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Jeans giant Levi Strauss & Co. launched a new brand of denim today aimed at conquering the fast-growing Asian consumer market.
The new brand - called Denizen - is headquartered in Hong Kong and will be sold in China, South Korea and Singapore. The company plans to open about 50 stores featuring Denizen jeans, tops […]

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Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio and former U. S. Congressman Jim Davis will discuss transportation initiatives for the University of South Florida area July 14 as part of wider campaign to improve Tampa Bay-area transit.
The “University Area Transportation Summit” is free and open to the public, but expected to draw heavily from the university, Temple Terrace […]

This is a weekly roundup of promotions, appointments and employee accomplishments in the Birmingham metro area. For more People on the Move, check out the Birmingham Business Journal’s print edition each week. Send announcements to ccrawford@bizjournals.com.
ACCOUNTING
Kyle Melvin of Pearce Bevill Leesburg Moore PC of Birmingham has completed the Certified Public Accountant examination.
GOVERNMENT
The Alabama Department of […]

Smallwood Drive School may have been toppled from first place this year, but it still has the best cumulative three-year score of any elementary school.
The three-year standings are determined by averaging each school's ranks in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Smallwood was No. 1 the first two years, then slipped to No. 2, yielding an average […]

Arizona is getting praise for its commitment to training in science, technology, engineering and math as a way of promoting entrepreneurship.

The Campaign for Free Enterprise, a project of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Chamber Foundation, cited Arizona as having put in place polices that bode well for the future of business development. […]

Immunome said Monday it has completed a financing that included investments from BioAdvance, operator of the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and undisclosed private investors.
The amount of money raised by the Wynnewood, Pa., biopharmaceutical company was not disclosed.
Immunome is a discovery-stage antibody company focused on developing new treatments for life-threatening infectious diseases.
“This financing will enable […]

Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday added Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach to his list of counties he has declared to be in a state of emergency as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On April 30, Crist declared a state of emergency in several Florida Panhandle counties, following the April 21 […]

Money rules of thumb can be inaccurate because people’s financial lives differ. But they can help us make difficult decisions or give us benchmarks. Here are a few:
— Rule of 10: For perspective on big purchases, think about how you will feel about it in 10 days, 10 weeks and 10 years. For […]

SAN FRANCISCO — This year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: The DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like — over to the computer servers of one of its chief rivals, Amazon.com.
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We’re with R.E.M. when it comes to the end of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program: "It’s the end of the world as we know it (and we feel fine)." Michael Stipe isn’t known for his musings on monetary policy, but it’s a good metaphor — for now.
The unprecedented program, which in late […]