Happy New Year from Galvmet! As we move into 2012, we are excited at the opportunities for growth in the industries that we serve. It has been a good year, though challenging at times, and we appreciate everyone that has been involved to make that happen.
We hope that you enjoy New Year’s Eve and go into 2012 with a renewed sense of excitement in your work and personal lives! We look forward to talking with you soon.
More on the New Year celebration from Wikipedia
The New Year is the day that marks the time of the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the specific calendar used is incremented. For many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner. The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on January 1st, continuing the practice of the Roman calendar. There are numerous calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year differently.
The order of months in the Roman calendar has been January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius. January 1st has been the first day of the year, except during the Middle Ages when several other days were the first (1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December). With the expansion of Western culture to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, the first day of January became global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days (such as China and Pakistan).
In the culture of Latin America there are a variety of traditions and superstitions surrounding these dates as omens for the coming year. January remains a symbol of the New Year’s celebration. The Gregorian calendar is now used by many countries as the official calendar. This has meant that celebrations for the New Year have become much larger than before. Some countries(e.g. the Czech Republic) even consider 1 January to be a national holiday.
