Domination" takeover of the Pentagon and Capitol Hill South Metro Stations featuring Panasonic's Toughbook([R])laptop computers, May...
MARLTON, N.J. & BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that Donald W. Davis has joined the firm as Senior Vice President and Northwest Regional Manager for the company's Project Management Group. Davis will be based out of Hill's Bellevue, Washington office....
Michael Baker Jr., Inc., an engineering unit of Michael Baker Corporation, has leased 31,633 s/f at the American Metro Center. The building, located at 240 Princeton Avenue in Hamilton, New Jersey, is owned by a partnership among Lincoln Equities Group, Meritage Properties, and Avenue Capital. Lincoln's senior director...
ATLANTA -- Bobowski Financial Group, LLC, specialists in qualified retirement plans throughout the Atlanta metro, announced today that Tom Bobowski has been awarded the Accredited Investment Fiduciary([R]) (AIF[R]) designation from fi360. The AIF designation signifies training in fiduciary responsibility for company sponsored retirement plans. Bobowski serves as a...
Largest, State-of-the-art Lodging Facility in Twin Cities East Metro Features 'This Place is a Joke' Comedy/Dinner Club SAINT PAUL, Minn., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Business travelers and tourists visiting the Minneapolis/St. Paul east metro area can now enjoy comfortable luxury in the newly renovated Holiday Inn-East located...
JERICHO, N.Y., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimum LightpathSM, an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based communications services, today announced that it has been awarded the "Most Innovative -- Competitive Carrier" Communication Innovators AwardR, from New Paradigm Resources Group, Inc. NPRG and Pipeline Magazine, and a "2008 Carrier Ethernet Service...
Accounting Firm to Close All Offices to Perform Service Projects Across the Metro Area SPARKS, Md., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- SC&H Group, LLC - one of the fastest-growing accounting and consulting firms in the nation - will host their 2nd Annual Day of Service on June 27,...
Combination with boutique Boston-based law firm will enhance Firm's Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property practice areas BOSTON -- Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, a full service 200-attorney law firm, has opened a downtown Boston office with the addition of four new attorneys. This new office and attorney group positions...
