The Southeastern BIO Investor Forum is the Southeast region's premier life sciences venture capital conference, connecting emerging life science companies with potential investors in a forum that provides meaningful networking opportunities. Attracting more than 400 attendees, including investors from the Southeast and from around the world, SEBIO showcases 30 emerging life sciences companies from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and beyond each year. continue reading

Perth, Australia’s gateway to Biotechnology in Asia will host the inaugural annual BioNet Asia Pacific Investors Summit. The event will bring together investors, biotechnology executives and support professional from Australia and Asia to showcase their respective businesses and trade valuable business lessons with their counterparts from the region.

The 2008 Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Summit presented by youngStartup Ventures is the premier bioscience industry gathering, connecting senior executives of early stage biotech, pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical device and diagnostic companies with venture capitalists, angel investors, corporate VCs and professional service firms.

Whether you're seeking funding, partnerships or new investment opportunities, The Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Summit is one event you won't want to miss.

Medtech Insight and Windhover Information will present their "Investment In Innovation (In3) East" Conference Oct. 22-24 at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. The event will bring together 50+ early- to late-stage medical device companies with the biggest dealmakers in the device business development and healthcare investment communities from the East Coast and around the world, for purposes of funding and/or strategic partnership. continue reading

BIT's Bio-Venture Capital Forum is the echo of successful and fruitful "Summer Davos" 2007, it is committed to a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable path of biotechnology development. Bio-VC is the place where bio venture and high tech companies in & outside China present their unique technologies to professionals around the world.
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Purchasing power blues among French middle class Throughout Europe, soaring prices have had a dramatic impact on families' purchasing power. In France, many in the middle class feel unfairly caught out by this. Frustration is on the rise along with the prices.

According to the 2008 Purchasing PracticesStudy PRO AV commissioned with READEX Research, readers find PRO AV themost valuable resource for their business by a margin of 6-to-1 over theclosest competitor.

When a site has 25 million pages, it can be easy to get lost. The new ThomasNet.com takes this into consideration, adding a new way to search as well as streamlined navigation, said Brendan O'Connell, director of Web operations for the site, which features more than 607,000 suppliers of industrial products and services as well as industrial and manufacturing related resources.

Salary increases for management positions, the stagnation of real estate prices and the economic recession on international markets have propelled Romania to eighth position worldwide in terms of the managers' purchasing power, according to a survey conducted by management consulting company Hay Group.

Customer relationship management (CRM) in name has been around for about 10-12 years. Yet the concept -- knowing your customers and delivering the level of service to them that is appropriate for their existing and future importance -- has long been at the heart of commerce.

Canadian purchasing activity rose at a slower pace in August, the Ivey Purchasing Managers Index showed on Friday, suggesting the country is feeling pressure from the U.S. economic slowdown.

The index, a joint project of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada and the Richard Ivey School of Business, fell to 51.5 in August from 65.5 in July. That missed market expectations for a reading of 63.0.

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The non-traditional voluntary benefits market is booming. Just ask Atlanta-based Purchasing Power, a full service provider of voluntary employee purchase programs who this week announced that the company had reached a milestone of $200 million of products shipped since the company began seven years ago. Last year alone Purchasing Power tallied $50 million in revenue.

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A new purchasing policy for Norwalk city employees is designed to improve documentation, accountability and transparency.

The previous Norwalk City Council requested the update. It combines the spending procedures for conferences, meetings, credit cards and educational training into one policy, said Mark Miller, city administrator.

“It’s not really much different than what we had,” Miller said. “We’re putting in some additional budgetary controls so that we have a better understanding of what stuff is being charged prior to the event.”

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John Lunsmann is the Corporate Director of Purchasing with Gemstone Hotels and Resorts and has been in the hotel industry in one way or another for 25 years. At Gemstone he oversees all purchasing practices for 14 upscale midsize and boutique hotels across the United States. He is also planning for another three hotels currently under construction.

Sumter County officials think they have a new way of saving the county money and the plan already seems to be working.

The various county departments have been in charge when it comes to purchasing supplies and equipment for their individual departments.

In an effort to save both time and money, a new policy, effective Oct. 1, was recently approved by Sumter County commissioners allowing the county’s budget and purchasing department to take over purchasing equipment and supplies.
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