ACG Nebraska will be headquartered in Omaha, NE. The chapter will hold state-wide meetings and events with the goal of facilitating networking, deal flow and the sharing of best practices among local corporate growth and merger professionals.

ACG Nebraska’s inaugural breakfast meeting will be held April 8, 2010, at the Happy Hollow Country Club. Jeff Schmid, chairman and CEO of Mutual of Omaha Bank will be the featured speaker.
“We are thrilled to launch an ACG chapter in Nebraska,” said Brian Gilbreath, regional director, Merrill DataSite, Merrill Corporation and founding president of ACG Nebraska, “This chapter allows dealmakers located in Nebraska to create business connections across the country and the world, which are critical for the economic well-being of our state.”
“The formation of ACG Nebraska continues ACG’s goal of connecting vibrant markets, like Nebraska with a global community of dealmakers” said ACG president and CEO Gary A. LaBranche, CAE. “ACG Nebraska members will now receive the business networking research and resources shared by more than 12,000 of their colleagues around the world. ACG chapters are known for creating local connections with global reach and we are proud to welcome ACG Nebraska to the fold.”

For more information on ACG Nebraska and the kick-off event April 8, please visit www.acg.org.

About ACG
The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) is the global community for middle market M&A dealmakers and business leaders focused on driving growth. ACG members have access to data, content and networking to access capital, make deals and drive corporate growth. Founded in 1954, ACG has grown to more than 12,000 members organized in 54 chapters throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.acg.org.

About Merrill DataSite
Merrill DataSite™ is a comprehensive virtual data room (VDR) solution that accelerates the due diligence process by providing a secure online document repository for confidential time-sensitive documents. Merrill DataSite enables companies to present critical business information to multiple prospective buyers in a secure Web-based environment that can be rapidly deployed and is accessible by viewers throughout the world via the Internet. As a leading provider of VDR solutions worldwide, Merrill DataSite has empowered 1.6 million unique visitors to perform electronic due diligence on thousands of transactions totaling trillions of dollars in asset value. Merrill DataSite is the first VDR provider to understand the customers' and industry's need to provide the highest level of security by obtaining an ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certificate of registration and sets the standard as the world's only VDR certified for their operations in the United States and Europe.

About Merrill Corporation
Founded in 1968 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Merrill Corporation (www.merrillcorp.com) is a leading provider of outsourced solutions for complex business communication and information management. Merrill's services include document and data management, litigation support, language translation services, branded communications programs, fulfillment, imaging and printing. Merrill's target markets include the legal, financial services, insurance and real estate industries. With more than 5,200 people in over 70 domestic and 15 international locations, Merrill empowers the communications of the world's leading companies.

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As we all know, yesterday's six land auction should be the last Monday (March 8) auction, there are industry analysis, said the reason why Beijing will be the scene of some hot auction block of time until after the two sessions, mainly during the two sessions in order to avoid the emergence of new "to King." After the two sessions, the Beijing sky-high price of land market transactions turned out to usher in a new "to King."

Yesterday, six of the total land transactions, turnover reached 14.35 billion yuan, with a total turnover of 97.8 million square meters area, with an average floor price of more than 16,000 yuan / square meter. From the total turnover of view, turnover of the day yesterday, the full month than in February (9.205 billion yuan) exceeded 55.89%, compared with the full month in January (13.246 billion yuan) exceeded 8.33%.

Including March 8 transfer of two high-priced commercial land, as of yesterday, the city's land transfer fees this year, nearly 40 billion yuan. In the "prime sites" frequency out of 2009, the year the city's land transfer was 92.8 billion yuan. In less than a quarter of the time, this year's land transfer has exceeded last year's 40%.