RAILEAN® American Handcrafted Rum and Agave Sprits Undergoes a New Brand

 

Railean Rum - The only Made in USA Certified Rum Distiller in the United States

Railean Rum - The only Made in USA Certified Rum Distiller in the United States

RAILEAN®, The Only USA Certified Handcrafted Rum and Agave Distiller, Unveils a Bold New Image, a Redesigned Website, and Innovative Spirits in 2012. 

San Leon, Texas (PRWEB) February 07, 2012

Motivated by its widespread success in Texas, where the margarita is practically the state drink, the American rum and agave distiller RAILEAN has rejuvenated its website and enhanced its product line for 2012. The enhancements are part of an overall branding effort led by Houston-based Woodlands Ad Agency, which designs custom websites, builds brands, and leads many online marketing campaigns.

The new website design features detailed information about the RAILEAN product line, which currently includes four rum labels and two agave labels. Visitors can access informative articles about the American rum industry and delectable food and drink recipes, from the fresh and fruity to those best suited for celebrating an incoming hurricane. While RAILEAN cannot sell its alcohol products online due to liquor laws, a variety of RAILEAN pirate merchandise, including t-shirts, shot glasses, and branded materials are available for purchase.

In contrast to the mass-produced, imported products from the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, U.S.Virgin Islands, and Mexico that currently dominate the market, each RAILEAN bottle is made in America using domestically produced sugarcane molasses from the Gulf Coast. Leading the first woman-owned, USA-certified rum and agave distillery, Kelly Railean is revolutionizing the American market. Since 2005, she has introduced the refreshingly tropical Texas White, the rich Reserve XO and the perfectly balanced Spiced Rum, all of which are bottled by hand. Railean also offers the earthy Small Cask Reserve, a handcrafted rum that rates in the upper 90s.

In 2010, the rapidly growing business expanded to include the high quality El Perico Silver. This smooth liquor, which is made from 100% blue agave nectar cultivated in Jalisco, rivals the best top-shelf tequila brands produced in Mexico. A smooth Reposado American agave spirit is scheduled for release in Spring 2012.

“We are thrilled with the new direction RAILEAN is heading in,” says Kelly Railean, proprietor and master distiller. “In 2011, RAILEAN became the only distiller of rum and agave to achieve the stringent Made in the USA® Certified designation by the Federal Trade Commission. Our new website and product offerings are the jumpstart we need to establish Railean American rum and American agave spirits as this nation’s preeminent all American brand.”

About Railean Distillers® http://www.railean.com 

Exclusively fermented, distilled and bottled by RAILEAN Distillers, LLC, at the Eagle Point Distillery in San Leon, Texas, RAILEAN handcrafts the only Made in the USA Certified® rum and agave spirits. This artisan distiller produces everything from scratch using domestic raw materials. Educational and tasting tours are available to the public.


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Paramount Sleep licenses bedding brands to Cannon Sleep Products

Paramount Sleep

Paramount Sleep

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 
By: Furniture World Magazine 
Paramount Sleep announced that Fresno, Calif., bedding manufacturer Cannon Sleep Products has licensed its bedding brands.

Cannon is licensed to manufacture and distribute the products in California, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. Cannon also has signed a license with Paramount to manufacture and sell A.H. Beard, an Australian luxury line that Paramount holds exclusive rights to in the United States.

“In Cannon, we partnered with a family and a company with many shared values—integrity, hard work and a shared growth vision for the future,” said Jamie Diamonstein, president of Paramount Sleep.

Like Paramount, Cannon Sleep Products is a third-generation, family-owned mattress producer. Founded in 1959, the company manufactures high-quality mattresses, box springs, futon mattresses, and futon covers.

“For more than 50 years my family has proudly manufactured the highest quality bedding,” said Cannon Vice President Rion Morgenstern. “The more we work with the Diamonstein family and see the perseverance and innovation that has become the hallmark of Paramount Sleep, the more excited we become about our new alliance.”

Cannon will produce Paramount mattress lines including Nature’s Spa, Heavy Duty (HD), Back Performance, Sleep For Success, and Boutique Hotel, as well as A.H. Beard. Last April, Paramount entered into a strategic alliance with Omaha Bedding to manufacture, service and support the full line of Paramount’s mattresses.

About Paramount Sleep: Paramount Sleep is truly a company of bedding people, dedicated to carrying on its legacy of integrity, innovation and American made craftsmanship for more than 80 years. It is the only national mattress company to be Made in USA Certified®. The company’s mattress lines include: A.H. Beard, Back Performance, Boutique Hotel, GoodNiteKids, Heavy Duty, Nature’s Spa, Quilt O PEDIC, and Sleep for Success.

About Cannon Sleep Products: Cannon Sleep Products is the number one independent mattress manufacturer in northern California. Founded in 1959, it is a third-generation, family-owned company with a vision to be the leading bedding producer on the west coast. Cannon operates out of a 150,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility currently shipping nearly 200,000 units each year across the west coast.

Furniture World Magazine


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‘Made in China’ Is Starting to Get Too Expensive


By Brian Stoffel for the The Motley Fool  

American workers are far, far more productive than their Chinese counterparts.

Seem like an overly bold statement to make? Consider a recent study published by the Boston Consulting Group entitled Made in America, Again. The study makes just that assertion. And what happens when you combine lower productivity with the rising wages that Chinese laborers now demand? We might be looking at the perfect recipe for the rebirth of American manufacturing. Read More »

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White House Video of Startup America Google Hangout Julie Reiser

White House VIDEO of  Julie Reiser, President & Co-Founder of Made in USA Certified was invited to participate in the GOOGLE+ White House Hangout with Startup America with Gene Sperling (Director of the National Economic Council at the White House) and Aneech Chopra (Chief Technology Officer for the White House), Steve Case from Startup America Partnership! Cool stuff!

Video of  Startup America, White House and Julie Reiser Made in USA Certified

February 2, 2012 – 7:46 pm Categories: Julie's Blog, Startup America | Post a comment

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Top Chinese communist ran spy ring in US

One of China’s top communist party officials ordered the theft of Dupont’s most valuable trade secrets. The highest levels of the China Communist Party ran a notorious industrial espionage operation inside the US that used US citizens for its dirty work, newly released court documents reveal.

Walter Liew, a U.S. citizen, and his wife, Christina Liew, were indicted last year on three counts each, including witness tampering, making a false statement and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and evidence.

Now newly released court documents from prosecutors provide fresh details about Walter Liew’s alleged links with the Chinese government. They name, as one of the Chinese representatives who met with him, a high-ranking Communist Party official who later became a member of the Politburo. …

Liew was hosted at a banquet in 1991 by Luo Gan, who at the time was a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, according to correspondence from Liew that U.S. federal officials say they seized from his safety deposit box. Luo Gan went on to become a member of the nine-member Standing Committee of the Politburo, prosecutors wrote in the filing.

Several other Chinese officials also attended, according to the documents.

“The purpose of the banquet is to thank me for being a patriotic overseas Chinese who has made contributions to China,” Liew wrote in a memo to a Chinese company, according to U.S. prosecutors, “and who has provided key technologies with national defense applications, in paint/coating and microwave communications.”

The red spies were after Dupont’s most valuable trade secret: the formula for titanium dioxide pigment used in making white paint.

Liew paid at least two former DuPont engineers for assistance in designing chloride-route titanium dioxide, also known as TiO2, according to the indictment. DuPont is the world’s largest producer of the white pigment used to make a range of white-tinted products, including paper, paint and plastics.

The United States has identified industrial spying as a significant and growing threat to the nation’s prosperity. In a government report released last November, authorities cited China as “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage.”

Technology analyst Mark Anderson, who has spoken on Chinese trade policy and spying for years, said he had never seen a member of the Politburo named in an espionage case before. He said the DuPont case was all the more remarkable because the main thrust of the case was economic, not military.

“This is their most valuable trade secret in the world of paint,” he said, noting that the DuPont division in question reported $6 billion in revenue in 2010.

Liew is being held without bail.

February 2, 2012 – 8:13 am Categories: Automotive, Business, Chemicals, China, Espionage, Supply Chain | Post a comment

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China Raw Material Exports Broke Trade Rules WTO Says

Ruling affects bauxite, coking coal, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal, silicon carbide, yellow phosphorus and zinc.

The World Trade Organization on Jan 30. upheld its ruling that Chinese restrictions on key raw material exports broke trade rules following an appeal by Beijing. China must bring its duty and export quota measures on elements including magnesium and zinc into line with its WTO obligations, an appeal body said.

The WTO found in favor of the United States, European Union and Mexico in July following a complaint that China had failed to meet the promises it made when joining the body.

The ruling applies to bauxite, coking coal, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal, silicon carbide, yellow phosphorus and zinc — many of them vital to the chemical and metal industries for producing things like medicines, fridges and juice cans.

Both the United States and the European Union claimed victory after the publication of the appeal body’s report.

“Today’s report is a tremendous victory for the United States — particularly its manufacturers and workers,” U.S. trade ambassador Ron Kirk said. “Today’s decision ensures that core manufacturing industries in this country can get the materials they need to produce and compete on a level playing field.”

EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht said the ruling represented a success in efforts to ensure fair access to “much needed” raw materials for EU industry.

“China now must comply by removing these export restrictions swiftly and furthermore, I expect China to bring its overall export regime — including for rare earths — in line with WTO rules,” the commissioner said.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2012 

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WTD Trade Alert – WTO Appellate Body Favors US on Chinese Raw Materials Exports


The World Trade Organization Appellate Body today affirmed a dispute settlement panel decision from July 2011 finding in favor of the United States and rejecting China’s attempts to portray its export restraints on various raw materials as conservation or environmental protection measures or measures taken to manage critical shortages of supply.

The export restraints challenged include export quotas and export duties, as well as related minimum export price, export licensing and export quota administration requirements. The raw materials at issue include various forms of bauxite, coke, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon carbide, silicon metal, yellow phosphorus, and zinc.

Export restraints can artificially increase world prices for these raw materials while artificially lowering prices for Chinese producers, the United States argued.

 

February 1, 2012 – 8:49 am Categories: China, Currency Manipulation, Supply Chain, Tariff, WTO | Post a comment

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Solar Trade War Looms As U.S. Considers Tariffs On China

Carl Franzen  |  January 30, 2012  |  Talking Points Memo


The U.S. government hasn’t decided yet whether or not to slap tariffs on Chinese solar panels imported into the U.S., but that outcome is looking more and more likely: On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it had found “reasonable basis to believe or suspect” that Chinese subsidies of solar panels imported to the U.S. were in violation of international trade agreements.

Further, in an historic decision, the Commerce Department said that when it makes its final decision on March 2nd whether or not to enact tariffs on Chinese solar panel manufacturers, the tariffs will be retroactive for 90 days — requiring Chinese companies to pay drastically higher fees on all of the panels that they’ve imported to the U.S. since December 3, 2011. It’s the first time that the agency has rendered such a decision in advance of making a determination on the actual tariffs.

And in a bitterly ironic twist, a big part of the reason the Commerce Department announced its decision today is precisely because it observed the Chinese manufacturers drastically increasing the volume of imports to the U.S. over the past few months — up nearly 15 percent in the case of at least two companies — following the original complaint from U.S. solar panel companies in October of dumping by Chinese manufacturers.

“Normally in a trade case, when a petition is filed, we see importers back off the market,” said Timothy Brightbill, a lawyer at Washington, D.C. law firm Wiley Rein, who represents the American solar companies that filed the original complaint against the Chinese manufacturers.

“But in this case, by rushing [solar panels] in in an effort to beat the import duties, it only makes things more clear that they were in violation,” Brightbrill added.

Brightbill is counsel for the Coalition For American Solar Manufacturers (CASM), an industry trade group representing seven solar companies, led by German solar giant SolarWorld, which has a North American plant in Hillsboro, Oregon.

The group filed complaints with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission (ITC) in October alleging that they had uncovered evidence that Chinese solar panel companies were “dumping” their wares into the U.S. market, that is, exporting numerous solar panels to the U.S. below the U.S. market price, in an effort to force U.S. solar panel manufacturers out of business. The groups said that the dumping margins were “well in excess of 100 percent,” and called for corresponding tariffs of 100 percent.

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January 30, 2012 – 8:51 am Categories: Aerospace, Business, China, Construction, Currency Manipulation, Industry, Political, Supply Chain, Tariff | Post a comment

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Made in USA: 30 Day Journey

"We're willing to DIE for our country, but are we willing to BUY for it?"

"We're willing to DIE for our country, but are we willing to BUY for it?"

Josh Miller of ‘Made in USA: 30 Day Journey‘ is asking us one simple question.

“We’re willing to DIE for our country, but are we willing to BUY for it?”

Josh and his film crew will set out on a journey in which he will live off USA made products for 30 days. During his travels, he will speak and interview business-owners, homeowners, politicians, economists and American consumers to find out, among other things, what ‘Made in America’ means to them.  We will help Josh and his crew verify the made in USA claim with the help and support of Made in USA Certified.

Their goal is to raise $5,000 for the film during this campaign.  A $10 donation will get your name in the rolling credits of the film under “Minutemen”.  How cool will that be!

We believe Josh and his crew are a part of the Made In America Movement.  This film will help gain more exposure for this Movement.  This is why we are asking for your support.

Diane Sawyer & David Muir of World News with Diane Sawyer made everyone across the nation aware of this Movement last year with their ‘Made in America’ segments on ABC News, asking you all if you are “IN”.  Now we are asking you, are you in?

Let’s help Josh Miller on his journey.  Go to the link below. Donate your $10 (or more!) and let them know you are a proud supporter of the Made in America Movement.  Your support and donations really do matter!

Made in USA: 30 day Journey donation page I’M IN!

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Paramount Sleep hosts Secretary of Commerce John Bryson

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Paramount Sleep hosts Secretary of Commerce John Bryson Paramount is the first national mattress company to be Made in USA Certified®  NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 26, 2012—Yesterday, following the president’s State of the Union address, Paramount Sleep hosted Secretary of Commerce John Bryson for a talk about manufacturing and how the Commerce Department can help businesses build products here in the U.S. Paramount Sleep products reinforce the president’s call for a U.S. economy “built to last” on …

January 26, 2012 – 7:37 pm Categories: Uncategorized | Post a comment

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