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...with sales of $150 million and its stock price at $25. By mid-2003, Barry had lost $20 million, sales were plummeting, its stock was at $2.08, and it was in default on a $10 million loan from its longtime lender, Huntington National Bank of Columbus, Ohio. The Dearfoams maker was out of both money and time. The bank ordered, Get a turnaround artist--fast...
...stored and who it was sold to," Von Lehman notes. Among the changes: transfer manufacturing and storage from Mexico to lower-cost China, update marketing, reduce the number of styles and customers, and dump millions of outdated inventory. In addition, the team recommended consolidating company functions in Columbus by replacing the New York City sales office with a showroom and shuttering the San Antonio operations center. The plan also called for eliminating swaths of management, including 13 of 23 vice presidents. The CEO balked, but the board bucked its leader and asked Von Lehman to become interim...
...Following his travels and years of service in the courts of nobles, Piero spent most of his later life in Borgo Sansepolcro and Arezzo. He died on Oct. 12, 1492, the very same day Genoa native Christopher Columbus landed in America - an unlikely reminder that travel can yield discoveries of limitless and priceless variety...
...Some raw advocates believe it's the emergence of these cow-sharing schemes in the past few years that has prompted state agriculture officials to crack down. Columbus, Ohio, attorney David G. Cox says he has represented six raw-dairy producers over the past year for alleged illegal sales, some of whom have been in business for decades without incident. "There seems to be an orchestrated effort to dry up the supply," he says. "I suspect that conventional dairy producers are concerned that if [raw milk] were widely available and people got sick, all milk would get a bad name...
...Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 15, 1917, Schlesinger left the mid-west for Cambridge at the age of seven, when his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., also a leading American historian, joined the faculty at Harvard...