As Thanksgiving 2010 approaches, investors have their eye on Black Friday. This is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season which aims to identify a level of retail volume that will indicate a market upswing. This year’s Black Friday, so-called because stores usually make sufficient sales on that day to get their accounts “into… Continue Reading
Berlin / Dusseldorf – Thomas Fox the CEO of Karstadt predicts a great future for his department store chain in Germany. “The best times of these department stores in Germany still lie ahead,” lectured Fox on Wednesday even before the industry gathered at the German trade conference in Berlin, “Germany is a country store.” To… Continue Reading
On August 7, 2006 Orthofix International announced that it had finalized a deal in which it would acquire Blackstone Medical, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone, Matt Lyons, said about the deal that: “We are especially excited about the benefits of combining our advanced product development capabilities with Orthofix’s experience in developing innovative… Continue Reading