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Lafayette home health company buys Florida business: LHC Group has acquired Lifeline Home Health Care's Florida operations for an undisclosed amount. The move gives Lafayette-based LHC access to a market of 1.46 million people, with about 25% over the age of 65. This is the second major purchase of a Lifeline asset this year; earlier LHC bought out Lifeline's Kentucky operations. National housing market getting softer: Housing starts dropped 6% in August, reports the U.S. Commerce Department, twice as fast as expected. This is the lowest point for housing starts in three years. The sluggish pace of homebuilding, along with a slight increase in prices for finished goods, increases the chances the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged at its meeting Wednesday. Those Enron and WorldCom guys got their start somewhere: Fifty-six percent of business students surveyed admitted to cheating at least once during the last academic year, compared to 47% of graduate students in non-business programs, according to a report set for publication in the Academy of Management Learning & Education.
Plans to build 25 single-family homes in Fountain Heights are delayed, but officials with the Birmingham Housing Authority said they hope to start construction next year. The contractor, Curtis White and Company, informed the housing authority last week they wouldn't be able to handle the project, said housing authority executive director Ralph Ruggs. The housing authority had a $3.4 million contract with Curtis White and Co. to build the homes. They will be sold to qualified low- and moderate-income buyers. As recently as last month, the housing authority approved an additional $351,000 to the company to cover the cost of materials, which have risen since the contract was awarded in February. The Fountain Heights project will be advertised again and a new contract should be awarded within the next two to three months, Ruggs said.
Designed by Martha Kerr, CMKBD, of the Neil Kelly Co. in Portland, OR, the outdoor kitchen shown above shows the key concepts discussed in this article. For example, this outdoor cooking area has a ventilation system to control airborne cooking contaminates, and provides gas heat for chilly evenings. However, Kerr says in the future, shed use an electric heater because its easier to control than gas units. .
Barry Hendler, president and CEO of Uvalde-based American Lumber, has been honored for founding one of the fastest-growing Aggie-led businesses in the world. American Lumber landed at No. 29 on the Aggie 100 list published Friday. The Aggie 100 is sponsored by the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship of Texas A&M University's Mays Business School and honors the 100 fastest-growing companies owned or operated by former students of Texas A&M. Oil and gas company GEODynamics of Millsap, with two-year compound annual growth of 537 percent, topped the second annual Aggie 100 list. Hendler was a member of the Corps of Cadets and graduated from Texas A&M with a marketing degree in 1971. American Lumber was founded in 1986 and has clients in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central and South America.
TempWorks Software, a leading provider of innovative and fully integrated staffing software solutions, today announced news that several of its customers appeared on the second-annual Staffing Industry Analysts list of Americas Fastest Growing Private Staffing Companies, with one client ranking in the top spot. First Team Staffing Group, based in Anaheim, CA, took the number one position on this years list, boasting an outstanding 196.5 percent growth rate from 2001-2005. Thirty-two companies made the grade to get on this years list. In addition, three other TempWorks customers ranked on the recently released list. Making the cut was Hire Dynamics LLC, a rapidly expanding Georgia-based firm with a 69.1 percent growth rate. Dynamic Staffing Inc., located in Roseville, CA, appeared on the list with a 37.9 percent growth rate.
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