Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies are opening up an exciting new world of possibilities for businesses and governments to increase the efficiency of their operations. Introducing innovative new applications and services, RFID allows organizations to securely capture, track and manage their critical assets in real-time. These assets include pallets in a warehouse, goods in a shopping cart, ID tags on students, patients, inmates and even passports, credit cards and other documents.

For the retail industry, RFID not only enables merchants to reduce costs by providing greater visibility of their inventory as it moves across the supply chain into the warehouse and the store, but also provides hands-free identification of the contents in a shopping cart for instant billing and reduced shoplifting.

For the transportation industry, RFID plays a vital role in helping companies reduce the cost of transporting goods by enabling

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Park City Group, Inc., a retail supply chain solutions company, Friday announced that it expects fiscal first quarter Earnings per Share and EBITDA to exceed expectations with improvement driven by strong revenue growth and expense management initiatives.

Highlights of fiscal first quarter preliminary results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009 are below:

• Revenue in the range of $2.6 and $2.7 million vs. $530,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. The revenue increase was primarily due to the acquisition of Prescient Applied Intelligence, Inc. in January of 2009. • Sequential quarterly EBITDA improvement of 60% with first quarter results in excess of $500,000. • Positive Earnings per Share vs. a loss of $.13 per share in the first quarter of fiscal 2009.

Randall K. Fields, Park City Group’s Chairman and CEO commented by saying, “Our first quarter results not only validate the quality of our products and services but their growing

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Supervalu Inc. (SVU) reported results for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. Earnings of 35 cents per share were in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate, but were down 41.7% year-over-year. Net sales for the quarter declined 6.9% year-over-year due to a 6.9% decline in retail food net sales and a 9.5% decline in supply chain services sales. The retail food net sales were primarily impacted by a 4.8% decline in identical store sales and store closures announced previously. A challenging economic environment, aggressive competitive activity and deflationary pressures also impacted the top line growth. Customer traffic declined only marginally during the quarter. Gross margin for the quarter declined 30 basis points (bps) to 22.1% versus 22.4% in the prior-year quarter. The decline is primarily attributable to a higher promotional sales mix, which were partially offset by lower LIFO expense. The operating margin for ...

The big question is if crude oil is headed higher, how much of a price increase can the US economy afford and withstand?

Here is a raw commodity that is used by everyone and the US has no control over it. This key commodity to commerce just happens to be in areas that are hostile to the US. If we see a hiccup in the supply chain that changes this market dynamic, even for a short time period, we could see oil move back to the $100/barrel range in a heartbeat.

How will this affect the US equity markets? If crude oil heads back to the $95-$100 range, I expect that the economy will take a hit and that will send the major indices south. In this short video, which I made a few days ago, I share with you

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Chicago, IL – October 12, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. (HGR), Orthofix International NV (OFIX), Conmed Corporation (CNMD), Exactech Inc. (EXAC) and Owens & Minor Inc. (OMI).

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Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:

Hanger on Acquisition Spree

Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. (HGR) recently made three acquisitions totaling $10.7 million in annual net revenues. These acquisitions are: Creative Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc.; Custom Orthopedics of Wyoming; and certain orthotics and prosthetics assets from the Hospital of

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Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. (HGR) recently made three acquisitions totaling $10.7 million in annual net revenues. These acquisitions are: Creative Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc.; Custom Orthopedics of Wyoming; and certain orthotics and prosthetics assets from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. These acquisitions will enable Hanger to add patient care centers to its existing markets in New York, Wyoming and Pennsylvania. Hanger will fund these acquisitions from internally generated cash flows. It is estimated that the acquisitions will be accretive to Hanger’s earnings once the integration process is over. The acquisitions strengthen Hanger’s leadership position in the orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) market and bolster its top-line. Hanger Orthopedic Group, based in Bethesda, MD, provides orthotic and prosthetic patient care services through its 671 patient care centers in the U.S. The company operates through four business units: patient care, distribution, Linkia and Innovative Neurotronics....

There has not been much good news coming from Detroit or the nation’s auto industry over the past year. Is the industry finally out of the woods?

Whether the action can be accredited to the greatly debated Cash for Clunkers program or if it is merely the effect of natural economic forces, there is good news out of the auto industry these days… finally.

First, there is word from General Motors (NYSE:GRM) that it plans to expand production at three of its manufacturing facilities. For the nearly 2,400 workers that will be invited to work on the third-shift line, the news is the best they have heard in a while.

It is a similar story at cross-town rival, Ford (NYSE:F), except few American workers will be clocking in for the new shifts. The company is widely expected to announce its plans for a third major production facility in China later

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UFI, Unifi Inc.

UFI is a diversified producer and processor of multi-filament polyester and nylon textured yarns and related raw materials. UFI adds value to the supply chain and enhances consumer demand for its products through the development and introduction of branded yarns that provide unique performance, comfort and aesthetic advantages. Key Unifi brands include, but are not limited to: AIO® - all-in-one performance yarns, SORBTEK®, A.M.Y.®, MYNX® UV, REPREVE®, REFLEXX®, MICROVISTA® and SATURA®. UFI’s yarns and brands are readily found in home furnishings, apparel, legwear,

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Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. announced earlier today the opening of an RFID sales and research and development (R&D) office in Bentonville, Arkansas to support the company’s introduction of end-to-end RFID solutions to the supply chain and retail market places. The newly appointed RFID Lab Manager and Wal-Mart Account Manager will report directly to NPDT Chief Operating Officer Weiling Tsao and will work closely with NPDT’s Taiwan-based R&D partners, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

“We enthusiastically welcome both Matthew and Joseph to our management team,” stated Mr. Tsao. “These gentlemen bring a wealth and experience in the RFID field. Their training, work experience and proximity to Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer who is clearly committed to leveraging all that RFID technology has to offer, gives NPDT tremendous resources as we work to launch our RFID solutions.”

“For the past four years I have been

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PACCAR’s (NASDAQ:PCAR) Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend in the amount of nine cents ($.09) per share, payable December 7, 2009 to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 19, 2009, according to Mark C. Pigott, PACCAR chairman and chief executive officer.

Today CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR), announced the promotion of Tony Hadzi, currently Senior Vice President, to corporate Executive Vice President. Operationally, Hadzi continues to be President of CIBER’s Custom Solutions Division, which is responsible in the U.S. for all application software solutions for commercial clients and state &

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