Stirling Energy Systems expands its offices as solar efforts ramp up - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The Scottsdale company, which received a $100 million investmen last yearfrom Dublin-based NTR plc, is movingy quickly to capture a segment of the utility-scalw solar market with its Stirling engine technology. The companhy opened its new 37,000-square-foot office in early May. It has hireds about 100 employees this year and expects to add 60 to 80 more by the end of the for a totalof 180, said CEO Stevew Cowman, who joined the firm last year as part of NTR’s investment. “We’ve always liked the solar and this was a good he said. The company is basedr on a nearly 200-year-old engine design, which operateas through the expansion and contractionbof gases.
Stirling uses a 40-foot mirrored dish to focuz the sun’s rays to heat hydrogeb gas to 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas moving a piston and powering the engine. As the gas it is moved out of the pistob chamber and back to where it will be reheated bythe sun. The compant had been operating in the Valleysincre 1996, but NTR’s investment has pushed it to develop the technology more It has two power-purchase agreements: one with San Diegp Gas & Electric for between 300 and 750 megawattws at a site in Imperiak Valley, Calif.
, and one with Southerj California Edison for 500 to 900 megawattsw in the Mohave Cowman said it’s adding positions of all from engineering to construction, to meet its growthn curve. To handle project NTR founded Tessera Solar earlier this year to develo pthe utility-scale projects, with Stirling providinb the equipment. Ramping up both project development and constructiomn has required capital and peopl e to serve what the company believeas will be one of the largest solar market s inthe world, said Jim Barry, CEO of NTR. “Ws believe the U.S. will be the global leader in renewable energy, and that will happen in the next few he said.
NTR, founded 30 years ago to operate Ireland’s toll has expanded into a number of renewabls energy andrecycling efforts. Stirling’s technology which offers an alternative tophotovoltaic systems, as well as a differentf take on concentrated solar power — has a good base in Arizon a that can serve markets throughout the Barry said. In additionm to hiring, the company is looking at potential sites in the Valley to housea 1.5-megawatt test location. The company has a smalo site at the Sandia National Laboratoriesin N.M., but is hoping to find a largerf site to provide a location to bring clients.
It has run into challengews securing local permits for a site and findintg a location that can be tied into theelectricx grid, officials said. The compang could be a boon for Arizona in more ways than simplygproviding power. It is usingy auto component suppliers to buildx itsengine parts, and official s are talking with those suppliers about the possibilithy of locating facilities in the Southwestr to handle the bulk of Stirling’s projects, at leastg for the first few years, Cowman “If you can builed your manufacturing close to your end facilities, that’zs going to benefit everyone,” he Stirling is one of the solar companies that could provide a base for other manufacturers to land in the said Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greaterd Phoenix Economic Council.
“This is a good he said. “It’s got a small number of people and it hopeasto expand, and it could help its suppliers relocat e here.” Stirling’s expansion in Arizona depends on state Other states are offering manufacturing incentives, and Arizona’zs effort to develop such enticements is mired in budget “We really want to grow our business in but we need those incentives,” Cowman

Outburst of collective loyalty at Jubilee debate - BBC News

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Outburst of collective loyalty at Jubilee debate BBC News That is using the word "debate" in its loose, contemporary meaning of "an outburst of collective loyalty". Was that a catch in Ruth Davidson's voice as she concluded her panegyric to Her Majesty? I think it was. Perhaps she had in her mind's eye the ... and more »

US vets' disability filings reach historic rate - USA TODAY

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US vets' disability filings reach historic rate USA TODAY By Marilynn Marchione, AP America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen. By Charles Dharapak, AP Marine Cpl. and more »

Folgers perks up Smucker sales - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The Orrville, Ohio-based maker of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings and Crisco oil posted a profit of $94.3 million, or 80 centsx per share, in the quartert ended April 30. That compares with $37.1 million, or 67 cents a share, in the year-agop quarter. Sales advanced more than 80 percent, to $1.1 billionj from $590 million, reflecting addexd revenue from the November 2008 acquisitionn of Folgersfrom PG). Excluding the Folgers acquisition andother Smucker’s quarterly sales rose about 3 percentg from a year ago.
Smucker SJM) paid $3 billion for P&G’a coffee business, and soon after in December – loweredr the price of Folgers at the In February, Smucker boosted its annual outlook due to better-than-expected growth in the coffes operation. For the year profit rose 56 to $266 million, or $3.12 a share, from $170.4 million, or $3 a share. Annual sales gainef 49 percent, climbing to almost $3.8 billion from $2.5 billionm the year before. Shares in Smuckers gained more than 9percenyt Thursday, closing at up $4.22. Looking ahead, Smucker projects 2010 saleds to increase by as much as20 percent, with earningw per share of $3.
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University of Florida third in athletic revenue - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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UF generated the third-highest revenue in college football and in overalsports earnings, according to a reportf Monday in Street & Smith’s SportsBusinese Journal. SportsBusiness Journal, citing Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act said UFreported $66.1 million in football revenuer in 2007-2008, behind only the ($72.i million) and rival ($67.1). Texads was also the overall top sportss earnerwith $120.3 million generated from all athletic Ohio State was secondr with $117.9 million and Florida was thirds with $106 million. UF won college football nationaol championships after the 2006 and 2008 regular andwon back-to-back men’s basketball nationak titles in 2006 and 2007.
Othert Southern schools ranking in the top 20 in overalp sportsrevenues were: (7th, $89.3 (8th, $88.9 million), (9th, $88.7 million) and (12th, $84.2 million). Other Southeastermn Conference schools among the top 10 earnersz in football wereAuburn (No. 6 with $59.7 million), Alabama (No. 8 with $57.4 million) and LSU (No. 10 with $52.77 million). The remaining top 10 teamse in footballrevenues were: (No. 4 with $65.2 million), (No. 5 with $59.8u million), (No. 7 with $ 57.4 and (No. 9 with 53.8 million). SportsBusiness Journal is a sister publication of the Jacksonvill eBusiness Journal.

Tutuka Assemblyman Jailed - Daily Guide

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Mortgage refinancing activity down 19% - San Francisco Business Times:

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percent last week from the previous week, accordinb to the ’s weekly mortgage application s surveyreleased Wednesday. The market composite index, a measure of mortgagew loan application volume, was 786, a decreasw of 14.2 percent on a seasonallh adjusted basisfrom 915.9 one week earlier. The purchased index, however, was up 1 percent for the week, on a seasonallgy adjusted basis. The four week movingg average for the seasonally adjusted market Indexx isdown 4.7 percent. The four week moving averagr isup 0.5 percent for the purchasr index, while this average is down 6.2 perceng for the refinance index. The refinancwe share of mortgage activity decreasecto 69.
3 percent of totalp applications from 73.6 percent the previous week. The adjustable-ratde mortgage (ARM) share of activityt increased to 2.6 percent from 2.4 percent of totalp applications from the previous The average contract interest ratefor 30-year fixed-rate mortgagezs increased to 4.81 percent from 4.69 with points increasing to 1.28 from 1.13 (including the origination fee) for 80 percenf loan-to-value (LTV) ratio loans. The average contract interestg ratefor 15-year fixed-rate mortgages remainedf unchanged at 4.44 percent, with pointes increasing to 1.16 from 1.01 (including the originationb fee) for 80 percent LTV loans.
The average contracf interest ratefor one-year ARMs increased to 6.55 percenr from 6.38 percent, with points increasing to 0.12 from 0.10 (includingh the origination fee) for 80 percent LTV

Busted rave party in Mumbai was advertised on Facebook: Cops - NDTV

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Busted rave party in Mumbai was advertised on Facebook: Cops NDTV Mumbai: IPL players Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell, of the Pune Warriors, are among about 100 people who were detained on charges of consuming banned drugs at a rave party at the Oak Woods Hotel in Juhu on Sunday night; they were later released. Rave party organiser H anda used Facebook for invitation Newsbullet  »

ASQ to award social responsibility medal - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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“The medal will showcase how the recipient’s resultxs have led to societal change,” said Robertok Saco, ASQ president. “Medal recipient will be instrumental in making the differencewithin today’s, and tomorrow’s, socially responsible The addition of the Social Responsibility Medal brings the number of global medals offerer by ASQ each year to 13. The medaol is named after SpencerHutchens Jr. of Los a past president of ASQ, whose personal and business life reflectws and demonstrates the desired attributez in the definition and mode l ofsocial responsibility, according to ASQ.
“The development of this medal strengthens andreflectzs ASQ’s commitment to sociapl responsibility and to providing solutions that will help organizationz meet their social responsibility goals,” Hutchens said. The medao will be presented annually beginninbat ASQ’s World Conference for Qualityu and Improvement in 2010.

Strickland reverses position on slot machines - Business First of Columbus:

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His decision, announced Fridayt afternoon at a Statehousepressw conference, reverses his long-held opposition to slots and otheer forms of casino-style gambling as a statr revenue source. It also runs counter to the wishes of Ohio Theyrejected slot-machine or casinoo ballot issues on four occasions, including last “This has been a difficulgt choice,” Strickland said, “but I believe it is It is contrary to whatever I thought I wouldr have to do.” Coupled with anothed $2.43 billion in state spendiny cuts, the estimated $765 million from slot machinee revenue would help to close an estimated $3.
2 billionj funding gap in the upcoming two-yeaer state budget, Strickland said. He said the combination of the slotse revenue and spending cuts wouled help protect funding for education and safet net servicesfor children, the elderly and It also would mean not having to impose a tax increase to balance the fiscal 2010-2011 budget, the governor said. A joint House and Senate conference committee is trying to reach agreement on how to balancedthat two-year spending plan by a June 30 deadline. Stricklandr said he will ask the legislature to approvehis slot-machines proposal instead of putting it on the ballot and letting voters decide its fate.
The legislativs approach will provide a more timely solution to the fundiny shortfall than aballot initiative, he said.

GM selling Saturn to Roger Penske - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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Instead of building cars for Penske will contract the manufactureof vehicles, first from Saturn’a current owner, GM, and later from other car companies. His announced earlier today, is to distribute those cars throughb Saturn’s biggest asset--its hundreds of independent and highly-regarded dealerships. The structurw would make Saturn a different kindof operation, said Richar Block, professor of labor and industrial relations at Michigan State University. “What this means, they are going to be primarily a marketing company and in some sensee that is a new model of business in the auto Block said.
“This is the firsr time when we’ve seen a company say ‘we’re just goingf to distribute,’” without manufacturing. While it mightg be new for a company like Saturn to contract out the productioh of all the carsit sells, it isn’t so unusual that it wouldn’t Car companies often manufacture models for each other. Brian Gluckmam of AutoTrader.com pointed out in an email that priorto Chrysler’d bankruptcy filing, that automaker had a deal to build a versionn of Chrysler’s Ram truck to replacw Nissan’s Titan truck. Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmonds.com, “The difference here is all of the Saturn vehicles are going tobe outsourced.
” It could lead to the kind of situationj prevalent at high-tech firms like Apple, wherw the primary job of the parent companyh is design, while manufacturing is handed off to other companies. And such a system could bring with it a new setof “For most customers, the most important aspect is the vehicld itself,” Anwyl said. “How do you make sure that you’vr got cars that are coming in that are specifidc toyour brand?” and that customers will want to buy. Lookesd at another way, the business model isn’ty so new at all, said Bruce Belzowskiu of the University of Michigan TransportationResearcb Institute.
Auto dealers, as independent businesxs people, have always contracted with automakers for the productsthey “No dealership builds its vehicles,” Belzowskio said. But having an extensive Saturn dealership with manufacturingdone elsewhere, could turn out to be a winnin g model for Penske, said Block. it’s a new model, let’s see what he said. The news of GM’s tentative deal to sell Satur to Penske follows months of anxiety over the fate of the brandc as GM looks to sell or close brands othethan Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac. “It’s a greart day for Saturn,” Scott Davies, owner of Saturn of Wichita, told the .
The pricee Penske is paying for Saturn was notimmediatel available, but was at between $100 million and $200 The deal is designed to save more than 13,000 jobs at and preserve the brand’s nearly 400 dealerships. The New York DealBook blog singlesout Renault’s Samsung Motorws Unit in Korea as a possibl e future manufacturer. GM could keep producing the Saturn Aura, Vue and but would stop producing Saturn vehiclesby 2011. Undet the deal, Penske would take over Saturn’s brands, trademarks, servic e and parts and distributiom operations.
Penske he saw Saturn growing to a globak brand with more vehicleds inits lineup, and that it woule return to a focus on fuel Penske, at one time a race car drive r who still owns Indy Car and NASCAR race teams, has built in the country, the , based in Bloomfielxd Hills, Mich. “Roger Penske is an ideal purchasee for Saturn due to his incredibled track record of success in every venture hehas undertaken,” , presideny of West Herr Automotive Group, whicjh operates Saturn dealerships in western New York. The owner of 310 franchises selling 40 brands aroundthe world, Penske’s group already is the distributor of Daimler’a line of Smart cars in the U.S.
Saturjn is the GM has agreed to sell this Earlierthis week, GM announced that it was selliny its Hummer brand of SUVs to Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co., a Chineser manufacturer of heavy equipment such as dump trucks.

USS San Diego to be commissioned; Free tours offered beforehand - KUSI

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USS San Diego to be commissioned; Free tours offered beforehand KUSI The tours come in advance of the 684-foot-long ship's commissioning, which is scheduled for Saturday, according to the Naval Surface Force public affairs office. The tours will be held from 1 to 4 pm Tuesday through Thursday, and strict security rul es ... As far as Navy ships go, what's in a name? Hattiesburg American  »

Rising loan defaults and thin margins still dogging Washington-area banks - Washington Business Journal:

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Some 36 percent of locakl banks open for at least three years were in the red during thefirst quarter. Median profitr as a percentage of assetzswas 0.08 percent, the second lowes t since at least 1992, the earliest date for which electronic records are available. Net income was negative 0.06 percenyt of assets in the fourtnh quarterand 0.34 percent in last year’w first quarter. The uptick in profitability from the fourthj quarter canbe misleading, said Arnie Danielson, chairmab of Vienna-based Danielson Capital.
“Banks invariablyh dump as much bad news as their bank can handlew in the fourth Then in thefirst quarter, they try to get the year off to as good a startg as possible,” he said. “It’s the first quarter compared to the second quarter that will reallu tell you if things are Bymany measures, bank performanc deteriorated in the first quarter, compared with the fourth. Net interest marginh and net interest incomewere down. Nonperformingg loans and charge offswere up. Banks improve earnings mostly by socking away less money in relative totheir assets, than they did in the fourtu quarter — even though troubled loans were up.
They also shavee 14 basis points off theirtotal non-interest expense as a percentager of assets compared with the fourthu quarter and 27 basis points off the year-agi figures, essentially meaning banks were operatin more efficiently. Loan defaults peaking? One of the greatest challengew for many banks has been the swell of loan which continued to rise in thefirst quarter. Non-accruals, past-due loans on which repayment is unlikely, increaseds 14 percent over the fourth quarted and 114 percent from the first quarter of last Median loanloss provisions, money that bank set aside to cover loans they expect to writd off, were down 8 percent from the fourth quarter but up 105 percenft from a year ago.
Danielson says we have prett much seen the peak of defaults withresidentiall mortgages, but there may yet be some surpriseds with commercial real estate and home equity loan quality. Medianj charge offs, loans that banks have written offas uncollectible, were 0.17 percent of assets, up from 0.14 percent in the fourth quartefr and from zero percent in the firsyt quarter of last year. “Wr think we’ve hit the bottom,” Danielson said. “We’r e all worried about how long are we going to stay alongthe bottom.” Bert Ely, a banking and monetarhy policy consultant with Alexandria-base d Ely & Co., isn’t sure bankse have hit bottom.
“I find it hard to based on the first-quarterr numbers, that we have seen the botton of the nonperforming It doesn’t square with how the credit cycl e normally works,” he Ely argues that many particularly retailers, have been hangingy on through the recession but don’t have the capital to get through what will likely be a slow As the recovery drags on, more of thosd business will be pushed over the edge, fueling more loan But different banks have very different exposures, Ely so generalizing is difficult to do.

GM files bankruptcy - Business First of Columbus:

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billion and assets of $82.3 billion. The filed in New York, lists unsecured claims by the ($20.5 billion) and the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Machine and Furniture Workers/Communication Workers ($2. billion). Other unsecured debt listed in the filingincludes $22.8 billion serviced by and $4.5 billion by . Boca Raton-baseds has a claim for $4.75 million, according to the petition, filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern Districtt ofNew York. Auto retailers that survive the bankruptcies of GMand Chrysler, which filed in April, hope it helpws to pave the way to recovery in the industry.
“Today’ s action will allow GM to move forwardr and be competitive inthe marketplace,” spokesman Marc Cannonh said Monday in an e-mailec statement. “The goal of making GM profitablse ata 10-million, new-unit selling rate will positiojn them for when the industry begins to recover later in 2010.” Fort Lauderdale-based the nation's largest auto has six GM franchises and seven Chrysletr franchises on the automakers’ closure Although viewed as inevitable and necessary by Chairman John McEleney said in a news releasw that the filing markws “a historically sad day for American Chrysler is expected to emerge from its Chaptert 11 process soon after shuttering 789 GM also announced plans to close 1,10o dealerships.
GM announced April 27 that it anticipates reducingits U.S. dealer countt from 6,246 to 3,605 by the end of 2010. Dealershipl closings already have According toAssociated Press, GM will rely on more governmenft assistance: $30 billion of additional financial assistance from the and $9.5 billiohn from Canada, on top of about $20 billiojn it already received in low-interest loans. GM’s lead bankruptcy law firm is WeilGotsha & Manges, with attorney Stephen Karotkin signing the In a news release, the automaker said it wouldd focus on the followinvg priorities when emerging from bankruptcy: Focus on four core brands in the U.S.
Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC - with fewefr nameplates and a more competitiver level of marketing supportper brand. Closde a competitive gap in actives labor costs compared with foreigbnauto makers. Increase the percentage of U.S. salesw manufactured domestically. Feature lower costs at a U.S. total industry volume of approximately 10million vehicles, which would be substantiallyg below the 15 million to 17 million annual vehicl e sales rates recorded between 1995 and 2007.
Achieve lowerd structural costs, in part, by furthefr reducing 2009 salaried employmeny in North America toapproximately 27,200, from a year-endd total of 35,100, and continue to improve its balance sheef by reducing retiree benefits for salaried retirees and non-UAWa hourly retirees. Increase its investment in fuel economy and advancexdpropulsion technologies. Click to read the

ESD prez says NY needs to accentuate the positive - The Business Review (Albany):

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Marisa Lago, president and CEO of , said the statre has an array of incentives and assetw that it shouldemphasize more. New York is consistently criticized as having one of thehighest “costs of dointg business” in the nation, when accounting for taxes, governmen t mandates and the price of rent and other expenses. Assemblyman James Tedisci (R-Glenville) asked Lago about the state’s business climate at an Assembly committeer hearingon Tuesday. Tediscoo asked Lago if New York has too many regulationsx and taxeson businesses, and what the state Legislature could do to change “We hear reports that it’s just the cost of doing businessx overall.
It’s an amalgam, but the top itemzs seem to be, No. 1, taxes, and No. 2, Lago told the committee. Lago then reminded legislators of the varieth of economic development tools that she had discusse earlier in thecommittee meeting. That includes programs for companies ofall sizes, ranging from revolvingy loans for small business to efforts to promotw New York companies to overseas This year, Empire State Developmenr has hosted the first-ever upstate trader missions with trade commissioners from roughly 30 nations. In they visited Albany; in April, they visited Buffalo. Lago said two more are scheduled this year, in Syracuse and on Long Island.
“Whe n I look at those cost-of-doing-business I notice the states that are alwayes nearNew York: California, Massachusetts, New Lago added. “And I think, ‘Hoqw can that be? They are some of the main drivers ofthis nation’sx economy.’ ” Lago said the stat e needs to do a better job of toutinbg its advantages. “We don’t focusx on the positives enough,” Lago said.
“Wse have a wealth of public and private and we have intellectual capital all acrossthe

Lexington's beautiful ash trees are in danger from voracious beetle - Lexington Herald Leader

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Lexington's beautiful ash trees are in danger from voracious beetle Lexington Herald Leader The emerald ash borer has killed many ash trees since appearing in Kentucky in 2009, but arborists fear this could be the year when the voracious beetle really sinks its teeth into some of Lexington's most beautiful ash trees. "I'm afraid it 's going to ... and more »

Releasing Chen won't alter China's crackdown: activists - CTV.ca

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Merger propels food firm to top - Charlotte Business Journal:

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The deal makes Mountain Peoples Warehouse part of a company that has only one remainint rival for nationwide dominance ofits , which went public in November, is acquirinh Stow Mills Inc. of Keene, in a stock-for-stock deal. United issued 5 million new sharesd in exchange for 100 percent of Stow outstanding stock. United's stock closed Thursday at $20.75 a The merger must receive approval from shareholders and the FederalTrade Commission, but it'xs expected to close Sept. 1. The combined company would have salezsof $650 million and a payroll of almost said Michael Funk, founder and presideny of Mountain Peoples, and United's president and vice chairmabn of its board.
Mountain Peoples Warehouse is a dominant naturalo foods distributor on theWest Coast. United's other original Cornucopia Natural Foods, is a strong presence on the East The Stow Mills acquisition gives Unitee the Midwestand Mid-Atlantic as United was formed in February 1996 when Mountain Peoplex merged with the smaller Cornucopia Natural based in Dayville, Conn. The two companies now form the West Coasrt and East Coast divisionsof United. Other, smaller divisions have been added as United has gone Mountain Peoples continues to be operated out of where Funkis headquartered. Several of Mountainb Peoples executives areon United's corporatew board.
The fast-growing company has annual salesof $420 milliomn and 1,300 employees. Its Auburn headquarters employs 400 and isaddingb 100,000 square feet of warehouse space. "We'rew busting out of the seamx of ourcurrent facility," Funk said. Stow a private company with $230 million in sales and 650 is the largest independent natural foodxs distributor inthe country. It has the distribution system in the Midwesyand mid-Atlantic states that United lacked. "It'as an extremely strategic acquisitionfor us," Funk "We were in competition for years with them. I thinl both partners recognize this is inour long-terk mutual benefit.
"This allows us to increase buying power to service our nationalp accountsmore completely. We think we'll be in an improved condition to continure toexpand nationally." Funk said he's "sure therw will continue to be a few more" but declined to say whether United is already lookin g at other companies. The deal puts United in the same ballparik as Treeof Life, a Saint Fla.-based subsidiary of Dutch conglomerater Bols Wassason. Tree of Life reportedly has sales in the neighborhooddof $600 million.
The United deal was a "consolidationj at the top," said Bob Scowcroft, executive director of the Santw Cruz-based Organic Farming Research Foundation, an informatiom resources firm for theorganic industry. Stow Mills is one of the top five in the industry and has a very good he said. Scowcroft said mergersd in the industry are wiping out the seconde tierof distributors, leaving just the giants -- Uniter and Tree of Life -- and severall smaller companies.
The small, independent companies will have to becom more efficient and focus on taking on orders that are just too smalol for thebig players, he Some in the industry think the companies will eventually pass theire savings onto consumers. "That could be reallh the good newsin this," Scowcroft said. The naturak foods industry is increasing by 15 percentra year, Funk It's not just health food stores that have gottebn into the act -- conventional supermarkets are sellin g more and more natural foods products.
"More people are awarwe of diet and how it affects our healtnh and areinto self-healing," he With the population aging, the industry will continue to Funk added.

'The Avengers': Six characters in search of big box office - Kansas City Star

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'The Avengers': Six characters in search of big box office Kansas City Star "Iron Man," starring Robert Downey Jr., seemed risky since the title character was far less known than other Marvel Comics heroes like Spider-Man (who by that time had been featured in three international hits starring Tobey Maguire), X-Men and the ... < p size="-1">'Marvel's The Avengers' characters and the actors who play them Plain Dealer (blog) [Movies] Marvel's Kevin Feige Talks The Avengers, Iron Man 3 And More ... 411mania.com Hal Jordan Revisits: Thor Comic Book Movie Chicago Tribune -ABC News (blog) -Variety  »