To: Skip Jack who wrote (1105 ) 4/1/1999 7:29:00 PM From: Champolion Respond to of 13157
ACTV's management is promoting the company the right way! Please check this article! __________ Champolion Six Colorado women have made the finalist list in the Bank One / Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards. The awards represent the first national campaign to celebrate the achievements and contributions of female entrepreneurs in an era when women now own and run 40 percent of the nation's businesses. Named as finalists are Robin Downing, president of Windsor Veterinary Clinic in Windsor; Susan K. Holland, founder of EnviroTemps in Lakewood; Marie Jenkinson, president of Lionsgate Center in Lafayette; Esther Hartman, president of Kitchen Distributors Inc. in Littleton; B.J. Adams, founder of B.J. Adams & Co. in Snowmass Village . . . Vectra Bank Colorado was the state's largest U.S. Small Business Adminstration lender in 1998, as measured by dollar volume. The bank made more than $31.1 million in small business loans across the state. Bank of Commerce ranked second with $17.8 million; The Money Store ranked third with $15.4 million; Emergent Business Capital ranked fourth with $15.1 million and Norwest Bank Colorado ranked fifth with $14.7 million . . . Denver-based R.M. Leary & Co. Inc. reports record returns for the variable annuity accounts it manages. The firm said its tax-deferred variable annuity accounts returned 18.65 percent to 43.18 percent. Denver-based Invesco Funds Group is offering a series of free seminars this tax season to educate investors. The seminars will be at Invesco' s Cherry Creek Center at 155-B Fillmore Plaza. Upcoming seminars include ''Taxes & Mutual Funds'' on Feb. 13 and 27 from 10 a.m. to noon; ''IRA Options'' on Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to noon and Feb 24 from noon to 2 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; ''Women & Investing'' on Feb. 17 from noon to 2 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For reservations call (303) 930-2700. Young Americans Bank also will make a presentation at Invesco on Feb 13. from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For reservations call (303) 321- 2265. . . . FirstBank of Colorado has opened a branch inside the King Soopers at South Golden Road and Ulysses St. in Golden. FirstBank is Colorado's largest locally owned bank with 80 locations and more than $4 billion in assets . . . Icon Funds, an Arapahoe County based family of sector funds, is making its thirteen funds available to individual investors. Icon offers ''a complete menu of sector funds that spans across all 115 industries that make up the Standard & Poor' s 1,500,'' said Craig Callahan, chief investment officer. For more information call (800) 764-0442. The Denver Society of Securities Analysts will hear a presentation from officials of ACTV Inc. at its meeting Feb. 18 at noon at the Denver Athletic Club. ACTV provides television programming over the Internet. For information call Kenneth James at (303) 688-5791.