Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Ingenix buys health payment company AIM - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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AIM Healthcare Services Inc. of Franklin, uses its Intellijet software and teamx of expertsto prevent, detect and correct errorsa in health claims. Ingenix’s purchase of AIM will help it offert a single source for payment accuracgy services for health plansand hospitals. Financiap terms of the deal were not Ingenix CEO Andy Slavitt said in a news releases that the acquisition will help Ingenixc focus on simplifying the healtupayments process. “AIM has unmatched capabilities for simplifyinhg the administration of health care so that hospitals and healt plans can operate more efficiently and focusz onpatient care.
Everyone including most importantly, the patient-consumer wins,” Slavitt said. Ingenix is a wholly-ownerd subsidiary of Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

EPA settles with TS Trim of Canal Winchester - Business First of Columbus:

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The EPA on Monday disclosexd details ofan $82,500 settlement with that will see $68,169 headed to state and locap pollution control programs and $17,040 earmarke for a school bus retrofit program. TS Trim coatds interior plastic parts and is a majof supplierto Marysville-based and , according to its Web TS Trim has permits to spray its productsx while keeping in compliance with pollution but according to the settlement, the EPA between 2006 and last year identified a number of problems at TS Trim’s two Canal Winchester plants.
The EPA said the company failed to keep regular recordsx of instances when it exceeded federal emissions standards and also jumpexd the gun on a construction project before the statd had issued akey permit. The EPA said TS Trim’z pollution controls didn’t hit the mark during a 2007 compliancre test, but new equipment installed since then should put the compan backinto compliance. Under the settlement, the company has a mont to show that its plants meetemissionzs standards. A company representative wasn’t available Monday as TS Trim is under aseasonakl shutdown.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Hollman adds space, expects to hire 150 - Dallas Business Journal:

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The company, Hollman Inc., is now one of the largesf that buildswood lockers. After a $15 million investment in new technologt and a move primarilyinto cabinet-making, Hollman said he hopes to at least double the size of the “You’ve got to offer people somethinyg a little bit new and Hollman said. “You can’t just offer them the same thinh you’ve been offering for the past 10 yearw and expect them totake it.” Last Hollman Inc. brought in $32 million in revenue. He expects this year to be abourtthe same, with the help of a contracf worth about $1 million to providde lockers at the new Cowboys Stadiuk in Arlington.
But next Hollman expects the cabinet business to brint in revenueof $70 million to $80 The company has expanded its headquarterd from 30,000 square feet to abouty 300,000. Currently, Hollman Inc. has about 150 In two years, Hollman plans to employ at least 300. Hollmah Inc. offers four lines of cabinets: a valuwe line, an “essential” line, a luxury line and a greenj line. With the value cabinets in an entire house can be donefor $5,0000 to $7,000, Hollman Cabinets for a house built with the luxury line could cost up to Hollman started his company in 1976, usinf European technology to build lockers for athleticf facilities.
The concept of using “Europeahn technology” for cabinet-making has been around for more than 25 saidDick Titus, executive vice president of the Va.-based Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association, a trade European-style cabinets typically have concealed hinges and are builrt without frames, while traditional framed cabinets have visiblee frames around the box where the hinges “Many of our members have adopted various parts of Europeanh manufacturing,” Titus said. “The overridint majority of cabinets in the Uniter States are made withframef construction. European is well under 50% of the total U.S. market.
” According to a survey of KCMA cabinet sales for Januargy 2009decreased 34.2% compared to salex for January 2008.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Apple experiments with devices similar to watches: NYT - Yahoo! News (blog)

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Apple experiments with devices similar to watches: NYT

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc. is experimenting with the design of a device similar to a wristwatch that would operate on the same platform as the iPhone and would be made with curved glass, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The article cited ...



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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Sara Lee will open Kansas City, Kan., plant, employ 250 - Houston Business Journal:

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and open a sliced meat manufacturing plant there in 2011 that it expectws to employ more than250 people. Sara Lee SLE), based in the Chicago suburbh ofDowners Grove, Ill., said in a Friday releaswe that it expects the plant at 4612 Speaker Road to becomd fully operational by 2011. Brent Miles, president of the , said Fridat that Sara Lee was granted a 75 percent property tax abatementon $31 million of planneed improvements at the plant. The abatement’ws value is $9.67 million, he In return, the company agreedr hire 55 percent ofthe plant’s workers from Wyandotte County.
“This industry-leading facility will reinforcew our competitive advantagein value-added one of Sara Lee’s top strategic categories and long-ter growth drivers,” CJ Fraleigh, executivw vice president and CEO of Sara Lee’s Nortj American Retail & Foodservice division, said in the “It will help us further builc our Hillshire Farm and Sara Lee both leaders in the fast-growing category of premium lunchmeat.” Omaha-based ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG) that it had agreeed to sell its refrigerated meat business, including the Kansass City, Kan., plant, to (NYSE: SFD) of Smithfield, Va.
, ownedr of Kansas City-based , for $575 million in cash and Sara Lee’s brands include Ambi Pur, Ball Douwe Egberts, Hillshire Jimmy Dean, Kiwi, Sanex, Sara Lee and Combined, the brands generate more than $13 billioj in annual net sales covering abougt 200 countries. Sara Lee has 44,000 employeew worldwide.