At CenterStone Executive Search, Inc., we are steeped in the consumer sector. We trained in those fields and have continuously delivered extraordinary leaders to premier brands throughout the consumer marketplace.We understand the different needs of early stage, emerging and mature businesses. We think creatively and recruit executives not only within practices but between them. We follow a disciplined, multi-step process, and place a high value on frequent communication with our clients.We have followed the careers of successful executives and understand their capacity to lead. Placed within our client organizations, these leaders have imprinted and scaled some of the most visible and successful U.S. consumer companies.

Technology & Business Integrators (TBI) is a well-respected strategic management-consulting firm located in Ramsey, NJ. Originally founded in 1964 to assist companies in securing additional data processing resources as needed, TBI “grew up” in the era in which the outsourcing industry and strategic sourcing initiatives have evolved across the business enterprise.Based on TBIore competencies in Outsourcing Strategy, and implementation Performance Measurement and Post Contract Governance, we have established a leadership position with Fortune 1000 customers. Those customers have included Air Canada, A&P, AT&T, Bank of America, Blue Cross Blue Shield, British Aerospace, Coors Brewing, General Motors, IBM, Merck Inc., NIKE, J.P. Morgan Chase, Pfizer and Procter & Gamble.Over the years, TBI has conducted hundreds of business process, information technology and strategic sourcing evaluations and negotiations for our customers. We have significant experience in every step of the outsourcing life cycle -- from initial feasibility assessment to contracting, to service migration and program management as well as contract renegotiation. Today, we provide support to customers in business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO); provide assistance in consolidation and business process improvement to prepare for and enable transition to new sourcing solutions; and help desk insourced sheared services environments and TBI is a charter member of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).

Everything's coming up tulips (and roses and houseplants) at VBN, or the Vereniging van Bloemenveilingen in Nederland. VBN is an association that represents the country's floricultural industry, including its regional flower auctions. VBN serves its members by coordinating activities and issues relating to quality, marketing, logistics, communications, legal affairs, taxation, and lobbying at the national, EU, and global levels. VBN's Linnaeus Project is intended to boost the organization's product coding system beyond its current capacity of 25,000 codes (which are almost exhausted). Cut flowers represent almost two-thirds of VBN members' business.

Hoover's, Inc. a D&B Company, puts you on the fastest path to business. We deliver comprehensive insight and analysis about the companies, industries, and people that drive the economy, along with the powerful tools to find and connect to the right people to get business done. Some admirals stick to the deep blue sea, but this Admiral keeps its eyes on blue skies and on the road ahead, as well. Logistics company Admiral Air Express, doing business as ALG Admiral, arranges the transportation of freight by carriers of multiple stripes, including air, expedited ground, ocean, and over-the-road. As an international freight forwarder, Hoover's, Inc. buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers. It also offers services such as mail consolidation and collation of periodicals. ALG Admiral operates from facilities in about a dozen US metropolitan areas.

Optiem: An Internet sounding name for an Internet kind of company. Optiem provides interactive marketing services that blend the creative capabilities of an ad agency with the technological sensibilities of an IT consultancy. Services range include Web site design, e-mail marketing. social media marketing, online public relations and advertising, and search engine optimization. Optiem company also offers strategic planning, branding, and design services. Clients have included Sherwin-Williams, Moen, and American Greetings. Optiem was founded in 2000 and works side by side with sister advertising agency Adcom.

Andersen Piquet is an international executive search firm specializing in the health care and life science industries. As part of its consultancy role, the company provides support and resources on issues related to recruitment and career choices. It offers coaching services for individuals or companies facing a "career crossroads," such as people who are recently promoted, newly fired, or just pursuing a career change or companies that are looking for executives to expand their business development departments. Partner firm MC2 Executive Search is located in the US. Managing Director Sue Harris owns and founded the firm.

Crown Eyeglass plc was established in 1984. Crown Eyeglass plc company manufactures and sells eyeglasses through its company-owned and franchised locations throughout the UK. Crown Eyeglass also does business in Scandinavia, where there are approximately 20 shops operating under the Direkt Optik name. Chairman Joe Lee and family control the optical-dispensing firm. (Lee owns approximately 60% of holding company Momentai, which wholly owns Crown Eyeglass.)

Augustana College is a private liberal arts college located near the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois. The college offers undergraduate degrees in some 50 areas of study plus pre-professional programs in fields including dentistry, law, medicine, and veterinary medicine. It enrolls approximately 2,500 students. The Swenson Center, a national archive dedicated to the study of Swedish immigration to the US, is housed on the Augustana campus. Augustana College was founded in 1860 by Swedish settlers and is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Rent-A-Center, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, primarily engages in leasing household durable goods to customers on a rent-to-own basis. Rent-A-Center, Inc. operates stores under Get It Now, Home Choice, Rent-A-Centre, and Better Living brand names that offer durable products, such as consumer electronics, appliances, computers, furniture, and accessories under flexible rental purchase agreements that allow the customer to obtain ownership of the merchandise at the conclusion of an agreed-upon rental period. Rent-A-Center, Inc. also offers merchandise on an installment sales basis in certain of its stores. In addition, Rent-A-Center, Inc. provides an array of financial services, including short term secured and unsecured loans, debit cards, check cashing, tax preparation, and money transfer services under the names RAC Financial Services and Cash AdvantEdge. As of January 29, 2010, it operated approximately 3,000 company-owned stores in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Rent-A-Center, Inc., through its subsidiary, ColorTyme, Inc., also operated approximately 215 franchised rent-to-own stores under ColorTyme trade name. Rent-A-Center, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

IBEW brothers are held together with wire, steel girders, fiber optic cable, and conveyor belts. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is about a 725,000-member labor union for workers in such industries as utilities, construction, telecommunications, and manufacturing in the US and Canada. The union lobbies government on behalf of its members, provides training and scholarships, maintains an electronic job board, and helps members secure higher wages, better health care, and safer working conditions. The union was formally organized in 1891 at a convention in St. Louis run by the original American Federation of Labor, a predecessor to the AFL-CIO, with which the union is affiliated.

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