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Witness Robert Mondavi Corp.: for a decade it had increased revenues at an average of 15.5% a year, leading an industrywide wine boom. Profits kept pace until 1998, but then they dropped more than 20% from a year earlier, to $29 million. Partly that was bad luck, the delayed effect of late rains in 1996 that ruined harvests and kept the company from making enough of its best-selling Woodbridge Chardonnay to meet demand a year later. But Mondavi neglected to warn retailers of the shortage and failed to put them on allocation--tell them each store could get only...
...bigger fish to swallow his little one. His "bail-out strategy," as he calls it now, was to have Spectrum bought out by a publicly traded company so his investors would have a shot at getting their money back. Texas-based Harken Oil & Gas (now known as Harken Energy Corp.) had been buying up troubled independents on the cheap, and Spectrum fit the profile. In one six-month period before the acquisition, Spectrum lost $402,000. It was $3 million in debt, with no hope of attracting a dollar for new drilling. On Sept. 30, 1986, less than three months...
This summer, tens of millions of American parents will brave the age-old hazards of traveling with children: roadside diaper changes, backseat imbroglios, teenagers who would rather be anywhere else--especially since the dog just had an accident behind the cooler. According to Meredith Corp.'s Family Vacation Travel Report, about 20% of traveling parents will borrow even more trouble by including grandparents in the family vacation, while others will join the growing trend of squeezing extra mileage out of business trips by bringing the kids along. Says a road-weary mom: "Sometimes it takes so much effort...
...fund families, with brand names like Vanguard, Janus, Fidelity, Putnam and Alliance, are capturing the bulk of that new cash--and much of it is "automatic" in the form of 401(k) plans. That leaves hundreds of smaller players to fight for the scraps, according to Financial Research Corp. "There's a lot more risk now," says Jack Brennan, chairman of fund giant Vanguard, based in Valley Forge, Pa. "People may be looking for bigger, more seasoned names with a broader array of products. Or the investor may be making a bit of a market call, taking some risk...
...says now he feels the actions of thebuilding's occupiers--ostensibly about Harvard'sinvolvement in America's war effort in Vietnamthrough its support of the Reserve OfficersTraining Corp (ROTC)--were a worthwhile protestagainst a University out of touch with itsstudents...