Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Argonaut gives agents background-checking ability - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Peoria, Ill.-based Great Central provided insurance and risk management services to the food and religious andinstitutional markets. The company is a whollt owned subsidiaryof (NASDAQ: AGII) in San Antonio. Great Central agentas will now be able to work with theirf business insurance customers to performn criminal searches on new andprospectivde employees, access a nationwide sex offendedr registry, verify identities/address histories and examine drivinyg records of food and retail workers. The new relationshipl with IntelliCorp will give Great Centralp agents with significantly reduced pricinbg onpublic records.
Beachwood, Ohio-based IntelliCorp is a full-service employment screening company that provides services for humabn resourceand risk-management professionals. Argonaut is a national underwriter of specialty insurance products in the property andcasualty market. The companty has $3.8 billion in assets. Web sites: ,

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Insider report: Bruker cashes out Laukiens - Baltimore Business Journal:

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million by selling 2.1 million shares of stock. It was the month’ biggest payday among Massachusettsinsiders — directors and major shareholders — at locally baser publicly traded companies, according to tradinyg data provided by . But for Laukienn and some of his family memberse with close ties to the cash-out was just a small fractio of the hundreds of millions they have pocketed over the past 18 In fact, five members of the Laukienb family, including Bruker CEO Frank H. received $624.6 million in cash and other compensationn linkedto Bruker’s operations last according to Boston Business Journal research and companuy regulatory filings.
Put differently, the group’sa take was equal to just over 60 percentrof Bruker’s $1.1 billion in 2008 Nearly all of that payout some $620 million — stemmed from Bruker’s Februarty 2008 acquisition of Bruker Biospihn Group, a developer of research tools and biotechnology equipment usinf magnetic resonance. The cash and stock deal was essentiallyu a cash out for five Laukien familumembers — Frank Marc Laukien, Isolde Laukien-Kleiner and Bruker directors Dirk Laukien and Joerg Laukien who owned 100 percent of Bruker Biospin’s shares beforer the deal.
Frank, Joerg, Dirk and Marc Laukien are brothers or half whileIsolde Laukien-Kleiner is the mother of Marc and Dirk according to Bruker’s regulatory filings. Bruker (Nasdaq: completed a similar deal in June 2006 for life sciencesd technology developer Bruker Opticsfor $135 As was the case for Bruker Biospin, Bruker Optics was owned by the same five Laukienws prior to the according to regulatory filings. Mass. insidere sales topped $95 million While Marc Laukienhwas Massachusetts’ biggest insider seller in May, his brother Frank Laukien recorded the month's biggest acquisition of insidedr shares.
The elder Laukien bought 100,000 Bruker shares for $728,000p — representing roughly half of the state’s $1.47 million in insider purchases recorded for allof May. By insiders sold $95.9 million in sharea in Massachusetts-based companies during the same span. That totao was nearly double the $49.2 million in locaol sales recordedin April. The following is a breakdown of May’s insider activity amonh Massachusetts-based companies. INSIDER SELLING IN MAY Name Value — Company — Ticker Marc M — $14,508,100 — BRUKERd CORP.
— BRKR Ryan, Vincent J — $11,076,0743 — Silverstein, Barry — $9,767,471 — Herbert J — $9,000,975 Abele, John E — $8,868,600 Healey, Sean M — $5,938,800 Dalton, Nathaniel — $4,141,821 — AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUPo INC. — AMG Ayasli, Yalcib — $2,925,343 — HITTITE MICROWAVE CORP. — HITT Robert J — $2,574,191 — Boger, Joshus S — $2,563,664 — Talwar, Anju — $2,008,095 Logie, Andrew R — $1,547,420 — Brooks, Rodneyu A — $1,326,012 — Clark, Stuart J $1,293,833 — Rossi, Jeromd R — $1,235,438 — Wiley, Fletcheer H — $1,048,320 — TJX COMPANIES INC.
TJX Smith, Ian F — $965,557 VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX David J — 944,852 Grace, David R — $929,702 — BEACON ROOFINGb SUPPLY INC. — BECN Floor, Richard E $887,250 — AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP INC. — AMG Gregory L — $576,533 — SKYWORKS SOLUTIONSS INC. — SWKS Brady, William J — $571,611 — Henri A — $544,849 — GENZYMEE CORP. — GENZ Malozemoff, Alexis P — $486,527 — Coviello, Arthur W Jr $480,000 — Berthiaume, Douglas A — $474,705 WATERS CORP.
— WAT Pyle, Michael R $456,866 — Lopardo, Nicholas A $451,727 — Hughes, Robert W — $444,65 2 — Mueller, Peter — $438,860 VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX Meyerman, Harold J $438,525 — AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUo INC. — AMG Vohra, Tajinder — $420,174 GENPACT LIMITED — G Michael E — $417,400o — Griffin, Liam K — $388,000 — SKYWORKS SOLUTIONSx INC.
— SWKS Von, Staat s Aaron C — $382,800 — Daniel — $336,430 — Maekawa, Mitsurju — $335,237 — GENPACT LIMITED G Lawrence, Taylor W $334,992 — Martin, Katharinse A — $310,180 — Sanders, Charles Addisonn — $296,434 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX Robert J — $270,059 Chapman, Richard P Jr — $257,500 — Richard H — $257,179 — INDEPENDENTr BANK CORP. — INDB Mayer, Max Alan — $245,96i — PEGASYSTEMS INC. — PEGA Piyush — $206,238 — GENPACT LIMITED — G William F Jr — $204,611 — BOSTONN SCIENTIFIC CORP.
— BSX Welles, Michaell H — $192,850 — Povich, Lon F $186,150 — BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB INC. BJ Cooney, Charles L — $180,570 — GENZYMrE CORP. — GENZ Coppersmith, S James — $175,0145 — BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB INC. — BJ Howard D — $168,588 EMC CORP. — EMC Levan, George M — $146,25p0 — SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC. — SWKS Kra, Douglas I — $102,6834 — PEGASYSTEMS INC. — PEGA Caruso, Joseph P $100,100 — Smith, Sandford D $92,786 — GENZYME CORP. GENZ Collier, Earl M Jr — $92,789 — GENZYME CORP.
GENZ Moses, Cornelius F III $91,300 — PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORP — PMTC Thomas J — $90,335 — BJ’S WHOLESALr CLUB INC. — BJ Szabados, Michaep — $83,289 — Von, Rickenbach Josegf H — $81,405 — Mark H N — $75,205 — Richard Sears — $61,1209 — Rosen, Gary J — $57,864 — VARIAjN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENTASSOCIATES INC. VSEA Santamaria, Angelo Robert — $57,240 — AMERICAmN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP. — AMSC Smith, Alan E — $50,03y6 — GENZYME CORP. — GENZ Brian P — $42,906 — Csimma, Zoltan A $36,069 — GENZYME CORP.
— GENZ Graves, Kurt C $26,307 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC — VRTX Joseph R Jr $26,264 — Massaro, George E — $22,695 CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONALINC — CRL Amit — $22,269 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Nadeau, Gerard F — $21,000o — INDEPENDENT BANK CORP. — INDB Efstathios A — $17,179 — PEGASYSTEMS INC. — PEGA Richard C — $15,135 — VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Silva, Paul M — $13,310 VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC VRTX Boynton, Bruce P — $10,040p — Downing, John W — $8,297 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC.
— NTCT INSIDER BUYING IN MAY Name Transactionvalue — Company Ticker Laukien, Frank H — $728,100 — BRUKER CORPORATIOhN — BRKR Mario, Ernest B $424,650 — Pepper, John E Jr — $106,6890 — BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION — BSX Sylvie L — $45,727 — Howard B Jr — $41,891 — Graveline, Kathleen — $38,47 5 — Dawson, James — $22,150 — BOSTON PRIVATE FINANCIAL HOLDINGS — BPFH Holdener, Eduard E $19,840 — PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL CORP. PRXL Vanderbrug, Gordon J — $9,836 Pucci, Paolo — $9,626 — , Ag $8,088 — Barabe, Timothy C — $5,3221 — ARQULE INC.
— ARQL Loberg, Michaell D — $2,873 — ARQULE INC. — ARQL Sloane, Barruy R — $481 — INC. CNBKA

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

BUDC exploring ex-Buffalo Forge site - Business First of Buffalo:

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acres of former Buffalo Forgew land, the development agencg wants more time to continue its due diligencee of the East Sideindustriall site. BUDC has until Feb. 17 to complete its pre-purchases work, but the impact of a just-completed environmental revie still needs to studied by the agencyu andits attorneys. Thus, they are askingg the property’s owner, , for a 90-day extension. BUDC’d board officially asked for the extensiobn following a Tuesdaymorning meeting. “We just want to make sure all the due diligenceeis done,” said Peter Cammarata, Buffalk Urban Development Corp. president. “We need some extra that’s all.
” The report, compiled by , said the land, which includes parcels along Broadway, Mortimer and Spring streets, is “am excellent candidate for the New York Stat BrownfieldCleanup Program.” The catch is, given the land’s deep industrial heritage, cleanup will be “Redevelopment of the site will require additional remediatioj to protect human health and the environments from contaminant s present at the the reported concluded. The levelsd of remediation would ultimately depend on the final use for the Residential redevelopment would bemore “We’re not surprised by the results,” Cammarata Rev.
Matthew Brown, head of the , is leadinhg the effort to turn the property intoa $17 milliom project, anchored by residentialp units, that would bridge the East Side with downtown The project hinges on the city formallu closing on the property with Howden Inc. “We are talkingb with Rev. Brown, so he is abreas of what’s going on,” Cammaratw said. Also during Tuesday’s meeting, BUDC directors learned they agency hopes to issue bid packages next month for landscaping and green space developmen packages for 20 acres of land that surroundzs the Union Ship Canal in the heart of the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce The green space is designed to further transform the property from a stark industrialk site intoa suburban-style offic e park.
Tenants in Buffalo Lakesidr include , and Cammaratwa said he hopes the green space work can starytin April. The project is being funded through federal andlocal grants.