Dreaming of a Green Holiday
December 7th 2009
(December 7, 2009) – The holiday season is now in full swing – and along with good holiday cheer comes a lot of extra waste. Americans throw away 25 percent more trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s as compared to any other time of the year. The extra waste amounts to about 1.2 million extra tons per week (or an extra 6 million tons during the entire holiday season) and is being predicted to be roughly the same for this year even in light of the economic downturn. (continue reading…)
Catalogs.com Website Test Delivers Revenue Boost
November 6th 2009
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Catalogs.com, the Internet’s authority on online catalog shopping, recently worked with WebShare, a Google authorized consultant, to design and run a series of experiments aimed at increasing website performance. The company observed a 7.4 percent increase in total revenue with an 11 percent increase in catalog orders. For businesses that are leveraging the web, small changes to an existing site can deliver significant results.(continue reading…)
IBM and Consert Help North Carolinians Reduce Energy Consumption With Smart Grid Technology
September 21st 2009
Fayetteville and Raleigh, N.C. – September 21, 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Consert today announced the completion of smart grid pilot project installations with nearly 100 commercial and residential participants partnering with the Fayetteville Public Works Commission (FPWC) in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The pilot has helped local businesses and residents actively participate in the monitoring and control of their energy usage with savings of up to 40 percent. (continue reading…)
Father-son team revs up a showroom, e-commerce site
August 24th 2009
When Rafael Jorge decided to add retail to his wholesale automotive aftermarket business, he didn’t do it half-heartedly. First there’s a modernistic $5 million, 15,000-square-foot showroom along West Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Next, he’s spending $250,000 to launch an e-commerce site that will offer 1,500 products. That’s not bad for a 53-year-old guy who was a dishwasher and construction laborer when he scraped together $600 to buy his first car, a 1964 Chevelle. Go into his Specialty Automotive Treatments (SAT) showroom these days and you can see the Bentley that Jorge drives when he wants to show a little flash – although his day-to-day cars are a bit more sedate. What really brings him joy, though, is his son, Rafael Jorge Jr., who leads the retail operations after earning an MBA from the University of Miami. (continue reading…)
RoboVault - The $22 million high tech-security storage facility opens in Fort Lauderdale today.
June 17th 2009
A new era in self-storage has arrived in South Florida with the opening of RoboVault, a high tech-security facility located near Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. (continue reading…)