Central Pacific Bank chooses ad, PR agencies - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The move comes two months afterthe state’ fourth-largest bank and its former marketing , decided to part ways after working together sincee January 2006. The bank is one of Hawaii’s biggest advertisers. Although the values of the which beginnext month, weren’t disclosed, industrhy insiders estimate billings at betweenh $2 million and $3 millioh annually. Public relations billings are estimated to be at least The bank’s new marketing strategyt comes at a critical time for the bank. Central Pacificv named executiveRonald K. Migita to replace formerr CEO Clinton Arnoldus, who retired in on the same day it announce thatits second-quarter earnings droppecd by $146.
3 million. Before working with Communications the bank used ona part-tim basis and contracted with for about five Bidding for the accounts were competitive. In June, Centralk Pacific invited agencies to reply to the requests for proposal and heardfrom “over a companies, said Cedric the bank’s vice president and corporate communicationx manager. Two selection committees, one for advertising and another forpublic relations, sat in on multiple credentia and creative presentations before choosing four “It was a very difficuly process because everybody really presented strong Yamanaka said.
Hastings & Pleadwelpl and Matsumoto & Clapperton clearly were the leaders, as they understoof the bank’s desire for a new marketing according tobank executives. “Whatr CPB was looking for was a way to see how the marketingteam they’d work with thinks and how they approachu problem-solving,” said Ed Clapperton, who founded Matsumoto Clapperton in 2000 with businesds partner Craig Matsumoto. Yamanaka agrees.
“We were drawnm to the fact that both firms really seem tounderstand us,” he “They grasped our culture and really embracedf what the bank stands for, whichn is basically we’re never going to forgetr where we came from and we’re lookin forward to times ahead.” The bank was foundes in 1954 by Japanese Americajn businessmen, many of whom had served in World War II. Matsumot o & Clapperton has won the ’s “Best of Pele Award four times in five years in additiomn to local and national awards for print Major clientsinclude , Waikiki Beach Ala Moana Hotel, The Wyland 15 Craigside and Arcadia retirement communities.
Barbrsa Pleadwell, who founded Hastings Pleadwell 12 years ago with business partnerBarbara Hastings, said she was movede by the bank’s roots. “It’s about disenfranchised populations coming togetheer to build what is one of the top banks Pleadwell said. “It’s a pretty compelling story.” Hastinga & Pleadwell scored eighr honors from the of Businesa Communicators and nine from thethis year. Its client s include Puna Geothermal Venture, First Wind, and Altres Staffing HR. Its social-marketing efforts include tobacco controlkand recycling.

Aurora's Southlands shopping center damaged by tornado - Kansas City Business Journal:

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A twister reportedly touched down nearbyat 1:49 p.m. Sunda and crossed through the area onan eight- to 10-mile-lont path for about 30 minutes, the said. . Firefighter found moderate damageat Southlands, locatec at E-470 and Smoky Hill Road, CBS4 News Rooftop heating, venting and air-conditioningv units were damaged, windows were a shed was destroyed, and a car was overturned. Natural-gaa leaks also were noted. Authorities shut down gas servics to Southlands earlySunday afternoon.
No serious injuries were reported onthe shopping-center but a man in a nearbg neighborhood who was tryintg to take pictures reportedly was hospitalized with unspecifiex serious injuries, according to news reports. A Southlandse spokeswoman told CBS4 most ofthe center's stores will be closeds Monday to allow for continued damage assessment. She said customers should call individual stores to verify whetherr they are closedor open. which opened in 2006, is the Denve r area's largest shopping center by retail at 1.7 million square feet.
It consists of several freestandinyg buildings connected by pedestrian corridors and The complex is owned by Granite Southlandsa Town Center LLC and manage d by Forest City CommercialManagemenr Inc. Four other tornadoes were spotted nortn and east of DenverSunday afternoon, and baseball-size hail struck some areas. As many as 3,00p0 customers were without power for a time in parts of Auroraaand Centennial. .

Newmark Homes Houston buying local TOUSA assets - Denver Business Journal:

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TOUSA plans to complete and sell all homes currently under Moody said the new company will be privately locally ownedand financed. “Oure management team has over 70 combined experience,” he said. The new company planas to build 60 homea ranging in pricefrom $160,009 to more than $600,000 in the first 60 days of which will officially begin June 15. Moodyg said 55 employees of TOUSA will remain with the new company aftet TOUSA winds down its localbusiness operations. TOUSA’x predecessor company was founded in Houston in 1983 as and completer an initial public offering inMarcy 1998. In December 1999, TOUSA Inc. acquired 80 percenft of Newmark’s stock. TOUSA Inc.
also acquired 100 perceny of then-public in Novemberr 2000. On June 25, 2002, Engle merged with Newmark, and the merged company changed its name toTOUSA Inc. In March, Fla.-based TOUSA (Pink Sheets: TOUSQ) told the it planneed to lay off 156 people in the Houstohn area from its Newmarki Homes brand beginning May 22 due to the downturb in thehousing market.

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Hensarling: GM TARP funds will be probed - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Hensarling is the lone Republica on the Congressional Oversight Panel and a rankintg member of the House Financiao Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer He says he is concernes about the disparate treatment of different classesa of bond holders as Troubleds Asset Relief Program fundesare distributed. Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM) filed for Ch. 11 bankruptct protection on Monday. has reached a deal with its bondholders that would have those firms own up to 25 percengt ofthe automaker, with the U.S. Treasury Departmentf investing upto $50 billion in GM, according to a regulator filing made by the Detroitf automaker.
The automaker has received nearly $20 billioj in taxpayer funds to date. “I am pleased that the Congressional Oversight Panel will hold this important oversighgt hearingin July. While I opposexd giving TARP money to the taxpayers deserve transparency and need to know that theird tax dollars are being spent fairlu and to promotefinancial stability," Hensarling said. “Manyt believe that TARP is beingf used instead to promote a sociapl agenda and to reward the alliea ofthe administration. This hearing will be a venur for seeking answers to suchimportant questions.” The Whit House could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday morning.

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Domenic Petrucci - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The Italy native became an activist for hearg disease after suffering from a heart attack in March 2000 when he weighef270 pounds. When he’d not pumping iron, Petrucci’s contractin g company does brick and stone work and manufacturewsconcrete steps. Why did you take up weighgt lifting? Because I have a big body and I needef a little workout to show offmy I’m very muscular even if I don’r lift weights. What’s your dailyg routine like? I’m waking up at 5 a.m. and runnin an hour in Patterson Park and keeping my heart rate betweeh 130 and145 steady.
I climb go back home and go work on Then I go to the gym for weighgt lifting foran hour, five days a Then I do about 15 minutes or 20 minutes flexing for the bodybuilding figure. Three days a week I’lp come home and run in the evening. Overall, I do 10 houres of cardio of a week. That’w 60 miles a week of cardio. How did you modify your diet? Throughout the day I eat five meals, with clean such as sweet potatoes or brown and protein. I eat six pounds of fish a day. No fat whatsoever. You make wine??
I make a Cabernet Sauvignon andMerlot

Bere wins Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis community service award - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Bere received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Awar for Outstanding Public Serviced Benefiting Communities Tuesday at theJefferson Awards’ annual ceremony in Washington, D.C. The five winnerds were chosen from a groupof 70, all of whom receivede Jefferson Awards in their local After he retired in 1997 as presidenf and chief operating officer for Cincinnati-based Krogetr (NYSE: KR), Bere signed on a volunteerd COO for Crayons to Computers, a nonprofitg store where teachers can obtain school supplies and educational The group has distributed more than $60 milliobn in free supplies over the past 12 Bere is also a leader in the nationa l Kids in Need Foundation, whicu is using Cincinnati’s Crayons to Computers store as a modeo to open similar free stores for teachers arouns the country.
The local Jefferson Awardes sponsors include the Rotary Clubof Cincinnati, the Businesw Courier and Cincinnati Enquirer.

Broadway renews Matrix, MultiPlan leases - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The private real estate investment and management firm is renegotiating leasew with tenants at the same time it is tryinhg to clear up debt issues withits lender. which lost ownership of the Hancock Tower after it defaultecd ona loan, has debt that maturez this month. The financing in question is secured byseveral properties, includiny the 980,000-square-foot Bay Colony. Broadway is in discussions with lenderxs to renegotiate the terms of the Broadway was given an extensionj onthe loan, which was due earlier this according to a source with knowledge of the However, the landlord renewede MultiPlan Inc.
, which leases 105,0623 square feet, and Matrix Partners, which leases 11,421 squard feet, at the office complex. CB Richard Ellix represented MultiPlan. DTZ/FHO Partners represented Broadwah Partners and Matrix in thelease negotiations. Broadway acquireed Bay Colony from Beacon Capital Partners LLC in May 2007 as part of a largef portfolioof assets. The four-buildin g complex office park sits ona 58-acre site overlooking Route 128.

King Soopers, workers heading back to bargaining table - Nashville Business Journal:

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The contract at hand involved an increasde inpreventative health-care programs and a wage increase, as well as a decreasr in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. workers had protested the pension benefit with the United Food and Commercial Workersd UnionLocal No. 7 warning that some coul lose $100,000 over the life of the benefits, and said the wage increaseds werenot enough. “W e are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargaining table if the corporation is willing to meet us King Soopers worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news release put out bythe union. “All we’re askingg for is a fair deal.
And we realluy hope they don’t lock us out for askinbg for livable wages and a pension plan that recognizesw our contribution to company profits.” About 17,000 union workers from the area’s three largest grocery chains — King Soopers and — have been in negotiationws with the grocers since April 9 on new five-yeat contracts. Safeway workers have voted to extend their contracrt untilJune 26, which Albertsons and King Soopers employees currentlyy are working without contracts. The rejection of the latest King Sooperse contract proposal came quickly after votingbeganm Monday.
Workers in Colorado Longmont and Boulder arevoting today, whilw Pueblo workers are scheduled to cast ballotds Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswoman Dianr Mulligan said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangibld effect on store King Soopers workers have not cast ballotsato strike. “We’re disappointed in the but we look forward to getting backto negotiations,” Mulliga n said Tuesday.
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5 Who Thrive: Hotel Renew team practices 'hospitality at its best' - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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With no shoelaces. “I have 60 pairs,” said General Manager Dan Howery. “All different Howery — lanky and resembling MSNBC’sz Keith Olbermann sans the attitudes — has been at Hotel Renew only10 months. Unlik a lot of GMs around town, he has reason to smile. Located at 129 Paoakalanj Ave., a mauka-makai road connecting Kalakaua andKuhio avenues, Hotel Renew’sw room occupancy for mid-May was 83 That’s a full 15 percentage points highe r than the average for Oahu hotelws and more than 20 percentage point s higher than hotels on Maui, Kauai and the Big What’s the trick?
“I’m really good at what I Howery answered, before bursting with laughter, somethiny he often does. He more seriously. “It’s not a secret that it’ s about practicing hospitality atits best,” he “It’s the team that makes the difference. We also have a pretty cool building witha Zen-like feel, a cool edge. And we like to joke People like to have fun and appreciate a senseeof humor.” There’s no other hotel in Waikikui quite like the 72-room Hotelk Renew. It has no pool, no restaurant, and a tiny bar.
Yet, sincew opening in 2007, it has become Trip Advisor’a top-rated Oahu property out of 102 that are By comparison, Halekulani is No. 5. “Trip Adviso r is the new word-of-mouth and we are fortunatw that people have said suchnice things,” Howeryu said. In fact, the reviewsz have been so enthusiastic that some posters suggestedx on a TripAdvisor blog that the hotel was writing itsown “We caught it and asked TripAdvisor to remove it, whicjh they did because it was damagingf their credibility, too,” Howery said. It was clearf some of the comments were from people who had neve rstayed here.” Nonetheless, Renew isn’ t perfect.
“The hallways are tiredx and untidy; my room had one of the filthiest showers I’ve ever seen ... I wore my flip flopsz in the shower,” a Boston resident wrote May 8. Far more however, are those like the May 17 postinbgfrom Seattle: “A great oasis in a sea of Hotel Renew’s service level is helped in no smal l part by having a small “It’s a lot easier for staff to rememberr guests’ names, and we practice making sure to ask them by name how they are Howery said.

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Valley surgeon heads up test of aneurysm treatment - Birmingham Business Journal:

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Rodriguez, the director of peripheral vascular servicez at the ArizonaHeartf Institute, has been namedf the national principal investigator for the Phase II study, which is required by the to enrolol 160 patients. The Arizona Heart Institutew is one of 14 centers involved in thestudy “We are looking to include at leasg six more centers to complete 20 centerse in the U.S.,” Rodriguez said. The endoluminal grafft is manufactured bynear Glasgow, Called the Anaconda Stent Graft it allows the surgeon to reposition the devicw once it has been placed acrossx the aneurysm.
So far, nearly 4,000 patients in Europe have received the Anaconda but it must get approva from the FDA before it can be used inthe U.S. Rodriguezx said the minimally invasive procedure onthe study’sz first patient went well, saying the devicd is very easy to use. “He was up on his feet the next morninhhaving breakfast,” Rodriguez said of the “You can’t do that when you open the This eliminates the need for open hearty surgery.” Abdominal aortic aneurysm, or “ballooning” of the body’sw main artery, is a serious condition prone to rupture and lead to sudden death. Actor John Ritter died of an aortif rupturein 2003.
Symptoms can occur suddenly with severe, sharp pain in the abdomen. Patientd who experience these symptoms should seek immediatemedical attention, Rodriguez said. Early detection can prevent sudden death. Patients with a familhy history of aortic aneurysm or other connective tissue disorders should notifg their physician about their risk of aortic he said.