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Manpower Reports 2nd Quarter and First Half 2008 Results
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PR Newswire – Jul 18, 2008 1:07 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Manpower slides on outlook, sees weak Europe
Reuters - Employment services company Manpower Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday, but gave a disappointing forecast for the current period, sending its shares down 7 percent.
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Reuters - Employment services company Manpower Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday, but gave a disappointing forecast for the current period, sending its shares down 7 percent.
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Manpower second-quarter net falls 33 percent
Reuters - Employment services company Manpower Inc reported a 33 percent decline in quarterly profit on Friday, reflecting tax-related benefits in the year-earlier period, but the results beat expectations.
Yahoo! – Jul 18, 2008 12:03 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Reuters - Employment services company Manpower Inc reported a 33 percent decline in quarterly profit on Friday, reflecting tax-related benefits in the year-earlier period, but the results beat expectations.
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Manpower earns $1.34 a share in second quarter
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Manpower Inc. said Friday that it earned $107.4 million, or $1.34 a share, compared to $160.4 million, or $1.86 a share a year earlier. Revenue was $5.9 billion, an increase of 17% from the year-earlier period. "We are anticipating the third quarter of 2008 diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $1.45 to $1.49, which includes an estimated favorable currency impact of 17 cents," CEO Jeffrey Joerres stated.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
MarketWatch.com – Jul 18, 2008 11:49 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Manpower Inc. said Friday that it earned $107.4 million, or $1.34 a share, compared to $160.4 million, or $1.86 a share a year earlier. Revenue was $5.9 billion, an increase of 17% from the year-earlier period. "We are anticipating the third quarter of 2008 diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $1.45 to $1.49, which includes an estimated favorable currency impact of 17 cents," CEO Jeffrey Joerres stated.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
MarketWatch.com – Jul 18, 2008 11:49 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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NC Marine bases struggling with ID card jam
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Officials at Camp Lejeune say they are dealing with a temporary logjam as tens of thousands of Marines, their families and civilian workers renew identification cards.The base said Thursday it wants people needing an immediate renewal to come to one of the base's 11 stations and nearby Marine air stations. Those with two weeks or more before their card expires should schedule an appointment through the base Web site.Lejeune manpower officer Bill Joseph said Thursday the problem is being felt at many Marine bases because of temporary equipment issues. Several thousand people need renewals each week at Lejeune and waits are running two to four hours.The base has 40,000 active duty Marines and sailors, 49,000 family members and 4,500 civilian workers
WNCT.com – Jul 18, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Officials at Camp Lejeune say they are dealing with a temporary logjam as tens of thousands of Marines, their families and civilian workers renew identification cards.The base said Thursday it wants people needing an immediate renewal to come to one of the base's 11 stations and nearby Marine air stations. Those with two weeks or more before their card expires should schedule an appointment through the base Web site.Lejeune manpower officer Bill Joseph said Thursday the problem is being felt at many Marine bases because of temporary equipment issues. Several thousand people need renewals each week at Lejeune and waits are running two to four hours.The base has 40,000 active duty Marines and sailors, 49,000 family members and 4,500 civilian workers
WNCT.com – Jul 18, 2008 08:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Small Vermont Fire Depts. Face Manpower Shortage
Winooski is one example, where only 13 firefighters are available for an emergency response system authorized for 25.
WCAX-TV – Jul 16, 2008 10:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Winooski is one example, where only 13 firefighters are available for an emergency response system authorized for 25.
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Hundreds of jobs returning
It’s rare to see a manufacturer celebrate when several hundred jobs are moved between a U.S. factory and a foreign plant. But employees at DESA International on Industrial Drive had reason to cheer Tuesday when it was announced that the Bowling Green plant is set to regain hundreds of jobs that had previously been outsourced to China.Work at the plant was suspended temporarily Tuesday afternoon for a visit from Gov. Steve Beshear and several local elected and DESA officials to announce that DESA Heating Operations will move its manufacturing production back to Warren County.Beshear said the development was the result of months of meetings between the governor’s economic development cabinet and company officials.“This represents a reversal of direction,” Beshear said before about 600 cheering DESA employees. “This is a relocation of jobs in the local economy, but not the relocation we have gotten used to over the past several years.”Charles Schaut, vice president of human resources for DESA, said the jobs are concentrated in sheet metal fabrication, painting and light assembly in the company’s heating products division.DESA is working with temporary employment agency Manpower to find people to fill the new jobs - approximately 400, according to city documents.“This week we have had 51 new employees start in the positions through the help of Manpower,” Schaut said. “We want to have all the positions filled by mid-August, so we’re ramping up at a rapid rate.”The employees will be at DESA on a temporary status for their first 60 days there, at which point they will become eligible to join the Sheet Metal Workers Local 433 and become full-time employees, eligible to receive health and life insurance benefits, Schaut said.A new assembly line will be added and other lines that had been shut down will be restarted to accommodate the new hires, according to Schaut.Schaut could not say how much money DESA would save by bringing the manufacturing jobs to Bowling Green, but many of the officials who spoke Tuesday said that the expanded operations would create a capital investment of about $6.4 million in the state.Claude Hayes, president of DESA’s retail heating division, said several factors have worked to bring Asian manufacturing jobs - outsourced about three years ago - back to Kentucky.Hayes noted that the continuing rise in oil prices had vastly increased the cost to ship finished goods from China to Bowling Green.With the manufacturing operation returning to the U.S., a shipment that would normally take six to eight weeks to travel from China to one of DESA’s clients can now be moved in a day.“Freight costs that had been $3,600 last year increased to $5,200 in January,” Hayes said. “Today, the cost is at $5,400 and may be as much as $5,600 by the end of the month.”In addition to rising transportation costs tied to fuel prices, a recent rise in wages for Chinese workers and a weak U.S. dollar made for an exchange rate that created more economically favorable conditions for domestic manufacturing.Beshear said the reimportation of the jobs at DESA was emblematic of the state’s strategy to strengthen its manufacturing economy by working closely with established companies.“We can create many more new jobs faster by working with those (companies) we have and doing well by those we have so they can expand,” Beshear said.The governor said that 13.5 percent of Kentucky’s work force was in manufacturing as recently as 2006, and that the state’s manufacturing economy accounted for 97 percent of its exports and 18.7 percent of the state’s gross domestic produce - about $27 billion each year.“We are happy to export our goods, but we are particularly happy to import the jobs,” Beshear said.
Bowling Green Daily News – Jul 16, 2008 4:38 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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It’s rare to see a manufacturer celebrate when several hundred jobs are moved between a U.S. factory and a foreign plant. But employees at DESA International on Industrial Drive had reason to cheer Tuesday when it was announced that the Bowling Green plant is set to regain hundreds of jobs that had previously been outsourced to China.Work at the plant was suspended temporarily Tuesday afternoon for a visit from Gov. Steve Beshear and several local elected and DESA officials to announce that DESA Heating Operations will move its manufacturing production back to Warren County.Beshear said the development was the result of months of meetings between the governor’s economic development cabinet and company officials.“This represents a reversal of direction,” Beshear said before about 600 cheering DESA employees. “This is a relocation of jobs in the local economy, but not the relocation we have gotten used to over the past several years.”Charles Schaut, vice president of human resources for DESA, said the jobs are concentrated in sheet metal fabrication, painting and light assembly in the company’s heating products division.DESA is working with temporary employment agency Manpower to find people to fill the new jobs - approximately 400, according to city documents.“This week we have had 51 new employees start in the positions through the help of Manpower,” Schaut said. “We want to have all the positions filled by mid-August, so we’re ramping up at a rapid rate.”The employees will be at DESA on a temporary status for their first 60 days there, at which point they will become eligible to join the Sheet Metal Workers Local 433 and become full-time employees, eligible to receive health and life insurance benefits, Schaut said.A new assembly line will be added and other lines that had been shut down will be restarted to accommodate the new hires, according to Schaut.Schaut could not say how much money DESA would save by bringing the manufacturing jobs to Bowling Green, but many of the officials who spoke Tuesday said that the expanded operations would create a capital investment of about $6.4 million in the state.Claude Hayes, president of DESA’s retail heating division, said several factors have worked to bring Asian manufacturing jobs - outsourced about three years ago - back to Kentucky.Hayes noted that the continuing rise in oil prices had vastly increased the cost to ship finished goods from China to Bowling Green.With the manufacturing operation returning to the U.S., a shipment that would normally take six to eight weeks to travel from China to one of DESA’s clients can now be moved in a day.“Freight costs that had been $3,600 last year increased to $5,200 in January,” Hayes said. “Today, the cost is at $5,400 and may be as much as $5,600 by the end of the month.”In addition to rising transportation costs tied to fuel prices, a recent rise in wages for Chinese workers and a weak U.S. dollar made for an exchange rate that created more economically favorable conditions for domestic manufacturing.Beshear said the reimportation of the jobs at DESA was emblematic of the state’s strategy to strengthen its manufacturing economy by working closely with established companies.“We can create many more new jobs faster by working with those (companies) we have and doing well by those we have so they can expand,” Beshear said.The governor said that 13.5 percent of Kentucky’s work force was in manufacturing as recently as 2006, and that the state’s manufacturing economy accounted for 97 percent of its exports and 18.7 percent of the state’s gross domestic produce - about $27 billion each year.“We are happy to export our goods, but we are particularly happy to import the jobs,” Beshear said.
Bowling Green Daily News – Jul 16, 2008 4:38 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Mock crash is learning experience for departments, community
A mock crash was held recently at the Caesar’s Creek Flea Market. The Chester Township Fire Department planned the mock crash and was joined by the Massie Township Fire Department of Warren County. “This event was to demonstrate to the community the manpower that is needed in the event of a car accident,” said Rich Erbaugh, assistant chief of the Chester Township Fire Department. “It was also for training purposes.”
Wilmington News Journal – Jul 16, 2008 04:31 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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A mock crash was held recently at the Caesar’s Creek Flea Market. The Chester Township Fire Department planned the mock crash and was joined by the Massie Township Fire Department of Warren County. “This event was to demonstrate to the community the manpower that is needed in the event of a car accident,” said Rich Erbaugh, assistant chief of the Chester Township Fire Department. “It was also for training purposes.”
Wilmington News Journal – Jul 16, 2008 04:31 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Added Manpower Brings Changes To How Charlotte Crimes ProsecutedCity leaders said you'll be able to notice the changes over the next few months, and they hope it means the community will be safer.
WSOCTV.com – Jul 15, 2008 10:28 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Fortress Technologies Teams with Telos Corporation on Defense Manpower Data Center Identity Protection Program
Company Enables Secure Wireless Communications at U.S. Military Checkpoints Worldwide - - LANSDOWNE, Va. — July 2008 — Fortress Technologies, a leading provider of secure wireless solutions, today anno... [WebWire - Tuesday, July 15, 2008]
WebWire – Jul 15, 2008 4:09 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Company Enables Secure Wireless Communications at U.S. Military Checkpoints Worldwide - - LANSDOWNE, Va. — July 2008 — Fortress Technologies, a leading provider of secure wireless solutions, today anno... [WebWire - Tuesday, July 15, 2008]
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