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Groupworks Financial Corp. is a Markham, ON-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Incenta Federal Credit Union is a Dayton, OH-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Commonsense Mortgage Inc is a Eden Prairie, MN-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Genetically modified foods (GM foods, or biotech foods) are foods produced from genetically modified organisms (GMOs), specifically, genetically modified crops. GMOs have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms include selective breeding and somaclonal variation. Commercial sale of genetically modified foods began in 1994, when Calgene first marketed its Flavr Savr delayed ripening tomato. Typically, genetically modified foods are transgenic plant products: soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil. These may have been engineered for faster growth, resistance to pathogens, production of extra nutrients, or any other beneficial purpose. GM livestock have also been experimentally developed, although as of July 2010 none are currently on the market. While there is broad scientific consensus that food on the market derived from GM crops pose no greater risk to human health than conventional food, critics have objected to GM foods on several grounds, including safety issues,ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact GM plants (and potentially animals) that are food sources are subject to intellectual property law.
Westport was founded in 2005 by Russel Bernard and a core team of principals who collectively have over 100 years of Real Estate investment management, operating, consulting, and brokerage services experience. Our senior investment professionals have worked together for an average of nearly 20 years – at Westport for over a decade and previously at Oaktree, where Mr. Bernard led that firm’s global real estate investment business for 10 years. As an independent firm specializing exclusively in opportunistic real estate investing, Westport focuses on generating consistently attractive risk-adjusted returns through a wide range of value-added transactions, distressed assets, financial securities, off-market situations, operating partnerships, development opportunities both domestically and internationally, and `hands-on` solutions to complex situations on behalf of our investors. Westport operates from offices in: Wilton, Connecticut; Los Angeles, California; London, England; and Bozeman, Montana. Together with our investment teams, the firm’s Legal, Compliance, Operations, Accounting, Investor Relations, and Administrative professionals work in close partnership to ensure the institutional quality and rigorous standards of Westport`s investment products, client services, operating partners and our organization overall.