June 20, 2012—It can't be easy for bargain stores such as Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR) to generate big profits by selling merchandise that costs a buck or less per item. Presumably it's the volume of sales that matters, not the individual bottle of ...

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June 8, 2012—The headline, of course, refers to S. E. ("Sandy") Beall, III, who opened the first Ruby Tuesday (RT) restaurant in 1972 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The location was close to the University of Tennessee campus, which no doubt appealed to the hungry ...

June 4, 2012—Late last week, Sara Lee Corp. (SLE) dished up the plan to spin off its international coffee and tea business. After that, the coffee and tea business will merge and become part of a subsidiary of D.E Master Blenders. There are ...

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May 23, 2012—The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that if housing sales continue at the current rate of improvement, "2012 could be the strongest year for home sales since 2007,..." That's good news indeed for anyone trying to sell a home, although ...

May 14, 2012—It's probably best not to think too hard about how things work at Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) without plenty of coffee. Even then, good luck making sense of it all. The most obvious question, of course, is why a ...

May 11, 2012—We were going to write about something else this morning, but then Chesapeake Energy (CHK), which as footnoted regulars know is something of a frequent flyer here, decided to file its proxy statement, so we quickly changed plans. While the ...

April 25, 2012—The energy drink business is a big one, and for the top executives at the Monster Beverage Corp. (MNST), that led to some monster-sized rewards last year, according to the proxy filed yesterday. Specifically, Rodney Sacks, Monster's Chairman, CEO, ...

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