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Quoizel Lighting Recognized For Its Creative And Original Designs

Riverdale, UT (PRWEB) October 30, 2012

Quoizel Lighting has been nominated as a finalist for the Pinnacle Awards. “The Pinnacle Awards both honor and recognize creative, relevant and original designs in home furnishings that push our industry to the next level,” said John Conrad, vice president of the American Society of Furniture Designers and 2012 Pinnacle Awards chairman. This prestigious honor comes as no surprise for the New York-based Lighting Company.

They started as a small business in New York but have since transitioned to a large state-of-the-art 500,000 square-foot facility in Charlseton, South Carolina. Founded in 1930, they continue to provide excellent service and products and also continue to be a leader in lighting production. Quoizel offers a wide variety of products for indoor lighting including island lighting, tiffany lighting, mirrors, lamps, sconces, bathroom lights, mini pendant lighting, pendants, ceiling lights, under cabinet lighting, semi flush ceiling lights, chandeliers and figurines. They also offer a large selection of outdoor lighting products including many ENERGY STAR-rated fixtures.

Quoizel Lighting offers diverse collections for customers to choose from to ensure they can achieve any and every look and style. From classic lighting to contemporary lighting, Americana to exotic, sleek and modern to elegant and romantic, they offer a little something for every taste. Quoizel Lighting also offers numerous styles and designs with their unique and original collections. From the Abigail Adams Collection, which features the antique hurricane style lamps that have been featured since Quoizels start back in 1930, to the sleek and contemporary outdoor wall lights from the Zephyr Collection; they have every look covered literally from A to Z.

Their Tiffany lighting selection is exquisite. Customers can choose from an assortment of products including lamps, pendants, sconces, chandeliers, and ceiling lights that feature the beautiful and elegant Tiffany glass that makes a statement in any room. One of many examples of this attractive style is the Museum of New Mexico Collection featuring gorgeous floor and table lamps inspired by Native American pottery, jewelry, and textile patterns.

Quoizel Lighting also offers a stunning selection of chandeliers. Quoizel chandeliers provides personality as well as functionality in kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, living rooms-virtually anywhere in the home. From the sleek and sophisticated contemporary Quoizel Downtown Chandelier DW5005C to the romantic and timelessly elegant Traditional Tricia Chandelier TCA5004VP, Quoizel Lighting has virtually every look imaginable when it comes to chandeliers.

Customers can also choose from many different styles outdoor lighting as well. Styles range from a traditional look found in the Georgetown Collection to the smooth and contemporary Petalo Collection and also includes many stylish craftsman looks such as in the Hillcrest Collection. Theyl also offers many of these fixtures as ENERGY STAR-rated to help customers save costs and consumption of energy usage.

According to their website, their motto is as follows: At Quoizel, we create more than lighting and home accessories. We create timeless pieces designed with you in mind. We do this by avoiding trends and fads, by balancing form and function and by making our choices thoughtfully. This kind of dedication, integrity and quality not only goes into the design of our products, but its in the way we do business as well. Its why weve grown from a small company to become one of the nations leading manufacturers of fine decorative lighting and home accessories. We are Quoizel, and it is our promise to help bring timeless design into your home, while building lasting relationships along the way.

Looking at the variety, selection, dedication, and service they offer, it is easy to see why they are a finalist for this award.

Emory Point Receives 2012 EarthCraft Award of Environmental Excellence

Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) October 29, 2012

The Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (Greater Atlanta HBA) and Southface recently celebrated the completion of 24,000 EarthCraft buildings across the Southeast over the past 13 years and commemorated the occasion with an awards program that highlighted excellence within the EarthCraft program for projects completed in 2011 and 2012. This includes EarthCraft houses and renovations, multifamily units and light commercial buildings.

EarthCraft program participants are realizing greater success than their peers because they are delivering a high value product to the market, said David Ellis of the Greater Atlanta HBA. We celebrate their vision and their leadership.

Gables Residential, http://www.gables.com and Cousins Properties received the 2012 EarthCraft Award of Environmental Excellence for their development of Emory Point, a pedestrian-friendly community offering retail and luxury apartment residences, all in an environmentally-conscious development that is accessible from Emory University, CDC and Emory Healthcare by foot, bike, car, MARTA and the Cliff electric buses.

“We are honored to have Emory Point recognized by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and Southface, noted Joe Wilber, Senior Vice President Investments for Gables Residential. Emory Point has been designed as an environmentally friendly community, creating a healthy, vibrant place to live, work, shop and dine.

Emory Point is now open and offers tours of furnished apartment models daily. For more information regarding the luxury apartment homes or retail, please call 404-486-0671 or visit http://www.gables.com/emorypoint.

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About Gables Residential

With a mission of Taking Care of the Way People Live, Gables Residential has received national recognition for excellence in the management, development, acquisition and construction of luxury multifamily communities in high job growth markets. Gables Residential owns, develops and manages multifamily communities and mixed-use developments in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, South Florida, Southern California, and metropolitan Washington, D.C. Additionally, it has third-party management operations in the Chicago, New York, Boston, Phoenix, Central and North Florida, and Washington State markets. Gables Residential enjoys a healthy portfolio with approximately 36,000 apartment homes under management, including a corporate-owned portfolio of 54 stabilized communities comprising approximately 13,800 apartment homes. An additional 9 communities are under development/lease-up, comprising approximately 2,900 apartment homes. Gables also has the ability to develop another 2,000 apartment homes through its shadow pipeline of undeveloped land owned. For more information please visit http://www.gables.com.

About EarthCraft

EarthCraft is a green building certification program designed to address climate, energy and water issues unique to the southeastern United States. EarthCraft serves as a blueprint for energy and resource efficient single-family homes, multifamily structures, renovation projects, community developments and light-commercial buildings. Founded by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and Southface in 1999, the EarthCraft program has certified more than 24,000 projects throughout the Southeast. Please visit http://www.earthcraft.org for more information.

About Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association

The Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (HBA) is a nonprofit professional trade association dedicated to promoting, protecting and preserving the homebuilding industry as a viable economic force in the Atlanta area. Please visit http://www.atlantahomebuilders.com for more information.

About Southface

Southface is the Southeasts non-profit leader in the promotion of sustainable homes, workplaces and communities through education, research, advocacy and technical assistance. Please visit

Southface at http://www.southface.org.

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Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) October 22, 2012

Empire State Development and Buffalo Niagara Enterprise today announced that Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LP, a Canadian manufacturer of portable garden center structures, products and merchandise display systems for local, regional and national garden centers, will establish operations in Buffalo. The project will create 57 new jobs over the next five years and the company will invest more than $ 2 million for real estate acquisition, construction/renovation and the purchase of machinery and equipment. The investment is expected to generate more than $ 2 million in new payroll wages per year to spur local economic growth.

New York State will provide up to $ 450,000 in Excelsior tax credits to Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LP. The manufacturer will also receive $ 61,000 in sales tax abatements through the Erie County IDA.

Governor Cuomos promise of a new New York is demonstrated today by Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LPs commitment to establishing its operations in Buffalo, said Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy. OutFront has purchased a Buffalo manufacturing company that was about to go out of a business and is now refurbishing and upgrading the plant, maintaining the existing employees and drawing additional employees from an impoverished, urban area, creating a win-win solution for New York State.

I am pleased to be able to bring manufacturing jobs to the City of Buffalo, said Tony Van Es, President, Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LP. My company is dedicated to ensuring the Buffalo OutFront MetalWorks Company has state of the art equipment, utilizes the best in green processes and that a multitude of high quality jobs result. This could not be possible without the support of the leaders in New York State government like Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senator Mark Grisanti who ensured that we received monetary assistance. I greatly appreciate all they have done to get this project off the ground.

Buffalo Niagara Enterprise assisted OutFront with their acquisition of the former Buffalo Metal Fabricating by facilitating its access to incentives, and assisting with accounting, immigration and workforce needs. Expanding into the region through acquisition and having such a meaningful impact on an inner city neighborhood distinguishes this project from many of BNEs past Canadian successes.

It is because of our consistent Canadian marketing efforts and relationship building on the other side of the border that we were in a position to connect a Canadian buyer with this opportunity, said BNE President & CEO Thomas A. Kucharski. I want to congratulate and thank all of our partners including Empire State, our state legislators, the ECIDA and National Grid. This project is a great example of how private and public efforts can combine to create new jobs, retain existing ones and spur investment that will revitalize older neighborhoods in our city.

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Congressman Brian Higgins, a member of the Northern Border Caucus and the U.S. Canada Interparlementary Exchange, said, Our proximity to the Canadian border provides limitless economic opportunities for Western New York. We are thrilled that the leadership of Buffalo OutFront Metalworks recognizes Buffalos great potential as a City with a dedicated workforce and a community on the rise.

Senator Mark Grisanti said, Tony Van Es and the OutFront organization are committed to bringing jobs to the City of Buffalo. His company will provide good high quality, high paying manufacturing jobs to people who greatly need this opportunity as well as training for the unemployed, veterans and the disabled. I applaud his vision and dedication to making this conversion happen. We need more businesses to recognize the opportunity for success that are present here in New York State and our elected leadership needs to offer appropriate incentives to recruit businesses to our area.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said, Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LPs decision to locate a facility in Buffalo fits in well with my administrations goal to attract Canadian businesses to Erie County. Our region provides the skilled workforce and easy access to U.S. markets that Canadian businesses are looking for, and we look forward to Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LPs success, which will serve as a model for other businesses interested in locating in Erie County.

City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said, My administration was very involved with bringing Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LP to the East Side of Buffalo, where we are pleased to welcome this leading Canadian manufacturer to its new U.S. home. The creation of 57 new jobs and over $ 2 million of investment for the local economy is great news as we continue to see progress and job growth in Buffalo.

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Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LP is one of three existing subsidiary divisions of All Cover Portable Systems, the other two being XL Shelter and Easy Fence Rental and Sales. The addition of the manufacturing facility in Buffalo will add a new division to the all Cover Portable Systems group of companies.

All Cover Portable Systems head office is located in Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. This location provides easy access to the Ontario Market, as well as close proximity to the Canadian and U.S. border. All Cover Portable Systems is a privately-held corporation that has operated in Ontario since its inception in 1997. Its head office houses manufacturing facilities and new office space. The company also has storage facilities located in Ontario and Alberta.

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