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Additionally, the season’s hottest jewelry, including long earrings, multiple-charm pendants on a gold chain and piled-on chains and pearls can “transform any outfit and keep you feeling fashionable...
...Stores Corp., with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, is a chain of some 250 retail electronics and appliance stores in 37 states--and two synthetic-fuel facilities. While sales of the company's main products have declined, its synthetic-fuel sideline has thrived. Stuart Rose, Rex's CEO, told stock analysts in June that "it's an asset that's still returning unbelievable returns for our investment." Echoed Douglas Bruggeman, Rex's vice president for finance: "We feel real good about that whole part of our business right...
...experienced what he calls "the most publicized bankruptcy in history." "My friends can't understand why I didn't just say, 'No more,'" he says. In some ways he has moved on, launching, among other projects, a Caribbean resort, a London bagelry and a fast-food chain named after his partner, the (11th and current) Earl of Sandwich. But Earl refuses to abandon his often lonely Planet. "I've got a lot of people I need to win for," Earl says, practically seething as he describes "some wanker journalist" asking political hopeful and former Planet partner Arnold Schwarzenegger about...
...latest installment in the Planet Hollywood saga could easily be titled Vegas with a Vengeance. The plot: shrugging off two bankruptcies and years of ridicule, a die-hard chain of movie-themed restaurants abandons plans for world domination to seek salvation on the Vegas Strip. The star: Robert Earl, the waggishly underdog CEO, who hopes that by opening the ultimate outlet in a flashy hotel-casino, he can thwart his detractors and restore his reputation...
...dotcom-style IPO in 1996 with what even Earl describes as "insane multiples." On paper, Planet was worth some $3.4 billion at its apex--and Earl more than $1 billion. But its stock, which peaked at $32, was delisted just before Planet's first bankruptcy in 1999. The chain, based in Orlando, Fla., had barreled into nontouristy towns like Columbus, Ohio, only to scale back from 47 company-owned locations to today's nine...