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“Travel + Leisure 2010 Design Award Winners - Dexigner” plus 2 more

Travel + Leisure 2010 Design Award Winners - Dexigner

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 07:29 PM PST

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Motel 6; Ford Fusion Hybrid; Swiss International Air Lines First-Class Suite; Derek Lam, New York City; Juvet Landscape Hotel, Norway; and the Nokia N900 Mobile Computer are among the 16 winners* of Travel + Leisure's sixth annual Design Awards announced today and featured in the March issue of the magazine, available on newsstands February 19.

The most outstanding new examples of design and architecture in the traveler's world, as selected by an esteemed panel of judges including Isaac Mizrahi and Michael Smith, T+L's 2010 Design Awards cover a range of categories: best resort, best restaurant, best spa, best museum, best luggage, best car, best retail space, and more.

In addition, Travel + Leisure named Adrian Zecha, founder and chairman of Amanresorts, the 2010 Design Champion.

Zecha, along with all the 2010 Design Award winners, will be honored at an event at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco on February 23.

"Some of this year's winners may seem a bit surprising - a budget hospitality chain in the best large hotel slot, a glass-enclosed room in Paris with a long table claiming top honors in the restaurant category," said Nancy Novogrod, editor in chief of Travel + Leisure.

"The point is, though, that these and other projects and products recognized-from soaring architectural spaces to tiny electronic gadgets-make travel more accessible and more irresistible.""

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Air France-KLM slumps after Q4 warning - Reuters

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 06:36 AM PST

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PARIS (Reuters) - Air France-KLM warned of heavy losses during the current quarter, blunting hopes of an airline sector recovery and sending shares in the French and Dutch flag carrier down almost 10 percent.

Hot Stocks

The unexpected warning of another 500 million euros or so of operating losses between January and March, on top of worse than expected losses in the previous quarter, sparked hectic trading in its shares and spelled trouble for other European airlines.

"The whole sector is down on the bad news from Air France-KLM. The 'read-across' for peers is clearly negative," a Frankfurt trader said as airline stocks fell across the board.

At mid-session, Air France-KLM -- Europe's second largest flag carrier -- was down 8.5 percent at 10.54 euros after falling as much as 9.9 percent.

Investors rushed for the exits without waiting for a management conference call scheduled for 1400 GMT (9 a.m. EST). Over three times the usual volume of shares had changed hands by lunchtime.

The sell-off weighed on other European airline stocks.

British Airways, which surprised the market with encouraging figures last week, fell 2.5 percent and Lufthansa fell 3 percent. The DJ Stoxx Travel and Leisure index shed 0.7 percent in a rising market.

Announcing a 245 million euro third-quarter operating loss after the close on Wednesday, Air France-KLM said operating losses for the January-March fourth quarter would be close to the same period last year, when it lost 574 million euros.

The year-ago fourth-quarter operating loss was 535 million when adjusted for the acquisition of Martinair.

The forecast placed the airline on course for full-year operating losses around 1.3 billion euros, some 30 percent worse than many of the market estimates.

POOR YIELDS, HIGH COSTS

Analysts say Air France-KLM, once the world's largest airline and formed from a merger in 2004, is less well positioned than some to take advantage of any recovery as it grapples with poor yields and high costs on European routes.

British Airways, which had been mauled by its transatlantic exposure during the financial crisis but which may now see those routes recover in any upturn, last week posted a surprise third-quarter operating profit.

Air France-KLM said the third quarter had seen a later than expected recovery in passenger yields, or the average revenue per seat sold. These fell 11.2 percent.

The figures followed a mixed fortnight for airline earnings as the industry feels its way out of a brutal recession.

Low-cost rivals easyJet and Ryanair recently raised their profit forecasts and said they were still taking market share from both BA and Air France-KLM.

On Tuesday Scandinavian flag carrier SAS asked shareholders for 5 billion Swedish crowns ($672 million) to keep it flying and reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss, sending its shares to an 18-year low.

Air France-KLM said it was targeting a return to operating breakeven excluding the impact of pre-2009 fuel hedges during the 2010/11 financial year, which runs from April to March.

In November, the group said it expected to return to breakeven on that basis by the beginning of 2010/11. It is dogged by the impact of hedges taken out when oil prices were exceptionally high but said the impact had faded in last quarter.

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Leading Mobile Wireless Provider Awards Multiyear Agreement to Direct Alliance ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

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TEMPE, AZ, Feb 11, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- A leading provider of next generation mobile internet products and services has selected Direct Alliance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TeleTech Holdings, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!ttec (TTEC 18.37, +0.72, +4.08%) to sell its bundled mobile internet products and services to the consumer market.

Under the multi-year agreement, Direct Alliance will increase market penetration and drive revenue growth through a comprehensive turnkey sales solution. This proven revenue generation solution will transform the sales process using sophisticated marketing analytics, proprietary sales tools and practices, scalable technology and highly skilled inside sales professionals to rapidly increase sales penetration of the client's broadband internet services.

This client sought a partner who could deliver a superior return on investment while delivering a high-value integrated sales solution, making Direct Alliance an ideal partner. "We have been working with some of the largest mobile communications providers for 27 years," said Judi Hand, president and general manager at Direct Alliance. "This is an exciting opportunity to combine our expertise and award winning sales and marketing solutions to help our client achieve their rapid market penetration plans in a highly competitive market."

Direct Alliance is a recognized leader in outsourced sales and marketing solutions; helping clients achieve sales and marketing goals through its comprehensive and transformative revenue generation strategies. For more information about Direct Alliance, please visit our Web site at www.DirectAlliance.com.

ABOUT DIRECT ALLIANCE

Direct Alliance offers sales and marketing outsourcing solutions for its clients across a variety of countries and industries including high tech, retail, healthcare, software, consumer electronics, and telecommunications. Utilizing state-of-the art technology and best practices, Direct Alliance provides integrated sales solutions such as inbound and outbound sales programs, direct marketing, analytics, e-commerce, and order management. These solutions enable highly recognized brands to extend their market coverage in small, mid-size, and enterprise segments while accelerating sales with some of the best revenue-to-expense ratios in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. Founded in 1993, Direct Alliance is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and employs more than 700 people. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TeleTech Holdings, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!ttec (TTEC 18.37, +0.72, +4.08%) , a top 100 technology-enabled global outsourcing provider recognized by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). For additional information, visit www.DirectAlliance.com or call 800.656.5827.

ABOUT TELETECH

TeleTech is one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of technology-enabled business process outsourcing solutions. TeleTech and its subsidiaries have a 27-year history of designing, implementing, and managing critical business processes for Global 1000 companies to help them improve their customers' experience, expand their strategic capabilities, and increase their operating efficiencies. By delivering a high-quality customer experience through the effective integration of customer-facing front-office processes with internal back-office processes, we enable our clients to better serve, grow, and retain their customer base. We use Six Sigma-based quality methods continually to design, implement, and enhance the business processes we deliver to our clients and we also apply this methodology to our own internal operations. TeleTech and its subsidiaries have developed deep domain expertise and support more than 250 business process outsourcing programs serving more than 90 global clients in the automotive, communications and media, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology and travel and leisure industries. Our integrated global solutions are provided by approximately 45,500 employees utilizing 36,000 workstations across 71 delivery centers in 17 countries. For additional information, visit www.teletech.com. 


 
 Investor Contacts:
 Karen Breen
 Investor Relations
 303-397-8592
 
 Media Contact:
 Bob Livingston
 Media Relations
 303-397-8958

SOURCE: TeleTech

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