NutraCea, a world leader in stabilized rice bran, has signed a definitive agreement with the Bright Food Investment Group, a subsidiary of Bright Food Group, to build the world’s largest rice bran oil refinery. The new refinery will process an estimated 500,000 metric tons of raw rice bran annually to produce rice bran oil, new patent-pending defatted rice bran, and stabilized rice bran, all of which will be used in a wide range of food applications.

The facility is estimated to be completed in 2010 and will be the world’s largest rice bran oil manufacturing plant, with the capacity to produce in excess of $200 million in annual gross revenues based on today’s market prices. Both companies are also anticipating future projects together, including constructing additional facilities of similar size.

According to the terms of the agreement, NutraCea will provide 80 percent of the capital and retain 72 percent of

This small-capital member of the Healthcare Facilities industry from Louisville, KY has got its business model just right. Profits during the Most Recent Quarter, one of the most difficult periods in recent times for most stocks, have grown by 47%. Interestingly, gross revenues have grown by just about 20% during this period. The implied Gross Margin improvement can only be because patients and their families value the home-nursing and assisted living services very highly.

The company serves Florida, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, and Illinois, apart from Kentucky. It is also present in Alabama and Missouri. Visiting nurse facilities are recognized by Medicare. Trained care-givers are available on hourly bases or as live-in professionals. The corporation operates through subsidiaries, and has judiciously used inorganic growth options to extend its operations. It manages more than 30 certified agencies. It has established an enviable reputation for quality recuperative services. The competition in this industry is

Earlier this week, it was announced that a subsidiary of Capital City Energy Group, Eastern Well Services, signed a letter of intent to acquire Osage Wireline, Inc. The cash and stock acquisition is expected to produce immediate benefits, including a postulated increase in gross revenues of around forty percent.

Eastern Well Services is a fast-growing oil and gas service entity with projects in both the United States and Africa. The company provides fracturing, cementing, logging, perforating, and well testing services for oil and natural gas companies. This latest acquisition will broaden Eastern’s wireline ability, which is the use of a cabling system to lower mining apparatus into an oil and gas well.

Osage Wireline Inc., which specializes in wireline technology and open-hole logging, is headed up by Mike Mackey. Mackey has been excelling in the wireline business for nearly three decades, attaining a wealth of knowledge which will be inherently