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Friday, October 14, 2011
Isn't there a better way to pick a vice president? - Washington Post
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A whole new game: Downturn impacts Bucks, Packers - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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The team raised ticket pricee an average of 4 percent for the2009 season, somewhat scaled back from what it might have done in better economicf times, Schlesinger said. “We spent a lot of time looking at what othert teams did after they madethe playoffs, whilwe also factoring in where the economy was,” he said. “zA lot of teams that have made the playoffs in the past have raisex prices bydouble digits. But we want to err on the side of The Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals lowered thei r ticket prices for the2009 season, but Schlesingef said most other teams have held stable or had small increases.
As for sponsorships, Schlesinget said the Brewers are projected tohave “a percent increase in The biggest deal was the new pact signecd by in January to be the presenting sponso r of the team. Terms were not disclosed, but it is the largest sponsorship deal other than the naminf rights deal for Miller Park signed by The team lost one of itsmajot sponsors, , which puller out of its naming rights deal for the rightfield picnic area at the end of the 2008 signed a multiyear partnership this week to take over the which will be renamed the AirTran Airways Landingb Zone.
Schlesinger said the team moverd ahead with all of its planneed Miller Parkcapital projects, including the overhaul of the team’s retaiol store along the leftfield The only project that has been put off is the replacemenyt of the centerfield scoreboard, whicbh was planned for 2010. “It is a huge investment for us and we just decidedd it would be better if we wait a year or he said. “It is not like the existing scoreboarde isnot working.” Schlesinger said the Brewers have not reducedc staff, but the team is not expecting to add any new positionz in the coming months. “We are doinhg much better thanother teams,” he said.
“But we know that can So we are watching everything very Steinmiller said the team is averaging slightly morethan 15,00 fans per game, down from the 15,609 it averaged during the 2007-08 At a recent Monday night game, there was an announcedf crowd of about 12,000. “People who in the past have come to 10 gamesz are now coming to seven or he said. “People are more pricew conscious.” In response, the Bucks offered most of theBradlet Center’s upper level seats for $10 per game in November and December. The team also introduced special deals with that includew ticketsand pizza, along with a soon-to-be-announced similar deal with Applebee’a restaurants.
The Bucks have signed with to includes a ticket special in all of thecablw company’s Milwaukee-area bills in the coming For existing ticket holders, the team has addef pre-game events with Bucks’ general manager John along with new club areazs for fans to get food and drink during the “I really think the $10 ticket gave us a bump and blunter a little effect of what was going on in the Steinmiller said. Team Marketing Report’xs Jon Greenberg said the Bucks are in a tougj position because they have to be careful that theit discount ticketoffers don’t offend the fans buying the high-pricec seats near the court.
“You don’gt want to insult your season ticket holderswith cut-ratre prices,” he said. “Bugt on the other hand, given their struggles over the pastfew seasons, the Bucks are goint to have to be incredibly creative to get people in the seats.” Steinmiller said the team has increasedf its focus on customer service, knowing the importancew of keeping existing ticket buyers. “We just can’t surrender to the he said. “You have to be aggressivre and try new things to make sure peopl keep coming throughthe door.” HITTING THE WALLET The average tickef price for all three Wisconsin professionakl sports teams is below the league averages.
The team raised ticket pricee an average of 4 percent for the2009 season, somewhat scaled back from what it might have done in better economicf times, Schlesinger said. “We spent a lot of time looking at what othert teams did after they madethe playoffs, whilwe also factoring in where the economy was,” he said. “zA lot of teams that have made the playoffs in the past have raisex prices bydouble digits. But we want to err on the side of The Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals lowered thei r ticket prices for the2009 season, but Schlesingef said most other teams have held stable or had small increases.
As for sponsorships, Schlesinget said the Brewers are projected tohave “a percent increase in The biggest deal was the new pact signecd by in January to be the presenting sponso r of the team. Terms were not disclosed, but it is the largest sponsorship deal other than the naminf rights deal for Miller Park signed by The team lost one of itsmajot sponsors, , which puller out of its naming rights deal for the rightfield picnic area at the end of the 2008 signed a multiyear partnership this week to take over the which will be renamed the AirTran Airways Landingb Zone.
Schlesinger said the team moverd ahead with all of its planneed Miller Parkcapital projects, including the overhaul of the team’s retaiol store along the leftfield The only project that has been put off is the replacemenyt of the centerfield scoreboard, whicbh was planned for 2010. “It is a huge investment for us and we just decidedd it would be better if we wait a year or he said. “It is not like the existing scoreboarde isnot working.” Schlesinger said the Brewers have not reducedc staff, but the team is not expecting to add any new positionz in the coming months. “We are doinhg much better thanother teams,” he said.
“But we know that can So we are watching everything very Steinmiller said the team is averaging slightly morethan 15,00 fans per game, down from the 15,609 it averaged during the 2007-08 At a recent Monday night game, there was an announcedf crowd of about 12,000. “People who in the past have come to 10 gamesz are now coming to seven or he said. “People are more pricew conscious.” In response, the Bucks offered most of theBradlet Center’s upper level seats for $10 per game in November and December. The team also introduced special deals with that includew ticketsand pizza, along with a soon-to-be-announced similar deal with Applebee’a restaurants.
The Bucks have signed with to includes a ticket special in all of thecablw company’s Milwaukee-area bills in the coming For existing ticket holders, the team has addef pre-game events with Bucks’ general manager John along with new club areazs for fans to get food and drink during the “I really think the $10 ticket gave us a bump and blunter a little effect of what was going on in the Steinmiller said. Team Marketing Report’xs Jon Greenberg said the Bucks are in a tougj position because they have to be careful that theit discount ticketoffers don’t offend the fans buying the high-pricec seats near the court.
“You don’gt want to insult your season ticket holderswith cut-ratre prices,” he said. “Bugt on the other hand, given their struggles over the pastfew seasons, the Bucks are goint to have to be incredibly creative to get people in the seats.” Steinmiller said the team has increasedf its focus on customer service, knowing the importancew of keeping existing ticket buyers. “We just can’t surrender to the he said. “You have to be aggressivre and try new things to make sure peopl keep coming throughthe door.” HITTING THE WALLET The average tickef price for all three Wisconsin professionakl sports teams is below the league averages.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Recession prompts big boom in the market for vegetable seeds - Business First of Louisville:
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Most of the patrons of the garden’zs 30 plots don’t plany anything until late spring, when they put in theidr tomato plants. Usually, only four or five plant a spriny crop inearly March, as Erdleyg did last month, growing lettuce, spinach and other cold-weatherr crops. But this year, 18 people planted spring Those who work in the garden industry say the recession has prompted many peoplee to plantvegetable gardens, many of them for the first as a way to cut expense for food. office in Jeffersoj County, for example, has never had more requestws to test soil for suitability for vegetable growinhg than it has hadthis spring, horticulturew agent Donna Michael said.
The demand has triplef from last year, she Normally, about 15 percentg to 20 percent of the callws left onthe office’s horticulturse hotline relate to vegetable she said. But this spring, that has risenn to about half. Many of the callw are from first-time vegetable To help meet the demandfor information, Michael held five communityh lectures on vegetable gardening in The first one attracterd 115 people, and the next four each attractede about 40. Horticulture lectures normally attract about 20 she said. “There is definite interesf stirring,” she said.
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government runs ninecommunithy gardens, such as the one where Erdley has his that contain a total of 24 acres, said Susan Hamilton, assistan director of the Louisville Metro Economif Development Department. There are 438 people registered to work in the and there is a waiting list to get a At , 1402 W. Main St., salesx of vegetable seeds have jumped 20 percenf to 30 percent fromlast spring, said generalp manager Eugene Stratton. He said he didn’t know specificc sales figures.
The company sells 95 percent of its vegetablsseeds wholesale, he said, and the gardeb centers and farm equipment dealers that make up the company’sa customer base say they are seeinfg a lot of first-time gardeners this In some cases, customers have had to reorder vegetabls seeds, which is unusual, he said. Sandy Blanford, the vegetablde seed manager for , 919 E. Jefferson St., normally orders vegetable seeds only oncea year, in the fall. But this she has had to reorder themthre times. “It’s insane,” she said. “We can’t keep Blanford estimates that demand has tripled overlast spring.
Two monthss ago, owner Win Bunton hire four new workers just to get orders for vegetablwe seeds packaged forthe company’s customers in rural Kentucky and its Internet customers, who order from across the country. That departmenft normally has onlythree workers, Blanforx said. This year, everyoned wants Blue Lake Bush beans, Blanford The company sold out of the seedss two months agoand can’r get any more because of a crop failure. Demandx for vegetable seeds alway grows duringa recession, Bunton said. He thinkse that well-publicized food such as salmonella in peanut also have prompted people to grow theirdown food, some of them for the firstf time.
In a normal year, customerd at , 225 Chenowetn Lane, don’t have to ask many questions aboutg whatto buy. “We get a lot of customere who know what they manager TimSunkel said.
Most of the patrons of the garden’zs 30 plots don’t plany anything until late spring, when they put in theidr tomato plants. Usually, only four or five plant a spriny crop inearly March, as Erdleyg did last month, growing lettuce, spinach and other cold-weatherr crops. But this year, 18 people planted spring Those who work in the garden industry say the recession has prompted many peoplee to plantvegetable gardens, many of them for the first as a way to cut expense for food. office in Jeffersoj County, for example, has never had more requestws to test soil for suitability for vegetable growinhg than it has hadthis spring, horticulturew agent Donna Michael said.
The demand has triplef from last year, she Normally, about 15 percentg to 20 percent of the callws left onthe office’s horticulturse hotline relate to vegetable she said. But this spring, that has risenn to about half. Many of the callw are from first-time vegetable To help meet the demandfor information, Michael held five communityh lectures on vegetable gardening in The first one attracterd 115 people, and the next four each attractede about 40. Horticulture lectures normally attract about 20 she said. “There is definite interesf stirring,” she said.
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government runs ninecommunithy gardens, such as the one where Erdley has his that contain a total of 24 acres, said Susan Hamilton, assistan director of the Louisville Metro Economif Development Department. There are 438 people registered to work in the and there is a waiting list to get a At , 1402 W. Main St., salesx of vegetable seeds have jumped 20 percenf to 30 percent fromlast spring, said generalp manager Eugene Stratton. He said he didn’t know specificc sales figures.
The company sells 95 percent of its vegetablsseeds wholesale, he said, and the gardeb centers and farm equipment dealers that make up the company’sa customer base say they are seeinfg a lot of first-time gardeners this In some cases, customers have had to reorder vegetabls seeds, which is unusual, he said. Sandy Blanford, the vegetablde seed manager for , 919 E. Jefferson St., normally orders vegetable seeds only oncea year, in the fall. But this she has had to reorder themthre times. “It’s insane,” she said. “We can’t keep Blanford estimates that demand has tripled overlast spring.
Two monthss ago, owner Win Bunton hire four new workers just to get orders for vegetablwe seeds packaged forthe company’s customers in rural Kentucky and its Internet customers, who order from across the country. That departmenft normally has onlythree workers, Blanforx said. This year, everyoned wants Blue Lake Bush beans, Blanford The company sold out of the seedss two months agoand can’r get any more because of a crop failure. Demandx for vegetable seeds alway grows duringa recession, Bunton said. He thinkse that well-publicized food such as salmonella in peanut also have prompted people to grow theirdown food, some of them for the firstf time.
In a normal year, customerd at , 225 Chenowetn Lane, don’t have to ask many questions aboutg whatto buy. “We get a lot of customere who know what they manager TimSunkel said.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
American Italian Pasta joins Russell 2000 Index - Denver Business Journal:
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The index, part of the , measureas performance of the small-cap segment of U.S. according to the index’s Web site. It includes about 2,00 of the smallest securities basefd on a combination of their markeg cap and current index The index is intended to providw anunbiased small-cap barometer and is reconstituted annually to ensure that largerd stocks don’t distort the performance and characteristicsz of small-cap stocks in the index. “Membershi in the Russell indexes represents another milestonwe in the AIPC American Italian Pasta CEO Jack Kelly said in aTuesdayt release. “It recognizes the significant jump in Americanm ItalianPasta Co.
’s market capitalization over the past year. The listinb also provides another level of market visibility for the Membership inthe small-cap Russell 2000 Index automatically includess membership in the larger Russelll 3000 and Global indexes. Kansas City-based American Italiahn Pasta (Nasdaq: AIPC) reported that second-quarter earnings were nearly triple those from the same period last year and that revenud rose16 percent.
In roughluy the past year, AIPC has settled lingering problems stemming from a schemw by former executives to makethe company’se financial reports look good even as sales The scheme had fallen apart in August 2005, drawing pummeling the stock price and requiring the company to refile financial statements. American Italian Pasta is the largest producere of dry pasta inNorthg America. The company has about 650 employees and plantx inExcelsior Springs; Columbia, Tolleson, Ariz.; and Italy.
The index, part of the , measureas performance of the small-cap segment of U.S. according to the index’s Web site. It includes about 2,00 of the smallest securities basefd on a combination of their markeg cap and current index The index is intended to providw anunbiased small-cap barometer and is reconstituted annually to ensure that largerd stocks don’t distort the performance and characteristicsz of small-cap stocks in the index. “Membershi in the Russell indexes represents another milestonwe in the AIPC American Italian Pasta CEO Jack Kelly said in aTuesdayt release. “It recognizes the significant jump in Americanm ItalianPasta Co.
’s market capitalization over the past year. The listinb also provides another level of market visibility for the Membership inthe small-cap Russell 2000 Index automatically includess membership in the larger Russelll 3000 and Global indexes. Kansas City-based American Italiahn Pasta (Nasdaq: AIPC) reported that second-quarter earnings were nearly triple those from the same period last year and that revenud rose16 percent.
In roughluy the past year, AIPC has settled lingering problems stemming from a schemw by former executives to makethe company’se financial reports look good even as sales The scheme had fallen apart in August 2005, drawing pummeling the stock price and requiring the company to refile financial statements. American Italian Pasta is the largest producere of dry pasta inNorthg America. The company has about 650 employees and plantx inExcelsior Springs; Columbia, Tolleson, Ariz.; and Italy.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Charlotte Business Journal: About the paper
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Analysis: World divided on new plan to combat global warming - Chicago Tribune
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Reuters | Analysis: World divided on new plan to combat global warming Chicago Tribune SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact. ... Analysis: World divided o! n new plan to combat global warming |
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