Still scrambling to file your taxes or waiting (still) on your refund? Companies around the country are trying to relieve the Tax Day sting with freebies and special deals.
It's the same Crisco, but now with zero trans fat.
Thanksgiving is the time of year when individuals and families celebrate all things great in their lives. It's a time for good food, parades, fun and some serious reflection.
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Even with all the negative buzz that surrounds supersizing, consumers still have undersized appetites for healthier fare. Just ask the latest crop of entrepreneurs who have tried to serve healthy f...
Some people see others suffering and wonder what they can possibly do. But folks like Peter Senne don't hesitate before springing into action. Just over a year ago Senne looked at the entrepreneuri...
There's George "The Chicken Man" Naddaff, Frank "Papa Pizza" Carney, Mo "Tea Time" Siegel, and Neil "The Closet Guy" Balter. All, as you may have guessed, have these nicknames because they closely ...
In the days following the World Trade Center attack there was talk on the Street that perhaps short-selling should be banned. The worry was that shorting--a bet that stocks will fall--would exacerb...
Talk about a sugar high. In April 2000, just as investors' sweet tooth for technology was leading them to a four-cuspid root canal, the stock of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts debuted on the Nasdaq at $32 ...
Making FSB's inaugural list of fastest-growing companies is an occasion to celebrate. These companies are exemplars of imagination, energy, know-how, and stamina. All have sped away from the compet...
Quick, which product would you choose to build a business around: a square bagel or a round hot dog? For George A. Naddaff, the answer is obvious--which is why he's now touting the virtues of the R...
Here are a few things that Mark Goldston would like you to know: that long before he found himself running an Internet company, he was an inventor in his spare time. That, as president of L.A. Gear...
Tom Stoppard recently explained to the New York Times that when his plays start their U.S. runs in San Francisco, his real competition isn't other theaters, it's restaurants. Now, thanks to the exp...
The audit from hell. That's what companies are facing right now, as the year-end ritual of the annual audit begins. With the SEC breathing down accountants' necks and high-profile accounting proble...
One clear lesson from the wild IPO market of the past few years is that a lot of companies should never have gone public. Consider Il Fornaio, a California-based chain of 17 white-tablecloth restau...
At home, in an antique mahogany desk where Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz often works in the hours before dawn, a bundle of clippings is piling up. Although the charismatic Schultz gets his shar...
Don't get me started on the subject of investment message boards. These online financial hootenannies are dangerous at best, and at worst the investment version of poisoned Kool-Aid. Pity the poor ...
Go ahead--call me the chief apologist for those scoundrels, the short-sellers. Tell me I'm carrying water for them. Allege I'm on their payrolls. Charge me with collusion. I've heard it all before,...
Are the reports of independent auditors worth the paper they're written on? Is the current system really protecting investors from accounting chicanery? You can't help but wonder in the wake of rec...
Worried that large-company stocks look increasingly vulnerable to a setback, but still nervous about the volatility of small shares? Well, here's a compromise that's also a compelling opportunity: ...
It sounds so easy: If you want to find the next hot stock, look for the local restaurant chain with lines around the block out front or the new store that everyone at work has been talking about.
My job is to make people money," declares Merrill Lynch's Tom Kurlak. It's a laudable goal, but a hard one to reach with any consistency. Critics have long complained that much of the analysis comi...
No doubt about it, these champions of capitalism are nothing if not high-wire acts. Sure, there are returning stars like Starbucks Corp. (No 77), which for years has shown that focused management a...
A company whose shares were puffed up by aggressive accounting and fuzzy financial information. Brokerage giants hungry for investment banking deals. And Wall Street analysts who missed obvious sig...
In January, for the 41st time in the 42 quarters since it went public, Microsoft reported earnings that met or beat Wall Street estimates. The 36 brokerage analysts who make the estimates were, as ...
One trick to turning up tech-stock bargains is to step back from the hot battlefields like the Internet and look at companies that supply others with "plumbing." For example, Glenayre Technologies ...
WHILE LOS ANGELES MAY BE MOURNING the departure of both its pro football teams, the City of Angels has at least one reason to celebrate. Shares of L.A.-based companies were the third quarter's top ...
The feathers are flying in the battle for pecking order in the take-home-chicken business. Boston Market and Kenny Rogers Roasters have much at steak, er, stake--namely, carving off the biggest pie...
Ms. Cindy Crawford c/o PepsiCo Purchase, New York 10577 Dear Cindy,
Hungry? You've come to the right place. America has about 30,000 supermarkets, some 13,000 discounters selling food, 93,000 convenience stores, and about 400,000 fast-food joints, diners, and resta...
How could anyone risk leaving a venerable, big-league corporation to help run a startup? How could anyone risk staying? "Nowadays, working for a large company is a roll of the dice," says Kyle Crai...
Fortune: AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE updated: Mon Aug 08 1994 00:01:00
Today's Sun King of entrepreneurism may well be H. Wayne Huizenga, 56, CEO of Blockbuster Entertainment. The former president and co-founder of Waste Management, now WMX Technologies, had a hand in...
Atlanta was the U.S. city with the best-performing local stocks in the second quarter of 1994, according to the exclusive Money/ Nordby Cities Index, which is composed of a series of indexes of sto...
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, the road to financial insecurity is paved with good intentions. Here are six easy-to-keep resolutions for investing that should make the coming year your most profitab...
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