Private equity companies have an estimated $500 billion to invest, and FRANdata is using its expertise in the franchise marketplace to help them do it. The independent research company that tracks and analyzes the franchising activities of every brand in every industry is often called upon by private equity firms to help them identify brands that meet their target performance metrics, and provide due diligence research as the deal progresses. "Private equity companies like investing in franchising because franchises tend to have a well developed brand, predictable ...

Mark K. Harder, a partner with Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, has been appointed to the State Laws Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Harder, who concentrates his practices in trusts and estates law, will serve his fourth one-year term on the committee. He was elected to ACTEC in 2006. ACTEC membership and appointment is by invitation only to experienced trusts and estates attorneys recognized as having made substantial contributions to the field through lecturing, writing and Bar activities. Active personally and professionally, Harder is ...

Cheryl Heppard, founder of Healthy Business Coaching, is offering a free teleclass "New Year's Website Make-Over Workshop: Create a More Profitable Website in 2011" on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The workshop will reveal proven and tested strategies to help increase website effectiveness and profitably. "So many businesses are leaving money on the table in the form of bad websites", says Cheryl Heppard, founder of Healthy Business Coaching Heppard is a business and marketing coach for small business owners and specializes in health and wellness related ...

On Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, Gina F. Rubel, Esq., president and CEO of Furia Rubel Communications, will present at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) continuing legal education program, "Ethics of Social Networking." The course will be held as part of PBI's "Breaking Down the Basics" series in Philadelphia at the CLE Conference Center. The two-hour seminar will begin at 11:30 a.m. and a simulcast of the course will be available at the PBI Professional Development Center in Pittsburgh and the PBI Conference Center in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Rubel, a legal marketing and social ...

Jo-Anne and Michele Ferris, owners of ZIPS Dry Cleaners in Manassas, Va., were recently honored as the recipients of the 2010 Franchise Owner of the Year Award by ZIPS Dry Cleaners, an aggressively expanding dry cleaning franchise chain with more than 28 locations on the East Coast. The Franchise Owner of the Year Award recognizes the franchise owner who exhibits a strong desire for growth and leadership skills, participates in company programs, demonstrates a commitment to customer service and is in compliance with all franchise agreements. "It's a great honor and ...

The concert marks the debut appearance of Windscape with the Chamber Music Society of Detroit -Artists/Date/Concert Location¬- Orion String Quartet and Windscape Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8:00 PM Seligman Performing Arts Center Located on the campus of Detroit Country Day School 22305 West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills -Artist Bios- For the Orion String Quartet's bio, please see: http://www.orionquartet.com/bio.htm or http://www.kirshdem.com/artist.php?id=orionstringquartet For Windscape's bio, please see: http://www.franksalomon.com/artist.php?aid=9 -Repertoire- Bach: ...

Ecotech Institute, the first and only college focused entirely on preparing America's workforce for careers in renewable energy and sustainable design, today announced that students are now taking classes in its brand new facility. Located at 1400 South Abilene Street in Aurora, the school has transformed a vacant, large-footprint building into a progressive campus focused on educating future leaders in the ever-growing green landscape. Ecotech Institute launched its first round of classes in July 2010 in a temporary facility and the third quarter commenced last week in ...

ONELAN has set up a new department to cater for increasing customer demand for integration services and solutions. The department will handle all aspects of integration of ONELAN products with third party systems and products. To date several successful 3rd party integrations have been rolled out including Assumption Grammar school, NHS Bristol, and Highbury College. The Integration Services department will be headed up by Andy Cordwell. With over 20 years' experience delivering software solutions Andy also has unrivalled knowledge of ONELAN's products having previously ...

Sims Recycling Solutions, the world's largest electronics recycler announced today that its South Carolina facility has received OHSAS 18001:2007 certification from NSF International. This is the ninth Sims Recycling Solutions facility in North America to have achieved certification. "Sims is committed to developing formal processes to identify and eliminate safety hazards in our workplace." stated Steve Skurnac, President of Sims Recycling Solutions, US. "We are pleased with the improvements made within our facilities and the safe environment that we are providing ...

Rosacea is a common, but poorly understood disorder of the facial skin that is estimated to affect well over 16 million Americans -- and most of them don't even know they have it. In fact, while Rosacea is becoming increasingly widespread as the populous baby boom generation enters the most susceptible ages, a Gallup survey found that 78 percent of Americans have no knowledge of this condition, including how to recognize it or how to treat it. Rx Systems PF has created a new, multifaceted protocol for the topical treatment of Acne Rosacea and Seborrheic Rosacea. Following ...

Pacific West Capital Group will host seminars on January 19th and 20th at Beau Rivage restaurant in Malibu. The topic will be investing in the Life Settlement market. Pacific West Capital Group specializes in the sale of interests in life settlements. The life settlement market is the secondary market for life insurance. It is considered an alternative to traditional investments because returns are not tied to stock market performance, interest rate fluctuations or economic policies. The Pacific West Capital Group educational seminars are an opportunity for serious ...

The Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce Chairman's Club was thrilled to have Mark Bryan (CEO) of Delray Medical Center speak about their State of the Art facilities. Delray Beach's Mayor McDuffie gave Delray Medical Center accolades for being the top employer in Delray Beach with more than 1600 employees with plans to expand in the near future. They have a wide-range of medical services which include Comprehensive Stroke Center, Sleep Disorder Center, Robotic Surgery and many more. The City of Delray is also very fortunate to have Delray Medical Center since they are very ...

Chelle Walters, President of Homesublime, LLC, a San Diego based e-commerce home improvement holding company founded in 2004, announced its investment in the 17 year old Stardecorating.com and Starblinds.com of Brooklyn, NY. Under the new management, Homesublime will continue to operate the websites, which sell a broad assortment of custom window coverings and area rugs from major manufacturers. Star Blinds was one of the early pioneers in selling window coverings and wallpaper through 800 toll free telephone call centers in the 1980s, and with the advent of e-commerce ...

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany. OpenCms 8 will bring a major update of the content manager user interface. The new Advanced Direct Edit feature will allow content managers to create, modify and publish new pages directly with drag & drop on their web pages, making OpenCms much more user friendly. The final version of OpenCms 8 will be made available for public download on the first day of the conference. A release candidate version of OpenCms 8 will be downloadable earlier. The conference will ...

Atlantic International Partnership (AIP) offers a comprehensive service giving you, AIP investors and entrepreneurs access to Marketplaces in your region and around the World. AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs ...

Cookbook+Calendar is a scheduler, that enables to plan a menu, a diet or a dinner party, and to store recipes. A handy tool for those who want to manage meal planning calendar quickly and easily, it will be essential for grocery and restaurant managers, for sportsmen and those who keep to a diet, and for all those who enjoy cooking. With its intuitive interface, Cookbook+Calendar is designed to be a recipe database and to help with planning a menu or a diet. The software supports most of the formats, including HTML, which makes saving recipes extremely easy. Just save ...

Indeed, search engine optimization (SEO) is a very important thing for an ecommerce site. It brings in quality traffic and ensures that the online store is seen by many online buyers and visitors. One of the greatest strategies that fall under this umbrella is writing SEO contents. For all those who do not know, this kind of content attracts web spiders from search engines, making it all the more possible for the online store to rank high on search engine results. These spiders detect text contents and categorize the webpages based on these texts. However, SEO contents ...

Save On Cars & Trucks is a new monthly publication mailed to 1.3 million homes in the Detroit Tri-County region. "There's no other publication out there like this," said Gauthier, "and with her broad background in marketing planning and project implementation, Heather is an excellent choice to lead this new effort." Ms. Uballe has been with the Save on Everything organization for over seven and a half years, serving as marketing manager. Prior to joining Save On Everything, she had been an account and project manager at Innovative Media in Madison Heights, where ...

TSS Photography, the leading provider of youth sports and school photography services in the U.S., is only one of 12 franchise businesses chosen to be featured in FRANCHI$IT, the thrilling new board game of skill and strategy. The FRANCHI$IT Board Game is designed for two to six players ages 10 and older. Much like the real business world, the game combines strategy and luck where players compete to buy and control as many franchises as possible to build their wealth. Each board game also includes $400.00 worth of valuable coupons from the 12 participating franchises, ...

BinaryNow, Inc. has updated its PDF conversion software portfolio with just released Software602 Print2PDF 9. This popular software allows PDF creation in multiple ways to unify document conversion and deployment in organizations. Users can create an Adobe PDF from any application that can print, batch convert multiple documents, watch a folder or POP3 e-mail account, use a simple web application, or integrate the web service into their existing infrastructure. Print2PDF provides users with the ability to create, merge, split, digitally sign and time-stamp PDF documents ...

The computer can cloak those sex dipping emails and flirtatious chats from ever being seen by your better half. Social networking sites provide cheaters with a never ending cyber hunting ground. Cheating online and virtual sex have become all too popular. One new website CyberAgentX.com wages cyber war against cheating by offering tech savvy software to catch those tech savvy cheaters. "As a married man I can attest that social networking sites are tempting invitations for online affairs," says Kurt Thompkins, Cyberagentx.com's founder." "Let's face it, Facebook ...

James Dodson, longtime golf writer and editor, has been selected the 2011 Donald Ross Award recipient by the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA). The award will be presented May 15, 2011 at the Donald Ross Banquet during the 65th ASGCA Annual Meeting in Denver. The award is named for ASGCA's first honorary president, and is presented to an individual who has made a positive contribution to golf and golf course architecture. Dodson, an award-winning writer, is currently writer-in-residence for "The Pilot" newspaper in Southern Pines, N.C., and editor of ...

SMi are delighted to announce our 2011 Offsets event. With an impressive line-up of speakers addressing the key topics relating to defence and security acquisition, SMi's Offsets 2011 conference will provide you with updates on the latest European and International offset programmes and policies. SMi are proud to announce a special address from a senior political speaker of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence to our outstanding line-up. http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2011offsets16.asp Also hear keynote addresses from: * Julian Nikolov, Director Economic Policy, ...

Exceptional rates are still available for delegates planning to attend the GNEX 2011 timeshare and fractional industry expo following successful negotiations between Perspective Magazine and the world famous Atlantis Resort. Demand for the inaugural event has been so brisk that the GNEX 2011 venue has agreed to make more rooms available, but at the same 60% discounted rates as before. Registered attendees can book their accommodation either online or by phone and receive room rates as low as $159 per night, a huge saving over the rack rate, and for up to 8 nights should ...

Rugby America Ltd., owner James Carlberg revamps rugby gear that constitutes an international rugby brand. For over twenty five years, Carlberg has screen printed rugby T-shirts and clothing worn around the world and on the field by players and fans alike. As a semi-retired rugger, coach, referee and father of three junior rugby players, Carlberg says, "we have a great feel for what teams and players expect when it comes to quality imprinted rugby wear." Catering to fashionistas and trendsetters, Rugby America Ltd., is a charming leisurely system resource packed with ...