Marking the fourth straight year of double-digit profit growth and the third consecutive year of record sales and profit, Caterpillar Inc. today reported 2006 sales and revenues of $41.517 billion and profit of $3.537 billion, or $5.17 per share, up 28 percent from a year ago.
Source: biz.yahoo.com

Fruit trees marginal in Western ski towns 
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - Temperatures in mid-January dipped to 10, 20 and even 35 below zero in mountain towns. That’s plenty cold, but not the sustained, penetrating cold that was commonplace in the 1980s and before.
Source: www.summitdaily.com

Part 2 of a two-part series 
The second half of last year’s review begins with the inauguration of a new Blackfeet Tribal Business Council at the 55th North American Indian Days Celebration.
Source: www.goldentrianglenews.com

RP peacekeepers dealt unkindest cut of all 
FILIPINO peacekeepers in Haiti know the perils of their mission all too well. On Dec. 21, four of them came under fire from suspected gang members as they were escorting an official of the United Nations Stabilization Mission through the violent neighborhood of Cite Soleil.
Source: newsinfo.inquirer.net

TECSYS Wins Contract with Wagner Equipment - Adds Another Major Caterpillar(R) Dealer to its Client Base 
TECSYS Inc. , an industry-leading Supply Chain Management software company announced today that Wagner Equipment Co., a major Caterpillar dealer based in Denver, Colorado, has selected TECSYS’ EliteSeries Warehouse Management System for IBM iSeries to manage its growing logistics operations of 31 facilities including distribution centres and outlets in three States.
Source: biz.yahoo.com

General News 
KNOX Knox Borough recently passed a 2007 general fund budget which features no tax increase. A large portion of that budget is the sewer and water funds.
Source: www2.theclarionnews.com

U.S. Venture Capital Investing in 2006 Posts a Five-Year High, Reaching $25.75 Billion, Highest Annual Investment Level … 
SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2007 — Venture capital investment into U.S. headquartered companies continued its ascent in 2006 with the most annual deal flow and capital investment since 2001, according to the Quarterly Venture Capital Report released by Ernst & Young LLP and Dow Jones VentureOne, the publisher of the VentureSource database.
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Midwest Messenger 
When it was founded 45 years ago, Sioux Automation Center fit into a garage. Today it’s an international company that employs 145 people, manufactures agricultural as well as trucking and crane equipment, and handles the world’s largest inventory of feed mixer parts.
Source: www.midwestmessenger.com

RSMeans Launches MeansCostWorks.com 
KINGSTON, Mass.—-RSMeans is pleased to introduce MeansCostWorks.com, an innovative, one-stop estimating tool that provides online access to the nation’s most used and quoted construction cost data, in tandem with new estimating capabilities and user-defined customization features.
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