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...open more than 100 stores in the next two years in Connecticut, Missouri and Texas. The company will have opened 100 new stores by the end of the year, double the number opened last year. Aldi is also making a big push into central Florida, including cities like Sanford. The city's economic development director, Robert Tunis, tried for years to lure grocers to his city, about a half-hour's drive north of Orlando. Sanford's demographics are attractive: its population grew 27%, to about 50,000, between 2000 and 2006. Within a few miles of downtown, Tunis says...
...Aldi has solved at least part of that problem. Tunis was among the first to arrive at the grand opening of an Aldi store in downtown Sanford, next to one of Seminole County's largest shopping centers. Now he's hoping other grocers will follow Aldi's lead. "There's really no equivalent at the moment," he says. Deep discounters like Aldi can challenge both conventional supermarket chains as well as Wal-Mart, America's largest grocer. Indeed, Wal-Mart ultimately found it too hard to compete in Germany, where deep-discounters are firmly entrenched, and left...
...government's money directly, but in the case of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, they were facing a severe crunch," says analyst Brad Hintz, who covers financial firms at Sanford Bernstein and is a former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers. "Had it not been for the government's help in refinancing their debt, they may not have had the cash to pay bonuses." When asked, the Treasury would not comment directly on Wall Street's bonus plans, though spokeswoman Brookly McLaughlin did reiterate the bailout's intent. "There is broad agreement that the Treasury's capital purchase program...
...five professors being showcased—Gregory Halpern, Sanford Biggers, Taylor Davis, Catherine Lord, and David Lobser—bring unique viewpoints from all around the country. “I think [the Visiting Faculty Exhibit] gives an opportunity for students as well as other faculty to get to know the visiting faculty and have a chance to see how their minds work,” Biggers says...
...will almost definitely go through. Nonetheless, Roche will have to work hard to hang on to Genentech's laid-back culture, one that has always attracted top minds. "They know there won't be the same flexibility and creativity Genentech is known for," says biotech analyst Geoff Porges of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "Roche is perhaps the industry's most brilliant acquirer, but it has never shown it can innovate internally...