Rumor has it that members of NAFA Fleet Management Association were seen dancing in the streets today when news broke that the Association's 2012 Institute & Expo (I&E) had completely sold out the remainder of its exhibit space, a full two and a half months before the event! This marks the third straight year NAFA's annual conference has watched its Expo Floor sell out, despite increasing the amount of available exhibit space each time. NAFA's 2012 Institute & Expo will take place April 21-24 at the America's Center in St. Louis, MO. NAFA reserved more than ...

To celebrate the winter season in true joie de vivre fashion, iconic spirit brand Grand Marnier launches Lift Your Spirits. Fans are invited to raise a glass, snap a photo and post their picture on Grand Marnier's Facebook Page for an exciting chance to win a 3-day, 3-night winter getaway to a luxury ski resort in Vail, Colorado. "The true essence of Grand Marnier's spirit is celebrating and living life to the fullest," says Pamela Broyles, Marketing Manager for Marnier Lapostolle Inc., North America. "People are always posting photos toasting big and ...

Band Together NC, a Triangle-area nonprofit that uses live music to raise funds and awareness for other local nonprofits, will present its second annual Last Band Standing event on March 1 at Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh. Four local bands - LiLa, Lizzy Ross Band, Big Something and Mipso Trio - will compete for a $3,500 cash prize and a spot in the lineup at Band Together's main concert event. Band Together NC is a Triangle-based organization whose mission is to raise funds and awareness for select nonprofits through events that showcase and support musical talent. ...

With the automobile dealers' top economist predicting 2012 new car sales of 13.9 million, CIMS, the world's largest independent tire registration group, emphasized to the nation's auto dealers the importance of consumer safety, and its relationship to tire registration. At the recent meeting of the National Automobile Dealers Association, Paul Taylor, chief economist of the NADA, told attendees that more than 13.9 million new cars and light trucks will be purchased or leased this year. Susan B. Kruder, President of Akron, Ohio-based CIMS Tire Registration commented, ...

Mini Pharmacy, a Los Angeles-based diabetes supply company will be exhibiting at the 2012 Latina Heart Health Conference. The conference will run from 8:30 am until 12:30 pm on February 23, 2012 at the Magnolia Place Conference Center, 1910 Magnolia Ave., Los Angeles, 90007. The Latina Heart Health Conference is designed to educate, encourage and empower Latinas to live a healthy life, both for themselves, and their loved ones. Conference participants will learn about the risk of heart disease and stroke from medical professionals and will be given information on how ...

Alicia Dunams, founder of Bestseller in a Weekend (www.BestsellerInAWeekend.com), announced the winner of the Longest Book Award. Co-authors Sherry Platt Berman and Julie Gleeson won the award, creating 120 pages of content for their upcoming book in two days. Bestseller in a Weekend is a powerful book coaching and writing workshop designed to guide authors through the process of writing, publishing, and marketing a book in one weekend. During this workshop, Sherry Platt Berman and Julie Gleeson surpassed the average page count of 81 pages by 39 pages, proving that ...

The freshest, most powerful new voice of pop music, December Rose, has the industry talking. This bright young artist is quickly rising to the top, making a name for herself and gaining the devoted support of fans with her down-to-earth personality and exceptional talent. As her career takes off, December Rose has now released an official EPK, giving fans and industry insiders a chance to get to know more about this personable pop music talent. A Canadian native, December Rose has unquestionable vocal ability that makes her a versatile artist, allowing her to crossover ...

Home Resource has been named the Florida Gulf Coast retailer for renowned Filipino furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue, whose pieces have been showcased in several Hollywood films. The multi-award-winning designer offers a complete line of signature creations, including bedroom, dining, living room and outdoor groups. "Kenneth Cobonpue is at the cutting edge of Asia's chic furniture design industry," said Michael Bush, owner of Home Resource. "His unique and striking pieces are in keeping with our continuing search for furniture brands that prioritize ...

Bayer CropScience (http://www.bayercropscience.com), one of the world's top innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and traits, has announced that "Sustainability in Agriculture: A Bayer Executive Course" will be held Monday, March 19 to Wednesday, March 21 at The Umstead Hotel & Spa located at 100 Woodland Pond Drive in Cary, N.C. The course, presented in partnership with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University, will ...

Green Key Global, the operator of the Green Key Eco-Rating Program (Green Key), is pleased to announce that Green Key is participating in Sabre Holdings' new eco-certified hotel program, announced last week. An industry-first, Sabre's eco-certified hotel program addresses travelers' growing desires for environmentally responsible accommodations by providing clear and easy access to sustainable hotels throughout Sabre's portfolio. Green Key, which is the world's largest green hotel certification programs with more than 2,700 member hotels, provides Sabre with its list ...

Kristin Buie, communications manager of North Carolina Theatre (http://www.nctheatre.com), has announced that the organization has added two new members to its board of directors for 2012. Rick Gurlinger, president of Bourke Services, LLC, and Su Shearin, a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation board member, will lend their passion for NC Theatre's mission to ensure the organization's continued success. Gurlinger, a graduate of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, has served on a number of boards throughout the Triangle area, including the Triangle Community Foundation, ...

The 100 Cars for Good Program is back in action this year, Toyota of Nashua near Manchester, NH confirms. Toyota's Program, which occurs over 100 days, will award 100 vehicles to 100 U.S. nonprofit organizations this year. This will be the second year in a row that Toyota has held the 100 Cars for Good Program. Donated cars make a big difference to nonprofit organizations by supplying vehicles to pick up food donations, to provide horseback riding visits for kids with cancer, and to train and deliver service dogs to wounded veterans. These are just some of the many ways ...

Dubai-based luxury hotel chain Jumeirah has hand-picked the island of Mallorca for its first foray into Spain. Officially opening in Port Soller on 13 March 2012, the Company has designs on this 120-room five star hotel becoming the most luxurious hotel in the country. Local estate agent Mallorca Sotheby's International Realty believes Jumeirah has made an excellent choice. "Mallorca is a very enchanting and elite Island," says Mallorca Sotheby's International Realty's Managing Director Stephen Dight, "Its physical beauty and Mediterranean climate have ...

Chip Mims, CEO of Mims Distributing Company (http://www.mimsdist.com), a beer distributor that services a nine-county area in and around the Triangle, has announced that the company partnered with Baker Renewable Energy to install one of the largest private solar rooftop systems in Wake County. The roof, which features a photovoltaic rooftop net metering system, will allow the company to collect and utilize solar power onsite and reduce its lifetime commercial power grid consumption, ultimately saving Mims up to 400 MWhrs, or 400,000 kWhrs, of energy per year. This will ...

SecurityCoverage, Inc., a company that provides an entire suite of innovative products and customer demanded services, announced updates to its secure password management program, Password Genie for Windows and Password Genie for Mac. Launched in September 2010, Password Genie is a secure password manager program that saves web site usernames and passwords, eliminating the need to write them down, remember them manually, or store them in an unsecure document. Users simply install it, and as they browse the Internet, Password Genie automatically recognizes when a username ...

Apalon is pleased to announce that its hit iOS app Pimp Your Screen won a Best App Ever Award in the eponymous international contest run by 148Apps. The app was nominated by users for the Best Wallpaper App and got the largest number of votes. "The Best App Ever Awards were started four years ago to spot and highlight the iOS apps that users admire most. The applications are nominated and voted by the users worldwide, which ensures the fairer system than simple downloads count. The winners are the apps that people really use and love. Pimp Your Screen is a perfect ...

Clayton Sleep Institute (CSI) announces the launch of its new website claytonsleep.com. CSI's stronger online presence will be key as it continues to serve its patients' needs. CSI is committed to advancing better health through a better understanding about sleep. Their new website will help accomplish this dedicated mission through its new sleek design, easy navigation and wealth of information it now provides. "We're very excited to announce the launch of our new website," said Dr. Joseph Ojile, CEO and Founder of the Clayton Sleep Institute. "We wanted ...

The Jenkins MBA program in the NC State Poole College of Management (http://mgt.ncsu.edu/mba/) has announced that program alumni, in collaboration with the NC State Alumni Association and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University, will host a 5k run honoring the late Dr. Lynn Ennis, former Jenkins MBA professor and associate director and curator of the Gregg Museum on Saturday, March 3. The event begins at 10 a.m. at the Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center, located at 2450 Alumni Drive on NC State's Centennial Campus in Raleigh, N.C. Dr. Ennis, who died ...

The list of renowned mobile real estate partners for Smarter Agent, LLC continues to grow. They are excited to have partnered with Realty World Alliance in their newly released white label mobile real estate application, Home Hunter Mobile, representing the South Central Kansas MLS (SCKMLS), which offers property listings in the South Central Kansas region including: • Abilene • Andale • Andover • Anthony • Argonia • Arkansas City • Atlanta • Attica • Augusta • Bel Aire • Belle Plaine • Bentley • Benton • Buhler • Burden • Burns • Burrton • Caldwell • Canton • Cassoday • Chanute • Cheney • Clearwater • Coffeyville • Colwich • Conway ...

Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (http://www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that its downtown Raleigh restaurant, Draft Carolina Burgers & Beers, donated $500 of its proceeds of sales raised on Feb. 11 to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society , the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. Focused on curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, the goal is to improve the overall quality of life for patients and their families. QUOTES: "Draft Carolina Burgers & Beers, along with all other Rocky Top ...

Georgia Super Lawyers recently honored HunterMaclean partner Colin McRae as a 2012 Rising Star. Rising Stars are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less. The elite list of Georgia Rising Stars, which represents more than 70 practice areas, will be published in the March 2012 issue of Atlanta magazine and in a special issue of Georgia Super Lawyers: Rising Stars, which is mailed to every attorney in the state. "Colin is certainly deserving of this recognition," said Frank S. Macgill, managing partner at HunterMaclean. "He ...

Pacific West Capital Group announced today that the company will host informational seminars on February 29 and March 1 at LG's Prime Steakhouse in Palm Springs, California. Pacific West Capital Group representatives will discuss investing in the Life Settlement market. The company has specialized in the sale of beneficiary interests in life settlements to individual investors for the past seven years. The life settlement market is the secondary market for life insurance. Life settlements are an alternative to traditional investments because returns are not tied to ...

The new version 1.0.9 of CodeTwo Outlook Sync was released by CodeTwo and published on their website for free download. The program is dedicated to all users searching for an easy solution to sync Outlook files with another machine. What is more, all users can also enjoy a free, time-unlimited version of the program that enables them to sync default MS Outlook calendar and contacts folders. - CodeTwo Outlook Sync has been designed to live up to requirements of thousands of users worldwide who need a simple, logical and ridiculously easy-to-use sharing tool for Microsoft ...

EzySoft Developments released Instant Invoice n Cashbook 10 (V10.6.1.8), a quick and simple Windows based invoice software solution for the growing business. It helps business users create, print and email quotations and invoices, track customer payments and outstanding invoices. It also incorporates a fully integrated cashbook module to help users balance their banks, fulfill their tax reporting obligations and prepare a simple set of income and expenses statement. Instant Invoice n Cashbook 10 is a major product upgrade of the developer's previous versions first released ...

The CEO of Live2Sell Group of Companies, Chris C. Ducker, will return as speaker for the upcoming BlogWorld Social Media Conference & Expo in New York, on June 5-7, 2012. A few months fresh from his success as speaker at BlogWorld 2011 in Los Angeles last November, CEO Chris C. Ducker is once again preparing as 2012 NY speaker for the BlogWorld Conference & Expo to be held at Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. For 5 years now, BlogWorld is the one and only industry-wide event that hosts the global community of content creators, thought leaders, decision ...