DEALS.Byline: The Register-Guard Pape Group buys more Kenworth dealerships Pape Group acquired Roberts Motor Co., adding a third major division to its seven-state operations. The deal added Kenworth heavy diesel truck sales and service to the company's existing forklifts and construction equipment division. Pape Group declined to disclose what it paid for the assets of the Portland-based trucking firm and its outlets in Eugene, Medford and Redmond. Company officials said Pape Group will assess its workforce needs and then allow Roberts employees to apply for jobs at the combined firm that's now known as Pape Kenworth. Pape Group made its first foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my diesel trucks last July when it purchased Central California Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California:
The Roberts purchase brings the total number of Kenworth dealerships to nine. Besides sales and service, the outlets will provide financing and leasing for fleets and individual owner operators. Portland company to work with Turner Broadcasting Portland-based Rentrak Corp. has entered into a multiyear deal with Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. Inc. and all eight of its On Demand network brands, which include Adult Swim, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , TBS, TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. , TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. and TruTV (formerly CourtTV). Rentrak said the deal will enhance its capacity to provide timely, aggregated and customizable analysis of anonymous census level on-demand viewing data. Coconut Bliss makers widen distribution network Eugene entrepreneurs Luna Marcus and Larry Kaplowitz, the creators of Luna & Larry's Coconut Bliss - a dairy- and sugar-free alternative to ice cream - have signed a distribution agreement with United Natural Foods to make their products available in stores throughout Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii. Marcus and Kaplowitz developed their coconut milk-based frozen desserts in 2005, using an ice cream maker A domestic ice cream maker or ice cream freezer is a machine used to make small quantities of ice cream at home. Ice cream makers may stir the mixture by hand-cranking or with an electric motor, and may chill the ice cream by using a freezing mixture, by pre-cooling the they bought for $1.50 at a Goodwill thrift shop. Within a year, they upgraded to a small commercial space in Eugene's Whiteaker neighborhood and were selling products at 10 natural food stores in Eugene, along with five stores in Portland and one each in Ashland, Grants Pass and Corvallis. A full list of retail outlets where its products are sold can be found at: www.coconutbliss.com. E-mail news of business deals to ilene.aleshire@registerguard.com. Please put "blue chip" in the subject line. Or write to: Ilene Aleshire, blue chip, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440-2188. |
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