Brownstone Egan Inks Deal to Provide Interactive CD ROM Training Program for Blockbuster Video.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- Brownstone brownstone, red to brown variety of sandstone. Its unusual color is caused in some instances by the presence of red iron oxide which acts as a cement, binding the sand grains together. Egan Ltd., a Phoenix-based consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a that provides real estate and marketing services to franchise and multi-unit retail organizations, has just signed a deal with Blockbuster Inc. of Dallas to develop an interactive training program for their staff of real estate site selectors. The program, which is being developed in CD ROM CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory format, will enable the company's real estate specialists to refine their marketing analyses skills to strategically locate potential new retail sites. "Currently, Circle K's parent corporation, Tosco Marketing Co., is utilizing a program we developed several years ago, which serves as a model for the one we'll be developing for Blockbuster. However, Tosco's program is keyed into the markets of South Korea, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Indonesia and Taiwan, and Blockbuster's program will be U.S. based," said Paul Hazlinger, president of Brownstone Egan. "As more franchised and multi-unit operators weigh the benefits of globalized expansion, sophisticated site selection is becoming a key issue. "The interactive training format of custom CD ROMs allows users to absorb content that was developed specifically for their markets, progress at their own speed, repeat the information where necessary and develop a cohesive cohesive, n the capability to cohere or stick together to form a mass. strategy for analyzing the feasibility of a given property based on the company's own guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. . "The analytical tools and content we develop for these programs enables decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. multi-unit retail companies to provide up-to-the minute training in a cost-efficient manner," Hazlinger added. Background on Brownstone Egan Ltd. Brownstone Egan Ltd., based in Phoenix, is one of the nation's premiere franchise development and multi-unit retail consulting firms. With a client list that includes Shell Oil, Circle K, Frozen Fusion, as well as other international firms, the company develops customized programs for domestic and overseas expansion. Brownstone Egan, founded in 1989, and its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. Southern Convenience Inc., provide store model analyses; marketplace studies; training services; competitive analyses and myriad real estate services. Brownstone Egan provides those services domestically and Southern Convenience provides them internationally. Their clients include a growing list of Fortune 500 companies, with retail operations in the hospitality, automobile, convenience store, grocery store and printing industries. For more information, the Web site is located at www.belsci.net. |
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