Rutgers president to resign, return to teaching Philadelphia Inquirer NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Rutgers University president Richard McCormick plans to step down as head of the state's largest university in June to return to teaching. McCormick, 63, will formally submit his resignation as Rutgers' 19th president on Tuesday in ... |
الاثنين، 30 مايو 2011
Rutgers president to resign, return to teaching - Philadelphia Inquirer
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السبت، 28 مايو 2011
Mexican airline Interjet plans to list shares - MarketWatch
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Mexican airline Interjet plans to list shares MarketWatch (Updates with details from the prospectus in paragraph four, information about the airline in paragraph five and comments from the company in paragraph six.) MEXICO CITY (MarketWatch) -- Mexican low-cost airline company ABC Aerolineas ... |
الأربعاء، 25 مايو 2011
Debt Talks With Biden Has $1 Trillion Under Discussion - Financial Feed
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Financial Feed | Debt Talks With Biden Has $1 Trillion Under Discussion Financial Feed Biden stated taht the deficit reduction agreement has to include tax increases. The final word will be the President's. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Democrats and Republicans are nearing an agreement to allow Congress to lift the $14.3 ... |
الاثنين، 23 مايو 2011
Starbucks makes food healthier - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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The coffee giant says it has simplified recipea to includemore high-qualityy ingredients like whole grains, blueberries from Oregonb and cherries from Michigan. “Starbuckss customers have been telling us that they want betteer tasting and healthier food options when they visigtour stores,” said Starbucks food category vice president Sandraz Stark in a news release announcinbg the new menus. “Ww answered their call with a deliciousx new menu of food made with real ingredientas and morewholesome options.” New menu itemss include a blueberry oat bar, a farmer’s market salad and banan a walnut bread that Starbucks says “is nearlu 30 percent real banana.
” Starbucks has been expanding its food menu in the last two yearas to entice customers to visit more and to spend more per The company was also among the first restauranrt chains in the country to ban trans fat from its food and Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is closing hundreds of locations and cutting thousandes of jobs to trim expenses as revenuw falls. The company reported sales fell 8 percentlast quarter, followinf a 9 percent decline in first quartet sales. It is also facing pressure fromMcDonalda (NYSE: MCD), whose new coffewe drinks are driving sales higher.
The coffee giant says it has simplified recipea to includemore high-qualityy ingredients like whole grains, blueberries from Oregonb and cherries from Michigan. “Starbuckss customers have been telling us that they want betteer tasting and healthier food options when they visigtour stores,” said Starbucks food category vice president Sandraz Stark in a news release announcinbg the new menus. “Ww answered their call with a deliciousx new menu of food made with real ingredientas and morewholesome options.” New menu itemss include a blueberry oat bar, a farmer’s market salad and banan a walnut bread that Starbucks says “is nearlu 30 percent real banana.
” Starbucks has been expanding its food menu in the last two yearas to entice customers to visit more and to spend more per The company was also among the first restauranrt chains in the country to ban trans fat from its food and Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is closing hundreds of locations and cutting thousandes of jobs to trim expenses as revenuw falls. The company reported sales fell 8 percentlast quarter, followinf a 9 percent decline in first quartet sales. It is also facing pressure fromMcDonalda (NYSE: MCD), whose new coffewe drinks are driving sales higher.
السبت، 21 مايو 2011
Economy takes bite out of eateries - Dayton Business Journal:
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Local restaurants have been hit with a variety of cost increaseasthis year, from minimum wage increasess to fuel surcharges to rising healt h care costs. While restaurants have absorbedthe blows, the slow down in discretionarg spending may be a shot to the jaw that some Dayton-are a operators can’t recover from. Josef Reif has seen bad time in the restaurantbusinesa before, but never have so many different factorsz nibbled on his profit.
“Ws have never had to fight so many obstaclexat once,” said Reif, owner of in “Every restaurant is feeling the pinch in a time like When discretionary dollars decrease, diners often ditch dining out The decline already has played a part in locaol restaurant closings, including the Lincoln Park Grillew in Kettering that is closing by the end of the The National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Indez tells the same tale. A composite index that trackas the health and outlook ofthe U.S. restaurant industry, the RPI is at its lowesf point in the pastfive years.
With a numbere above 100 indicating growth, and belowa indicating contraction, the index stood at 96.7 in down 1.7 percent from August. That index remainec at more than 100 for much of the periodfrom mid-200w to mid-2007. According to the association, 15 percent of restaurantws expect to have higher sales in the next six down from 30 percent compared with And 50 percent of restaurants expect worse economicf conditions in the nextsix months. Reif said his businesss is down about 15 percent from this timelast “A lot of customers’ wallets have the Reif said.
Jay Haverstick, owner of in said his business also is down fromlast year, but his lossed will be about a third of last year’s becaus e of cost-cutting. Mike Leigh, general manager for in Miamisburg and said business hasheld steady, but it isn’tt growing like it had “It’s not horrible,” Leigjh said. “But when you have projecte d growth you’re not hitting, it starts to be a The original Chumps location in a familysports restaurant, had seen 10 percent to 15 percen growth every year since 2005, but it is abou even this year with last year.
To get customers back in the restaurants are spending moreon advertising, adjusting pricezs and highlighting specials. Reif introduced a new menu addition a fewmonths back, whicbh offers a three-course meal for $30. “If you take $30 to Dorothy Lane Market, you can’tt do that,” he said. “And when you add in the houres it takes toprepare it, you can practically eat for TJ Chumps offers five items on its luncu menu for under $6 and has a buy one, get one half-ofdf deal for entrees on Thursdays. Leigh said that deal startedx last year, but only recently did people start to take advantagof it.
Leigh said advertising spending has increased from little to nothint toabout $1,000 a montjh for both locations. Chumps is putting ads in coupoh circulars, local newspapers and some direct marketinh packetsfor businesses. Restaurants also are lookintg at ways to cut Reif said he has focusecd on getting the best pric e for his fresh produce andother items.
Local restaurants have been hit with a variety of cost increaseasthis year, from minimum wage increasess to fuel surcharges to rising healt h care costs. While restaurants have absorbedthe blows, the slow down in discretionarg spending may be a shot to the jaw that some Dayton-are a operators can’t recover from. Josef Reif has seen bad time in the restaurantbusinesa before, but never have so many different factorsz nibbled on his profit.
“Ws have never had to fight so many obstaclexat once,” said Reif, owner of in “Every restaurant is feeling the pinch in a time like When discretionary dollars decrease, diners often ditch dining out The decline already has played a part in locaol restaurant closings, including the Lincoln Park Grillew in Kettering that is closing by the end of the The National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Indez tells the same tale. A composite index that trackas the health and outlook ofthe U.S. restaurant industry, the RPI is at its lowesf point in the pastfive years.
With a numbere above 100 indicating growth, and belowa indicating contraction, the index stood at 96.7 in down 1.7 percent from August. That index remainec at more than 100 for much of the periodfrom mid-200w to mid-2007. According to the association, 15 percent of restaurantws expect to have higher sales in the next six down from 30 percent compared with And 50 percent of restaurants expect worse economicf conditions in the nextsix months. Reif said his businesss is down about 15 percent from this timelast “A lot of customers’ wallets have the Reif said.
Jay Haverstick, owner of in said his business also is down fromlast year, but his lossed will be about a third of last year’s becaus e of cost-cutting. Mike Leigh, general manager for in Miamisburg and said business hasheld steady, but it isn’tt growing like it had “It’s not horrible,” Leigjh said. “But when you have projecte d growth you’re not hitting, it starts to be a The original Chumps location in a familysports restaurant, had seen 10 percent to 15 percen growth every year since 2005, but it is abou even this year with last year.
To get customers back in the restaurants are spending moreon advertising, adjusting pricezs and highlighting specials. Reif introduced a new menu addition a fewmonths back, whicbh offers a three-course meal for $30. “If you take $30 to Dorothy Lane Market, you can’tt do that,” he said. “And when you add in the houres it takes toprepare it, you can practically eat for TJ Chumps offers five items on its luncu menu for under $6 and has a buy one, get one half-ofdf deal for entrees on Thursdays. Leigh said that deal startedx last year, but only recently did people start to take advantagof it.
Leigh said advertising spending has increased from little to nothint toabout $1,000 a montjh for both locations. Chumps is putting ads in coupoh circulars, local newspapers and some direct marketinh packetsfor businesses. Restaurants also are lookintg at ways to cut Reif said he has focusecd on getting the best pric e for his fresh produce andother items.
الخميس، 19 مايو 2011
Memorial Hospital plans $24 million addition - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The facility, which will be betweenm 85,000 and 89,000 square feet, will include orthopedic surgeon and neurosurgeohn offices and an outpatient centerfor physical, occupational and hand therapt and sports medicine. An open MRI also will be available at the which will be located on FrankScott Parkway. Mark Turner, Memorial’s president and chief said the hospital wanted to expandf its orthopedic and neurosciences lines but was out of The two existing medical office buildingson Memorial’ss campus, which are both smaller than the proposecd addition will be fully leasesd by the end of the year.
Pending stat e approval, Memorial plans to break groundc at the end of the year with completiom slated for the summerof 2011. Memorial, a 313-bef hospital, reported $239.8 million in 2008 is the architect for the new and is thegenerap contractor. The hospital currently has six orthopedicc surgeons andthree neurosurgeons, including Dr. Steven Morton, an orthopedic surgeon who joinedApril 1. With the new the hospital hopes to add two to thre more orthopedic surgeons over the nextthree years, Turnere said. In addition, relocating orthopedic and neuroscience services from their current locations will free up space for expansiojn inother areas.
Memorial is still evaluating financing but Turner said the hospital is confidentg about its ability to move forward with the projecr despite the currenteconomic slowdown, whicg has put many hospital projectsz nationwide on hold. For St. Louis-based cited economic conditions for the dela of construction on three new hospital it had planned forJeffersob City, Mount Vernon, Ill., and Wis. “Like everyone, we are concernedd about the economy and will continue tomonitort that, but we don’t anticipate having any significanr issues in securing financing,” Turner said. Memorialk is currently in the midstr ofa $4.4 million renovation and expansiojn of its emergency department.
The two-year project is on trackl to be completed bylate fall.
The facility, which will be betweenm 85,000 and 89,000 square feet, will include orthopedic surgeon and neurosurgeohn offices and an outpatient centerfor physical, occupational and hand therapt and sports medicine. An open MRI also will be available at the which will be located on FrankScott Parkway. Mark Turner, Memorial’s president and chief said the hospital wanted to expandf its orthopedic and neurosciences lines but was out of The two existing medical office buildingson Memorial’ss campus, which are both smaller than the proposecd addition will be fully leasesd by the end of the year.
Pending stat e approval, Memorial plans to break groundc at the end of the year with completiom slated for the summerof 2011. Memorial, a 313-bef hospital, reported $239.8 million in 2008 is the architect for the new and is thegenerap contractor. The hospital currently has six orthopedicc surgeons andthree neurosurgeons, including Dr. Steven Morton, an orthopedic surgeon who joinedApril 1. With the new the hospital hopes to add two to thre more orthopedic surgeons over the nextthree years, Turnere said. In addition, relocating orthopedic and neuroscience services from their current locations will free up space for expansiojn inother areas.
Memorial is still evaluating financing but Turner said the hospital is confidentg about its ability to move forward with the projecr despite the currenteconomic slowdown, whicg has put many hospital projectsz nationwide on hold. For St. Louis-based cited economic conditions for the dela of construction on three new hospital it had planned forJeffersob City, Mount Vernon, Ill., and Wis. “Like everyone, we are concernedd about the economy and will continue tomonitort that, but we don’t anticipate having any significanr issues in securing financing,” Turner said. Memorialk is currently in the midstr ofa $4.4 million renovation and expansiojn of its emergency department.
The two-year project is on trackl to be completed bylate fall.
الاثنين، 16 مايو 2011
First Financial could consider paying back TARP money - South Florida Business Journal:
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“The board will consided that nowthat we’ve done our commobn stock offering,” Davis said in an interviews after the shareholders meeting at the Manor Housr in Mason. “We’re very well-capitalized. We feel very comfortable with ourcapital position.” Norwood-based First Financial received $80 million from the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program, part of the Troubledf Asset Relief Program, in December by selling preferrede stock tothe government. It pays a 5 percent annual dividend forfive years; the rate riseas to 9 percent after that. First Financial FFBC) raised $98 million in net proceeds June 8 from a commonstock offering.
Part of the use of that capitap could be to pay back theTreasurhy money, Davis said. The boars would have to approv e sucha move. The bank would have to go through an applicatio n process to get government approva l to pay backthe money. Some banks have alreadyg receivedthat approval. Regulators asked Firsy Financial to participate in thecapital plan, Davis said in response to a shareholder question abouyt why a healthy bank would take the money. The progra m was voluntary, but First Financial wanted tostockpile capital. “Wer weren’t sure how deep the recession would be, and we thought it was important to ensure we had ample capital,” he told shareholders.
William Harding, a shareholded from Columbus, asked how the company plans to handl e buying back the stock from the The board willconsider it, Davisd said. But, he added, the interest it receivexs from investing part of that Treasury money is enough to pay the dividendseit requires. A stipulation of the Treasury moneuy is that companies cannot raisetheir common-stocm dividends beyond the level they were before the company decided to take the First Financial wasn’t part of the recent federal government “stress tests.
” Those gaugex the nation’s 19 largest ability to withstand a worsening But Davis said First Financial performed its own tests internallyu using the government criteria. Those tests showed the bank is in good He pointed to numbers showing Firstt Financial is wellbeyond regulators’ requirements to be consideredd well-capitalized. Its tangible common equity totalingb 8.6 percent of tangible assets aftert the stock offering is far above the roughlgy 5 percent peergroup average, he said.
The recent public stock offering also made it unnecessarty for First Financial to go ahead with a shareholder vote that would have allowed the board to issue more preferred stock in order toraisee capital. That proposal was first raised, Davis when other means of raisingcapital weren’t readily Harding said he would oppose the company issuinh any more preferred stock, even though it’s a moot poinft for now. “It’s a major concermn for me that issuing new preferredd stock dilutes the stockj my father purchased in Harding said. “I want to make sure my father’x investment is safe.
” Several shareholders askeed whether and when the dividend would be raised back to itsprevious level. First Financial said in January it would cut the quarterlt dividend from 17 cents a sharre to10 cents. “It was a tough decision,” Davisa said. “We were in a period of the worsg economic stress in80 years, and we felt it was the prudenrt thing to do. “We want to provide some good levekl ofdividend payment, but we also want to see the stock price improve. To do we need earnings improvement, so we need growth.
” Whilwe Davis isn’t pleased with First Financial’s total return to shareholders a loss of 26 percent since Januarty2008 – it stacka up well with other banks and with the he said. The S&P 500 fell 32 percengt in that span while the stocks of a group ofFirst Financial’s peers plunged 57 percent. “Thisa is the most difficult banking environment andeconomy I’v ever seen or experienced,” Davis said. “But I thinmk we’re weathering it quite well.” A shareholdert proposal passed that that asks the board to consider declassifying the board so that each member has to runfor re-electionj each year.
In the past, board members served staggereed three-year terms. “If you have a boardf that stands for electionevert year, you have a board that is subjec t to replacement if it’sw not acting in the best interests of shareholders,” said Williamj Singer, a downtown attorney representing Denver-based shareholder Gerald who put the proposal up for a vote.
“The board will consided that nowthat we’ve done our commobn stock offering,” Davis said in an interviews after the shareholders meeting at the Manor Housr in Mason. “We’re very well-capitalized. We feel very comfortable with ourcapital position.” Norwood-based First Financial received $80 million from the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program, part of the Troubledf Asset Relief Program, in December by selling preferrede stock tothe government. It pays a 5 percent annual dividend forfive years; the rate riseas to 9 percent after that. First Financial FFBC) raised $98 million in net proceeds June 8 from a commonstock offering.
Part of the use of that capitap could be to pay back theTreasurhy money, Davis said. The boars would have to approv e sucha move. The bank would have to go through an applicatio n process to get government approva l to pay backthe money. Some banks have alreadyg receivedthat approval. Regulators asked Firsy Financial to participate in thecapital plan, Davis said in response to a shareholder question abouyt why a healthy bank would take the money. The progra m was voluntary, but First Financial wanted tostockpile capital. “Wer weren’t sure how deep the recession would be, and we thought it was important to ensure we had ample capital,” he told shareholders.
William Harding, a shareholded from Columbus, asked how the company plans to handl e buying back the stock from the The board willconsider it, Davisd said. But, he added, the interest it receivexs from investing part of that Treasury money is enough to pay the dividendseit requires. A stipulation of the Treasury moneuy is that companies cannot raisetheir common-stocm dividends beyond the level they were before the company decided to take the First Financial wasn’t part of the recent federal government “stress tests.
” Those gaugex the nation’s 19 largest ability to withstand a worsening But Davis said First Financial performed its own tests internallyu using the government criteria. Those tests showed the bank is in good He pointed to numbers showing Firstt Financial is wellbeyond regulators’ requirements to be consideredd well-capitalized. Its tangible common equity totalingb 8.6 percent of tangible assets aftert the stock offering is far above the roughlgy 5 percent peergroup average, he said.
The recent public stock offering also made it unnecessarty for First Financial to go ahead with a shareholder vote that would have allowed the board to issue more preferred stock in order toraisee capital. That proposal was first raised, Davis when other means of raisingcapital weren’t readily Harding said he would oppose the company issuinh any more preferred stock, even though it’s a moot poinft for now. “It’s a major concermn for me that issuing new preferredd stock dilutes the stockj my father purchased in Harding said. “I want to make sure my father’x investment is safe.
” Several shareholders askeed whether and when the dividend would be raised back to itsprevious level. First Financial said in January it would cut the quarterlt dividend from 17 cents a sharre to10 cents. “It was a tough decision,” Davisa said. “We were in a period of the worsg economic stress in80 years, and we felt it was the prudenrt thing to do. “We want to provide some good levekl ofdividend payment, but we also want to see the stock price improve. To do we need earnings improvement, so we need growth.
” Whilwe Davis isn’t pleased with First Financial’s total return to shareholders a loss of 26 percent since Januarty2008 – it stacka up well with other banks and with the he said. The S&P 500 fell 32 percengt in that span while the stocks of a group ofFirst Financial’s peers plunged 57 percent. “Thisa is the most difficult banking environment andeconomy I’v ever seen or experienced,” Davis said. “But I thinmk we’re weathering it quite well.” A shareholdert proposal passed that that asks the board to consider declassifying the board so that each member has to runfor re-electionj each year.
In the past, board members served staggereed three-year terms. “If you have a boardf that stands for electionevert year, you have a board that is subjec t to replacement if it’sw not acting in the best interests of shareholders,” said Williamj Singer, a downtown attorney representing Denver-based shareholder Gerald who put the proposal up for a vote.
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