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A takeover fight always makes for good sport, and so we were as excited as anyone* by the announcement yesterday that Williams Cos. (WMB) was making a $4.9 billion all-cash hostile bid for Southern Union (SUG), the pipeline company that announced its betrothal just last week to Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) in a $4.2 billion equity [...]
In 2007, when Crain’s named Michelle Felman as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in NYC business,” she attributed much of her success to her intuition, explaining in this article: “You understand other people’s motivations, and you can respond to them in a way that gets both sides what they want.” If the proof is [...]
Over in the United Kingdom, Kellogg’s (K) sells a cereal called Just Right, a “harmony of wholewheat, corn and rice flakes packed with succulent raisins, juicy dates and sliced almonds,” according to the cereal giant’s website. It could also refer to the parting gift provided to Tim Mosby, the company’s departing European chairman — at [...]
We all learned from Benjamin Franklin that a penny saved is a penny earned,* and it’s a lesson apparently well understood by George P. Reeth, deputy chairman and president of Bermuda reinsurer Validus Holdings (VR). The company had previously disclosed, in a one-sentence 8-K on September 14, that Reeth would lay step down from those august [...]
On April 30, U. S. Airway’s (LCC) Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, C. A. Howlett, was quoted as saying “Our major goal in Washington right now is to have Washington do no harm. We need Washington to allow the industry to function as a private industry; that’s how we really serve the communities.” We’re [...]
