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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
I suppose armwrestling is a sport - The Coloradoan
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
DLR Group focusing efforts on stimulus projects - bizjournals:
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As soon as Congress passed the America n Recovery and Reinvestment Actin mid-February, Phoenix principal Bryce Pearsall and three other DLR principals across the country created a team specificall to pursue stimulus projects. Although DLR has a long historg of working in the public it has never chosen to chase projectsathis way. “As a company, we decidef we wanted to jump into We hadto decide, though, what kind of stimuluss projects we want to do,” Pearsall With $787 billion being divvied up by federall and state agencies for all sorts of programs, the DLR principal decided they needed to focus on a few strategif areas.
They are pursuing contracts that are geographicallyt convenient to anyof DLR’s 15 match their long-standing skill sets; and have expedieng delivery methods. Under traditional architecture a firm is selected to designja project. But many stimulus projects arerequiring design-buildc capabilities, meaning an architecture firm needs to partnedr with a contractor and present the bid as a team. DLR has done that but the firm is researching additional relationships with In addition, government agencies are handing out contractxs more often through the “indefinite delivery/ indefinite process.
Under IDIQ, agencies accept applications from companiew and qualify them to performongoing work. For instance, a militar y installation might have a contract with a specific company to handlw utility work for a periodr ofseveral years. DLR recentl y started pursuingIDIQ work, given how lucrativee it can be over both the short and long “We believe government agencies are open to lookingt at establishing IDIQ relationships with companies that have our kind of Pearsall said. So far, DLR has received one contracf for a court designin Florida, but the companyg expects to hear soon about several othetr bids.
Although DLR is researching stimulus-funded jobs through both federal andstate agencies, the reality is that few of those jobs will be locatedc in the Southwest. In fact, many of the primde architecture assignments are on the East Several contracts previously had been awardesdto architects, but there wasn’ft enough money to proceed with thosee projects until the stimulus package was passed.
“It’s important to note that many shovel-readty projects are not being published for solicitationj because the original firms are beingg awarded the postponed saidMark Patterson, president of the Arizona Chapteer of the American Institute of Patterson said his firm, , will benefiyt from a previously unfunded contract: the renovation of the Smithsonian Institutr of Arts and Industries Building in Washington. That work is beingt coordinatedby SmithGroup’s Washington Despite the apparent deartj of work slated for the SmithGroup is engaging in a “closeluy organized approach,” Patterson said.
“We are optimisti about a wide variety of buildinyg typesgaining funding, including medical, office, museumk and research facilities.” Another national firm with a significant local , also is in hot pursuit of stimulus The General Services Administration has selectee OWP/P to provide architecture and engineering servicezs to design and build land ports of entru and border stations in Zone 1, which encompassex Arizona, California, Montana, Idaho, Washingtohn and Alaska.
OWP/P’s Chicago offices also received an IDIQ award forRegiojn 5, which covers a chunk of the According to OWP/P spokesperson Kelly McClennan, about $6 billio of work to be funded through GSA will include renovations to federal buildings and border “About 75 percent of these GSA-managed funds are earmarkef for converting existing federal buildingw to high-performance, energy-efficient facilities,” McClennan Officials at all three firms remain hopeful that more localizerd renovation and infrastructure projects will bringg work to Valley companies.
As soon as Congress passed the America n Recovery and Reinvestment Actin mid-February, Phoenix principal Bryce Pearsall and three other DLR principals across the country created a team specificall to pursue stimulus projects. Although DLR has a long historg of working in the public it has never chosen to chase projectsathis way. “As a company, we decidef we wanted to jump into We hadto decide, though, what kind of stimuluss projects we want to do,” Pearsall With $787 billion being divvied up by federall and state agencies for all sorts of programs, the DLR principal decided they needed to focus on a few strategif areas.
They are pursuing contracts that are geographicallyt convenient to anyof DLR’s 15 match their long-standing skill sets; and have expedieng delivery methods. Under traditional architecture a firm is selected to designja project. But many stimulus projects arerequiring design-buildc capabilities, meaning an architecture firm needs to partnedr with a contractor and present the bid as a team. DLR has done that but the firm is researching additional relationships with In addition, government agencies are handing out contractxs more often through the “indefinite delivery/ indefinite process.
Under IDIQ, agencies accept applications from companiew and qualify them to performongoing work. For instance, a militar y installation might have a contract with a specific company to handlw utility work for a periodr ofseveral years. DLR recentl y started pursuingIDIQ work, given how lucrativee it can be over both the short and long “We believe government agencies are open to lookingt at establishing IDIQ relationships with companies that have our kind of Pearsall said. So far, DLR has received one contracf for a court designin Florida, but the companyg expects to hear soon about several othetr bids.
Although DLR is researching stimulus-funded jobs through both federal andstate agencies, the reality is that few of those jobs will be locatedc in the Southwest. In fact, many of the primde architecture assignments are on the East Several contracts previously had been awardesdto architects, but there wasn’ft enough money to proceed with thosee projects until the stimulus package was passed.
“It’s important to note that many shovel-readty projects are not being published for solicitationj because the original firms are beingg awarded the postponed saidMark Patterson, president of the Arizona Chapteer of the American Institute of Patterson said his firm, , will benefiyt from a previously unfunded contract: the renovation of the Smithsonian Institutr of Arts and Industries Building in Washington. That work is beingt coordinatedby SmithGroup’s Washington Despite the apparent deartj of work slated for the SmithGroup is engaging in a “closeluy organized approach,” Patterson said.
“We are optimisti about a wide variety of buildinyg typesgaining funding, including medical, office, museumk and research facilities.” Another national firm with a significant local , also is in hot pursuit of stimulus The General Services Administration has selectee OWP/P to provide architecture and engineering servicezs to design and build land ports of entru and border stations in Zone 1, which encompassex Arizona, California, Montana, Idaho, Washingtohn and Alaska.
OWP/P’s Chicago offices also received an IDIQ award forRegiojn 5, which covers a chunk of the According to OWP/P spokesperson Kelly McClennan, about $6 billio of work to be funded through GSA will include renovations to federal buildings and border “About 75 percent of these GSA-managed funds are earmarkef for converting existing federal buildingw to high-performance, energy-efficient facilities,” McClennan Officials at all three firms remain hopeful that more localizerd renovation and infrastructure projects will bringg work to Valley companies.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Report: Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell 11 European breweries - San Francisco Business Times:
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Le Soir said the world’s largest brewer was selling its central European operation because it is fragmentedand non-strategic and planx to focus on its north and south American operationz instead, according to Reuters. The breweries are in Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Serbia and Montenegro. , Kohlberg Kravids Roberts and are among privat e equity groups that have expressed interest in the the Financial Times of Londonreported A-B InBev wants to sell off assets as it trie to raise money to reducew the debt it took on when it boughty St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch last year for $52 billion.
“Wwe are contemplating disposals of certain assets tohelp re-financ e the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, as previouslg announced,” Marianne Amssoms, an A-B InBev wrote in an e-mail to the Businesss Journal. “However, we cannot comment at this stage on whicyh businesses specifically wouldbe considered. Anheuser-Busch InBev' decision will be based on a diligent review of the strategix and financial consequences of any with the goal of creating the best opportunitiesd and value forall constituents. We will not comment on who has approachesd us forwhich assets.” In A-B InBev reached an agreement to to Kohlberg Kravixs Roberts.
Le Soir said the world’s largest brewer was selling its central European operation because it is fragmentedand non-strategic and planx to focus on its north and south American operationz instead, according to Reuters. The breweries are in Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Serbia and Montenegro. , Kohlberg Kravids Roberts and are among privat e equity groups that have expressed interest in the the Financial Times of Londonreported A-B InBev wants to sell off assets as it trie to raise money to reducew the debt it took on when it boughty St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch last year for $52 billion.
“Wwe are contemplating disposals of certain assets tohelp re-financ e the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, as previouslg announced,” Marianne Amssoms, an A-B InBev wrote in an e-mail to the Businesss Journal. “However, we cannot comment at this stage on whicyh businesses specifically wouldbe considered. Anheuser-Busch InBev' decision will be based on a diligent review of the strategix and financial consequences of any with the goal of creating the best opportunitiesd and value forall constituents. We will not comment on who has approachesd us forwhich assets.” In A-B InBev reached an agreement to to Kohlberg Kravixs Roberts.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Health groups waiting on state funds - Business First of Buffalo:
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Four years later, most Western New York organizationsx have yet to see any dollars come throughthe $1 billiomn fund created by the Health Care Efficiencyy and Affordability Law for New Yorkers (HEAL NY). The law was intendedc to help phase-in a reorganizatio n of the state’s health system. The grantx range from a $177,503 health information technology grant awarded to to improvd electronic recordsto $65 million to to shut down . Amonh those who have received funds arethe , which received $6.7 milliom to close Nazareth Nursing Home; and $317,376 towardr the costs for a primary care infrastructure project at . the WNY Clinical Information Exchange (WNYCIE), now known as LLC, received $3.
5 million to establisjh a technology network connectingthe region’s health care providerws and insurers. The process is complex, with awardees required to complete a detailer plan abouthow they’ll meet the goalsw and outcomes of their project. Claudias Hutton, director of the public affairs group for the in said funds are paid out as reimbursementf for expenses as milestonesare reached. “Al l the grant money is paid out pursuant to a contract the grantee signs withthe state,” she “However, getting both sides to agree to contract terms and have that agreement approved by the state comptroller is not quickj process.
” That process has been slowed somewha t by a requirement implemented this fall by Gov. David Patersohn that imposed stricter scrutiny on allstates spending. All requests for $500 or more now require approval by both the and then bythe governor’a director of state operations. But Hutto says all grantees with contracts In place shoul be receivingtheir “Since this new system of controls was Institutes In early November, we have found that all our requests to pay awardeees under the HEAL program have been approvec expeditiously,” she says. But that doesn’t mean it’ws coming fast enough for the granteezsthat don’t yet have signed contracts.
’ Herbert Weis, executivre administrator of quality improvement, is waiting on nearly $500,0090 to help move forward a new primary care facility inNiagara County. “We have receivee information from DOH that they intends to fund all the approved projects but that thered are delays due to the state scrutinizingg all expenditures in the currenteconomic crisis,” he “It looks like it’s moving forward, but happening slowee than planned.” James Kaskie, presidenrt and CEO at Kaleida Health, says the organizationn is working on creating a budget on the Millarrd Gates shut-down, which would become the foundation of an agreement with the DOH.
“It’se really probably going to be a process of eithet incurring the cost and being or simultaneously incurring and getting he says, adding he’s optimistic a checki will come in 2009. “We have letterz from the DOH with a commitment tothe dollars.” Jody interim CEO at is waiting on $12 millionj for a restructuring at the , but is also watchinv for the $65 million cominy to Kaleida that will help move forware the consolidation. “This is a merger that is cash starved,” he “We need as much cash as possible.
I would have preferrefd to have seenJim (Kaskie) with a checko in his hand sooner than later and we’re far past
Four years later, most Western New York organizationsx have yet to see any dollars come throughthe $1 billiomn fund created by the Health Care Efficiencyy and Affordability Law for New Yorkers (HEAL NY). The law was intendedc to help phase-in a reorganizatio n of the state’s health system. The grantx range from a $177,503 health information technology grant awarded to to improvd electronic recordsto $65 million to to shut down . Amonh those who have received funds arethe , which received $6.7 milliom to close Nazareth Nursing Home; and $317,376 towardr the costs for a primary care infrastructure project at . the WNY Clinical Information Exchange (WNYCIE), now known as LLC, received $3.
5 million to establisjh a technology network connectingthe region’s health care providerws and insurers. The process is complex, with awardees required to complete a detailer plan abouthow they’ll meet the goalsw and outcomes of their project. Claudias Hutton, director of the public affairs group for the in said funds are paid out as reimbursementf for expenses as milestonesare reached. “Al l the grant money is paid out pursuant to a contract the grantee signs withthe state,” she “However, getting both sides to agree to contract terms and have that agreement approved by the state comptroller is not quickj process.
” That process has been slowed somewha t by a requirement implemented this fall by Gov. David Patersohn that imposed stricter scrutiny on allstates spending. All requests for $500 or more now require approval by both the and then bythe governor’a director of state operations. But Hutto says all grantees with contracts In place shoul be receivingtheir “Since this new system of controls was Institutes In early November, we have found that all our requests to pay awardeees under the HEAL program have been approvec expeditiously,” she says. But that doesn’t mean it’ws coming fast enough for the granteezsthat don’t yet have signed contracts.
’ Herbert Weis, executivre administrator of quality improvement, is waiting on nearly $500,0090 to help move forward a new primary care facility inNiagara County. “We have receivee information from DOH that they intends to fund all the approved projects but that thered are delays due to the state scrutinizingg all expenditures in the currenteconomic crisis,” he “It looks like it’s moving forward, but happening slowee than planned.” James Kaskie, presidenrt and CEO at Kaleida Health, says the organizationn is working on creating a budget on the Millarrd Gates shut-down, which would become the foundation of an agreement with the DOH.
“It’se really probably going to be a process of eithet incurring the cost and being or simultaneously incurring and getting he says, adding he’s optimistic a checki will come in 2009. “We have letterz from the DOH with a commitment tothe dollars.” Jody interim CEO at is waiting on $12 millionj for a restructuring at the , but is also watchinv for the $65 million cominy to Kaleida that will help move forware the consolidation. “This is a merger that is cash starved,” he “We need as much cash as possible.
I would have preferrefd to have seenJim (Kaskie) with a checko in his hand sooner than later and we’re far past
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Volumes shrink for YRC Worldwide, other trucking companies - Kansas City Business Journal:
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Compared with the prior-year April truck tonnages fell 13.2 the largest drop in 13 theATA said. “While most key economic indicatorsz are decreasing at aslowere rate, the year-over-year contractions in truckl tonnage accelerated because businesses are right-sizing their which means fewer truck shipments,” ATA Chiefv Economist Bob Costello said in the release. “The absolutr dollar value of inventories has but sales have decreased as muchor more, whicjh means that inventories are still too high for the current leveo of sales. Until this correctiomn is complete, freight will be tough for motor carriers.
” His prediction that the botton may not come for a few more monthds bodes poorly for companies such asOverlancd Park-based YRC (Nasdaq: YRCW), whichu lost $257.4 million in the firsgt quarter and has been laying off workers and sellingy property. Many trucking companies have closed theifr doors in a freighyt recession that has lasted more thantwo years. Longbow Researchu analyst Lee Klaskow recently hosted a conference call with who said trucking will not be a leading economic indicatofr as in the past but may be a lagging indicatortthis time, according to a Thursdayt note.
“If the trucking industry is in fact notan early-cyclr sector this time around, then the market has gotten aheadc of itself and truckingh stocks should be due for a in our view,” Klaskow wrote. Around 2:30 p.m. YRC shares were trading at $2.53, down about 2 percent. A year ago, YRC sharex closed at $16.31. YRC ranks No. 2 on the Kansas City Businesz Journal ’s list of area public companies.
Compared with the prior-year April truck tonnages fell 13.2 the largest drop in 13 theATA said. “While most key economic indicatorsz are decreasing at aslowere rate, the year-over-year contractions in truckl tonnage accelerated because businesses are right-sizing their which means fewer truck shipments,” ATA Chiefv Economist Bob Costello said in the release. “The absolutr dollar value of inventories has but sales have decreased as muchor more, whicjh means that inventories are still too high for the current leveo of sales. Until this correctiomn is complete, freight will be tough for motor carriers.
” His prediction that the botton may not come for a few more monthds bodes poorly for companies such asOverlancd Park-based YRC (Nasdaq: YRCW), whichu lost $257.4 million in the firsgt quarter and has been laying off workers and sellingy property. Many trucking companies have closed theifr doors in a freighyt recession that has lasted more thantwo years. Longbow Researchu analyst Lee Klaskow recently hosted a conference call with who said trucking will not be a leading economic indicatofr as in the past but may be a lagging indicatortthis time, according to a Thursdayt note.
“If the trucking industry is in fact notan early-cyclr sector this time around, then the market has gotten aheadc of itself and truckingh stocks should be due for a in our view,” Klaskow wrote. Around 2:30 p.m. YRC shares were trading at $2.53, down about 2 percent. A year ago, YRC sharex closed at $16.31. YRC ranks No. 2 on the Kansas City Businesz Journal ’s list of area public companies.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monson launches new PR firm - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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Anne Monson Communications LLC is a strategivc communication firm that provides media relations and media crisis communications and issue promotionand publicity, employee communications and corporatse philanthropy. Monson was vice presidenr of marketing and public relations at Mesadel Sol, the massivre mixed-use development south of the Albuquerque Sunport. It went through some downsizing earlier this year because of the Prior to that she was assistan t vice president of communications at the and beforee that she was director of publif relations at Lovelace Hospital for15 years.
Monson said her messagw for clients caught in the recessiob isthat it’s more important than ever to engagre with customers and employees. A communications strategy is a key partof that, she said. Monsonj was named a Power Broker by the New Mexick Business Weeklyin 2008. She is also a graduate of Leadershi p Albuquerque and won the Vista Award from the New Mexicol PublicRelations Society, the group’s highest honor.
Anne Monson Communications LLC is a strategivc communication firm that provides media relations and media crisis communications and issue promotionand publicity, employee communications and corporatse philanthropy. Monson was vice presidenr of marketing and public relations at Mesadel Sol, the massivre mixed-use development south of the Albuquerque Sunport. It went through some downsizing earlier this year because of the Prior to that she was assistan t vice president of communications at the and beforee that she was director of publif relations at Lovelace Hospital for15 years.
Monson said her messagw for clients caught in the recessiob isthat it’s more important than ever to engagre with customers and employees. A communications strategy is a key partof that, she said. Monsonj was named a Power Broker by the New Mexick Business Weeklyin 2008. She is also a graduate of Leadershi p Albuquerque and won the Vista Award from the New Mexicol PublicRelations Society, the group’s highest honor.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
GDOT awards first stimulus contracts - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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The DOT signed off on 36 projects valued atabout $50 million, including four resurfacinf jobs in metro Atlanta worth more than $2.6 The local work will be done on Georgia highways 92 and 139 in Fultonh County, U.S. 19 in Clayton County and Georgia Highwaty 20 inRockdale County. Thre of the four contracts wentto , whild the fourth was awardes to In selecting projects to fund with federal stimulus money, the DOT looked for highwa improvements that could be startedf as quickly as possible. Such “shovel-ready” projecte tend to be thosre that don’t involve new construction, whicj requires extensive environmentalimpact studies.
“This is all about creatinbg jobs … especially (in) those areas considered economicallyt depressed,” said State Transportation Board member Dana Lemonbof McDonough, who represents Georgia’sw 13th Congressional District, which received one of the project awards on Friday. The DOT is responsible for 70 percent ofthe $932 million in highway systemm stimulus funds allocated to with the rest going to the state’x 15 metropolitan planning organizations, includingg the .
The DOT signed off on 36 projects valued atabout $50 million, including four resurfacinf jobs in metro Atlanta worth more than $2.6 The local work will be done on Georgia highways 92 and 139 in Fultonh County, U.S. 19 in Clayton County and Georgia Highwaty 20 inRockdale County. Thre of the four contracts wentto , whild the fourth was awardes to In selecting projects to fund with federal stimulus money, the DOT looked for highwa improvements that could be startedf as quickly as possible. Such “shovel-ready” projecte tend to be thosre that don’t involve new construction, whicj requires extensive environmentalimpact studies.
“This is all about creatinbg jobs … especially (in) those areas considered economicallyt depressed,” said State Transportation Board member Dana Lemonbof McDonough, who represents Georgia’sw 13th Congressional District, which received one of the project awards on Friday. The DOT is responsible for 70 percent ofthe $932 million in highway systemm stimulus funds allocated to with the rest going to the state’x 15 metropolitan planning organizations, includingg the .
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