Cosmo DeNicola Companies News

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

AMTECH ANNOUNCES INEXT IS NOW ENCORE

After an industry wide contest with hundreds of submissions, Amtech is proud to announce EnCore as the winning submission for the renaming of iNEXT. The winning entry was submitted by Dura Fibre’s Continuous Improvement Manager, Nathan Bevers.

EnCore, previously known as iNEXT, is the cloud-based next generation software to Amtech’s industry leading Imaginera. iNEXT sales commenced in January of 2017, and since demand for the EnCore conversions have been strong.

“The inspiration behind the name EnCore came from Amtech’s long history of constantly going the extra mile by updating their software, creating new modules and transitioning to the latest technology,” stated Nathan. Nathan also took the time to point out Amtech’s system is the heart and core of the packaging companies that utilize it.

“I think the name EnCore says it all and will continue to challenge our company to always do more so our customers can do more for their customers,” stated Cosmo DeNicola.

With is winning entry, Nathan will receive an all-expenses paid trip to a location of his choice in the Continental United States, One free EnCore software license for his company and a $5,000 donation in Dura Fibre’s name to the ICPF.

The new name was announced at the Fall 2017 Amtech User Group meeting on October 17^th, 2017 at the Wyndham hotel in San Diego. The attendees were excited to hear the new name and Amtech’s commitment to give more to their customers and industry (International Corrugated Packaging Foundation).

Thursday, October 12, 2017

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCHES PRODUCTION OF THE NEW AMERICANS

The New Americans tells stories highlighting the positive contribution of immigrants to the United States. The series, comprised of 15 short-form videos, will be available in 2017 on APlus.com. It will also be featured as APlus Heroes within episodes of the company’s popular Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Hidden Heroes television series.

“Our proprietary online distribution channel, APlus.com, generates over 750 million content views per month,” stated William J. Rouhana, Jr, chairman and chief executive officer. “We are excited to use our extensive distribution to spread these compelling stories to such a wide audience.”

“The New Americans is a great example of our unique ability to maximize value for our sponsors by distributing our content across multiple platforms,” said Scott W. Seaton, vice chairman and chief strategy officer. “Such distribution enables us to attract sponsors for our series driving revenue and profit growth, as well as building the value of our content library.”

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

COSMO DENICOLA COMPANIES ANNOUNCES THE SALE OF PHA

Pursuit Healthcare Advisors (PHA) joined the DeNicola family of companies in April 2014. Over the last three years, PHA has rapidly grown into an exceptional brand providing IT consulting services to the healthcare industry. Due to the success and their rapid growth of PHA in their market place, the decision was made to explore growth opportunities. This process led to the sale of PHA.

We are proud to announce the PHA has been sold to Atos, a global leader in digital transformations headquarter in Bezons, France with over one hundred thousand employees in 72 countries. This sale will enable PHA to continue to grow through Atos’s ability to fund lager scale growth and provide the ability to offer data management services, large scale managed services and Cyber Security services.

Cosmo DeNicola Companies Portfolio Manager, David Gulian stated “Cosmo and I are so proud of the PHA team for building an emerging growth company in such a challenging healthcare environment with hundreds of professionals.”

The Cosmo DeNicola Companies continue to focus on healthcare and technology as a core component of its portfolio. Investments and operating companies are active in Healthcare Mobility, Healthcare Consulting, Chronic Disease Management and Population Health.

“David and I will continue to explore all opportunities to grow our Healthcare/Technology Platform” says Cosmo DeNicola, Chairman.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Atos acquires 3 key healthcare consulting companies in the US

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces that it has closed the acquisition of the following healthcare consulting companies: Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, Conduent’s Healthcare Provider Consulting and Conduent’s Breakaway Group. Following on from the acquisition of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions in 2016, these acquisitions will allow Atos to play a leading role in the fast-growing U.S. healthcare IT market, to support provider groups and payers as they look to optimize clinical and financial performance and address the increasing demands of new government regulations.

The newly acquired companies bring recognized industry expertise within healthcare consulting including technology adoption, program and project management; Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation and optimization capabilities, and population health and analytics expertise. This will further strengthen the scale and scope of Atos’ healthcare-focused services in its Business & Platform Solutions division.

Further to the acquisitions, the Atos Group will generate more than 1 billion euros revenue on annual basis in the healthcare sector.

Approximately 400 healthcare consultants will join the Group. Thanks to these new capabilities Atos will help its clients in North America to:

drive technology adoption,
optimize financial performance,
improve the quality and speed of EHR implementations,
reduce the cost of care through high-value population health management capabilities,
address the demands of new government regulations for providers and payers (e.g. ICD-11, payment bundling, MACRA).

“Atos is committed to healthcare on a global scale. The expansion of our North American healthcare practice is a priority for Atos. We want to help healthcare organizations expand and change their business models while also creating a unique position for Atos to take advantage of the projected high-growth in the healthcare IT market. We are excited to welcome Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, Conduent’s Healthcare Provider Consulting and Breakaway Group businesses to the Atos family,” said Michel-Alain Proch, Group Senior Executive Vice President and CEO North American Operations, Atos.

Darin LeGrange, Managing Director North America Healthcare, Atos said, “Through these acquisitions we now have strengthened our end-to-end capabilities, from optimizing and securing the technology foundation to leveraging financial and clinical data, in order to help our customers manage their businesses while transitioning to new healthcare models such as value-based care.”

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS SECOND QUARTER RESULTS

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. (“CSS Entertainment”) (Nasdaq:CSSE), a fast-growing provider of positive and entertaining video content, today announced that it has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2017with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The company also reiterated in this filing that it is targeting 2017 revenue of $20 million and adjusted EBITDA of $10 million and 2018 revenue of $36 million and adjusted EBITDA of $18 million.

“This filing does not give effect to the company’s August IPO and its positive impact on the company’s financial strength,” stated William J. Rouhana, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer. “Our third quarter 10-Q, due November 14, 2017, will reflect our strong balance sheet with no debt and substantial liquidity, including cash on hand, positive operating cash flow and an unused line of credit.”

Mr. Rouhana continued, “Our second quarter results are in line with our expectations. The vast majority of our revenue and adjusted EBITDA for 2017 will be recognized in our upcoming fourth quarter. This is consistent with our 2016 results where over 70 percent of our revenue and adjusted EBITDA was recognized in the fourth quarter. As indicated in our filing, we are reiterating our 2017 full year targets.”

In connection with its IPO and its listing on Nasdaq, the company was required to file its Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2017 by October 2, 2017. The Form 10-Q was filed in a timely manner and is available on the company’s Investor Relations website at http://ir.cssentertainment.com under SEC Filings.

Friday, September 29, 2017

EMERGING FILMMAKERS RECOGNIZED

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) is proud to announce that their filmmakers training program has once again been recognized for its contribution to Emerging Filmmakers. Two filmmakers from “Countries in Conflict have been accepted into the competition at the upcoming Vancouver Film Festival. HDI worked with 15 Pakistani filmmakers for 18 months under a grant awarded by the US Embassy Islamabad. HDI extends thanks and congratulations to HDI’s film consultant Bill Megalos for his untiring efforts and inspiration working very closely with our filmmakers. The festival takes place October 6-13. We will announce outcomes at the end of the festival.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL’S HIDDEN HEROES TO AIR WITH THREE ADDITIONAL SPONSORS IN UPCOMING THIRD SEASON

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. (“CSS Entertainment”) (Nasdaq: CSSE), a fast-growing provider of positive and entertaining video content, today announced that its multi-award winning series Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Hidden Heroes will air with additional sponsors.

In its upcoming third season, the series, hosted by Brooke Burke-Charvet, is adding three new sponsors to complement the primary sponsor, The Boniuk Foundation. This season’s new sponsors are BISSELL Homecare, Inc., American Humane and Michelson Found Animals Foundation.

“The addition of these three sponsors illustrates the attractiveness of our brand to prestigious and well-known corporate and nonprofit sponsors,” stated William J. Rouhana, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer. “Our unique content creation and distribution model amplifies the positive messages our sponsors seek to share in a way that is highly enjoyable to viewers. Our new sponsors join a list that includes Delta, National Geographic, Walgreens and many others.”

Each episode of Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Hidden Heroes reveals the widespread goodwill in the world by showing heroes in action as they demonstrate acts of kindness, compassion and commitment to others. Highlighted by funny, light-hearted moments, the series shines a bright light on everyday people who selflessly share their positive attitudes towards society and life with others by doing good deeds.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

FUTURA MOBILITY COLLABORATES FOR WORLD HEALTH

Futura Mobility has been selected by a leading Global Pharmaceutical Company as a strategic business partner for deploying, management and support for clinical trial initiatives. This includes strategic consulting for the environment, infrastructure, network and digital consumer experience. Futura Mobility is also providing application testing, medical device integration, activation services and eLearning in addition Futura Mobility is also providing complete remote MDM (Mobile Device Management) support of the application and devices on multiyear contracts.

Initial roll out was to over 600 user/subjects being supported by the Futura Mobility multi-lingual call center across the globe.

Monday, September 11, 2017

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL PET FOOD DONATING TO HURRICANE HARVEY VICTIMS

In response to the devastation that Hurricane Harvey caused in Texas and Louisiana, Chicken Soup for the Soul Pet Food is working with their partners at American Humane to support pet owners and the many frightened, hungry animals who have been separated from their families. Chicken Soup for the Soul Pet Food and American Humane donated and delivered more than 100,000 pounds of dog and cat food to help affected communities and their animals.

American Humane is responding to an official request from the City of Orange Grove, near Corpus Christi, close to where one of the biggest storms in recent history made landfall. The team is racing to the scene to help there, and has strategically moved vital equipment into position in Louisiana, as well, which can provide rescue and shelter services in the event the storm turns eastward and hits that state.

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Amtech Announces Fall User Group Meeting

Amtech Software announced their Fall 2017 User Group Meeting. The meeting, which will take place October 16-18, will be held at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside, in San Diego, California. This year’s meeting will include a Continued Education Course focusing on Costing and presented by John Clark.

The Amtech User Group is an independent organization that provides User oriented development suggestions to enhance the Amtech Software suite. Customers meet twice annually and vote on software enhancements, while learning more about best practices and Amtech’s latest releases.

“We never forget that the most important role in software is the user, we value their input in making all of our systems better,” stated Amtech President Cosmo DeNicola.

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