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• Eco-Conscious Companies to Promote Large-Scale Green Shopping Event in Santa Monica December 15-16

  - 2007-11-08

  Eco Gift Expo, a unique shopping experience for the environmentally and socially conscious consumer, is coming to The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on December 15 and 16. Today, the expo's producers announced that Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) and the Los Angeles Times have signed on as presenting...

  Tags: E-mail, FINANCE, Los Angeles Times, Manufacturing, SALES, Whole Foods Market

• War profiteers

  - 2007-02-01

  The Los Angeles Times reports that conservative Christian groups cashed in on their "War on Christmas" cause, with the American Family Association making more than $500,000 in sales of buttons and magnets that state "Merry Christmas: It's Worth Saying."

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• The sales trap

  - 2006-10-01

  Relying on a sales culture to bring in ever-larger volumes of new loans is causing problems ranging from loan quality to fraud as the business cycle downshifts. Some examples are even humorous--as long as your company didn't buy the tainted loans. The Los Angeles Times earlier this year reported on...

  Tags: borrower, FINANCE, Los Angeles Times, mortgage, Mortgages, payment, sales

• From gun control to bullet control

  - 2005-06-13

  ITEM: The Los Angeles Times for April 11 commented: "After four years of George W. Bush, the notions that some people might be too dangerous or unstable to trust with a firearm or that assault weapons do not belong in civilized society are deader than a wild turkey in hunting...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Regulations, SALES

• Attachmate selected by Los Angeles Times to support online subscriber self-service Web site.(ECOMMERCE)

  - 2004-08-01

  Attachmate Corporation, 20-year experts in legacy integration, announced that the Los Angeles Times has selected AttachmateR myEXTRA!TM Smart Connectors for 3270 to support its 24/7 online subscriber self-service Web site, http://www.myaccount.latimes.com. The Web site, which was launched in November 2003, gives subscribers the...

  Tags: Attachmate Corp., billing, e-business, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Los Angeles Times, Mainframes, MARKETING, SALES, Servers, Web

• Los Angeles Times Reports March Circulation

  - 2004-05-03

  Business Editors LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--May 3, 2004 The Los Angeles Times showed an increase in average daily circulation for the period ended March 31, 2004, according to figures filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations ABC. For Monday-Saturday, average daily circulation was 983,727, an increase of 4,178, or...

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• Customers can sue utilities. (Newscope).(Brief Article)

  - 2002-03-01

  A recent state Supreme Court decision said that Californians can sue state-regulated water companies for damages, but only if they can prove the companies violated state or federal drinking water standards. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, this decision overturned a...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, Quality, SALES

• Holocaust Commission Inefficiencies Disputed.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-07-01

  NEW ORLEANS -- Insurance regulators said they are concerned about two recent media reports that claim an international commission created to resolve Holocaust-era insurance disputes has spent 10 times more on administrative costs than on paying claims to policyholders and their survivors. But...

  Tags: commission, FINANCE, Insurance, Los Angeles Times, SALES

• WILLES REGRETS NOT HAVING MOVED FASTER Former chairman of Times Mirror reviews the tumult of his tenure in newspapering

  - 2000-11-20

  VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Sounding something like a politician who was on the short end of a losing race, Mark Willes told the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association PNNA that he had almost no regrets about his time as chairman of Times Mirror Co. and publisher of...

  Tags: chairman, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, SALES, Strategy, Telemarketing

• latimes.com President to Head Operations At DailyShopper; Media Veteran Assumes Dual Roles as President and Chief Operating Officer

  - 2000-09-11

  Business/High Tech Editors SEATTLE--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 11, 2000 DailyShopper Network, the leading online promotions network for brick-and-mortar retailers, has named Carol Perruso president and chief operating officer. Perruso brings to DailyShopper more than 20 years of leadership experience in both the online and offline newspaper businesses. In her...

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