Tweet Lev L. Dassin, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced that Bernard L. Madoff was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 150 years in prison for perpetrating [...]
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Tweet AJC has welcomed Israeli President Shimon Peres’s groundbreaking visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan this week. “The historic invitation extended to President Peres by these two predominately Muslim countries illustrates what is possible when both sides truly want to cooperate,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. “Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan share Israel’s desire for a peaceful [...]
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Tweet Southwest Airlines today celebrated the airline’s new service at LaGuardia with its “New Service, New Attitude, New York” themed celebration. Southwest Customers and Employees dined on New York style bagels while being serenaded by Southwest’s rapping flight attendant, David Holmes . Southwest Airlines’ Senior Vice President of Operations Greg Wells joined the Port Authority [...]
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Tweet Cars.com has announced that it will partner with NIADA to produce an online training program specifically developed for independent dealers. The free DealerADvantage Bootcamp sessions are designed to help dealers more profitably manage their operations. Topics range from balancing floorplan debt-to-equity ratios to implementing effective online advertising and internet sales processes. “Given the daily [...]
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Tweet Hudson Holding Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: HDHL.OB) announced that it filed its results for the year ended March 31, 2009 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. “We’re pleased with the steady annual revenue growth that Hudson achieved despite a disappointing fourth quarter, which saw a decline in revenues, due to overall market [...]
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Tweet The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partner, COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd., continued their expansion in China with the opening of two new bottling facilities this week in less developed central and western China. The new facilities are testimonies to Coca-Cola’s long-term commitment to China as part of a recently announced USD 2 billion 3 [...]
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Tweet Education is the key to improved livelihoods and empowerment in society. Taking the same thought forward, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd under the active guidance and support of the Department of School Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh recently organized a felicitation ceremony to award ‘Thums Up Merit Scholarships’ to 184 students from 23 districts [...]
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Tweet Research showing that employee engagement is capable of predicting directional movements of the Dow Jones Industrial Average four months ahead of time was released recently by Greg Harris, president of Quantum Workplace, a market research company that surveys employee engagement. “In other words, if our Engagement Index is up in June, there’s an 83% [...]
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Tweet German doctor Gunther von Hagens has given Irish bookmaking outfit Paddy Power a potential EUR80,000 (USD$112,500) bloody nose with his claims that an agreement was in place with Michael Jackson to plastinate his remains upon his death. Von Hagens has caused controversy around the globe with his practice of embalming corpses with preserving polyurethane. [...]
Continue reading …Smithfield Foods Announces Pricing of $625 Million Senior Secured Notes Offering
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Tweet Smithfield Foods, Inc. has announced that it has priced its previously announced offering of senior secured notes due July 2014. The notes will have an interest rate of 10% per annum and will be issued at a price equal to 96.201% of their face value. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the [...]
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