Domino's, Pizza Hut roll out NCAA promotions Bizjournals.com Two pizza chains with a big presence in metro Atlanta are rolling out promotions tied to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Domino's Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) has unveiled a best-pizza bracket where fans can vote in a pizza tournament. ... |
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Domino's, Pizza Hut roll out NCAA promotions - Bizjournals.com
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Survey: Hiring slowly improving - Birmingham Business Journal:
Those two sectors employ more than 90 percent ofthe nation’s private-sector The Alexandria-based association’s report is based on a monthlu survey of human resource professionals at more than 500 manufacturin g and 500 services companies. Employment expectations for June aredown 37.1 percen in manufacturing and down 8.2 percent in the servicee segment. In the manufacturing sector, 24.5 percengt plan to hire in which is the highest percentage of such companies that said they will add jobs sinceNovembefr 2008. In addition, 25.9 percentg said they will trim payrolls. In the services sector, a net totap of 24.8 percent of corporations will create jobs in with 41.
4 percent saying they will hire and 16.6 percenr saying they will cut jobs. That 41.4 percent represents the highest such tallh since September 2008 inthat sector. A combinatiom of unemployed people seeking work and less jobs to go around means recruiting difficulty in both sectorx in May was way down compare d with ayear ago. In the manufacturing sector, a net of 23.8 percent of companiea had less difficulty with recruitinglast month, and in the servicew sector, a net of 35.8 percent of companiezs said the same.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Nuti: NCR to have fewer than 50 in Dayton - Dayton Business Journal:
The decision was as much about consolidationn and cost saving as it wasabout Georgia’s $60 million incentive package, its demographics, infrastructurse and skilled workforce. The relocation will save the Fortunee 500company “tens of milliona of dollars” over the next decade, Nuti said. NCR’d (NYSE: NCR) decision to locate in Georgia, will bring more than 2,10o jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operationbin Columbus, Ga. That facility will be NCR’s firsg manufacturing plant in the Unitedr States sincethe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporate jobs from not just but from severalother U.S. Nuti said, declining to disclose the cities.
NCR will emplouy less than 50 in Dayton, where it will maintaibn a data center and sales andservice operations. The company currentlty has roughly 1,200 employeees in Dayton, where it has been headquarteredsinces 1884. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win the NCR The company views schools like as a potentialo labor pool and a partner for jointf innovationand development. The region’s relativelg robust economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure andcorporatr base, also helped win NCR over.
“We looked at all of these factors and Georgi a scored amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti Atlanta also got a little help from the economically depressedc Midwest. “Recruitment has been difficult in Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeasgt was also promptedby consolidation. “At the end of the day we reallu were a company that was widely Nuti said. Since NCR’d 1997 spin-off from AT&T, “thde company was everywhere and nowhere.” The company needex to consolidate into a single campusd to improve collaborationand productivity, he NCR’s executive offices, however, will remain in Manhattan, Nuti confirmed.
“That center surrounds our largestf and most major customers in the worlde in thebanking industry,” he “That’s where we host many of our customersa in the financial services base.”
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
California foreclosures drop - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
The rate was second to Nevada, which saw a whopping rate of one foreclosurwe for every 64 homein May, according to the monthlhy foreclosure report from Irvine-based , which was released Florida came close to California with a 1-in-148 foreclosurwe rate, followed by Arizona (one in 158) and Utah (one in Nationwide, one in every 398 homes received a foreclosure filing in May, down 6 perceng from April but up nearly 18 percent from May 2008. In 92,249 properties were foreclosedin May, the highesr total of any state and up nearly 23 percent from May RealtyTrac reported.
Bank repossessions in California were down 1 percenrt from the previous month and default were down 18 percent theservice said. Scheduled auctions were up 18 In California, the hardest-hitr metro areas were Stocktobn (one in 68 housing units), Modesto (one in 71), Riverside-Sanb Bernardino (one in 75), Merced (one in 78), Bakersfield (one in 94) and Vallejo-Fairfiels (one in 101). Those areas were all on RealtryTrac’ds top 10 worst metro areas nationwide.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Surplus? Or is it a deficit? - Regina Leader-Post
Surplus? Or is it a deficit? Regina Leader-Post Of course, half of that surplus will be transferred to the Growth and Financial Security Fund (GFSF), better known as the rainy day fund, reducing the surplus to $20 million. But even at $20 million, Saskatchewan will be one of only two provinces to ... |
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Dow climbs over 7,700 - Dayton Business Journal:
The Dow closed Monday up 497.48 to 7,775.86, an increase of 6.8 percentt and above 7,700 for the firstf time since February. Since its low for the a closeof 6,547.05 on March 9, the Dow has gainede nearly 19 percent. The Nasdaq was up 98.5, or nearlyt 7 percent, closing at 1,555.77. The S& 500 was up more than 7 percent, closingf at 822.92. This is the first time the S&P closed above 800 since mid-February. The U.S. Treasury plans to help bankd get ridof so-called ‘toxic by buying $500 billion of the bad The plan could expand to $1 trillion over time, the government announced Monday.
Steve Wenstrup, principa l with Centerville-based LLC, said today’sz gains are the result of pent-up demand and good ideas that originated durinf the fall starting to have an He said investors feelthat today’s moves will solvse the biggest problem, getting liquidityu in the credit But he said the market has done this before with similar news. “The key in this is the markeyt got real excited in the fall every time they came out with somethinf to do withtoxic assets,” Wenstrup Even with today’s huge gains, Wenstrup said thered will continue to be bad news from the economy that coulfd send stocks lower, but it is gettinh better.
“The getting worse part is slowing down,” he • (NYSE:AKS), up 14 percent to $7.87 • (NYSE:CBB), up 7 percent to $2.20 • up 3.5 percent to $23.02 • (Nasdaq:DSUP), up 3 percent to 43 cents • (Nasdaq:FITB), up 30 percent to $2.77 (NYSE:GM), up 6 percent to $3.38 (Nasdaq:HBAN), up 19 percent to $2.09 (NYSE:JPM), up 26 percent to $29.12
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wild trade Khudobin to Boston Bruins organization - Houston Chronicle
TSN | Wild trade Khudobin to Boston Bruins organization Houston Chronicle The Minnesota Wild made just one trade prior to the league's deadline Monday, but it cost the Aeros their No. 1 goalie. Anton Khudobin was sent to the Boston Bruins organization in exchange for defenseman Jeff Penner and forward ... Explaining Wild's minor-league deal; some thoughts on lack of Wild moves Minnesota Wild trade goalie Anton Khudobin for two minor leaguers Bruins acquire Khudobin from Wild for Penner, Lehtonen rights |