| Boo Koo Holdings, Inc. Expands Management Team
ADDISON, Texas, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BOKO.OB - Boo Koo Holdings, Inc. (Boo Koo), a leading energy drink company, announced today it has added new executives to its management team, in connection with its transition to become a public company. Boo Koo appointed Steven B. Solomon, an accomplished entrepreneur with extensive public company experience as Executive Chairman and David H. Hayes an accomplished sales executive, as President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Customer Officer. In addition, Boo Koo announced Dan Lee, its President and CEO, will be leaving the Company on December 31, 2007 for personal reasons. Mr. Solomon will fill the position vacated by Chuck Jarvie, who will relinquish his role as non-executive Chairman, but will remain as an independent director of the company.
Singapore November retail sales down 0.3 percent year-on-year - UPDATE
Sales at department stores, supermarkets, gas stations and stores that sell furniture, watches, jewellery, computers and telecommunications equipment remained strong in November compared to a year before, the department said. The catering trade was also strong, its sales rising 6.9 percent to 371 million dollars in November from a year earlier and rising 1 percent from October. Notwithstanding the unexpected fall in the November retail sales, analysts are not overly concerned as the decline is not broad-based. "The decline is entirely due to lower motor vehicle sales. The other segments of retail sales provide a stronger indication of consumer demand," said Citigroup economist Kit Wei Zheng. While motor vehicle sales will likely remain soft due to the rising cost of fuel and road taxes in Singapore, Kit expects broader consumer spending to remain robust given the low unemployment rate.
Waitrose refreshes site for Christmas ordering
Waitrose has re-designed its site to encourage Christmas ordering. A raft of seasonal features have been added to the site including a Feast Formulator, allowing users to plan shopping lists for meals and parties, a widget to alert shoppers of key seasonal dates and a children's fun pack. Aside from a new look, sections for gifts, planning, food and parties have been added. Twentysix London carried out the refresh. The digital agency carried out the full... .
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Banc of America Securities analyst Craig Scott credited Apple's introduction of its Leopard operating system for strong sales of Mac computers, and raised his earnings expectations for Apple. Noting concern for tech overall because of recent economic trends, Scott said, "While none of our names are immune from economic changes, we believe that Apple is less likely to be impacted by such changes due to the company's unique and diversified business model, loyal customer base, and market share gains." On the downside, shares of Opnext Inc. continued to sink after a 36.5 percent decline in Friday's trading, after the Eatontown, N.J., company lowered its sales guidance for its fiscal third quarter, citing lowered demand. That announcement generated a host of negative comments from analysts, including a downgraded from Needham & Co.
Computer brings science up a gear
He added: "It will provide UK researchers with the means to undertake increasingly complex computer simulations across a range of scientific disciplines. "This will include work in forecasting the impact of climate change, fluctuations in ocean currents, projecting the spread of epidemics, designing new materials and developing new medicinal drugs." The group manager at Edinburgh University's parallel computing centre, Dr David Henty, told Radio Scotland Hector would keep British scientists at the cutting edge. He said: "There are still the traditional branches of science which are theory and experiment, theory using a pen and paper to work out what you think will happen and experiments using telescopes and things like that. "Nowadays, a new strand is to write computer programs to simulate things that are as small as a sub-atomic particle, through to things that are as big as the whole universe.
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