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PHILADELPHIA, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparks, a global event marketing agency, continues their expansion on the West Coast by opening two new facilities in the Los Angeles area. In July of 2012, Sparks hired Mike Garrity to be the General Manager of the Western Region and since then, he has been leading the charge behind a massive development plan. The most recent expansion is the movement of the creative team as well as various account management and customer service...

A-B Tech graduate Chris Sparks was nominated for an Eisner Award for his book Team Cul De Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson’s. Funds raised from the book benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation. (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 Asheville-Buncombe Tech Community College graduate and local business owner Chris Sparks has been nominated for a prestigious Eisner Award, what many in the industry consider to be the Academy Awards of comics. The book, Team Cul De Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line...

PHILADELPHIA, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking to add to their existing impressive roster of clients and their growing team of industry experts, Sparks' Custom Retail Division has appointed two new executives to their business development team. Ilicia Manger and Jeffery Buttson bring a combined total of 35 years of retail fixture industry experience to the Sparks executive team. Buttson joins the team as Vice President of Business Development and will bring his experience in...

PHILADELPHIA, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The global event marketing agency Sparks announced today that it will partner with industry leader Gina Rudan, President of Genuine Insights Inc., a professional development and coaching firm, and author of Practical Genius: The Real Smarts You Need to Get Your Talents and Passions Working for You, for its 2013 "Women in Events" program. Rudan will kick off the series of women centric events on May 7, 2013 with the Master Class: "Harnessing...

PHILADELPHIA, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparks, a global event-marketing agency, is pleased to announce Cynthia McArthur will join the<s> </s>team as vice president of Strategic Accounts. In her new role, McArthur will lead and oversee account management and support a variety of event marketing projects and programs worldwide. She will help facilitate account growth and innovative strategies to improve client programs. McArthur brings over 15 years of creative problem...

SPARKS, Md., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Data software and tools provider Revelytix today announced that it will provide big data software and services for the United States Department of Defense (DOD) during 2013, deepening the multi-year big data relationship already in place. The DOD has relied on Revelytix for three years to create its data architecture and provide support to allow it to establish common architecture and semantics across all military service branches....

Health investigation company, Health Research News announced a new free report on healthy weight loss solutions, after singer and ‘Sparkle’ Actress opened up about her dramatic 50 pound weight loss. Ft. Worth, TX. (PRWEB) October 07, 2012 After actress and singer Jordin Sparks opened up about her 50 pound weight loss for her role in the Whitney Houston film ‘Sparkle’, Health Research News announced a new free report promotion aimed at helping people inspired by Sparks to lose...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online News broke in June that Apple was planning to build one of their green data centers in Reno/Sparks, Nevada. The resulting center and business park will cost an estimated $1 billion over the next ten years. Yesterday, the Nevada Board of Economic Development endorsed a deal which has been negotiated by the state to bring the Cupertino company into the towns of Reno and Sparks. According to the Associated Press, the deal offers $89...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alcohol Justice, the U.S.-based industry watchdog, released a new report today showing convenience store giant 7-Eleven cuts prices on supersized, youth-attractive alcopops so they are cheaper than non-alcoholic energy drinks. While on average, alcopops were the same price per standard alcoholic drink as beer, supersized alcopops in 16- to 24-ounce cans were cheaper per standard drink than similarly sized beer. Some supersized...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- sparks & honey, based in New York City, opened it's doors on March 1, 2012 and is being led by industry veteran Terry Young, who heads up the agency as Founder and CEO. sparks & honey disrupts the traditional models by which market research, creative development and media distribution are executed. Through it's Wave Branding platform, sparks & honey identifies and maps emerging cultural waves through the use of machine learning...