Quicken Loans Begins Move of 2,500 Additional Team Members to Heart of Downtown Detroit

Detroit, MI (PRWEB) October 10, 2011

Today marks the first wave in a series of moves that will bring 2,500 more professionals to Detroit by early 2012. Some 1,500 Quicken Loans team members stepped foot into their new offices at the renovated Chase Tower Building located in the citys central business district, bringing the company one step closer to its goal of relocating all of its Michigan-based team members to downtown Detroit.

The relocating employees will join a brain force of 1,700 colleagues who moved from the suburbs to Detroit just 14 months ago when Quicken Loans and several sister companies moved their headquarters to the Compuware Building, situated at the foot of Campus Martius Park.

An additional 1,000 team members from several of Quicken Loans sister companies will move to downtown Detroit and occupy space in the Madison Theatre Building and First National Building when renovations on those two buildings are completed in November 2011 and early 2012, respectively.

Today marks the next step in the effort to transform downtown Detroit into a work, live and play epicenter where young professionals come to plant roots and grow their careers, said Dan Gilbert, Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans, the nations largest online home lender. More and more people, investors and businesses are joining the initiative to build something very special here.

Gilbert acquired the 505,000 square foot, 14-story Chase Tower occupying a full city block on Woodward Avenue in April 2011, and immediately began renovating its interior to reflect the companys culture. Today, the building features bright neon-colored walls, open floor plans, and high-tech, collaborative meeting areas that encourage teamwork, communication and creativity.

Quicken Loans is a true asset to the City of Detroit, said Detroit Mayor Dave Bing. Their commitment to not only make the city their place to do business, but also provide the opportunity for other companies to do so as well shows that Detroit is once again attracting investment and jobs."

Along with Quicken Loans, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will continue to occupy parts of Chase Tower. The building will boast a world-class cafeteria, and the first floor will be redesigned and redeveloped to accommodate pedestrian-friendly retail space along Woodward Avenue.

We are extremely excited to have additional Quicken Loans team members joining us in Detroit, said Quicken Loans CEO Bill Emerson. The city is an amazing place to live, work and play with so many great restaurants and cultural gems to explore. There is never a shortage of things to do in Detroit. It is a great time to be in the D.

Bedrock Real Estate Services LLC, the partnership created to oversee the purchase, leasing, redevelopment, build-out, and overall management of Gilberts downtown real estate investments, supervised the redevelopment of the Chase Tower, Rossetti Architects designed Quicken Loans space, and Sachse Construction renovated it.

The new team members will be joining several sister companies already in Detroit:

American Red Cross And Haroldsays Team Up On Be Positive Do Something Positive Day Blood Drive

Wilkes Barre, PA (PRWEB) March 3, 2008

In support of the Be Positive Do Something Positive Day on Saturday March 1, 2008 The American Red Cross blood services will hold a special blood drive from noon to 5 p.m. This special blood drive will be held at the Genetti's Best Western Hotel and Convention Center, 77 East Market Street, Wilkes Barre PA. The blood drive is being sponsored by HaroldSays as part of the International Be Positive Do Something Positive Day kick off

celebration on March 1st in Wilkes-Barre PA.

Harold Cameron, The Chief of Helping of HaroldSays, stated, "My life's mission and passion is encouraging positive thought and action everywhere and to everyone in the world." One way that he is doing that is by promoting the Be Positive Do Something Positive Day on March 1, 2008. One significant and potentially life saving way to do something positive is by donating blood. The theme of the blood drive for The Be Positive Do Something Positive Day is B+! Give Blood! Save a Life!

The American Red Cross relies on voluntary donations. Not only do people in hospitals in the Wilkes-Barre PA area depend on receiving the "Gift of Life", people in hospitals all across our nation depend on receiving blood. Every two seconds someone needs blood in this country.

"We encourage current and new donors to donate blood at the American Red Cross Be Positive Day blood drive," said Tony Ferlenda, Chief Executive Officer of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Region. "One donation can save up to three lives."

March is Red Cross Month. In celebration of the Red Cross month all presenting donors at the Be Positive Day event will automatically be entered into a drawing to win a tote full of American Red Cross goodies.

Also at 11 a.m. Mark Hoog, acclaimed children's author and motivational speaker will appear at the Barnes & Noble Wilkes-Kings College Bookstore, 7 South Main Street, Suite 1, in Wilkes Barre, PA.

He will appear at the event to read his book "Your Song" to the children who attend. He will be available after the book reading to talk with the children and their families as well as to sign books. A family of a victim of bullying will be at the bookstore passing out handmade "positive" message bookmarks and children will be able to create their own bookmarks as well.

At 1 p.m. Mark will be speaking at The Be Positive Do Something Positive Day rally at the Genetti's Best Western Hotel and Convention Center in the ballroom. The rally is free and is open to the general public. In his inspirational and potentially life-transforming presentation, Mark will make those in attendance laugh, he might make them cry, however, he will most certainly make them think about what matters most in life.

For more information about The Be Positive Do Something Positive Day and the events in Wilkes-Barre PA visit our website at:

http://www.bepositiveday.com

Contact:

Harold Cameron, Chief of Helping People

HaroldSays

326 Spruce Street

#307

Scranton, PA 18503

Phone (570) 341-6796

Fax (570) 341-6796

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Former Wasatch Team Launches Grandeur Peak Fund Family-- Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities and International Opportunities Funds Launch Today, October 17, 2011

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) October 17, 2011

Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, the firm founded by former Wasatch portfolio managers Robert Gardiner and Blake Walker, announced today the launch of two new mutual funds: the Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund and the Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund.

The Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund (GPGOX/GPGIX) will be a portfolio of 100-150 global equities, with a strong bias towards small and micro cap companies. Investments will include companies based in the U.S., developed foreign countries, and emerging/frontier markets. The portfolio has flexibility to adjust its investment mix by market cap, country, and sector in order to invest where the portfolio managers believe the best global opportunities currently exist. See the Prospectus for additional fund detail.

The Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund (GPIOX/GPIIX) will be a portfolio comprised of 100-150 small and micro cap growth companies outside of the United States. Said co-portfolio manager, Blake Walker Given the vast number of high quality, growing, and underfollowed small/micro cap companies abroad, we believe this is the single most interesting segment of the global equities landscape for the coming decade. See the Prospectus for additional fund detail.

Robert Gardiner, Grandeur Peak CEO and Portfolio Manager, said In a world where business is increasingly global and country boundaries continue to blur, we believe the best long-term investment opportunities can be uncovered by investors who are fully canvassing the world to find and consider each company within its global context. Mr. Gardiner continued Our vision for global investing includes disciplined screening to find interesting companies in every part of the world, thorough hands-on research to sort the wheat from the chaff, and careful monitoring of valuations in an effort to maximize investment results. We are long-term investors, looking for smaller companies that we believe have great growth potential over the next five years and beyond.

Co-Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer Blake Walker added, Our bias is towards small and micro cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. The universe of impressive yet underfollowed small and micro cap companies around the world is extensive and growing every day. There are a tremendous number of high quality companies with strong growth potential which are simply too small to catch the eye of Wall Street analysts and larger mutual funds.

The Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities and the International Opportunities funds will each have a management fee of 1.25%. This is the lowest management fee of any fund that Mr. Gardiner or Mr. Walker has managed. The Funds also have an expense cap in place to help control the impact to shareholders of the significant start-up and global expenses. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing. Note, the Investor Share Class has a minimum investment of just $ 2000, while the Institutional Share Class has a minimum investment of $ 100,000.

Eric Huefner, president and co-founder, described how investors can purchase the new funds: Investors can go to http://www.grandeurpeakglobal.com to open a Grandeur Peak Funds account on-line, or to download an application. Applications can also be requested by calling 1.855.377.PEAK (7325). We are working with Schwab, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Pershing, Vanguard, and other third party intermediaries to get selling agreements in place as quickly as possible. We hope our funds will be available on these and other platforms shortly.

About Grandeur Peak Global Advisors

Grandeur Peak Global Advisors is comprised of a highly seasoned and collaborative research team taking a bottom-up approach to investing using disciplined global screening, rigorous company due diligence, and close attention to valuation to find what we believe to be the best investment opportunities around the world. Our bias is towards small and micro cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, LLC is an employee-owned investment adviser headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

The objective of both the Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund and the Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund is long-term growth of capital. These funds are new and have limited operating history.

Mutual fund investing involves risks and loss of principal is possible. Investing in small and micro cap funds will be more volatile and loss of principal could be greater than investing in large cap or more diversified funds. Investing in foreign securities entails special risks, such as currency fluctuations and political uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the prospectus. Investments in emerging markets are subject to the same risks as other foreign securities and may be subject to greater risks than investments in foreign countries with more established economies and securities markets.

This material must be accompanied or preceded by a prospectus. Please read it carefully before investing.

Grandeur Peak Funds will deduct a 2.00% redemption proceeds fee on Fund shares held 60 days or less. For more complete information including charges, risks and expenses, read the prospectus carefully.

Valuation is the process of determining the current worth of an asset or company.

Wasatch Advisors is not affiliated with Grandeur Peak Global Advisors or with ALPS Distributors, Inc.

Grandeur Peak Funds are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc (ADI). Eric Huefner is a registered representative of ADI.

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