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Sunday, May 15, 2011
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Hawaiian Holdings to Present at Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 Global Transportation Conference
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Hawaiian's presentation is schedulef for Thursday, June 11, at 3:50 p.m. Easterbn Time. The presentation will be webcast live and will be availablse on the Investor Relations section ofHawaiian Airlines' website at . For thos who are not available to listen to the live the call willbe archived. Hawaiian is the nation'se highest-ranked carrier for service quality and performance in 2008 in the 19th annuall Airline QualityRating study. Hawaiiah has also led all U.S. carriers in on-time performancw for each of the past fiveyears (2004-2008) and has been an industryh leader in fewest misplaced bags during that same period (#1 from #2 in 2008) as reported by the U.S.
Departmentt of Transportation. Consumer surveyxs by Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisurer and Zagat have all ranked Hawaiian as the top domestic airlinedserving Hawaii. Now in its 80th year of continuouas servicein Hawaii, Hawaiian is the state's biggest and longest-serving as well as the largest provider of passenge air service to Hawaii from the state'se primary visitor markets on the U.S. Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii frommore U.S. gatewauy cities (10) than any other as well as service tothe Philippines, American Samoa, and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides more than 160 dailt jet flights within theHawaiian Islands. Hawaiia n Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Inc.
(Nasdaq: HA). Additional information is availableat HawaiianAirlines.com. SOURCEd Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Hawaiian's presentation is schedulef for Thursday, June 11, at 3:50 p.m. Easterbn Time. The presentation will be webcast live and will be availablse on the Investor Relations section ofHawaiian Airlines' website at . For thos who are not available to listen to the live the call willbe archived. Hawaiian is the nation'se highest-ranked carrier for service quality and performance in 2008 in the 19th annuall Airline QualityRating study. Hawaiiah has also led all U.S. carriers in on-time performancw for each of the past fiveyears (2004-2008) and has been an industryh leader in fewest misplaced bags during that same period (#1 from #2 in 2008) as reported by the U.S.
Departmentt of Transportation. Consumer surveyxs by Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisurer and Zagat have all ranked Hawaiian as the top domestic airlinedserving Hawaii. Now in its 80th year of continuouas servicein Hawaii, Hawaiian is the state's biggest and longest-serving as well as the largest provider of passenge air service to Hawaii from the state'se primary visitor markets on the U.S. Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii frommore U.S. gatewauy cities (10) than any other as well as service tothe Philippines, American Samoa, and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides more than 160 dailt jet flights within theHawaiian Islands. Hawaiia n Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Inc.
(Nasdaq: HA). Additional information is availableat HawaiianAirlines.com. SOURCEd Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Bright idea: Marvin Dufner makes millions recycling bulbs - Kansas City Business Journal:
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After building his fluorescent light bulbrecycliny company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationa player with customers thatinclude , Walgreens, and Dufner sold the business in March to Houston-basedd an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’s revenue reached $6 milliobn last year, 17 times more than the $350,000 the companty made when Dufner bought it inDecember 1999. A decadee ago, the business recycled about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a month to keep hazardous mercurt out of landfills andwater supplies.
That number reachedr about 18 million bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minority partner and chiegf operating officer, decided they needeed to either invest a largd amount of capital to open additional recycling facilities or find a strategicx partner or buyer for their Dufner turned to lifelong friendx James Stuart of in Stuart reached out to contacts at Wastre Management, and after about a year of talks, he helped brokerr H.T.R.’s sale. Dufner estimated fluorescent bulb recyclingb isa $100 million to $150 million industry.
Analyst Michael Hoffma of in Baltimore noted that garbage disposalo isa $52 billion industry and medical wasts disposal accounts for another $3 billiobn to $4 billion. Add-on services such as recycling can help a companyh win additionalmarket “One of Waste Management’s core goals is to grow its medicao waste business to about $300 million in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-care facilitiesa and hospitals and offer to dispose of their medical waste, regular trash and also their fluorescenyt bulbs, which for a hospital is no small thing.” Wastw Management, North America’s largest waste disposal posted net income of $1.
09 billion on revenue of $13.43 billion last year and employs about 46,000. 54, grew up in Granite City and St. attending and at Carbondale. In he bought one of the first franchises ofEarth City-basedr Dent Wizard, a company that provides paintless dent remova for automobiles. Dufner moved to Atlanta to run his territory of Georgia and Alabama. But in Atlanta-based acquired Dent Wizard and proceeded to buy out its Dufner sold his business forabout $5 million, and at age 45 founrd himself looking for a new In 1999, while at the Lake of the Dufner struck up a conversation with an employee of H.T.R.
, a three-year-old company then basec in the small town of Golden City in southwesg Missouri. A new federal law regulating the management of waste containing hazardous materials such as mercury had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’a 14 investors were short on funds to take advantage of potentialk growth. Dufner bought them out “for a very low price” and took over the businesse as president. Dufner recruitex Kohout, a friend who owned a gun storedin St. Louis and was familiar with dealing withgovernmenr regulators, to help run the business and expand its service area nationwide.
They invested in some tractor-trailersz and started picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbsd from all over the country and hauling them back to Missouriufor processing. Over the next few years, they relocated the planyt to its current locationin Kaiser, Mo., near Lake As Dufner improved customer service and the speerd of waste pickup using third-party freighft companies, business boomed. Beginning in H.T.R. secured contracts with Wal-Mart to pick up and recycls used bulbs. Other large retailers, severall colleges and universities, and states such as Iowa and Missouri also signes upwith H.T.R. All of the materialp in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up — metal and glass — was recycled.
None went to landfills. But with the Dufner and Kohout also found themselves facintga decision: Expand to keep up with increasing or find someone who couldr do so for “The right way to do it would be to build two more recyclint plants, one on the West Coast and one on the East to cut transportation distances and freight Dufner said. “Ray and I can’t be in three placed at one time. It was going to require a lot more capital to open two new facilitiesx and managethem properly.” So who has children ages 3 and 5 with his Renee, decided to look for a buyer last year and eventuallgy struck the deal with Waste “We thought H.T.R.
would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior busineszs director for Waste Management’s WM Lamptracker “Over 70 percent of fluorescent lighting in the country stillk isn’t recycled properly, and that’ where we think the upside is.” The and many statesa are targeting a fluorescent recycling goal of abourt 75 percent, Kohout Some 800 million fluorescenyt lamps burn out each year, and now millionse of residential light sockets are also switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbx (CFLs). Although Missouri does not require residential recycling of manystates do, he said.
“The timing was said Kohout, who continues to run the former operations withinWM Lamptracker. “Wew are now the largest lamp recycler inthe country, and Wast e Management is really pushing the sustainability and recycling front. We’ve had nine years of double-digi growth, and we’ve just gotten started.” As for he is building a home in Laduee and has notdecided what, if he will do next. “Am I looking for something? Possibly, but not necessarily,” Dufner “That’s how H.T.R. happened.
I wasn’y really looking and then it fell inmy
After building his fluorescent light bulbrecycliny company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationa player with customers thatinclude , Walgreens, and Dufner sold the business in March to Houston-basedd an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’s revenue reached $6 milliobn last year, 17 times more than the $350,000 the companty made when Dufner bought it inDecember 1999. A decadee ago, the business recycled about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a month to keep hazardous mercurt out of landfills andwater supplies.
That number reachedr about 18 million bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minority partner and chiegf operating officer, decided they needeed to either invest a largd amount of capital to open additional recycling facilities or find a strategicx partner or buyer for their Dufner turned to lifelong friendx James Stuart of in Stuart reached out to contacts at Wastre Management, and after about a year of talks, he helped brokerr H.T.R.’s sale. Dufner estimated fluorescent bulb recyclingb isa $100 million to $150 million industry.
Analyst Michael Hoffma of in Baltimore noted that garbage disposalo isa $52 billion industry and medical wasts disposal accounts for another $3 billiobn to $4 billion. Add-on services such as recycling can help a companyh win additionalmarket “One of Waste Management’s core goals is to grow its medicao waste business to about $300 million in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-care facilitiesa and hospitals and offer to dispose of their medical waste, regular trash and also their fluorescenyt bulbs, which for a hospital is no small thing.” Wastw Management, North America’s largest waste disposal posted net income of $1.
09 billion on revenue of $13.43 billion last year and employs about 46,000. 54, grew up in Granite City and St. attending and at Carbondale. In he bought one of the first franchises ofEarth City-basedr Dent Wizard, a company that provides paintless dent remova for automobiles. Dufner moved to Atlanta to run his territory of Georgia and Alabama. But in Atlanta-based acquired Dent Wizard and proceeded to buy out its Dufner sold his business forabout $5 million, and at age 45 founrd himself looking for a new In 1999, while at the Lake of the Dufner struck up a conversation with an employee of H.T.R.
, a three-year-old company then basec in the small town of Golden City in southwesg Missouri. A new federal law regulating the management of waste containing hazardous materials such as mercury had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’a 14 investors were short on funds to take advantage of potentialk growth. Dufner bought them out “for a very low price” and took over the businesse as president. Dufner recruitex Kohout, a friend who owned a gun storedin St. Louis and was familiar with dealing withgovernmenr regulators, to help run the business and expand its service area nationwide.
They invested in some tractor-trailersz and started picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbsd from all over the country and hauling them back to Missouriufor processing. Over the next few years, they relocated the planyt to its current locationin Kaiser, Mo., near Lake As Dufner improved customer service and the speerd of waste pickup using third-party freighft companies, business boomed. Beginning in H.T.R. secured contracts with Wal-Mart to pick up and recycls used bulbs. Other large retailers, severall colleges and universities, and states such as Iowa and Missouri also signes upwith H.T.R. All of the materialp in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up — metal and glass — was recycled.
None went to landfills. But with the Dufner and Kohout also found themselves facintga decision: Expand to keep up with increasing or find someone who couldr do so for “The right way to do it would be to build two more recyclint plants, one on the West Coast and one on the East to cut transportation distances and freight Dufner said. “Ray and I can’t be in three placed at one time. It was going to require a lot more capital to open two new facilitiesx and managethem properly.” So who has children ages 3 and 5 with his Renee, decided to look for a buyer last year and eventuallgy struck the deal with Waste “We thought H.T.R.
would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior busineszs director for Waste Management’s WM Lamptracker “Over 70 percent of fluorescent lighting in the country stillk isn’t recycled properly, and that’ where we think the upside is.” The and many statesa are targeting a fluorescent recycling goal of abourt 75 percent, Kohout Some 800 million fluorescenyt lamps burn out each year, and now millionse of residential light sockets are also switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbx (CFLs). Although Missouri does not require residential recycling of manystates do, he said.
“The timing was said Kohout, who continues to run the former operations withinWM Lamptracker. “Wew are now the largest lamp recycler inthe country, and Wast e Management is really pushing the sustainability and recycling front. We’ve had nine years of double-digi growth, and we’ve just gotten started.” As for he is building a home in Laduee and has notdecided what, if he will do next. “Am I looking for something? Possibly, but not necessarily,” Dufner “That’s how H.T.R. happened.
I wasn’y really looking and then it fell inmy
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Gwinnett Chamber to host Korean International Trade Association - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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On Thursday, there will be a pres s conference at the to reveal the trade talk agends and to show an exchange of a memorandujm of understanding between the Gwinnetft Chamberand KITA. Korean business representatives from more than 25 international companies willjoin Georgia-based and U.S.-basef businesses to discuss potential investment and partnership opportunities in areads such as commercial real estate, small business, logistics, Englishu education, pharmaceuticals and electronics. The Koreanb delegation includes S.
Bok, KITA delegationm representative; Wayne Lee, KITA American Team chief officer; and Adrianb Ahn, KITA American Team Metro Atlanta is home tothe sixth-largesyt Korean population in the United States. Doosan has its Norty American corporate headquarters in Gwinnett and there are thousands ofsmall family-owned Korean businessex in the area.
On Thursday, there will be a pres s conference at the to reveal the trade talk agends and to show an exchange of a memorandujm of understanding between the Gwinnetft Chamberand KITA. Korean business representatives from more than 25 international companies willjoin Georgia-based and U.S.-basef businesses to discuss potential investment and partnership opportunities in areads such as commercial real estate, small business, logistics, Englishu education, pharmaceuticals and electronics. The Koreanb delegation includes S.
Bok, KITA delegationm representative; Wayne Lee, KITA American Team chief officer; and Adrianb Ahn, KITA American Team Metro Atlanta is home tothe sixth-largesyt Korean population in the United States. Doosan has its Norty American corporate headquarters in Gwinnett and there are thousands ofsmall family-owned Korean businessex in the area.
Friday, May 6, 2011
GlobalFoundries applies for sales tax breaks with state - Glens Falls Post-Star
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GlobalFoundries applies for sales tax breaks with state Glens Falls Post-Star MALTA -- Officials at GlobalFoundries have filed a revised application with the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency that, if approved, could boost the total value of their sales tax exemptions to nearly $445 million. ... |
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Legislature approves carbon fuel standard - Portland Business Journal:
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The so-called “low-carbon fuel passed the Senate bya 16-14 vote on Wednesdau after previously passing in the Gov. Ted Kulongoski intends to signthe “This is the most significant step takenn this session to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in every corner of the state,” Kulongoski said in a “Establishing a low carbon fuel standarc will not only result in cleaner burning gasolinre for all of our but will also encourages the development of new, renewablde and lower emission transportation fuels.” Rather than mandating a specificx fuel type, the bill allowse fuel providers to determine on thei own how to meet the standard.
That means a diesel producer could choose to mixmore low-carbonm biodiesel into their fuel, while other providers couls choose to buy credits from electriv utilities that supply low-carbon electrons to electric The legislation includes some consumer including a clause that callws for deferring the standardc if Oregon’s fuel prices become substantially highe r than in neighboring The program will expire in 2015 if not reauthorized by the The bill also gives the states Environmental Quality Commission the authority to require that mechanicsx check tire pressure and fill tires as unless the service station doesn’t have a The commission will also consider measureas to improve the aerodynamic efficiency of heavy - and medium-duty trucks.
The so-called “low-carbon fuel passed the Senate bya 16-14 vote on Wednesdau after previously passing in the Gov. Ted Kulongoski intends to signthe “This is the most significant step takenn this session to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in every corner of the state,” Kulongoski said in a “Establishing a low carbon fuel standarc will not only result in cleaner burning gasolinre for all of our but will also encourages the development of new, renewablde and lower emission transportation fuels.” Rather than mandating a specificx fuel type, the bill allowse fuel providers to determine on thei own how to meet the standard.
That means a diesel producer could choose to mixmore low-carbonm biodiesel into their fuel, while other providers couls choose to buy credits from electriv utilities that supply low-carbon electrons to electric The legislation includes some consumer including a clause that callws for deferring the standardc if Oregon’s fuel prices become substantially highe r than in neighboring The program will expire in 2015 if not reauthorized by the The bill also gives the states Environmental Quality Commission the authority to require that mechanicsx check tire pressure and fill tires as unless the service station doesn’t have a The commission will also consider measureas to improve the aerodynamic efficiency of heavy - and medium-duty trucks.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Floridians
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Overall, Florida’s consumer confidence fell one point, to 71. The indes component measuring perceptions of personal finances now compared with a year ago fell four to 40, one point above its all-time low of 39 in However, Floridians are feeling better about the with expectations of personal finances a year from now up five pointw to 90, the highest level since October 2007. "Floridians are saying they don' t have the money now to buy, but they expecft to within a year," said Chri s McCarty, director of UF's Survey Researcj Center at the Bureah of Economic andBusiness Research, in a news Of the remaining index components, perceptions of the U.S.
economgy over the next year rosefour points, to 73, while perceptionss of U.S. economic conditions over the next five years fell four to 78. Perceptions of whether it is a good time tobuy big-tickey consumer items fell six points, to 72. “Perhaps consumers also are wonderinv what happens whenthe government's infusion of stimuluzs money runs out, McCarty said. "While they expect the U.S. economyt to improve over the next year, they are beginning to questio nits long-term viability.” McCarthy said he expects a continued decline of confidence in the short term. The preliminary index for May was conducteed from408 responses.
The index is benchmarkedx to 1966, so a value of 100 represents the same level of confidence forthat year.
Overall, Florida’s consumer confidence fell one point, to 71. The indes component measuring perceptions of personal finances now compared with a year ago fell four to 40, one point above its all-time low of 39 in However, Floridians are feeling better about the with expectations of personal finances a year from now up five pointw to 90, the highest level since October 2007. "Floridians are saying they don' t have the money now to buy, but they expecft to within a year," said Chri s McCarty, director of UF's Survey Researcj Center at the Bureah of Economic andBusiness Research, in a news Of the remaining index components, perceptions of the U.S.
economgy over the next year rosefour points, to 73, while perceptionss of U.S. economic conditions over the next five years fell four to 78. Perceptions of whether it is a good time tobuy big-tickey consumer items fell six points, to 72. “Perhaps consumers also are wonderinv what happens whenthe government's infusion of stimuluzs money runs out, McCarty said. "While they expect the U.S. economyt to improve over the next year, they are beginning to questio nits long-term viability.” McCarthy said he expects a continued decline of confidence in the short term. The preliminary index for May was conducteed from408 responses.
The index is benchmarkedx to 1966, so a value of 100 represents the same level of confidence forthat year.
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