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Crawford & Company Announces New Leadership for Global Markets
Crawford & Company Global Markets named senior vice president Benedict Burke head of the unit, restructuring it around strategic relationship management, multinational clients and its Lloyd's and London market operations after the merger with GAB Robins.
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ETC Contracted for Seven BARA-MED Select Hyperbaric Chambers for U.S. Installations
Environmental Tectonics Corporation says it won contracts for seven BARA-MED Select monoplace hyperbaric chambers over the past four months. It credits its BARA-PRESS control software, a curvilinear compression profile the company says cuts barotrauma by 67 percent, and gurney storage space.
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Zip-Pak® to Showcase Resealable Solutions
Zip-Pak will show resealable zipper closures for pet food packaging at PetFood Forum 2015 in Kansas City, April 27-29. The line includes Sensus Sensory Feedback Fasteners, shaped to give a tactile bump and an audible click when the package is opened or resealed.
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walkers shortbread partners w/ starz series outlander
Walkers Shortbread and the STARZ series Outlander put a promotion on 325,000 specially marked packages of shortbread fingers, offering one winner a 10-day Country Roads of Scotland tour for two and 25 others Outlander prize packs, timed to the April 4 premiere.
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Mark Your Calendars, The Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth Hits Denver in June
Colorado Maker Hub's second Denver Mini Maker Faire runs June 13-14, 2015, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, with more than 100 makers showing electronics, crafts, music and new technology, from a drone obstacle course to a synthesizer petting zoo.
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United Fresh Launches 2015 Compensation Survey
United Fresh opened its 2015 compensation survey to U.S. and Canadian produce companies, adding Director of Social Responsibility and Accounting Manager roles. Results due this spring will let firms benchmark pay and benefits by sector, ownership type and geography.
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New Resource Builds the Business Case for Produce Sales at Convenience Stores
The National Association of Convenience Stores and United Fresh published a primer on selling more fresh produce in convenience stores, pairing industry and consumer trend analysis with practical merchandising ideas. More than two dozen companies helped develop it.
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Silage trials show forage type and variety selection key to yield and quality
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension trials of 90 forage sorghum silage varieties in Potter County found wide variation in yield and quality between varieties. Agronomist Jourdan Bell says sorghum silage needs about half the irrigation water of corn silage.
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Stericycle Recall Index Reveals Major Trends in 2014 That Are Shaping the 2015 Recall Landscape
Stericycle's Q4 2014 Recall Index counts 74 million vehicles recalled over the year, up 166 percent from 2013, with air bags making up 34 percent of units and electrical systems 31 percent. Monthly Google searches for recall terms rose 60 percent.
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Media Alert: CSU Ag Innovation Summit Reimagines Future of Food Production
Colorado State University invites journalists to its first 'Advancing the Agriculture Economy Through Innovation' summit, March 18-20 on campus, with speakers including Federico Pena and executives from Ardent Mills, Aurora Organic Dairy and Keurig Green Mountain, plus an Innovation Fair.
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The Grinstead group to deliver customized services to food industry clients
Fresh produce veteran Steve Grinstead has launched The Grinstead Group in Dallas, offering executive placement, financial and succession planning and business strategy services to food industry companies, along with a proprietary business optimization process.
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Employers ‘Bank’ on Workplace Weight Loss $$ Incentives/Rewards as Obesity Reaches 7-Year High - Interview Opp
HealthyWage says more than 800 companies, hospitals, insurers, school systems and governments — among them General Electric, Oracle and Halliburton — now run its cash-incentive weight-loss contests. It cites $153 billion in annual U.S. productivity losses from absenteeism.
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Inaugural Viva Fresh Expo to Debut with Triple Digit Buyer Attendance and Sold Out Tradeshow
The Texas International Produce Association reports a sold-out exhibit hall and retail and foodservice buyers from Wal-Mart, H-E-B, Walgreens and Wendy's for its March 26-28 event in Austin, which offers free registration and travel for buyers.
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Cottage food program slated for March 28 in Nacogdoches
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will hold a Cottage Food Business Workshop on March 28 in Nacogdoches, covering the 2013 Texas law permitting sales of homemade food, how to start a business, selling at farmers markets and food safety. The cost is $40, with an optional food handler's class.
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Animal legal defense fund calls for investigation of animal cruelty taxpayer-funded experiments
The Animal Legal Defense Fund asked USDA's Office of Inspector General to investigate the Meat Animal Research Center, whose practices a New York Times article exposed. ALDF cites lambs left to die of exposure and starvation and cows dying of untreated mastitis, and wants policy changes.
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ICYMI--there's more to the story behind Scott Walker's "Truth-Gate"
The Center for Media and Democracy says its PRWatch scoop on Scott Walker's move to delete “the search for truth” from the University of Wisconsin budget drove more than 8,000 news stories, and adds that Walker also moved to cut the state chief justice's pay.
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Industry Pioneer HealthyWage Launches Lucrative New ‘Jackpot’ Weight-Loss Wagering Challenge
HealthyWage launched a “Jackpot Challenge” in which teams of five to nine pay $33 a month for three months and split a pot if they average 6 percent weight loss. The company says the largest jackpot so far neared $400,000 and a dozen large employers have signed on.
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