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...transform the firm from an insular private company to a stock market star ended up vexing the family that owns it. Last week, Middelhoff was out. "He was a real wheeler-dealer at a time when we're in a back-to-basics market," said Nick Bell, media analyst at Bear Stearns in London. "I think he was pushing too fast. It's a very conservative group...
...death, and the franchisees took control in 1982. Expansion beyond its Dixie roots began in the mid-1990s. New York got its first Krispy Kreme just six years ago. Before its 2000 flotation, "it was basically run like a co-op by the franchisees," notes Andrew Wolf, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets. It's still considered a highly conservative company that treads cautiously into new markets...
Samantha's mother Erin, an analyst with British Petroleum in Long Beach, Calif., had moved to the Smoketree complex of $200,000 condominiums because it seemed safe. Even after the abduction, her neighbors wanted the world to know just how convivial a place it can be. "The garage doors open, and people socialize," says Mike Pace, who lives two doors down from the Runnions in Stanton. "We use that as the patio." But when cops arrested 6-ft., 200-lb. Alejandro Avila, 27, for Samantha's rape and murder, residents had to reckon not only with the casual intrusion...
...where the bull market had bestowed "quiet reserves" - unrealized and unrevealed gains - upon insurers, enabling them to entice new policyholders with offers of 6% annual returns. Now most of Germany's 130 or so mutual insurers are carrying "quiet liabilities." "They're sort of in a trap," says Commerzbank analyst Marc Thiel. "They need cash for their maturing policies, but they can't cut the bonuses they offer customers or they'll lose business." Switzerland's insurers face a similar problem, and the government there responded by lowering the mandatory payout from 4% to 3%. German law says insurers...
...masses, and with four or five competitors in many European markets, operators may find they have little more pricing power in data than they do in voice. "[Multimedia messaging] may prove popular, but I think people are going to take it for granted," says Iain Daly, an analyst at Charles Stanley in London. The operators are convinced they've got something that people will both want and pay a premium for, and they'd better be right. Because if this doesn't work, 3G really is dead...