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Wednesday August 5, 2009
Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG), whose home care division is a national leader in providing home infusion and respiratory services, has entered into a joint venture with Vanderbilt Medical Center, a Nashville-based comprehensive healthcare facility and a major patient referral center for the mid-South. The joint venture will operate under the name Vanderbilt Home Care, affiliated with Walgreens Infusion and Respiratory Services, and will be located in Brentwood, Tenn.
Beeline, the workforce solutions business unit of MPS Group, Inc. (NYSE:MPS), today announced another Ariba certification. Having attained Ariba Ready Invoice and Payment certification, Beeline continued to work with its client base and Ariba to achieve certification as Ariba(R) Ready(TM) Catalog PunchOut. Ariba Ready is a special designation awarded to suppliers that have demonstrated the ability to effectively transact with and provide content to organizations using Ariba Buyer(TM) through Ariba Supplier Network(TM).
Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO), the holding company for Assured Guaranty Corp. and Financial Security Assurance Inc. (”FSA”), announced today that Assured Guaranty Corp. and FSA guaranteed a combined par amount of approximately $3 billion of municipal bonds, in the month of July, representing 12.9% of new issue public finance volume. FSA, which was acquired by Assured on July 1, contributed $222 million of the par amount.
The USA Mutuals Generation Wave Growth Fund (Nasdaq: GWGFX) and the USA Mutuals Vice Fund (Nasdaq: VICEX), were rated by Lipper, Inc. as Lipper Leaders. The USA Mutuals Generation Wave Growth Fund was recognized as a Lipper Leader for Preservation as of 6/30/2009 (out of 9399 funds in the Equity asset class.) The USA Mutuals Vice Fund was recognized as a Lipper Leader for Total Return as of 6/30/2009 (out of 610 funds in the Multi-cap Core category.) The overall calculation is based on an equal-weighted average of percentile ranks for the Preservation and Total Return metrics over the three-, five-, and ten-year periods (if applicable.) Being recognized as a Lipper Leader is an important accomplishment. Lipper’s evaluation system only rates the top 20% of all funds in each category as a Lipper Leader.
NC4, Inc., the leader in Situational Readiness solutions for incident monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration, today announced participation as a first adopter in the Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) program. UICDS is a “middleware foundation” that will enable a broad array of technology vendors to share emergency management information across jurisdictions. Based on design criteria taken from the National Response Framework, National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System, the UICDS prototype reference implementation of the national architecture for emergency information sharing was successfully demonstrated at the Virginia Emergency Operations Center in late April. UICDS is sponsored by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and is being executed through a contract with prime contractor Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI)
Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. (AMEX: TLF) today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2009. Consolidated net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 was $761,000 compared to consolidated net income of $655,000 for the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 16%. Fully diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.07, compared to $0.06 in the second quarter of last year. Total sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 were $13.2 million, down 5% from $13.8 million in the second quarter last year.
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