| IDSS acquires security and alarms company Intact Electronics
ID Support Services Holdings Limited (IDSS) has acquired Bolton based Intact Electronics Limited for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Intact, a specialist security and alarms company, further broadens IDSSs service offering.
IDSS employs over 150 people and operates through two trading groups offering support services to blue chip, multi-site customers in the retail, leisure and commercial sectors. Customers include Sainsburys, TK Maxx, Next, Philips, Wilkinsons, Currys and PC World.
Intact Electronics Ltd will be re-branded as ID Intact and operate as a subsidiary of ID Technology Group.
The acquisition of Intact follows record financial performance by IDSS with the business last month announcing a 56% increase in profits to 1.7 million for the year to 30 June, on turnover up 28% to 18.8 million.
LOCAL ECONOMY: Staffing may have soft year Housing recovery's pace ...
Economists and employment consultants are predicting a soft year ahead for hiring in Las Vegas and Nevada, as sustained lethargy in the housing market combines with slow growth in the resort sector to cap expansion ambitions among area businesses. Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Center for Business and Economic Research are forecasting 2.1 percent job growth for Southern Nevada in 2008, while analysts at the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said they expect job formation to clock in at 1.9 percent statewide next year. Those numbers are well below the state's 5 percent and 6 percent job-growth rates of 2005 and 2006, but they're an improvement on the 1 percent pace of recent months. The employment department isn't expecting a dramatic turnaround in job growth because economists there predict new jobs in residential construction will be hard to come by for much of 2008.
June 2006
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Following fire, an outpouring of Old St. George memories
Rosalie Feldman grew up near Old St. George Church, went to grade school next door and got married there May 3, 1958. As she watched the church's twin spires burn on television, then collapse Friday night, Feldman was devastated. "We were able to go to daily Mass there," Feldman, who now lives in Forest Park, said Saturday. "One of the most beautiful things to me was the canopy above the altar and the life-sized crucifix." .
Selma Blair Returns as Liz Sherman
SHH!: Why are you carrying a gun? Isn't the fire enough? Blair: You'd think so. Talk to Guillermo about that. And it's really embarrassing. Obviously, I wouldn't pull this out if it weren't completely rubber, but yeah, it's really embarrassing that I spend so much time in this movie holding this gun up and I'm just like, to Abe/Doug, next to me, I'm like, "Jesus Christ, don't I have fire for this?" It's just a lot of time in the background with my gun drawn, like "I'd just blow him up. I'd just blow him up!" But I guess the movie would end, so here's the gun. SHH!: Were you involved with the New York fight we saw evidence of out on the backlot? Blair: I'm standing behind my man there. I'm not involved with it. I'm just kind of cheering him on and there to hold his hand when it's all over. SHH!: You could have caused that destruction yourself.
State Museum receives $500K gift from PSEG Foundation
A $500,000 gift from the PSEG Foundation will fund a new exhibit on global warming at the State Museum in Trenton, state officials said today. Gov. Jon Corzine, Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells and PSEG President Ralph Izzo made the announcement at the museum, which remains closed for a $14.5 million renovation that is more than two years behind schedule. The grant represents the largest gift yet to the $13 million fundraising campaign to purchase and install new exhibitions for the state-owned facility. With its initial payment of $125,000, PSEGs gift pushes total donations to about $400,000. No reopening date was announced at today's event. Wells - who previously promised the museum would open last fall - said only that construction should be finished "in a few months." Parts of the facility will reopen after that, she said.
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