Psych Solutions adding to Texas site
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 11:19 amThe Franklin-based operator of behavioral health facilities has launched a 39-bed expansion of its Kingwood Pines center north of Houston. Kingwood Pines is one of 10 hospitals Psych Solutions (Ticker: PSYS) runs in the Lone Star State.
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Big utility joins Nissan’s electric car push
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 2:52 pm
In Los Angeles for the U.S. unveiling of his LEAF electric car, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn announced his company has enlisted Houston-based electric utility Reliant Energy to help flesh out the infrastruture that will be needed to charge electric vehicles.
Sitel reverses course in Texas
Posted on July 28, 2009 at 1:50 pmThe Nashville-based call center manager says it has renewed its contract with a cell phone provider and will keep open its facility in Port Arthur. What that means for its payroll there isn’t clear: The local paper said about 50 people will be let go, but the company announced this morning it will hire at least 35 people.
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First fire, now lightning
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 8:38 pmDelek’s Texas refinery – which only came back online in April after a November explosion – has been struck by lightning.
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Vanguard brings Pilgrim back home
Posted on at 1:42 pm
Trip Pilgrim left Vanguard Health’s HQ as a vice president in 2003 to go work on the company’s integration of a San Antonio hospital system. He is returning this week to be the $3 billion hospital operator’s chief development officer and spearhead its “renewed growth strategy.”
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Sitel cuts another 400 jobs
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 9:26 pmThe Nashville-based call center manager appears to have embarked on a major reshuffle. It will close its Port Arthur, Texas facility at the end of August, shedding 409 jobs. That news comes just days after the company, a unit of Canada’s Onex conglomerate, said it would shutter a 350-job center in Ontario.
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Refiring the refinery
Posted on April 19, 2009 at 10:42 pmDelek US plans to restart operations at its 60,000-barrel-a-day refinery in Tyler, Texas, as early as Tuesday. The plant was shut down late last year after a deadly explosion and fire that wil result in $140 million in insurance claims.
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Former Gaylord CEO adding to media holdings
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Terry London has a $25 million deal to buy a TV station east of Houston. The kicker: It carries ABC on its main feed, NBC on its digital side channel.
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Former O’Charley’s exec on the move with new concept
Posted on April 1, 2009 at 11:11 pmSteve Hislop, who left his post as president of O’Charley’s in late 2006, plans to “connect the dots” along I-65 with outlets of his $43 million Chuy’s chain, which now runs 13 locations in Texas.
Chuy’s popularity may be attributed to its kitschy, offbeat decor, featuring hubcap-lined ceilings and shrines to Elvis. “Our motto has always been, ‘If you’ve seen one Chuy’s … you’ve seen one Chuy’s,’” Hislop says, referring to the layout, which is designed to look as if dining rooms have been added over time.
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For-profit education firm at center of Austin brouhaha
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 2:34 pmCommunity Education Partners, which runs alternative schools in five states, appears likely to miss out on a $5 million-a-year contract with Austin’s school district — at least for now.
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With refinery still down, Delek tweaks debt deal
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 7:51 amThe parent of Mapco has agreed with its lenders to amend an asset-based lending agreement because of the fatal accident that shut down its Texas refinery last November. Among the terms is a clause that lets the company (Ticker: DK) shift assets from one division to another and a Sept. 30 deadline to get the refinery back up and running. The company last month said it was shooting for a May restart.
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Gaylord laying off 350
Posted on February 17, 2009 at 7:32 amAbout half of the job cuts are at HQ and local operations, while 30 folks are out of a job in Texas. That leaves about 140 cuts split among the company’s Orlando and D.C.-area hotels. The company’s beaten-up shares (Ticker: GET) are up about 2 percent in pre-market trading.
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CHS to get $100M from Texas settlement
Posted on February 12, 2009 at 7:49 amThe company had put to bed a dispute with Texas Health Resources that stems from its Triad unit’s independent days.
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Delek refinery workers get new union deal
Posted on February 8, 2009 at 9:58 pmThe roughly 180 Steelworkers Union members (out of a total payroll of about 3,800) that work in the refinery division of Brentwood-based Delek (Ticker: DK) are getting a raise and a signing bonus, but it’s not as much as they’d hoped for.
The union, which represents 30,000 employees in the oil industry, said it was not able to negotiate for better health and safety conditions.
“The recession had a dampening effect on our proposal for a more significant wage increase,” Gary Beevers, the union’s vice president and lead negotiator, said in a statement. “Even though the oil companies made record profits the last few years, they used the poor economy as a shield to prevent us from receiving a higher pay increase.”
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OHL adds space in Houston
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 7:51 amThe seemingly ever-growing Brentwood-based logistics player has inked a lease for 147,000 square feet recently completed by ProLogis.
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