Fuel Rescue Grants U.S., International Marketing Rights to The Concept Works

Fuel Rescue, a Waukee, Iowa, firm today approved an agreement for The Concept Works to market and distribute its revolutionary new product that helps the underground storage tank industry protect the environment and save money.

 

Daily readings of underground tanks have quietly robbed the convenience store industry of multi-thousands of dollars and created ongoing environmental hazards each year but Fuel Rescue is an affordable, easy-to-use solution to both problems.

 

Fuel Rescue is a revolutionary four-sided squeegee that rests across the tank fill opening at ground level. After measuring the tank, the gauge stick is drawn up through the squeegee and Fuel Rescue pushes the fuel down the gauge stick and returns it to the tank.

 

“Especially in this economy, it just doesn’t make sense to throw profits out the window.  Field tests show that Fuel Rescue returns up to 120 gallons of fuel to each underground storage tank per year. At $4.00 per gallon, that’s up to $480 dollars in additional revenue per tank every year,” said product developer Larry Snyder. “Multiply that by the number of tanks a company operates, and the bottom-line savings are as stunning as they are simple to calculate.”

 

Priced at $24.95 per unit, Fuel Rescue offers other practical benefits for anyone connected with the storage, marketing, regulation or transport of a product kept in an underground storage tank.  Fuel transports, truck stops, convenience stores, airports, farm and agriculture, industry, military operations, and local state and federal governments.

 

Fuel Rescue protects employees from the health hazards and mess of exposure to raw fuel and heads off an all-too-common source of surface and groundwater contamination.

 

“Fuel Rescue eliminates the cost of towels to clean gauge sticks, gets rid of the costs associated with responsible disposal and removes the very real fire hazard causes by fuel-soaked towels.  It also prevents the inadvertent spillage that happens when the sticks are removed from tanks and excess fuel drains onto the ground so users avoid the cost and trouble of cleaning up contaminated driveways and dirt,” Snyder said.  “This is a product that combines environmental stewardship with smart business practices at a price that pays for itself in just a few weeks and then keeps on saving money for a long time. Anyone who has ever worked around an underground storage tank can see in an instant that Fuel Rescue is a winner.”

 

For additional information about Fuel Rescue, contact Eric Woolson at (515) 226-0277 or ewoolson@theconceptworks.com.

McCain Surveys Iowa Flood Damage

 Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain toured flood-ravaged Columbus Junction, Iowa, on Thursday, meeting with city officials and local business owners about their plight and the role the federal government can play in helping Midwesterners recover from the devastating natural disaster.

 

Eric Woolson of The Concept Works served as the lead press advance person for the visit.

Swart Promotes Exemplar Genetics At 2008 BIO Conference

Sioux Center businessman John Swart is attending the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s international conference this week in San Diego as he promotes Exemplar Genetics, a new firm that will partner with medical researchers to seek cures for some of the most challenging diseases facing humans.

 

BIO is the world’s largest biotechnology organization.  It provides business development, communications services and providing advocacy for more than 1,150 members around the globe. Since its formation in 1993, BIO has helped the biology-based, entrepreneurial industry grow from a small number of companies concentrated in a few cities to an industry that increasingly extends throughout society.

 

Swart, who is president of the Exemplar Genetics, said the BIO conference is an excellent place to launch the company that will “provide the vehicle to break new ground on the medical research frontier” and is generating considerable interest at the conference.

 

“Until now, researchers have lacked animal models that faithfully represent human diseases.  That created a sizeable barrier blocking progress in discovering how some human diseases work and how to treat and even prevent them,” Swart said. “Until now, researchers have had to rely on laboratory mice before advancing to tests on humans.  Exemplar Genetics bridges the considerable gap between the laboratory mouse and human testing with a patented process featuring a substantially improved animal model: the pig.”

 

Swart notes that pigs and humans share far more anatomical, histological, biochemical and physiologic properties than mice and humans.  Pigs are excellent models for cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, alcoholism, hypertension, cutaneous pharmacology and toxicology, lipoprotein metabolism, intestinal function, nutrition, and injury and repair.  Pigs and humans also have similar immune systems and inflammatory responses. 

 

“The 2008 BIO convention is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, researchers and investors to get together in one place and learn about ground-breaking companies like Exemplar Genetics,” Swart said. “That’s why we’re here and we believe the results will be good news not only for our company, but also for Sioux Center, northwest Iowa and our entire state.”

 

The Concept Works provides public relations counsel and services to Exemplar Genetics.

Ankeny Developers Sue Bank in Negligence, Fraud, Breach of Good Faith Case

DES MOINES – Four Des Moines area real estate developers have filed suit against a Clive bank and one of its top officers, alleging negligence, defamation, intentional interference with prospective business advantage, fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation, fraudulent nondisclosure, and breach of good faith.

 

Dan Stanbrough, Bradley Stanbrough, Scott Wendl and Jamie Hatch, who are members of Northern Ankeny Development, LLC contend Valley Bank and senior Vice President Rick Bratrud “acted in willful and wanton disregard of the rights and safety” of the group through a number of actions that included the alleged decision to conceal an incorrect land appraisal for months on a property named North Prairie Bend.

 

Rebecca Brommel, the group’s attorney, stated in papers filed in Polk County District Court that Valley Bank and Bratrud pushed the developers to modify loan and line of credit agreements while concealing the inaccurate appraisal that resulted in a $700,000 error to Northern Ankeny Development’s detriment.

 

Noting that Valley Bank hired an uninsured appraiser who made the mistake in estimating the land’s value, the developers seek damages for negligence. By concealing the appraisal mistake for at least four months and perhaps as long as seven months, the bank and Bratrud committed negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation, the suit states.

 

 The suit also claims the Bank and Bratrud intentionally interfered with the developers’ contracts with a buyer, Windsor Homes, Inc., and blocked the sale of lots that would have been sold. The defendants’ actions prompted at least one real estate agent and at least seven builders to refuse to work with Northern Ankeny Development.

 

The developers state in their suit that Bratrud also made statements about their businesses and them that were false, malicious and caused damages.

 

# # # #

 

 

 

Miller-Meeks Wins GOP Primary

Second Congressional District Republican candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who won a spirited primary contest against Cedar Rapids businessman Peter Teahen and Lee Harder of Mount Pleasant, said today that the general election campaign against Rep. David Loebsack will offer voters “the difference between action and results and Washington’s current politics as usual.”

 

Teahen said Wednesday that he would not seek a recount in the race and stand by the results of the official canvass.  Miller-Meeks edged Teahen 43.6 percent to 42.9 percent.

 

“The Republican Party is unified in its goal of winning back the seat held by Jim Leach and restoring his sense of integrity and common-sense values to Congress,” she said. “As I traveled across people told me they want a representative who will adhere to the rule of law, not the rules of partisan politics that have created such a gridlock in Washington on the issues that are important to people in Iowa and across this country.”

 

She continued, “David Loebsack told voters in 2006 that he was going to Washington to change things but the only thing he changed was himself.  He votes exactly the way Nancy Pelosi and the liberal Democratic leadership tells him to vote.  This campaign will be about action and results on affordable and accessible health care, a sensible energy policy, economic development, Social Security and tax reform, veterans’ rights and a responsible federal government versus Representative Loebsack’s apparent belief that the current politics as usual is just what the country needs.”

 

Miller-Meeks, an Ottumwa ophthalmologist, has more than 24 years of service in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve.  A former faculty member of the University of Iowa, she has been married 25 years and is the mother of two grown children.

 

The Second Congressional District includes 15 counties: Appanoose, Cedar, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Muscatine, Van Buren, Wapello, Washington and Wayne. 

 

The Concept Works provides media relations services to the Miller-Meeks campaign.