Follow us on LinkedIn Demand for steel reflects the general trend in the world economy, which also applies to the steel wire industry. Consequently, demand for steel wire is dependent upon the overall health of sectors such as the automotive and constructive industries. After posting a gradual recovery in 2010, the steel industry’s fortunes slipped during mid-2011, with the market being negatively affected by the economic slowdown triggered by the debt crisis in Europe. In the near term, revival in the European steel market remains uncertain as fiscal austerity and tight credit conditions continue to afflict majority of the European economies. In North America, demand for the metal is expected to gradually improve in line with recovery in construction and automobile sectors. China which has been one of the vibrant economies till recent times is expected to register softer demand owing to the governments initiatives to temper growth in the real estate market. In the long term, emerging Asian markets, excluding China are forecast to drive the global steel wire market. Infrastructure expansion and higher disposable incomes leading to greater ownership of consumer durables and cars in these markets comprise the primary factors driving growth in these markets.

New technologies continue to drive the global steel wire market, enabling the steel industry to address the needs of high-quality steel wire rod products in end-use sectors such as automotive and construction. Steel wires are essentially consumed by various end-use industries including construction, agriculture, horticulture, engineering, telecom, power and automobile among others. The construction industry is a major consumer of a wide range of steel wire and allied products. Some of the innovations seen in the recent years have transcended areas such as enhanced finishing operations, durability, high tensile strength, rolling with precision tolerances, and dimension measurements, which have enabled consistency in mechanical properties, finish and dimensions.

Asia-Pacific represents the largest regional market for Steel Wires worldwide, as stated by the new market research report on Steel Wire. Growth in the global steel wire market is also expected to be driven by Asia-Pacific, which is projected to grow at a compounded annual rate of around 5.4% during the analysis period 2009-2017. China, South Korea, India and Indonesia are considered leading markets in the region. Over the last few years, there has been an increased level of investment aimed at revamping the transmission and distribution networks within India. The trend is expected to provide a major boost to the steel wires industry, particularly for conductor wire, cable-armoring wire, stay wires, earth wires and G.I. wires. Further, rapidly expanding construction, automobile and engineering sectors are also likely to promote the demand for LRPC steel wires, and all grades of carbon steel wires. As Indian government plans to increase investment in telecommunications sector, teledensity is expected to rise which in turn would create tremendous demand for steel wires. Demand for wire products in the US, in the short run, is anticipated to remain moderate due to slow demand in transportation, construction, and automotive industries. As several wire products are used in home renovations, new home construction, and infrastructure and commercial construction, steel wire market is expected to pick up momentum over the coming years. Segment wise, carbon steel wire represents the largest segment in the global steel wire market, while the alloy steel wire represents the fastest growing segment.

Major players profiled in the report include Arcelor Mittal, Bridon International, Davis Wire Corporation, Insteel Industries, Inc., Kobe Steel Ltd., Leggett & Platt, NV Bekaert SA, Steel Authority of India Ltd., Tree Island Industries Ltd. and Wire Rope Industries among others.

The research report titled Steel Wire: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides comprehensive market overview, trends & issues, recent industry activity and profiles of market players worldwide. Analysis and overview is provided for the years 2009 through 2017, for major geographic markets including US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Latin America. Product groups/segments analyzed include Carbon Steel Wire (Plain, Plated/Coated with Zinc and Other Coated), Alloy Steel Wire (Plain and Coated) and Stainless Steel Wire (Round and Others).

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A Conversation with Ted Allen, originally scheduled for May 19 at Pabst Theater, has been moved to Next Chapter Book Shop 10976 N Port Washington Road, Mequon WI 53092. The start time has been updated to 7:30 p.m. All tickets for this event purchased through The Pabst Theater Box Office will be honored and will still receive a signed copy of Ted Allen's new book In My Kitchen. Additionally, the ticket price has been reduced to . Current ticket holders can receive a refund for the difference in cost at point of purchase & credit card orders will be automatically refunded.

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A Conversation with
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LIVE AT THE PABST THEATER
SATURDAY * MAY 19 * 6PM DOORS

Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is host of the hit primetime competition series "Chopped" on Food Network, and a frequent contributor to the network's show "The Best Thing I Ever Ate." He was a judge on the first four seasons of Bravo's "Top Chef" and Food Network's "Iron Chef America," and was the food and wine specialist on the groundbreaking Bravo series "Queer Eye." He is author of "The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes" (Clarkson-Potter), a collection of vibrant, all-natural dishes, and co-wrote the New York Times Best Seller "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab Five's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better." Ted Allen brings his show to Milwaukee this May. Every ticket includes an autographed copy of Ted's new book, In My Kitchen: 100 Recipes and Discoveries for Passionate Cooks.

Ted also serves as the spokesman for Robert Mondavi Private Selection wines. In that capacity, he works with media and consumers on wine education and food/wine pairing, and shares advice about food, wine and entertaining on www.Discover-Wine.com.

Ted volunteers his time to several national and local charities. 2011 marks his fourth year as spokesperson for Dining Out For Life, an annual fundraiser held on the last Thursday in April in which more than 3,000 restaurants donate a portion of the day's proceeds to local AIDS service organizations. In 2010, Dining Out For Life raised for than million in 50 cities in the United States and Canada. Ted also serves on the Culinary Council of the Food Bank For New York City and emcees GMHC's annual Savor fundraiser.

Since 1997, Ted has been a contributing editor to Esquire magazine, where he writes about food, wine, style and everything else the American man needs to know. He was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his Esquire feature on the little-known phenomenon of male breast cancer. Ted also writes for such publications as Bon Appétit, Epicurious and Food Network Magazine. Before joining Esquire, Ted was a senior editor and restaurant critic at Chicago magazine.

Ted holds an M.A. in journalism from New York University, with an advanced certificate in the school's Science and Environmental Reporting Program, and a B.A. in psychology from Purdue University. He lives in Brooklyn with his longtime partner, Barry Rice.

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Social media research specialist DigitalMR releases the first ever annual UK Banking Social Media Report on what customers are saying about UK high street banks online. DigitalMR analysed over 200,000 customer comments about high street banks across January to December 2011.

For the first time, UK banks will be able to gauge customer perceptions of their performance against that of their competitors across a range of criteria for the whole of 2011.

DigitalMR Group Managing Director, Michalis Michael commented: This report provides a national benchmark for how banking brands are perceived by customers online. Banks attracting criticism will be able to use the analysis to find out how they can improve their competitive position.

Report Highlights

The Top 5 most discussed topics online for 2011:

1st Loans

2nd Credit Cards

3rd Customer Care

4th Online Banking

5th Overdrafts

Loans attracted around 15,000 mentions on the internet. However, banks are likely to turn their attention to the topics that garnered the largest number of negative comments. Top of the list was the issue of Customer Care with nearly 3,000 negative comments attributed to it across 2011. Customer Care will be a key concern for 2012 as banks continue to close branches and reduce numbers of staff. The other key topics to attract negative comment were: Loans, Bank Employees and Credit Cards. These topics each attracted more than 2,000 negative comments from customers online.

Overall mentions – top 5 UK banks that receive the highest share of online mentions:

1)????HSBC (14.4%)

2)????Lloyds TSB (13.5%)

3)????Halifax (10%)

4)????RBS (9.6%)

5)????Santander UK (9%)

There is a large difference in the positive and negative mentions that some of the banks attract. HSBC (9.5%), Halifax (9.5%) and Lloyds TSB (7.8%) received the highest share of positive posts.

However both HSBC (12.1%) and Lloyds TSB (10.8%) received a relatively higher proportion of negative comments. Conversely Halifax accounted for only 6.2% of negative comments compared with a much larger proportion (9.5%) of positive ones.

Top 5 Net Sentiment Score

DigitalMRs report measures, not only the number of comments posted by consumers on the internet, but also sentiment whether these posts are positive or negative. The difference in the number of positive to negative posts that each bank attracts, provides it with a Net Sentiment Score (NSS). NSS is an overall percentage score of net positive posts. Of the Top 10 banks measured across 2011, the five best performers in terms of achieving the highest NSS were:

1)????ING Direct 57.5%

2)????Halifax 43.3%

3)????Clydesdale Bank 41.7%

4)????Barclays 37.4%

5)????Santander 26.4%

The Royal Bank of Scotland was the only bank from the Top 10, which achieved a negative NSS with (-2.1%). The next lowest was Bank of Ireland with a NSS of 0.5%.

The full report covers:

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????Recommendations on strategy for the use of Social Media Research.

DigitalMRs report (powered by SociaNuggets) analysed thousands of customer comments posted via a range of relevant finance related websites and open access social media platforms. It measures, not only the number of comments posted by consumers on the internet, but also sentiment whether these posts are positive or negative.

Results are based on comments posted by consumers on the major UK banks including: Lloyds TSB, HSBC, Halifax, NatWest, Bank of Ireland, Santander, Barclays, RBS, ING Direct, Clydesdale Bank, Saxo Bank, American Express, First Direct, Bank of Scotland, Abbey, Northern Rock, Northern Bank and Alliance and Leicester.

For more information on the full report, contents and further data click here

Contact

For further information on the UK Banking Social Media Report.

Michalis A. Michael

mmichael(at)digital-mr(dot)com

tel: +44 751 571 0370

http://www.digital-mr.com

About DigitalMR

DigitalMR understands what people think and feel when they share views online. It is a specialist agency which provides a holistic approach to web based market research. It specialises in utilising social media research, especially active web-listening, and online communities to enhance its business consulting approach. The agency has pioneered new methods in online focus groups alongside tools such as video diaries, bulletin boards and online ethnography. DigitalMR is headed by founder and Group MD, Michalis Michael and has offices in London UK, Nicosia Cyprus, and Columbus Ohio, in the US.

About SocialNuggets

SocialNuggets technology delivers real-time market intelligence for fast moving industries by analyzing data from various social media sources with a mission to liberate social media data and sentiment analysis for use in real-time research of brands, products and features. SocialNuggets delivers ready to use market intelligence for various industry verticals including consumer electronics and banking. SocialNuggets data is delivered in bite size, ready-to-consume, infographics and is also available in the form of a full access to our data warehouse for analysis and integration with customers data. SocialNuggets, a Serendio company, was founded in 2011 with headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.SociaNuggets.net

The Unemployement Insurance Agency (UIA) is offering our 2012 UIA Employer Seminars for free. The purpose of this seminar is to improve the understanding of the unemployment insurance (UI) program and to get a clear understanding of how UI charges affect your account, and therefore your budget. This year documentation will be given to participants towards CPE credits. Feel free to attend either session one or session two; for CPE credit please see the registration desk. If you have any questions/concerns regarding the employer seminar please call the Office of the Employer Ombudsman at 1-855-484-2636 or email OEO@michigan.gov.

Session One: Benefit-Related Topics

8:00 Welcome & Legislative Updates

8:15 UI Benefit Information – Part 1

- Monetary Qualification for Benefits

- Calculation of Weekly Benefit Amount and Duration

- How Benefits are Charged to Employers

- Working Part-Time & Collecting UI (Underemployment)

9:00 UI Benefit Information – Part 2

- Nonmonetary Determination

- Responding to Inquiry Questions, Disqualifications, Rework

- Refusal of Work

- Seasonal Denial Periods

10:00 Break

10:15 Appeal Process

11:15 UIA Fraud

- Detection of Fraud

- Prevention of Fraud

- Reporting Fraud to the UIA

12:00 Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)

- Workers' Compensation Cost Control Service

- MEDC Business Services

o "Economic Gardening"- Helping Michigan Companies Grow

1:00 LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

Session Two: Tax-Related Topics

2:00 Workforce Development Agency

- Trade Adjustment Assistance Program (TAA)

- National Career Readiness Certificate Program (NCRC)

- Veterans Services

2:30 UIA Tax Legislative Updates

2:45 UIA Online Services

3:15 Break

3:30 UI Tax Information – Part 1: Contributing Employers

- How an Employer's Tax Rate is Calculated

o Bonding

- Seasonal Designation Changes

- New Combined Form UIA 1017 & 1020

o Rounding Dollar Amounts Due

o Payment of Taxes

o Wage Report Penalty Increase

- Household Employers

- Annual Termination Changes

UI Tax Information – Part 2: Reimbursing Employers

- Conversions From Contributing to Reimbursing & Vice-Versa

- Quarterly Inactivation & Annual Terminations

4:30 Tax Tips from a UIA Auditor

- How to Prepare for a UIA Audit

- Classifying Wages

o 1099 Independent Contractor Changes

o Amnesty Program

- Maintenance of Experience Rating

5:00 END

*This event is sponsored by Wisner-Botrall Applied Technology Center at Grand Rapids Community College, Michigan's Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and the State of Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA).*

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Launch of the 2010 Annual report

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Lisbon, 10 November 2010
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Launch of the 2010 Annual report

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Lisbon, 10 November 2010
Photo credit: Nuno Saraiva

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Unclaimed property – what's it all about? Find out how to comply with state laws and prevent costly state audits.

How does your company account for uncashed payroll and accounts payable checks? How does your company handle aged customer credits? Do you have unclaimed dividends, gift certificates or unidentified remittances that have not been claimed by the owner? These items may represent unclaimed property liability.

As states struggle to meet their annual fiscal responsibilities, unclaimed property has emerged as a new and popular avenue for increasing revenue stream. Unclaimed property touches all industries, company sizes and locations. Compliance is a hot topic – therefore, it's critical for your company's financial well-being to make sure you're in full compliance with state unclaimed property laws. Attend this seminar and get an extensive overview of all aspects of unclaimed property. Don't miss this timely opportunity to learn about the obligations and current issues companies are facing.

Benefits for You

• Find out what unclaimed property is and how it affects your business
• Avoid the financial risks of not complying with unclaimed property reporting laws
• Navigate unclaimed property issues in mergers and acquisitions
• Discover what the future holds as unclaimed property continues to emerge in the marketplace and state requirements evolve

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for accountants, controllers, tax managers, CFOs, bankers, treasurers and attorneys.

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