Saturday, November 10, 2012

Goya Foods Donates Over 300000 Pounds Of Food & 25000 Meals To Victims ... - Sacramento Bee

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Goya Foods Donates Over 300000 Pounds Of Food & 25000 Meals To Victims ...

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5, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Goya Foods, America's largest Hispanic-owned food company, donates over 300,000 pounds of Goya products and over 25,000 meals to victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. With the aid of City Harvest in New ...



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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Stocks extend losses for 2nd day - NBCNews.com (blog)

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Stocks extend losses for 2nd day

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 121.41 points, or 0.94 percent, to close at 12,811.32, logging another triple-digit decline. Cisco and McDonald's were the biggest blue-chip laggards, while Bank of America gained. The S&P 500 fell 17.02 points, ...


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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Penske losing Big Lots logistics contract - Portland Business Journal:

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is packing up this summer at thediscouny retailer’s headquarters and four other distribution facilitiess after the merchant opted to not renew a logistics contrac t that expires in July. The Pa.-based Penske said 186 workers, including 53 in Columbus, could be affected when its contracrwith Columbus-based Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) expireas July 31. Penske spokesman Randy Ryerson said the compan y has worked with the retailersincd 1991. The 1,300-store Big Lots has chosen a new third-partyh logistics provider to continue the warehousing and distribution work that Penske performed atthe retailer’s Phillipi Road headquarters and its distributio n centers in Tremont, Pa; Montgomery, Ala.
; Rancho Calif.; and Durant, Okla. Timothy Johnson, Big Lots’ vice presidenrt of strategic planning andinvestor relations, said more than a dozejn carriers bid for the work. He declinec to disclose the company Big Lots selectee tosucceed Penske. Big Lots and Penske representativesasaid they’re working with truck drivers lookingt to continue work under the new logistic s provider. Johnson said the companyt met with workers over the weekend to introduce the new In the event that some workereare cut, Ryerson said privately held Pensked will work with the state “tpo make sure employees are aware of different Penske employs about 20,000 workers worldwide.
Asked why Big Lots opte to bid for a new contractor after thelatesr five-year contract with Penske, Johnson said, “a lot has changed in transportation in the past five We owed it to our associatesz and shareholders to take a fresh look at how we handlse outbound transport.” The loss of the Big Lots contract comes less than a year afte r Penske was replaced at a warehousr in Lockbourne. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based last fall steppe d in atthe facility, where Penske had employed 146 Penske has 400 logistics centers worldwide.
Its Central Ohio operations include a number of distributionj and warehousing facilities inthe

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Adam Putnam talks of economy, food safety at GrayRobinson lunch - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Florida is facing a “deeper trough” than it would in a traditional Putnam, R-Bartow, said. Florida can ride a recessio out exceptwhen it’s the result of the burstinf of a real estate said the representative for Florida’s 12th Congressional District. Putnam said he would prefert to be in Florida than any othe r state as the country comes out of aneconomicc decline. While battling the fire, Florida should look for opportunities at every level of government and he said. Putnam expressed concern aboutr the increased presence of government in responswe to theeconomic downturn. His speech was made at the “Capitoo Hill Luncheon” presented by .
Richard a partner with GrayRobinson and chair of thelaw firm’s alcohol beverage and food discussed the rising importance of food safethy in his introduction. Putnam, who will seek the officed of Florida Commissioner of Agriculturein 2010, followed up on issue of food safety and the impact of incidentzs of food-born illness on the Putnam stressed the impact of consumer confidence in food at the retail level and said he woulrd work to reform and modernize a food safety network so there is a higher leve l of confidence.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Unfinished 9/11 Museum Is Flooded - New York Times (blog)

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Unfinished 9/11 Museum Is Flooded

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... Trade Center site after 9/11 visible at left, under wraps. About 70 feet below street level, the chamber was badly flooded. The main floor of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center is flooded with at least five feet of ...



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Saturday, November 3, 2012

No. 5 Churchville-Chili stuns No.1 Fairport in girls soccer - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

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No. 5 Churchville-Chili stuns No.1 Fairport in girls soccer

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Carly Zimmerman scored on a breakaway three minutes into the second half as No. 5 Churchville-Chili stunned No. 1 Fairport with a 1-0 victory in the semifinals of the Section V Class AA girls soccer tournament Friday. Karley Renehan, a senior who took ...



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Friday, November 2, 2012

Grant money will help WESST teach kids to save - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The youth Individual DevelopmentgAccount (IDA) program provides financial literac y education and a method for building assets to high school students that meet income qualifications. The program will span a three-year period between 2009 and 2012. which are used by a number of organizations in New encourage participants to save for a goal or asse and usually matchthe participant’s savingws as an incentive. The match in the WESSfT program is fourto one, up to is the nonprofit’s bank partne in the effort.
WESST is working on this pilot program with Juniodr Achievement of New Mexico and the Creatived EducationPreparatory Institute, a public charter high school on Albuquerque’z Westside. There are 21 students participating in theprogram now, and the Daniels grant will allow WESST to add an additionalp 13 students, said Marty Tatum, spokeswoman for WESST. The grant will also be used to leverager matching federal dollars and enrol l more high schoolstuden participants.
, based in Denver, operates the Danielas Fund Scholarship Program and the Daniels Fund Grants program in New Mexico, Utah and The Fund was established in 1997 by cable television pioneerr Bill Daniels, a former resident of Hobbs. helpw low-income women, minorities and other entrepreneursachieve self-sufficiencyt through microenterprise training, technical assistance and accese to capital through its revolving loan WESST recently opened a new small business incubator in downtown Albuquerque.