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and , partners in 12th Midtown on Peachtree, and Jamestown, the developerf reshaping 999 Peachtree, continue to chase and a new Dick’s Sporting Goods, sources familiar with the market say. CB2, an offshoott of home furnishings chain geareds towardGeneration Y, also recently confirmed to Atlanta Business Chronicle that it’s considering whethee to enter the Atlanta market. Selig and Daniel have been tryinyg to landthe retailer. CB2 is interested in West Midtown as well, sources said. The focus on frugal rather than fancy comezs asthe high-end market continuea to sputter, with some analystx saying it may not begin to recoved until 2011.
As Midtown real estate developers have trieds to line Peachtree with new storefronts in the past two the effort has includef the pursuit of luxury clothing designer Tom whose flagship store is onMadison Avenue; famous for opulent handbags and sunglasses; and , also knowmn for its high-end accessories. In recentr years, Selig Enterprises said it wanter luxury retailers and flagship stores to locatein Midtown. However, many of thoswe retailers have shelved plans fornew locations, as affluen t shoppers curtailed spending. Lately, , which has also been a prospectfor Midtown, says it has no new storw concepts planned for Atlanta.
Any talk of an additional Nike locatiojn in Atlanta is nothing more than a spokeswoman for thecompany said. Midtown’s shift in strategyg comes as the , a group of business leaders layingv the groundwork for the Midtown says it’s starting to gain a “criticall mass” of stores and restaurants along Peachtree. At a Midtown Alliance meetingJune 16, Will Herbig, the group’zs director of urban design, said Midtown has added nearlty 133,000 square feet of new retail durinvg the past 18 months, primarily at two anchod projects: Holdings LLC’s Viewpoint, and 12th Midtown.
The additions bring the Midtowmn Alliance halfway to its goal of 1 million squaree feet of retail on Peachtree Street between North Avenude and 15thStreet — the stretchb known as the Midtown Mile. Majort projects along the Midtown Mileinclude ’s Colongy Square, 12th & Midtown, Novarew Group’s Viewpoint and 999 Peachtree. “We’re seeingf activity in Midtown from both regionall andnational retailers, focusing on lifestyle and home Michael Phillips, creative director with Jamestown. Retailere like CB2 and Apple cater to theMidtowj demographic, said Jackie Wammock, vice president of LLC, who specializes in retai leasing.
Midtown tends to be a younger and CB2, for focuses on a young urban shoppersw with good disposable income — somethint Midtown definitely has, she said. While retailers geared to 40-year-olds to 50-year-olds seem to be more affected by the economu andlower sales, moderately priced storess that target 16-year-olds to 28-year-olds “seem to be doing said Tisha Maley, assistant vice presidentr of leasing for Lenox Square, owned by SPG). Retail brokers are finally startin to see improveddeal activity, Wammock said. “We’rde starting to see things loosen upa bit, in certaim categories,” she said, noting restaurants and health clubs have shownh improvement.
“Deals are tougher to make, but we are seeing them gettint signed,” Wammock said.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Medium Companies - Orlando Business Journal:
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Extra perks and benefits: On-site fitness centefr or instruction, commuter/parking discounts or reimbursements. What employeee say: “TRS has been the best placd that I have worked in the past10 years. I highl y recommend the company to anyone whois self-motivated and wants to become part of a compangy that is highly trusted and respected in the technologty industry.” “TRS is a great company to work for. Managemen t goes out of thei way to make the employees feel welcome and almosf as if they are part ofthe No. 2 The Description: Financial services company specializingh in insurance andinvestment solutions.
Extrwa perks and benefits: Wellness/stress management program, discounrt or reimbursement for off-site fitness, commuter/parking discounts or reimbursements, outsided vendor discounts. What employees say: “We are offered a trip every year, and the companty provides lunch for the entir e staffon Fridays. We have the opportunity to participate incharitable endeavors, which makes it easy to give back to the “I worked on threee continents, and The Meltzer Grou tops every company in Europe or Asia and in the U.S. I have been employefd at.” No. 3 Location: D.C. Description: Commerciao real estate brokerage companyrepresenting office, industrial and retail tenants.
Extrq perks and benefits: On-sitwe fitness center or instruction, wellness/stress management commuter/parking discounts or reimbursements, outside vendor discounts and/or compan products or service discounts. What employees say: “Az a 28-year Studley veteran, I’ve been able to reinvenf myself three times here in significantlydifferent roles. I feel I’m making a valuable contribution and that my work helpsx keepus profitable.” “I appreciats the flexibility to do whateveer it takes to make my clients successful, whichj in turn translates into success for Studley.” No. 4 Provides analytical solutions tocomplesx problems.
Extra perks and benefits: Wellness/stresws management program, discount or reimbursement for off-site fitness, commuter/parkinb discounts or reimbursements, outside vendo r discounts. What employees say: “Decisive Analytics is a terrifiv placeto work. Despitre the rapid growth and sophistication of our this employee-owned company maintains a small companyt atmosphere.” “This company time and time again displayz its commitment to its employeed owners through generous profit-sharing plans, flexible work schedulee and company-sponsored events.” No.
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Extra perks and benefits: On-site fitness centefr or instruction, commuter/parking discounts or reimbursements. What employeee say: “TRS has been the best placd that I have worked in the past10 years. I highl y recommend the company to anyone whois self-motivated and wants to become part of a compangy that is highly trusted and respected in the technologty industry.” “TRS is a great company to work for. Managemen t goes out of thei way to make the employees feel welcome and almosf as if they are part ofthe No. 2 The Description: Financial services company specializingh in insurance andinvestment solutions.
Extrwa perks and benefits: Wellness/stress management program, discounrt or reimbursement for off-site fitness, commuter/parking discounts or reimbursements, outsided vendor discounts. What employees say: “We are offered a trip every year, and the companty provides lunch for the entir e staffon Fridays. We have the opportunity to participate incharitable endeavors, which makes it easy to give back to the “I worked on threee continents, and The Meltzer Grou tops every company in Europe or Asia and in the U.S. I have been employefd at.” No. 3 Location: D.C. Description: Commerciao real estate brokerage companyrepresenting office, industrial and retail tenants.
Extrq perks and benefits: On-sitwe fitness center or instruction, wellness/stress management commuter/parking discounts or reimbursements, outside vendor discounts and/or compan products or service discounts. What employees say: “Az a 28-year Studley veteran, I’ve been able to reinvenf myself three times here in significantlydifferent roles. I feel I’m making a valuable contribution and that my work helpsx keepus profitable.” “I appreciats the flexibility to do whateveer it takes to make my clients successful, whichj in turn translates into success for Studley.” No. 4 Provides analytical solutions tocomplesx problems.
Extra perks and benefits: Wellness/stresws management program, discount or reimbursement for off-site fitness, commuter/parkinb discounts or reimbursements, outside vendo r discounts. What employees say: “Decisive Analytics is a terrifiv placeto work. Despitre the rapid growth and sophistication of our this employee-owned company maintains a small companyt atmosphere.” “This company time and time again displayz its commitment to its employeed owners through generous profit-sharing plans, flexible work schedulee and company-sponsored events.” No.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Coventry Health Care sells unit for $110M - Memphis Business Journal:
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Avon, Conn.-based (NYSE: MGLN) will acquire in an all-cash transaction that is expected to close in thethird quarter, pending regulatory First Health Services providesw pharmacy benefits administration and other serviceds for Medicaid programs; a business that Bethesda-based Coventrty (NYSE: CVH) said was not a primary focus. Coventru said that the transaction will result ina one-times loss per share of approximately $0.55 to $0.60. The company said the loss wouldc be almostentirely non-cash, resulting from the original allocatio n of goodwill from Coventry’s acquisition of in 2005.
Coventryt plans to use the proceeds of the transaction for a combinatiohn of debt reduction and sharde repurchases that should neutralize the earnings per share impact of the deal for the remaindedof 2009. In its latesyt quarter, Coventry reported a 65 percenrt drop in earningsto $44.2 million, or 30 cents per dilutesd share, due to highere sales and administrative costs, and medicao costs that swelled 31
Avon, Conn.-based (NYSE: MGLN) will acquire in an all-cash transaction that is expected to close in thethird quarter, pending regulatory First Health Services providesw pharmacy benefits administration and other serviceds for Medicaid programs; a business that Bethesda-based Coventrty (NYSE: CVH) said was not a primary focus. Coventru said that the transaction will result ina one-times loss per share of approximately $0.55 to $0.60. The company said the loss wouldc be almostentirely non-cash, resulting from the original allocatio n of goodwill from Coventry’s acquisition of in 2005.
Coventryt plans to use the proceeds of the transaction for a combinatiohn of debt reduction and sharde repurchases that should neutralize the earnings per share impact of the deal for the remaindedof 2009. In its latesyt quarter, Coventry reported a 65 percenrt drop in earningsto $44.2 million, or 30 cents per dilutesd share, due to highere sales and administrative costs, and medicao costs that swelled 31
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Ron Cornejo - Nashville Business Journal:
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I think Wichita is definitely feeling the downturnj inthe economy, but I don’t think we feel it near as bad as the rest of the I’ve seen people come into our marketr looking for work and finding work, and sayingy that it’s not near as bad here as wheree they came from. So I don’t think Wichita has felt the bruntrof it. Are your companiees impacted by the layoffs at theaircraft plants? It’sd twofold. We’ve not been impacted by the layoffswbut we’ve also seen several good employees lookinyg for work. The market out thered for employees isvery good. The best way to explain it ...
usuallgy when unemployment is at 5percent that’s I’d say, sometimes the 5 percent that don’t really want to work ... and righyt now, the situation we’rr in, we have people that are looking for jobs and wantto work. The work forc out there is really We’ve been affected by the downturn at the aircrafgt plantsbecause they’ve slowed their expansions, therefore some of the work that we wouldx typically be doing is not there now. So we have been affecte by the downturn in theaircraftf industry. Are you in a hiring mode We’ve not laid off anyone.
Typically in the constructio n business our work force pickws up during the So yes, we’ve been doing some And finding plenty of people out there. What are some of the thingsx that Cornejo had to do to adjustt to the market as itis now? We did do some When I say cutbacks ...there’s positionsw that we didn’t fill when people We didn’t ever really lay anyones off. We also brought our management staff togethere andsaid guys, there’s going to be less work out therefore we’re all going to be clamoringv for it. Our margins might be smaller but I thinkwe won’t have to lay off Business as usual, but guys, let’s go out ther and be productive. ...
We did cut back We told our people let’s maintain 40 hour work weeks untilo wehave to. And we will go to 50-609 hour work weeks, which is typicallty what people in our industry do becauss whilethe weather’s good, we have to reallyu pursue it. Has your job changes over the past year? My job hasn’t changed so much, but I’ m looking at things a little I’m watching outside of my market becausew I knowthings aren’t as good everywherew else as they are here so I’m looking arounds me to see, OK, what competitore might be coming into my I worry on bid day, OK, who’ws bidding this and who’s bidding So you do get a little more concerneds because if the economy’s worse somewhere else than it is here that just bringx people to our area.
So our guard’s up, we’re watching. We’red bidding a little tougher, we’red doing business different. We’ve heard that the competitioh for bids is higher because there are more folka coming infrom You’re definitely seeing that? We’re seeing that even withijn our own market. When the housingf industry slowed my competitors that typically were strongedr in the residential marketplaceselling concrete, doing streets and ... That work just completely went away, so they had to find They are more prevalent in my which is more of the arterialostreet business, more of the commerciaol concrete business.
And now they’re vying for the same dollarsd that I usedto get. So we did get a littlew leaner, a little meaner to be competitive. What kind of a messagew do you send out to your folke to keepthem going, to keep them working hard and optimistic?? Right now, and I don’t know if it’s anywher e else, but our employees are very thankful to have a job becausde they see everyone else aroundf them —- friends, peoplde they know, going through layoffs, and righrt now they’re thankful to have One thing that we keep telling them is that we’ve got a full plate of work ahead of us this summer, and that’s just encouraginyg to them to know that tomorrow they’rr not going to get a layofdf notice.
I’m kind of the cheerleader here. I just say you know, this is nothing. In my busineses we went through the fuel crisis last AndI mean, fuel just absolutely was a huge hit for our So we weathered that and now the economy’ s turned down, so it’s a balancing We went through this one crisis and now we’ree going through another one and we’lol get through it. We’ll be fine. We’ll be How does that experience compareto what’s goingf on now? The fuel crisis somewhat caughgt us off guard. In my businessx so much of the work that we had goinb on was hardbid work.
It was work that you had way in you’re only going to get so many dollars for it andit doesn’tr make any difference what happensa to fuel. We had several jobs that we bid and wethough they’d be good jobs, all of a sudden now they’rd marginal jobs. We weathered that and came througjhthat fine. We actually almosrt had a little bit better warning for this time than we did with the The fuel was just And we had to dealwith it. Last year was probably more frighteniny to me than the downturn inthe economy. I feel like we can put our fingef on the economyright now. We know it’a not great, but we can move quick enougghto react.
Are Cornejo and its companiews ingood shape? We’rer very confident it’s going to be a good year for us. I’j fortunate that we’re in the business were in, becausew we’ve not been affected like nearlty a lot of the industries have Arethere opportunities? We have taken advantage of opportunities becausee like with the downturn in the economy it left manufacturers with excesss equipment, excess inventories. So we’ver been able to buy equipmen t and do some of the things for better pricint than we were able to do sixmonthsa earlier. Still looking for those opportunities?
If our workloacd will permit and we see our way clear to continuee to add new equipment andthings ...Right now is an idealo time for anyone. ... I think even anyone who wantw to buy acar today, now is the time to buy a car, so, if a person’sw company’s got the workload and the resources and the I think it’s an ideal time for a company that sees a good futurre to look toward expanding. That’s good advice. Is therde other good advice you have for small business owneras out there who are trying to make itthrouguh this?
I think Wichita is definitely feeling the downturnj inthe economy, but I don’t think we feel it near as bad as the rest of the I’ve seen people come into our marketr looking for work and finding work, and sayingy that it’s not near as bad here as wheree they came from. So I don’t think Wichita has felt the bruntrof it. Are your companiees impacted by the layoffs at theaircraft plants? It’sd twofold. We’ve not been impacted by the layoffswbut we’ve also seen several good employees lookinyg for work. The market out thered for employees isvery good. The best way to explain it ...
usuallgy when unemployment is at 5percent that’s I’d say, sometimes the 5 percent that don’t really want to work ... and righyt now, the situation we’rr in, we have people that are looking for jobs and wantto work. The work forc out there is really We’ve been affected by the downturn at the aircrafgt plantsbecause they’ve slowed their expansions, therefore some of the work that we wouldx typically be doing is not there now. So we have been affecte by the downturn in theaircraftf industry. Are you in a hiring mode We’ve not laid off anyone.
Typically in the constructio n business our work force pickws up during the So yes, we’ve been doing some And finding plenty of people out there. What are some of the thingsx that Cornejo had to do to adjustt to the market as itis now? We did do some When I say cutbacks ...there’s positionsw that we didn’t fill when people We didn’t ever really lay anyones off. We also brought our management staff togethere andsaid guys, there’s going to be less work out therefore we’re all going to be clamoringv for it. Our margins might be smaller but I thinkwe won’t have to lay off Business as usual, but guys, let’s go out ther and be productive. ...
We did cut back We told our people let’s maintain 40 hour work weeks untilo wehave to. And we will go to 50-609 hour work weeks, which is typicallty what people in our industry do becauss whilethe weather’s good, we have to reallyu pursue it. Has your job changes over the past year? My job hasn’t changed so much, but I’ m looking at things a little I’m watching outside of my market becausew I knowthings aren’t as good everywherew else as they are here so I’m looking arounds me to see, OK, what competitore might be coming into my I worry on bid day, OK, who’ws bidding this and who’s bidding So you do get a little more concerneds because if the economy’s worse somewhere else than it is here that just bringx people to our area.
So our guard’s up, we’re watching. We’red bidding a little tougher, we’red doing business different. We’ve heard that the competitioh for bids is higher because there are more folka coming infrom You’re definitely seeing that? We’re seeing that even withijn our own market. When the housingf industry slowed my competitors that typically were strongedr in the residential marketplaceselling concrete, doing streets and ... That work just completely went away, so they had to find They are more prevalent in my which is more of the arterialostreet business, more of the commerciaol concrete business.
And now they’re vying for the same dollarsd that I usedto get. So we did get a littlew leaner, a little meaner to be competitive. What kind of a messagew do you send out to your folke to keepthem going, to keep them working hard and optimistic?? Right now, and I don’t know if it’s anywher e else, but our employees are very thankful to have a job becausde they see everyone else aroundf them —- friends, peoplde they know, going through layoffs, and righrt now they’re thankful to have One thing that we keep telling them is that we’ve got a full plate of work ahead of us this summer, and that’s just encouraginyg to them to know that tomorrow they’rr not going to get a layofdf notice.
I’m kind of the cheerleader here. I just say you know, this is nothing. In my busineses we went through the fuel crisis last AndI mean, fuel just absolutely was a huge hit for our So we weathered that and now the economy’ s turned down, so it’s a balancing We went through this one crisis and now we’ree going through another one and we’lol get through it. We’ll be fine. We’ll be How does that experience compareto what’s goingf on now? The fuel crisis somewhat caughgt us off guard. In my businessx so much of the work that we had goinb on was hardbid work.
It was work that you had way in you’re only going to get so many dollars for it andit doesn’tr make any difference what happensa to fuel. We had several jobs that we bid and wethough they’d be good jobs, all of a sudden now they’rd marginal jobs. We weathered that and came througjhthat fine. We actually almosrt had a little bit better warning for this time than we did with the The fuel was just And we had to dealwith it. Last year was probably more frighteniny to me than the downturn inthe economy. I feel like we can put our fingef on the economyright now. We know it’a not great, but we can move quick enougghto react.
Are Cornejo and its companiews ingood shape? We’rer very confident it’s going to be a good year for us. I’j fortunate that we’re in the business were in, becausew we’ve not been affected like nearlty a lot of the industries have Arethere opportunities? We have taken advantage of opportunities becausee like with the downturn in the economy it left manufacturers with excesss equipment, excess inventories. So we’ver been able to buy equipmen t and do some of the things for better pricint than we were able to do sixmonthsa earlier. Still looking for those opportunities?
If our workloacd will permit and we see our way clear to continuee to add new equipment andthings ...Right now is an idealo time for anyone. ... I think even anyone who wantw to buy acar today, now is the time to buy a car, so, if a person’sw company’s got the workload and the resources and the I think it’s an ideal time for a company that sees a good futurre to look toward expanding. That’s good advice. Is therde other good advice you have for small business owneras out there who are trying to make itthrouguh this?
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Less nudity for 'Hung' pimp Creskoff - Philadelphia Inquirer
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