bits Afton Village. a new " Traditional Neighborhood Development" on the outskirts of Concord, announces the upcoming opening of its first "Main Street" shop, Kudos Cafe, slated to open this June. Kudos Cafe w ill be the first of approximately 30 shops that will join the Village 's diversified commercial district for both resident and neighboring area along Poplar Tent Road off 1-85. The cafe is being opened by Katrina Latimer, a local caterer with over 16 years experience in the catering and food service industry . .. In an effort to become a national as well as a local real estate resource for area consumers, Dickens-Mitchener & Associates has launched a "National Property Search" addition to its web site, www.dickensmitchener.com. The site currently features I 00,000 homes from across the country, with additional properties being added on an ongoing basis. Unlike other national homes web sites, this site offers a property inventory which is updated daily and is housed on the local Web site, rather than via a link to a national site.The service is available as a result of Dickens-Mitchener's affiliation with RELO network, the country's highest-producing national real estate organization ••• Barnhardt, Walker & Day, a full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agency in Charlotte, was recently given an Award of Distinction in The Communicator Awards 2002 Print Media competition. The Communicator Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communications field . Barnhardt, Walker & Day won in the category of Marketing/Promotion/SelfPromotion for their " Selection" self-promotional campaign ••• Baker & Taylor, the leading supplier of books, videos, music and services to public, school and academic libraries, has entered into an eBook distribution agreement with the
Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company is a unit ofVivendi Universal Publishing, the thirdleading worldwide publisher. The eBooks from Houghton Mifflin Company will be made available through EDm, Baker & Taylor's eContent delivery and management solution. ED provides public and academic libraries with a turnkey solution for delivering eBooks and related services to their patrons, and will be available later this year.
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