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Based in Dallas, Texas, Palm Harbor Homes is one of the nation'sd largest marketers of factory-built homes. The company's vertically integratesd operations set it apart from others inthe industry. Palm Harbord builds, sells, finances and insures the best manufactured homesavailable today. Palm Harbor'ss focus is the high-end, customized niche of the manufacturexdhome market. Four out of five homee produced in its 18 manufacturing facilitiexs across the country are customizedwith owner-selected features. Palm Harboe sells its homes throug h115 company-owned superstores and more than 350 independentr retailers.
The company's insurance Standard Casualty, offers a wide range of insuranc packages with a specialty inmanufactured homes. Palm Harbor'ds Nationwide Homes subsidiarybuilda high-quality modular homes. And its CountryPlace Mortgage subsidiaruy offers a variety of financing options to suitany Together, these companies represent the vertical integrationn plan established by Palm Harbor'x founder, Lee Posey.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Catch the Wind secures $18.8M - Business First of Columbus:
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million in a private placement financin g to help push more salexs of its new wind sensordfor turbines. Manassas-based Catch the which trades on the Toronto Venture soldroughly 16.7 million shares at a pricd of Canadian $1.30 apiece in what it hopew to be its last major equity financing before generating enough revenue from its laser wind-sensing product, Vindicator, to pay for Company officials also participated in the investment round, along with institutional bringing its total equity fundraising to date to nearly $35 , Research Capital Corp. and Canaccord Capitaol Corp.
served as placement agents for this latesr fundraising in return for 6 percent of the gross proceeds and additionalstock options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fibe r optics laser company that still sharesw the sameheadquarters space, Catch the Wind has been developing similat technology that senses when wind is imminent, helpinh reorient a turbine to capture that wind beforr it passes. Most wind turbinexs can realign its blades only after itfeels wind, so they’red often too late to actually benefift from gusts, company officials “Before, it was the horse-and-buggy approach to measuring wind,” said Phil who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearlyu 20 years ago with his wife before leavingt recently to serve as CEO for Catch the “Think about increasing the gas mileage of your he said.
“You’ve already bought your car. But if I can sell you somethingt that doubles the gas mileage ofyour car, you woulsd save more money.” He estimatex the Vindicator can capture 10 percentt to 30 percent more wind for which in turn helps generate more cleaj electricity and ultimately revenue for their operators. Catch the Wind recentlyu sold its first unitto , a Canadian environmental monitorinh equipment maker, while starting its first two-mont field test with the Nebraska Public Powerd District on its largest wind farm with 36 wind The local company, which said it’as also talking to federal agencies, hoped to use that trial’s results later this summeer to market to other wind turbine manufacturersw and wind farm With six full-time employees, Catch the Wind expects to at leasty double that count by the end of this The company, which had $5.
5 milliob in cash and equivalents on hand as of Marc 31, is also considering whether to list itself on an Americanj exchange later this year. “We aspire to that,” Roger said. “I just can’t say when.”
million in a private placement financin g to help push more salexs of its new wind sensordfor turbines. Manassas-based Catch the which trades on the Toronto Venture soldroughly 16.7 million shares at a pricd of Canadian $1.30 apiece in what it hopew to be its last major equity financing before generating enough revenue from its laser wind-sensing product, Vindicator, to pay for Company officials also participated in the investment round, along with institutional bringing its total equity fundraising to date to nearly $35 , Research Capital Corp. and Canaccord Capitaol Corp.
served as placement agents for this latesr fundraising in return for 6 percent of the gross proceeds and additionalstock options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fibe r optics laser company that still sharesw the sameheadquarters space, Catch the Wind has been developing similat technology that senses when wind is imminent, helpinh reorient a turbine to capture that wind beforr it passes. Most wind turbinexs can realign its blades only after itfeels wind, so they’red often too late to actually benefift from gusts, company officials “Before, it was the horse-and-buggy approach to measuring wind,” said Phil who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearlyu 20 years ago with his wife before leavingt recently to serve as CEO for Catch the “Think about increasing the gas mileage of your he said.
“You’ve already bought your car. But if I can sell you somethingt that doubles the gas mileage ofyour car, you woulsd save more money.” He estimatex the Vindicator can capture 10 percentt to 30 percent more wind for which in turn helps generate more cleaj electricity and ultimately revenue for their operators. Catch the Wind recentlyu sold its first unitto , a Canadian environmental monitorinh equipment maker, while starting its first two-mont field test with the Nebraska Public Powerd District on its largest wind farm with 36 wind The local company, which said it’as also talking to federal agencies, hoped to use that trial’s results later this summeer to market to other wind turbine manufacturersw and wind farm With six full-time employees, Catch the Wind expects to at leasty double that count by the end of this The company, which had $5.
5 milliob in cash and equivalents on hand as of Marc 31, is also considering whether to list itself on an Americanj exchange later this year. “We aspire to that,” Roger said. “I just can’t say when.”
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Looking south for visitors - Houston Business Journal:
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After a year punctuatedr with one bit of bad newsaftef another, this year’s travel industry Pow Wow held May 16-20 in Miami Beach, offered the industry caus for hope. The annual event, which connects U.S. destinations and businesses with overseastravel agents, drew more than 4,600 attendees and created connections that coulrd lead to billions of dollars in South American nations generally have sufferedf less than others in the global recession, and Pow Wow participant s said tour operators and travel companies from Brazil, Colombia and other countries in the region were eagerf to discuss deals with U.S. travel industru representatives.
This year, the local visitors bureau, a major enginwe for driving travel to Central is waging a major publicity campaignin Brazil, an efforr bolstered by a new direct air route to Sao Orlando gets about 300,000 visitors a year from Brazil, and the bureahu expects that number to reacj 350,000 next year. As air links expand, Sain the ability to strike new traveldeals “There’s no question that as we go South America will get a lot of our We have to make sure we have good lift — many schedulex and charter airline flights to keep us connected.
” The fresh emphasisx on Latin America comes as recessions in Europer cut into a key source of Orlando’s international business. The U.K. is the biggesty source of international visitors comingto Orlando, so the 10 percent to 15 percent slowdown in visitors from therre has hit Central Florida’s attractions and hotels hard. however, expects gradual improvement as economies on both sides of the Atlantic recover from Pow Wow, which will be held in Orland o next year, attracts about 1,500 international buyeras and about 500 travel writers. The in its 41st year, is responsible for about $4 billiojn in deals, said its sponsor, the U.S. Travel U.S.
destinations use booths at Pow Wow to make contactds that can lead to increased busines incoming months. David spokesman for Wet Wild onInternational Drive, helped man his company’ws booth at the show. “We made so great contacts this year. We came away with the impressionj that things will turn arounsdnext year. We’re seeing a strongv emergence of interest from Brazil and Things are starting to look betteer intheir markets, and that’s good news for Orlando.
” Bruc Bommarito, the Travel Association’s chief operating officere and general manager of the Pow Wow agreed: “International travel has been down 6 to 8 percenyt this year, but I have some cause for That’s because changes in U.S. immigration policies including a reduction in the amount of time travelers must wait fora U.S. visa and an expansioh in the number of countriess that get visawaivers — should stimulatre growth. Although no one can accuratelh say how many international travelers come to Central foreign visitors generally stay longer and spend more than theiedomestic counterparts.
The Travel Association estimate each foreign travelerspends $4,500 while in the U.S. Accordinfg to the association, 633,000 foreign visitore — excluding travelers from Mexico andCanadza — came to the U.S. last fewer than in 2000. Pow Wow is a key tool for increasinhthe flow, said Brommarito. “Pow Wow is all aboutg building relationships. We had 75,000 appointments at this year’x show, which is the best we’ved ever done. This isn’t reall a traditional trade show, it’s an internationap market place.
”
After a year punctuatedr with one bit of bad newsaftef another, this year’s travel industry Pow Wow held May 16-20 in Miami Beach, offered the industry caus for hope. The annual event, which connects U.S. destinations and businesses with overseastravel agents, drew more than 4,600 attendees and created connections that coulrd lead to billions of dollars in South American nations generally have sufferedf less than others in the global recession, and Pow Wow participant s said tour operators and travel companies from Brazil, Colombia and other countries in the region were eagerf to discuss deals with U.S. travel industru representatives.
This year, the local visitors bureau, a major enginwe for driving travel to Central is waging a major publicity campaignin Brazil, an efforr bolstered by a new direct air route to Sao Orlando gets about 300,000 visitors a year from Brazil, and the bureahu expects that number to reacj 350,000 next year. As air links expand, Sain the ability to strike new traveldeals “There’s no question that as we go South America will get a lot of our We have to make sure we have good lift — many schedulex and charter airline flights to keep us connected.
” The fresh emphasisx on Latin America comes as recessions in Europer cut into a key source of Orlando’s international business. The U.K. is the biggesty source of international visitors comingto Orlando, so the 10 percent to 15 percent slowdown in visitors from therre has hit Central Florida’s attractions and hotels hard. however, expects gradual improvement as economies on both sides of the Atlantic recover from Pow Wow, which will be held in Orland o next year, attracts about 1,500 international buyeras and about 500 travel writers. The in its 41st year, is responsible for about $4 billiojn in deals, said its sponsor, the U.S. Travel U.S.
destinations use booths at Pow Wow to make contactds that can lead to increased busines incoming months. David spokesman for Wet Wild onInternational Drive, helped man his company’ws booth at the show. “We made so great contacts this year. We came away with the impressionj that things will turn arounsdnext year. We’re seeing a strongv emergence of interest from Brazil and Things are starting to look betteer intheir markets, and that’s good news for Orlando.
” Bruc Bommarito, the Travel Association’s chief operating officere and general manager of the Pow Wow agreed: “International travel has been down 6 to 8 percenyt this year, but I have some cause for That’s because changes in U.S. immigration policies including a reduction in the amount of time travelers must wait fora U.S. visa and an expansioh in the number of countriess that get visawaivers — should stimulatre growth. Although no one can accuratelh say how many international travelers come to Central foreign visitors generally stay longer and spend more than theiedomestic counterparts.
The Travel Association estimate each foreign travelerspends $4,500 while in the U.S. Accordinfg to the association, 633,000 foreign visitore — excluding travelers from Mexico andCanadza — came to the U.S. last fewer than in 2000. Pow Wow is a key tool for increasinhthe flow, said Brommarito. “Pow Wow is all aboutg building relationships. We had 75,000 appointments at this year’x show, which is the best we’ved ever done. This isn’t reall a traditional trade show, it’s an internationap market place.
”
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Enbridge to Undertake Further Expansion of North Dakota Crude Oil System - MarketWatch (press release)
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Enbridge to Undertake Further Expansion of North Dakota Crude Oil System MarketWatch (press release) "Our Berthold Rail Project complements a series of expansions Enbridge has undertaken to expand transport capacity from North Dakota. It integrates high quality Bakken crude into Enbridge's expanding portfolio of pipeline projects that access premium ... |
The Guardian | Ruth Stone The Guardian When she received the National Book award in 2002, for her collection In the Next Galaxy, she summarised her career: "I've been writing poetry or whatever it is since I was five or six years old, and I couldn't stop, I never could stop. ... |
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