Best High Tech Companies For 2014

AmeriGas Propane, the general partner of AmeriGas Partners (NYSE: APU  ) and subsidiary of propane distributor UGI (NYSE: UGI  ) , announced Monday that it has promoted its treasurer, Hugh J. Gallagher, to the position of company vice president for finance, and chief financial officer.

Current company CFO John Iannarelli is leaving the company, and so Gallagher will replace him effective May 20. Gallagher will simultaneously continue serving as company treasurer until a replacement can be named for that position.

Gallagher has a long history within the AmeriGas family of companies, first joining UGI in 1990 and serving in various executive positions both there and at AmeriGas. AmeriGas CEO Jerry Sheridan highlighted this breadth of experience as key to Gallagher's promotion, noting that his "demonstrated track record and hands-on business experience at both UGI and AmeriGas made him the perfect candidate."

Best High Tech Companies For 2014: Lifetime Brands Inc.(LCUT)

Lifetime Brands Inc. designs, sources, and sells branded kitchenware, tabletop, and other products primarily in the United States. It offers kitchenware products, including kitchen tools and gadgets, cutlery, cutting boards, bakeware, and cookware; and tabletop products, such as dinnerware, flatware, and glassware. The company also provides home solutions that comprise products, such as food storage, pantry ware, spices, and home d�or products. In addition, it manufactures sterling silver products. The company owns or licenses various brands, including Farberware, Mikasa, KitchenAid, Pfaltzgraff, Cuisinart, Elements, Melannco, Wallace Silversmiths, Kamenstein, Pedrini, Towle, V&A, and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Lifetime Brands Inc. serves mass merchants, specialty stores, national chains, department stores, warehouse clubs, supermarkets, off-price retailers, and Internet retailers, as well as direct consumers through its Pfaltzgraff, Mikasa, Housewares Deals, and Lifetim e Sterling Internet Websites. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Garden City, New York.

Best High Tech Companies For 2014: Scantech Ltd(SCD.AX)

Scantech Limited, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets scientific and industrial instruments for resource sector, including cement, coal, and minerals industries in Australia and internationally. It also offers consulting services to the coal industry and in-field support of scientific and industrial instruments. The company?s products include GEOSCAN?M, a real time elemental analyzer, for a range of industries, including iron, copper, phosphate, nickel, manganese, bauxite, and zinc. It also provides IRONSCAN and Model 1500 Natural Gamma Minerals Monitor, which is used for dilution monitoring, mine optimization, plant process control, uranium ore grade monitoring and control, and mineral sand grade monitoring; COALSCAN, a real time coal quality analyzer used for automated blending, sorting, washery optimization, loadout quality control, and moisture for coal production market, as well as for stockpile management, contract surveillance, automated blending, b unker-feed monitoring, and moisture applications for power generation sector. In addition, the company offers GEOSCAN-C for mine feedback and control, limestone sorting, stockpile building, and raw mix proportioning in cement manufacturing; CIFA for carbon in fly ash monitoring; and CM100 Moisture Monitor for use in moisture monitoring of coke and sinter feed for blast furnaces in steel production. Further, it provides TBM 200 Series Microwave Moisture Monitor for use in moisture monitoring, dust management, filter and dryer control, tonnage correction, and metal accounting. Additionally, the company offers a range of technical services, including installation support, commissioning, calibration, and maintenance of real time analyzers, as well as provides spare parts. Scantech Limited was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Camden Park, Australia.

Hot Financial Companies To Invest In Right Now: ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (SDS)

ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (the Fund), formerly UltraShort S&P500 ProShares, seeks daily investment results that correspond to twice the inverse daily performance of the S&P 500 Index. The S&P 500 Index is a measure of large-cap United States stock market performance. The S&P 500 Index is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 United States operating companies and real estate investment trusts (REITs) selected by an S&P committee through a non-mechanical process that factors criteria, such as liquidity, price, market capitalization, financial viability and public float.

The S&P 500 Index is a price return index. Reconstitution of the Index occurs both on a quarterly and on an ongoing basis. The Fund takes positions in securities and/or financial instruments that, in combination, should have similar daily return characteristics as 200% of the daily return of the index. The Fund�� investment advisor is ProShare Advisors LLC.

Best High Tech Companies For 2014: Syms Corp(SYMS)

Syms Corp operates a chain of ?off-price? apparel retail stores under the Syms and Filene?s Basement names in the United States. Its stores offer a range of in-season merchandise for men, women, and children. The company?s in-season merchandise includes men?s tailored clothing and haberdashery; women?s dresses, suits, and separates; children?s apparel; and men?s, women?s, and children?s shoes. Its Filene?s stores also offer a selection of jewelry and home goods. As of August 28, 2010, the company operated a chain of 48 off-price apparel stores located predominantly on the east coast. Syms Corp was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Best High Tech Companies For 2014: Lantronix Inc.(LTRX)

Lantronix, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and sells networking and Internet connectivity products that are used to access, manage, control, and configure electronic products over the Internet, enterprise, and other networks worldwide. It provides device enablement solutions for products that are to be connected, securely accessed, managed, and controlled over networks to manufacturers, integrators, and end-users; and device management solutions, including single and multi-port products that offer information technology professionals with the tools need to remotely connect to the out-of-band management ports on computers and associated equipment. The company?s device management solutions also comprise console servers, remote keyboards, video, mouse servers, and managed power distribution products, which are used to monitor and run systems to ensure the performance and availability of critical business information systems, network infrastructure, and telecommunications eq uipment, as well as manages routers, switches, servers, phone switches, and public branch exchanges that are located in remote or inaccessible locations. It also provides legacy products, such as print servers, software, and other miscellaneous products. The company serves healthcare, security, industrial and building automation, energy, information technology and data centers, transportation, and government markets. It sells its products through distributors, manufacturer?s representatives, value added resellers, and other resellers. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.