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National Investment Managers Inc., a nationally based and regionally operated retirement plan administration and investment management company, today posted its 2009 revenue and earnings. The company reported full-year revenues of $48.1 million in 2009, up 15.5 percent compared to revenues of $41.7 million for 2008; full year EBITDA SBC was $9.1 million, up 14 percent compared with EBITDA SBC of $8.0 million in the same period in 2008; net operating income for 2009 was reported at $1.4 million compared to approximately $62,000 for the full year 2008. The company reported a net loss for the year ended December 31, 2009,…
Pope Resources reported net income of $0.45 million, or $0.10 per diluted unit, in the first quarter of 2010, compared to a net loss of $0.12 million, or $0.03 per diluted unit, in the same quarter of 2009. The management of Pope Resources indicated that the domestic housing market was still weak, but that domestic and export markets for logs were seeing some strength in orders. David L. Nunes, the CEO of Pope Resources, said, “Despite continued weak domestic housing starts, we were encouraged by improving market dynamics in both domestic and export log markets.” Pope said that the company…
Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC reported net income of $21.7 million, or $1.15 per basic unit, in the first quarter of 2010. The company reported a loss of $50.0 million, or $3.98 per basic unit, in the same quarter of 2009. Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC reported average production of 26.06 million cubic feet equivalent per day in the first quarter of 2010, an increase of 46% from the average of 17.82 million cubic feet equivalent per day in the first quarter of 2009. The company said that increase in production on a year over year basis was due mainly to an…
KAT Exploration, Inc. announced this morning that it has accepted a drill contract tender from Cabo Drilling to drill 15 holes of 1200 meters. The drilling will take place on KAT’s Handcamp property in Newfoundland and is scheduled to commence on the second week of May. Cabo Drilling Corp. is an international mineral and specialty drilling services provider headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia with division offices in key mining districts across Canada and internationally. Cabo Drilling (Atlantic) Corp. is based in Springdale, Newfoundland. KAT announced previously in a press release on March 1, 2010 that they have discovered significant…
National Automation Services, Inc. is a holding company headquartered in Henderson, Nevada and renowned as a systems integrator in the industrial controls marketplace (i.e., a producer of electrical control systems from design to implementation) which is squarely focused on a unique growth-by-acquisition strategy developed along guidelines which ensure success by meeting the Company’s optimum goal of having six, high-caliber regional leaders in its portfolio by the end of this year. Pursuant to this agenda, NASV is rigorously vetting a multiplicity of potential opportunities, including strategic businesses, services or technologies which will allow the company to seize efficiency optimizations and fully…
Chemical Financial Corp., the bank holding company with 144 offices in 32 of Michigan’s counties – where it is the third largest bank holding company by size – disclosed details today regarding the Apr. 30 finalization of the Company’s acquisition of the O.A.K. Financial Corporation (OAK, the holding company for Byron Bank). The close of the transaction sees CHFC standing with assets totaling $5.1B and loans to $4.2B, having issued some 3,530,129 of common stock to former OAK shareholders and converting to CHFC all outstanding OAK stock options (estimated fair value ~$100k). As of Mar. 31 Byron Bank had assets…
Houston-based TPC Group Inc. has an operating history of nearly 70 years. The company is a leading producer of value-added products derived from niche petrochemical raw materials. TPC Group sells its products and services into a wide range of performance, specialty and intermediate markets. These markets include synthetic rubber, fuels, lubricant additives, plastics and surfactants. As North America's largest producer of finished butadiene and the largest producer of butene-1, companies around the globe rely on TPC Group as a dependable supplier for hydrocarbon processing and other specialty chemicals. The company is also the sole producer of chemical grade disobutylene in…
Micro Identification Technologies Inc., a company in the process of revolutionizing the pathogenic bacteria identification process, has a technology which is capable of saving thousands of lives. In just one area of application, the prevention of food-borne illness, MIT’s unique laser based system designed for quick and easy identification of a wide variety of deadly bacteria could have a huge impact on the billions of dollars and thousands of human lives lost annually. It comes as a shock when people first learn about the numbers behind food-borne disease, and the risks involved in our increasingly global food supply system. Living…
Some investment opportunities are slow to get rolling. In some cases the idea has just not found the right timing, while in other instances government gets in the way. Eventually each opportunity finds its place with those that stuck with it. Stem cell applications are such a market that may have found their time. Neostem Inc., an adult stem cell development company, offers stem cell collection, storage and application services primarily in the United States and China. Additionally, the company offers prescriptive products in China and is developing a network of stem cell collection centres across the US. The company…
