Archive for the 'World Equestrian Games' Category
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Alltech is having so much fun as the first-ever title sponsor of the World Equestrian Games that the Nicholasville biotech company is doing it again — in Europe.
The international group that oversees equestrian sports, the Fédération Equestre Internationale, even combined a couple of championships to create the first-ever Alltech FEI European Jumping & Dressage Championships [...]
Categories: Alltech, Horses, International trade, Marketing, World Equestrian Games
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
LeRoy Neiman couldn’t attend Tuesday’s unveiling of his official painting for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so he sent his “electrons,” as one speaker put it.
He sent a short video message that began: “I’m LeRoy Neiman and I’m a New York painter.”
That’s like saying “I’m Barack Obama and I’m an Illinois politician.”
At 87, Neiman [...]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Here’s something to chew on as you eat your next turkey sandwich at Subway: The bird you are digesting might have been a runner-up to a turkey “pardoned” just before Thanksgiving by President Bush.
But there’s more.
Your Subway turkey was raised on feed products made by Nicholasville-based Alltech, chief sponsor of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian [...]
Categories: Alltech, Family businesses, Farming, Kentucky products, World Equestrian Games
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Alltech is doing a good deed in China that ought to be recognized.
The international animal feed company based in Nicholasville is sponsoring part of the reconstruction of an elementary school that was destroyed by an earthquake on May 12.
The Xiang-E Elementary collapsed, killing more than 370 teachers and students.
Alltech is joining with the Kentucky Chinese [...]
Categories: Alltech, Education, International trade, World Equestrian Games
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
When the history of the current national financial crisis is written, Kentucky may emerge as something of a pioneer in (of all things) the Wall Street bond market.
At the same time, the state may have gotten a good deal for the taxpayers.
“On Oct. 7, Kentucky sold $400 million worth of bonds to finance education and [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
It’s 2009 and you’re in a country halfway around the world.
You want an update on the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so you get your laptop, go to the Website of the 2010 Radio Show and listen to “the unofficial podcast” about the Games.
The show, which originates in Lexington, is a collection of news reports [...]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
If you can’t wait for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games to begin in two years, the organizers at the World Games 2010 Foundation have a couple of free toys for you.
You can now download a dozen different desktop wallpapers featuring Games’ events at www.feigames2010.org/wallpapers.
There’s also a free digital clock that counts down to the [...]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
You know how it goes. You’re on a business trip. Your laundry starts piling up. You stuff it in one of those hotel laundry bags and drop it in the hall outside your room. A day or two later, your clothing comes back cleaned and pressed.
The one thing you usually don’t do is to check [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
It turns out that selling whiskey is trickier than you might think.
At the opening ceremony for Alltech’s malt whiskey distillery on Thursday, Alltech President Pearse Lyons announced that barrels of his new malt whiskey, Pearse Lyons Reserve, will be sold as they are produced and the buyer can monitor the aging of their whiskey by [...]
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Pearse Lyons is an Irishman.
“The Irish are the laziest men in the world,” he told the Kentucky Chamber’s Economic Summit and Annual Meeting on Tuesday.
(You could almost hear someone say, “How lazy are they?”)
“We always marry pregnant women,” he said, without missing a beat.
There was a twitter of laughter that quickly became a roar as [...]
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