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...sister stores. Both are thriving by investing in competent employees and offering a good mix of merchandise people won't find anywhere else. "They have a unique display selection and a director in every store," says Howard Davidowitz, Chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting and investment-banking firm.. "No other store looks like them." The catchy windows draw people inside. The funky clothes sell themselves. Chen of Needham & Co. flagged Urban Outfitters as one of the best growth stories in the specialty retail space this month...
...firm, which will operate under the name Allscripts, will become one of the largest players in the U.S.'s $20 billion electronic health-record industry. In its present form, Allscripts manages data for more than 40,000 American physicians. Once the firm merges with Misys, that figure will treble to 150,000 - or roughly one-third of all practicing doctors in the U.S. It's a level of penetration that could finally lend consistency to the country's electronic health-records industry, which to date has been plagued by thousands of conflicting software systems. Along with cost and privacy concerns...
...mass defaults. "In the past six to eight months, there's been a deterioration in market liquidity and the ability to get willing buyers for structured finance securities," causing the values of the securities to fall, said Glenn Arden, a partner at Jones Day who heads up the firm's worldwide securitization practice and New York derivative...
...size of private equity deals in India have been increasing over the past few years, and that last year’s average deal of $45 million was well above the country’s previous standard range. Vivek Paul, another panel member and a partner at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, drew the audience’s attention to the growing number of opportunities available to businessmen in India. “India right now resembles the United States right after World War II,” Paul said. “And when you remember the long...
...right. Leftists were meanwhile returned to power in Lyon, Lille, Rennes, and Montpellier, taking 49.5% of the nation's popular vote versus 47.5% for the right. Sarkozy's governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) averted near total collapse by narrowly hanging on to Marseille, and standing firm in bastions like Nice, Orleans, Le Havre, and Bordeaux...