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Sizzling Returns

Thompson hospitality was in crisis mode. Founded a few months earlier in 1992 when CEO Warren M. Thompson negotiated a leveraged buyout of 31 Big Boy restaurants from Marriott Corp., the fledgling company was neck-deep in debt. Herndon, Virginia-based Thompson Hospitality Corp. (No. 12 on the BE industrial/service companies list with $321 million in revenues) acquired the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia restaurants for $13.1 million. THC also raised $1.9 million in capital from about 25 investors, and Thompson anted up about $100,000 of his own cash to convert the locations into Shoney’s restaurants. But the transaction wasn’t going according to plan.

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Stand And Deliver

When Kevin Cohee, chairman and CEO of OneUnited Bank, looks at One Lincoln Street in Boston’s financial district, he sees his vision for the future of black-owned banks slowly coming...

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Black Gold

Kase L. Lawal approaches the podium with his usual serenity. He looks at the crowd of more than 200 well-wishers who traveled from all over the country-and across the globe-to...

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Let It Flow

Her understanding that style is as much about comfort and fluidity as it is about looking good has endeared designer Angela Dean to many celebrity clients. Through the DeanZign (www.deanzign.com) boutique she established in the mid-80s in Los Angeles, Dean has fitted every womanly form from Oprah Winfrey to Paris Hilton. And now she’s introduced a ready-to-wear collection to appeal to “real women with real bodies.”

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