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- Toyota Cuts Outlook
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- CP Rail Hit by Recession
- All Inclusive Vacations Booming
- Recent Freight and Logistics Updates
- UAL Corp to Cut 1,200
- Coffee Will Never Be The Same
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- MS International Stone Distribution Center Opening...
- Gamefly Distribution Center Opening in SouthEast
- Auto Manufacturers No Bailout?
- Despite Ailing Economy Muscle Cars Thrive
- U.S. Blocks Chinese Milk Products FDA Puts Burden ...
- Unemployment Summary Nov. 08
- Orthopedic Clinics Unaffected By Credit Crunch
- Credit Crisis-Circuit City Humpday Liquidation
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- Trains Roll On Down The Line
- BillQuick
- Global Recession
- Birthday Ideas
- Union Pacific Doing Well Despite Economy
- Photo Blankets
- UPS Raises Rates
- Atlas Air Updates
- Flight Attendant Education
- California and Massachusetts Bailout
- Jensen K-Rail
- FedEx Nacional Mexico
- MS Project Server SAAS
- Global Markets Deteriorate
- Coffee Bean Industry
- Chicago Midway Up For Privatization
- Discount High Def.
- Melamine Poisoned Candy - In US for Halloween
- Bob Barr on the Bailout
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Toyota Cuts Outlook
Trade Show Booths
Fed/Ex Makes News Again
Save Time Document Scanning
Fed/Ex Share Drop
Weight Loss Tea
Supply Chain Mystery to CEO's
Tactical Gear
CP Rail Hit by Recession
All Inclusive Vacations Booming
Recent Freight and Logistics Updates
Labour dispute threatens BC ports
Financial Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A five-week strike beginning in June, 2005 strike by 1200 Lower Mainland port truckers cost the country an estimated $85-million a day. ...
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JC Penney Drops Oak Harbor Freight Lines as Shipper
MarketWatch - USA
Teamster members employed by Oak Harbor Freight have been on strike since Sept. 22 because of violations of federal labor laws that protect workers' rights, ...
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Truckers urge Govt to slash diesel prices, abolish taxes
Hindu - Chennai,India
The truckers have threatened an indefinite strike from December 20 if their demands were not met. The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) said the Rs ...
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UAL Corp to Cut 1,200
Coffee Will Never Be The Same
Big Three Bailout Cont.
TFS Hosting
Auto-Bailout Pleas
Weight Loss Tea; A Miracle In Itself
CEO of Ford to Earn $1 Salary
Changing Industries
Business Closings
Business Website Design
Business Closings
- Ann Taylor closing 117 locations
- Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherines closing 150 locations
- Eddie Bauer closing 27 locations
- Talbots closing all locations
- Gap closing 85 locations
- Footlocker closing 140 locations
- Zales closing 187 locations by January
- Disney closing 98 locations
- Home Depot closing 15 locations
- Linens and Things closing all locations
- Movie Gallery closing all locations
- Pacific Sunwear closing all locations
- Pep Boys closing 33 locations
- Sprint/Nextel closing 133 locations
- JC Penney closing undisclosed number of locations
- KB Toys closing 356 locations
Profit and Loss Report Tips
MS International Stone Distribution Center Opening in Houston
MS International, Inc., a natural stone distribution company, has opened a new distribution center. The new center is located in Houston, Texas. The new center is located on 12 acres of land with 180,000 square feet to hold the distribution center and showroom. The center became fully operational June of 2008.
The location of the new distribution center in Houston allows the company to better serve it's customers in this part of the country. The CEO of MS International states, “with the opening of Houston, MSI will be able to efficiently distribute natural stone products across the important Southwest and Midwest markets. …The new facility will enable MSI to maintain among the largest inventories in the Southwest.”
Gamefly Distribution Center Opening in SouthEast
A new distribution center is opening in the southeast for Gamefly ( www.gamefly.com ). This new center will help those who are registered with Gamefly to receive their games faster. The new center is located in Tampa, Florida.
Like Blockbuster and Netflix, Gamefly rents out video games. A unique concept with Gamefly is the "keep it" option which allows game users to buy the game they are renting. With this option, once you buy the game, you will be mailed the box and manual it came in that Gamefly keeps stored once the actual disc is removed to be sent as a rental to its customers.
Gamefly has over 5,000 game titles to choose from. You can choose from a wide array of game systems such as PS2 and Xbox among others.
Auto Manufacturers No Bailout?
Despite Ailing Economy Muscle Cars Thrive
U.S. Blocks Chinese Milk Products FDA Puts Burden on Importers
Prove you are importing a 'safe' milk related product (and take on the liability of that proof) and the FDA will release your shipment into the United States. On your mark, get ready, set, go....
Not in such a hurry? Who can blame you.
The US and the FDA are showing their ineffectuality both in their 100% ban and in pushing the burden not on their own regulators and testers that are too under staffed to make a difference, but to importers of record.
Federal food safety officials yesterday began holding up shipments of food from China that contain milk or milk-derived ingredients in the largest effort to date to keep products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine from reaching U.S. consumers.
The Food and Drug Administration is requiring importers of the halted shipments to test for the chemical, which is used to make plastic and fertilizer but has been added to human and animal food to boost protein readings. The types of products likely to be waylaid are cookies, candies, and other goods made with milk or milk powder.
If an importer can prove his product is not tainted, FDA will release it, said Steve Solomon, the agency's deputy associate commissioner for compliance and policy. The agency also will step up its testing of products already on the market.
The obvious flaw in this action is that there will still be some importers that will route these products through other countries and use false information, documentation or whatever it takes to move their goods, defective or not.
This may block the easy items, but the hard work has yet to be done.
Unemployment Summary Nov. 08
Orthopedic Clinics Unaffected By Credit Crunch
Credit Crisis-Circuit City Humpday Liquidation
So Circuit City Announced that they will be starting with a 155 store liquidation. They will sell all the goods in 155 stores starting Wednesday and then close the doors on those stores. (list of stores http://files.shareholder.com/…20List.pdf )
The company is in serious trouble, will likely be delisted off the stock exchange and bankruptcy is expected by most analysts.
As I look into this, I do not see news in Circuit City's actions. That was little more than a foregone conclusion a few weeks ago if not further back.
However, the key item to watch here is the credit crunch hitting Circuit City's suppliers.
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Trains Roll On Down The Line
BillQuick
Global Recession
Birthday Ideas
Union Pacific Doing Well Despite Economy
Photo Blankets
UPS Raises Rates
Atlas Air Updates
Flight Attendant Education
California and Massachusetts Bailout
Jensen K-Rail
FedEx Nacional Mexico
MS Project Server SAAS
Global Markets Deteriorate
Coffee Bean Industry
Chicago Midway Up For Privatization
Discount High Def.
Melamine Poisoned Candy - In US for Halloween
" The discovery announced Wednesday involved the White Rabbit Creamy Candy brand, which is sold in 50 countries but has already been recalled from stores in Britain and many Asian countries. Jerry Farrell Jr., Connecticut’s consumer protection commissioner, announced that contaminated candy had been found at two stores in New Haven, one in West Hartford and one in East Haven. In each case, tests found traces of an industrial additive, melamine, in the candy. “We’re concerned, obviously, there may have been bags sold of these before we got to them,” Mr. Farrell said on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers about White Rabbit candy because of concerns over possible melamine contamination. In California, health officials have found traces of melamine after testing samples of White Rabbit candy. The American distributor has ordered a recall, but some of the candy may still be in stores."http://www.nytimes.com/…2milk.html In 2007 White Rabbit Candy was recalled in the Phillipines when formaldehyde was found in the product. For US consumers this may not be mainstream candy, consumed by everyone. It does represent a weakness in US oversight of food products shipped to the United States from China, and is likely the tip of the ice berg that has already landed on shore. We need to get a better handle on this problem before this problem is discovered everywhere from dry food stuffs on the shelves at grocery stores to ingredients used in Christmas dinner recipes. Mobile post sent by brettbum using Utterli. Replies.