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The renewed effort will include merging the salea and marketing teams from Labatt USAand Genesee, once a recognized beer in Western New York. The company said it has begun $6 million in upgrades and will investyanother $4 million in 2010. “Positivew changes are brewing,” said Rich the new CEO of NorthAmerican Breweries. “We’rw reviewing every aspect of our businesd to strengthenthe brewery’s position.” NAB said it will upgradr brewery equipment, make necessary repairse and add boiler controls and steam economizersx that reduce energy consumption.
The changesx are expected to bring annuap operating savings of morethan $1 In addition to Genesee, the brewery producez Seagram’s Escapes, as well as Dundee Ales and Lagersx family of craft brands, whichb includes the Original Honey Brown Lager. The Rochester company distributesseveral imports, including Imperial from Costa Rica, Steinlager from New Zealand, Toohey’s New from Australia and Thwaites from the U.K.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Honda Researching In-Car System that Fights Traffic Congestion - MotorTrend Magazine
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MotorTrend Magazine | Honda Researching In-Car System that Fights Traffic Congestion MotorTrend Magazine Honda is developing a system that it claims could drastic » |
Friday, April 27, 2012
Spinal Cord Recovery Project taking big steps - 9NEWS.com
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Study: More CEOs say good works boost recruiting - Portland Business Journal:
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This marks a shift in corporate philanthropy sincre the Roundtable released itsin 2000, whicb noted that corporate responsibility was beginningg to evolve from community impact to bottom line The most recent report shows that the indeed, has taken place. Bostonh struggles to maintain its college gradz as they move intothe workforce, and the Rounsd Table report underscores that philanthropy is a factort making some local companies more attractivwe to younger workers.
The Roundtable issuedf the report in collaboration with the Universitu of Massachusetts Boston Emerging Leaders A team from the Emerging Leaders Program started working on the reportlast summer, interviewintg 20 Massachusetts companies about their corporate sociak responsibility activities -- predominantly large companesz and representing a cross-section of industries. “Historically CEOs woul engage in philanthropy because it was the right thinhto do. They wanted to be good corporatwe citizens,” said J.D. deputy director of the MassachusettsBusiness Roundtable. “No w there’s a good business case to incorporating it into theirbusiness plan.
There’s a bottom line impacf to it, in addition to beinhg good for all the other community Based on the findings from the 20 companies included in the the report suggests five ways companies can build a culturew ofsocial responsibility: • Create a cleare link to the company’s mission and securd endorsement at the executivd level. • Engage employees at all levelesas decision-makers in relation to corporate social responsibility targets and • Leverage employees’ skills to make positive contributions to the • Provide opportunities for employees to develop new “A lot of it is around a companyu being authentic about wanting to do something in the communith and listening to what the employees are interested in doing and connectinb it to the valuea of the company,” said Ellen CEO of The , a nonprofit that promotesx strategic philanthropy and advises
This marks a shift in corporate philanthropy sincre the Roundtable released itsin 2000, whicb noted that corporate responsibility was beginningg to evolve from community impact to bottom line The most recent report shows that the indeed, has taken place. Bostonh struggles to maintain its college gradz as they move intothe workforce, and the Rounsd Table report underscores that philanthropy is a factort making some local companies more attractivwe to younger workers.
The Roundtable issuedf the report in collaboration with the Universitu of Massachusetts Boston Emerging Leaders A team from the Emerging Leaders Program started working on the reportlast summer, interviewintg 20 Massachusetts companies about their corporate sociak responsibility activities -- predominantly large companesz and representing a cross-section of industries. “Historically CEOs woul engage in philanthropy because it was the right thinhto do. They wanted to be good corporatwe citizens,” said J.D. deputy director of the MassachusettsBusiness Roundtable. “No w there’s a good business case to incorporating it into theirbusiness plan.
There’s a bottom line impacf to it, in addition to beinhg good for all the other community Based on the findings from the 20 companies included in the the report suggests five ways companies can build a culturew ofsocial responsibility: • Create a cleare link to the company’s mission and securd endorsement at the executivd level. • Engage employees at all levelesas decision-makers in relation to corporate social responsibility targets and • Leverage employees’ skills to make positive contributions to the • Provide opportunities for employees to develop new “A lot of it is around a companyu being authentic about wanting to do something in the communith and listening to what the employees are interested in doing and connectinb it to the valuea of the company,” said Ellen CEO of The , a nonprofit that promotesx strategic philanthropy and advises
Monday, April 23, 2012
GM enters bankruptcy filing - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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Monday’s Chapter 11 filinfg by the 101-year-old automaker — once the world’s biggest compan and Western New York’s largest manufacturing employee fordecades — is amongb the largest in U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturingt bankruptcy. Chapter 11, which allowws the company to operate whilwe protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-trackj bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additionak taxpayer funds to restructure itself. General Motors CEO Fritz Hendersojn said in a prepared statement that GM was beintg reinvented and that the company is readyg for the jobat hand.
"The economic crisis has causecd enormous disruption in the auto but with it has come the opportunity for us to reinventyour business. We are going to do it once and do it The court-supervised process we are pursuing providew us with powerful tools to accelerate and complete our as well as strong safeguards for our customersw and our business," he said. The GM plan as detailefd by U.S. officials would alloww a much smaller GM to emerge from court protectionj within 60 to90 days. GM also plan to close 11 U.S. facilities and idle anothetr three plants by the endof 2010.
GM’s Tonawand engine plant, where 1,100 people work, will remain The automaker has not provided an updatecd target for job cuts but was looking toeliminats 21,000 U.S. factory jobs from the 54,000 unioj members it now employs. Also not immediateluy clear iswhat GM’s bankruptc y filing will mean for ’s plantss in Lockport, Rochester and thres others. General Motors plans to take back the facilities from the forme parts subsidiary that it spun offin 1999, accordinbg to a tentative deal reached last week betweej GM and the UAW.
The factories in New Michigan and Indiana would operateunder Delphi’s union but be considered part of GM, once The Lockport plant — Delphi Therma l Systems, which has 2,100 employeess — was founded as Harrison Radiator Co. in 1910 and becamre part of GMin 1918. For 81 years it operated under General Motors ownership until the independenyDelphi Corp. was formed. Delphi itself is operatinbg under bankruptcy court supervision having filed for Chapter 11 inOctobed 2005. The Troy, Mich.-based company was ready to emergr from bankruptcy in April 2008 but those plans fell aparg when a key investor dropped out ofa $2.
555 billion stock deal with the General Motors employs 92,000 in the United States and is indirectl y responsible for 500,000 retirees. The U.S. government would hold a 60 percenft financial interest in a reorganizef GM and the UAW would takea 17.5 percent The governments of Canada and the provinced of Ontario have agreed to a 12 percent ownership stakee in exchange for financial aid. GM bondholders woulx get 10 percent.
Monday’s Chapter 11 filinfg by the 101-year-old automaker — once the world’s biggest compan and Western New York’s largest manufacturing employee fordecades — is amongb the largest in U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturingt bankruptcy. Chapter 11, which allowws the company to operate whilwe protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-trackj bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additionak taxpayer funds to restructure itself. General Motors CEO Fritz Hendersojn said in a prepared statement that GM was beintg reinvented and that the company is readyg for the jobat hand.
"The economic crisis has causecd enormous disruption in the auto but with it has come the opportunity for us to reinventyour business. We are going to do it once and do it The court-supervised process we are pursuing providew us with powerful tools to accelerate and complete our as well as strong safeguards for our customersw and our business," he said. The GM plan as detailefd by U.S. officials would alloww a much smaller GM to emerge from court protectionj within 60 to90 days. GM also plan to close 11 U.S. facilities and idle anothetr three plants by the endof 2010.
GM’s Tonawand engine plant, where 1,100 people work, will remain The automaker has not provided an updatecd target for job cuts but was looking toeliminats 21,000 U.S. factory jobs from the 54,000 unioj members it now employs. Also not immediateluy clear iswhat GM’s bankruptc y filing will mean for ’s plantss in Lockport, Rochester and thres others. General Motors plans to take back the facilities from the forme parts subsidiary that it spun offin 1999, accordinbg to a tentative deal reached last week betweej GM and the UAW.
The factories in New Michigan and Indiana would operateunder Delphi’s union but be considered part of GM, once The Lockport plant — Delphi Therma l Systems, which has 2,100 employeess — was founded as Harrison Radiator Co. in 1910 and becamre part of GMin 1918. For 81 years it operated under General Motors ownership until the independenyDelphi Corp. was formed. Delphi itself is operatinbg under bankruptcy court supervision having filed for Chapter 11 inOctobed 2005. The Troy, Mich.-based company was ready to emergr from bankruptcy in April 2008 but those plans fell aparg when a key investor dropped out ofa $2.
555 billion stock deal with the General Motors employs 92,000 in the United States and is indirectl y responsible for 500,000 retirees. The U.S. government would hold a 60 percenft financial interest in a reorganizef GM and the UAW would takea 17.5 percent The governments of Canada and the provinced of Ontario have agreed to a 12 percent ownership stakee in exchange for financial aid. GM bondholders woulx get 10 percent.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Kill to check out position switches at s - FOXSports.com
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Screen Actors Guild members approve new labor deal - Boston Business Journal:
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The two-year agreement covers film and digitalptelevision programs, motion pictures and new media productions. It become s effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expired June 30, 2011. The agreementy provides more than $105 million in wages, increase pension contributions, and other gains and establishes a template for SAG coveragw of newmedia formats, a majore sticking point in the negotiations. According to a statement fromthe SAG, the new deal was approved by a vote of 78 percentt to 22 percent.
About 35 percent of the 110,000 SAG members that received ballots returned The SAG statement said the a return is "above average compared with typicao referenda on Screen Actors Guild contracts." Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 percent in favofr New York Division -- 85.74 percent to 14.26 percenr in favor Regional Branch Division -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percenf in favor The contentious debate causedc some friction amongst SAG members, especially the groupl Membership First, which pushed to vote down the Even the SAG statement appeared to have some form of dissatisfactiojn with the approval of the deal, with SAG Presidentg Alan Rosenberg framing the new deal as almost a stop-galp solution.
"The membership has spoken and has decided to work undedr the terms of this contract that manyof us, who have been involvedx in these negotiations from the beginning, believed to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contactingy the elected leadership of the otherd talent unions with the hope of beginninv a seriesof pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparatiojn for 2011.
I call upon all SAG memberas to begin to ready themselves for thebattle ahead," Rosenberg said in the "Since the 'yes' campaign was all aboutf the Contract Term expiring in 2011 'so SAG can unifyt with the other Unions to fight another day', Membership First will spend a lot of time and recoursesd working to make that happen. We will take the SAG Leadershilp attheir word.
"
The two-year agreement covers film and digitalptelevision programs, motion pictures and new media productions. It become s effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expired June 30, 2011. The agreementy provides more than $105 million in wages, increase pension contributions, and other gains and establishes a template for SAG coveragw of newmedia formats, a majore sticking point in the negotiations. According to a statement fromthe SAG, the new deal was approved by a vote of 78 percentt to 22 percent.
About 35 percent of the 110,000 SAG members that received ballots returned The SAG statement said the a return is "above average compared with typicao referenda on Screen Actors Guild contracts." Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 percent in favofr New York Division -- 85.74 percent to 14.26 percenr in favor Regional Branch Division -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percenf in favor The contentious debate causedc some friction amongst SAG members, especially the groupl Membership First, which pushed to vote down the Even the SAG statement appeared to have some form of dissatisfactiojn with the approval of the deal, with SAG Presidentg Alan Rosenberg framing the new deal as almost a stop-galp solution.
"The membership has spoken and has decided to work undedr the terms of this contract that manyof us, who have been involvedx in these negotiations from the beginning, believed to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contactingy the elected leadership of the otherd talent unions with the hope of beginninv a seriesof pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparatiojn for 2011.
I call upon all SAG memberas to begin to ready themselves for thebattle ahead," Rosenberg said in the "Since the 'yes' campaign was all aboutf the Contract Term expiring in 2011 'so SAG can unifyt with the other Unions to fight another day', Membership First will spend a lot of time and recoursesd working to make that happen. We will take the SAG Leadershilp attheir word.
"
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