Thursday, October 20, 2011

Counts Real Estate Group Negotiates sale of 24-unit Lansing Drive Property in Pensacola

PENSACOLA, Fla. --- Counts Real Estate Group, one of northwest Florida’s leading commercial real estate services firms, recently completed the sale of the 24-unit Lansing Drive Apartments at 1901 Lansing in Pensacola for $537,500.00.

Scott Helms, associate of Counts Real Estate Group negotiated the transaction representing a private local buyer.

The seller was Berkadia Group of Dallas.

Cotter Ryan Commercial now in new headquarters in Sanford

LONGWOOD, Fla. --- Cotter Ryan Commercial LLC, long a fixture in Longwood, is now in its new offices at Byron Anthony Place at Savannah Park at Heathrow in Sanford.

Scott Ryan, founder and president of Cotter Ryan Commercial LLC, said the company occupies 6,000 square feet of office space and plans to lease out some 8,200 square feet of space.

Ryan said he is currently negotiating with several medical and dental offices for the space.

Cotter Ryan had been at its Longwood offices off SR 434 for 16 years.

Cenek, headquartered in Medellin, Colombia becomes first company to join UCF Business Incubation Program’s “Soft Landing” Program

KISSIMMEE, Fla. --- Cenek, a learning content management system firm headquartered in Medellin, Colombia is the first company to join the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program’s Soft Landing program.

Pim Van den Bergh, sales manager for Cenek, said the firm specializes in simplifying the training process of large groups of employees geographically dispersed by using its cloud based platform, Cenek 3.0. The fact that the platform is very user friendly and the results of the training are traceable by the administrator makes it unique in the industry.

With a proven record of almost half a million completed courses in Colombia alone, Cenek hopes to repeat this success in the US with the help of the UCF Business Incubation Program’s “Soft Landing” Program

Rafael Caamano, site manager for the UCF Business Incubation Program in Kissimmee, said Cenek plans to take advantage of the resources in order to understand the Florida and US market from a new base at UCF’s Business Incubator in Kissimmee.

Juan Herrera, chief executive officer for Cenek said he is looking forward to embracing this opportunity that can lead to jobs in both Kissimmee and in Medellin.

The UCF Business Incubation Program’s unique “Soft Landing” program enables companies to test their products and services in Florida and the U.S. before locating permanent offices here.

Caamano said Cenek plans to open offices in the Kissimmee incubator at 111 E. Monument Ave. within the next 30 days.

About Cenek
Cenek was founded in 2000 with the name of “Dynamic Digital Design.” Its principal objective was to develop multimedia content through the internet.

In 2003 they developed Cenek, proprietary LMS (Learning Management System) or Administration Platform for Training in response to the needs of the Colombian market.

In 2009 Cenek 2.0 was launched as the first LMS to incorporate the concept of social networks and introduced a short model for training with tangible results. It was designed to teach the principal characteristics of products focused on the pharmaceutical sector.

In 2011 LCMS (Learning Content Management System) Cenek 3.0 platform was launched containing applications that facilitate creating, publishing and administering virtual courses.

In the past 12 months the platform has successfully completed almost half million courses.

About the UCF Business Incubation Program
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 200 emerging companies (including more than 100 current clients) create over $200 million in annual total economic output and more than 1,600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With nine facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Business Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, Osceola County, the City of Kissimmee, City of St. Cloud, Volusia County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. Please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu and UCFBIP on Facebook.