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- Iowa-based Crashed Toys comes to Delta Township - Lansing State Journal
- Is your teen ready to drive alone for the first time? - PR Inside
- Media advertising to bounce back over next 4 years - report - Jordan Times
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| Iowa-based Crashed Toys comes to Delta Township - Lansing State Journal Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. DELTA TWP. — An Iowa company is bringing its crashed and damaged vehicle business model to the Lansing area. Crashed Toys LLC gives dinged, dented and otherwise damaged motorcycles and other recreational vehicles a second chance. The company is moving into the Michigan market, with its first location in the state at 7819 Lanac St. in Delta Township. Crashed Toys sells motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, watercraft and recreational vehicles through online auctions on its Web site, www.crashedtoys.com. Buyers can pick up the items at the Delta Township warehouse or arrange to have them shipped. The company gets its inventory by purchasing vehicles from insurance companies that have been declared total losses, damaged items from other dealers and repossessions from banks, said marketing manager Joe Woit. An all-terrain vehicle, or ATV, can be deemed a total loss for something as simple as a dented gas tank, he said. "It's perfect for the enthusiasts who want a little project for the winter or want to save a lot of money," Woit said. "People are able to save a lot of money by buying these and fixing them themselves." People also buy the vehicles for their parts. Replacement parts from dealerships can be expensive, so some people buy damaged vehicles, strip off the pieces they need and sell the rest, ATV enthusiast Larry Reynolds said. Reynolds is president of Delta Township-based Dirt Mafia, an ATV and motorcycle club. Crashed Toys' local inventory includes about 40 motorcycles, a dozen snowmobiles and eight four-wheelers, said Ken LaPeer, manager. Recreational vehicles, boats and other watercraft should be available as spring approaches. The facility has about 5,000 square feet of indoor storage and more than three and a half acres of outdoor storage space. Crashed Toys, an affiliate of Eldridge, Iowa-based QCSA Auto Auctions, has locations in Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. Last year was the company's best year since it started in 1999, Woit said. "When people have less expendable income, people obviously pay less for vehicles," he said, adding that the company has seen and influx of repossessed vehicles due to the economy. Michigan's economy has been tough on some salvage companies, such as privately owned Slick's Great Lakes Salvage in Mason, said co-owner John Deemer. He didn't provide further details on the company's sales. Slick's has been around since 1988 and sells distressed and damaged motorcycles, snowmobiles and ATVs. Slick's offers on-site sales, while Crashed Toys sells vehicles through online auctions. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Is your teen ready to drive alone for the first time? - PR Inside Posted: 15 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. 2010-02-15 22:10:06 -
Why are new drivers more likely to be in accidents? And how can they better prepare themselves to be safe when driving unsupervised? to 2:30 p.m. to help answer those questions. GEICO associate John Balfour will lead a discussion on what's safe and what's definitely not safe for new drivers.Over 80 students in leadership roles and their teachers from high schools across the Dallas area will gather to hear the presentation, along with programs throughout the day to provide high school student leaders with the knowledge, skills, and vision to make healthy decisions and to impact their peers and campus cultures. Teens will learn that the very first six months of solo driving are the most dangerous for teens because they no longer have an instructor or parent to guide them and may lack the experience behind the wheel for unexpected situations. Here are some safe driving tips : - Always wear your seatbelt Additional teen safe driving information from GEICO is also available at www.geicoteendriving.com : GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) – as part of Berkshire Hathaway – is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer : In addition to auto insurance, GEICO offers customers insurance products : As a member of the Berkshire Hathaway group of companies, GEICO is rated A++ for financial strength by A.M. Best Company and ranks at the top of several national customer satisfaction surveys. For more information, go to www.geico.com : *A.M. Best 2008 market share data
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| Media advertising to bounce back over next 4 years - report - Jordan Times Posted: 15 Feb 2010 01:58 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. By Taylor Luck AMMAN - There is room for additional daily newspapers in the Kingdom, with advertising revenues forecast to rebound over the next four years, according to a recent report. Local experts disputed the findings, however, stating that although the recent drop in advertising was temporary, revenues are unlikely to return to pre-2009 levels "anytime soon". The Arab Media Outlook (AMO) report, recently released by the Dubai Press Club, projected growth in advertising in traditional and new media outlets in the Arab world this year, particularly in Jordan, after a turbulent 2009. The report said the Kingdom would enjoy a rebound in overall advertising in 2010, with an average growth of 9.3 per cent over the next four years - 8 per cent for newspapers. Daily newspapers With As Sabeel's transformation from a weekly to a daily publication last year, there are eight daily newspapers in Jordan with a reported total circulation of 313,000 as of late 2009, according to the report. There is room in the market for new daily publications in Jordan, the study claimed, describing the Kingdom's ratio of 1.7 daily titles per million adults as "low" considering the country's 90 per cent literacy rate. According to the study, Jordan has one of the smallest selections of daily publications in the Arab world, ahead only of the Palestinian territories. But Naim Hourani, director of advertising at Al Rai newspaper, downplayed the report's forecast. "My own expectation is that advertising will stay close to 2009 levels. Maybe it will be the same, maybe we will see a little growth, but not much," Hourani, who also serves as vice president of the International Advertising Association - Jordan, told The Jordan Times. The global financial crisis hurt the banking and real estate sectors in the Kingdom, two of the leading advertisers, he pointed out, adding that the slump affected advertising budgets for 2010, with the real estate sector left with "negligible" funds to spend on ads. An expert, who has done extensive research in the sector and preferred to remain unnamed, said the next year-and-a-half will see an upswing in revenue, but doubted the market could support more newspapers. "Definitely we assume 2010-2011 will be an increase. The year 2009 was very bad and we expect growth of at least 9 per cent," he said, predicting that a majority of the increase would be driven by television advertising. The addition of another daily to the Kingdom's newsstands, however, would be "unfeasible" under current conditions. The expert, whose company prepares market studies on advertising in the Kingdom, said an additional daily "would not survive" three years. "I wouldn't advise it at all. Unless it has something that stands out, it will not survive. Print media is slowly on the decline; anyone who wants to start that project will have to rethink it," he added. "We already have seven [Arabic] dailies and it is a crowded market - most people can only name three of them. Opening up another one, it just cannot happen," Hourani stressed, noting that 60-80 per cent of newspapers' budgets are directly dependent on advertising. Rise of online ads? With the success of Maktoob, whose Arabic-based web e-mail service was purchased by Yahoo! last year, the report predicted a stronger push in online advertising in Jordan, which recorded 130 per cent growth between 2008 and 2009. With Internet penetration expected to increase from around 20 per cent to nearly 50 per cent within the next four years, the study expected Internet advertising to grow rapidly in Jordan, and eventually account for 8 per cent of all advertising revenue over the next four years. Limited access to the Internet remains a major obstacle to relying on online revenues, Hourani stressed. "Internet penetration is not high enough to make a significant contribution, not even for newspapers," Hourani said, noting that although Al Rai and other dailies have online advertising, it represents a small fraction of their advertising revenues. The main obstacle to a rise in online advertising is the lack of a local website that can attract visitors across various segments and demographics, the anonymous expert said, noting that the readership of online news websites in Jordan ranges from "very low to insignificant". "The future is definitely the Internet, and traditional media outlets stand the most to benefit from it. But it has to take a while to get there," the analyst added. Meanwhile, the AMO study classified the Jordanian television market as "small", noting that the sector was most negatively affected by the economic downturn last year, posting a 29 per cent drop in advertising revenues. The report predicted that the launch of ATV, scheduled for later this year, would drive competition in the market and generate around 9 per cent growth in TV revenues over the next four years. The expert agreed that the addition of another network would boost television ad revenue. "Growth in the TV sector will be very large if ATV broadcasts. We are supposed to have no more than 7-8 per cent growth in TV ads this year, and there is much more room for an increase," the expert added. The report also pointed out that magazine advertising decreased by 11 per cent last year due to a downturn in the automotive, real estate and luxury item sectors, resulting in decreased advertising budgets. The study expected a slight improvement in 2010, and 10 per cent overall growth to generate $8.2 million by 2013. Noting that radio advertising expenditure grew last year, the report forecast the advertising revenues of the Kingdom's 28 radio stations to stay consistent with its overall growth forecast, at 8 per cent in the next four years. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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