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Women on the Move - 01-2013

Women on the Move

Olalah Njenga, CEO of YellowWood Group Opens New Sales Office In Uptown Charlotte, NC.

A growing company, YellowWood Group are experts in strategic marketing planning that aligns with sales goals. They specialize in closing the sales gap that exists between marketing initiatives and sales performance. Working directly with CEOs and their management teams, YellowWood Group uses a proprietary strategic model to help companies identify and leverage market differentiators and assert their competitive advantage. Information about YellowWood Group’s strategic marketing consulting, planning and management solutions is available at YellowWoodGroup.com. For insight about marketing and sales integration strategies, follow YellowWood Group’s tweets at Twitter.com/yellowwoodgroup. The site of their new office is Transamerica Square in the heart of the Charlotte’s Uptown area,  an active and thriving business district. The opening of this second point of presence for YellowWood Group is in response to the company’s growth in strategic planning projects serving the banking, legal and medical markets. With the additional point of presence, the firm’s CEO, Olalah Njenga says the Queen City had a lot to offer in terms of market opportunity and diversity. In 2013, YellowWood Group will celebrate a milestone year in business. Opening the sales office in Charlotte only adds to the excitement that the entire team feels about future growth. Olalah is excited to see the vision of the company materialize and Charlotte is an ideal business climate for the type of services they provide. YellowWood Group will serve existing and prospective clients in both the Raleigh and Charlotte offices.

Please join us in congratulating Greater Raleigh NAWBO's own Olalah Njenga on her continued success.

YellowWood Group is located in Lafayette Village at 8480 Honeycutt Road, Suite 200 Raleigh NC 27615. Their new Charlotte office is: Transamerica Square 401 N. Tryon Street, 10th Floor Charlotte NC 28202. Olalah plans to add seven new positions in the Charlotte office. 

Carrie Huitt Reuben
President
Marsupium, Inc.
2315 Laurelbrook Street
Raleigh, NC 27604
            (919) 678-8100      
www.marsupium.com

Where Children Go To Dream

Ballet slippers, baseball gloves, and teddy bears. NAWBO member and past president Carrie Huitt Reuben has acquired Marsupium Inc, which has been making whimsical, personalized children's sleeping bags in shapes like these for over 30 years. Known as the "zipperless" bag, Marsupium sleeping bags, nap mats and pillows are sold directly to consumers through the Marsupium.com online store, children's product retailers, and well-known catalog companies such as Hammacher Schlemmer. All products are 

sewn in Raleigh, NC and shipped to customers all over the U.S. and Canada. Carrie plans to build on the strong history of Marsupium products by designing new shapes and sourcing new fabrics that will continue to inspire children to dream while touching child in all of us.

Join us in congratulating Carrie on her new business venture.  

Interim HealthCare of the Eastern Carolinas, Inc. announced today that Donna “Lou” Byrd of Pittsboro and the Holden Beach area has acquired 100% of its stock from Stephen M. (Steve) Smith of Whiteville. 

Byrd owns the Interim HealthCare franchise locations in Raleigh, Durham and Asheville and will be eventually consolidating the corporate office functions for those locations to Whiteville. She will be relocating permanently to the Holden Beach area and will maintain her primary office in Whiteville. 
Smith, who began the franchise in January 1984 will continue indefinitely in an advisory capacity and as lessor for most of the company buildings.

“ This is a very logical development as it expands our footprint from Virginia to South Carolina, encompassing seven urban areas and a large number of rural and community markets”, said Steve Smith. He added, “Lou Byrd began with Interim HealthCare right out of the UNC School of Public Health, and has done about every non-clinical job there is to do. She eventually purchased the Raleigh, Durham and Asheville franchises from the original franchisee there, and has successfully operated them for several years now. She has excellent relationships with the regional medical centers in the Triangle Area, which will be a positive for the southeastern market .”
Interim HealthCare of the Eastern Carolinas, Inc. has been providing centralized support out of its’ Whiteville corporate service center for its’ multiple branches for years, so it’s a natural fit to provide those services for the newly-aligned Raleigh , Durham and Asheville franchises.

Commenting on her acquisition, Byrd said, “We have worked closely with Steve’s operations over the years, and knew that it possessed size and quality. Their administrative infrastructure is very strong, as is his Management Team and staff. I look forward to benefitting from their expertise, and to meld the best practices from our Raleigh, Durham and Asheville markets with his. I look forward to becoming involved in the Whiteville community, as Interim HealthCare continues to be a good corporate citizen here.”

Interim HealthCare of the Eastern Carolinas, Inc., and those in Raleigh, Durham and Asheville are franchises of Interim HealthCare, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, which is the largest combined private provider of home care and health care staffing services in the United States. In addition to Byrd, there are approximately 90 franchisees, operating 320 locations in 42 states. Besides Whiteville, Interim HealthCare of the Eastern Carolinas, Inc. has branches in Elizabethtown, Fayetteville, Lumberton, Shallotte, Wallace and Wilmington, and serves 12 counties.