Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News back issues from Wednesday, November 4:
Aberdeen American News, S.D., Farm and Business Scene Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--NAMES IN THE NEWS: JASON LEE: Jason Lee of Aberdeen, a Modern Woodmen of America representative for the South Dakota area, has attained the Fraternal Insurance Counselor designation. The title is an educational designation ...
Aberdeen American News, S.D., Regional Briefs Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--ACROSS THE REGION: MOST MINA PHONE COMPLAINTS SETTLED BY US WEST: The state Public Utilities Commission has closed the docket on a number of complaints about phone service in the Mina and Wetonka areas, deferring action on ...
Electronics Superstores to Fill Void Left by Ohio Chain's Demise.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Call it the culling of the appliance and electronics superstore retailers. In nature, when the numbers of a species rise to the point where they tax the available resources, the weak begin to die off. A similar process ...
Cinemark Considers 24-Screen Theater in Akron, Ohio.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Combine a booming theater chain and a company famous for making big-screen, gee-whiz movies. What do you get? Perhaps the cornerstone to one of the most ambitious development plans downtown Akron has ever seen, highlighted ...
Mayfield, Ohio-Based Scott Technologies Gives Mixed News for Quarter.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Scott Technologies Inc. yesterday replaced its chairman of the board, announced a third-quarter loss and expanded its stock repurchase plan. Mayfield-based Scott, maker of sophisticated respiratory systems and other ...
Sun Television Closes Fairlawn, Ohio, Store.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--At the Sun Television and Appliance store in Fairlawn yesterday, it looked like a typical weekday afternoon. One customer was checking out stereo components, while a couple took a tape measure to a refrigerator. If not for ...
Downtown Development Project Excites Akron, Ohio.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--The largest downtown development project in Akron's history was endorsed yesterday by a coalition of government leaders and private developers. "We expect there will be discussion and debate," said Mayor Don Plusquellic, ...
Akron, Ohio, Residents Wonder if Downtown Project Will Really Help Downtown.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--A proposed cultural and housing district in downtown Akron sparked reactions varying from doubts anyone would want to live there to hopes it will spur business growth. Some worried the Akron Civic Theatre would lose its ...
Former Anchorage, Alaska, Daily News Publisher to Lead Denver Post.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Former Anchorage Daily News publisher Jerry Grilly was named publisher of The Denver Post on Monday. In his new job Grilly, 51, will find himself in a familiar position -- at the helm of a newspaper locked in a war with a ...
Fortune Magazine Ranks Phoenix Fourth Best City for Business.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Phoenix is the nation's fourth best city for business, according to Fortune magazine. In making the designation, the magazine noted the Valley's tremendous business growth of 174percent during the past 20 years. By ...
America West Attendants Vote to Strike if Talks Falter.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--America West Airlines flight attendants voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike if contract negotiations between their union and the carrier break down. The results were announced at a union rally Monday at Gibson's ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Business Press Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--ATLANTA--The stocks of smaller companies, which have miserably underperformed the larger blue chips for more than a year, are booming and Fortune (Nov. 23) says there's reason to think that will continue. Prudential ...
Despair Not; Coping Advice Abounds for Year 2000 Problem.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--The hellfire stories abound. A great collapse may be triggered by Y2K-plagued computer chips embedded in machinery of all kinds. Fortunately, advice about coping has also begun bubbling to the surface. A good starting ...
Magazine Article Reports Of General Motors Dealings at Ohio Plant.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--MORAINE, Ohio--A Time magazine cover story on corporate welfare slams General Motors' tax breaks in Moraine as an example of the company's "auctioning its surviving jobs to the highest bidders." The magazine, which hit ...
New Austin, Texas, Airport to Join Global Trend in Off-Runway Retailing.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--A wait at the airport used to mean an overpriced hot dog and some other city's newspaper. Pretzels twirling behind glass. Passengers impatiently checking watches. Fuzzy voices on the intercom. Depending on the city, the gift ...
Texas Newspapers Report Flat Circulation.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Circulation at most Texas' biggest newspapers remained near the same levels as a year ago, mirroring a trend nationally among the nation's largest dailies. The Austin American-Statesman had some of the biggest percentage ...
Leaders Bask in Fortune Magazine's No. 1 Ranking of Austin, Texas.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Put in a call to Salt Lake City's chamber of commerce and ask what happened when Fortune magazine named the city "Best Place for Business," in 1990. Nancy Volmer, a spokeswoman for the chamber of commerce there, effuses ...
Group Warns against Ending Erie County, N.Y.'s Share of Sales Tax.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--A proposal to permanently eliminate Erie County's share of the 8 percent sales tax on clothing and footwear might backfire, foisting even bigger tax burdens onto businesses and homeowners, the region's largest business advocacy group ...
SBA Loan Guarantees to Minority Firms Decline in Buffalo, N.Y..
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Loan guarantees to minority-owned companies by the U.S. Small Business Administration doubled over the past five years, but SBA Administrator Aida Alvarez said Monday that it will take time for new outreach efforts to take hold. ...
Lockport, N.Y., Bank Hires Workers from Bank of America.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Lockport Savings Bank is nearly doubling its mortgage division by adding 10 employees from a Bank of America mortgage branch in Williamsville. BankAmerica Corp. is closing its Western New York mortgage office following a ...
Dispute over Union Label Stirs Up Buffalo, N.Y.-Area Printing Industry.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Losing its right to print the union label wasn't the only thing that drove Franklin Printing out of business in July, owner Irene Colvin said. But it certainly didn't help. "It had a very adverse effect on my ...
Failed Run by New York Candidate Appears to Boost His Payroll Services Firm.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Independence Party candidate B. Thomas Golisano came out way ahead Tuesday -- even after dropping an estimated $20 million of his own money on a failed bid to become governor. That's because the $20 million that Golisano ...
Amherst, N.Y., Firm Becomes Top Ad Agency for Pizza Hut Franchises.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--They stuffed a Pizza Hut in Watertown to maximum capacity under the watchful eye of a fire marshal to promote stuffed crust pizza. They parked a live Buffalo on the steps of Buffalo City Hall three years ago to promote Pizza ...
Banana Shipments Resume at Gulfport, Miss., Port.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--GULFPORT, Miss.--Banana shipments are resuming at the state port, although the cargo has come from South and Central American ports that were not damaged by Hurricane Mitch, which devastated Honduran agriculture and transportation. ...
Marine Scientists to Evaluate Work of Underwater Robots.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--GULFPORT, Miss.--To save money when gathering scientific information, the U.S. Navy has sponsored the development of untethered underwater vehicles, which will be tested near Ship Island this week. "Anything a ship can do, ...
Developers Plan 4,000 Acre Community in Harrison County, Miss..
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--A 4,000-acre, $100 million planned community in north-central Harrison County will be modeled after a similar development near Houston, Texas, backers of the project said Monday. Developers plan to break ground on a ...
Nashville, Tenn., Firm Plans New Facility in Bay St. Louis, Miss..
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.-- Crosby Memorial Hospital in Picayune has been leased under a just-signed, 30-year operating agreement with New American Healthcare Corp. of Nashville. New American Healthcare spokesman Dana C ....
Biloxi, Miss., Official Says Growth Warrants Grocery.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--BILOXI, Miss.--A Realtor and county development officials are trying to lure a drug store outlet or supermarket to the Cedar Popps Plaza in North Biloxi. Coast commercial real estate developer Barbara DeLano is working with ...
Banana Shipments Arrive at Gulfport, Miss., Dock.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--GULFPORT, Miss.--Banana shipments are resuming at the state port, although the cargo has come from South and Central American ports that were not damaged by Hurricane Mitch, which devastated Honduran agriculture and transportation. ...
Rival Claims Patent Infringement by Boulder, Colo.-Based Email Publishing.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--InfoBeat Inc., a Denver-based company that sends customized e-mail to subscribers, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Boulder-based Email Publishing Inc. InfoBeat, formerly called Mercury ...
Millennium Bug Set to Bite Embedded Chips in Myriad Home Systems.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--The millennium bug may put the bite on more than just computers. The digital glitch is poised to foul up billions of tiny devices that affect everyday life. These gizmos are called embedded chips and they are inside or ...
Parking Is Latest Lure for Companies in San Francisco Area.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Finding a place to park isn't as easy as it used to be. So car-friendly business parks of the East Bay with free or cheap spaces for cars have an edge over office complexes that don't. Until now, vacancy rates in Walnut ...
Charlotte, N.C., Basketball Team Hires Advertiser to Fill Seats.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--For the first time since their initial season 10 years ago, the Charlotte Hornets have hired a full-time advertising agency to help fill empty seats at the Coliseum. The team said it has hired the Richmond, Va.-based Martin ...
The Charlotte Observer, N.C., Business Briefs Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--ADVANTICA SEES LOSSES MOUNT: Advantica Restaurant Group lost $36.5 million, or 91 cents a share, in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $17.8 million, or 50 cents a share, a year ago. Revenue rose to $469 million from ...
The Charlotte Observer, N.C., Doug Smith Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--SUMMIT BUYS A LITTLE BIT OF TEXAS: Summit Properties Inc. is making a major thrust into Texas by acquiring 2,465 apartment units in a transaction valued at $175.9 million. The publicly held Charlotte company, which operates ...
Election Remakes Senate Banking Committee.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--Tuesday's election results will dramatically change the Senate's powerful committee on banking -- and the direction of bank-law modernization, industry lobbyists say. The defeat of committee chairman Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, ...
Charlotte, N.C., Firms Hope Trade Meeting Raises City's Profile.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--In this city where banking dominates the local scene, financial services will play a back-seat role at the international trade conference that begins today in Charlotte. Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue brings together 120 ...
13 Charleston, S.C., Hotels, Restaurants Receive Top Hospitality Rating.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--Charleston hotels and restaurants claimed 13 of the 25 four-diamond ratings that the Automobile Association of America awarded to South Carolina hospitality businesses Wednesday. The noted travel group's list, which is ...
Largest South Carolina Companies' 1998 Sales Beat Last Year's Figures.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--In a sign of steady if not surging financial growth in the state, sales at 100 of the largest privately held companies in South Carolina rose 4 percent to $11.74 billion from $11.26 billion a year ago. Spartanburg-based ...
State, Federal, University Groups to Create Lab on James Island, S.C..
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Construction could begin within three months on a $20 million, high-tech lab that will study man and the environment, especially the health of people and the sea. The Marine Environmental Health Research Laboratory on James ...
South Carolina Elects for Lottery-Touting Governor.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--COLUMBIA, S.C.--Jim Hodges wrote a new chapter in South Carolina political history as he brushed aside incumbent Republican Gov. David Beasley Tuesday to capture the top political post in the state. Hodges led from the start ...
Columbus, Ga., State University Foundation Buys Downtown Building.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--Columbus State University just became the latest organization to take up residence in downtown Columbus, Ga. A foundation set up to support the university has spent $1.6 million to buy the Rankin building, which spans the ...
Americus, Ga.-Based Housing Non-Profit Names Fundraising Director.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--AMERICUS, Ga.--Roger Congdon has been appointed director of donor development at Habitat for Humanity International, the Americus-based nonprofit house-building organization. Congdon brings more than 35 years of fundraising ...
Columbus, Ga., Firms Plan Expansion Despite Gloomy Economic Forecast.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--The stock market is shaky, consumer confidence is falling, foreign economies are collapsing and some U.S. economists are predicting a recession as early as next year. But those facts don't faze Columbus executives. They're ...
Officials in Harris County, Ga., to Hire Consultant for Power Plant.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Harris County commissioners will spend up to $6,117 for a private consultant to review the environmental assessment for a proposed peak-power generating plant in Cataula. The consultant will double check the environmental ...
Columbia, S.C., Mall to Close.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--The owners of Bush River Mall are closing the shopping center after 21 years because most of the tenants have left. Two occupants -- Ben Franklin Crafts and an express office of the Department of Motor Vehicles -- remain in ...
The State, Columbia, S.C., South Carolina Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--CONTINENTAL TO CONNECT STRAND TO NEWARK, N.J.: MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.--Continental Airlines plans to start daily service between Myrtle Beach International Airport and Newark, N.J., on Feb. 11. The flight is one of several new ...
South Carolina Consumer Agency Worries about Secret Insurance Rate Filings.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--The South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs is concerned that insurance regulators might be putting a "veil of secrecy" over new auto insurance rate filings. The South Carolina Department of Insurance has told Consumer ...
Texas Senator Gramm Takes Political Shot at Low-Income Lending Act.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--WASHINGTON--Texas Sen. Phil Gramm is expected to become chairman of the Senate Banking Committee in January when Congress convenes, but he already was kicking up some dust Wednesday. The Texas Republican took aim at the ...
Minnesota's Third-Party Victory Stirs Questions about Political Roles.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--He used to wear feather boas, pink tights and multiple earrings -- kissing his muscles as he entered the wrestling ring. But Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Minnesota's next governor and the Reform Party's big victor Tuesday, ...
Southwest Airlines Discusses Flights to New York's Long Island.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--After years of encircling the New York area, Southwest Airlines Co. is talking to Islip, N.Y., officials about bringing its low fares and frequent flights to the Long Island suburb. Southwest officials acknowledged ...
Dallas-Based Computer Firm Announces Sales-Center Closings, Layoffs.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--Dallas-based CompuCom Systems Inc. said Wednesday that it will spend up to $25 million this year to close 48 sales and service centers nationwide and lay off up to 10 percent of its 5,300-person workforce. The computer ...
The Dallas Morning News Career Strategies Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--SIGNING BONUS POPULAR AMID WORKER SHORTAGES: Holiday retail sales help, financial analysts, auto repair technicians and executives have something in common these days. Considered in scarce supply, these workers are ...
The Dallas Morning News Robert Miller Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--NANCY BRINKER TO RECEIVE SERVICE AWARD: Southwestern Medical Foundation cites Nancy Brinker's name as being "synonymous with raising the country's awareness of breast cancer" in announcing that she will receive SMF's 1998 Charles ...
British Airways Announces Improvements for Economy Class.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Improvements to an airline's first-class section may be interesting, but that's not where most of us fly most of the time. Now, British Airways is investing a lot of money to improve the part of the airplane where the cheap ...
Bank of America to Close 59 Branches in Texas' Dallas, Tarrant Counties.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--The merger of NationsBank Corp. and BankAmerica Corp. will lead to the closing in April of 59 banking centers in Dallas and Tarrant counties, a NationsBank spokeswoman said Tuesday. Bank officials will not disclose the ...
Coppell, Texas-Based Crafts Retailer MJDesigns Closes 11 Stores.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Arts and crafts retailer MJDesigns Inc. is closing 11 unprofitable stores, including five in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where it has been the dominant player since the 1970s. The Coppell-based, privately held retailer is ...
CarMax Relies on Individual Car Owners to Build Up Inventory.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--A few months ago, a young woman in a new Mustang whipped into the "appraisal lane" at CarMax's used-car megastore in Irving. She had just won the car in a contest and wondered what it was worth. When a CarMax buyer figured ...
Dallas-Based FirstPlus Reports $82 Million Loss.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Dallas-based FirstPlus Financial Group Inc. on Tuesday reported a third-quarter net loss of $82 million, or $2.07 a share, reflecting charges and operating losses from discontinued operations. In the third quarter of 1997, ...
Texas Drops Plan for HMO Guidelines.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--Reversing an earlier position, Texas Insurance Commissioner Elton Bomer said Tuesday that he no longer plans to issue guidelines on the proper use of HMO financial incentives for physicians. The commissioner agreed in August ...
Michigan Computer Store Chain to Close.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--Inca Computer Co. disclosed Wednesday it will close its remaining four stores, all in Michigan, and liquidate the money-losing operation. Inca Chairman Waad Nadhir said Inca made the decision two weeks ago but continued to ...
Effort Renewed to Make Seat Belts Mandatory in Michigan.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--WASHINGTON--The outlook for a bill that would make wearing seat belts mandatory in Michigan dimmed with this week's state elections, but backers are beginning a last-ditch push to get it passed this month. The Michigan ...
Detroit-Based Firm Enters Heating, Cooling Market.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--MCN Energy Group Inc., the company that owns Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. (MichCon), wants to become a major player in the state's $1.2-billion-a-year heating, ventilation and air-conditioning market. The Detroit-based ...
Detroit Free Press Michigan Memo Column.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--THORN APPLE VALLEY INC. lost $2.9 million, or 47 cents per share, on sales of $139.21 million for its first quarter of fiscal 1999, ended Sept. 18. The Southfield-based meat processor lost $3.098 million, or 51 cents per share, on ...
Big Three Auto Makers Enjoyed Strong October.
Nov 04, 1998; ... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--October was surprisingly strong for the nation's automakers, with sales up 10 percent over October 1997, despite talk of a slowing economy. Led by its new midsize cars, General Motors Corp. bounced back from the summer's ...