[Dynamic Dads] Picture Perfect: Kordale and Kaleb on Raising Their Own Picture Perfect Family
I tell my children that in this world you have all types of parents and families.
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Want to Help Save the Planet?
There have always been pockets of people pushing our government and anyone who would listen to help preserve the planet. With global climate changes in recent years and an increase in natural disasters, this body of Earth enthusiasts is growing. Gallup’s 2007 survey on environmental issues shows 70% to 80% of Americans have a “great deal or a fair amount of worry†about where our planet is headed.
Bella Figura
With a history steeped in the arts, Florence, the capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, today provides some the world’s finest fashion goods. Salvatore Ferragamo is a leading style merchant. There...
Selling The Brand
When UPS needed someone to make reusable vinyl bags to sort small goods in its hubs three years ago, the conglomerate didn’t go to one of its large suppliers to...
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.