San Diego Playground Equipment Company, Pacific Play Systems, Acquires New Carlsbad Facility, Increasing Southern Cal Playground Installation Capacity


(PRWEB) May 23, 2012

Pacific Play Systems, leading supplier of commercial playground equipment in southern California, acquired and relocated its headquarters to 3226 Grey Hawk Court, Carlsbad, CA 92010. Prior to the recent move, the company leased a smaller facility at 3142 Tiger Run Court, Carlsbad, CA 92010. Pacific Play Systems has more than tripled its floor area, which includes office and warehouse space. The new facility will improve the effective delivery of customer service throughout southern California.

Company President, Ali Bemanian explains that the new larger warehouse can store several dozen commercial playgrounds. The storage facility gives Pacific Play Systems a competitive advantage, making it possible to handle the bulky goods of playground equipment for large projects, while serving multiple customers. Bemanian adds that the company is experienced with large projects, having completed several multi-million dollar projects, which is unusual in the commercial playground equipment market. Bemanian reports that the seasonal strategy for timing the move was critical as Pacific Play Systems is scheduled to have a busy summer with commercial playground equipment projects throughout southern California, in: San Diego, Orange, Riverside, Imperial, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties. These projects are either already in progress or in the planning stages.

Aside from the new facility upgrade, Pacific Play Systems has added two new playground equipment designers: one with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture and the other with a Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts. Bemanian, the company President has an educational background in architecture with expertise in manufacturing, construction, and commercial playground equipment design. With such extensive knowledge of the business market, Bemanian works closely with the company staff to create outstanding designs for playground equipment projects. Pacific Play Systems has won several key commercial playground equipment projects this year, including a prestigious playground project at US MCB, Camp Pendleton, CA. Pacific Play Systems also earned a high score of 98.2% in a recent design build competition for a playground equipment renovation project at a major park for the City of San Diego; this is presently in the planning stage.

In addition to working closely with the design staff at Pacific Play Systems, Bemanian creates outstanding designs by closely collaborating with designers and engineers at Playcraft, a west coast leading manufacturer of commercial playground equipment. Pacific Play Systems and Playcraft have a strategic geographic business relationship that benefits their customers.

About Pacific Play Systems, Inc.

Located in Carlsbad, CA, Pacific Play Systems, Inc. specializes in commercial playground equipment design and installation. The company has installed for parks, schools, preschools, HOAs, military bases, and churches throughout southern California: including San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial, and Los Angeles counties. As a full service playground equipment company, Pacific Play Systems provides clients a complete package, where site evaluation and custom design are offered at no cost or obligation. Pacific Play Systems holds several construction licenses that allow it to deliver a complete turnkey project from design through installation. In addition to its state-of-the-art Playcraft commercial playground equipment, Pacific Play Systems offers a wide variety of shade structures, sports equipment, soft-contained indoor playground equipment, water park equipment, playground safety surfacing and site furnishings.







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Sun Holdings, LLC Acquires More Than Fifty Arby’s Restaurants in DFW

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 31, 2012

With more than 390 restaurants and 10,000 employees under their management, Sun Holdings, LLC is one of the most influential franchise operations in the DFW metroplex. This year, the company is pleased to announce their acquisition of 51 additional Arby’s locations in the region. The company also sold their five Denny’s Restaurants due to lack of growth opportunities and support from the fanchisor. President and CEO Guillermo Perales is ranked as the largest minority franchisee in the country, and intends to continue his legacy of successful operations while making some big changes.

35 to 40 of the Arby’s locations will be remodeled and updated to meet a new image standard for interior design and operation, and certain low volume stores will be converted into Burger King and Popeye’s Chicken locations to boost demand. The company will additionally build 15 new Arby’s locations in the metroplex over the next five years, keeping up with a growing market for fast food variety in the area. Perales said “We are excited of the brand new look ,sales trend,new products, and future expansion opportunities”

CEO Perales has a reason to feel confident about this success of this new venture by Sun Holdings, LLC: He’s a prior recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Golden Plate award from Popeye’s for operations excellence, the Developer of the Year award from the Burger King Corp, the Hispanic Business Man of the Year award by the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce, one of the top Hispanic Entrepreneurs of 2009 in Poder Magazine, and a lifetime achievement award given by the Latino Hotel and Restaurant Association. In 2011, Sun Holdings, LLC. was listed 10th on the Restaurant Finance Monitor, which was up from 57th the year prior.

Mr. Perales has also been featured in Latino Leaders Magazine’s 101 List as one of the most influential Latinos in the United States, and recently conducted an interview with Fox Business about the expansion of Sun Holdings, LLC. Under his leadership, the company will continue their standard of excellence and efficiency in management in the fast food industry throughout the Dallas metroplex.

About Guillermo Perales:

Guillermo Perales is President and CEO of Sun Holdings, LLC; managing more than 390 restaurants employing more than 10,000 employees. Mr. Perales has been ranked the largest Golden Corral and CiCi’s franchise, the 2nd largest for Popeye’s, the 4th largest Burger King Franchise operator and the largest minority franchisee in the U.S. For more information visit http://www.localedge.com/t/proaddisplay.jhtml?proAdId=174591.







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Lincoln Trust Acquires Benefit Solutions Corp.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) July 18, 2012

Lincoln Trust Company, a leading provider of open architecture 401(k) and profit sharing solutions, today announced that it has acquired Benefit Solutions Corp., a leading 401(k) recordkeeper and third party administrator headquartered in Greenfield, WI.

The Benefit Solutions purchase is the third by Lincoln Trust in nine months and reflects the firms desire to continue rapid market growth through acquisitions. The acquisition strategy has allowed Lincoln to leapfrog competitors and establish a presence in key markets through the purchase of high quality firms.

We are pleased to have Benefit Solutions join the Lincoln Trust family, said Lincoln Trust Chairman and CEO Bob Beriault. They have created a unique managed solution serving the independent investment advisor representative and broker dealer community and one we intend to invest in to expand further.

New Markets, New Opportunities

Benefit Solutions provides an array of retirement plan services, including recordkeeping, third-party administration, compliance testing, and plan design. With a focus on 401(k) solutions built around third party money managers designed for investment advisor representatives and broker dealers, the firm brings a new market opportunity to Lincoln Trust.

By combining independent money management with distribution through the broker dealer market we bring a substantial new opportunity for Lincoln Trust, says Deyan Stojanovich, founder of Benefit Solutions. New fee disclosure rules, which require disclosure of direct and indirect compensation that service-providers receive, are pushing brokers away from the traditional fee-laden plans offered by insurance companies and other platforms and as a result have the reps looking for an open architecture solution.

The environment is rapidly changing for retirement plan advisors at broker dealers, said Stojanovich, who will lead institutional sales at Lincoln Trust. Lincoln Trust is perfectly positioned for this sea change in the industry, and I am confident we can capture a significant portion of this market.

Now that the Benefit Solutions acquisition is completed, Lincoln Trust services more than 2,700 qualified plans and well over $ 3.7 billion in assets under administration.

Lincoln Trust purchased Fringe Benefit Administrators, LTD, a retirement plan administrator in Metairie, LA., in late 2011 and added Independent Pension Consultants, Ltd. of Eden Prairie, MN in May, 2012. Earlier this year, the firm sold its self-directed IRA division to PENSCO Trust Company to prepare itself for future expansion in the defined contribution marketplace.

A strong industry advocate for full fee disclosure, Lincoln Trust introduced the Personalized Expense Ratio (PER), one of the retirement industrys first all-in 401(k) plan cost calculations. Lincoln Trusts PER goes beyond Department of Labor revisions that are going into effect this summer and fall.

About Lincoln Trust Company

Located in Denver, CO, and a member of the Council of Independent 401(k) Plan Recordkeepers, Lincoln Trust provides trust, custodial, recordkeeping and administration services to defined contribution plans. By providing access to 24,000 mutual funds and 900+ETFs without any proprietary product requirements and by using revenue sharing payments to offset plan expenses, Lincoln Trust offers low cost 401k plan solutions. For more information, visit http://www.LincolnTrustCo.com or call 1-855-719-5796







Photocrati Media Acquires NextGEN Gallery


Boulder, CO (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

Photocrati Media is about to get even better. As part of Photocratis ongoing effort to seamlessly provide the best integrated WordPress solutions for photographers all under one roof, we are excited to announce Photocratis recent acquisition of the highly popular NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin.

Developed by Alex Rabe in 2007, the NextGEN gallery plugin is now the dominant image gallery plugin for WordPress. With more than 5 million downloads, NextGEN Gallery is also one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time.

We are very excited about bringing NextGEN to Photocrati, says Erick Danzer, founder and CEO of Photocrati Media. It means that we can really create the advanced functionality that photographers are looking for with our WordPress themes.

Blending Photocrati and NextGEN also means that Photocratis team of experts is available to improve and advance NextGENs core functionality and interface. We are very committed to continuing the development of NextGEN Gallery as a free GPL plugin, and were dedicated to maintaining NextGEN as the most popular gallery plugin for WordPress, says Danzer.

The Photocrati Team is also looking forward to interacting with the NextGEN community. There are many talented developers who have contributed to and launched extension plugins for NextGEN. We hope to build an even stronger sense of community and interaction around the plugin, both with users and with the developer community, says Danzer. In fact, Photocrati is currently seeking beta testers and contributors.

NextGEN Updates by Photocrati

NextGEN users can expect some exciting updates throughout the year. The Photocrati team plans to: improve and streamline the existing back-end interface; add an interface to create and manage galleries directly from posts and pages; work with Automattic to make NextGENs architecture compatible with the WordPress VIP environment; and to make a range of smaller fixes and security patches.

Coming soon, a Pro version!

Later this year, Photocrati will also launch a premium upgrade for NextGEN, called NextGEN Pro. NextGEN Pro will offer a range of beautiful new gallery display styles as well as fully-featured ecommerce functionality. Some of the plans for NextGEN Pro include: alternative slideshow displays; alternative filmstrip displays; alternative thumbnail displays; caption and filmstrip skins to adjust styling; fully-featured ecommerce for all gallery types and including print and price options; digital downloads; and shopping cart and PayPal integration.

NextGEN + Photocrati WordPress Theme = One amazing package

The Photocrati Team is already hard at work merging NextGEN and NextGEN Pro into the popular Photocrati WordPress theme. Soon, Photocrati users will have all the functionality of these plugins seamlessly available in the Photocrati theme, without losing any of the options or gallery displays currently available.

Photocrati will have more big news soon. Follow Photocrati on Twitter or sign up for NextGEN updates via email.

About Photocrati.com

Photocrati Media is a digital media company that specializes in WordPress themes for photographers, SEO for photographers, and other resources for photographers. Photocrati Media also runs Best of Wedding Photography an elite, invitation-only association of the best wedding photographers in the world. Photocrati Media proudly sponsors the Photocrati Fund a $ 5,000 grant for photographers working on important environmental and humanitarian projects.