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  Options 5 Recall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cosco and CPSC have received 168 reports of incidents involving the high chairs' seats or restraints, including 57 injury reports, primarily to the head and face.
Cosco is offering consumers two types of repair kits, depending on the date their high chair was manufactured.
When contacting Cosco, consumers should have the chair in front of them to provide the model number and four-digit manufacture date, which are located on the bottom of the seat.
www.coscoinc.com /services/productrecall/temp1.html   (490 words)

  
 Metal Cribs Recall/Repair by Cosco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cosco has received more than 47 reports of cribs being mis-assembled with the mattress platform being used as a side rail, including 27 reports of babies becoming entrapped, resulting in one death.
The Cosco cribs are on wheels and are made of tubular metal in a variety of colors.
Cosco is offering all owners of mis-assembled cribs a free gift to encourage them to repair their cribs.
www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/prerel/prhtml97/97154.html   (376 words)

  
 Cosco, Safety 1st Fined $1.75 Million for Failing to Report Product Defects
Cosco is the largest manufacturer of strollers and car seats in the United States.
Cosco knew of 24 non-fatal incidents of children becoming entrapped in its full-sized metal cribs over a 2-year period before an 8-month-old child in White Lake, Mich., died of asphyxiation in one of the cribs on June 24, 1997.
Cosco knew about incidents occurring with the crib at the same time it was in talks with the CPSC to settle allegations from an earlier civil penalty case.
www.consumeraffairs.com /news/cosco.html   (988 words)

  
 European Coal and Steel Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The RFCS funds and allocations are administered by Unit 5 of Direction G (Technologies Industrielles) of DG Research, a Directorate-General within the European Commission.
The deployment of the RFCS is overseen by the Coal and Steel Committee (COSCO), the members of which are national representatives.
By Council decision, the recurrent funds are partitioned at 27.2% to coal research and 72.8% to steel research.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community   (665 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cosco's history reads like recipe for recalls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
How Cosco got to this point, observers say, is a story of well-intentioned but hard-to-use products; a public relations policy that blames deaths and injuries on consumer error; and a corporate strategy of trying to fix problems quietly without attracting attention.
When Cosco paid $725,000 in 1996 to settle federal charges that it failed to report injuries and entrapments with its toddler beds and guardrails, it blamed consumer misuse, just as it is doing with the highchair and other products, settlement documents show.
Cosco settled a lawsuit by the Shirley family that charged the company with failing to test or alert customers to the risk of crib misassembly.
www.usatoday.com /money/consumer/2001-04-04-cosco-cover.htm   (2324 words)

  
 COSCO Container Lines Americas, Inc.
As a premier carrier of refrigerated commodities for both import and export, COSCO has been very successful in providing the most specialized handling and reporting to meet the most stringent demands of the top importers and exportes in the world.
Whether you are moving chilled, frozen or hard freeze, COSCO will service you with our international reefer committee which includes both commercial and operational decision makers on a specialized team.
The COSCO Reefer Committee is dedicated to creating 21st century solutions for your high volume, low volume, time sensitive or hard to service locations anywhere in the world.
www.cosco-usa.com   (140 words)

  
 Cosco Fencing and Guardrail - Installer and Contractor
Cosco Fencing and Guardrail - Installer and Contractor
At COSCO, we pride ourselves on installing fences and guardrail that are strong, secure, and possess the structural integrity to provide year after year of maintenance-free protection and containment performance.
COSCO builds durable fencing designed expressly to complement your unique landscape and environment.
www.coscofence.com   (182 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Child deaths linked to Cosco booster seat with shield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Child-seat maker Cosco sells at the rate of about 1 million a year a type of booster seat that has been linked to deaths and serious injuries in car crashes and crash tests.
Cosco has been sued at least seven times because of injuries or deaths with its shield boosters, court documents show.
"According to Cosco, in every one of the cases, the children were the right size and weight for the seat," says Robert Rohrbaugh, who represented the family of a 3-year-old girl killed in a Cosco Explorer shield booster in 1996.
www.usatoday.com /money/autos/2001-02-01-cosco-seats.htm   (476 words)

  
 Cosco Printer Self Inking Rubber Stamps @ Affordableaddresslabels.com
Cosco 20 ($11.95): Self-Inking 9/16" X 1 1/2" rubber stamp with up to 4 Lines of text with a maximum of 21 Characters and/or Spaces per line.
Cosco 40 ($18.95): A Self-Inking 15/16" X 2 3/8" rubber stamp with up to 6 Lines of text with a maximum of 25 Characters and/or Spaces per line.
Cosco 50 ($19.95): A Self-Inking 1 1/4" X 2 3/4" rubber stamp with up to 7 Lines of text with a maximum of 28 Characters and/or Spaces per line.
www.affordableaddresslabels.com /cosco_printer_rubber_stamps.html   (152 words)

  
 Cosco Canada Inc.
COSCO Canada Inc. is a subsidiary of the
COSCO Group owns and operates 550 modern merchant ships with a total carrying capacity of up to 30 million DWT.
Ships and containers with the conspicuous "COSCO" logo are shuttling among 1,300 ports in more than 160 countries and regions.
www.cosco.ca   (139 words)

  
 COSCO Fire Protection : Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cosco Fire Protection, an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Fire Protection, is the West Coast's largest fire protection and life safety specialist.
Established in 1959, Cosco Fire Protection is a full service company that designs, installs, repairs, services and inspects a wide variety of fire suppression and life safety systems.
Cosco Fire Protection services corporate, government and military facilities in the Western United States from our strategically located offices in the region's major metro areas, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Fresno, Portland, and Seattle.
www.coscofire.com   (193 words)

  
 COSCO: Personnel
Cameron Smith, COSCO’s Founder and Senior Managing Director, although born in Calgary, is a member of the Wm.
Warren Shimmerlik, COSCO’s newest Principal, is based in New York and focuses on the public and quasi-public buy-side, as well as PESI’s financing mandates for energy funds.
Lane McKay, COSCO’s most recent Managing Director, located in Calgary, is charged as CEO of COSCO Canada with Canadian client development and management, as well as liaison with Canadian Private Capital sources, whether for Canadian or U.S. clients.
www.coscocap.com /personnel/index.html   (792 words)

  
 COSCO: Overview
COSCO’s Eastern base and heritage, coupled with the technical and operational experience of its personnel, makes it unusually well qualified to act as emissary and intermediary between the financial and operational segments of the energy business.
Since its founding in January 1992, COSCO has worked with over fifty capital sources, constituting the vast majority of the professionally managed, U.S. and Canadian-based sources of capital dedicated to, or with a history of, investing in the energy business (see Clients).
Two of COSCO’s three Managing Directors, in fact, have advanced technical degrees in geology, and the third has to date completed almost fifty mergers or acquisitions as either principal or agent.
www.coscocap.com /overview.html   (372 words)

  
 Cosco Americas, Inc.
COSCO Americas, Inc., part of COSCO's global commitment to be a leader with the transportation industry, focuses on the goal of enabling commerce around the globe.
COSCO Americas was incorporated in August of 1982.
COSCO provides a variety of services including Container Shipping, Logistics, Tanker Shipping, Real Estate Management, Vessel Operations Assistance Support, Vessel Supply and Technical Support and Bulk Shipping throughout the Americas.
www.coscoamericas.com   (167 words)

  
 Cosco :: Online Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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The remaining 166 Cosco were considered qualifying studies.**** The 14 Task Force evaluations in this report are based on Cosco qualifying studies, all of which had good or fair execution.On the basis of the evidence of effectiveness, the Task Force either strongly recommended Cosco recommended nine of the 14 strategies evaluated (Table 2).
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2loveu.info /cosco.html   (242 words)

  
 COSCO Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Li was in charge of the establishment of COSCO Industry Company and then he became general manager of the company.
He entered COSCO headquarters in 1998 and had taken a variety of posts as vice general manager of president's general affairs office, general manager of supervisory department, director of organization department, managing director of human resources division and assistant to executive president of COSCO.
Prior to that, she had been the Deputy Director of the Financial Department of COSCO Tianjin, the financial Director of COSCO Japan,the General manager of Finance and Capital Division of COSCO Group, and the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of COSCO Group.
www.cosco.com /en/about/management.jsp?leftnav=/1/4   (942 words)

  
 APCO Worldwide :: Case Studies :: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO)
COSCO has been able to establish and maintain an open communication channel with the U.S. government and congressional members through the services of APCO.
COSCO faced a series of complex challenges harming its reputation and ability to compete in the U.S. marketplace.
APCO also developed arguments and key messages to justify COSCO's request for an exemption from discriminatory trade laws and to reposition the company in the eyes of policy makers and the media.
www.apcoworldwide.com /content/case-studies/cosco.cfm   (383 words)

  
 Cosco in Naval Base tiff
Kwok said he advises Cosco Hong Kong on equity and bond sales, but stressed it is a private arrangement.
Cosco offered to pay $14.5 million in annual rent and invest $200 million to turn it into a cargo port to serve its West Coast shipping needs.
At a news briefing Monday to announce Cosco Pacific's 1996 results, the company's vice chairman berated the press for questioning the propriety of the Long Beach deal, which he said was negotiated on purely commercial terms by Cosco's head office in Beijing.
www.virtualpet.com /bright/miscnews/navalb.htm   (905 words)

  
 L.A. seeks to woo Cosco from Long Beach - Los Angeles, California; China Ocean Shipping Co Los Angeles Business Journal ...
Port officials and their supporters have argued that Cosco, a port tenant for 17 years, is simply a commercial operation that poses no national security risk.
Cosco officials have had a "concrete proposal" from the Port of L.A. in their hands since May, Keller said.
The port is in negotiations with three other shipping lines interested in a terminal on the properly and hopes to have a deal signed by the end of the year, Keller said.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n37_v20/ai_21210344   (778 words)

  
 Infant Car Seats/Carriers Recalled by Cosco
Cosco will provide a free repair kit that will make the handle stronger.
The CPSC, NHTSA and Cosco remind all parents and care-givers to properly restrain their infants in the car seat/carrier at all times.
Cosco will provide, free of charge, an easy-to-install repair kit.
www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/prerel/prhtml99/99138.html   (690 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cosco Summit Bouncing Sheep Booster Seat: Baby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cosco makes top of the line products and their booster car seat is no different.
Cosco car seats are equipped with LATCH to give parents piece of mind when it comes to safety.
Cosco makes innovative items and the Summit High Back with LATCH is one of them.
www.amazon.com /Cosco-Summit-Bouncing-Sheep-Booster/dp/B0002TEA7S   (993 words)

  
 Cosco Baby Products
With over 50 years of experience in the juvenile market, Cosco has created a wide range of baby products to provide convenience, comfort, and value like the Alpha Omega and Touriva convertible car seats and the Protek and Summit booster seats.
Cosco, a leading manufacturer of juvenile products and home/office furnishings, was originally established as the Columbus Specialty Company in 1935.
In 1988, Cosco was acquired by Dorel Industries Inc. Dorel, a rapidly growing consumer products manufacturer, specializes in juvenile products; a wide variety of ready-to-assemble home and office furniture; and home furnishings such as metal folding chairs, tables, bunk beds, futons and step stools.
www.babyuniverse.com /man/baby?rc=safeforbaby/10/Cosco.html   (627 words)

  
 The Clinton Administration And Red China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
COSCO, foiled with that attempt, has now set its sights on gaining a "private berth" in the Port of Long Beach itself.
COSCO is also established in the Panama Canal Zone, having gained a significant foothold on the North American continent without resistance.
COSCO has been connected to the supply of AK-47s to Los Angeles street gangs.
www.tandra.com /Pages/davchina.html   (444 words)

  
 COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited ("The Company"), a member of the Straits Times Index effective 1 March 2004 and a member of the Footsie Index effective 18 March 2004, is a subsidiary of China Ocean Shipping Group Companies (COSCO Group), headquartered in Beijing.
As part of the largest shipping conglomerate in China, COSCO Corporation conducts business in three distinct segments: shipping, shipping-related and onshore business.
COSCO Corporation is strongly focused in its core businesses and is also set to expand further in the region by seeking out synergistic alliances and strategic acquisitions, to complement its core shipping and shipping-related businesses.
www.cosco.com.sg   (126 words)

  
 COSCO New Zealand | About COSCO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is an international giant, specializing in shipping and modern logistics, serving as a shipping agency and providing with services in freight forwarding, shipbuilding, shiprepairing, terminal operation, trade, financing, real estate and IT industry as well with an aim at taking one of the leading roles in these areas.
Ships and containers with the conspicuous COSCO logo are shuttling among 1,300 ports in more than 160 countries and regions around the world.
With the help of these elite, together with teamwork, COSCO is able to turn its dream into a reality and this is the key to success of COSCO.
www.cosco.co.nz /default,about.sm   (587 words)

  
 Cosco Home & Office
Columbus, IN — Cosco Home & Office Products, known throughout the industry as ‘The One Supplier of Many Choices’ recently unveiled their furniture division offerings.
The versatile Evolutions™ line is growing with the addition of 4 newly styled chairs and 2 coordinating tables.
Cosco Home & Office Products is a leading supplier of Home Furnishings, Step Stools and Ladders.
www.coscoproducts.com /cosco/newsstory.asp?newsID=37   (811 words)

  
 Canadian Oilwell Systems
COSCO is expanding its customer base into new geographic locations, offering more clients the benefit of high quality products and services.
COSCO will expand into new geographic locations, where qualified servicemen and applications engineers are available to ensure equipment is installed and operated properly, and to provide design services and training of customer personnel.
If you are installing ESP equipment, we believe COSCO can provide the products and services you need at a reasonable price, and with a level of service unmatched in the industry.
www.coscoesp.com /about.htm   (225 words)

  
 COSCO Germany - China Ocean Shipping Companies Deutschland - The world shipping company specialised in container traffic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
COSCO Germany guarantees efficient and reliable service to clients and highly professional advice in all questions of transport.
In 1965, the first COSCO vessel, the "Loadong", called of the port of Hamburg.
In the same year, COSCO becomes the sole owner of "COSRIC Shipping Agency GmbH" by taking over 100 percent of the shares on 1st July, 1991.
www.cosco.de /en/about   (517 words)

  
 COSCO Germany - China Ocean Shipping Companies Deutschland - The world shipping company specialised in container traffic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
COSCO offers the right container to suit every product.
COSCO flat racks are multifunctional as they do not have fixed front walls, but are equipped with corner posts, which can, if necessary, be folded up and lowered into the floor ("flash-folding-system").
As described above, all COSCO's own flat racks can also be loaded and unloaded as platforms with the corner posts folded down.
www.cosco.de /en/container   (209 words)

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