Commonwealth Brands, Inc. Says FDA Regulation Represents a Lost Opportunity

BOWLING GREEN, Ky., June 23 /PRNewswire/ — On Monday June 22, 2009 the White House signed a Bill that now gives the authority to oversee the tobacco industry to the FDA.  This piece of legislation had been in the works since 1996 and has had very little change before becoming a Law yesterday.

“It is a great disappointment that this Congress, which claimed to be so different and supposedly heralded…

A Legend in Kentucky Bourbon Comes Home

Buffalo Trace Distillery acquires E.H. Taylor Bourbon

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ky., June 23 /PRNewswire/ — E.H. Taylor is coming back to the distillery where it all began. Buffalo Trace Distillery, located in Frankfort, KY, has purchased the Old Taylor Bourbon label and barrel inventory from Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., maker of Jim Beam Bourbon.

“We are ecstatic about this transaction,” said Mark Brown, president and CEO of Buffalo Trace Distillery….

U.S. Army Increases Medical and Dental School Benefits

Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) Supports Students Pursuing Medical Careers with Higher Monthly Stipend

FORT KNOX, Ky., June 22 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Army Medical Department announced today that it is increasing the stipend associated with its Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) to $1,992 per month, effective July 1, 2009. Through this economic downturn, many medical and dental students are faced with anxiety about taking out student loans to finance…

Travelex’s Christopher Russell to Speak at the 2nd Annual Prepaid Card Conference

Presentation will Focus on Meeting Business and Consumer Travel Money Needs Particularly During Current Economic Concerns

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 22 /PRNewswire/ — Travelex has announced that Executive Vice President of Outsourcing, Americas, Christopher Russell, will be a featured speaker at this year’s 2nd Annual Prepaid Card Conference.  The conference is being held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center from June 24th through the 26th.  Mr. Russell will…

ACCENT Marketing Services Takes Home Bronze at Contact Center World.com’s Top Performers Conference

ACCENT’s New Albany and Farmington contact centers honored for Best Contact Center, Best Supervisor, and Best HR Support Professional in the Americas

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., June 19 /PRNewswire/ — ACCENT Marketing Services, an international provider of customer lifecycle management solutions, received several honors at the 2009 Contact Center World.com North American Top Ranking Performers Conference.

Out of over one thousand applicants, three employees from ACCENT’s New Albany, Ind., and Farmington, Mo. contact…

Kentucky Fried Chicken Cooks Up Chari-T’s: a KFC Philanthropic Fashion First

KFC Offers Budding Clothing Designers a National Stage for a Good Cause

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — As summer fashion season starts to sizzle, KFC is encouraging everyone – from budding fashion designers to college students – to literally design the shirts off their backs to benefit KFC Colonel’s Scholars(R), a charitable initiative providing students nationwide with much needed college scholarships. And, to heat things up, KFC is…

Time Management by Values

Time Management by Values

Time management has been a topic of conversation, discussion and argument for more than 20 years and little has been resolved. Terms like “workaholic” have come into our language with little in the way of accepted belief about the exact parameters of this “disease.” We decry the need to work longer hours…

Creating Your Own Fireworks – The Explosive Power of Good Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Creating Your Own Fireworks – The Explosive Power of Good Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Thunder Over Louisville has been the Derby Festival kick-off event for the past 19 years. It is an air and pyrotechnics show, unrivaled by any other city in the USA; and, Kentuckiana gets to call Thunder its own. Each year I head out to the riverfront, Thunder is bigger…

Gallopalooza

Brightly decorated life-size fiberglass horses will begin appearing throughout our community in mid-April. These Gallopalooza horses and entrepreneurs have a lot in common. They both start with wanting to create something from a blank canvas, nurturing it as it develops and then basking in the joy and excitement of seeing it through to fruition. They both need passion, creativity, energy…

Tax Act of 2009

Stimulated Yet?

The new economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The $787 billion new law, which contains nearly $300 billion in tax relief (of which $280 million is concentrated in the first two years), is a massive and…