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SweetLeaf® Supports Local Healthy Eating, Active Lifestyle Festival

Gilbert, AZ (PRWEB) April 11, 2012

SweetLeaf Stevia® Sweetener is joining together with the University of Arizona Medical Center’s Health & Wellness Center and the Grow 2B Fit Foundation to support the H.E.A.L. (Healthy Eating, Active Lifestyle) Festival, taking place on Saturday, April 21 in Tucson, Arizona. The free family event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Diamond Children’s lobby and patio area at 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, as well as on the grassy area outside the UA Medical Center’s Health & Wellness Center.

In its inaugural year, the H.E.A.L. Festival is being held on Global Youth Service Day and is a service-learning project of 11-year-old Haile Thomas, youth advisory board member for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Haile is also the founder of Healthy Girls Adventures Club and the lead host of “Kids Can Cook,” an online cooking show. Haile and her partners – youth and adult volunteers, as well as local Arizona foundations and corporations like Wisdom Natural Brands®, the makers of SweetLeaf® – will present a day of physical fitness activities, healthy cooking demonstrations from local chefs, and nutrition talks for the Tucson community. The goal of the H.E.A.L. Festival is to motivate kids and their families to embrace a healthy lifestyle.

“We were very impressed with all of the efforts young Haile has put into promoting healthy living through eating better and exercising, not only through H.E.A.L., but through her contributions to Alliance for a Healthier Generation and Kids Can Cook,” said James May, Founder and CEO of Wisdom Natural Brands.

“The H.E.A.L. Festival and SweetLeaf are such a natural fit,” added May. “The festival is one way Haile is bringing attention to all the sugar-filled and processed foods targeted at kids and families, and SweetLeaf Stevia Sweetener is all about offering families a natural, cleanly processed alternative to sugar with zero calories, zero carbohydrates and zero glycemic index.”

“I believe that the voice, ideas, and contributions of youth are important because we live in an overly sweet, salty, and processed world, and kids are often targeted by unhealthy foods. So it’s only right that we fight back,” said Haile. “The H.E.A.L. Festival is one of the ways that I am fighting back and educating kids and their families, and I am so grateful for the encouragement and support that I’ve received from my partners and event participants. Together, I believe we will host a fantastic event for Tucson families!”

Natural, great tasting SweetLeaf is extremely versatile, and can be used with a variety of foods and beverages. Available in packets, a convenient shaker, or 17 different flavors of liquids that the entire family can enjoy, SweetLeaf can be sprinkled on grapefruit or oatmeal, stirred into hot tea or smoothies, or added to sauces, salad dressings, jams and more. Recipes can be found at http://www.sweetleaf.com.

In addition to SweetLeaf, the following organizations are also co-sponsoring the H.E.A.L. Festival: YSA, Disney, UnitedHealthcare, ZisBoomBah.com, Ancient Harvest Quinoa, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Kids Can Cook, Arizona Kids Food Revolution, Grow 2B Fit Foundation, The University of Arizona Medical Center Diamond Children’s, and Hanling Acupuncture Healing Center. The Partners are: Healthy Girl Adventures Club, Grow 2B Fit Foundation, and the Pivirotto Wellness Center at the University of Arizona Medical Center.

For more on the H.E.A.L. Festival, visit http://www.healfestival.com for details.

For more information about SweetLeaf, or to schedule an interview with James May, please call the contacts listed at the bottom of this release.

About Wisdom Natural Brands®

Gilbert, Arizona-based Wisdom Natural Brands® is the parent company of two highly respected consumer brands: SweetLeaf Stevia® Sweetener and Wisdom of the Ancients® herbal teas. SweetLeaf® is the only all-natural stevia sweetener with zero calories, zero carbohydrates and zero glycemic index. Its “green” processing procedure uses only cool, purified water and high-grade stevia leaves. The sweetener was recognized as the 2010-2011 Global Stevia Products Award Winner for taste, technology and sustainability by the International Society of Antioxidants in Nutrition and Health. SweetLeaf is sold in boxes containing 35 or 70 packets, as well as in SweetLeaf Stevia Plus® Shaker Bottles for easy home use and SweetLeaf SteviaTabs™ Dissolvable Tablets for on-the-go use. SweetLeaf Stevia Liquid Sweeteners are convenient and fun to use in beverages and foods and there are 17 different flavors. SugarLeaf™, also by Wisdom, bonds SweetLeaf with cane sugar for a low-calorie sugar alternative perfect for baking and cooking. SweetLeaf® Liquid Stevia drops add flavor without calories or carbohydrates to water or favorite foods and beverages. For more information about SweetLeaf products, recipes and more, visit http://www.sweetleaf.com

Wisdom of the Ancients herbal teas, from energizing Yerba Maté Royale® to calming Rooibos, are available loose leaf or in bags and come in a variety of refreshing flavors. Select varieties are also available with a touch of calorie-free stevia sweetener.

SweetLeaf and Wisdom of the Ancients products can be purchased online at http://www.buywisdom.com or at grocery and health food stores throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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GSMI Presents: The Mobile + Web Developer Conference, July 17-19, San Francisco 2012

Mobile + Web Developer Conference

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 10, 2012

Global Strategic Management Institute (GSMI) is proud to present the Mobile+Web Developer Conference. Mobile+Web DevCon will be holding it’s first installment on July 17-19, 2012, at the Marines Memorial Club & Hotel in San Francisco.

Mobile+Web DevCon is a unique opportunity for developers, designers and engineers to come together and explore the three most pervasive platforms in development: Android, iOS, and the web. Mobile+Web DevCon features presentations on topics such as building native apps, cross platform development, mobile web optimization, real-time collaboration, user experience, design and maximizing profit on the app market.

With education as a top priority, Mobile+Web DevCon provides four interactive pre-conference labs, where attendees have the opportunity to engage in real hands-on practice and work with facilitators, colleagues and other professionals to build their own strategies, solve problems and bring solid information back to the office. Engaging and informational presentations will allow attendees to develop a deeper understanding of existing mobile and web technologies as well as explore new and cutting edge developments.

The conference includes speakers from leaders in the industry such as:

-Disney Mobile

-AOL

-Barnes and Noble

-HTC

-Qualcomm Labs

-Salesforce

-Samsung

and many more.

For detailed information about the conference and pre-conference labs, including package details, prices and keynote speakers, please visit:

http://www.mobilewebdevconference.com

Mobile+Web DevCon’s early bird registration discount, offering a special $ 400 savings for early registrations, expires this Friday, April 13th.

About Global Strategic Management Institute:

GSMI is a leader in the industry of executive education, creating conferences, summits, workshops and training sessions that combine rich learning environments with the opportunity to network with today’s most relevant thought- leaders, speakers and practitioners. GSMI’s annual events have reached 70% of the Fortune 500 companies, in over 30 countries, and cover topics that today’s leaders find most challenging and inspiring. More information about Global Strategic Management Institute and Mobile+Web DevCon can be found at: http://www.gsmiweb.com.

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Orlando Luxury Resort Offers Free Honeymoon Stays for Newlyweds

JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) April 02, 2012

By the power vested in Orlando hotel deals, the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes now pronounces couples planning to marry free — free to earn a complimentary honeymoon of up to six nights.

Marriott Rewards members who book a qualifying wedding at the Orlando luxury resort by Dec. 1, 2012, and tie the knot by Dec. 31, 2013, can receive up to 150,000 Marriott Reward points with the Vow to Get Away deal. Points can then be redeemed in Orlando or at any participating Marriott hotel across the globe to receive free night stays.

The 500 lush acres of tropical landscape or spacious grand ballrooms of this luxury hotel make for some of the most dazzling wedding venues in Orlando, FL, and are perfect enticements to host a wedding party of any size. The four-star hotel features deluxe accommodations such as fine bed linens, wireless Internet and marble bathrooms with separate showers and baths. With the resort being 10 miles from Orlando International Airport and convenient to Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld, guests will have convenience, luxury and entertainment all in one location.

Planning for Florida destination weddings can be made even easier with the hotel’s Marriott-certified wedding planners, who have completed demanding coursework to coordinate large or small events including ethnic and military weddings. Planners are at the service of the wedding party from the day it arrives through the moment of the final departure and can also help with pre-planning ranging from determining an overall vision for a wedding to choosing a menu and finding florists, bands and photographers.

The resort also can host bridal showers or luncheons, bachelor or bachelorette parties, rehearsal dinners or family farewell brunches. Brides and grooms who do not belong to the Marriott Rewards program can join for free by signing up at http://www.marriott.com.

About the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes

The JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes sits amid 500 lush acres of tropical landscape and is conveniently located near Orlando International Airport, Walt Disney World and several of the city’s top attractions. The Orlando luxury resort features lavish amenities including a Ritz-Carlton spa, Greg Norman Signature golf course, lazy river outdoor pool and Ritz-Carlton fitness center. Three restaurants, a Starbucks, poolside bar and grill and café offer guests several dining and drinking options. For information, visit http://www.marriott.com/MCOJW.

About Marriott International Inc.

Marriott International Inc. is a leading lodging company with nearly 3,700 properties in 72 countries and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Edition, Autograph Collection, Renaissance, AC Hotels by Marriott, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn & Suites, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari brand names; licenses the development and operation of vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club and Grand Residences by Marriott brands and licenses the development of The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club brand to the newly independent Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation; licenses and manages whole-ownership residential brands, including The Ritz-Carlton Residences, JW Marriott Residences and Marriott Residences; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers. The company is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has approximately 129,000 employees. It is ranked by Fortune magazine as the lodging industry’s most admired companies and one of the best companies to work for. For information, visit http://www.marriott.com.

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MD247 Unveils Telemedicine Option for Vacationers

Tampa Florida (PRWEB) March 29, 2012

Seminole Florida telemedicine specialists MD247 have taken paraphrasing a quote by Saint Augustine, “the world is a book that must be traveled in order to fully understand its beauty.” The idea is not meant to be abstract, as it actually pairs with a new interim travel healthcare option MD247 is offering travelers visiting each of the fifty states and/or the District of Columbia. MD247 intends to unveil the new interim travel healthcare protection plan at the American Resort Development Association World 2012 Convention and Exposition, which is being held at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas between April 1st and April 5th.

The MD247 interim travel healthcare option deviates from the “all-encompassing” MD247 Talk to a Doctor program in that it is designed to give non-MD247 members the chance to ensure that their vacation goes off without a medical hitch. This is accomplished by providing interested travelers, be they a family visiting Walt Disney World or hikers in the Rockies, 24/7 access to board certified medical professionals via telephone 24/7 from the moment the trip starts and ending at midnight on the final day of the journey. Each traveler in the vacation party has equal access to the certified medical professionals and, if a set of symptoms escalate to the point of a prescription being needed, MD247 can even make that happen. All of this is available to an entire family for a single payment of $ 9.95, and MD247 takes care of the fees typically incurred when a patient call escalates from a registered nurse to a board certified doctor. That means that MD247 will pay fees of around $ 35.00 directly out of their pocket, leaving a patient just the price of his or her antibiotic prescription at the local Wal-Mart or CVS. The service is meant to provide peace of mind, and ensure that precious memories are made.

The American Resort Development Association World 2012 Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas is the premier gathering for the vacation ownership industry. The ARDA World 2012 Convention and Exposition boasts 3,000 attendees from more than 35 countries.

MD 247 is a twenty-four hour a day affordable concierge telemedicine company based out of Seminole Florida. All members have unlimited twenty-four hour telephone access to a nationwide medical support team with just a phone call. MD247.com has a virtual platoon of Registered Nurses and board certified physicians in each and every state available to members for ALL non-emergency situations. You can learn more about MD247.com by visiting http://www.md247.com.

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The Hilton Garden Inn Orlando at SeaWorld to Offer April Flash Sale

The Hilton Garden Inn at SeaWorld is offering a Flash Sale for summer stays

Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

The Hilton Garden Inn Orlando at SeaWorld, located on 6850 Westwood Blvd., Orlando, will be offering a Flash Sale for the summer with rates up to 50 percent off beginning April 13, 2012 and ending on April 17, 2012. During those four days, stays at the on-site SeaWorld hotel in Orlando will be offered for only $ 79 per night from April 29 – September 5, 2012.

Guests who book the sale will also have access to some of the hotel’s most popular features including:

    Free transportation to SeaWorld, Aquatica, Discovery Cove, Disney Parks, and Universal Orlando. Hotel is within walking distance to SeaWorld.
    Free Quick Queue Unlimited at SeaWorld (front of the line program, a $ 30 value)
    Exclusive access to the SeaWorld Rescue Tour on early entry dates and every Saturday all year long. (Tour is exclusive to on-site hotel guests only.)
    Early Entry into SeaWorld on select dates during peak seasons.
    Discounts on select merchandise and culinary purchases at SeaWorld and Aquatica.

To book your room during the April Flash Sale, or for any stay, visit the Hilton Garden Inn Orlando at SeaWorld website or call 800-449-1619. Ask for or use rate code “P5” to book your Orlando experience.

About the Hilton Garden Inn at SeaWorld

Managed by Sage Hospitality, the Hilton Garden Inn Orlando at SeaWorld features 224 guest rooms, including seven spacious suites, as well as the Great American Grill, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Walking distance to SeaWorld and a free shuttle to Disney and Universal, the hotel features numerous amenities, including a heated outdoor pool and Jacuzzi, complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access and a state-of-the-art fitness center. Each room is outfitted with a refrigerator, microwave oven and coffeemaker, as well as a large work desk and a high-definition TV. The hotel also offers 4,400 square feet of meeting space and a 24-hour business center. To learn more about the Hilton Garden Inn at SeaWorld visit, http://www.hiltongardeninnseaworld.com/.

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Exact Drive and Canned Banners Introduce One-Stop Solution for Dynamic Display Advertising

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 26, 2012

Digital media agency Exact Drive and display ad design platform Canned Banners are announcing a partnership to offer marketers a one-stop solution for launching and managing dynamic display ad campaigns. The service increases the performance and precision of display ad campaigns by personalizing ad creative in real time for each viewer.

Available as a single, unified offering, the service includes: media strategy and planning, dynamic ad setup, campaign management and reporting, and ongoing performance optimization. Advertisers may learn more at http://www.exactdrive.com/dynamic-ads.

Dynamic ad campaigns identify opportunities where advanced targeting methods can be blended in real time with advertisers’ own product and offer data. In a fraction of a second, this data is used to generate custom-tailored display ads that match viewers’ individual interests. For example, a real estate advertiser might target homebuyers in a given geographic area with nearby listings, or a travel campaign might feature last-minute Hawaiian vacation deals adjacent to contextually relevant travel content.

Tim Nichols, principal media director at Exact Drive, said, “This partnership is exciting because of the benefit our clients are going to get. For example, this will take our clients’ retargeting campaigns to a whole new level by being able to feature the precise products and categories that people browsed. Our clients will no longer be limited to generalized audience categories and ‘one size fits all’ ads. Instead, they can speak to people as unique individuals, which will really boost the impact of campaigns.”

Myles Younger, head of business development at Canned Banners, said, “We’re excited to have Exact Drive as a partner. The team at Canned Banners are experts at dynamic display ad design, and Exact Drive has the expertise and scale to launch high-performance online ad campaigns. The fact that this solution is powered by two independent companies is a unique strength compared to other dynamic ad offerings; each company brings their very best capabilities to the table, and clients reap the benefit.”

Marketers and companies wishing to learn more about dynamic display advertising can visit http://www.exactdrive.com/dynamic-ads.

About Exact Drive:

Exact Drive plans, manages and optimizes online advertising campaigns with the objective of delivering measurable value and empowering clients to find precisely targeted audiences. The company has handled campaigns for numerous clients including AmericInn, Benjamin Moore, Disney World Resorts, Travel Leaders and NCC Media. Founded in 2009, Exact Drive has offices in Washington, DC, Austin, TX, Phoenix, AZ and is headquartered in St Paul, MN. For more information, visit http://www.exactdrive.com.

About Canned Banners:

Canned Banners provides online advertisers, ad networks, and agencies with technology and tools that streamline the process of creating display ads. For clients needing out-of-the-box ad creation capabilities, Canned Banners offers flexible web-based applications. The Canned Banners dynamic display advertising platform lets advertisers customize display ad content on the fly using real-time customer and targeting data. Canned Banners also offers a versatile API, allowing organizations to develop custom integrations and deploy white-labeled ad design tools. Go to http://www.cannedbanners.com to learn how Canned Banners is transforming display ad design from a costly bottleneck to a streamlined service that scales on demand.

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Kevin Pellegrino Joins Alight Planning as Vice President, Sales

El Dorado Hills, CA (PRWEB) March 16, 2012

Alight Planning, developers of the first solution to make driver-based planning easy, today announced the appointment of Kevin Pellegrino as Vice President, Sales. Reporting directly to Rand Heer, Alight Planning’s founder and CEO, Pellegrino is introducing scalable sales processes to meet the increasing demand for more agile planning solutions.

Pellegrino has a 20-year track record of aligning objectives and motivating individuals and teams towards common goals that positively impact the bottom line. He has a track record of success with large companies such as Hewlett Packard and mid-sized organizations across the education, healthcare, and non-profit sectors. He completed an MBA at Canisius College in New York.

“It gives me great pleasure to welcome Kevin to lead our sales team,” said Rand Heer, Alight CEO and founder. “From his first day on the job, Kevin started adding value. He motivated me to develop an ROI Calculator that will enable FP&A teams to systematically quantify the value of planning activities from basic planning activities such as budgeting and reporting across the Planning Maturity Curve to forecasting and Agile Planning.”

“It’s great to be part of a world-class team with a proven product that is just waiting to take off,” said Pellegino. “What Rand did with Pillar for budgeting, he’s doing with Alight for Agile Planning. In addition to saving time, Agile Planning focuses on what’s important to finance right now: rolling forecasts and what-if analyses that enables better, faster business decisions. As a spreadsheet modeler, I could tell this software was something special, but when I met Don Koenes who heads up the Alight Planning Solutions Group, I quickly understood why finance consistently gives Alight Planning such excellent reviews.”

About Alight Planning

Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and reporting software package that automates business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and intuitive interfaces provide enable finance teams to rapidly build any driver-based planning model, while delivering traditional budgeting and planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Rapidly deployed and IT-independent, Alight Planning has been embraced by organizations of all sizes. Alight has over 250 customers including Kaiser Permanente, British Telecommunications, Pittsburgh Mercy Health, the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World and Verizon Wireless. For more information about Alight Planning, visit http://www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.

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Florida Hospital Receives New Quality-Based Accreditation from DNV Healthcare

Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) March 14, 2012

Florida Hospital, part of the Adventist Health System, has achieved national accreditation from DNV Healthcare, the first Medicare-approved hospital accreditation program integrating the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System with the Medicare Conditions of Participation.

One of the nation’s largest and most-respected hospitals, Florida Hospital joins a growing cadre of hospitals shifting to the DNV program for its modern approach to quality and patient safety.

According to Florida Hospital, the DNV accreditation concept aligns well with the hospital’s strategic mission. DNV will survey Florida Hospital annually, focusing on improvement of processes across the continuum of care.

“The DNV program is consistent with our long-term commitment to patient safety and total quality,” says Lars Houmann, president and CEO of Florida Hospital. “The ability of the DNV approach to integrate ISO with our clinical and financial processes is a major step forward. We value the annual review and evaluation process with a consistent team of surveyors, allowing Florida Hospital to continually improve our care and processes.”

DNV surveyors spent a week at Florida Hospital, assessing care processes, reviewing policy documents and meeting with quality and clinical staff. The engagement was characterized by open dialogue about things that are working well and areas that can be improved, and showed the hospital staff’s dedication to continued development.

“It’s a very collegial and holistic system,” says Houmann. “The DNV program uses collaboration to help us find opportunities to improve, resulting in the empowerment of the staff through the accreditation process.”

As with all DNV accredited facilities, Florida Hospital has three years from its initial accreditation to complete the work necessary to become fully ISO 9001 compliant. Florida Hospital’s utilization of the ISO principles will enable and enhance its commitment to excellent, safe and compassionate care.

“Most hospitals are pleasantly surprised to find that through their current quality and patient safety programs they already comply with many of the specific requirements of ISO,” says Yehuda Dror, president of DNV Healthcare. “It’s mostly a process of adapting the ‘system speak’ of ISO to the language of healthcare and hospital services. Truth be told, ISO is as useful, and may even be better suited to healthcare than just about any other industry because it is designed for complex, people-based processes.”

About Florida Hospital

Opened in 1908, Florida Hospital is a faith-based institution focused on providing whole person care. It is one of the largest not-for-profit hospitals in the country, caring for more than a million patient visits per year – more than any other hospital in the country, according to the American Hospital Association. The more than 2,000-bed system is comprised of eight hospitals, including the Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children, 30 outpatient facilities and 20 Centra Care locations throughout Central Florida. Florida Hospital provides a wide range of health services, including many nationally and internationally recognized programs in cardiology, cancer, women’s medicine, neurosciences, diabetes, orthopedics, pediatrics and advanced surgical programs. Florida Hospital is a designated statutory teaching hospital and also trains physicians from all around the world on the newest technologies. For more information, please visit http://www.floridahospital.com.

About DNV Healthcare

Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, DNV Healthcare is part of Det Norske Veritas, a global independent foundation dedicated to safeguarding life, property and the environment. In 2008, DNV Healthcare became the first new accreditation body for US hospitals in nearly 40 years, bringing to market a totally fresh approach to accreditation that integrates the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System with the Medicare Conditions of Participation for Hospitals. DNV accredits acute care and critical access hospitals, and also provides Primary Stroke Center certification. For more information, visit http://www.dnvaccreditation.com.

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Savtira Partners with Orion, Integrating
IT Services to Its Cloud Commerce Solutions Platform

Tampa, FL (PRWEB) March 14, 2012

Savtira corporation, a leading cloud commerce solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Orion Systems Integrators, Inc. a globally recognized award-winning IT services and solutions provider, that will strengthen the service and support Savtira provides its customers.

“This agreement will allow Savtira to continue to move at an escalated pace to keep up with its customers,” said Timothy M. Roberts, President and CEO of Savtira. “It also allows Savtira to intensify development timelines and plans to port our service to many more devices, operating systems and screen sizes – and also add more rich features with full-time in-house project management support from Orion.”

According to Roberts, the core competencies that Orion offers should benefit the Savtira customers from a global staffing perspective as well since Savtira continues to expand its vision beyond the United States. Orion’s experience with Websphere Commerce, PHP, Java, mobile apps and emerging technology were also key reasons why Savtira chose Orion to help strengthen its platform.

Savtira is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Cloud Commerce solutions company poised to inject new life in to large e-tailers, traditional retailers, computer OEMs, cable operators, broadcast affiliates, publishers, content developers/distributors and other Fortune 500 companies. The goal is to get them to market faster by leveraging the Savtira cloud-based infrastructure that has been in the planning stages for nearly a decade, and in place for more than a year.

These types of organizations implement Savtira’s solutions to advance their current offerings or grow their businesses by launching new Savtira ecommerce engines; integrating Savtira’s 20 million digital and physical goods; streaming their movies, music, games, and software via Savtira’s cloud and/or employing a Savtira digital “locker” for their consumers to store all of their digital content in one place and access it anywhere.

“It seems that Savtira is on a fast-moving pace, building out its cloud commerce solutions platform,” said Sunil Mehta, founder, president and CEO of Orion. “Orion recognizes these technological advancements and is poised to effectively satisfy Savtira and its customers by responding innovatively and providing mobility, speed and well integrated service and support.”

Orion’s global strategy enables it to offer seamless development and support onshore, offshore and near shore, providing cost-effective technology solutions and with penetration in most of the global markets. Orion counts AT&T and Disney among its impressive list clients who have integrated their technology solutions.

About Savtira

Savtira is in the business of digital distribution with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that provides a turnkey system for the distribution, marketing, merchandising, and sale of digital media and physical goods in a single store, and in a single, unified shopping cart. Savtira-powered eStores are designed to meet the specific needs of retail partners and are custom-branded for each one. To facilitate the delivery of digital content, Savtira is building a new-generation, carrier-class Entertainment Distribution Network (EDN), streaming all digital media from the cloud, with a feature set that eclipses anything on the market. The company is headquartered in Tampa, Fla., and has an office location in the United Kingdom. For more information on Savtira, visit: http://www.savtira.com or call 813.402.0123. Follow us on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/savtira.

Savtira is a registered trademark. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Savtira Contact Information:

Direct: (813) 440-3841        PR(at)savtira(dot)com         http://www.Savtira.com

About Orion

Orion Systems Integrators, Inc. is a globally recognized award-winning IT services and solutions provider that has grown from a one man company to a 700+ workforce with seven offices spanning four continents. Headquartered in the U.S., Orion develops, integrates, deploys and manages IT services and solutions for leading financial, retail, media, pharmaceutical and government organizations throughout the world. Orion’s well experienced teams of experts are strategists, problem solvers and implementers who understand how leveraging technology can solve real business problems and maximize opportunities. Orion’s reputation is built on its focus and dedication to develop and deliver technology excellence through flawlessly-executed projects, while providing outstanding customer satisfaction.

Orion Contact Information:

Judith Jones 732-422-9922 x 137    judithj(at)orioninc(dot)com         http://www.orioninc.com

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Blizzie Freezer Products to Debut Slush Buddies at International Housewares Show

Chicago, Il (PRWEB) March 10, 2012

Blizzie Freezer Products, LLC today introduced the latest addition to its line of slushy-making products, the Slush Buddies, at the International Housewares show in Chicago. The Slush Buddy combines its hot-selling Aussie Ice™ Slushy Maker with a sculpted foam character that surrounds and insulates the cup. The first set of Slush Buddies include a Snowman, Polar Bear and Penguin. “The Slush Buddies take Aussie Ice™ slushy makers to the next level, said Jeff Fradin of Blizzie Freezer Products, “it adds an additional element of fun to making slushies.”

The Aussie Ice™ slushy maker turns virtually any drink into a slushy. Consumers simply put the Aussie Ice™ cup into their freezer until the liquid inside the cup’s walls freezes. Then they pour their favorite chilled beverage into the cup and squeeze. In just a few minutes, the drink turns into a delicious slushy. Now, with the Slush Buddies, consumers will have an insulated foam figure that slides over the Aussie Ice™ Slushy Maker. When they squeeze their slushy maker, they will actually be squeezing the foam Polar Bear, Snowman or Penguin.

“If you are going to squeeze your way to a perfect slushy, why not give a loving squeeze to your favorite character?” said Tom Lazaroff, Chief Marketing Officer for Blizzie Freezer Products. “Kids will love having a friend to help them make slushies.”

Slush Buddies will be available in time for summer season, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $ 24.99. Slush Buddies can be sculpted in virtually any shape or color, and Blizzie plans to introduce additional sku’s in the coming months. The product will be on display at the Blizzie Freezer Products booth, number S4147 at the International Housewares Show in Chicago, from March 10th – 13th.

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Contacts:

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About Blizzie Freezer Products, LLC

Blizzie Freezer Products LLC brings the magic of snow and ice to consumers around the world. Blizzie Freezer Products LLC is a partnership between one of the world’s foremost experts on snow-making, a former executive from Disney Consumer Products and a Partner of a Los Angeles Advertising Agency. The company is based in Southern California with offices in China and Australia, and a distribution center in Oxnard, California. To learn more, go to http://www.myaussieice.com.

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