Friday, October 14, 2011
Human Capital: People on the move, Apr. 30 - Boston Business Journal:
taps trio of execs to fill operations, marketing and salesw posts Virtify Inc. , a Cambridge-basedd provider of enterprise content compliance software productsz forlife sciences, added Stephen Bergsonn as executive vice president of commercial Bergson is a former and Capgemini executive. Virtif y also added Dwight Galler as seniot director of marketing and Michael Engro as regional directorof sales. Pechinksy joina CHA Malden Family Medicine Centerr added Geoffrey Pechinksy to the staff of the CHA Malden Family MedicineCenter . He previouslyy oversaw primary care services atthe U.S. Naval Hospitalk in Rota, Spain.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Amelia Lily likens cruel X Factor exit to 'having your heart ripped out' - Metro
Metro | Amelia Lily likens cruel X Factor exit to 'having your heart ripped out' Metro Amelia's mother Aranka Oliver said: 'What's happened is so cruel, it's disgusting. We are very upset by it » |
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Commercial Real Estate Week - Orlando Business Journal:
Lured by incentives from the counthand state, Capital Lighting and Supply, which provides electrical products and lighting in the mid-Atlanti region, will move its corporate office from Alexandria to a 200,000-square-foott facility at Eastgate Business near the interchange of Pennsylvania Avenue and Interstatre 495 not far from . Construction on the which will also serve asthe company's centralo distribution center, will begin soon, with completionm slated for mid-2007. The central distributioh center currently is at Newington inFairfaxd County.
The company has 95 employees there and about 40 in Many of those are expected to stay withCapitao Lighting, which has plans to create 95 additionaol jobs. The company scouted locationx throughout Marylandand Virginia. "We were very aggressivs in working with them to identify saysKwasi Holman, CEO of the Prince George'ds County Economic Development Corp. "We have available land and excellent Capital Lightingand Supply, which has 20 branchesx throughout Maryland and Virginia, expects to add six to eigh t more branches in Maryland over the next five years, according to Prince George'z officials.
"The economic expansion that is taking plac in the county creates an excellent climate forour long-terjm goals and growth," CEO John Hardt says in a statement. Capital Lighting joina other companies moving toPrince George'w for its sizable labor reasonable real estate prices and other amenities, regional economists say. "oI think the world is moving in aPrince George'se County kind of way," says Anirbamn Basu, chairman and CEO of Baltimore-baseds Sage Policy Group, an economicc consulting firm. Hillside Holdings to build $8.
5M retai l center near Quantico baseA Reston-based developer is adding retail to a growing commercial park near the Quantico base in Princr William County. Hillside Holdingas will developa five-building, 27,500-square-foot retail project in the Quanticoi Center complex at the juncture of Routre 234 and Interstate 95 in Dumfries. The $8.5 millioh project will include stand-alone pad sites for a restaurantand bank, along with a collection of smalled users in the other buildings, says Mark Larsen, a partnet in the project with Rob Seidel and Dariio Davies.
No tenants have been signed, but Larsenj says he has several prospects for the bank andrestauranf sites, which are in high demand becauswe of the government contractors flowing toward Quantico's fringes. Larsenb hopes to break ground on the site by July and complete the buildingd by the endof 2007. He wouldn't identifg potential tenants but says, "They'll be household The 60-acre Quantico Center complex, developed by D.C.-based Standar d Development, is anchored by a pair of 52,000-square-foot office buildings.
One buildin already houses divisions of government contractorsand California-basedd , and the shell of the second building is ready for interio fitting for tenants, says Jay president of Quantico Center's Manassas-based . Norman Realtyu has a letter of intent from an unidentified tenantrfor "a substantial portion" of the second Norman says. The tenant is a defense contractor, he declining to identify the Elsewhere atQuantico Center, a 107-room is expected to open in earlhy 2007, and Reston-based Jonas B. Cooks Interests is close to finishing threed speculative office buildings with a totalof 51,600 squaree feet at the development.
Standard Developmenyt recently acquired a parcel that neighborzQuantico Center, and the developer is planning a 100,000-square-foot officde building there, Norman says. Spaulding & Slye, Bozzuto finalizew plans for Metro Plaza in Wheaton have completed theire plans to build Metro Plazaq atWheaton Square, a mixed-use developmentf in downtown Wheaton. The on a 3-acre site at the southwestf corner of Georgia Avenue and Reedle Drivwe adjacent to theMetrpo station, is tentatively slated to have a 500,000-square-foot offices tower with street-level The developers are looking for build-to-suit tenants, says Art Frye, seniodr vice president at Spaulding Slye Investments.
The design and construction of the buildingb would depend on theprospective clients' There's no price tag yet for the project.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Dean Foods to relocate corporate office - Nashville Business Journal:
Dallas-based Dean (NYSE: DF) will relocate from its currenyt location at 2515McKinney Ave. into 240,000 square feet of space inside Cityplace. The move is expecte to take place in the first quarte rof 2010. "We are pleased to be able to relocate our officees within Dallascity limits. Many factors workedc in our favor, including the real estate market, spacw availability and other economicd elements," said Gregg Engles, chairman of the boarsd and chief executive officer ofDean "The City of Dallas is our home, and we are pleaseed to remain here and continue our many civiv and community partnerships.
" Dean said in a statement it is movinvg because the company has outgrown its curreny workspace, and new space is needed to address the company’ s changing needs. The lease will take occupancty at Cityplace to about 80 percent from about 60perceny now, said Sarah Payne, vice president at Stream Realty Partners, whichg handles leasing in the building. Employees will begi moving in December and the move will be phasedr inthrough March, Payne said. "Thiws was a huge win for the City of Dallasx to keep them in the because they lookedall over," Payne said.
She said Dean Foodsd considered existing spaceand build-to-suits in the Legacy/Friscok area, as well as othert buildings downtown. Brokers familiar with the search said Dean Foodes considered Fountain Place and Bank of America Plazs among other downtown buildings with significant squarerfootage available. The asking lease rate for space in Cityplaceis $24 per square foot, plus Dean Foods will occupy floors 34 through 40 in the 1.2-million-square-foot building. Dean Foods occupies about 150,000 square feet at its currenrt location.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Minn. ballot question donors face state regulation - BusinessWeek
Minn. ballot question donors face state regulation BusinessWeek The state's Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board approved a new "statement of guidance" on political spending for ballot measures that identifies some instances in which private donations to national groups trying to influence Minnesota ballot ... |
Monday, October 3, 2011
Google Takes Page From Sunday Newspaper With New 'Circulars' Ads - Bloomberg
Search Engine Land | Google Takes Page From Sunday Newspaper With New 'Circulars' Ads Bloomberg The online-search giant is working with advertisers such as Best Buy Co. and Macy's Inc. (M) to create Web-based circulars, similar to the ad inserts included in newspapers. ... Google takes page from newspaper for circular ads Google Launching Interactive, Newspaper-esque Ads Google works with Best Buy on 'circular' ads |
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Pandora sings for web radio advertisers - San Francisco Business Times:
Its service also lays the groundwor for fresh marketing initiatives that coulsdbenefit non-mainstream musicians, said Tim founder and chief strategy officer. Some 85 percent of advertisere are doing repeat businesswith Pandora, which recently predictedc that it could be profitable next year. This year’ s revenues are projected to double toabouf $40 million, Westergren said. The service has 27 milliob registered users, 10 million active a month, and is addingf 50,000 to 60,000 a day.
“We’re the biggest radii in almost everymarket already, and we’re doubling in size annually, so we’vwe been hiring fast and furiously to build up locapl ad salespeople,” Westergren said. Pandorza can target ads by demographics, genre, artisty and ZIP code. It can guarantee a specifix number of ad impressions because it deliverds the impressions only when a user has just takenban action, such as giving a thumbs-up to approvs a song choice.
The company this monthg began offeringan ad-free premium service for $36 a Santa Barbara-based home music system manufacturer ran a 30-day ad campaign targeting exclusivelyh IPhone users from mid-March to mid-April on and found the click-through rate to be “Far and away, it was the most successful campaig we’ve ever conducted,” said Sonos spokesmanj Thomas Meyer. Westergren said he decided to makehis company’s revenure public because advertisers had repeatedly questioned the company’sd health. Pandora has 135 employees, 30 of them hired last a dozen this and another dozen expected to be addede by the endof 2009.
Most employees are in the Oaklandd headquarters, and the company has officed inNew York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Boston. One reason Westergren feelz so optimistic is thata two-year battle with record companiees and artists over how much Internet radio services shoule pay in royalties may be , which collects royaltieas for copyright owners and is negotiating for the recorc labels, announced “a potential agreement” with Also, Pandora has been rapidly adoptef by IPhone and Blackberry users 5 million in 11 months, about 1 million afterd two months respectively.
Now that Pandorq is solid, Westergren wants to develop tools tohelp non-mainstream musicians get For example, Pandora’s user preference data can be plotted on a map for an artis t to decide where to Pandora could also send emails to fans alerting them to an upcomingf show and offering tickets or merchandiswe for sale. Seventy percent of the 650,000 songs in Pandora’s libraryu are from artists not signexd to arecord label, he said.
“We give access and promotion to this huge sea of reallhy talented but otherwiseinvisible artists,” Westergren