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DISCOUNT clothing retailer Matalan has drawn interest from at least five major buy-out firms in the opening stages of a £1.5 billion auction, it was reported today. Private equity buyers TPG, Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, BC...
Nov 21 2009 by Sion Barry, Western Mail BUSINESS in the Community has announced it will launch a South and West Wales ProHelp network. Established in 1989, ProHelp is a UK network of over 600 professionals, from large...
Battery-powered hamsters that scoot around a track are flying off store shelves, giving recession-wracked retailers a needed boost Remember the Cabbage Patch Kids craze? Meet their 2009 brethren, Zhu Zhu Pets. "Nobody saw these...
I couldn't help looking at the eyes of those behind the wheels of cars barely nudging along in wind-lashed rain-soaked gridlock. Dribs and drabs of it slip from the lips of the politicians and bankers and trade union leaders...
Once they plotted revolutions, now they're typing blogs. Today's cafe society is a weak decaf. By MICHAEL IDOV The coffeehouse may just be mankind's greatest invention. It certainly is the most collective one: In the classic,...
By Pav Jordan TORONTO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Cossette Inc, Canada's largest homegrown ad firm, urged shareholders late on Friday to accept an buyout offer from Mill Road Capital, saying a higher proposal from another firm did not...
Adweek Ex-Ad Exec Arnold Rosoff Dies Adweek Arnold Rosoff, one of the pillars of the ad business in New England, a stalwart champion of social justice and the man who in 1946 founded the shop that ... and more »
Published: Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 8:42 p.m. MST NEW YORK — Danish Modern furniture. Flat-screen TVs. Free Wi-Fi. You want fries with that? A McDonald's in midtown Manhattan became the first in the U.S. this fall to undergo a...
Oklahoma opened the season with high expectations and it's been able to live up to them so far with back-to-back wins. Its most recent victory, though, had coach Jeff Capel extremely frustrated. The 17th-ranked Sooners go on...
By Matt Katz, Allison Steele, and John Shiffman Inquirer Staff Writers The FBI is investigating allegations that three Camden police officers stole money and narcotics from drug dealers, according to several law enforcement...
