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The scribes, delivery drivers, press workers and others in the sprawling news and publishing empire of Gannett (GCI) have had a rough few years of it. In recent weeks alone, there have been as many as 189 unannounced job cuts at last count, on the heels of 255 in November; as many as 20,000 newspaper [...]
Medicaid budgets all over the U.S. are facing sharp cutbacks, thanks to state fiscal woes. But for one company that has built a big business from contracts to run government health-care programs, it’s apparently time for a nice raise. That company is WellCare Health Plans (WCG), a footnoted frequent flyer perhaps best known in recent [...]
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD) holds a special place here at footnoted, and not just because of their signature melt-in-the-mouth-sugary glazed doughnuts (sickeningly delicious as those are). The Winston-Salem, N.C., purveyor of fried dough was an early subject of these pages, and has popped up regularly since — it looks like this post will take its [...]
There’s long been an air of mystery surrounding the top echelon at Goldman Sachs (GS) — its so-called “partners,” a hold-over from the days before the company was publicly traded — including just who is a member at any given time. Now, thanks to a joint footnoted/New York Times analysis, we know just how male, [...]
Most people think of Williams-Sonoma (WSM) as a purveyor of gizmos and furnishings for the kitchen and home. Here at footnoted, we also see it as a busy part-time broker of executive aircraft. This time, they’re planning to buy the former boss’s Bombardier Global 5000, a corporate jet that Bombardier describes as a “powerful and luxurious aircraft [...]
