AIRS Moves Across the River to Vermont.Business/Technology Editors WILDER, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2001 AIRS, the global leader in e-recruitment training, tools and information, has moved its corporate headquarters across the Connecticut River Connecticut River River, New England, northeastern U.S. Rising in the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, it flows south for a course of 407 mi (655 km) to empty into Long Island Sound. It forms the entire boundary between Vermont and New Hampshire. from Hanover, NH, to a new campus in Wilder, VT. Founded in 1997, AIRS provides training services, software recruitment tools A recruitment tool is an advertising method that aids in creating interest in and getting people for a typically political organization. The term can not properly be applied to commercial advertising. and recruitment information to the international recruitment industry. AIRS clients span the landscape of Fortune 500 firms from AT&T, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Coca-Cola, GE, General Motors, Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney , Marriott and Proctor A person appointed to manage the affairs of another or to represent another in a judgment. In English Law, the name formerly given to practitioners in ecclesiastical and admiralty & Gamble to fast growing, new economy technology firms like Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Dell Computer, AOL/Time Warner and Amazon.com. To date, over 20,000 executive search, third-party and corporate recruiters have attended AIRS benchmark training labs. In addition, AIRS award-winning SearchStation candidate-hunting software is installed on thousands of recruitment desktops and AIRS five-day Newsfeeds reach another 30,000 recruiters every day. AIRS has grown at a clip of over 100 percent per year since 1997 and predicts a strong growth rate for 2001 - even though many of its clients have been affected by the market downturn and layoffs of almost 400,000 workers to date. AIRS acquired its campus site in Wilder last year with an eye towards developing a corporate headquarters that will support teams of several hundred people across three business units: AIRS Training, AIRS Tools and AIRS Media. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mike Foster, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AIRS: "We are excited and very pleased to move to our new home this week. We appreciate all the hard work our partners have invested on our behalf and the help and warm welcome we've received from the Town of Hartford and the State of Vermont." City and State officials are also looking forward to welcoming the successful technology company to the Green Mountain State. "The town of Hartford is thrilled to see AIRS moving to Hartford and becoming part of our corporate family," says Hunter Rieseberg, Town Manager for the Town of Hartford. "We are indeed, extremely fortunate to be hosting such an outstanding company as AIRS in the Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation region. This relocation means so much to Hartford, the state of Vermont and us at GMEDC. I can only say we are very excited and pleased that AIRS has come to our community," says Jim Saudade Saudade (singular) or Saudades (plural) (pron. IPA [sɐu'dad(ɨ)] in European Portuguese, [saw'ðaðe , Executive Director at the Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation. The move was official on Monday, May 21. The new phone number is: 1-802-295-7062. The new postal mailing address is: 58 Fogg Farm Road White River Junction, VT 05001 The actual street address is: 58 Fogg Farm Road Wilder, VT 05088 Local reporters interested in a tour of AIRS' new facility should call Laura Jean Whitcomb at extension 1303 for more information. About AIRS AIRS is the largest provider of Internet recruitment training services worldwide as well as a leading software tools and recruitment media company. With seminars and workshops that span the e-recruitment landscape, AIRS is the leading innovator and premium brand in the marketplace with more than 2,000 training days and over 20,000 alumni - including a high percentage of the Fortune and Global 500. AIRS e-Recruitment KnowledgeBase at www.airsdirectory.com is the industry's first free e-recruiting information repository An information repository is an easy to deploy secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured , serving as a window to all recruiting industry information on the WWW. |
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