Byline: Dan Laidman! Staff Writer A plan to add 20 positions to the city Planning Department is designed to clear a long-standing project backlog and look at long-term challenges. The new planners would work on housing, transportation, local community plans, the revitalization of the L.A. River and
For the fourth consecutive year, Healthcare Traveler is pleased to recognize an extraordinary group of nurses and allied health professionals who have been selected as Travelers of the Year by those who understand the import of their achievements better than anyone--their company representatives.
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Few tasks involved in integrating more than 1,200 former Eckerd drug stores into the CVS network proved more challenging than converting the information technology systems. The company rose to the challenge. Few aspects associated with bringing the Eckerd units on board, CVS
JOBCENTRE Plus is holding a series of events for people in Merseyside with a health condition or disability who are seeking work. The Jobs and Information Days will take place at five centres next Thursday, August 11, between 10am and 4pm. Venues include the Legends Lounge at Goodison Park, The
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
DEERFIELD, Ill., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Walgreens Home Care has completed its previously announced acquisition of Home Pharmacy of California, one of the largest independent home infusion companies in California and a comprehensive provider of home infusion, hospice, nutrition therapies
Deerfield, Ill. Walgreens Home Care announced that it will purchase Home Pharmacy of California. The nearly 20-year-old company, which operates pharmacies in Burbank, Corona and Ventura, provides home infusion, hospice and nutrition therapies, as well as specialty pharmacy services. The acquisition
YORKSHIRE Bank has appointed a prominent Midland businessman as nonexecutive chairman of its flagship Financial Solution Centre in Birmingham. Richard Graves, 49, is the first chairman to be recruited by Yorkshire Bank in the city. Mr Graves is currently the CEO of Entente Consulting, the trading
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 January 2006-BUYINS.NET: Eclipsys (ECLP) SqueezeTrigger Price Is $15.69. Short Sellers Are Down Approximately $19.6 Million After Company Cuts Jobs.(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06012006 BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that the 4 million shares declared short
Byline: Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ATLANTA -- First, US textile jobs were shipped to the Orient, then customer service call centers for American companies cropped up in Manila. Now the back office of the corner bank is being hauled to Bombay and Bangladore, India.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Jack Katzanek Jan. 6--Factory activity in Inland Southern California ended 2005 close to where it started: a steady pace of production tempered by expensive raw materials and few new jobs. The Purchasing Managers Index for San Bernardino and Riverside counties fell slightly last month, to
Source: The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Mark Harrington Jan. 6--Representatives for Newsday and its six bargaining units reached tentative agreement yesterday on new contracts that would open the door for the company to eliminate 60 additional jobs at the paper by spring, but provide lump-sum payments and modest raises, a union
Source: Newsday (Melville, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News Norgren Inc. is cutting about 275 jobs at its Littleton manufacturing plant because of cost competition from abroad. Norgren said the layoffs - to occur over the next 12 to 15 months - amount to about 55 percent of the total work force at the 40-year-old
Byline: Dawn Bryant Jan. 6--The Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corp. must bring 125 new higher-than-average paying jobs and meet other performance requirements this year to keep getting money from Horry County. This is the first time the county has set specific goals for the overhauled
Source: The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
OFFICIALS at MBNA Europe told staff at their Chester headquarters yesterday that the group plans to cut around 400 posts. The credit card group, now part of Bank of America, said the cuts should result in up to 150 staff being asked to leave the business by April. The rest of the reduction could be
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Matt Glynn Jan. 6--Ann Rutherford came prepared. The Hamburg resident was carrying a stack of manila envelopes with copies of her resume at the Jobsapalooza job fair. She hoped to find a job perhaps as a legal assistant or a secretary. She had lots of company at the Buffalo Niagara
Source: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Rex Makin WICKED whispers reach me that Normal Bettison, whose departure from chief constable here for a plum job, has recently unsuccessfully applied for a new job. He is, I am told, able and willing to apply for a chief constableship if the present unpopular scheme for compression of
Source: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
THE signing of a development agreement is likely to mean a jobs boost for the Black Country. The deal has unlocked the last remaining gateway site at Birchley Island, Oldbury - a key location by junction 2 of the M5. Dozens of jobs could follow from the project. St Modwen, who acquired part of the
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Boonsong Kositchotethana Jan. 6--Seven people, including three existing senior executives of Thai Airways International, are seeking the post of chief executive at the national carrier but authorities are reportedly not impressed with the credentials on offer. Details of four outsiders who
Source: Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Margarita Bauza Jan. 6 Who: Louis DesRosiers, 61, Bloomfield Hills. * What he does: He designs commercial and residential buildings and is president of DesRosiers Architects in Bloomfield Hills. He designed Penske International Headquarters and the headquarters of Northern Trust Bank in
Source: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
About 50 retail jobs have been saved in the West Midlands after a buyer snapped up a total of 41 stores from the crashed retailer MVC. High street rival Music Zone said the shops it had acquired from MVC administrators Kroll included outlets in Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Leamington
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: JEREMY WARNER Few FTSE 100 chief executives get to choose the timing of their departure, let alone leave while still young enough to pursue another career, yet James Crosby, CEO of HBOS, appears to be one of them. Despite his relatively youthful 49 years of age, Mr Crosby is the longest
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Matt Glynn Jan. 6--Tops Markets is cutting 22 administrative support jobs, nine of them in Western New York. The chain also said it will close six stores in the Adirondacks and the Utica area. Tops announced last summer they were for sale but has not found buyers for them. Aside from the
Source: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, New York) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Tom Henry Jan. 6--OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Four people who worked at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in the fall of 2001 have been barred from further employment in the nuclear industry or any related field for up to five years because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission believes they
Source: The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: Virginia Culver Jan. 4--Gerald Albert Natale was more than a pharmacist. He was someone who dispensed medical tips and personal financial advice and someone people confided in. Natale, who ran a pharmacy in northwest Denver for decades, died Christmas Day. He was 88. Natale, who owned the
Source: The Denver Post (Denver, Colorado) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-07
Byline: DEE LANGSTON BY dee langston CORRESPONDENT If you plan on starting a fresh career for the new year, you might want to learn to build a house, install heating and air conditioning units, care for the elderly or become a nurse. Right now, the construction industry is booming, said Wade Denny,
Enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased by 13 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to preliminary survey data released Dec. 12 by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Although this increase is welcome, surveyed nursing colleges and universities denied 32,617
Source: Legislative Network for Nurses
Posted: 2006-01-07