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Writer: Bob Taylor, 706/542/2251, btaylor@uga.edu
Contact:  Meredith Carr, 404/814/8820, mcarr@uga.edu

Atlanta, GA — Allen Professional Graphics Group (APGG), an Atlanta-based design firm, is among the businesses selected for the inaugural class of the Bulldog 100: Fastest Growing Bulldog Businesses. Sponsored by the University of Georgia Alumni Association, the Bulldog 100 is a program that will determine and award the 100 fastest growing businesses that are owned or operated by UGA Alumni, each year. Rankings are based on compounded annual growth rate of revenues for the past three years. APGG was listed as the 28th fastest growing company on the list and the highest ranking African-American-owned business.

Ethan Kwame Allen, President of APGG (UGA ‘99), and Monica Allen, Vice President of APGG (UGA ’96), were presented with the award at a reception held on January 30, 2010, at the InterContinental Buckhead. “It is a tremendous honor to receive this award. There are several top-notch companies on the list, and we are thrilled to be ranked in the top 30,” says Allen. “We are thankful for the great education and experiences that we had at the University of Georgia. Those experiences helped shape our lives and our business.”

“APGG should be congratulated for being among the first selection of Bulldog 100 companies,” said Deborah Dietzler, Executive Director of the UGA Alumni Association. “With more than 400 nominees representing businesses from throughout the United States, it is a true achievement to be selected.  The UGA Alumni Association is proud to honor APGG for its accomplishments.”

“The University of Georgia is proud of you and the success you have achieved,” said University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams. “You are to be especially commended for guiding your business to success during the current economic climate.”

Information about the program, including a complete list of the Bulldog 100 Class of 2010 is available on the UGA Alumni Association website: www.uga.edu/alumni/bulldog100.

About Allen Professional Graphics Group (APGG):

APGG is a multi-brand creative services firm located in west midtown Atlanta. The company develops visual identities for businesses, groups, product brands, and events. Services range from graphic design and web development to custom-embroidered apparel.  The company’s portfolio of brands includes stuff4GREEKS, Zeus’ Closet retail stores, FratBrat, Divine Graphics, Whole 9 Solutions, E. K. Allen Creative, and Monica Allen Interiors.

Contact:
Monica Allen
Vice President
404.792.2526
www.apgg.net

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Chicago, February 8, 2010 (word count: 698)
LASELEC of France, a specialist in cable-marking equipment, will be displaying its range of UV laser wire-marking machines at international trade shows in 2010, including the Heli Expo in Houston from  February 20 to 23 and the AIME & MRO in Dubai from February 28 to March 1.

LASELEC is currently the only company on the market to offer two comprehensive and upgradeable ranges of UV laser wire-marking machines that meet the requirements of the aerospace, rail, rally and Formula One racing-car industries. LASELEC has also developed special equipment for the cable and wire industry, including the company’s latest machine – the highly advanced MT 200 inspection station.

The highly compact MT 200 marks cable samples using a UV laser, and then produces an analysis report. The machine is very simple to use and enables users to check the markability of the cable and carry out periodic controls during production. The machine is low maintenance with low operating costs. Its innovative technology ensures that it is highly reliable, perfectly complementing the company’s ULYS MODENA and MRO 200 series of wire markers.

Suitable for high to very-high production volumes, ULYS MODENA comes in a range of four models. The most powerful is the ULYS 990 Modena, which offers a level of productivity that is unequalled to date, thanks to its two lasers and user-friendly setup. For smaller production runs, LASELEC has designed the MRO 200 range of machines, which offer a compact design with excellent ergonomics at a very competitive price.

Direct marking with a UV laser, which has replaced heat-shrink sleeve application, offers the undeniable advantage of reducing the weight of the cabling. In turn, this reduction results in reduced weight for the appliances that are equipped with the cables. The elimination of sleeves and labels has led to the production of satellites as well as competition and rally vehicles that are much lighter. Rising energy costs have also made weight an extremely important factor, both for manufacturers and users.

Alongside its marking machines, LASELEC has also developed ranges of special-purpose equipment. For example, its COMET system checks the contrast of markings on cables and wires, while the MRO CUT offers the cable industry a comprehensive and automated solution for cutting cables and wires to a specified length. In addition to equipment for cable makers, LASELEC’s ULYS LINE range includes machines specially adapted to specific sectors, including the rail, off-shore, maritime and space industries. The range is also suitable for cables designed for industrial vehicles and top-of-the-range automobiles, as well as competition and rally vehicles, which have their own specific requirements.

LASELEC’s machines offer an excellent value for the money and also guarantee permanent and safe marking that is certified by all aircraft manufacturers and many Formula One and rally-car manufacturers – industrial sectors that are extremely demanding in terms of safety and quality. Moreover, LASELEC endeavors to offer machines tailored to all requirements: from reworking to job lots, batches, and standardized or very-high production runs.

LASELEC, which is certified ISO 9001: 2008, focuses on quality, which is guaranteed thanks to its total control of the design, production and maintenance of its machines.

About LASELEC:
LASELEC is a leading manufacturer of UV laser cable-marking machines. These machines enable permanent non-aggressive marking that is certified by aircraft manufacturers – an extremely demanding industry in terms of safety. The machines are suitable for use by all industrial sectors where safety requirements impose indelible non-aggressive marking for cable insulation.

The company offers an excellent productivity/price ratio, and has a range suited to every need, from re-work to the production of small, medium-sized, large or very large series. LASELEC’s end-to-end expertise of the design, production and maintenance of its machines enables it to provide cast-iron guarantees as to their quality.

LASELEC will take part in the following trade shows in 2010: Heli Expo, in Houston, Texas, from February 20 to 23; AIME & MRO, in Dubai (UAE), from February 28 to March 1; India Aviation, in Hyderabad, India, from  March 3 to 7; AEA, in Orlando, Florida, from  April 8 to 10; MRO, in London, from September 28 to 30; and NBAA, in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 19 to 21.

For more information, please contact:

LASELEC INC.
Marc Ruddy-Thimon & Justin Clements
Sales, North America
2605 N. Forum Dr.
Grand Prairie, TX 75052
E-mail: infousa@laselec.com
Web: www.laselec.com

or:

FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel.: (312) 327-5260
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr

MAXMAT’S PL II MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYZER FOR CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, COAGULATION AND ELISA TESTING

Chicago, February 8, 2010 (word count: 283)
MAXMAT SA designs and manufacturers diagnostic instrumentation and announces its MAXMAT PL II — a multidisciplinary analyzer for testing in clinical chemistry, coagulation and immunochemistry/ELISA.

It is the ideal tool for scientific research providing total flexibility for creating unlimited complex assay protocols in clinical chemistry and coagulation, and in quantitative and qualitative ELISA. It includes microplate or strips reaction support and a flexible spectrophotometer optical system (340-700 nm). With real-time reaction curves
and handling linear and non-linear calibrations, the MAXMAT PL II also boasts quality control allowing graphical representation of performance and automatic statistics calculation.

The MAXMAT PL COAG is dedicated to haemostasis analyses for chronometric, chromogenic and turbidimetric tests. It has one of the lowest cost per coagulation test available; with its very low reagent consumption and use of low-cost microtiter plates as reaction support.

MAXMAT also offers a complete range of clinical chemistry and coagulation reagents.

R&D services: MAXMAT offers solutions from conception to final product of medical systems under contract for other companies.

In 2006 the company undertook its first OED contract for the development of a unique instrument for the preparation of cryogenically stocked biological samples, which is being installed throughput all of the French Blood Bank network. Since then several other R&D contracts have been successfully undertaken.

MAXMAT SA is currently seeking new partners for the scientific market who specialize in the sale and after-sales servicing and support of biomedical instruments and reagents. It is also looking to undertake R&D projects in the medical domain on behalf of other companies.

The company will be exhibiting at PITTCON 2010 from March 1 to 4 in Orlando, Fla., on the French Pavilion at booth 3408.

For more information, please contact:

MAXMAT SA
André Chojnacki, CEO
Nikki Caset, International Sales Manager
290 rue Alfred Nobel
ZAC du Millénaire
34000 Montpellier
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 4 67 60 2000
Fax.:+33 4 67 60 2101
E-mail: contact@maxmat.fr
Web: www.maxmat.fr

or:

FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel.: (312) 327-5260
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr

Who doesn’t remember the beautiful actress and singer Jennifer Lopez in The wedding planner film?
Then, it was 2001, maybe a bit dazed, we look at that profession with unbelief and thought that may be to arrange a marriage should not take a trained personnel.
Then, not only for the movie, wedding planner becomes a truly professionals.
In the USA the wedding planner has found long ago a well-defined position in the fashion business, in Italy the doors are opening to the fashion and especially to the “culture” of fashion thanks to several initiatives with the aim to promote Made in Italy.
So, you cannot improvise you as wedding planner , you must know various aspects about the organization of marriages that are not limited to the date, the number of guests or the menu!
There are therefore agencies, institutions and institutes that organize evening fashion courses to allow, who work but has the passion of the organizer, to create a real cultural baggage in the whole world (because it is a world!) wedding.
Just think about the research activities of suppliers, locations, or at the wedding develop marketing plan, staging and a hundred other things!

The difficult financial challenges facing the health service over the next few years, as it restructures its service models to release cash, are likely to be difficult to overcome for those organisations that take a tactical approach to improving performance, warns the quality, innovation and productivity organisation, Amnis.

According to Amnis’ Mark Eaton, any health sector organisation taking a tactical approach to implementing changes by focusing on isolated processes or pathways and not linking the front-line improvements to an overall transformation strategy is at risk of failing to bring about the financial benefits that are going to be needed.

“Significant and strategic change requires a strategic approach,” said Eaton, “and that starts by getting under the skin of the real objectives that need to be delivered, putting real numbers to the improvements that need to be generated and then identifying the key areas that will need to be transformed to deliver the required improvements.

“In addition, the future for the NHS can only be delivered through organisations working together to tackle the big ticket issues in a collaborative approach,” he counselled.

“This often means making a change to the way that senior teams work. It also involves the need to promote team working rather than the tribal warfare that can exist both within some organisations and across whole health economies.

“Moreover, it relies on impartial decisions being made about tough issues and recognising that, while everyone needs to win, they may not win every time.

“One thing that’s for certain is that organisations don’t need any more isolated ‘Rapid Improvement Events’ that aren’t linked to strategic goals and don’t help health economies to deliver their collective targets,” he stressed.

Amnis’s healthcare specialists offer a range of services intended to help organisations, especially those in the healthcare sector, to implement Lean successfully. For further details, contact Amnis’ client services director, Ruth Bodman, at ruthbodman@amnis.uk.com or visit http://www.amnis.uk.com

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About Amnis Limited

Working with both public and private sector organisations, Amnis is a consultancy which specialises in innovation, transformation and organisational improvement, helping clients plan and deploy strategies for successful transformation. Its goal is to help clients not only deliver sustainable change but also to develop their capability to tackle their next challenges.

Providing both consultancy and training services, Amnis’ team includes specialists in Lean/Six Sigma, organisational development, strategic planning, change management and systems thinking.

Further information from:

Ruth Bodman, Amnis, 00 44 (0) 870 446 1002; ruthbodman@amnis.uk.com

Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 00 44 (0)1727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

London, 8 February 2010 – TradeDoubler, the number one pan-European digital marketing company, today announced it will be closing its operation in Japan as part of the final stage of its long term integration of the IMW Group. The Japanese operation was a legacy asset of the acquisition back in July 2007, and is solely focused on selling keyword bid management technology – a non-strategic product for TradeDoubler. The closing of Japanese operation has a non-significant impact on TradeDoubler’s total revenues.

The Japan office will close on 30 June 2010. Until this date, TradeDoubler will honour all remaining fixed term contracts with its local clients, but will not be renewing existing contracts or accepting new ones.

“Our corporate strategy is focused on growing our successful online channels and expanding our market penetration on a pan-European basis,” said Björn Lindberg, COO for TradeDoubler. “We focus our offering in the areas of Affiliate Marketing, Ad Networks, SEM and SEO. The Japanese keyword bid management business was a tactical, non-strategic part of the IMW Group acquisition. The Japanese affiliate and ad networks markets are highly saturated. In addition, the extensive IT and infrastructure investments associated with a launch of our products are non-justifiable. Therefore, we are investing our sales and marketing activities in European countries which represent the greatest potential for new market growth and profitability. During 2010 TradeDoubler is preparing to enter at new markets within Europe.”

In 2009, TradeDoubler rebranded The Search Works in the UK and France to TD Search, bringing it in line with the rest of TradeDoubler’s TD Search businesses across Europe, as part of the integration of the IMW Group. With its extensive reach in 18 countries across Europe, TradeDoubler delivers 32 billion impressions per month, reaching 154 million unique users and generating 10 million leads every month. The Group offers unrivalled access to more than 76% of the European online audience through its publisher networks, which comprise more than 128,000 active website publishers and in excess of 1,700 advertisers.

About TradeDoubler

TradeDoubler is an international digital marketing company offering a range of performance-based marketing solutions. TradeDoubler’s products and services provide companies with the tools and expertise to drive results online whether they are looking to generate sales, leads or traffic or drive brand awareness. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company boasts a unique global reach spanning 18 countries in Europe. With a breadth of expertise across multiple industry sectors and a network of more than 128,000 website publishers, TradeDoubler helps deliver results for over 1,700 advertisers including a mix of local and international companies such as Apple Store, Dell, TeliaSonera and Kelkoo. TradeDoubler is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Exchange. Please visit www.tradedoubler.com for further information.

For further information, please contact:

Els De Witte
Marketing Director
TradeDoubler
Tel: +44 (0)20 7798 5814
Email: els.dewitte[at]tradedoubler[dot]com

Distributed on behalf of TradeDoubler by NeonDrum (http://www.neondrum.com)
Nicky Denovan
Tel: +44 7747 017654
nicky[at]neondrum[dot]com

Trondheim, Norway, February 8 2010:

Gintel AS, a leading vendor of hosted enterprise software solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Telenor Denmark to deliver core technology and components for Telenor Denmark’s new Mobile Multiplan service.

Gintel is delivering two critical elements for the Mobile Multiplan service to Telenor Denmark. First, the MultiPlan Gateway (MPGW) allows both internal and partner applications to access resources within the Telenor Denmark network via a standard API enabler interface. The interface provides information on mobile terminal state and location, as well as providing call handling capabilities. The API is harmonised with similar initiatives across the Telenor group.

“We are delighted to have been chosen by Telenor Denmark” said Ernst Thue, CEO of Gintel. “It leverages and extends our successful work in other parts of the Telenor Group and demonstrates the excellence of our technology and innovations”.

Secondly, Telenor Denmark has also selected Gintel’s Mobile Switchboard Application (MOB), a web-based GUI which allows switchboard attendants to monitor employee present and control inbound call traffic, ensuring that it is routed to the correct destination.

“As in other countries around the world, business subscribers form a valuable and important subscriber segment in Denmark. Telenor Denmark is a major provider of advanced telephony services to the enterprise market and we are actively renewing and enhancing our service offer. As part of this activity, Telenor Denmark is delivering new functionality for our subscribers, allowing them to access resources in our network and create new, blended applications via an intuitive API interface” said Peter Kaliszan of Telenor Denmark.

“We believe in the Telco 2.0 approach of exposing service enablers to third parties, in order to maximise innovation for our subscribers. The new service will leverage our core voice offer, but allow enterprises to create valuable new services and mashups with other applications”, he added.

”We selected Gintel as a vendor because of its outstanding technology and its track-record of project execution with the Telenor Group” said Peter Kaliszan. ”The new solution will create clear differentiation for our offer, as enterprises can create their own solutions which specifically meet their individual needs.

The Mobile Multiplan product improves business efficiency and reduce costs by extending the functionality of premises-based PBX and Unified Communications platforms to mobile devices. With open API access, it is expected that enterprises will customise solutions to enrich their communications and interaction between businsess processes.

Gintel will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, from February 15th – 18th 2010, Hall 2, stand A67.

About Gintel (www.gintel.com):

Gintel is a leading provider of value added service applications to network operators and service providers enabling them to offer innovative and highly competitive services to the highly profitable business subscriber segment. Gintel has provided essential technology and components to major operators within the Telenor Group.

About Telenor Group

The Telenor Group is an international provider of high quality tele, data and media communication services with mobile operations in 14 markets across the Nordic region, Central and Eastern Europe and in Asia. Headquartered in Norway, the Telenor Group is among the largest mobile operators in the world with over 172 million mobile subscriptions, revenues in 2008 of NOK 110 billion, and a workforce of more than 40,000 (all numbers include Kyivstar).

Contact:

Ernst Thue, CEO Gintel AS
Ernst.thue[at]gintel[dot]com
+47 9 0100532
Peter Kaliszan, Telenor Denmark
PKA[at]telenor[dot]dk
+45 6050 7145

Distributed on behalf of Gintel AS by NeonDrum (http://www.neondrum.com)
Nicky Denovan
Tel: +44 7747 017654
nicky[at]neondrum[dot]com

We thought we’d seen everything, uncontrollable paranormal effects including,  but  when we talk about iPhone apps…anything is not obvious!
When we talks about iPhon apps creativity and technology find an inexhaustible source of inspiration!
I’m telling you one of iPhone App Reviews about a very useful app: Zone diet!
You can find this application on App Store at 7.99: euros:  Let’s see what it does!
Application is inspired by the method of weight loss created by Barry Sears, is a new fitness iphone apps reviewed from the community, it is very useful to recognize and avoid mistakes about food.
This application is a kind of food pocket guide thanks to calculate the calories.
In Zone Diet you can find more than  120 food and 2000 menus for meals, 800 menus for breakfast, 100 menus for snacks.
Not only!
With Zone Diet it is possible to  create a personalized shopping list.

Having helped in the making of the feature film – Re-Uniting the Rubins, a comedy drama starring Timothy Spall – by clearing up the various shooting locations after each day’s filming, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has now done the same thing for the Soho-based film company, 2A Films.

2A Films used Waste King to clear waste from the sets of television commercials that it was making for two household names – one from the fast food sector and the other a leading supermarket chain.

Waste King’s Glenn Currie explained: “Making films – whether they’re feature films or TV adverts – generates waste and this has to be cleared safely, efficiently and, these days, in as environmentally friendly a way as possible. In particular, in the interests of helping the environment, it is important to recycle as much as of this waste as possible.”

Andy Cattigan, with Glenn Currie one of Waste King’s co-founders, added: “We’re delighted to be making something of a name for ourselves as specialists in the business of clearing sites for film companies.

“However, we’re equally at home in working in the domestic market,” he added. “In the last few weeks, for example, we’ve collected – and recycled – over £10,000 of tiles from domestic premises in Buckinghamshire alone.

“At the time, it made a nice change after having removed lots of old Christmas trees from various locations, including churches,” he said.

One local church – Marshalswick Baptist Free Church, in St Albans – entrusted its three large Christmas trees to Waste King in the post-Christmas clear-out. Its spokesperson, the Rev Graham Clarke, commented:

“Not only were we highly impressed that Waste King’s team braved the icy roads and snowy conditions to collect our trees on time but we were also delighted that they make the recycling of all waste a priority wherever possible. We’d be very likely to use Waste King again.”

It seems that, on this point at least, both the church and the film industry agree.

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 01442 216784 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Holidays-Direct.co.uk warn UK travellers to ensure they have the correct travel insurance to protects their possessions.  Easy to follow hints and tips to ensure holidaymakers enjoy their holiday.

Online travel agency Holidays-Direct, warns UK holidaymakers to be extra vigilant when travelling abroad this year and take extra care with items such as; money, passports and other valuables.  With the upturn of holiday sales in 2010, holidaymakers are reminded of the risks when holidaying abroad.

Jon Pearce of www.holidays-direct.co.uk said, “UK holidaymakers need to ensure they have appropriate travel insurance to cover any lost or stolen goods when travelling to foreign countries.  We have compiled a list of essential tips and advice to help holidaymakers travelling abroad this year.”

Holidays-Direct recommends the following easy to follow tips and advice before leaving for a holiday abroad;

• Give travel information about your holiday to close friends of family and take a copy of; Passport, Airline tickets, Accommodation details, Travel insurance policy documents
• Take copies of your passport with you in-case you need to send it to the British Embassy
• Make sure travel insurance is in date and includes any activities you may partake in as well as covering stolen items.

Jon continued, “Check the validity of passport and any visa’s to ensure they are well in date of the time you travel.  Be wise and think about your possessions when you’re taking pictures and enjoying a coffee in a café, before you get distracted, know where your possessions are and keep tight hold of them!”

Don’t risk holidays being ruined by not having the correct insurance.  Holidays-Direct supply industry news on their website, www.holidaynews-direct.co.uk/, thus giving an insight into culture and customs of popular holiday destinations for UK holidaymakers to view.

About www.holidays-direct.co.uk

Online travel agency http://www.holidays-direct.co.uk is part of the Midlands Co-operative Society Group and is a member of ABTA. They specialise in providing affordable flights and accommodation in the top holiday destinations around the world.

Midlands Co-op Travel, incorporating Ilkeston Co-op Travel, is the No 1 independent travel agent in the Midlands.

For more information about Midlands Co-operative Travel please contact:
Julie Carey / Laure Doucet / Dawn Walker at Midlands Co-operative on 01543 414140
Email – firstname.lastname@midlandsco-op.com
Log onto – http://www.midlandsco-op.com/pr/

Holidays-Direct
Central House
Hermes Rd
Eastern Avenue
Lichfield
Staffs
WS13 6RH

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