Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. (Nasdaq:BGFV) a leading sporting goods retailer, reported sales results for the fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and full year ended January 2, 2011. For the 13-week fiscal 2010 fourth quarter, net sales were $226.7 million, compared to net sales of $237.6 million for the 14-week fourth quarter of fiscal 2009. Same store sales decreased 0.7% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010.
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of sporting goods in the western United States.
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Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:CRWE) announced that its subsidiary company, Crown Tele Services Inc. (http://www.crownteleservices.com) is still moving forward after dissolving its joint venture with Communication Expert Corporation and will gradually start rolling out its internet based voice and video service IP-PBX solutions.
Hosted IP-PBX gives enterprises of all sizes the most efficient phone system calling features typically offered to only the largest enterprises. No in-house systems or software to purchase, manage and maintain is required for the phone system to function.
Hosted IP-PBX lets you share a number of incoming phone lines among a larger number of extensions, so it's not necessary to pay for a separate line for every office employee or workstation, which saves money. But the implementation and ongoing maintenance of an VOIP PBX system requires a type of expertise that your IT staff may not have. And if you go with a commercial product, the up-front costs for the hardware and software may be high.
According to ABI Research, the latest global business VoIP services forecasts show that the value of the overall market, which includes VoIP integrated access, SIP trunking, hosted IP-PBX/IP Centrex and managed IP-PBX services, is set to double over the next five years, to exceed $20 billion by 2015.
Crown Equity Holdings Inc., together with its digital network, currently provides electronic media services specializing in online publishing and Web sites, which bring together targeted audiences and advertisers that want to reach them. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. offers internet media-driven advertising services, which covers and connects a range of marketing specialties, as well as search engine optimization for clients interested in online media awareness.
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Global Hunter Corp. (TSX.V: BOB) (FSE:G5D) is pleased to announce that it recently completed a surface sampling program at La Corona de Cobre. The program was designed to collect surface samples from the numerous prospective shear zones. This will aid in the definition of drill targets to expand on the copper oxide mineralization.
The samples will be collected from outcrops along the entire strike lengths of the shears and have been shipped to ALS Chemex Labs in La Serena Chile for analysis. Results will be released as soon as is practical after they have been received.
These shear zones can be traced on surface for hundreds of metres, with the longest being Vino Fino, which has been mapped for over 6,000 metres. Local miners are currently extracting ore from several shear zones on the property and transporting it to Enami for processing.
The surface sample results in conjunction with previous geophysical work completed on the property, Global Hunter intends to prepare a multi-hole drill program on the shear zones scheduled to begin early 2011 as part of its ongoing evaluation of its Corona de Cobre project. In addition to sampling and drilling of the prospective shear zones at La Corona de Cobre mentioned above, The Company will continue its work on the Las Posadas resource over the coming months and will provide a summary of its progress as information becomes available.
Global Hunter's flagship project is the La Corona de Cobre property, located 70 kilometres north of La Serena, Chile, along the Pan American Highway, within the coastal belt of the Andean Cordillera. The NI 43-101-compliant resource contains 225 million pounds of copper oxide. In addition, the Company has its Rabbit South molybdenum project in south-central British Columbia, Canada.
For More Information Go To: www.globalhunter.ca
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Ares Capital Corporation (Nasdaq:ARCC) announced that it closed a new primary debt financing during the fourth quarter totaling $145 million to Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., a leading provider of laboratory software solutions for hospitals.
Ares Capital Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies.
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Mentor Graphics Corp. (Nasdaq:MENT) announced it has collaborated with the Common Platform Alliance (CPA) members, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, to design a test chip using its netlist-to-GDSII solution for CPA 32nm and 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) IC manufacturing technologies.
Mentor Graphics Corporation supplies electronic design automation systems used to automate the design, analysis, and testing of electronic hardware and embedded systems software in electronic systems and components worldwide.
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