If you’re planning to retire from your small business in the near future, or you simply want to hand over the reins to someone else, it’s important to plan carefully for your succession. Planning will help you to protect the value of your business. As the owner-manager of a business,...
Succession is a process that may extend from three to six years or longer depending on one's age and on the successor's age. It occurs in phases. Over a period, one initiates or educates children to the family business. After determining a successor, one develops a plan to transfer leadership...
By Robert Boczkiewicz SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DENVER -- Assistant federal public defender Ronald Wurtz, of Topeka, has been appointed acting federal public defender for Kansas. Wurtz succeeds David Phillips, who has been the federal public defender since 1994 and...
Business News In Brief BANKING Close Brothers has confirmed it is replacing its chief executive, and has appointed headhunters to find a successor to lead the group into a "new era for banking". Colin Keogh, 55, who joined Close 23 years ago and has been chief...
JERUSALEM -- Israel will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a farewell interview published Monday. Olmert, who began talks with the Palestinians and Syria during his soon-to-end...
HONG KONG & LOS ANGELES -- Asia Time Corporation (Amex:TYM)("Asia Time") today announced the results of its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on September 27, 2008. The Company's shareholders approved all three proposals set forth in its proxy statement dated September 3, 2008. The approved proposals were: ...
NEW YORK, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Bank of New York Mellon, the global leader in asset management and securities servicing, has been selected by Rexam PLC Rexam as successor depositary bank for its American depositary receipt ADR program. Each Rexam ADR represents five ordinary shares. The...
NEW YORK, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- William P. Barr, Verizon Communications Inc. executive vice president and general counsel since the company's inception in 2000, announced plans today to retire at the end of this year. Verizon expects to name a successor soon. Barr, 58, previously...
THE United States Congress could pass a pounds 380bn rescue package to help solve the nation's economic crisis as early as today. President George Bush said the deal, agreed by Democratic and Republican negotiators on Capitol Hill over the weekend, was "urgently needed to address a crisis in...
If Lane Kiffin had displayed the tact and people skills during his previous 614 days as Raiders coach that he during his final press conference Monday, he wouldn't be out of a job. Kiffin even instituted a new policy _ no more commenting about his conversations with...
Problems for interim manager and his successor are all too apparent as Blackburn cruise to victory NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 Owen pen (51) BLACKBURN ROVERS 2 Samba (31), Santa Cruz (41) According to the Blackburn Rovers manager, Paul Ince, six games is too early a point to...
BEIJING, Sept. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- KongZhong Corporation today announced that the Board of Directors of the Company has appointed Leilei Wang as the Chief Executive Officer CEO and elected him as Chairman of the Board, both effective from October 13, 2008. Yunfan Zhou, the Company's current CEO and...
The way we live now Time was, if you had a scullery you'd look like a survivor from a previous age. If it was in a big house you were ancien regime and a skivvy from the village worked there until she was replaced by...
In the summer of 1978, shortly after my appointment as horticulture agent with K-State Research and Extension in Shawnee County, I approached Roger Griswold at this newspaper about the possibility of submitting a weekly column on gardening and landscape maintenance. My request was warmly received, and a...
Leicester Tigers v London Wasps (Kick-off 8.05pm). This evening's match comes from Welford Road, as the teams meet in a repeat of last season's final. The Wasps recorded a 26-16 win at Twickenham that day and with it their fourth league title in six years, as Lawrence Dallaglio bowed out...
Former Chelsea player impressed by their progress in short time under Scolari Chelsea are already a more formidable team under Luiz Felipe Scolari than they were under Jose Mourinho, declared Glen Johnson, one of the first players to join the club after Roman Abramovich's takeover in...
Former Chelsea player impressed by their progress in short time under Scolari Chelsea are already a more formidable team under Luiz Felipe Scolari than they were under Jose Mourinho, declared Glen Johnson, one of the first players to join the club after Roman Abramovich's takeover in...
Johnson impressed by former side's progress in short time under Scolari Chelsea are already a more formidable team under Luiz Felipe Scolari than they were under Jose Mourinho, declared Glen Johnson, one of the first players to join the club after Roman Abramovich's takeover in 2003,...
World in brief CAPE TOWN Kgalema Motlanthe, the deputy ANC leader, was sworn in as South Africa's President yesterday to replace Thabo Mbeki, who resigned amid the worst political crisis since the end of apartheid. Mr Motlanthe was overwhelmingly elected by parliament in a secret ballot...
NEW YORK -- Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund Inc., which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MMU," announced today the results of the votes cast at the Fund's annual meeting of stockholders held September 25, 2008. Leslie H. Gelb, William R. Hutchinson, and...
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