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US Financial Network: Wal-Mart Seen Key to Mexico Port Expansion and Pet Ecology Brands, Inc. Announces Initiatives to Extend Its Brand Identification in the Consumer Market
2/13/2006
Feb 13, 2006 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
City of Industry, CA - Specialty Retail industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU) Top retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) and Hong Kong magnate Li ka-Shing are key players in a $300 million expansion of Mexico's Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas aimed at ensuring goods reach U.S. shelves, according to the U.S. railroad that serves the port. Port of Chelan County officials said that Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) plans to open a new facility at the north-central Washington area's Confluence Technology Center in Wenatchee. The number of jobs to be created by the online information firm, which will become the center's largest tenant, was not disclosed, but port officials said it "is not expected to be a large number."
Skype(TM), an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY), recently announced SkypeWeb, a Web presence feature that is already integrated into more than 50 Web sites in 20 countries around the world. SkypeWeb allows people to see Skype users' online status and call or chat with them from any Web site as well as Skype people from each site with the simple click of a mouse. Pet Ecology Brands, Inc. (Other OTC:PECB) -- www.petecology.com -- announced that the Company has adopted several initiatives to increase consumer awareness of its product lines and national recognition of its corporate identity. Pet Ecology is now an official sponsor of ARFHouse, the third largest care-for-life, no-kill pet sanctuary in the U.S. As part of its sponsorship, the Company will be participating in the "Love a Homeless Pet" campaign
