June 25, 2006

Customers were happy with the deal because it solidified OneSource's presence in the market in the near future. OneSource ended its search for an investor after nine months – Heritage was able to meet all six of OneSource's goals. "There is not one thing on that list that's not in place," Zamarripa says.  Finding an […]

About 96 percent of respondents to RSM McGladrey’s 2006 Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution National Survey said their company was “thriving and growing” or “holding its own.”The survey looked at what CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives are doing to grow their companies and compete in the global economy. Overall the survey reported business leaders are

acquisition of the Lanoga Corp. With the Hope acquisition, Pro-Build will have more than $6 billion in revenues under its umbrella. More … Tencarva Machinery Company, Greensboro, N.C., (about $100 million in annual sales) has acquired the Municipal Division of emoryWilson Company, a pump distribution company, effective May 1, 2006. Tencarva’s municipal division includes Tencarva’s current

reviewing graphic displays of sales order histories by channel, the group could adjust the statistical forecasts for items affected by market trends.Promotion calendar by key account: How did promotions affect demand item and region? Special attention was paid to top accounts, which made up 80 percent of the company’s revenue and/or was strategically important. Forecasts

only fifth (20 percent for domestic transactions and 19 percent for cross-border deals) by executives considering the elements most critical to a transaction’s success. One particularly encouraging insight from the Accenture study was that most corporate executives think their companies did a good job with employee retention and customer relations during their most recent transactions.

The 60-year-old federal Fair Labor Standards Act is known as the wage-hour law. Under the law, employers must pay employees at least the minimum wage for hours worked; must pay them 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for all time worked over 40 hours, unless they are exempt as defined by the law; and must

C& S undercounted workers’ overtime hours by not including compensable time workers spent working off the clock before and after shifts, as well as during lunch and other breaks. To keep their eight-week hourly wages up, employees “ordinarily worked through their half-hour allotted lunch and dinner breaks as well as two 15-minute breaks without recording