Watertown, Mass.-based Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE: BFAM ) , the international employer-sponsored child care and education company, is expanding its business in one country in particular this week. On Thursday, Bright Horizons announced that it has acquired Britain's kidsunlimited, operator of 64 nurseries in England and Scotland.
Although already present in the country for some time, Bright Horizons says that buying kidsunlimited "solidifies [its] position as the leader in providing high-quality employer sponsored child care throughout the U.K." With kidsunlimited now in-house, Bright Horizons will be operating a total of 203 nurseries in the U.K., with the capacity to take care of 15,500 children. Bright Horizons says it expects the transaction to begin producing profits for it in 2014.
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Key Tronic Corporation, doing business as KeyTronicEMS Co., together with its subsidiaries, provides electronic manufacturing services (EMS) to original equipment manufacturers primarily in the United States, Mexico, and China. Its EMS services include product design, surface mount technologies for printed circuit board assembly, tool making, precision plastic molding, liquid injection molding, automated tape winding, prototype design, and full product builds. The company also manufactures keyboards and other input devices for personal computers. Key Tronic markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales department aided by field sales people and distributors. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, Washington.
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The Wet Seal, Inc., a specialty retailer, operates stores that sell fashionable and contemporary apparel and accessory items designed for female customers. The company operates primarily two mall-based chains of retail stores under the Wet Seal and Arden B names. Its Wet Seal stores provide fashionable and basic apparel and accessories for girls; and Arden B stores offer contemporary fashion, dresses, and sportswear separates and accessories for the contemporary woman. In addition, the company operates Web-based stores, including wetseal.com that provides Wet Seal merchandise; and ardenb.com, which offers Arden B merchandise. As of January 29, 2011, it operated a total of 558 stores, including 472 Wet Seal stores and 86 Arden B stores in 47 states and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California.
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RealNetworks, Inc. provides network-delivered digital media products and services to manage, play, and share digital media in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It develops and markets software products and services that enable the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital media, including audio and video. The company?s Core Products segment develops and provides software as a service (SaaS) services, including ring-back tone, music-on-demand, video-on-demand, and messaging services for mobile carriers; and e-commerce services, such as business intelligence, subscriber management, and billing for carrier customers. It also licenses Helix server software that allows companies and institutions to broadcast live and on-demand audio, video, and other multimedia programming to users over the Internet. In addition, this segment provides professional and systems integration services; and SuperPass, a subscription service, which provides consumers with acces s to a range of digital entertainment content. Its Emerging Products segment offers RealPlayer, a media player software, which include features and services that enable consumers to discover, play, download, manage, and edit digital video. The company?s Games segment is involved in developing, publishing, licensing, and distributing casual games, such as board, card, puzzle, word, and hidden-object games for PC?s, social networks, mobile handsets, and smartphones through digital download, online subscription play, third-party portals, social networks, and mobile devices. It distributes games principally in North America, Europe, and Latin America through the company?s own Websites, which are operated under the GameHouse, Zylom, and Atrativa brands, and through Websites owned or managed by third parties. RealNetworks, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Eaton Vance Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in the creation, marketing, and management of investment funds in the United States. It also provides investment management and counseling services to institutions and individuals. Further, the company operates as an adviser and distributor of investment companies and separate accounts. As of October 31, 2004, the company provided investment advisory or administration services to approximately 150 funds; approximately 1,300 separately managed individual and institutional accounts; and participated in approximately 40 retail-managed account broker/dealer programs. It markets and distributes shares of funds through a retail network of national and regional broker/dealers, banks, insurance companies, and financial planning firms. Eaton Vance Corp. was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
5 Best Quality Stocks For 2014: Heska Corporation (HSKA)
Heska Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports veterinary products for canine and feline companion animal health markets in the United States and internationally. The company�s Core Companion Animal Health segment offers various veterinary diagnostic and other instruments, including The DRI-CHEM 4000 veterinary chemistry analyzer for blood chemistry and electrolyte analysis; HEMATRUE veterinary hematology analyzer, a blood analyzer that measures white blood cell count, red blood cell count, platelet count, and hemoglobin levels in animals; Accutrend Plus Lactate analyzer; and IV pumps. It also offers point-of-care diagnostic test products, such as heartworm diagnostic products for dogs and cats; veterinary diagnostic laboratory products and services, such as allergy diagnostic products and services; pharmaceuticals and supplements, including heartworm prevention products, nutritional supplements, and hypothyroid treatment products; and vaccines and other biologicals for allergy treatment and feline respiratory diseases, as well as sells consumable supplies. This segment sells its products to veterinarians through a field organization, a telephone sales force, and independent third-party distributors. Its Other Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals, and Products segment provides private label vaccine and pharmaceutical products for cattle, as well as for other animals that include small mammals and fish. It offers bovine products, and biological and pharmaceutical products for other animal health companies; and provides various turnkey services comprising research, licensing, production, labeling, and packaging of products, as well as validation support and distribution services. This segment sells its products through third parties under third party labels. The company was formerly known as Paravax, Inc. and changed its name to Heska Corporation in 1995. Heska Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Loveland, Colo rado.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By ChemTrade]
This stock was trading just over $9 earlier this month when I wrote an article (Little Known Dividend Stock That Could Double in 2012) detailing why it is a strong candidate for a double-bagger this year. Prices jumped close to $12 over the past couple weeks since I wrote that piece.
What makes HSKA a timely buy in a pullback? HSKA announced a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share last month. This shows confidence in future cash flows. The niche market of animal diagnostics gives HSKA strong buyout potential. Remember the pet diagnostic company Synbiotics that was bought out by Pfizer (PFE) at three to four times the publicly traded value? Other big pharma companies may follow suit and target HSKA which has a strong upcoming pipeline of products.
A small pullback caused by the market would make an excellent time to accumulate shares for those investors that missed out on the first opportunity when shares were at $9 a few weeks ago.
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