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The Lee Group’s niche: Positioning community banks to compete aggressively with regional and national banks


HOUSTON, TX (August 3, 2008) – A Houston-based firm that provides strategic marketing and advertising services to hundreds of community banks and credit unions nationwide has a new face and a new name.

Today, the company formerly known as Ann Lee & Associates has rebranded as The Lee Group. The new company website is www.theleegroup.us.com. “In the beginning, it was just me,” said Ann Lee, president and CEO. “Our new name, The Lee Group, better reflects the strong team we have become.” Lee started her business nearly 30 years ago out of her Beaumont home. The company relocated to Houston seven years ago and still maintains a Beaumont office.

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HOUSTON, TX-July 28, 2008 – Houston PR Firm Bayou City Public Relations is conducting a back-to-school PR campaign for the more than 100 private-practice optometrists who own Texas State Optical (TSO) eye care clinics.

TSO clinics are located in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas and are the single largest provider of vision insurance plans in Texas and the Southwest.

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LOS ANGELES, CA, July 24, 2008 – Animal rescue nonprofit organizations have a friend in Jeremy Shepherd. The owner of the world’s largest online pearl company admires the work of animal rescue organizations so much that he has pledged to give away more than $1 million in pearls for exclusive use in nonprofit silent and live auction fundraisers.

Shepherd says he is standing by, ready and waiting, to hear from qualified animal rescue organizations everywhere. “We call it our Giving-Back program and it is a serious philanthropic effort,” he says. “Every strand of pearls donated to animal rescue charity auctions is full of stunning freshwater or akoya pearl beauties."

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Houston, TX, July 23, 2008 – A wholesale food accounting software expert says scary recession stories are spiking new interest in financing among food distributors who operate their companies with one-size-fits all accounting software.

“Many wholesale distributors of produce, meat, seafood and grocery products have told us that they know that they are sacrificing profits by continuing to use generic, off-the-shelf accounting software packages that do not provide them with information as to which items and customers are or are not profitable, said Henri Morris, CPA, president and CEO of Edible Software, the Houston-based company that designs and sells accounting and inventory software coded expressly for the food distribution industry.

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LOS ANGELES, CA, July 9, 2008 – “Chocolate pearls have turned from trend to uber-trend,” says Jeremy Shepherd, the Los Angeles pearl expert who is introducing a newly acquired collection “that will level the playing field in pricing these exotic bronze beauties.”

“Chocolate pearls have been riding the popularity wave for the past year but that status only worked for people who could afford the big price tag.” says Shepherd, who owns PearlParadise.com, Inc., the world’s largest online pearl company. (www.pearlparadise.com) “We’ve changed that.”

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