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Target parts ways with long-time designer Michael Graves
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:17:24 PST 2012Target Corp.'s 13-year run with industrial designer Michael Graves is coming to an end. Target said Tuesday that the last of the Michael Graves Design Collection for Target will arrive in stores next month. Graves, who began working with Target in 1999, helped design more than 2,000 Target products, including the Pop Art Toaster and the Spinning Whistle Teakettle. The designs helped establish...
Saladworks serves up Reston
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:15:43 PST 2012Philadelphia-based Saladworks is tossing up salads in Reston starting this weekend by opening its second location in Northern Virginia and third in the Washington area. The new store is at 11692 Plaza America Drive. Saladworks, which offers a dozen different salad combinations along with soups and sandwiches, opened its first Washington area store in Herndon in 2009. It also has a store in Col...
Report: Kroger Little Clinics to expand in 2012
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:15:33 PST 2012Kroger Co.?s (NYSE: KR) Little Clinic operations didn?t grow in 2011 but should pick up a bit of speed in 2012, according to a new report. The lack of expansion was primarily because a relationship with Publix Super Markets Inc. ended and because of Little Clinic?s leadership change, according to the ConvUrgentCare 2012 Market Report. Michael Stoll, a Kroger veteran, took over the Brentwood, T...
List Leaders: Twin Cities-area general contractors
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:15:27 PST 2012Here is a list of the seven largest Twin Cities-area general contractors ranked by revenue. >To see the Top 7 largest Twin Cities-area general contractors, click on the slideshow on the right. >>>>> Our full list of the Top 25 largest general contractors is available only to subscribers to theMinneapolis/St. Paul Business Journalin print or our e-dition. Every week we bring ...
Donald Trump's Old Post Office deal could raise $14M for federal government
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:09:34 PST 2012If D.C.?s Hotel Monaco is any indication, real estate mogul Donald Trump?s deal to convert the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW into a luxury hotel could raise well more than $14 million a year for the federal government. The deal would be structured similarly to one the GSA inked in December 1999 with another developer to convert the Tarriff Building in the D...
Temple?s Hart in running to head up U of Arizona
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:09:25 PST 2012The University of Arizona?s board of regents on Tuesday said Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart is their candidate to become the Tucson-based school?s next president. Hart said last September that she would leave Temple after six years at the end of its current academic year. She told The Temple News that the declining health of her mother, who lives in Salt Lake City, played a role i...
GlobalSCAPE names interim financial officer at company
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:09:07 PST 2012GlobalSCAPE Inc. has appointed Desiree Smith as the company?s interim principal financial officer and interim principal accounting officer. Smith will be responsible for all financial and accounting aspects of the company and will report directly to GlobalSCAPE CEO Jim Morris. Former Chief Financial Officer Randall Hawkins notified the company that he resigned from all positions, effective Jan...
CSC shares jump after reporting loss, naming new CEO
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:08:46 PST 2012Shares of Falls Church-based CSC (NYSE:CSC) rallied as much as 25 percent in morning trading on Wednesday after announcing a new CEO and reporting a quarterly loss for the fiscal third-quarter. In trading on the New York Stock Exchange, shares hit $33.50 each just after the market open. A year-ago CSC shares traded at $56.60. On Nov. 25 shares had dropped to $22.80 each. CSC named Mike Lawri...
Consumer credit rise beats economists' forcasts
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:05:29 PST 2012Federal Reserve figures released Tuesday show a $19.3 billion increase in consumer borrowing in the U.S. in December, driven by demand for auto and student loans, Bloomberg reports. The gain to $2.5 trillion topped the $7 billion median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg and followed a $20.4 billion advance the prior month. Bloomberg has more on the story here. The Austin Busines...
Maryland health group awards $1M in grants
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:04:07 PST 2012A division of Maryland?s health department said Wednesday it has given grants totaling just over $1 million to 15 different health care organizations statewide. The money, doled out by the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, will be used in the fiscal year that began July 1 to address five of the state?s leading priorities for improving health care in Maryland. Among them are: boos...
Netgear Beats Up On Analysts Yet Again
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Is the IPO Market Headed Right Back to 1999 All Over Again?
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It's a Bad Time to Be Bearish on Sirius XM
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:33:41 PST 2012The satellite radio giant meets a skeptical analyst. ...
Make Money in Growing Mid-Cap Stocks the Easy Way
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:32:54 PST 2012There's no need to guess which stock will grow the fastest. ...
5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: CF Industries
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:28:23 PST 2012Market-trouncing returns could be written in this five-star. ...
3 Nasdaq 100 Laggards You Can Buy Right Now
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:24:54 PST 2012Sometimes playing the contrarian pays off. ...
The Most Promising Dividends in Water Utilities
Posted: Wed Feb 08 08:30:24 PST 2012How would you like a 13% dividend? ...
3 Stocks to Get on Your Watchlist
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4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Brink's
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