CKR Interactive Makes the 2010 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing U. S. Companies

CKR Interactive Makes the 2010 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing U. S. Companies

Recruitment marketing agency CKR Interactive makes the fourth annual Inc. 5000 list, a prestigious honor awarded to successful, growing U. S. companies.

(PRWEB) August 30, 2010

Global recruitment marketing agency (http://www. ckrinteractive. com) CKR Interactive recently received recognition on the 2010 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing U. S. companies. The agency has continued to grow since its launch in 2001 despite the dot. com bust and the current tumultuous economy, and this is the second year in a row that the agency has made the list.

The fourth annual Inc. 5000 (http://www. inc. com/inc5000) list shows impressive increases in the number of firms that cater to government. The Government Services sector showed the biggest gain in terms of the number of companies on the list, up 33 percent from last year to 335 companies. Government Services was also the second-fastest growing sector in terms of median revenue growth, posting a 202 percent gain over the 2006-2009 measuring period. CKR Interactive provides recruitment marketing services and solutions to the government realm as well as a variety of other verticals including the healthcare/biopharm, high tech and hospitality/food service industries.

Once again, California topped the Inc. 5000 with the most companies of any state with 684. The Golden State is followed by Texas (404), New York (353), Virginia (293), and Florida (262). All 50 states, plus Washington, D. C. and Puerto Rico, are represented on this year's list.

"The leaders of the companies on this year's Inc. 5000 have figured out how to grow their businesses during the longest recession since the Great Depression," said Inc. president Bob LaPointe. "The 2010 Inc. 5000 showcases a particularly hardy group of entrepreneurs."

"We are honored to be recognized on this year's Inc. 5000 list," shared President/CEO Curtis Rogers. "We could not have done it without the support of our outstanding clients, innovative employees and dedicated business partners. Our inclusion on the Inc. 5000 list is a testament to our continued efforts to provide cutting-edge solutions that enable our clients to optimize their recruitment marketing and employer branding efforts."

The Inc. 5000 site details CKR Interactive's 28 percent growth over the past three years with revenue of $12.4 million in 2009, showing the agency's success in the recruitment advertising and marketing industry. The agency currently has eight offices throughout the United States and provides clients with integrated, global recruitment advertising solutions (http://www. ckrinteractive. com/global. php) via the OneAgent joint venture.

For additional information about CKR Interactive's recruitment marketing services and solutions, please contact Skye Callan, CKR Interactive's Interactive Marketing Director, at: 408-517-1400.

About CKR Interactive
Founded in 2001, CKR Interactive is a global recruitment marketing agency delivering comprehensive services to today's employers. Focusing on interactive solutions, the firm's areas of expertise also include research and planning, creative development and marketing communications. With offices throughout California, Arizona, Texas, New York and Florida, and OneAgent partner agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, China and India, the award-winning firm's growing list of clients represents a range of industries, from healthcare/biopharm and high tech to government and hospitality/food service.

About Inc. Magazine
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (http://www. inc. com (http://www. inc. com)) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today's innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 712,647, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology.

This press release was distributed through PR Web by Human Resources Marketer (HR Marketer: www. HRmarketer. com) on behalf of the company listed above.

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Maas Global Solutions Expands its Suite of Payment Processing Services by Signing a Third Party Organization Marketing Agreement with TSYS Merchant Solutions

Maas Global Solutions Expands its Suite of Payment Processing Services by Signing a Third Party Organization Marketing Agreement with TSYS Merchant Solutions

Maas Global Solutions Corporation today announced it has signed a TPO Marketing Agreement with TSYS Merchant Solutions, LLC and will begin to offer their full suite of credit card processing services to U. S.-based businesses beginning immediately.

Las Vegas, NV (Vocus/PRWEB) January 20, 2011

This commitment is part of Maas Global Solutions’ corporate strategy to create a high volume, highly available and imminently secure transaction-processing platform dedicated to providing state of the art transaction processing services to businesses around the world. This new relationship will also enable MGS to offer its Agents, Sub-ISO’s and our own base of customer’s additional payment network connectivity options while keeping our rates universally competitive. The addition of TSYS Merchant Solutions’ processing services further expands the best-in-class capabilities of our wholly owned and operated Paymentsite Payment Platform and facilitates the delivery of the Company’s innovative electronic payment solutions, further strengthening MGS’s position as a major player in the Transaction Processing industry.

This agreement with TSYS Merchant Solutions offers MGS, and by extension, our partners and customers the following:
 A more complete range of payment processing solutions that enables the targeting of a wide range of businesses  Comprehensive sponsorship into all the major payment card networks  Connectivity to the FNA network for authorizations via the Internet and TSYS for authorizations via terminal solutions.  Online Application support to ensure accuracy and timeliness of new account set-ups  Faster application approvals  State-of-the-art underwriting and risk monitoring technologies

In support of this new relationship, MGS offers a multi use Online Application where brick and mortar and online merchants can quickly and easily sign up to accept Visa®, MasterCard®, Discover®, American Express® and/or ACH / Check processing services along with Paymentsite, our proprietary Payment Gateway & Virtual Terminal.

Paymentsite connects businesses to the TSYS Merchant Solutions Payment Processing network and provides the secure and reliable infrastructure necessary for safe and accurate transmission of transaction data. In the retail environment, Paymentsite operates just like a traditional point of sale credit card terminal however it connects via the Internet instead of a phone line. Unlike simple credit card terminals that may only connect to a PIN pad for Debit transactions, Paymentsite also supports check readers to automate acceptance of paper checks in both the front and back office.

Merchants log into a secure Paymentsite web site to generate reports, manage transactions, view and configure account settings, review account statements and much more. There is no software to buy or maintain and the cost is generally less than most merchants pay to rent a credit card terminal.

MGS has also developed “purpose built” payment portals for schools, property managers and B2B businesses that operate in both the retail and ecommerce environments.

About Maas Global Solutions (MGS): has been providing transaction-processing solutions since 1989 where we participated in the pre-Internet small network world by installing networks, hardware and software solutions as well as custom software development for both retail and wholesale business models. Throughout the initial Internet growth period we integrated business systems, processes and external partner systems into a common fabric leveraging the Internet as part of the network. Today, we are actively participating in the second wave of Internet growth - the formalization of the Internet as a strategic part of any company infrastructure.

In the late 1990’s Troy Maas, our founder with his team of engineers built the LinkPoint Payment Gateway for Cardservice International, the first truly high volume, high availability Internet Payment Gateway that is now the First Data Global Gateway. MGS brought the key players from that effort back together to build the Paymentsite product set focused on bringing market success to both MGS and our reseller partners.

MGS owns and operates a technologically advanced data center that is Payment Card Industry (PCI) Level I, SAS 70 and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) certified, with a 2nd fail-over data center capable of maintaining operations.

Maas Global Solutions Corporation is a registered ISO/MSP of First National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, NE

TSYS Merchant Solutions is a top 10 payment processor providing unmatched service and solutions to businesses across North America. For more than 50 years, customers have relied on our expertise and dedication to meet their long-term business and processing needs.

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Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP, CA Based Employment Law Firm, Announces Addition of Employee Benefits Practice

Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP, CA Based Employment Law Firm, Announces Addition of Employee Benefits Practice

Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP ("CDF") announced today it has established a new Employee Benefits Practice Group. Harley Bjelland has joined the firm as a partner and will chair this valuable edition to the firm's employment practice specialties. CDF is a 30 attorney labor and employment law firm that represents employers throughout California in employment litigation and counseling.

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) September 11, 2009

(Orange County, CA (PRWEB) September 11, 2009) Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP ("CDF") is pleased to announce that Harley L. Bjelland (http://www. cdflaborlaw. com/view_attorney. php? id=106&name=) has joined the firm as a partner and will chair the firm's employee benefits practice. Mr. Bjelland is one of California's preeminent employee benefits attorneys with nearly 30 years of experience. Mr. Bjelland will be based in the firm's Orange County office.

"CDF is pleased to have Harley join our firm. The addition of this practice area and Harley's experience expands our firm's capabilities to serve California employers in all aspects of labor and employment law," said Marie DiSante, one of the firm's founding partners.

Mr. Bjelland's practice focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation, including qualified retirement plans, 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans, defined benefit pension plans, health and welfare benefit plans, and executive perquisites. He also has extensive experience with tax exempt, governmental, and church benefits.

"With my expertise in the employee benefits arena, combined with CDF's labor and employment practice, we will offer California employers a full range of services for all of their employment needs," said Harley Bjelland.

About the Firm: Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP represents employers in employment related matters throughout California and maintains offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. For more information about the firm visit CDF website (http://www. cdflaborlaw. com). For more information about California labor and employment law developments, visit CDF CA Labor Law Blog.

Local Business Gains National Recognition: ESPS Named Among Maryland's Top 50 Woman Owned Businesses For Second Year

Local Business Gains National Recognition: ESPS Named Among Maryland's Top 50 Woman Owned Businesses For Second Year

In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness. com, the nations’ leading multicultural internet site, recently named Eastern Shore Psychological Services (ESPS) as one of the top 50 small and woman/ diversity owned businesses in Maryland (Div50) for the second year. ESPS engages in a variety of activites including direct mental health services, research, training, and consulting. ESPS developed the CARE: Child and Adolescent Risk Evaluation, completed a ground-reaking study on school-based mental health services, and created 2 self-help CD and Journal sets and one training DVD on Disrupted Attachment Patterns.

Salisbury, MD (PRWEB) November 5, 2005

In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness. com, the nations’ leading multicultural internet site, recently named Eastern Shore Psychological Services as one of the top 50 small and woman/ diversity owned businesses in Maryland (Div50) for the second year.

The Div50 is the 6th annual listing of MD’s top 50 small and woman/diversity owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from $1,000,000 to over $156,000,000, the companies listed on the Div50 represent MD’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a diversity-owned business is small or insignificant. Div50 members are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with small businesses.

The Impact of Small Business

Major corporations wishing to increase market share realize it is no longer just “the right thing” to do business with small businesses. Affected by recent economic and demographic trends and changes, corporations throughout the country have recognized that buying products and services from small companies positively impacts their business.

“Small businesses are a growing force in the U. S. economy, and a force to be reckoned with,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness. com. “It’s no longer only about the Fortune 1000. This is a whole business segment that can carry its own, that provides jobs, products and services, and generates wealth for their communities. These are the new leaders in American business.”

“We bring significant economic, product, and service strengths to our community.” Dr. Kathryn Seifert said of her organization. From humble beginnings with 5 staff, we continue to be dedicated and hard-working. We now employ over 80 people. We are living proof that the American Dream is still alive and well.”

The Div50

The Div50 is a classification that represents the top 50 small businesses in Maryland in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Large organizational buyers throughout the country that do business with small businesses use the list. The Div50 is produced annually by DiversityBusiness. com, the nation's leading multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to small businesses offering various products and services.

The winning companies will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness. com’s 6th Annual Multicultural Business Conference, taking place March 29 – March 31, 2006 at the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“The Div50 companies are the heroes of small businesses in MD,” said Kenton Clarke. “While Fortune magazine lists the best companies for minorities to work for, we list the top small businesses. These are the people that have conquered the hurdles and made the sacrifices, building and strengthening their communities, providing jobs and helping to keep the fabric of the U. S. economy together.”

For the complete list of winning companies, please visit:

Www. diversitybusiness. com

About Eastern Shore Psychological Services

Eastern Shore Psychological Services (ESPS) is a multi-program organization providing treatment, education, and evaluation services for residents of the Eastern Shore, as well as research an consulting services, nationally. As an agency, ESPS has focused on and specialized in providing programs and services targeted for children, adolescents, and their families; especially the emotionally disturbed, behaviorally disordered, victimized and resistant youth. ESPS is currently providing services to our community through 3 Service Divisions: the Consultation, Research, and Training Programs, our Child and Family Oriented Programs and the Behavioral Accountability Program. ESPS developed the CARE (Child and Adolescent Risk Evaluation) published by Research Press. The organization has also completed a groundbreaking study of school-based mental health services. Soulight Publishing has released 2 self-help CD and journal sets and one training DVD on Disrupted Attachment Patterns by Dr. Seifert. Also recently published was a book of poetry by Jim Hyde about his long-time struggle with and survival from the major life disruption of AIDS. The Seifert Enrichment Centre opened an art gallery for local artists that is available to the public at no cost.

About DiversityBusiness. com

Launched in 1999, with over 30,000 members DiversityBusiness. com is the largest organization of diversity-owned businesses throughout the United States that provide goods and services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and colleges and universities. Members use the sites technology to find and track new business opportunities. It also produces the country’s largest conference on diversity education and training for major corporations and small business. Its research on top businesses appears in Fortune, Forbes and numerous magazines and media publications. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. DiversityBusiness. com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii. com) of Southport, CT. CCA was founded in 1980 by CEO Kenton Clarke.

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DuPont Offers Secure and Reliable Shipping Solution for Global Customers

DuPont Offers Secure and Reliable Shipping Solution for Global Customers

DuPont™ Tyvek® envelopes chosen by India Post for Speed Post and Insured Post.

New Delhi, India (Vocus) August 14, 2008

DuPont today announced its latest partnership to develop customized solutions for shipping and posting consumer and business packages. The company is working with India Post to create protective envelopes for its Speed Post and Insured Post services -- the first such offerings in India.

Made of DuPont™ Tyvek® brand protective material, a nonwoven innovation from DuPont, the envelopes provide security and protection for their contents. Tyvek® has unique qualities including resistance to water, tears and abrasion, soft and smooth textures for printability, light weight and customized tamper-evident features.

DuPont™ Tyvek® envelopes are used around the world by shipping companies and postal authorities, including the U. S. Postal Service and French La Post, among others. The lighter weight of Tyvek®, as compared to paper products, helps lower operating costs by keeping mail volumes below weight thresholds and by assuring that mail arrives securely, wherever the destination.

"Every day DuPont™ Tyvek® envelopes help millions of consumers and businesses, organizations and institutions by delivering high quality and reliable performance," said Barry M. Granger, vice president and general manager -- DuPont Nonwovens. "DuPont has used its innovative science to create solutions for India Post with the lightweight strength and durability Tyvek® envelopes can deliver."

"With the introduction of the new DuPont™ Tyvek® speed post envelopes, customers will find it convenient to send documents and letters through Speed Post. We expect this to enhance growth for our Speed Post business, which currently deals with 1.7 crore (10.7 million) consignments per month and grew by about 30 percent last year," said John Samuel, general manager - business development, India Post.

The customized DuPont™ Tyvek® envelopes will improve the protection and reliability offered by Speed Post and Insured Post services of India Post to its users. The envelopes initially will be sold at the post offices and then as customized Tyvek® envelopes for corporate customers. They will be available at 290 Speed Post Centres in India's national network and across more than 1,000 Speed Post Centres in the state network. The Speed Post service, launched more than 20 years ago by India Post, is a leader in its segment with business customers -- a key market.

Tyvek® properties make it ideal for use across diverse markets and industries, including protective garments, envelopes, tags and labels, indoor and outdoor signs and banners, sterile medical and industrial packaging as well as bags, maps and car covers. Additional Tyvek® applications include construction products such as Tyvek® HomeWrap®, which increases comfort and reduces energy costs by sealing a home's envelope; ThermaWrap™, which improves the reflection of radiant energy in wall systems; and Tyvek® AtticWrap™, which is the first breathable roofing membrane to create an airtight envelope.

DuPont is a science company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel.

The DuPont Oval Logo, DuPont™, The miracles of science™ and Tyvek® are registered trademarks or trademarks of DuPont or its affiliates.

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New Healthy Diet Book Aims to Combat Obesity and Eliminate the Need for Diet Pills

New Healthy Diet Book Aims to Combat Obesity and Eliminate the Need for Diet Pills

An alternative healthy weight-loss book promoting the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ has recently been launched to try and help fight the increasing number of obese people in Britain and America.

London, UK (PRWEB) June 6, 2006

An alternative healthy weight-loss book promoting the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ has recently been launched to try and help fight the increasing number of obese people in Britain and America.

Obesity is now recognised as a serious problem affecting many populations around the world. In fact the governments in Great Britain, Europe and the US have put it, and its associated conditions such as ‘type 2 diabetes’, at the top of their public health agendas. The news that obesity-related procedures have quadrupled since 2000 as well as recent stories such as the 34 stone teenage girl from Scotland who last week underwent radical stomach surgery have highlighted the gravity of the situation.

But how will these governments deal with this problem? By promoting healthy meals? Emphasising the benefits of a daily exercise routine? Banning the advertising of ‘junk food’? No! As always they look to the money hungry vultures that run the pharmaceutical industry to develop another new ‘wonder drug’.

In fact, a newly developed anti-obesity pill that market observers say could become the world's biggest-selling drug is close to getting approval from the European Commission. They are predicting sales of over 4 billion dollars by the year 2010 and of course a large portion of this money will go straight to the governments’ back pockets via taxes. This product is basically a form of stealth tax designed to target a number of heavily over-weight populations.

"In the blue sky scenario, this could become the world's best-selling drug as the indication is so broad". "It has a path to revenues that we rarely ever see from a pharma product."… A recent quote from a top pharmaceutical executive.

Will these new pills offer a long term solution to obesity though? This is extremely unlikely and we have also yet to here what the side effects of taking this pill will be. Watch this space!

The good news, however, is that there is an alternative for those people searching for a healthy way to lose weight. It comes in the form of a Mediterranean Diet. This nutritional concept includes a high consumption of fruit, vegetables, fish and grains, a medium consumption of olive oil and a low consumption of red meat, dairy products and saturated fats.

The Mediterranean diet is probably the most realistic and safest way not only to lose weight, but to also help prevent serious diseases such as cancer and heart disease. In fact the ‘American Heart Association’ refers to the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ as the ‘gold standard’ in heart disease prevention and could greatly reduce the numbers of cardiovascular disease sufferers which currently runs at over 72 million in America alone. The most recent research has also shown that the Mediterranean diet also appears to reduce the risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Subscribers to this new book will be able to unlock the little known secrets of healthy weight-loss by implementing this simple but highly effective dieting strategy. They will be taught how to lose weight permanently without the use of drugs, ‘fad’ diets and weight-loss pills.

Unlike other versions of the Mediterranean diet, this one has been specially designed to fully maximise its benefits by providing an easy step by step plan that absolutely anyone can use.

To find out more, visit the website at:www. mediterraneandietsecrets. com

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Mayo Clinic Announces Startling New Sinus Discovery

Mayo Clinic Announces Startling New Sinus Discovery

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have published a new finding that explains why sinus disease persists despite so many new drugs.

(PRWEB) August 10, 2005

Jens Panikau, sinus researcher at Mayo Clinic, has published a new finding that explains why sinus disease persists despite so many new drugs. Dr Panikau found that the main cause of sinus symptoms was that the eosinophiles – your special cells that defend your body against infection, - get into the mucus and produce a toxic product called MBP that is made in order to kill bacteria. Unfortuantely, among sinus sufferers, there is an excess of this MBP in the mucus that also damages the cells of the nose and impairs its ability to sweep bacteria out of the nose. Dr Panikau shows that it is the MBP that makes the patient sick, with fever, pain, fatigue, and secondary infections. This is welcome news for the 30 million sinus sufferers who have resisted therapy. This research opens a better way to diagnose and treat chronic sinusitis, and reduce the annual 300,000 sinus surgeries that are needed.

Actually Dr Panikau is not the first to recognize that toxic products in the nasal mucus are a significant factor in sinus disease. The authors he quotes, Meltzer and Kaliner have previously written on the value of using pulsatile irrigation to clear the mucus that impairs nasal cilia function.

The Hydro Pulse® Nasal Sinus Irrigation System, from Health Solutions Medical Products Corp., provides a simple means of cleansing the nose and sinuses of stale and toxic mucus and restoring the normal defense of nasal cilia movement. When the cilia move, they move the toxic products out of the nose and sinuses. This Mayo research shows proof of the value of these methods, and gives a system of actually measuring the toxic product. Instead of guessing a diagnosis of sinus disease, now the physician can measure the actual MBP level in the nose. This will reduce the need for sinus x rays as well.

What should the current sinus patient do? As pointed out by Meltzer and others, adequate hydration is important. The more hot tea you drink, the thinner and more dilute the mucus and the easier it is for the nose to move these products away. Because the mucus is often thick and sticky, pulsatile irrigation is recommended by these authors because it is shown to be 100x more effective in removing these products, as well as being effective in restoring nasal cilia function.

This Mayo research will now direct specialists to faster and better treatment for the scourge of sinusitis.

The Jens Panikau article, Striking deposition of toxic eosinophil major basic protein in mucus: Implications for chronic rhinosinusitis appeared in the August 05 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Immunology.

The Hydro Pulse Nasal/ Sinus Irrigator is described at http://www. pharmacy-solutions. com/hp. htm (http://www. pharmacy-solutions. com/hp. htm)

Hydro Pulse® Nasal / Sinus Irrigation System is the registered trademark of Health Solutions Medical Products Corporation. © Copyright 2005 All rights Reserved

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