All Entries in the "Business" Category
McDonald’s promotes Alpha Frater Don Thompson to CEO as Jim Skinner retires
Source McDonald’s Corp. CEO Jim Skinner is retiring and will be succeeded by the company’s No. 2 executive, President and Chief Operating Officer Don Thompson. The Oak Brook-based fast-food company said this evening that Mr. Skinner, 67, will leave the company and the board on June 30 after 41 years. Mr. Thompson, 48, will take [...]
Kappa Frater Winston Myers II, named South DeKalb YMCA Executive Director
Source Winston Myers II, currently director of the South DeKalb YMCA, has been named executive director of the new 57,000 square foot Wade Walker YMCA under construction and slated to open in late summer 2012. Myers starts his new job April 1. In a press release announcing his new position, Myers said: “This new Y is an [...]
Omega Frater Jeff Tate Named To Savoy Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America
Jeff Tate, Vice President, Finance, Dow Performance Plastics has been named to Savoy Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America 2012 issue. Savoy is geared toward African-American business professionals and profiles prominent African-American business leaders. With 100,000 readers per issue, the magazine serves as a premier forum for issues of workplace diversity and [...]
Pride of Bed-Stuy: Omega Frater Earl G. Graves, Sr.
Source Earl G. Graves is a philanthropist, author, publisher and founder ofBlack Enterprise Magazine. Earl G. Graves was born on January 9, 1935, in Brooklyn and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, where he learned hard work and perseverance from his parents, Earl Goodwin and Winnaford Colette Sealy Graves. Graves attended Morgan State University, where he became [...]
Delta Soror Theresa Kennedy, entrepreneur follows her passion
Source It’s no secret Theresa Kennedy loves shoes, as she walks in a pair of black patent leather platform stiletto heels as if they’re flip-flops. It’s also no secret Kennedy loves the business of business, which is why last year the 32-year-old Moss Point native opened her own online shoe boutique called Red August. “A [...]
Gwinnett County AKA Chapter Accepts Applications for $1,000 Biz Grants
$1,000 Economic Success = Partnership Grants Available Lawrenceville, GA – November 30, 2011, the Upsilon Alpha Omega Chapter, along with its non-profit affiliate, The Gwinnett Pearls of Service Foundation, Incorporated, will end the application phase in their second Economic Success = Partnership business grant program. First awarded at the beginning of 2011, these $1,000 grants [...]
Kappa Frater Ryan Gibbs, USC Senior Publishes First Book
Source Most college students are trying to endure the daily challenges and tribulations of higher learning, but Ryan Gibbs is a man with a plan — and his own book. Gibbs, a senior at USC Aiken double majoring in psychology and communications, wrote a self-help book entitled, “Idle Time.” Requiring almost a year’s worth of writing and [...]
The evolution of Alpha Frater Eddie Maisonet’s Ed The Sports Fan, a new online sports publication to launch 11.11.11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2011 CONTACT: 213.537.3873 or ed@edthesportsfan.com The Sports Fan Journal – the evolution of Eddie Maisonet’s Ed The Sports Fan, a new online sports publication to launch 11.11.11 CINCINNATI – Eddie Maisonet and Kenny Masenda of Ed The Sports Fan, have announced their launch date and roster of contributors for the [...]
Omega Frater George Gamble Launches CoolJuice, All-Natural Juice Alternative
The largest and fastest-growing, employee-owned supermarket chain in the country is now selling CoolJuice in its Atlanta division, marking a milestone for the chilled juice beverage. Atlanta is also the home of co-founder George Gamble, a veteran of the beverage business and is the original home of CoolJuice. First introduced into Atlanta school systems in 2007, CoolJuice has expanded to include supermarkets [...]
Marcus Graham Project Launches Two New Shows
On June 6 the Marcus Graham Project (MGP) began its 3rd annual iCr8 Summer Boot Camp. Eleven young professionals were selected from across the nation to participate in the boot camp program, forming a real-life integrated marketing communication firm – Bippitus – to train them to become mavericks within the advertising, marketing and media industries. [...]
