Amstel® Light Turns Wall Street Into a "Bier" Market

Amstel Light treated Wall Street to a "bier" on Thursday, May 26th with The Reformed Broker blogger, Joshua Brown, ringing the "opening bell" to kick off the festivities. (PRNewsFoto/Amstel Light, Talisman Brolin)

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Before heading into the Memorial Day Weekend, Amstel Light, a leading imported light beer from Amsterdam, yesterday turned Wall Street into a "bier" market as it treated Financial District consumers to a light, full-flavored, ice cold beer. With the old stock market adage "Sell in May and Go Away" still alive and well on Wall Street, traders and visitors to New York City's Stone Street helped Amstel Light kick off the unofficial start of summer.

Participating accounts included popular Stone Street staples, Ulysses', Stone Street Tavern, Beckett's Bar and Grill, and The Dubliner, where patrons hung up their trading vest, loosened their ties and got to enjoy a refreshing post-work light beer with full beer taste and some good pre-Memorial Day fun. Not only did adult attendees get to enjoy Amstel Light with friends at the event but they were also encouraged to share the occasion with their Facebook friends by taking and posting photos in front of the Amstel Light beer bike.

Reputational Risk Is Top Concern of Boards as Measured by New EisnerAmper Survey

Potential Cost of Damage to Companies with Compromised Reputations Due to Product or Service Quality, Management Decisions or Information Breaches Keep Board Members Up At Night

Report: Concerns About Risks Confronting Boards Shows Regulatory Risk, CEO Succession and IT Risk also of Significant Concern

NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EisnerAmper today issued its second annual Board of Directors Survey, Concerns About Risks Confronting Boards, designed to gain insight into the risks that are top of mind in today's boardrooms. More than 140 board members, sourced from both NACD Directorship and EisnerAmper databases, were surveyed with respondents drawn from public and private companies. Thirty-one percent identified themselves as serving on audit committees.

Other than financial risk, respondents were asked to identify risks of most concern, and 69 percent identified reputational risk as their primary concern. Regulatory & compliance risk, which topped last year's survey, was a close second at 61 percent; followed by CEO Succession Planning at 55 percent and IT Risk at 51 percent.

Out-of-Work Executives: Are the Economy and Ageism Really to Blame?

SEATTLE, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The economy can be largely blamed for the 2.5 million executives pushed out of the workforce, but why are still so many looking for work? It's not just the recession, and it's not really about the age of the executive.

Times have changed. Executives can no longer expect to be tapped by a high-end search firm for their next job. It is their responsibility now and for their remaining career to craft and manage their online presence - correctly positioning themselves to be found, validated, and interviewed by employers.
 
"The technology and strategy of executive search has changed so much in the last 3 years," says author Colleen Aylward, president of executive search firm Devon James Associates, "that these execs couldn't possibly have kept up if they were seriously heads-down working at their jobs."
In her book "From Bedlam to Boardroom," Aylward opens her 20-year recruiting vault and details critical strategies and tactics for being found for senior jobs. Having interviewed over 12,000 job candidates, she doesn't sugar-coat.