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The Sun Valley Summer Symphony celebrates its 35th season and Music Director Alasdair Neale's 25th anniversary with a blockbuster lineup this July 29 - Aug. 22. The annual Summer Concert Series is admission-free, and the season regularly draws crowds of more than 50,000 over the course of the festival. This year will feature three guest artists in residence, an exploration of chamber orchestra masterpieces, evenings of French music and Gershwin favorites, education programs, and full symphonies including Mahler's mighty Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection."

Alchemy Security, a recognized leader for SIEM specialty expertise in deployment and ongoing operations, today announced their expanded cloud security portfolio offering with the Alchemy Defense Cloud. Leveraging Splunk Enterprise, the holistic services portfolio speeds time to value, enhances resiliency, and accelerates Security Operations maturity.

The BRC Global Standard - Packaging was published on 17 October 2001 following two years of development by The British Retail Consortium and The Institute of Packaging in consultation with a wide variety of retailers, food producers, trade associations and packaging companies. Many of the large UK's retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Safeway, Co-op, Tesco and Waitrose have stated that suppliers of retailer branded packaging must achieve certification to the BRC Global Standard - Packaging. The Standard has been welcomed by the majority of the packaging industry and significant numbers of packaging businesses both in the UK and overseas have already achieved certification or are working towards it.

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The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. This mission is in now way mutually exclusive from identifying new profit opportunities. TraceGains, Inc. is the SaaS (software as a service) leader in helping companies reduce costs and improve product quality-automatically. Food & Beverage, Quick Service Restaurant Chains, Life Sciences, Chemicals, and related industries can leverage the Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact applications to eliminate manual certificate of analysis (CoA) review, automatically reject shipments that are not compliant with critical business rules, and rank-order suppliers based on yield, quality, finished-good profitability, customer feedback, or any other downstream outcome. The company is headquartered near Denver, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

“Many companies receive detailed ingredient information from their suppliers that they then store in paper or electronic filing cabinets, essentially collecting dust,” said Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains. “By turning this data from each company in a supply chain into actionable information, our customers not only automate their QA procedures, they also evaluate their suppliers in a whole new light allowing them to understand better each supplier’s true impact.”

Supplier Impact allows companies to rank suppliers like never before. According to TraceGains’ CEO Gary Nowacki, “Companies need an automatic warning method to spot risky suppliers early. Supplier Impact gives companies the power to continuously track each supplier's trend over time, so that firms can evaluate which suppliers are beginning to make quality improvements, and which suppliers are continuing to slip. The system's Supplier Risk Indicator constantly scorecards each supplier on numerous critical risk factors, including in-spec trends, audit scores, variations to spot lab tests internally or third parties, and many other factors that existing systems simply cannot track. The early warning system catches problems before customers report them and clients pay for them.”

Supplier Impact allows companies to rank suppliers like never before. According to TraceGains’ CEO Gary Nowacki, “Supplier Impact rewrites the rules for evaluating your vendor relationships by alerting you which suppliers are improving your business, and which are pulling you down. For the first time, good and bad product outcomes—e.g., yield, waste, shelf life, or customer satisfaction—can be connected back to individual raw materials and their suppliers. This changes everything, as you rank-order your suppliers on business-critical KPIs, not just price or on-time delivery.”

Many companies receive detailed ingredient information from their suppliers that they then store in paper or electronic filing cabinets, essentially collecting dust,” said Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains. “By turning this data from each company in a supply chain into actionable information, our customers not only automate their QA procedures, they also evaluate their suppliers in a whole new light allowing them to understand better each supplier’s true impact.”

Chelsea Milling Company, Inc., is known for its twenty-one “Jiffy Mixes”; the company produces 1.1 million packages of its popular Jiffy Corn Muffin mix every day in addition to other products. Its recognizable blue-and-white boxes are shipped to all fifty states and foreign countries through the United States military. The company has also expanded its line by selling specially formulated products to restaurants and overseas markets.

According to Thomas R. Cutler, manufacturing journalist, in the current issue of Tag44’s Food and Beverage News, TraceGains was recently awarded two new patents relating to its core technology, connecting “upstream activities” to “downstream outcomes” across different companies in any supply chain allowing companies to understand suppliers’ true impact. These new patents increase to fourteen the TraceGains’ patent portfolio for its cross-enterprise solutions and technology engine, and both broaden and deepen the range and scope of previously issued patents.

TraceGains, Inc. is the SaaS (software as a service) leader in helping companies reduce costs and improve product quality-automatically. Food & Beverage, Quick Service Restaurant Chains, Life Sciences, Chemicals, and related industries can leverage the Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact applications to eliminate manual certificate of analysis (CoA) review, automatically reject shipments that are not compliant with critical business rules, and rank-order suppliers based on yield, quality, finished-good profitability, customer feedback, or any other downstream outcome. The company is headquartered near Denver, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

TraceGains, Inc. is the SaaS (software as a service) leader in helping companies reduce costs and improve product quality-automatically. Food & Beverage, Quick Service Restaurant Chains, Life Sciences, Chemicals, and related industries can leverage the Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact applications to eliminate manual certificate of analysis (CoA) review, automatically reject shipments that are not compliant with critical business rules, and rank-order suppliers based on yield, quality, finished-good profitability, customer feedback, or any other downstream outcome. The company is headquartered near Denver, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

According to Thomas R. Cutler, manufacturing journalist, in the current issue of IFSQN (International Food Safety Quality Network), TraceGains was recently awarded two new patents relating to its core technology, connecting “upstream activities” to “downstream outcomes” across different companies in any supply chain allowing companies to understand suppliers’ true impact. These new patents increase to fourteen the TraceGains’ patent portfolio for its cross-enterprise solutions and technology engine, and both broaden and deepen the range and scope of previously issued patents.

TraceGains, Inc. was founded in 1998 with a 100% focus on traceability. The company has a patented delivery system —16 patents granted and growing. TraceGains makes the food supply chain safer and more profitable by helping companies produce finished goods faster, better, and more cost-effectively. Supplier Compliance is a food safety firewall that allows companies to detect and eliminate problems in the supply chain before they are incorporated into finished goods and shipped to customers. This is the heart of the Lean Supplier Delineation Process developed by the company. By reducing ingredient variability, the finished product becomes less costly to manufacture, performs better, and ultimately increases customer satisfaction. Supplier Impact enables companies to easily measure how each supplier affects finished goods quality and profitability, and connects product outcomes and customer feedback to specific upstream ingredient suppliers. Suppliers are continuously scored based on performance of key attributes for each shipment, and rank ordered against their peers. Effective product recalls are accelerated and performed at the unit level, so recall costs, long-term brand damage, and brand rehabilitation costs are minimized. All TraceGains solutions present findings in easy-to-understand dashboard graphics with full drilldown capabilities, which are available for onsite deployment or delivered as SaaS (software-as-a-service).

Adoba Eco Hotel & Suites, a new socially responsible hotel brand launched by Atmosphere Hospitality Management Services, LLC based in Denver, Colorado receives green recognition for its strides in sustainable hotel design and business practices.

TraceGains’ (www.tracegains.com) web-delivered Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact solutions help Quality and Strategic Sourcing departments simultaneously reduce costs while improving quality – automatically. Food & beverage makers, restaurant chains, nutraceutical manufacturers, and any company challenged with raw material or ingredient variability can quickly identify how individual suppliers and raw materials affect product outcomes such as customer satisfaction, profitability, yield, and quality. Suppliers are continuously evaluated and rank-ordered on new business-critical KPIs which go way beyond the traditional measures of cost and on-time delivery. This actionable intelligence can then be quickly leveraged for supply chain and ingredient optimization, as well as proactive risk mitigation. TraceGains is headquartered near Denver, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

According to Jeff Klapp at TraceGains, “The discrete manufacturers’ job is much easier – they have a part number and exact specifications but do not have the variability that food ingredients have. Also, the government allows them to share information much more freely than CPG companies. The range of raw material/ingredient variability is unique to the food supply chain. Thus the business rules based upon variability ranges etc. The discrete manufacturing suppliers supply chain participants are much more visible and easily identified. The food supply chain is much less visible, fragmented, and has many more participants.”

TraceGains’ webinar on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern

A study by researchers at the Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago has linked chiropractic care with stunning reductions in blood pressure.

Solauro Industries Inc. (“the Company” or "Solauro") announces the signing of a Letter of Intent with Dravco Mining Inc. (OTCBB: DVCO).

The mission at TraceGains is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. This mission is in now way mutually exclusive from identifying new profit opportunities. According to Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, “You can’t mine for profits until the puzzle pieces are connected. Data that has been analyzed is information. Connecting upstream supply chain activities to value chain events and downstream outcomes, (such as quality or customer satisfaction), turns data into actionable enterprise intelligence.” Profit optimization is not an accounting practice, but a sophisticated set of business analytics that organizes data from independent systems to deliver full value chain intelligence. By maintaining the complete product identity and genealogy such as inputs, suppliers, raw materials, all the way to finished goods and into retail, every critical event and attribute can be analyzed for its impact on profitability.

The mission at TraceGains is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. This mission is in now way mutually exclusive from identifying new profit opportunities. According to Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, “You can’t mine for profits until the puzzle pieces are connected. Data that has been analyzed is information. Connecting upstream supply chain activities to value chain events and downstream outcomes, (such as quality or customer satisfaction), turns data into actionable enterprise intelligence.” Profit optimization is not an accounting practice, but a sophisticated set of business analytics that organizes data from independent systems to deliver full value chain intelligence. By maintaining the complete product identity and genealogy such as inputs, suppliers, raw materials, all the way to finished goods and into retail, every critical event and attribute can be analyzed for its impact on profitability.

With Supplier Compliance companies quickly and cost-effectively produce safer, higher-quality, and more profitable finished goods resulting in greater customer satisfaction and higher customer loyalty.

Nutraceutical manufacturers, food & beverage makers, restaurant chains, and any company challenged with raw material or ingredient variability can quickly identify how individual suppliers and raw materials affect product outcomes such as customer satisfaction, profitability, yield, and quality. TraceGains’ Web-delivered Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact solutions help Quality and Strategic Sourcing departments simultaneously reduce costs while improving quality – automatically.

TraceGains, Inc., the industry leader in Actionable Intelligence solutions to help companies automatically reduce costs and improve product quality, has been chosen by the Chelsea Milling Company—makers of Jiffy mixes—to help Chelsea Milling minimize ingredient variability, provide real-time feedback to suppliers for optimized supply chain performance, and increase customer satisfaction.

Staying on top of suppliers and their audit status and other key information is time-consuming and costly. Risk from an out-of-compliance supplier may be even more costly.