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2015 Miami Show to Expand in Bayraktar's Island Gardens Project at Watson Island

Image Organizers of the Yacht & Brokerage Show have signed a contract to expand the 26-year-old show into an as-yet-unbuilt megayacht marina on Watson Island. Despite a decade of false starts, the Island Gardens project is slated to confirm financing this spring and begin dredging the marina by June, said Mehmet Bayraktar, the Turkish founder of the development company, Flagstone Property Group. If it can do that, next year’s show would have a 25-foot deep basin in which to erect floating docks for any number of yachts. The marina’s real docks would be built in time for the 2016 show, both sides said.
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Chobani Yogurt CEO: ''We Have Bigger Problem than Obamacare''

Image Chobani CEO and Founder Hamdi Ulukaya discusses his rise to the top and manufacturing in the U.S. He speaks with Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” Started with only 5 employees and now Chobani has reached 3000 employees. He built the biggest yogurty manufacturing plant in Idoha and ''For us to manufacture more yogurt bigger problem than Obamacare,'' Ulukaya says.
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Chobani's Hungry Bear Loose in NYC

Image To launch Chobani's new ad campaign focused on their all natural ingredients, they created a Super Bowl commercial featuring a discerning bear on the hunt for real, natural food. Then, their in-house agency went a step further by bringing that bear to life on the streets of NYC to see how people would react.
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Chobani Yogurt Not Allowed into Russia

Image ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is calling on the Russian government to allow Chobani Greek yogurt to be delivered to Sochi for U.S. Olympic athletes and NBC Studios employees. Schumer said Tuesday that a shipment of Chobani yogurt is being held up at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because of "unattainable" Russian Customs certifications.

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