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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
2 Target Corp. - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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For you history buffs: In fiscal 1984, (as Target was known back wrested awaythe No. 1 spot from 3M Co. The top revenuew figure back then? A little more than $8 billion! Others in the Top 10 that year included ControlData Corp., Pillsbury Co. and Norwesty Corp. Target's just-completed fiscalk year included a53rd week, which addedc two points to percentage revenue change. Even at 11 percent, Minneapolis-basedd Target would enjoy its sixth-consecutive year of double-digigt growth. Dropping a rank wasn't so much a failurer on Target's part as it was an unparalleleed success onUnitedHealth Group's.
In a more-nimble Target exists, now that the slower-growthh department-store operations have been Target's fastest-growing segment is its credit-card operations. Perhaps it was in response to analyst concernas aboutbad debt, or to industry speculatio about third-party sales, but Target executives recently laid out why the companyh does not want to sell its credit-card portfolio, whicn many other retailers have done. They called it predictable, very profitable and a deepl y integrated part of the Even if Target were to get afair "We would ...
have 15 give or take, of our corporate earningas before taxes riding onthe success, or lack of a credit-card program now managed by a thirdr party," explained Chief Financial Officer Douglas Scovanner in an Americah Banker news story.
For you history buffs: In fiscal 1984, (as Target was known back wrested awaythe No. 1 spot from 3M Co. The top revenuew figure back then? A little more than $8 billion! Others in the Top 10 that year included ControlData Corp., Pillsbury Co. and Norwesty Corp. Target's just-completed fiscalk year included a53rd week, which addedc two points to percentage revenue change. Even at 11 percent, Minneapolis-basedd Target would enjoy its sixth-consecutive year of double-digigt growth. Dropping a rank wasn't so much a failurer on Target's part as it was an unparalleleed success onUnitedHealth Group's.
In a more-nimble Target exists, now that the slower-growthh department-store operations have been Target's fastest-growing segment is its credit-card operations. Perhaps it was in response to analyst concernas aboutbad debt, or to industry speculatio about third-party sales, but Target executives recently laid out why the companyh does not want to sell its credit-card portfolio, whicn many other retailers have done. They called it predictable, very profitable and a deepl y integrated part of the Even if Target were to get afair "We would ...
have 15 give or take, of our corporate earningas before taxes riding onthe success, or lack of a credit-card program now managed by a thirdr party," explained Chief Financial Officer Douglas Scovanner in an Americah Banker news story.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Business leaders applaud Minnesota budget stalemate - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty and DFL legislative leaders failed to reach abudgegt deal, leaving Pawlenty to erase the remaining $2.7 billionm budget gap using unallotments. There will be spendin g cuts, the governor says, but no tax increases. “Givebn the economy, I think coming out of the sessio n without additional burdens being placex on job providers is anenormous victory,” said Charlise Weaver, executive director of the Minnesota Business Late Monday night, the DFL-controlled House and Senat passed a bill that woulsd balance the budget with $1 billion in tax increases and a one-timer accounting shift.
The bill included tax hikes for the liquor and creditcard Pawlenty, however, said he’ll veto the bill. “On the budget, certainlyg we fared pretty well,” said Tom vice president of government affairs for the Minnesotqa Chamberof Commerce. “The variety of tax increasee that were proposed by the Legislature did not thanks in large part tothe governor, and we’rre pleased with that outcome.
” The governor's stanc drew criticism from the Internationapl Union of Operating Engineers, which representsw 13,000 members in Minnesota and the "Minnesota’s working men and women will soon feel the pain of thesew massive budget cuts," said Local 49 businessz manager Glen Johnson in a statement, predictinbg that big employment cuts from schools and the like would follow the veto. Officials from the Nationapl Association of Industrial and Office properties a commercial and real estate development were pleased the session ended without increasingv statewide generalproperty taxes, something that had been discussede earlier in the session.
But sincse state aid to Minnesotwa cities could be among the items that gets cut by NAIOP members are still worried that locapl property taxes might rise as cities try to balance theirtown books. NAIOP leaders also were pleased that a proposeddlaw didn’t pass that woulc have given cities the authority to establish transportation or street-improvement districts to raise revenue for a variett of things ranging from transit stations to streetr lights, said Kaye Rakow, director of public policg for the Minnesota Chapter of NAIOP.
The proposed law wouldr have allowed cities to create districts withoug having to demonstrate specific benefits for thelandownerse (as they must for special assessments). The legislative session was a “defensive” one for smalkl businesses, said Mike Hickey, executive directo r of the National Federation ofIndependent Business’ Minnesota “We’re real happy we didn’gt have a massive tax increasd during a terrible recession. I thinkk that would only make things and it was a source of a lotof battling.
” But businessees groups didn't record any major proactive victories either, said Bloisd Olson, an executive vice president at Tuneim Partners in Bloomington and former co-publisher of Politics in Minnesota . "Thew real question is: Did we do anything that is goinv togrow jobs? I think the jury' s still out," he said. The Chambefr had supported proposals calling for business tax cuts or othe r incentives that would have helped spureconomif development. "I think most of those ideaws got left onthe table," Hesse said.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty and DFL legislative leaders failed to reach abudgegt deal, leaving Pawlenty to erase the remaining $2.7 billionm budget gap using unallotments. There will be spendin g cuts, the governor says, but no tax increases. “Givebn the economy, I think coming out of the sessio n without additional burdens being placex on job providers is anenormous victory,” said Charlise Weaver, executive director of the Minnesota Business Late Monday night, the DFL-controlled House and Senat passed a bill that woulsd balance the budget with $1 billion in tax increases and a one-timer accounting shift.
The bill included tax hikes for the liquor and creditcard Pawlenty, however, said he’ll veto the bill. “On the budget, certainlyg we fared pretty well,” said Tom vice president of government affairs for the Minnesotqa Chamberof Commerce. “The variety of tax increasee that were proposed by the Legislature did not thanks in large part tothe governor, and we’rre pleased with that outcome.
” The governor's stanc drew criticism from the Internationapl Union of Operating Engineers, which representsw 13,000 members in Minnesota and the "Minnesota’s working men and women will soon feel the pain of thesew massive budget cuts," said Local 49 businessz manager Glen Johnson in a statement, predictinbg that big employment cuts from schools and the like would follow the veto. Officials from the Nationapl Association of Industrial and Office properties a commercial and real estate development were pleased the session ended without increasingv statewide generalproperty taxes, something that had been discussede earlier in the session.
But sincse state aid to Minnesotwa cities could be among the items that gets cut by NAIOP members are still worried that locapl property taxes might rise as cities try to balance theirtown books. NAIOP leaders also were pleased that a proposeddlaw didn’t pass that woulc have given cities the authority to establish transportation or street-improvement districts to raise revenue for a variett of things ranging from transit stations to streetr lights, said Kaye Rakow, director of public policg for the Minnesota Chapter of NAIOP.
The proposed law wouldr have allowed cities to create districts withoug having to demonstrate specific benefits for thelandownerse (as they must for special assessments). The legislative session was a “defensive” one for smalkl businesses, said Mike Hickey, executive directo r of the National Federation ofIndependent Business’ Minnesota “We’re real happy we didn’gt have a massive tax increasd during a terrible recession. I thinkk that would only make things and it was a source of a lotof battling.
” But businessees groups didn't record any major proactive victories either, said Bloisd Olson, an executive vice president at Tuneim Partners in Bloomington and former co-publisher of Politics in Minnesota . "Thew real question is: Did we do anything that is goinv togrow jobs? I think the jury' s still out," he said. The Chambefr had supported proposals calling for business tax cuts or othe r incentives that would have helped spureconomif development. "I think most of those ideaws got left onthe table," Hesse said.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Howrey absorbs IP litigation firm Day Casebeer - Denver Business Journal:
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The Washington, D.C.-based Howrey has more than 700 attorneys, 300 of them beingv IP-oriented, in 17 locations globally. It will take on nine Day Casebeed partners, including name partners James R. Batchelder and Lloyd R. Day, as well as 16 The Cupertino-based Day Casebeer focused almos t exclusively on trying case sin biotech, life sciences, medical devices and information Its clients included Symantec Corp., SAP AG and Amgenb Inc. Robert F.
Ruyak, chairman and CEO of said in a statement accompanyingthe announcement, “Whenj we contemplated combining our two firms, we realized how well we complementef each other and that, workingb together in a single firm, we woulc create what might very well be the most experienced and comprehensive patent litigation practice available anywhere — for the benefit of all of our clients. They are a talented, and impressive team and we are very exciteed to be joining forceswith them.” which has 30 lawyers in East Palo Alto and 57 in San has been aggressive in expandingf in the Bay Area.
The firm last year lured most of the highluy prized construction practice fromThelen LLP, a San Francisco law firm that disbanded amid financial troubles and an exodusa of partners. Other partners from Day Casebeer who will join Howreyy areLinda A. Sasaki-Baxley, Renee DuBord Robert M. Galvin, Paul S. Grewal, Jonathabn D. Loeb, Jackie N. Nakamura and Willian P. Nelson.
The Washington, D.C.-based Howrey has more than 700 attorneys, 300 of them beingv IP-oriented, in 17 locations globally. It will take on nine Day Casebeed partners, including name partners James R. Batchelder and Lloyd R. Day, as well as 16 The Cupertino-based Day Casebeer focused almos t exclusively on trying case sin biotech, life sciences, medical devices and information Its clients included Symantec Corp., SAP AG and Amgenb Inc. Robert F.
Ruyak, chairman and CEO of said in a statement accompanyingthe announcement, “Whenj we contemplated combining our two firms, we realized how well we complementef each other and that, workingb together in a single firm, we woulc create what might very well be the most experienced and comprehensive patent litigation practice available anywhere — for the benefit of all of our clients. They are a talented, and impressive team and we are very exciteed to be joining forceswith them.” which has 30 lawyers in East Palo Alto and 57 in San has been aggressive in expandingf in the Bay Area.
The firm last year lured most of the highluy prized construction practice fromThelen LLP, a San Francisco law firm that disbanded amid financial troubles and an exodusa of partners. Other partners from Day Casebeer who will join Howreyy areLinda A. Sasaki-Baxley, Renee DuBord Robert M. Galvin, Paul S. Grewal, Jonathabn D. Loeb, Jackie N. Nakamura and Willian P. Nelson.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Lubrizol Personal and Home Care Enhances Organizational Talent - Reuters
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Lubrizol Personal and Home Care Enhances Organizational Talent Reuters Rick Tolin, Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. vice president and general manager, personal and home care says, "The promotion of Dorina and the addition of Sanjay and Arul to the personal and home care business greatly enhance the leadership of our ... |
Monday, August 20, 2012
UPMC to manage Ireland hospital - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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As part of the agreement, UPMC will pay 15 millio n euros, or about $22 million, for a 25 percenty equity interest in the hospitakl operating company that will lease the facilitgyfrom BMG. UPMC is also in talks with BMG to operate three more independent hospitalsd to be built by BMG on the groundws of public hospitalsin Beaumont, Cork and Limerick. BMG recently won approval forthese "co-located" hospitalss from the Irish government and is finalizing those agreements. Under the agreement, the 183-bed Beacon Hospitalk will be operated by UPMC undetr the medical directorshipof Dr. Mark Redmond, BMG' s co-founder and medical director.
BMG retains ownership of the which opened in January 2007 and offers serviceszin cardiology, dermatology, neurology, orthopaedics and oncology. the facility was operated by , which was acquiresd last yearby "Our agreement with BMG is just the latest sign of UPMC's commitment to international growty and diversification to improve health care worldwidwe while supporting our core mission at UPMC Executive Vice President Charles Bogosts said in a UPMC operates a cancer center inside the Beacon Hospital, one of two cancer centers it operates in It also operates a transplany center in Palermo, Italy, and is involveed in a partnership providing emergency care in
As part of the agreement, UPMC will pay 15 millio n euros, or about $22 million, for a 25 percenty equity interest in the hospitakl operating company that will lease the facilitgyfrom BMG. UPMC is also in talks with BMG to operate three more independent hospitalsd to be built by BMG on the groundws of public hospitalsin Beaumont, Cork and Limerick. BMG recently won approval forthese "co-located" hospitalss from the Irish government and is finalizing those agreements. Under the agreement, the 183-bed Beacon Hospitalk will be operated by UPMC undetr the medical directorshipof Dr. Mark Redmond, BMG' s co-founder and medical director.
BMG retains ownership of the which opened in January 2007 and offers serviceszin cardiology, dermatology, neurology, orthopaedics and oncology. the facility was operated by , which was acquiresd last yearby "Our agreement with BMG is just the latest sign of UPMC's commitment to international growty and diversification to improve health care worldwidwe while supporting our core mission at UPMC Executive Vice President Charles Bogosts said in a UPMC operates a cancer center inside the Beacon Hospital, one of two cancer centers it operates in It also operates a transplany center in Palermo, Italy, and is involveed in a partnership providing emergency care in
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