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Jeff Bogart For: Association for Corporate
Growth--NY FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Capital
Conference:
Third Annual ACG-NY Manufacturing & Logistics Conference
To Focus on Organic vs. M&A Growth in Post-Recessionary Economy --"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink."-- WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 11, 2010-- "Dipping into the Water:
Growth Strategies for Privately Held Companies in the Emerging Post-Recessionary Environment" is the theme for the Third
ACG-NY Annual Manufacturing & Logistics Conference being held at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y., on Tuesday,
June 15, from 11:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Association for Corporate
Growth-New York conference, which last year attracted 125 corporate executives and financing specialists from 90 companies
from the metropolitan New York region and nationwide, will feature as keynote speaker Charles E. Smith, Ph.D., the CEO of
management consulting firm Navigating from the Future, and two panels of experts, one focusing on operations and the
other on corporate development. Confirmed panelists to
date include: * William "Biff" Jennings,
CFO, Hudson Baylor Corp., a top-ranked independent operator of commercial and municipal recycling facilities with multiple
locations in the U.S. Southwest and Northeast; * Richard Vitaro,
director, AlixPartners, LLC, a global consulting firm specializing in improving corporate financial and operational performance
and executing corporate turnarounds; * Joseph F. Paris Jr.,
president, XONITEK Corp., a management and technologies consulting firm with a worldwide presence and reputation for excelling
in the optimization of business synchronization (moderator); *
David Siegel, senior vice president for strategy and corporate development, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc., the world's leading florist
and gift shop . "Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
the poet, was not much of a businessman, but his 'Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink' would have got today's
investment climate right," said Lee Justo, chairman of ACG in Westchester County and a vice president at Hugh Wood Inc.,
in announcing the conference. "Capital is tight--the money is there in vast pools, but it is not being spent. So
what strategies should companies pursue-and what avoid--to attract it? How can they find the financial resources to
grow in today's reviving, uber-competitive marketplace?" Justo
continued, "Which approach holds the greatest potential for realistically re-igniting bottom-line growth in a risk-averse
era-a focus on organic growth, from operations, or emphasis on mergers and acquisitions? Which of those two avenues
deserves management's time and money? Our speakers will examine these and related issues." Expected attendees include leading decision makers and professionals actively involved in the growth of business
in manufacturing, distribution and logistics industries, including: operations heads, corporate development officers, investment
bankers, equity sponsors, venture capitalists, private sector CEO's, attorneys, and accountants. Attendees over the last two years included Conard Corp., Glastonbury, Conn.; Crescent Electric Supply, East Dubuque,
Ill.; Curtis Instruments, Inc., Mt. Kisco, N.Y.; Evans & Paul Unlimited Corp., Plainview, N.Y.; Hitachi Metals America,
Purchase, N.Y.; Innes Systems, Larchmont, N.Y.; INTTRA, Parsippany, N.J.; Linear Air, Concord, Mass.; Speedimpex USA, Long
Island City, N.Y.; and Stamford Industrial Group, Stamford, Conn. Financial
services firms attending included David N. Deutsch & Co., LLC, New York; Citibank, White Plains, N.Y.; Duff & Phelps,
New York; LINX Partners, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc., New York; Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti,
LLC, Morristown, N.J.; Saw Mill Capital, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; UPS Capital, Atlanta; SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing,
Bohemia, N.Y.; Wachovia Capital Finance, Boston; BBl&T Capital Partners, Winston-Salem, N.C.; CIT Leveraged Finance, Chicago;
Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co., Inc., Indianapolis; Kohlberg & Co., Mount Kisco, N.Y.; and Wells Fargo Mezzanine Capital,
Minneapolis. Other events at the day-long conference include
private meetings; networking, reception, and wine tasting. The
fees to attend are ACG Member (prepaid) $125.00, (on-site) $195.00; Non-Member (prepaid) $195.00, (on-site) $250.00.
For registration, contact Lou Halstead at ACG-NY at 203-292-6400 or halstead@acg.org. ACG-New York
(www.acgnyc.org) is the premier New York membership organization that facilitates relationship-
building and focused education for middle market deal-making professionals in the world's financial market. Each year over
5.000 professionals participate in ACG-NY's 40+ networking events in New York City, Westchester, and Long Island which include
educational meetings, breakfasts, monthly luncheons and six large conferences. Media Contact Editor's
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# # For: Infonortics Ltd.
For Immediate Release --Boston Selected for Future
Conferences -- Now in
its 11th year, the conference, SEM is expected to draw over 150 to Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel on April 24-25.
Although little-known, the international search-engine conference has been dubbed “the
search insider’s conference.” Its past sessions have attracted leading search industry researchers, designers
and developers as well as academics, investors, and major corporate users. “Our attendees tend
to be professionals deeply involved with search, whether at search engine developers or with major user organizations either
already committed to enterprise search or attracted by its potential applicability and benefits,” says Harry Collier,
Infonortics founder and managing director. “In either case,” adds Collier, who has been following electronic
search for over two decades, “they’re interested in trends, and that’s what SEM is all about.”
Why Boston Collier also announced that after testing Bath, England; Boston; San Francisco; and
The Hague as a site for SEM in recent years, Infonortics has settled on Boston as the best venue for the conference this year
and in the future. “Boston provides easy travel access both to those within North America and in Europe,”
explains Collier. “It also appears to be a city to which people like to travel. In addition, there is a strong high-tech
hinterland in the rest of Massachusetts and in Connecticut.” Collier expects that SEM will continue to attract attendance from outside the United States. “SEM has
a highly international flavor: Traditionally, around 20-25% of the attendees have come from outside the USA,” he says. Why Exhibitors At this year’s conferences, exhibitors are back after a three-year absence, although
limited by Collier to just 10, Infonortics further announced. The exhibitors are Acuity Software, Convera, DocSoft,
Endeca, Engenium, FAST, MuseGlobal, Nstein Technologies, Speed of Mind, and TEMIS. “We’ve
restarted the exhibitions,” says Collier, “because of the number of small companies with interesting new mousetraps
and because small company exhibitors are popular with attendees.” Google's Girouard joins 25 other speakers and panelists on the 2006 SEM program. As previously
announced, they include: – Michael Lynch, founder & Group CEO of U.K.-based Autonomy Corporation, plc; – Steve Papa, CEO of Endeca
Technologies Inc.; –
Mike Moran, Distinguished Engineer & Manager of ibm.com
Site Architecture at IBM; – Alan Feuer, founder
and Chief Technologist, Blossom Software, Inc.; – Claude Vogel, Chief Technical Officer, Convera Corporation; – Stephen Arnold, president, Arnold Information
Technology (AIT); –
Raul Valdes-Perez, co-founder and president of Vivisimo, Inc. A complete list of speakers, their topics and their bios, is available at http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines. Infonortics Ltd. (www. http://www.infonortics.com), founded in 1987 and based in offices in
Tetbury, England, some 90 miles west of London, is both an organizer of meetings, conferences and workshops and a publisher
of business and technology books, reports and custom studies. Besides SEM, its annual conferences include the International
Chemical Information Conference and Exhibition, the International Virtual Communities Conference, and the Intelligence Tools,
Data Mining, Visualization Conference (IDV). ■ Editor’s note: Press passes are available for working journalists to cover Search Engine
Meeting. Contact Jeff Bogart at 212-486-0030 or jeff@bogart.cc.
BOGART
COMMUNICATIONS For: Arnold Information Technology For Immediate Release Google, We Hardly Know You! THE GOOGLE LEGACY A New Book by Stephen E. Arnold What
kind of company is Google? The world mostly knows this high-flying,
publicly traded West Coast company as the upstart that's revolutionized search. Wrong, says the author of a new book. Google is much more. New, radical, and overlooked, Google is this
era's transformational computing platform and could be about to unseat Microsoft from its throne. Google is not just about search: search is merely one application you can load
on its processor, Internet technology expert Stephen E. Arnold says in The Google Legacy (Infonortics; September
2005; $180.00, PDF version). Although Google has been releasing a series of separate applications programs, the company
is starting to assemble the mosaic pieces into a bigger picture. Its future will be about leveraging its innovative
hardware/software infrastructure. In so doing, just as Microsoft replaced IBM, Google promises to replace Microsoft
as network computing comes of age. Written for business readers,
especially senior executives of mid to large-sized, knowledge-based corporations, The Google Legacy places Google under a
microscope, dissects Google's technology, evaluates its potential and determines that Google's future lies beyond search.
The book's 11 chapter headings include "Google's First Principles," "Google Basics," "Google Technology,"
"Google Relevance Ranking and Search Engine Optimization," "Gmail and Google Maps," "Google Clustering:
News and Enhanced Search," "Google Print and Scholar," "Google: A New Force in Enterprise Search,"
"Google APIs: Netting Developers," "Google Goes Personal," and "The Google Legacy." Three
appendices provide lists of Google patents, publishers that have indicated some type of relationship with Google, and universities
working with Google-information that, according to the author, Google has not made easy to locate or update. ". . . At Google, from its inception, Google software and Google hardware have
been tightly coupled," Arnold observes. "Google is not a software company nor is it a hardware company.
Google is, like IBM, a company that owes its existence to both hardware and software. Unlike IBM, Google has a business
model that is advertiser supported. Technically, Google is conceptually closer to IBM (at one time a hardware and software
company) than it is to Microsoft (primarily a software company) or Yahoo! (an integrator of multiple softwares)." Among the book's critical insights: Such insights
underpin Arnold's conclusions that, if Google can avoid or overcome certain pitfalls and hurdles, "Google is poised to
become the heir to Microsoft." The author sets forth a series of legal, management and marketing obstacles. The book also identifies and explains a series of incremental hardware and software
innovations "not fully appreciated by Google's competitors, analysts, or users" that have given Google its competitive
edge. "The net of these advantages is that Google does not have a search system. Google has a supercomputer that
delivers applications. Some of these applications are free for the user; for example, search. Other applications are for Google's
4,000 employees; for example, the programmers who craft applications for the Googleplex and employees who use the formidable
number-crunching capabilities of the Googleplex to figure out what users are doing, how to maximize advertising revenue from
billions of online clicks in real time, and improve the search experience." What is Google's legacy? Arnold clearly and eloquently defines it at the end of his first chapter. He
introduces the subject by posing this question: "A young programmer in Beijing or Bangkok is now influenced by
Google. If that programmer wakes up one day and Google has disappeared, for what system will the programmer develop?"
Arnold then proceeds to provide the answer. About the
Author A sought-after consultant, popular lecturer and
established author on technology, Stephen E. Arnold has six books and over 50 articles appearing in a wide range of media
to his credit. Among his books are five on the Internet, including Publishing on the Internet: A New Medium for a New
Millennium (1996) and New Trajectories of the Internet (2001). These books identify trends, impacts
and new technologies. His last book, The Enterprise Search Report, was a comprehensive overview of 28 search
solution providers and best practices. Arnold, who heads Arnold Information Technology, is based in the Louisville,
Kentucky, suburb of Harrod's Creek. He will be a keynote speaker and track coordinator for VNU's Online Information
international search conference held in London in fall 2005. The Google
Legacy (Infonortics, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England; www.infonortics.com; September 2005). Available in online PDF version
only; $180.00 per download at http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/google-legacy.html; 280 pages .
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