New owner not changing Bi-Loâs market focus
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Bi-Loâs chief executive officer said the grocery chainâs sale will not change its focus as a regional supermarket, and he only hopes customers find improvements in the future.
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By Jeff Kiger, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 20--A Rochester real estate agency has signed on to market the retail space in the to-be-built Biobusiness Center.   The Rochester City Council recently brought on Realty Growth Inc.
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The real issue users need to keep their eyes on is will these three companies be able to leave well enough alone. How other companies have handled past acquisitions might provide some insight into how these company mergers and their products will fare long term.
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US equity fund Newbridge Capital Ltd., which is selling Korea First Bank, yesterday postponed its anouncement of a preferred bidder, indicating that it is having difficulty setting the sale price with HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc.
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The fundamentals (eg, wage or population growth) are present to support a strong property market in Hong Kong. Wages in Hong Kong are not rising.
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Enterprises are focusing the customer experience like never before. In fact, over 80 percent of those recently surveyed by Forrester Research say that customer satisfaction will be more important for them this year than last. Almost none indicated that it would be less important in the coming months.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ex-Fed chief said it's not clear if a proposed $75 bil fund to ease the current credit crisis will work. The fund, created by Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan, will buy high-quality assets of structured investment vehicles. Alan Greenspan said, "The issue here is how do you stabilize this sort of market ... will an intervention do that? If you go into a market and absorb a chunk of supply by essentially bidding above what fire-sale prices might be, that might persuade others from trying to get out of the market."
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A safe bet? Comment I met with Gerry Cohen last week, the founder CEO of BI vendor Information Builders (IB). After 30 years in the business he still has an infectious enthusiasm for software. As has Jim Goodnight, the founder CEO of SAS, and Michael Saylor, the founder CEO of MicroStrategy, who founded his company in 1989. Between them, this triumvirate of founder CEOs account for $2.3bn of worldwide annual BI industry sales: about one-third of the whole BI market.â¦
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By Dave Flessner, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 19--Like most of the 600,000 items it helped sell through eBay's online auction, NuMarkets itself is getting a new owner in a new location.
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Investor's Business Daily - Recent data suggest the game is over in the Web-based social networking field, but that isn&#39;t stopping new new players from joining in.
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CHICAGO Here&#39;s an interesting business proposition: Win a new client in a hot category. Take two years to improve that client&#39;s bottom line and expand its customer base. Then, if you&#39;re successful, expect to lose the client after it&#39;s acquired by another company.
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Investor's Business Daily - Operating a wireless phone company is hardly a license to print money. Many wireless firms struggle to generate cash flow. It normally takes years to break even.
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A doubling of earnings, but no jump in stock price?
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IT has never been able to prove it's true value to the business, and as such it is treated as a cost center, which is the first thing to get cut in poorly run companies. But with Web 2.0 booming, all the assumptions that you hold about IT should be put on notice: change is in the air. Web 2.0 companies have had to grow their own technology for economic functionality. Free means crap right? Wrong. How many of you keep Yahoo! Mail running on your BlackBerry's along with Exchange because you know Exchange will be down sooner or later?
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The effort to create future customers is working, darn it!
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Business & money: Â· Business reborn after new stock offer accepted  Â· Debt halved as vote ends difficult chapter for firm
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The brokersâ customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. How could that happen?