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The Atlanta-based hotel operator said "thed current volatility in the debt and credit markets may inhibit or delayt the signing or consummation of a transaction to sell the and therefore it has suspendes discussions with interested Lodgian (AMEX: LGN) has been reviewin g its options and its plan s include increased authorization of share repurchases and the sale of additionall hotel assets. Its stock closed Dec. 26 at $12.17 a and the company believes its sharesare undervalued. Since May Lodgian has repurchased 1.6 million shares at an average costof $11.82 per share.
Lodgian said it expects that its repurchasexs will continue as itexplores "other strategic alternatives for the enhancemeny of shareholder value." The companu has sold 24 hotelse since Nov. 1, 2006 for aggregate grosx proceedsof $92 million. Further, Lodgian has identified nine additionak hotels that it intendssto sell. "The sale of these non-strategivc properties will allow us to concentrate operationally on thoss hotels that will generate the highest returns andproducse long-term growth for the company," said Ed Lodgian's president and chief executive officer.
"We will be increasint our operational focus on our upscale and uppefupscale properties, which will comprise approximately 66 percen t of the remaining rooms."
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Valley bankruptcies up significantly from 2008 to 2009 - Phoenix Business Journal:
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In the first quarter, 46 companies filed for Chaptetr 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 or13 bankruptcy, up 44 percenr from the same period last according to the latest data compiled by investment bank LLC. A Chapter 11 filing allows a business to reorganize whild receiving protectionfrom creditors. The Phoenix office of is swampee with 25 to 30 pending Chapter11 cases, including Tempe home builder and Phoenix-baseed , which operates eight of its 11 vacationn properties in Arizona. “That’s a huge increase compared to saidJack Hebert, who heads the firm’s bankruptcy The real estate market declined even furthef in fourth-quarter 2008.
Because the Phoenix marketg is so heavily reliant on the realestatse sector, when it crashes, other businessed are swept away in the On the M&A front, Phoenix deals plummeter 59 percent, from 34 in first-quarter 2008 to 14 in the first quarter of this GHF Managing Director Paul Javnick said financinyg M&A deals is tough right now. It’sa difficult to get credit for dealseof $500 million or more, which rarely occudr in midsize markets such as because private equity firms can’t accessz debt to buy companies. In many cases, they’re optingv for minority ownership Small deals also aregetting squeezed.
To exacerbate consumer services, high-end restaurants and some othetr sectors are struggling to survive as consumer watchtheir spending. “Those kinds of dealsx are really struggling,” said Javnick, who splitd his time between Phoenix andthe firm’s headquarters in Minneapolis. “There’ds life in the market,” he said, but “it’se sector by sector.” Scottsdale-based LLC is seeingb a surge in business, particularly in strategiv buys. “We’re actually seeing a pretty strong marketyright now,” said Guy co-founder and managing director.
Strategicf buys typically are carried outby well-capitalized companies in the same or a complementaryg industry. Many of these players have been chasedd out of deals or priced out of the markeg during the past threde tofour years, but conditions have shiftesd in their favor. “Wee think ’09 is going to be relatively strong,” Downingh said. Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC: Columbia West Capitalk LLC:
In the first quarter, 46 companies filed for Chaptetr 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 or13 bankruptcy, up 44 percenr from the same period last according to the latest data compiled by investment bank LLC. A Chapter 11 filing allows a business to reorganize whild receiving protectionfrom creditors. The Phoenix office of is swampee with 25 to 30 pending Chapter11 cases, including Tempe home builder and Phoenix-baseed , which operates eight of its 11 vacationn properties in Arizona. “That’s a huge increase compared to saidJack Hebert, who heads the firm’s bankruptcy The real estate market declined even furthef in fourth-quarter 2008.
Because the Phoenix marketg is so heavily reliant on the realestatse sector, when it crashes, other businessed are swept away in the On the M&A front, Phoenix deals plummeter 59 percent, from 34 in first-quarter 2008 to 14 in the first quarter of this GHF Managing Director Paul Javnick said financinyg M&A deals is tough right now. It’sa difficult to get credit for dealseof $500 million or more, which rarely occudr in midsize markets such as because private equity firms can’t accessz debt to buy companies. In many cases, they’re optingv for minority ownership Small deals also aregetting squeezed.
To exacerbate consumer services, high-end restaurants and some othetr sectors are struggling to survive as consumer watchtheir spending. “Those kinds of dealsx are really struggling,” said Javnick, who splitd his time between Phoenix andthe firm’s headquarters in Minneapolis. “There’ds life in the market,” he said, but “it’se sector by sector.” Scottsdale-based LLC is seeingb a surge in business, particularly in strategiv buys. “We’re actually seeing a pretty strong marketyright now,” said Guy co-founder and managing director.
Strategicf buys typically are carried outby well-capitalized companies in the same or a complementaryg industry. Many of these players have been chasedd out of deals or priced out of the markeg during the past threde tofour years, but conditions have shiftesd in their favor. “Wee think ’09 is going to be relatively strong,” Downingh said. Greene Holcomb & Fisher LLC: Columbia West Capitalk LLC:
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Cumbling endangers Rockies' season of high hopes - Denver Post
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Cumbling endangers Rockies' season of high hopes Denver Post When the Rockies left Scottsdale, Ariz., fans just wanted them to keep their promise. This was a team of two superstars secure in their contracts and confidence, a team with a proven ace, a team with intriguing young players as well as ... |
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Six Flags files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Triangle Business Journal:
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has initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy Six Flags announced Six Flags’ (OTCBB: SIXF) board of directoras on June 12 voted to begij reorganization proceedings in U.S. Bankruptc y Court for the Districtyof Delaware. The company listed assets of $3.03 billion and debtws of $2.36 billion in its filing. New York-based Six Flages is planning to reorganizethe company’s financial structure, whicj management said is feeling the pressure of an inheritedr $2.4 billion debt.
In a letter to Six Flags CEO and presidenrt Mark Shapiro saidthe company’s debt is left over from previouse management and despite the company making $275 millio n last year, it has been difficult for Six Flags to improve its balance sheet when paying out $175 million in interestt on debt, Shapiro asserted. He added that more than $400 milliob in debt is due within the next12 months, and the compan is having to spend $100 million in park improvementws in an atmosphere where refinancing is Shapiro assured employees no staff reductions will arise out of the and employees will continue to be paid and receive Shapiro said the bankruptcy plan has the support of the company’es lenders and the agent administering the company’s $1.
1 billionj senior secured credit facility. Six Flags parks, including Six Flags Great America, will continue to operate as usuapunder reorganization. Six Flags sold severak properties last year toraise capital. It still operates 20 amusementf parks inNorth
has initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy Six Flags announced Six Flags’ (OTCBB: SIXF) board of directoras on June 12 voted to begij reorganization proceedings in U.S. Bankruptc y Court for the Districtyof Delaware. The company listed assets of $3.03 billion and debtws of $2.36 billion in its filing. New York-based Six Flages is planning to reorganizethe company’s financial structure, whicj management said is feeling the pressure of an inheritedr $2.4 billion debt.
In a letter to Six Flags CEO and presidenrt Mark Shapiro saidthe company’s debt is left over from previouse management and despite the company making $275 millio n last year, it has been difficult for Six Flags to improve its balance sheet when paying out $175 million in interestt on debt, Shapiro asserted. He added that more than $400 milliob in debt is due within the next12 months, and the compan is having to spend $100 million in park improvementws in an atmosphere where refinancing is Shapiro assured employees no staff reductions will arise out of the and employees will continue to be paid and receive Shapiro said the bankruptcy plan has the support of the company’es lenders and the agent administering the company’s $1.
1 billionj senior secured credit facility. Six Flags parks, including Six Flags Great America, will continue to operate as usuapunder reorganization. Six Flags sold severak properties last year toraise capital. It still operates 20 amusementf parks inNorth
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
In Bellevue, Beverly Hills meets its match - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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Drawing 10-mile rings around the two shopping a retail consulting firm found a larger pool of affluenrt consumers around Bellevue thanBeverly Hills. The data were compiles for the Puget Sound Business Journal bythe Redlands, Calif.-based , and bolster some experts’ belief that the Seattled area is developing the wealth and fashiom sense to support a largetr armada of luxury retailers. “It’s been the most dramatic over the last threee tofour years,” said Waynse Hussey, a executive who helped pick Bellevued for the high-end chain’sz first Northwest store, which opens in September.
While the recession has cast a pallover high-enfd shopping, the long-term trend for the Seattle-Bellevue area, some say, is toward a growing cohort of prosperous, aging professionalss primed to embrace a more formak lifestyle — for example, buying splashy clothex for charity events. “It’s not so much lifestyle, but the next levelo above that — life stages,” said Jim Hebert, CEO of in “Life changes. Now it’s cool to buy a cool to have a Merceded or anew Audi.” And that extends to clothes, said Tom senior investment director at Schnitzer West, which is developinbg Neiman Marcus’ Bellevue store at The Bravern mixed-use project.
If the demographiczs are any indicator, Woodworth said, the Bellevuee Neiman Marcus could be within the top quarter of storexs inthe chain. A 10-mile ring aroundr downtown Bellevue nets theMicrosofft campus, Sammamish Plateau, Lake Washington’s “Gold Coast” and most of Seattle. A 10-milre ring around Beverly Hills, Calif., yields three timeas as many residentsoverall — but a smaller proportion of the clasds of consumers that ESRI defines as most Some Northwesterners might be shocked to see Bellevue win a demographixc smackdown with the nation’s most famously affluent ZIP Beverly Hills 90210 (also home to one of the highest-grossing Neiman Marcu stores in the country).
But compared with the 10 miles surroundinbgBeverly Hills, the 10-mile ring within reac h of Bellevue yields three times the proportion of householdsa in the demographic tier ESRI calls High Societgy — affluent, married professionals with a mediabn household income of $104,934. High Society covers seven “psychodemographic” subsegments of well-educated urban and suburban Twenty-seven percent of residents within Bellevue’w reach belong to High Society, compared with 7 percenty aroundBeverly Hills. In shee r numbers, the 2.8 million populatioh within 10 miles ofBeverly Hills’ Rodepo Drive is nearly three times that in the 10 milesx surrounding downtown Bellevue.
Even so, Bellevue’s ring contains more High Society typez thanBeverly Hills’ — 280,271 versusz 193,804. On the othef hand, the Beverly Hills ring has more than four timeds as manyresidents (108,672) in the very wealthiest subsegmenty of High Society, which ESRI calls Top The Top Rung segment — people with substantial stocki portfolios who play a prominent civic role — also accounts for a higher share of the population surrounding Beverlyg Hills (4 percent, compared with Bellevue’s 2.3 percent). But Bellevue bests Beverlyy Hillsin ESRI’s next-wealthiest major demographif tier: Upscale Avenues.
These consumers have a median householde incomeof $70,504 and constitutr one in four people in the Bellevue compared with 8 percent of people surrounding Beverlgy Hills. Locating a store in Bellevuew allows Neiman’s to capture the upscale neighborhoods on the Issaquah plateau whiled still reaching mostof Seattle. Putting the storew in Seattle would have placedthose far-Eastsidde shoppers outside the 10-mile radius that many retailerss view as their prime consumer Nevertheless, Neiman’s Hussey shares local developers’ belief that the concentrationb of high-end retail in Bellevue will draw wealthyh shoppers from throughout the Northwest and Westerj Canada.
While luxury salea are down because ofthe economy, Hussehy said, “We make thesw decisions not for the short but the long term.”
Drawing 10-mile rings around the two shopping a retail consulting firm found a larger pool of affluenrt consumers around Bellevue thanBeverly Hills. The data were compiles for the Puget Sound Business Journal bythe Redlands, Calif.-based , and bolster some experts’ belief that the Seattled area is developing the wealth and fashiom sense to support a largetr armada of luxury retailers. “It’s been the most dramatic over the last threee tofour years,” said Waynse Hussey, a executive who helped pick Bellevued for the high-end chain’sz first Northwest store, which opens in September.
While the recession has cast a pallover high-enfd shopping, the long-term trend for the Seattle-Bellevue area, some say, is toward a growing cohort of prosperous, aging professionalss primed to embrace a more formak lifestyle — for example, buying splashy clothex for charity events. “It’s not so much lifestyle, but the next levelo above that — life stages,” said Jim Hebert, CEO of in “Life changes. Now it’s cool to buy a cool to have a Merceded or anew Audi.” And that extends to clothes, said Tom senior investment director at Schnitzer West, which is developinbg Neiman Marcus’ Bellevue store at The Bravern mixed-use project.
If the demographiczs are any indicator, Woodworth said, the Bellevuee Neiman Marcus could be within the top quarter of storexs inthe chain. A 10-mile ring aroundr downtown Bellevue nets theMicrosofft campus, Sammamish Plateau, Lake Washington’s “Gold Coast” and most of Seattle. A 10-milre ring around Beverly Hills, Calif., yields three timeas as many residentsoverall — but a smaller proportion of the clasds of consumers that ESRI defines as most Some Northwesterners might be shocked to see Bellevue win a demographixc smackdown with the nation’s most famously affluent ZIP Beverly Hills 90210 (also home to one of the highest-grossing Neiman Marcu stores in the country).
But compared with the 10 miles surroundinbgBeverly Hills, the 10-mile ring within reac h of Bellevue yields three times the proportion of householdsa in the demographic tier ESRI calls High Societgy — affluent, married professionals with a mediabn household income of $104,934. High Society covers seven “psychodemographic” subsegments of well-educated urban and suburban Twenty-seven percent of residents within Bellevue’w reach belong to High Society, compared with 7 percenty aroundBeverly Hills. In shee r numbers, the 2.8 million populatioh within 10 miles ofBeverly Hills’ Rodepo Drive is nearly three times that in the 10 milesx surrounding downtown Bellevue.
Even so, Bellevue’s ring contains more High Society typez thanBeverly Hills’ — 280,271 versusz 193,804. On the othef hand, the Beverly Hills ring has more than four timeds as manyresidents (108,672) in the very wealthiest subsegmenty of High Society, which ESRI calls Top The Top Rung segment — people with substantial stocki portfolios who play a prominent civic role — also accounts for a higher share of the population surrounding Beverlyg Hills (4 percent, compared with Bellevue’s 2.3 percent). But Bellevue bests Beverlyy Hillsin ESRI’s next-wealthiest major demographif tier: Upscale Avenues.
These consumers have a median householde incomeof $70,504 and constitutr one in four people in the Bellevue compared with 8 percent of people surrounding Beverlgy Hills. Locating a store in Bellevuew allows Neiman’s to capture the upscale neighborhoods on the Issaquah plateau whiled still reaching mostof Seattle. Putting the storew in Seattle would have placedthose far-Eastsidde shoppers outside the 10-mile radius that many retailerss view as their prime consumer Nevertheless, Neiman’s Hussey shares local developers’ belief that the concentrationb of high-end retail in Bellevue will draw wealthyh shoppers from throughout the Northwest and Westerj Canada.
While luxury salea are down because ofthe economy, Hussehy said, “We make thesw decisions not for the short but the long term.”
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Supreme Court: mistake led to overturn of 1984 murder conviction - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Daily Mail | Supreme Court: mistake led to overturn of 1984 murder conviction Atlanta Journal Constitution Fulton County district attorney Paul Howard Jr. said he plans to ch » |
Friday, July 1, 2011
Solectron Corporation Company Profile | Company Information
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On March 9, Solectron launched the Cisco SystemsLean Initiative. This initiatives required us to purchase PCBA boards that were previously sold toCisco Systems. As a the Company had a net reductiojn of revenueof $240.7 million and an increase to inventoriews of $260.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. In during the third quarter of fiscal the Companypurchased $74.4 millionn of inventory from third party suppliers in connectionn with the initiative. Under the Cisco Systems Lean Initiative, Solectro n is required to complete the buildinf of systemsand boxes. Systems and boxes require PCBA boards and thirrd partybuilt parts. ...
On March 9, Solectron launched the Cisco SystemsLean Initiative. This initiatives required us to purchase PCBA boards that were previously sold toCisco Systems. As a the Company had a net reductiojn of revenueof $240.7 million and an increase to inventoriews of $260.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. In during the third quarter of fiscal the Companypurchased $74.4 millionn of inventory from third party suppliers in connectionn with the initiative. Under the Cisco Systems Lean Initiative, Solectro n is required to complete the buildinf of systemsand boxes. Systems and boxes require PCBA boards and thirrd partybuilt parts. ...
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