Hispanic Americans

HEADNOTE Big Bang Design A Detroit program is designing new ways to keep kids from lighting up. Can mint-green baseball caps, dodgeballs stenciled with the number "i200," and a whist tournament dissuade kids...

Byline: Staff and wire reports Days remaining in session: 16 Avoiding a Senate shootout: Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, wants to ban the carrying of firearms on the Senate floor, in the Senate Gallery...

Carolina Guana Joins as Multicultural Market Group Account Director SAN FRANCISCO -- Allison+Partners announced the launch of its Hispanic practice, Nuestra Voz, and the hiring of Carolina Guana as Multicultural Market Group Account...

Luis Fernandez-Rocha Named Senior Vice President of TeleFutura Carlos Bardasano Named TeleFutura's Vice President of Programming and Original Production TeleFutura Adds One of the Most Successful TV Franchises, "Family Guy", to its Primetime...

Hundreds of Hispanic journalists and media outlets, including most of the nation's leading Latino bloggers expected to converge in Miami for Hispanicize 2012 MIAMI -- Univision Communications, the leading media company serving Hispanic...

Expanded content, interactivity and social tools expected to deepen engagement and benefit advertisers LOS ANGELES -- impreMedia, the leading Hispanic news and information company, announced today the relaunch of its websites with improved...

Javelin's Report Delves Into How Financial Institutions Can Use Twitter as a Successful Customer Service Channel SAN FRANCISCO -- Javelin Strategy & Research's (www.javelinstrategy.com) latest report investigates consumer personal finance behaviors toward social...

NORWALK, Conn. -- GE Capital, Corporate Retail Finance today announced it is administrative agent and sole lender on a $65 million asset-based credit facility for Navarro Discount Pharmacy, LLC, a leading Hispanic-owned community...

In this section, we take a look at photos of some of the most interesting personalities who shared their stories with the San Fernando Valley Business Journal during 2011. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

After a stint at the state attorney's office during law school, Jose Baez quickly realized being a prosecutor wasn't for him. He wanted to represent clients with a pulse: real people with real...

Nestle Prepared Foods, a division of Glen-dale-based Nestle USA, plans to lay off 103 employees from its Chatsworth facility effective Feb. 1 following a sales decline in its frozen food sector. The facility,...

NEW YORK -- The Baby Bust in the United States is over, according to a report released today from Demographic Intelligence, the nation's premier provider of birth forecasts. In the wake of the...

MINNEAPOLIS -- For the third consecutive year, Donaldson Company is pleased to be the sole sponsor of Science Fusion: Brining Cultures Together at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Through a Donaldson Foundation grant...

-- Research by National Public Health and Hospital Institute Called "Crucial," as Health System Prepares to Absorb Millions of Newly Insured -- HARTFORD, Conn. -- Each year, millions of uninsured Americans rely on...

HEADNOTE Casanova Boss Passionate About the Pitch Ingrid Otero-Smart bolstered Casanova Pendrill Inc.'s position as something more than Orange County's largest Hispanic advertising agency. Otero-Smart led Casanova - the fourth largest ad shop...

Local retail property investors and tenants will be cautiously watching in 2012 for signals of a repeat performance of 2011, a year in which most signs pointed to a steady if unspectacular recovery...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Municipality of Anchorage is one of Alaska's most prominent and populous urban areas. Nowhere else in the state contains such a substantial population concentrated in one place--and within easy reach...

Out of 240 branded pharma websites, only about a fifth have any African American imagery on their pages, and bilingual sections of pharma sites are often missing important elements like the "Questions to...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In November, International Franchise Association Chairman Jack Earle (a McDonald's multi-unit franchisee) led a delegation of IFA members to meet with lawmakers in Puerto Rico to discuss the role franchising plays...