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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:41:19 GMT
Fintage House Appoints Maria Forte Music Services to Work with Fintage Music in UK
Forte to focus on Publishing, Music Digital Rights and Artist Neighboring Rights.
LEIDEN, Netherlands, March 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Niels Teves, Co-CEO of Netherlands-based asset administration company Fintage House, has announced the appointment of Marte Forte Music Services Ltd (www.m40music.com) to work alongside the company's Fintage Music (www.fintagemusic.com) division in the UK.
Maria Forte has worked in the music industry for three decades, beginning at Virgin Music (Publishers) in the late 1970s and from there held various high calibre roles within a variety of organizations predominantly in the music publishing world, including positions at EMI Music Publishing, V2 and Sanctuary.
"I am truly delighted to have Maria Forte on board because I know that she will make a substantial contribution to our business and will prove an invaluable asset to our Music department," says Fintage House Co-CEO Niels Teves. "Maria will continue to operate from the UK and can offer up her extensive knowledge and understanding of the music industry. Maria has a wide range of contacts and a real instinct for where Fintage needs to be moving forward. I have no doubt that Maria will help take Fintage Music to even higher levels."
Maria Forte adds: "I have always believed in the importance of a good, solid, accurate, transparent and bespoke administration service for music industry artists and writers. Fintage Music accomplishes all of that and continually strives to give that certain edge that an artist or writer deserves to have in relation to the management of their copyrights and the service they receive. This effort is endemic throughout their company, resulting in the provision of truly exceptional services. I am really very pleased and excited to be working with Fintage Music and to be able to offer our combined experience and skill sets in the UK."
In July 2006 she created her own company, Maria Forte Music Services Ltd., offering consultancy and management services to music firms, artists, writers and music related business. She specializes in rights management and her clients, past and present, include a diverse mix of organizations, businesses and artists. From Warner Chappell Music for the PEDL initiative and also the Radiohead digital release campaign for "In Rainbows" to Amnesty International for their "Secret Policeman's Ball" and other music related projects, including more recently, Omnifone, the b2b digital music subscription service and Sandbag, a UK based ethical bespoke manufacturer of quality merchandise.
Forte has worked with many artists including Jazzie B, a relationship that has continued since her days at Virgin and The Wedding Present and their label Scopitones. She has just completed clearance work for the forthcoming Dreadzone album "Eye On The Horizon," having done the same for the Damian Lazarus album last year. Her consultancy has now grown to include representation of Fintage Music in the UK.
Fintage Music:
Fintage Music is a division of Fintage House (www.fintagehouse.com), the world's leading entertainment asset administration company. Fintage Music represents artists, songwriters, publishers and production companies and maximizes their royalties through efficient and transparent administration. Clients range from artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, The Killers, Beck, Katy Perry and Frank Zappa Estate to companies such as Nettwerk Music, Downtown Records, Lionsgate Music and MTV Networks.
NEWS SOURCE: Fintage Music
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TAGS: Fintage Music, Music and Recording Industry, Send2Press.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:51 GMT
USMotivation Announces VIVA Virtual Suite of Products
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- USMotivation announces VIVA as its latest and most exciting product designed to introduce new levels of innovation, expand reach and increase convenience for the way companies do business. VIVA, or Virtual Interactive Venue Assistant, creates virtual experiences and environments that can stand alone or complement any physical event.
USMotivation is a full-service incentive management company in the business of motivating and inspiring people to do their best. VIVA is a great addition to USMotivation's existing capabilities which include incentive and award strategies, group incentive travel and meeting services, creative communications and business analytics. USMotivation understands that virtual technology is an integral element of today's businesses, and by integrating incentive and recognition techniques with virtual technology, companies will be able to expand their reach to audiences around the world.
"As part of our ongoing effort to provide our clients with the most innovative tools today, we have recognized the need to incorporate virtual technology into everyday business," said Michael Ruege, executive vice president of sales and marketing at USMotivation. "Virtual technology makes it easy to bring people together, share knowledge and achieve success, whether it's a meeting, tradeshow or training event. And, building a 365-day, global environment offers a long-lasting opportunity for networking, learning, continuous in-depth communication and convenience."
For nearly 50 years, USMotivation has helped companies improve the performance of their employees and resellers and develop successful loyalty programs for their customers. By adding VIVA to an already robust suite of products and services, USMotivation is providing leadership with cutting-edge solutions that exceed the needs of clients today, while transitioning them to the business of tomorrow.
In order to bring VIVA to the marketplace and ensure it is run on the most powerful virtual platform available, USMotivation chose to partner with Chicago-based virtual events company InXpo. "Partnering with InXpo is a clear advantage and differentiator for USMotivation," said Ruege.
"Our vision is to empower businesses with simple, easy and powerful virtual technology which makes their organizations more nimble and flexible, while creating virtual experiences that deliver real business results," stated Drew VanVooren, President and co-founder of InXpo. "By combining USMotivation's expertise in motivating and incenting audiences with the power of our virtual events platform, we are providing businesses the ability to connect, engage and educate with their audiences in both physical and virtual environments."
About USMotivation:
Established in 1962 and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, USMotivation is a full-service incentive management company whose core business is designing and implementing strategic incentive solutions to meet the performance improvement needs of clients nationwide. USMotivation currently employs 110 full-time associates and develops fully customized programs to help businesses maximize performance and reach their potential.
USMotivation is the most award-winning incentive company in the industry. USMotivation's clients include Fortune 50 to Fortune 1000, covering all industries from automotive to healthcare to telecommunications. Visit www.usmotivation.com for more information.
About InXpo, Inc.:
InXpo is the leading provider of privately branded virtual events and virtual business environments that connect, engage and educate audiences. InXpo's full suite of solutions includes Virtual Trade Shows, Virtual Career Fairs, and Virtual Corporate Events, as well as Audio and Video Webcasts. These virtual solutions dramatically reduce travel time and related costs, in addition to making the world a greener place to live.
By using our privately branded virtual events, InXpo enables organizations to cost-effectively communicate with their worldwide communities for lead generation, peer-to-peer networking, training, internal and external communications, as well as generate new online revenue opportunities. InXpo has delivered more than 1,000 successful virtual events and experiences for global customers and publishers including AAA, Cisco, Forbes.com, HIMSS, GE Healthcare, PennWell, SAP, TechTarget and Ziff Davis Enterprises. The company is headquartered in Chicago. For more information, visit www.inxpo.com.
NEWS SOURCE: USMotivation
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TAGS: USMotivation, SaaS, CMS, and Web Software, Send2Press.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:32:56 GMT
Sofon and Business & Decision Sign Partnership Agreement for North America
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 5 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Sofon and Business & Decision today announce that they have signed a partnership for the marketing, sales and implementation of Sofon Guided Selling by Business & Decision in the North American market. Business & Decision, an international Consulting and Systems Integration company with over 2,700 employees worldwide, has added Sofon Guided Selling to its portfolio.
Sofon Guided Selling is a standard software solution for accelerating, simplifying and improving the sales and quotation process. Business & Decision will market this solution with focus on the Infor and Microsoft Dynamics AX market.
Ian Thurbon, VP Sales Strategy & Marketing from Business & Decision comments: "Sofon Guided Selling offers significant value in addition to our current ERP and CRM portfolio, especially in the area of customer specific sales. Sofon has proven its value in the North American market and has many references in combination with existing Infor and Microsoft ERP implementations". As Sofon provides a complete and standard solution for sales calculation, pricing, configuration and quotation generation, Sofon completes the business process coverage for our customers from first contact until maintenance and service."
Otto van der Tang, Managing Director at Sofon comments: "Our partnership with Business & Decision will help us to strengthen our position in the North American market. Their network and expertise offers us a significant opportunity to expand our customer base in our largest geographical target market. We view the partnership with Business & Decision as an important proof point that our software meets a significant market need."
About Business & Decision:
Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company. B&D is a leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and a major player in e-Business and Enterprise Information Management (EIM). Business & Decision contributes to the success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance. The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors. Located in 19 countries, Business & Decision currently employs more than 2,700 people worldwide.
Additional information is available at www.businessdecision.us.
About Sofon:
Sofon supplies sales support software under the name Sofon Guided Selling. Using Sofon, quotations, contracts, orders and other sales documents can be generated quickly, simply and accurately. Sofon Guided Selling supports needs analysis, calculation, configuration, pricing, visualization and document generation in any language needed. This reduces sales costs, shortens sales cycles, increases scoring rates, simplifies sales processes and improves cooperation between clients, dealers, sales, engineering and production. Sofon can be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, SAP, Salesforce and other market leading ERP and CRM solutions. Sofon users are middle-sized to large internationally-oriented companies who supply client-specific products or services, such as Philips Healthcare, Ricoh, Elekta Oncology Systems, and Aebi Schmidt. Sofon is located in the USA, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium and supports customers in over 50 countries.
Additional information is available at www.sofon.com.
NEWS SOURCE: Business and Decision, Inc.
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TAGS: Business and Decision, Inc., VAR and IT Consulting, Send2Press.
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:11:25 GMT
Maxx Merchants Announces New Partnership with PenSoft
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Maxx Merchants announced today that it has partnered with PenSoft to provide PenSoft's clients with merchant services. PenSoft is a leading manufacturer of payroll software designed to help small to mid-sized businesses and payroll service providers process payroll and related tax requirements faster, easier and more cost effectively. Through this partnership, PenSoft's clients will be able to accept credit cards and utilize other merchant services through the PenSoft software at a discounted rate.
This unique opportunity will allow PenSoft the opportunity to add quantifiable value to their clients through the addition of merchants services to their software services.
"PenSoft is committed to providing our clients with the best value in payroll software backed by program support that is unsurpassed in our industry. When reviewing the merchant program at Maxx, we discovered we are of the same mindset. They, too, are committed to providing their clients with the highest quality product at the lowest rate, and their services standards are unmatched in their industry," stated Leroy Newman, of PenSoft.
"We are pleased to extend our services to our clients to include credit card and wireless processing, ACH, eCheck and cash advance services, while maintaining the highest level of PCI compliance. In addition, we have the ability to offer our clients a package that will save them money on their processing costs," continued Mr. Newman.
"We are excited about incorporating our processing into PenSoft's software," stated Sean Burke, a founding partner of Maxx Merchants. "PenSoft if the kind of organization with which it is easy to form a partnership. They have a great reputation for producing a high quality product, and one of their main objectives is ensuring customer satisfaction. At Maxx, our goal is to help business thrive and grow. Through this partnership we can help PenSoft assure that their clients are receiving quality processing at a great price."
Maxx Merchants provides businesses with the latest equipment and technology in merchant processing services while maintaining the highest level of PCI compliance. Maxx Offices are individually owned, so we take the time to get to know our clients and provide them with a processing package that fits their needs as well as their budget.
To learn more please visit the PenSoft and/or Maxx Merchants Websites:
pensoft.com/services/electronicpayments.aspx.
maxxmerchants.com/pensoft.html.
NEWS SOURCE: Maxx Merchants
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TAGS: Maxx Merchants, Banking and Finance, Send2Press.
Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:18:02 GMT
Leading Bio Jet Fuel Players Team Up - Camelina Projects To Produce Renewable Jet Fuel Internationally
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 6 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- BioJet Corporation and Great Plains Oil & Exploration announced today that they have executed a Teaming Agreement for the purpose of producing renewable jet fuels. The companies plan to jointly develop integrated Camelina cultivation and associated refinery projects in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia.
BioJet will bring its international network and management experience in developing renewable jet fuel projects. Great Plains will provide its extensive experience in Camelina growth and processing. It is estimated that within 5 years, Camelina production from currently planned team projects will yield approximately 200 million gallons per year of renewable jet fuel, 65 million gallons per year of co-products, and 2.3 million tons per year of Camelina meal, for use as a high-quality animal feed.
Great Plains is the largest Camelina producer in the world and has extensive agronomic and genomic intellectual property with exclusive access to the majority of the world's Camelina germplasm. These strengths will allow Great Plains to identify the best proprietary varieties of Camelina for each teamed project location, thereby optimizing production yield. Great Plains has contracted approximately 85 percent of the Camelina acreage currently planted in North America and plans to rapidly expand its acreage in 2010 and beyond.
Sam Huttenbauer, CEO of Great Plains, said: "Affordable feedstock is the key to all biofuels, and due to Camelina's low inputs and high-quality meal by-product, it has tremendous potential to be competitive with petroleum jet fuel. The scale of these projects will allow this to happen quickly." It's expected that the majority of production from the teamed projects will be international. "This relationship greatly expands our bandwidth for international crop production, refining, sales and distribution, corporate finance, and carbon trading. We expect these capabilities to allow our company to rapidly produce Camelina-derived renewable jet fuel at competitive pricing."
BioJet is a leading international supply chain integrator in renewable jet fuel for the aviation sector. Its operations include feedstock generation, technology, refining, logistics, and distribution to end users in the aviation sector. In 2009, BioJet executed the world's largest take-or-pay contracts for Jatropha feedstock and forward sale of Bio-SPK jet fuel. Most recently, BioJet was selected by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels as the first implementation Pilot Company for Version 1 of the Principles of Sustainability. BioJet's strong international networks in the field of renewable jet fuel production will allow for integrated supply chain management from the teamed projects as well as access to large-scale acreage for Camelina growth.
BioJet CEO Mitch Hawkins commented: "We're very pleased to team up with Great Plains. We already control the world's largest quantities of Jatropha dedicated to jet fuel, and work in designer feedstocks and algae. This deal effectively triples our feedstock resources. It is a major step in the achievement of our goal of 20 million barrels per year of renewable jet fuel by 2020."
 Great Plains Oil & Exploration (Great Plains - The Camelina Company) is the renewable fuels company that pioneered the manufacturing and marketing of fuel and chemicals from Camelina. Great Plains has exclusive access to the majority of the world's Camelina germplasm and is the established leader in the field of Camelina agronomy and production. With over 12 years of Camelina development, Great Plains has developed a grower base and production facilities from which it produces and supplies commercial quantities of biofuel as well as high-protein, omega 3-rich animal feed. More information can be found at www.CamelinaCompany.com.
BioJet Corporation's objective is to be the international leader as supply chain integrator in renewable jet fuel for aviation. The Company is committed to utilizing any and all sustainable and economically viable feedstocks in the fulfillment of its mission. BioJet has a strong, experienced management team with a clear strategic vision, and has put in place the feedstock, refining, sustainability, management, sales, and logistics infrastructure to achieve effective, rapid growth and significant market share. More information: www.biojetcorp.com.
NEWS SOURCE: BioJet Corporation
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TAGS: BioJet Corporation, Energy, Oil and Gas, Send2Press.
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:40:57 GMT
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