THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Retailer Conn's said its furniture and bedding sales jumped 31.7% in the quarter ended Oct. 31 as the company continued to heavily promote the categories and focus on higher-end goods. In a preliminary sales report ...
Online hotel-booking giant Priceline.com plans to acquire Kayak,another Internet-based travel company,for$1.8 billion in cash and stock,the companies announced Thursday. Priceline will pay about$500 million in cash and$1.3 billion in ...
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NEW YORK -- Two days after a devastating Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey and wreaked havoc across greater New York, furniture retailers in the area were reporting store closing disruptions, but no serious damage. However, those ...
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NEW YORK -- A number of furniture retailers caught in the path of a devastating Hurricane Sandy are reporting store closings in New York and New Jersey, but initially no major damage. Manchester, Conn.-based Bob's Discount Furniture ...
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Top 100 retailer Sleepy's Inc. and private equity firm Longroad Asset Management have emerged as the two qualified bidders for bedding retailer Mattress Discounters, but an auction scheduled for today has been postponed due ...
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Seesmart Technologies, Inc. has completed the installation of LED lighting in two of The Ashforth Company's properties in Connecticut, transforming its spaces and offering a quick return on investment of only 15 months. And it is estimated ...
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DoD contracts round-up:summer 2012 23 Aug 2012 Substantial backing for optical countermeasure and multispectral targeting systems,including a$463million agreement with Northrop Grumman. MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter The US Department of ...
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A senior Republican senator on Thursday insisted there is no partisan dissent over the need for a strong national cybersecurity policy but added that a bill with Democratic backing that is stalled in the Senate is not the answer. In a ...
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Network World - A new kind of data center claiming to employ "the world's most efficient cooling system" turns the traditionally unbearable "hot aisle" between server racks into a rather pleasant air-conditioned hallway, all the while using ...
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Stanley Black & Decker Inc. has put up its hardware and home-improvement unit for sale in an auction that could fetch around $1.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The unit, part of Black & Decker before its 2010 merger with ...
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New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Sacramento, Calif.’s United Stationers have recently completed lighting retrofits. At Sloan-Kettering, LED lighting manufacturer Seesmart Technologies replaced about 700 ...
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New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Sacramento, Calif.’s United Stationers have recently completed lighting retrofits. At Sloan-Kettering, LED lighting manufacturer Seesmart Technologies replaced about 700 ...
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A precision injection molder has rid itself of the last vestiges of outdated technology, and received significant energy savings and part-quality improvements as a result. That’s the short story behind a recent move by Sinicon ...
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Even after Stanley Black & Decker shareholders rejected the tool and security company's executive pay plan last spring, the company paid Nolan D. Archibald, its executive chairman and the former CEO of Black & Decker, a total of $64.4 ...
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BLOOMFIELD, Conn. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2012-- Kaman Corp. (NASDAQ-GS: KAMN) announced today that it will report its fourth quarter and full year 2011 results after the stock market closes on Monday, February 27, 2012 and host a live ...
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