August 13th, 2010
Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. is continuing its international expansion.
The Atlanta-based restaurant company announced a deal Tuesday between its international subsidiary and a Russia-based franchisee to open 180 dual-branded Wendy’s/Arby’s locations in Russia in the next 10 years.
“Russia is a dynamic market which offers significant long-term expansion potential,” Wendy’s/Arby’s CEO Roland Smith said in a release.
The deal […]
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June 13th, 2010
Southern California figures to be plug-in electric central when Chevy’s Volt and Nissan’s Leaf hit the market this year. But Duke Energy’s Mike Rowand sees surprising interest in the Carolinas and Midwest – including the Triangle.
Speaking at an electric-vehicle briefing Thursday, Rowand predicted that Charlotte and Raleigh will be among a dozen or so cities […]
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June 9th, 2010
Business First has posted six databases that allow you to sort through this year’s elementary school rankings and gather additional information about specific schools.
Follow these links:
• Overall rankings of elementary schools
• Rankings of public elementary schools
• Rankings of private elementary schools
• Rankings of elementary schools in English language arts
• Rankings of elementary schools in mathematics
• […]
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May 5th, 2010
Chrysler Group LLC says cost cuts, manufacturing efficiency and disciplined pricing helped the Italian-run automaker slash its net loss to $197 million in the first quarter.
The red ink was far less than the staggering $3.8 billion it lost from the time it left bankruptcy protection June 10 through the end of last […]
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April 13th, 2010
Fortune editor at large Peter Elkind spent almost two years working on his new book, Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, due out from Portfolio April 20. An exclusive excerpt of the book will appear in the next issue of Fortune and on Fortune.com. Elkind recently interviewed Spitzer again about his […]
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January 21st, 2010
The prospective new owners of the Phoenix Coyotes are willing to sign a long-term lease to keep the team in Arizona, but they also are looking at playing some “home” games in western Canada to boost revenue and attendance.
Ice Edge Holdings Inc. also is talking about parking charges at the Glendale-owned Jobing.com Arena to help […]
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January 8th, 2010
Despite any concerns about economic woes, more Houston Business Journal readers want to focus on their health in the new year.
Of the 328 responses to this week’s BusinessPulse survey asking about New Year’s resolutions, 26 percent said they want to lose weight. That was closely followed by 24 percent who didn’t make resolutions.
Other survey choices […]
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January 1st, 2010
Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in October for a fifth consecutive month, putting the housing market and economy farther along the path to recovery.
The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index increased 0.4 percent from the prior month on a seasonally adjusted basis, after a 0.2 percent rise in September, the group said today in […]
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December 25th, 2009
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA said Monday that it plans to buy U.S. health care company Chattem Inc., maker of over-the-counter mainstays such as Gold Bond skin products, for $1.9 billion in cash.
The deal also gives Sanofi-Aventis a distribution path for its popular allergy drug Allegra, which it wants to switch from prescription-only […]
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December 14th, 2009
New Zealand’s central bank may raise its benchmark interest rate as early as March as a surging housing market stokes consumer spending and fans inflation, according to economists and traders.
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard yesterday said he may raise the official cash rate from a record-low 2.5 percent “around the middle of 2010” […]
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