Though the recession brought a period of famine to the catering foodservice industry, the feast is at hand as growth initiated last year will continue through 2012 due to aggressive expansion into the catering space by limited-service establishments, the return of business event-driven spending, higher wedding spending, and a moderately healthier consumer, according to "Catering Trends in U.S. Foodservice" by market research publisher Packaged Facts. "Self-standing catering operations dominate sales, but full-service restaurants, limited-service restaurants and snack ...

1.Enjoy the comforts of both town and country in the Aston neighborhood. New homes in this Powhatan, VA neighborhood are built on two to ten acres of land. Richmond, VA new homes builder, Main Street Homes, builds a variety of styles for the Aston neighborhood, including Berkeley, Brookshire, Callaway, Camden, Ericksen, Kensington, Lancaster, Pinehurst, Raleigh, Southampton, Waverly and Woolrich. 2.The Bayfront at Edgewater neighborhood in Midlothian, VA offers new home buyers in the Richmond, VA area the convenience and privacy they want. New home owners have the choice ...

Snelling Staffing - The Wyckoff Group (TWG), a local group of staffing franchises, announced its celebration of Snelling Staffing Services' 60th anniversary. Since 1951, Snelling Staffing Services has provided full-service staffing solutions to local businesses and has been recognized as an employment industry leader. "We are excited to celebrate this incredible milestone. 60 years means getting jobs for hundreds of thousands of people," says Frank Wyckoff, President of Snelling Staffing - TWG. "We join our fellow Snelling franchisees nationwide in honoring our long ...

Recent holiday retail results indicated that consumers are opening their wallets again - a trend supported by new data that shows more Americans are working, income is up and consumer debt is the lowest in five years, according to the Freedom Debt Relief Quarterly Comment on consumer debt and credit issues. "From an economic perspective, it is encouraging to see consumers spend more at the holidays than in the past two years," said FDR vice president Kevin Gallegos. "However, even though unemployment is down and personal income is up slightly, that level of spending ...

Denver's Grace Presbyterian Church, as well as Colorado Springs' Pikes Peak Christian Church and Circle Drive Baptist Church are building new facilities to accommodate their growing congregations and chose Fransen Pittman General Contractors as their builder. "Fransen Pittman is thrilled with the opportunity to turn our clients' visions into reality, and provide them with worship spaces that meet their current and future growth needs," said Fransen Pittman Co-founder and President John Pittman. Grace Presbyterian Church is planning a 25,000sq ft new building on Santa ...

Rosenberry Rooms, an online retailer and boutique for children's furniture and gifts, was voted one of Babble.com's "Ten Best Ways to Brighten Up a Kids' Room." Babble, a modern parenting website, chose Rosenberry Rooms as the place to shop for children's lighting and rugs. The article featured ten different ways to utilize bedding, wall paints and decor to make your child's room a vibrant and energetic environment. The Sena Hanging Lamp in baby blue was selected for kids lighting. Also featured was the Rosenberry Rooms' Retro Swirl playground rug by Surya. The retro ...

Marx Layne & Company—a full-service marketing, public relations and digital media agency—has announced the promotion of Mike Ingberg from account executive to senior account executive. The announcement was made by managing partner Michael Layne. Since joining the agency in 2006, Ingberg has been responsible for executing public relations and marketing strategies for a variety of clients in the professional service, healthcare, hospitality, non-profit and alternative energy industries. He possesses more than a decade of experience in sports public relations and event promotion. Ingberg ...

News Facts • Fishbowl Solutions announced on January 17, 2011 that they have joined the Google Enterprise Partner program, which extends the power of Google technologies across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google enterprise deployments. • Fishbowl is leveraging its software development and implementation experience to develop productized connectors for Oracle E2.0 products and the Google Search Appliance (GSA). • Fishbowl is building on their previous success delivering bespoke integrations with the Oracle Enterprise Content Management ...

rPath, the service factory for on-demand IT, is sponsoring an upcoming webinar and in-depth discussion of the new blueprint for delivering IT as a service. This timely webinar will detail how IT organizations must transform and automate their processes to look like today's industrial factories to accelerate and scale in the age of on-demand IT. IT organizations are under pressure to transform—to replace bottlenecks and bureaucracy with on-demand IT service delivery models. But this transformation to IT-as-a-Service requires new thinking about old processes. The reality ...

Lynette Viviani, president and founder of Viviani Public Relations, was selected from over 5,000 submissions to be featured in The 2011 Woman's Advantage Shared Wisdom Calendar. The calendar provides advice for women business owners from influential women leaders across the US and Canada. Mary Cantando, Growth Expert of The Woman's Advantage, today announced that Viviani's advice has been included in the calendar which provides daily words of wisdom on key business issues including organization, promotion, sales and human resources. "Lynette's quote was selected because ...

David Devitt has joined the staff at Pioneer Transcription Services as head of quality assurance. PTS is always striving to maintain the highest quality work product possible. The first step in doing so is by utilizing the best transcription talent from across the United States. Using state-of-the-art technology allows workers to work in separate locations. Mr. Devitt will be in charge of managing the work product of these various individuals. Mr. Devitt has been a long-time supporter of the company, watching his wife, Deborah build the business over the last 20 years. ...

"The Triumph Tour," hosted by Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who inspired the 1993 TriStar Pictures movie "Rudy," and Robert D. Willix, Jr., M.D., CMO of Cenegenics Medical Institute and CEO and CMO of Cenegenics Medical Institute of Boca Raton, arrives January 25 at Palm Beach's Omphoy Ocean Resort. From 7 to 9 p.m., Ruettiger and Willix will share the groundbreaking transformative secrets behind improving mental and physical capacities, vigor and peak performance in business and life. Tickets are available for purchase at http://www.TheTriumphTour.com. "The Triumph Tour" is ...

O.Berk is proud to introduce Classique Jewel Jars made from SAN plastic. Available in .5 oz. and 1 oz. (both with 43mm neck finish), 2 oz. (with 56mm neck finish) and 4 oz. (with 63mm neck finish) sizes. Classique Jewel Jars are sold by the case and require only a two-week lead time. Stock colors include cobalt, emerald, amber, garnet, tangerine, blueberry ice, berry, grape, lime, clear and frost, white, black, silver, gold, brushed and polished. Additional custom colors are available with a minimum order quantity of 25,000. These jars, with triple-threaded neck designs, ...

Patriot Software, Inc., announces that their Patriot PAY small business payroll software is now available to Alaska employers. Patriot PAY is online payroll software specifically geared for American small businesses with 50 or fewer employees. The software's commonsense design will accurately and efficiently calculate all Alaska payroll taxes and offer built-in help along the way for customers. Employers can tailor the software for their company needs, customizing contributions and deductions for individual employees and choosing from handwritten checks, printed paychecks ...

Radiation Protection Products, Inc. (RPP) has partnered with Ecreativeworks, a full service provider of website design and development services, to completely revamp their existing website. Based in Wayzata, Minnesota, Radiation Protection Products manufactures a full line of radiation shielding, nuclear shielding and industrial lead products. RPP's products serve a number of functions in industries from science to medicine to energy. RPP specializes in neutron doors, lead lined plywood and drywall, lead lined doors and frames, glass x-ray barriers, and many other lead ...

One of the keys for a successful conference is to lure visitors to your booth and exhibitors are always looking for creative ways to accomplish that goal. NAFA Fleet Management Association is helping exhibitors at its 2011 Institute & Expo by holding a silent auction that will increase an exhibitor's exposure while raising money to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as well. NAFA's 2011 Institute & Expo will take place April 9-12 in Charlotte, NC. From now until March 11, exhibitors may sign up to participate in the Silent Auction. Items for the auction will ...

Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg, P.A., is pleased to congratulate shareholder Troy H. Myers Jr. for his award of The Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Service for 2011 for the 12th Judicial Circuit. This honor recognizes Mr. Myers' outstanding donation of his time and professional expertise representing people who cannot afford legal services. This award is presented annually to one attorney in each of Florida's 20 judicial circuits, which includes more than 90,000 members of The Florida Bar. "We are very proud that a member of our firm has received this ...

The Ubuntu Server community and Canonical are again asking Ubuntu users just exactly how they are using Ubuntu Server Edition -- and in what kinds of organizations. Ubuntu Server has established itself as a popular operating system in organizations of all sizes performing numerous standard and critical tasks in multiple environments. It has also become one of the most popular operating systems on public cloud environments and has established itself as the core host Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution for private clouds. This is the third year of the survey. The results ...

The online confectioner, which is renowned for beautiful chocolates exquisitely presented in a stylish gift box, has launched a lovely chocolate range in time for February 14, complementing the company's tempting selection of goodies which can be found at http://www.thechocolatemoon.co.uk "We've introduced a special Valentine's range to our online selection this year which looks and tastes delicious," says The Chocolate Moon's managing director Susannah Pack. "And whether you're looking to tell a special someone you love them or send a gift as a secret admirer we've ...

Stratus Building Solutions, the nation's premiere building services and maintenance franchise company, has been officially named the "Number 1 Fastest Growing Franchise" by Entrepreneur magazine in the annual Franchise 500, with three "Top Ten" spots total. Stratus also received Number 5 Low Cost Franchise, Number 6 Top Home Based Business, Number 18 Top Global Franchise and Number 20 in the Franchise 500, in addition to the Number 1 Fastest Growing Franchise. Stratus continues reign of Top Ten awards. Dennis Jarrett, CEO of Stratus Building Solutions, said, "The combined ...

Red Apple Auctions, a boutique benefit auction firm, is excited to launch its first Facebook sweepstakes that gives fans a chance to win a tool that will make or break a fundraising auction - the Charity Auction Bells & Whistles teaching series. "We use Facebook to provide advice, tips, and photos that volunteer auction chairs can read to get simple ideas that make their job easy. This sweepstakes is a chance to get people talking with us on Facebook. Our existing fans love our weekly how-to videos, so even after January 31, I know our new friends are going to like ...

The Ulum Group, a Eugene-headquartered public relations/public affairs firm, will change its name to Vox Public Relations Public Affairs, effective Jan. 1, 2011. "Vox is the Latin word for voice," said Patrick Walsh, president/CEO of Vox Public Relations Public Affairs. "As we considered a new name, it became clear that what we do is give voice to our clients' messages through properly prescribed communications channels in order for them to directly connect with their key audiences." Vox Public Relations Public Affairs has nine professional staff members. The firm ...

The opium poppy, one of mankind's oldest medicinal plants, serves today as the commercial source of the powerful analgesic morphine, from which a variety of analgesics and antitussive alkaloids, such as codeine, are derived by semi-synthesis. Principal Investigators, Dr. Toni Kutchan and Dr. Thomas Smith at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center collaborated to discover new information about the atomic structure of the medicinal plant that may lead to new advances in plant-based pharmaceuticals. The results of this research are published in the recent article, "The Atomic ...

Faraz Qureshi and Eddy Garrido of MeetOnCruise.com, a social network for cruise travelers will appear on BlogTalkRadio's "AiresLibre Travel Show" with host Raquel Segura on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. On this episode entitled "Who Are Your Cruise Buddies?" Faraz, Eddy and Raquel will be discussing the latest cruise social network phenomenon. How to choose the right cruise and many more tips, advice and insight on cruising industry. Faraz Qureshi is the Co-founder and CEO of MeetOnCruise. His background includes technology and management consulting. ...

Janson Group, a full service public relations, marketing and branding firm specializing in the non-profit sector, is reporting notable placement of media coverage for its two nonprofit client organizations in Orange County, Calif., Mercy House Living Centers and Alzheimer's Association, O.C In the last 45 days, more than a dozen stories have appeared in the key regional media for the organizations, including four front page stories in The Orange County Register, as well as a national feature in last week's Huffington Post for Mercy House titled: "Homelessness In the ...