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• Firm adds lawyer, changes name to Boyd, Kimball & Wilson February 24, 2012
  White collar criminal defense attorney Bob Wilson has gone into practice with David Boyd and Betsy Kimball, prompting a name change at the firm to Boyd, Kimball & Wilson. Prior to the switch, Wilson was executive director of Sacramento Child Advocates Inc., a nonprofit law firm that served 3,000-plus children in foster care in Sacramento County. The nonp […]
• Diamond Foods pays up to retain senior executives February 24, 2012
  Diamond Foods said today that it spent last Saturday creating an executive retention plan to hold onto the key talent that it will need to turn around the troubled company. The San Francisco company said it will pay a handful of executives a retention bonus equal to 250 percent of their annual salaries, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange […]
• TriMet officials say union must give concessions February 24, 2012
  TriMet officials defended the agency’s recent performance and called for its employee unions to bend on the contract that pays its members “arguably the richest health care benefits” in the country. General Manager Neil McFarlane and the agency’s budget committee chairman, David Knowles, told City Club of Portland members Friday that while the agency is pro- […]
• Wipfli and Eide Bailly call off merger February 24, 2012
  The accounting firms of Eide Bailly and Wipfli have called off their pending nuptials. The two firms, which planned to have their combined headquarters in the Twin Cities by this summer when they announced the deal in January, said late Friday afternoon that they "could not come to an agreement on key terms." Neither firm would say what the stickin […]
• Fluxion Biosciences adds sales, marketing, tech support February 24, 2012
  Fluxion Biosciences Inc. said Friday it has added four new senior management positions and globally expanded its sales and technical support. The South San Francisco-based private company specializes in drug discovery tools, including the branded BioFlux system for studying cellular interactions and the trademarked IonFlux system for automated ion channel te […]
• Phil Bussey, CEO of Seattle Chamber, resigns to take post with PSE February 24, 2012
  Phil Bussey, president and CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, will be leaving that post for a newly created position with his former employer, Puget Sound Energy. Bussey will start work as senior vice president and chief customer officer for PSE starting mid-March, according to a PSE release. He will be responsible for PSE’s Customer Soluti […]
• CareerBuilder: Common, bizarre job interview mistakes February 24, 2012
  Despite New Mexico's 6.6 percent unemployment rate -- well below the national average of 8.3 percent -- job-seekers still need to be in top form during a job interview. A Career Builder.com survey by Harris Interactive published Wednesday shows common and sometimes bizarre mistakes made by job interview candidates. To see the interview blunders, view th […]
• WMC forum: Manufacturing rebounding but challenges remain February 24, 2012
  The manufacturing sector is gaining strength in the recovery from the recession but numerous challenges, from the availability of skilled workers to taxes and other policy and regulatory issues, continue to threaten growth prospects, business leaders said at a forum Friday conducted by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. Manufacturers must do everything th […]
• PNC hiring 100 RBC employees February 24, 2012
  PNC Financial, which is still in the process of staffing up in the Triangle, says it has found jobs for just under 100 former RBC Bank USA employees who were on the cutback list. “We are still looking for others,” says Fred Solomon, spokesman for the Pittsburgh bank that buying RBC Bank for $3.45 billion. The takeover is scheduled for March 2. PNC (NYSE: PNC […]
• Top of the List: Life/Health Insurance Agencies February 24, 2012
  The Memphis Business Journal is providing a peek at the list in this Friday’s print edition as we reveal the Memphis area's top five life and health insurance agencies. The list ranks the agencies by their number of local, full-time equivalent employees. Research director Jason Bolton writes that total employment among Memphis-area life/health insurance […]