The Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC) tries to lure manufacturing firms to the Brownsville, Texas area, which includes Matamoros, Mexico. The BEDC helps companies with issues such as financing, job training, and site location. By assisting with permits, zoning, suppliers, and business contacts, the organization provides incentives for companies to choose the border town. The group also maintains contact and offers support once a company has established a Brownsville location and hosts social events for area manufacturers. It also helps companies enter or expand in Mexico. The publicly-funded BEDC was formed in 1992.

Waterway Gas & Wash Company provides car wash services. It offers basic wash service and various wash packages, as well as hand wax, carpet shampoo, leather care, and interior care wash services. The company operates full service car washes, convenience stores, and gas services in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Denver markets. Waterway Gas & Wash Company was founded in 1970 and is based in Chesterfield, Missouri. It has locations in Cherry Creek, FlatIron Crossing Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, Meridian Crossing, Leawood, Overland Park North, Overland Park South, Stateline, Chesterfield, Creve Coeur, Ellisville, Kirkwood, Maryland Heights, and Shrewsbury, as well as O'Fallon, Missouri.

Miss America Organization, the Miss America program exists to provide personal and professional opportunities for young women and to promote their voices in culture, politics and the community. The program provides a forum for today's young women to express their viewpoints, talents and accomplishments to audiences during the telecast and to the public-at-large during the ensuing year. The Miss America Organization (MAO) provides more than $45 million a year in cash and scholarships to its Miss America beauty pageant participants, who in turn perform some 570,000 hours of community service. Contestants compete locally, and 52 women (from 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US Virgin Islands) make it to the Miss America competition each year. The winner goes on a yearlong speaking tour to promote her chosen cause, including homelessness, HIV/AIDS, literacy, and world peace. MAO was established in 1921.

NAWLA is an international trade association of over 650 leading forest products and building material industry wholesalers, manufacturers and industry affiliated companies throughout the United States and Canada. NAWLA, whose wholesaler and wholesaler-processor members' combined annual sales exceed $30 billion, is dedicated to enhancing professionalism and efficiency throughout the lumber distribution channel and to the responsible use of forest resources. NAWLA members serve as the unifying force for efficient forest products and building materials distribution. The forest and building products industries within which NAWLA members operate has highly developed characteristics that help to shape the role of both the wholesale distributor and the role of NAWLA. The industry is highly diversified both in terms of product and geography. Aside from species differences, products of the tree include solid lumber, veneer and non-veneer panels, manufactured products such as fencing and decking, and much, much more.

Harper Hewes, Inc. has been entrusted to build thriving, high-performance leadership, technology, consulting and sales teams since 1993. We don’t try to be all things to all people. We are small by design and international in scope. We partner with our clients and candidates to provide an exceptional level of customer service. We firmly believe that recruiting is a people-centric business and search for individuals who fit, not resumes that match.Our clients range from emerging companies to Fortune 50 corporations. They rely on us to expand their reach in sourcing the best candidates available in the industry today. We utilize virtual project teams to respond to our clients’ needs quickly and effectively. Our approach is targeted and thorough. Why Harper Hewes? We get results! We have a proven track record in providing qualified and hireable candidates who meet or exceed our clients’ expectations. We specialize in filling critical and sensitive positions requiring the ideal balance of technical expertise and interpersonal skills.

Woodmoor Group was established in 1994. Ray Bedingfield, an executive recruiter with a national reputation and then with more than 30 years experience at varying levels, started the company with Elizabeth Murdaugh, MD. Since then, Woodmoor Group has grown from a one-person operation to thirty-five people. We have offices in Colorado, Illinois and Wisconsin. Our professionals have in-depth search experience and are engaged by Fortune 500 as well as smaller businesses in the practice of executive search. (We take great pride in Woodmoor Group’s record of success with more 560 client/partners.) A keen sense of personal service governs our business. That’s easy to say, but tough to implement. With Woodmoor Group, service comes not just from your primary contact within our company, but from the entire project team as well. Add a strong research group and our unusual technical infrastructure, and we have abilities far beyond the norm. Strong direct recruiting and networking capabilities, added to data mining resources that are extremely unique, provide for swift, dynamic execution of our assignments. We answer search needs with flexibility, a sense of urgency, and with the highest quality work on behalf of our client/partners. We do this with 100% guarantees on every penny paid our firm.

Athenahealth, Inc. engages in the provision of Internet-based business services for physician practices in the United States. The company principally offers athenaCollector, a revenue cycle management service that automates and manages billing-related functions for physician practices and includes a practice management platform. athenaCollector assists. AthenaClinicals, a clinical cycle management service that automates and manages medical record management-related functions for physician practices and includes an EMR platform. athenaClinicals assists medical groups with the handling of physician orders and related inbound and outbound communications to ensure that orders are carried out and to provide online patient clinical record. In addition, athenahealth offers automated messaging services that remind patients of appointment details and allow them to use that automated system to confirm or reschedule the appointment or to speak with a live operator.

Working in the supply chain industry with Gist means working with 800 customers in different sectors, countries and across five continents. Few working environments offer such diversity and challenge and Gist has 40 years of experience. Over the last decade, that has seen enormous change for UK based logistics companies, Gist has delivered industry leading financial performance. The company’s strength and success is built around its core values of customer partnership, excellence of delivery, constant innovation and, of course, its people. In Gist we recognise that it’s our people who set us aside, fully motivated and working to their full potential, they have driven the organisation’s success and they will take it confidently through the economic challenges of 2009 and beyond.

The Planning Solutions Group meets the needs of the financial services industry. The company helps banks, consumer finance companies, and mortgage banking firms procure the right software and hardware, analyze and improve workflows, and manage IT projects. It also assists with strategic planning and sales improvement. The Planning Solutions Group has special expertise in the residential mortgage and sub-prime mortgage industries. Its clients include Bank One, OCWEN Financial, and GMAC-RFC. Founded in 1996, The Planning Solutions Group, Inc. company has offices in Georgetown, Texas, and Newport Beach, California.

2logical is unlike any other training company. We tackle the fundamental issues other training companies brush over, because we know the real challenge isn’t simply finding the right strategy, the right process improvement or teaching your employees a new skill. We know the real challenge is getting employees to execute on them. We take a completely different approach that starts with the core challenge every one of our employees face each day when they get out of bed – the Mindsets/Beliefs that hold them back from achieving their goals. 2logical works at this core belief level before moving on to the skillset and process level because we know that if you don’t change people's beliefs, you can't expect their behavior to change. Why have business leaders in more than 43 countries and 40% of the companies on the Fortune 500 allowed 2logical to develop their most valuable asset, their people? ...Because we’re different and so are our results.

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