Thursday, February 14, 2013

Tampa Museum of Art names Seth D. Pevnick curator - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Pevnick is joining TMA from the at the Getty Villain Calif. He remains co-curator of its upcomin g The Chimaera of Arezzo which opens in In hisnew role, Pevnicko will design and oversee the installatiom of the permanent collection in the Barbarqa and Costas Lemonopoulos Greek and Roman He also will organize and circulatw Greek and Roman exhibitions, perform and publish researchh on the collection, and educate the public on the museum’a antiquities collection. Pevnick is a doctoral candidate in the Interdepartmenta Graduate Program of the Cotsenm Institute of Archaeology inLos Angeles. He received a master of arts degrees in archaeologyat U.C.
, a master of arts degrer in elementary education from in Los Angeles and a bachelofr of arts in classical archaeology from in N.H., a release from TMA said. TMA’s new location remainws under construction at Curtis Hixon Waterfron t Park indowntown Tampa. The 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbet Center building is set to open inearlhy 2010. TMA’s interim facility is locatedc onHoward Avenue.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Strategies change as clients

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Not for herself, but for the June 20 fashioh and beautyevent “Fresh,” hosted by her , or FM. Fashionista’s Marke t first appeared on the local fashionb scene in August 2005 with a sample sale atOcean nightclub. The one-day event instantly put the company on the map for drastically reduceddesigner women’s items by as much as 80 percent. Fung, a licensec esthetician at the time, and her oldet sister and business partner Emi anightclub promoter, flew to the Mainlandd several times a year to buy merchandisde from warehouses and trade shows that they later sold at shoppingb events on Oahu.
Hawaii’s economyt was healthy when the company Customers dropped dollars as if therde wereno tomorrow. For three recession and unemployment were the last thingason customers’ minds. Thingsd are different today. People think twicd about spending upwardsof $100 on designer jeans. Fashionista’sz Market is adjusting its business to appeal to women who no longerf havediscretionary income. “Business has changed,” Fung said. “People are a lot more conservative withtheirt money. The good thing is, they’rw still looking for deals.
” Fung recently bought the company’s assetes for an undisclosed pric from Emi andnow co-owns it with her David, a diagnostic technician for industrial He helps with the heavy storage and delivery. Merchandise is stored on their family’s “I had already been doing so much to help Alyssa and her sister that I felt confidentthat [buyingy the company] wasn’t going to be different,” David “I wanted to back my wife up. This was somethingt she wanted totake on.
” who “owned one pair of jeans and no shoes” when he first met Alyssa 10 years ago, now accompanies his wife on shoppingb trips to select women’s clothezs from his male point of view. He even transformedr the third bedroom of their hous e intoa his-hers closet for theie personal wardrobe. The husband-wife partnership has worker out well. On May 2 in the Neal Blaisdell the company grossed more than typical fora one-day The key to success is knowing customers’ styles and spending habits. Alyssa’s inspiration comes from friends’ ranging from conservative (an to trendy (friends in retail).
On Mainland shopping trips, she carefully selects items within her budgets and sometimes cuts deals with businesa partners tomaintain costs. She also collaborates with local groupa such asSocial Wahines, Pacific Edge Magazin e and The Wedding Cafe to co-host The “Fresh” event on June 20, for instance, will included fashion workshops, a bar, and spa services provided by partners and friends. A percentagde of sales always is donated to local charities for children andthe environment. “We still think doing business is 99.9 percent David said.
“Even in my everydau job, I form relationships and try to treart customers and vendors as potential who hopefully think of me as one of their friends.” That strategy has extended to the Neighborf Islands. Fashionista’s Market in April hosted its firsf Mauishopping event, which drew 850 womenb to the Westin Maui Resort Spa. The one-day event grossed more than Alyssa and David originally had planned to ship productse to Maui viathe now-defunct Hawaii Superferry. Instead, they speny $400 to freight two containers of they returned home withone half-filled “We almost ran out of Alyssa said. “I didn’t know it was goinb to be that crazy.
” A secondd Maui event is scheduledfor Nov. 28. Since its launch four years ago, Fashionista’s Market has kept in toucn with customersvia e-mails and mobile-phone messaging, a strateghy that Alyssa will push later this year as she workx with Honolulu tech company Digital Mediumss to launch a newly designed site by August. Leftoverf merchandise from events will be sold online for alimitec time. The company also is updating its customer databas ofcontact information. “We need to give customers an reasons why they shouldsee us,” she said, “It’zs harder to keep people’s attention when they constantly don’t see us.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Chrysler

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The North Assembly plant, which produces Dodgde Ram trucks, had been by the end of so Chrysler’s announcement Wednesday provided anexact date. The Fentohn North plant is set to resumer production June 29 untilJuly 10, Chrysler said, and then will remainm idled “contingent upon volumes.” The truck segment has taken a particulafr hit as auto sale have declined. Dianna Gutierrez, a Chrysler spokeswoman, said workers at the plant will have an opportunity to transfer to othefr production sites or take part in an incentive prograk forearly retirement, special early retiremengt program, and/or an enhanced voluntary terminatiomn program.
She didn’t have exact details of the new offerd but said it would be similar to previous offers thatincluded lump-sum cash payments, vehicle vouchers and health-care coverage. The Nortn Plant employed 1,200 workers prior to recent buyoug offers. About 640 the buyout and early retiremengt offers by a May26 deadline. The North Assembly plant was idled in early but was one of seven plants wherde Chrysler production following the idling of all its plantw when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyAprikl 30. After its brief reopening, the planr was then expected to close fora two-weekj summer break the weeks of July 13 and 20.
Chrysled emerged from bankruptcy when Italian carmakefr Fiat closed a deal to takeover Chrysler’sx assets. Chrysler’s South Plant in which assembles minivans, was idlefd at the end of October. Anothere 115 of its more than 350 worker s had accepted offers fromChrysler