BJ’s expands board with new director
BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc., Natick, Mass., increased its board members from nine to 10 with the election of Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger to the newly created director position.
Office Depot helps large customers determine ‘greenness’
Environmentalleader.com reports Office Depot Inc. is launching a program for large customers that helps explain the “greenness” of the customers’ overall purchases. The program relies on Office Depot’s Shades of Green labeling program. All 6,100 products carried by the retailer with environmentally-friendly attributes are tagged either “light green,” “bright green” or “dark green,” although most [...]
LifePics for iPhone now available
LifePics Inc., Boulder, Colo.., announced its new free iPhone app, called “LifePics for iPhone,” was approved by Apple Inc. and is now available to all iPhone and iPod Touch users Apple’s App Store. The LifePics for iPhone app allows users to upload photos from their iPhone or iPod Touch to their LifePics online photo account, [...]
American Greetings announces record second-quarter earnings
American Greetings Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, reported total revenue of $356.4 million, pre-tax income of $34.1 million, and net income of $23.1 million, for the second quarter of fiscal 2010.. Included within these results was a pre-tax benefit from an insurance program of $7.9 million (after tax of approximately $7.6 million). For the second quarter of [...]
Schawk names Strong senior VP, managing director of its Digital Solutions Business
Schawk Inc., Des Plaines, Ill., named Scott Strong senior vice president and managing director of Schawk Digital Solutions, a developer of content-centric technology and solutions. Strong is charged with managing all facets of the business, including the development of its software products and services, management of Schawk’s current technology product clients, expansion into new markets [...]
Zong launches subscription-based mobile payments
Zong, Palo Alto, Calif., a payment service for publishers of online games and other digital content,announced the launch of its subscription-based mobile payment service. Zong says it is the first mobile payments platform to offer a subscription service, which allows Zong customers to extend a recurring bill-to-mobile option of up to $9.99 a month to [...]
Kodak closes private placement of $400 million in notes
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., announced the closing of its private placement of $400 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2017 to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, as amended. The notes are unsecured obligations of Kodak and bear interest of 7 percent per year. The notes [...]
Sam’s Club launches free tech support, paid setup service
Sam’s Club customers who buy a big-screen TV, computer or even an electronic game like Rock Band can now get free technical support and a paid delivery and setup service. The warehouse club retailer launched free technical support service nationwide after conducting pilot programs for about a year. The free technical support, paid setup (starting [...]
Bamboo is new line of Wacom multi-input tablets
Wacom wants you to touch the Bamboo. The Vancouver, WA-based company says its new family of tablets offers both finger and pen inputs. The family of USB peripherals includes five distinct tablets: touch-only, pen-only and three versions of the pen and Multi-Touch combination – Bamboo Touch, Bamboo Pen, and Bamboo Pen and Touch, Bamboo Craft, [...]
Photo-Me appoints group finance director
Françoise Coutaz-Replan was appointed an executive director and Group Finace Director of Photo-Me International plc (PMI), succeeding Jean-Luc Peurois, who died on July 5 having been Group Finance Director since 2000. Coutaz-Replan has been with what is now the Photo-Me Group since 1991. From January 2005 to October 2007, she was Deputy Financial Controller of [...]
