IT'S YOUR BUSINESS: Business news releases Thursday, March 11, 2010

Home-Tech, customers present donation

Southwest Florida air-conditioning and appliance service and sales leader Home-Tech and its customers donated $884 to Eden Autism Services Florida as part of the company’s Charity of the Month program.

“Eden is a tremendous resource for people in our region with autism and their families,” says Home-Tech President and Founder Steve Marino. “We’re proud to support their ongoing efforts through this donation on behalf of our customers.”

Home-Tech’s Charity of the Month program donates a portion of the price of each new air conditioning unit sold to a different charity based in the areas it operates each month. Donations are made in customers’ names to thank them for their business, instead of sending corporate gifts. Since launching the program in August 2009, Home-Tech and its customers have given approximately $6,600 to local charities located from Sarasota to Naples in addition to the company’s ongoing charitable giving and sponsorship of local charity events.

Home-Tech also supports Eden Autism Services Florida by maintaining their group home air conditioning unites and appliances free of charge.

About Home-Tech: Based in Fort Myers, employee-owned Home-Tech has been an industry leader and trendsetter in the fields of air conditioning service and installation, major appliance sales and service, home-service agreements for nearly three decades. Founded in 1981 by Steve Marino, who continues as President and Chairman of the Board, the privately held Home-Tech employs over 115 people and provides services in Lee, Charlotte, Collier, Sarasota and Manatee counties in Southwest Florida. Home-Tech operates from two principal locations. Its headquarters, tech training facility and appliance showroom are located at 6400 Techster Boulevard in Fort Myers and a second office at 720 Commerce Drive in Venice which services Manatee and Sarasota counties. For more information about Home-Tech, visit www.Home-Tech.com or call (239) 433-3344.

- Contributed by Carolyn Rogers

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Lennar’s appoints associates in Alva

Lennar’s Southwest Florida Division has appointed two new home consultants at Riverhall Country Club a master planned golf community off Palm Beach Blvd. in Alva.

Matt Devereaux, director of sales for Lennar’s Southwest Florida Division, said Jeff Dew was hired as a new home consultant at Riverhall. Dew has more than eight years of experience in real estate. He was formerly a mortgage broker for Duval Street Mortgage in Fort Myers and most recently a sales associate with Chiodo Properties in Estero for three years

Devereux said Chad Erickson, who has been with Lennar for seven years, was also named new home consultant for Riverhall. Erickson, who earned a Bachelors Degree in Education from Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Mo., formerly held various positions at Lennar Southwest including builder, purchasing, project management and most recently liaison with homeowners.

Dew and Erickson will be assisting new home buyers in the Hampton Lakes and Country Club neighborhoods of Riverhall and can be reached by calling Jeff Dew at 239-289-9893, jeff.dew@lennar.com or Chad Erickson at (239) 462-2727, chad.erickson@lennar.com.

Information: (239) 278-1177

- Contributed by Larry Vershel Communications

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SCORE workshop is next week

How to get rid of the excuses and explanations that stop you from being successful is the subject of a March 18 SCORE workshop, to be held at the One Stop Career Center in Immokalee, at 750 S. Fifth St. This Spanish-speaking program is part of SCORE Naples’ Latino initiative

The program, which is free, starts at 9 a.m. and runs until noon. The Spanish-speaking event will address the issues which block the chances of personal achievement, and how to establish and come closer to personal goals. According to SCORE Counselor Janis Vargas, it will be a hands-on program similar to those which Fortune 500 companies pay thousands of dollars to educate their employees.

The program will provide a vision of the future role for personal and professional benefit. It will identify beliefs, narratives and attitudes that keep people trapped. It will reflect on the impact of emotionality in individual jams and achievements. And it will teach how to get rid of stories or excuses that keep individuals trapped.

The instructor will be Edda M. Caputto, a professional ontological coach with extensive experience in managerial processes, related human resources, planning, recruitment and selection and development of human capital formation. She has been a visiting professor at the University Simon Bolivar, and a facilitator in extension programs at the University Metropolitano, Caracas, Venezuela. Since 1997 she has been a professional counselor.

Sign up online at www.scorenaples.org or call the SCORE office weekdays between 9 a.m. and midnight to enroll, phone (239) 430-0081.

- Contributed by SCORE Naples

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