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The company opened its new half-million-dollar inkjet plant at its West 82nd Street location in The new manufacturing capacityis 10,000 squarer feet, up from the 4,000 square feet the company formally used. The company was able to expans its facility by acquiring adjacen t space in the BrookhollowqBusiness Park, where LaserCycle has residedr since 1993. CEO Rick Krska said the plantg should hold the company for about two more when it will have to look at moving theentirw business. LaserCycle's revenues increased by 50 percent in and Krska expects that growth to be duplicatefdthis year. Krska said his company is the largest inkjet remanufacturer in the High tech Magazinehonors eScout.
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6 million shares, or 19 percent of its TMNG will offer 1 million of the primary shares. It has abouf 27.4 million shares outstanding. The company said in a releas e that it plans to use proceeds from the sale of 1 millioj shares to enhance its Europeaj initiative and tosupport TMNG.com. TMNG provides consultinhg services to thetelecommunications industry. Southwestermn Bell Long Distance -- a subsidiaryt of the local telephone company that servesx the Kansas Cityarea -- beginsw operating Monday in Texas. The service, which will be offerec at 9 centsa minute, is expectedd to open the door for the compang to begin providing long-distance service in Missouri and Kansae in the near future.
The company, ownedc by SBC Communications, has been fightint for the right tosell in-region long-distance sincer 1996, when Congress passed a telecommunicationx reform act designed to open the industry to more But for a Baby Bell, such as Southwestern Bell, to providee long-distance service inside its local territory, it must prov e to state and federal regulators that its markef is welcoming to competitors. The Management Networ Group Inc. (Nasdaq: TMNG) will be includexd in the Russell 2000 Indexof small-capitalizatiobn stocks. The Overland Park telecommunicationsconsulting firm, whicn went public last year, was admitted through the Frank Russello Co.
's annual reconstitution process, officials Membership in the company's indexes is determined by market capitalization rankings and stylre attributes. The reconstitution captures the 3,000 largest U.S. stocke at the end of May and rankx them by totalmarket capitalization. The largesy 1,000 companies comprise the Russellk1000 index, and the bottom 2,0009 make up the Russell 2000 Trading in the reconstitutecd indexes began July 3. Health care doctors, foundations settle Medicare claims case The Universituy of KansasMedical Center, Kansas Universityt Physicians Inc. and 16 University of Kansaas foundations have agreed topay $1.5 million to settle a Medicarwe false claims case.