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ThursdayJun 05, 2008 10:02 am

Define Your Own Benefits

Research indicates that retirees tend to be happier with a defined-benefit pension than they are with a comparable amount of wealth in a retirement account. Everyone wants to be a happy retiree someday, but there’s a big problem: traditional defined-benefit pension plans are going the way of the covered wagon. The number of private-sector pension plans has dwindled from an all-time high of 112,000 in 1985 to a mere 30,000 plans in 2007. The aforementioned retiree happiness is probably not due to actual participation in a pension plan, but rather to the guaranteed income that such a plan provides. Here’s…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 9:55 am

Subsidiary of Capital City Energy Group (CETG.OB) Acquires Osage Wireline, Inc.

Earlier this week, it was announced that a subsidiary of Capital City Energy Group, Eastern Well Services, signed a letter of intent to acquire Osage Wireline, Inc. The cash and stock acquisition is expected to produce immediate benefits, including a postulated increase in gross revenues of around forty percent. Eastern Well Services is a fast-growing oil and gas service entity with projects in both the United States and Africa. The company provides fracturing, cementing, logging, perforating, and well testing services for oil and natural gas companies. This latest acquisition will broaden Eastern's wireline ability, which is the use of a…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 9:54 am

Emerging Media Holdings, Inc. (EMDH.OB) Now Listed on Standard & Poor’s Information Service

Emerging Media Holdings is a radio and television broadcasting company with a majority market share in the Republic of Moldova. Today it was announced that its company information will now be available through Standard & Poor's Market Access Program. S&P's program allows subscribing businesses to have crucial company data distributed to individuals who are utilizing its Advisor Insight service. The range of this information covers price, volume, shares outstanding, earnings, and dividends. Also included in the program will be a detailed description of Emerging Media Holdings to be published in the daily news section of Standard Corporation Records, a trading…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 7:46 am

China Organic Agriculture Inc. (CNOA.OB) Continues Expansion Plans in a Solid and Growing Domestic Chinese Market

Investing in the commodities markets is always a risky adventure in the best of times. Add in a few bad years or weather or economic conditions, and the scenario can get either incredibly profitable or disastrously damaging. Add to that scene a commodity that the world considers its staple food source and anything can happen, unless one has positioned themselves to account for the most improbable profit situations. China Organic Agriculture Inc., an organic rice grower and wholesale marketer, serves the domestic Chinese rice markets through company-leased rice properties, buying from family-leased rice operations, buying on the open market, and…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 7:44 am

ForeverGreen Corp. (FVRG.OB) Expanding Distribution

Due to increased sales in Mexico and new distributors in the North American market, ForeverGreen, a manufacturer and distributor of all-natural whole foods, announced today that they are expanding distribution. While Mexico is still in the pre-launch stage, and leadership and distribution continues to be established in the region, the Mexican market is growing monthly and has recently become the company’s fourth largest sales market. To officially launch ForeverGreen in Mexico, the company plans on hosting opening events later this summer, as well as introducing the company’s energy drink ElectriFire™. According to the company, ElectriFire™ is an exclusive combination of…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 5:59 am

U.S. Concrete Inc. (RMIX) – A Concrete Plan for Growth

U.S. Concrete Inc. believes they are poised for future growth and that their innovative concrete products and dedication to superior customer service will drive this growth for years to come. Based in Houston, Texas, they serve the U.S. construction industry, operating two segments of their concrete business. The precast concrete segment of their business produces products in 10 plants in four states, including seven in California. They make their precast concrete with concrete cast in a reusable mold or "form". They then cure this concrete in a controlled environment and transport them to construction sites where workers lift them into…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 5:57 am

United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) – Distributing Healthy Goods

You know you're doing something right when Fortune Magazine ranks you as one of their "Most Admired Companies" for the past two years. That honor continues to inspire United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) to better performance for their customers and shareholders alike. Headquartered in Dayville, Connecticut, United is the largest, publicly traded wholesale distributor to the natural and organic foods industry. Trading on NASDAQ as part of the Food Wholesale business sector, they carry and distribute over 40,000 products to more than 17,000 customers in the United States. They serve traditional supermarket chains, natural products superstores, independent health food retailers,…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 5:54 am

Intelligentias Inc. (ITLI.OB) Partnering With Industry Leaders in the Technology Equipment and Software Fields

Intelligentias Incorporated is a data retention and management company that provides data capture, archiving, and tracing solutions for telephone companies, ISP's, enterprises, and law enforcement agencies all over the world. Intelligentias has a long history of developing solutions for the demanding environment of large communications service providers dating back to 1991. Since their founding, Intelligentias has been evolving in many ways to become a leader in the field, and has even become a pioneer in using data retention in criminal investigations. The bulk of Intelligentias business comes from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East because…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 5:10 am

mPhase Technologies Inc. (XDSL.OB)’s Nanotechnology Brings Batteries Out Of the Dark Ages

In 1869, the custom-made horse drawn buggy was the most modern of transportation vehicles. Yet in just 100 years, the technology of travel advanced so far that we placed a man on the moon. These leaps in technological prowess have to be counted in multiple factors of ten, from those early days of horse drawn travel to our present standard of supersonic flight. Likewise the transistor, developed in just 1947, consisted of over half an inch square of wires, coils, and connections. Yet in just 50 years it was shrunk down to a mere 20 atoms wide at its thinnest…

ThursdayJun 05, 2008 4:14 am

The Oases of Conglomerates in Arid Stock Market Times

Bull runs show diversification in poor light. The Conglomerates Sector is a nearly inevitable victim when one or the other industry experiences a surge in demand. Diversified companies cannot refocus their resources to leverage such opportunities fully. The shoe changes feet in troubled stock investing times. A conglomerate has best chances of surviving a depression. Diversification is also a meaningful hedge against rampant inflation. This approach can help in stock investing as well. The herd mentality is a bane of stock investing. We pour hard-earned capital to copy what the media and stock brokers tell us others do. The benefits…

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