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Date: 08 January 1996
By Carey Goldberg
Carey Goldberg
Really and truly, there are many politicians who serve nobly, businesses that are steadily thriving and parents who love and protect their children. It is just that readers do not often find much about them in the mainstream media's usual doom-mongering coverage of crime, war, disaster and economic woes.
Date: 08 January 1996
By Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris
FOR financial journalists, talking to people who have a stake in what is printed is so ingrained as to seem obvious. The people who think about markets and know what is going on are almost always participants. And they do not often speak against their own interests. In the world of Wall Street, getting favorable publicity for your own position is known as "talking your portfolio." It is a rare money manager who will bad-mouth a stock he owns, or who will forecast plunging bond prices when he owns a lot of bonds.
Date: 09 January 1996
Reuters
The stock of the Chantal Pharmaceutical Corporation fell more than 62 percent yesterday after Barron's, the financial weekly, published a report that questioned Chantal's dealings with a Los Angeles distributor and the claims of Chantal's lead cosmetic product, Ethocyn anti-wrinkle cream. Chantal shares plunged $11.8125, to $7.3125, in Nasdaq trading of nearly 7.7 million shares. The Barron's article raised issues about Chantal's option to acquire Stanson Marketing, the chief distributor of Ethocyn. It also discussed lawsuits against Stanson's president, Frederick Reinstein, and challenged claims that Ethocyn could reduce skin wrinkling. Officials of Chantal were not immediately available to comment on the Barron's report.
Date: 09 January 1996
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Andrew Heyward, a longtime producer of news programs at CBS, was named president yesterday of CBS News, where his mission will be to revive a journalistic operation that has languished in recent years. Mr. Heyward, who has been the executive producer of the "CBS Evening News" since October 1994, and before that produced two CBS news magazines, will replace Eric W. Ober, who was recently forced out after five years on the job.
Date: 09 January 1996
Dow Jones
Dow Jones
Supercuts Inc. said yesterday that it may be out of compliance with a covenant of its bank credit facility, which would constitute default of the company's bank credit line. After the news, the company's stock plummeted $2.25, or 29 percent, to $5.625, in Nasdaq trading. Supercuts, a chain of hair-cutting salons, said it had been advised by its lending banks that money issued under the credit line will require waivers, and the banks have already waived an advance of $1 million. Supercuts, which is based in San Francisco, said it might not comply with the covenant concerning minimum earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for last year.
Date: 09 January 1996
Dow Jones
Dow Jones
The American Financial Corporation agreed yesterday to sell its Buckeye Management Company unit for $63 million. American Financial reached the agreement with an investment group that consists of members of current management and employees of the company. American Financial, a property and casualty insurance concern based in Cincinnati, did not disclose further information about the buying group. The company announced in November that it was trying to sell Buckeye, which owns a 2 percent general partnership interest in, and is the managing general partner of, Buckeye Partners L.P., a petroleum pipeline operator.
Date: 09 January 1996
Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Smith's Food and Drug Centers Inc. said yesterday that it was in talks to buy the Phoenix-based supermarket operator Smitty's Super Valu Inc. Smith's, a Salt Lake City-based supermarket operator, also said it would repurchase up to 50 percent of its class A and class B shares "at a premium to recent trading levels." Further details of the proposed transactions were not provided. Publicly traded class B shares of Smith's fell 25 cents, to $27.75. The company has a market value of $605.7 million. The privately held Smitty's operates 28 supermarkets in Phoenix and Tucson.
Date: 09 January 1996
Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Sprint Corporation said yesterday that it would appoint Frank Reed as non-management chairman and Dennis Foster as president and chief executive of its Sprint Cellular subsidiary after the unit's expected spinoff early this year. Mr. Reed, 60, was president and chief executive of Corestates Philadelphia National Bank, a unit of the Corestates Financial Corporation. Mr. Foster, 65, joined Sprint as a senior vice president of operations for the company's local telecommunications division and earlier served as president of GTE Mobilenet, a cellular subsidiary of the GTE Corporation. Sprint, the No. 3 long-distance telephone company behind AT&T and MCI Corporation, proposed the spinoff of Sprint Cellular on June 14.