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Panera Bread opening first location in Mississippi<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/print-edition/webPaneraPostle_Rick*100.jpg?v=1'>Panera Bread Co.?s local franchisee is opening the company?s first Mississippi store.
Delta Dough Inc. is opening an Olive Branch location at 7501 Goodman Road on May 23.
In three years, Panera (NASDAQ: PNRA) and Delta Dough have developed six locations in Tennessee and Arkansas.
Delta Dough is led by Rick Postle, who has been with Panera for 17 years including time served as Panera?s corporate president. Postle was the architect of the company?s franchising program, which has helped it...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Le Bonheur Children?s Hospital awarded LEED certification<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/webLeBonheurChildrensHosp*100.jpg?v=1'>Efficiency in sustainable building design and construction has finally been realized at Le Bonheur Children?s Hospital with the announcement of the facility?s LEED Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Le Bonheur becomes just the fifth children?s hospital in the country to achieve LEED certification. Additionally, only one other hospital larger than 600,000 square feet has been awarded the certification.
?We?ve always said that sustainability is right for kids and Le...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Social media enables Memphis Realtors to join D.C. rally<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/socialmadness/virtualrallySS*100.jpg?v=1'>You can usually bank on strength in numbers, but for local Realtors that couldn?t make it to today?s ?Rally to Protect the American Dream? in Washington, D.C., the National Association of Realtors has provided a platform for its membership to join more than 10,000 real estate professionals in virtual solidarity.
The NAR?s Virtual Rally landing page is replete with a real time Twitter feed ? utilizing the hashtag #realtorrally ? as well as a running count of virtual rally attendants...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>FedEx Express adding more electric vehicles to fleet<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/SmithElectricVehiclesFedExStepVan*100.jpg?v=1'>FedEx Express announced that its vehicle fleet is more than 16 percent more fuel efficient, well ahead of the pace needed to reach its goal of making its vehicles 20 percent more efficient by 2020.
?We have achieved 80 percent of our vehicle fuel efficiency goal as of the conclusion of fiscal year 2011, compared to our original baseline set in 2005,? said Mitch Jackson, staff vice president of environmental affairs and sustainability, with FedEx Corp. ?As a result, we are reevaluating our...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Tennessee unemployment rate lower in April<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/Down.Arrow.icon*100.jpg?v=1'>Tennessee's unemployment rate fell slightly in April to 7.8 percent, continuing to inch downward throughout 2012 and reaching its lowest point in three and a half years.
The state's rate was 7.9 percent in March, 8 percent in February and 8.2 percent in January, according to Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development data.
The nation's jobless rate in April was 8.1 percent, keeping Tennessee below the national average for the fourth consecutive month.
But Tennessee Labor Commissioner...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Top of the List: Memphis Golf Courses<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/webTopoGolf1*100.jpg?v=1'>MBJ published its Golf Courses list in the May 11-17 print edition but we're giving web readers a peek at the top five.
The list ranks the courses by their USGA course rating and slope rating.
MBJ director of research Jason Bolton writes that more than half, or 56 percent, of the area's most difficult courses are private clubs, and one club jumped from No. 19 on last year's list into the top five this year. Click here to read more from Bolton on our Memphis Business Blog.
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</div>Behind the list: Memphis Golf Courses<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/webTopoGolf3*100.jpg?v=1'>If you want to play the most challenging golf courses in the Memphis area, you will need to pay your dues.
Of the 25 most difficult local golf courses based on USGA course rating and slope rating, private clubs account for 56 percent with another 16 percent labeled as semi-private.
After a couple years of local golf courses reporting the same course information, several have undergone renovations or have been rerated. The most notable ? as far as the list goes this year ? is the renovation...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Memphis foreclosures up 50% in April as national number falls<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/THINKSTOCKForeclosureForecloseCar315*100.jpg?v=1'>The national picture for foreclosures in April showed that the West fared the best ? 11 of the nation?s 20 largest metropolitan ares posted increases in foreclosure activity, all of which were located along the East Coast or in Southern or Midwestern states.
And while national data from real estate data provider RealtyTrac demonstrated the amount of foreclosure filings ? default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions ? was the lowest monthly total since 2007, foreclosure activity...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Feds close investigation into Medtronic?s Infuse product, find no wrongdoing<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/Medtronic%20Logo*100.jpg?v=1'>The U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts have reportedly closed their investigation of Medtronic Inc. and its Infuse Bone Graft product, failing to find any wrongdoing on the company?s part. The Department of Justice began the investigation in October 2008.
Designed in and is distributed out of Memphis, Infuse is a genetically engineered bone protein that stimulates bone growth. It is primarily used in spinal and oral procedures, but...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Memphis Airport Authority approves $1 million in incentives for new service<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/WebNewsCarMemphisAirportSign*100.jpg?v=1'>The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority approved an air service development program with financial incentives and fee savings to airlines in order to add new direct service to and from Memphis International Airport.
The authority is hoping this will lure more airline competition to Memphis and lead to more flights and lower fares.
It authorized up to $1 million in incentives for the first year of the air service development program, which is available to commercial airlines with an airport...<div class="feedflare">
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Speeches are normatively followed by the analysis by the anchor and reporters covering the happening. Your may intellectualize that one of the dominant parts of starting any stock company is your office, but that has nothing to do with it - absorb the joint-stock company news stories of other successful commerce owners and see.
On the whole breaking news stories are not shown nationwide over-the-air, even if circumstances might call for it because their local advertisers want the time slots officialdom have already paid for.
Yours is a small consortium and as such probably does its line of work in a 50 mile radius of where you are sitting legal now, making the area newspapers your excellent prospecting tools.
The challenge for cable news is that it has now reached adulthood, is to deliver stock company news regularly with facts, figures, and insights.
Venture news from an online RSS feed keeps you up to date up to the minute. Whether ever more strain are consuming ever more news is not yet known because industry analysis organizations are only beginning to study the concern.
It's tempting to ignore the issue of bad big and hope it goes away, but you had excellent do something to project a positive vision of your establishment, if you don't there will be consequences.
Small operating company is the backbone of the American economy. There is an ever growing percentage of the population that is turning to the Internet for enterprise news and information every day, making it the superlatively powerful and substantial marketing intermediary you have.
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RDU adopts air service incentives policy
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/images/Michael%20Landguth%20-%20RDU2*100.jpg?v=2'>Raleigh-Durham International Airport will offer marketing support and waive landing fees for airlines that launch new routes ? an incentives policy that could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to airlines.
The airport now pledges $250,000 in advertising spending in support for new domestic flights and $500,000 in advertising for new international flights. The policy, formally adopted by the airport?s governing board on Thursday, also waives landing fees.
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Duke University CIO gets big bonus
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/duke%20chapel-sw*100.jpg?v=1'>Duke University doesn?t just give big bonuses to its basketball coaches. Investment officers who increase the university?s portfolio are also rewarded.
Neal Triplett, Duke?s chief investment officer, received a $1.2 million bonus in 2010, nearly the amount of his total compensation in 2009. When added to his base salary and other compensation, Duke paid Triplett $2.3 million in 2010, the most recent year for which compensation data is available.
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Corporate Services Inc. to pay $30,000 in penalties
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/dollar-signs*100.jpg?v=3'>North Carolina officials say a California company that allegedly duped 700 North Carolina businesses out of $90,000 has again agreed to comply with a restraining order and return their checks, along with $30,000 in penalties.
The company, Corporate Services Inc., mailed phony letters to the 700 businesses, passing itself off as a government agency and telling each business to pay a $125 fine for failing to comply with state requirements for keeping minutes of corporate meetings, the offices of North...<div class="feedflare">
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Some insight into athletes? graduation rates
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/houston/news/baseball*100.jpg?v=1'>Baseball players in the Atlantic Coast Conference graduated at a rate 32 percentage points lower than the general male student population, according to a study released Wednesday.
That ranks the ACC 24th out of 30 conferences and fifth out of the 10 major conferences, according to the College Sport Research Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which analyzes graduation rates of athletes and compares them to the general student body.
By comparison, football players in the...<div class="feedflare">
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Berkshire Hathaway buying Media General papers for $142M
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/charlotte/warren%20buffett%201%20315*100.jpg?v=1'>Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is acquiring most of Media General Inc.?s newspapers.
As part of the $142 million cash deal, Berkshire now will have 63 daily and weekly newspapers operating under a new subsidiary called BH Media Group, according to Reuters. Following the acquisition, Media General, the owner of local station NBC 17 WNCN, will mostly be a television company.
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Dice-K, Youkilis help boost Bulls attendance
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/Bulls550*100.jpg?v=1'>When big leaguers come to town, they not only help on the field but at the ticket booth, too.
Already, the Durham Bulls have sold out for Thursday?s game against the Pawtucket Red Sox, the triple-A affiliate for Boston. The 10,000 tickets sold are some 42 percent more than the 7,000 tickets sold for an average Thursday game in May, according to the Bulls? front office.
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Human Genome Sciences rejects GSK takeover bid
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/ChemistryTestTubesCar*100.jpg?v=2'>Human Genome Sciences Inc. formally rejected a recent $2.6 billion hostile takeover bid by GlaxoSmithKline on Thursday.
Earlier this month, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) made an unsolicited tender offer to acquire all of HGSI?s outstanding common stock at $13 a share. HGSI officially deemed that offer inadequate Thursday.
In a news release, CEO Thomas Watkins said that HGSI (Nasdaq: HGSI) holds ?great potential? and the current offer undervalued the company. ?The HGS Board of Directors has...<div class="feedflare">
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William Peace University wins $710K grant
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/drinking%20water%20315*100.jpg?v=1'>Thanks to a $710,000 grant from the state?s Clean Water Management Trust Fund, William Peace University will be able to harvest and conserve more water.
For starters, Peace will install a cistern that will store rainwater that will account for 90 percent of the irrigation water.
Also, the university will install new showerheads and sink aerators as part of its ?going green? initiatives. In addition, the university is receiving rebates for replacing toilets with water-saving models going from...<div class="feedflare">
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Wake Tech hires police chief
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/police%20hat*100.jpg?v=1'>Moving along with its new police department, Wake Technical Community College chose its chief and assistant chief this week.
Michael Allen Penry will serve as chief and Paul Andrew Quinn is the new assistant chief. Both are former Wake County sheriff?s deputies from Garner.
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Bankruptcy filings rise 4% in Wake County
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/triangle/images/Bankruptcy6*100.jpg?v=2'>Wake County saw a small increase in the number of new bankruptcies filed in April.
A total of 211 Wake County businesses and individuals in the county filed new petitions last month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, according to a report the court published Wednesday.
That represents an increase of more than 4 percent from April 2011. Numbers in most recent months have been down by small percentages, both in Wake County and in Durham and Orange Counties.
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Bud Clark Commons lands top design prize
A Portland low-income housing project has captured a prestigious architecture award.
The American Institute of Architects named the Bud Clark Commons as the group?s top 2012 Housing and Urban Development design. The award will be given to Dave Otte, the lead architect on the project, on Saturday.
The facility opened last summer in Portland?s Old Town
The Washington, D.C.-based AIA praised:
The shelter?s ?abundance of natural light and wood finishes inside,? exemplified by the sustainably...<div class="feedflare">
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H&M to open at Lloyd Center
H&M, the fashion retailer also known as Hennes & Mauritz, opens its fourth Portland mall store at noon, June 7, at Lloyd Center.
H&M has stores at Pioneer Place, Washington Square and Clackamas Town Center.
The 21,226-square-foot Lloyd Center location employs 30.
The popular retailer carries men's and women's apparel. The first 100 customers on opening day will receive an H&M t-shirt and a gift card worth $10 to $300.
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Icahn urges Mentor shareholders to withhold director votes
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/news/Icahn_carl2_carousel*100.jpg?v=1'>Using a quote from Thomas Jefferson, billionaire shareholder activist Carl Icahn on Thursday lashed out at Mentor Graphics for extending its poison pill and refusing to renominate two of his favored board members.
As a result, Icahn is urging Mentor Graphics shareholders to withhold votes for incumbent directors Gregory Hinckley, Peter Bonfield, Kevin McDonough, Patrick McManus and Mentor CEO Walden Rhines. In doing so, he touted a similar recommendation from ISS Proxy Advisory Services.
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Regional stocks: Market slide continues
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/StockMarketDown*100.jpg?v=1'>The major indices continued their slide on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 156.06 points to 12,442, the NASDAQ closed down 60.35 points to 2,813 and the S&P 500 closed down 19.94 points to 1,304.
The Davidson 99, which measures stocks in seven western states, including 19 in Oregon, closed down 3.47 points to 168.16.
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Craft Brew launches gluten-free Omission nationwide
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/news/Craft%20brew%20omission%20carousel*100.jpg?v=1'>Craft Brew Alliance Inc. will start distributing its line of gluten-free beers nationwide in coming weeks.
Portland-based Craft Brew (Nasdaq: Brew) launched its Omission Lager and Omission Pale Ale in Oregon in March. Thursday, it said it will begin distributing the brand nationwide, starting on the West Coast and hitting the rest of the country by mid-June.
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Milwaukie light rail line attracts $85M from feds
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/news/Trimet%20max%20carousel*100.jpg?v=1'>Oregon?s U.S. senators announced jointly Thursday that the Portland area?s transit agency will receive $85 million in federal money for the new Portland-Milwaukie light-rail line.
The money, which goes to TriMet, comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation New Starts program.
Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced the funding on Thursday afternoon shortly before TriMet revealed it had also collected $7.5 million in federal grants to buy 18 buses, including four hyrbid vehicles.
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Portland business leaders happy with mayoral options
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/mayoral%20candidates*100.jpg?v=1'>Portland?s business community has delivered a mostly positive verdict in the mayor's race following Tuesday?s election.
After Portland voters winnowed down the number of 23 candidates ? really, they narrowed the field of three front-runners to two, knocking Eileen Brady out of the running ? some prominent business leaders are saying that either of the general election combatants Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith could be a positive force for the business community.
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Timbers, Jeld-Wen Field featured in new Adidas ad
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/Timbers-army-screengrab*100.jpg?v=1'>The Portland Timbers, star forward Darlington Nagbe, and the Timbers Army feature prominently in a new 30-second TV ad making its debut this weekend from Adidas? U.S. soccer division.
Portland-based Adidas America is pushing its micoach SPEED_CELL technology, which uses a chip embedded into the soccer boot to capture the player?s 360-degree movements and document various performance metrics.
The chips store up to seven hours of data and can wirelessly sync to smartphones and be shared through...<div class="feedflare">
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Oregon regional economies make gains
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/news/growth*100.jpg?v=1'>Eugene-Springfield and Central Oregon have joined the Portland metro area in nearing their average economic growth rates, according to the University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes.
The regional indexes measure economic growth using variables including new housing permits, home sales, sector employment data, the unemployment rate, and airport passenger data. Zero is used to indicate the average growth rate posted between 1998 and 2011.
In Portland, the average economic growth rate for the...<div class="feedflare">
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Precision Castparts surpasses $7B in annual sales
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/portland/news/Precision_castparts_Donegan_web*100.jpg?v=1'>Precision Castparts Corp. on Thursday said it gained ground in new markets as it boosted fourth-quarter and full-year sales by 16 percent.
The Portland-based manufacturer of key metal components for commercial aircraft and energy markets (NYSE: PCP) reported earnings of $336.1 million, or $2.30 per share, on nearly $2 billion in sales for the final quarter of fiscal 2012. That was a sizable improvement over the prior year when it had earnings of $271 million, or $1.87 per share, on $1.7 billion...<div class="feedflare">
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