BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$436.0M
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
Specialty Retailer of Fine Jewelry
Number of Employees 3,967
Contact Information
4550 Excel Pkwy Suite 100
Addison, Texas 75001
(972) 892-9200
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NAICS Code Jewelry Stores: 448310
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Jane Friedman's OpenRoad Gets $3 Million Funding For eBooks Venture
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- 2009-08-21
OpenRoad Integrated Media, a still-stealth NYC-based eBooks marketing and publishing startup, has raised $3 million in funding, in a round led by Bay Area Holdings, a fund affiliated with Kohlberg Ventures, according to a new SEC filing. The company was founded this year by Jane Friedman, former CEO of...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America
- 2009-02-24
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America. By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 448 pp., $27.95. In the charming but apocalyptic movie WALL*E, Disney-Pixar spins the story of a cute robot set against a grim backdrop of a...
Palo Alto, Calif., experiences Congress of Cities from home.(National League of Cities)(Conference notes)
- 2008-12-22
Council Member Sid Espinosa of Palo Alto, Calif., was so inspired by Author Thomas L. Friedman's speech on the need for a "green" revolution at NLC's recent Congress of Cities and Exposition in Orlando, Fla., that he took it home for others to hear--by way of...
ESSENTIAL NEXT STEP, THE
- 2008-11-01
THE ESSENTIAL NEXT STEP The United States must launch an "Energy-Climate Era" to solve the world's connected crises, an outspoken columnist writes. Thomas Friedman is issuing a national alert. Instead of the Department of Homeland Security's Code Red, his is a Code Green, sounding the threat of climate change, hydrocarbon...
Defaming Milton Friedman: Naomi Klein's disastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist
- 2008-10-01
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, New York: Metropolitan Books, 576 pages, $28 IN THE FUTURE, if you tell a student or a journalist that you favor free markets and limited government, there is a risk that they will ask you why you support...
'World Is Curved' offers valuable historical perspective
- 2008-09-22
The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy By David M. Smick Portfolio, 272 pages, $26.95 When Thomas Friedman published The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, the title entered the English...
Book Buzz
- 2008-09-18
Serious books: Two non-fiction books by prominent journalists -- The New York Times' Thomas Friedman and The Washington Post's Bob Woodward -- enter USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list this week, but neither could outsell the teen vampire romance series by Stephenie Meyer, who continues to cling to four of the...
The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea—actually, a rather obvious one
- 2008-08-04
The law, business, and economics faculties at the University of Chicago had a bright idea--actually, a rather obvious one: name a research institute after Milton Friedman. But some 100 professors throughout the university had another idea: block the naming of the institute after Friedman. Why? Because, in the words of...
Friedman's philosophy faulty
- 2008-07-24
Thomas L. Friedman's latest foray into the field of philosophical journalism (July 2) makes me want to use words and call people names that are foreign to my (self-proclaimed) sweet disposition. With clenched teeth, I am merely going to mention that high gas prices do not fuel cars, neither does...
Flattening globalism: sovereignty. What a glorious word. A bit hard to spell perhaps, but worth every letter
- 2008-06-30
Yes, I know it seems like only yesterday that the world was flat. That was Thomas Friedman's best-selling argument: "Walls" were a thing of the past. Flatness, globalism, the twilight of sovereignty--these were the waves of the future. Well, maybe Friedman needs to spend more time with the Irish...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Richard Hettlinger | CFO |
| Christopher Schepper |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Sam Cusano | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Friedman's Inc. | CFO | Current |
Chris has over ten years of experience in the legal profession. In his current role, Chris applies his in-depth legal insight and knowledge towards the management of KCC's restructuring administration practice. Chris leads KCC's consulting departments across all of its business areas, while still functioning as a senior managing consultant on several cases, among them NorthWestern Corporation, Friedman's, Keystone Consolidated Industries and Calpine. Previously, Chris served as a restructuring paralegal in the Los Angeles office of Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub P.C., where he worked on large Chapter 11 debtor representations. He was named in Turnaround & Workouts' Special Report of "People of Watch 2004." Chris earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Washington.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc. | Current | |
| Friedman's Inc. | Current | |
| Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Young Corporation | Paralegal | Former |
| Weintraub, P.C | Paralegal | Former |
| NorthWestern Corporation | Senior Managing Consultant | Former |
| University of Washington | Bachelor of Arts Degree In History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Friedman's Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Friedman's Inc. | President & CEO | Former |
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