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- Whole Foods' Mackey Back to Blogging After SEC Probe
- Whole Foods' Mackey Back to Blogging After SEC ProbeIf John Mackey didn't exist, we would have to invent himFor entertainment value, if nothing else.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
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- Whole Foods' Mackey Back to Blogging After SEC Probe
- John Mackey is blogging again. After the Whole Foods CEO was outed as "rahodeb" â€" the anonymous poster on Yahoo Finance's stock message boards who invariably defended the company and argued with detractors â€" he stopped blogging on the Whole Foods Web site. Company lawyers advised...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Mackey races to victory in Iditarod in ninth day
- Lance Mackey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race yesterday, becoming the first musher to win major long-distance North American sled dog races back-to-back. Mackey crossed under the famed burled arch in downtown Nome early last evening, completing the 1,100-mile Iditarod in a little more than 9 days. ...
- Research articles 2007-03-14
- VF to Present at Prudential Back-to-School Consumer Conference
- GREENSBORO, N.C. -- VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) today announced that Mackey McDonald, Chairman and CEO, will present on behalf of VF Corporation at the Prudential Back-to-School Consumer Conference on Wednesday, September 6th at 2:15 p.m. EST in Boston.
- Research articles 2006-08-30
- Kobe Bryant back in court
- EAGLE, United States AFP ? Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant appeared in court, one day after leading his team to a vital playoff victory, for three days of hearings during which he is expected to enter a not guilty plea to rape charges. Bryant, 25, who arrived at...
- Research articles 2004-05-10
- VF Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Very good. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question will come from Brian McGough with Morgan Stanley. Brian McGough - Morgan Stanley Thanks guys. Agreed with your comments. Certainly, nice to see a company beat numbers in this kind of date [ph] and also congratulations...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Whole Foods Chief Defends His Ethics
- John Mackey had a bad 2007, but he's bouncing back in 2008 and the Whole Foods chief is finally talking about "rahodeb," the Internet alter-ego he used to leave scathing chatroom remarks about competitor Wild Oats just as he was angling to buy them. I imagine Mackey has been itching...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Whole Foods fans decry CEO's health care views
- Whole Foods aficionados who assumed the company's management was as crunchy as the brand are feeling betrayed. They have stormed Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere to vent their rage at John Mackey, the chief executive. In an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal last week, he argued for health-care...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Five Star Quality Care, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, gentlemen. Operator instructions Our first question comes from Frank Morgan with Jefferies. Frank Morgan – Jefferies & Co. Thank you. I was hoping to get a little more detail to go back to those – those occupancy numbers over – I...
- Earnings calls 2008-08-30
- Syntel Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. And your first question will to the line of Ed Caso from Wachovia Securities. Ed Caso - Wachovia Securities. Good morning, Ed Caso. I was hoping you could provide some impact from the currency on both the gross profit line and on the SG&A line,...
- Earnings calls 2008-07-28
- Sales Rep as Superhero!! (It's All About Trust.)
- There's a disconnect about trust and authenticity on the Internet that gives you the opportunity to be a veritable "superhero" in your customers' eyes. Let me explain. Back in the day (i.e. pre-Web), anonymity was considered disreputable. The general opinion, in business and elsewhere, was...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Whole Foods Markets, Inc. F3Q08 (Qtr End 07/06/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Simeone Gutman – Goldman Sachs Simeone Gutman – Goldman Sachs With respect to some of the value offerings that the company is pursuing do you view them as being cyclical changes or is there something...
- Earnings calls 2008-08-05
- Whole Foods Market, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 09/28/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question comes from Neil Currie of UBS; please go ahead. Neil Currie – UBS Good afternoon, thank you very much. Just want to talk about the last five weeks of trading. Obviously, there’s been deterioration since the quarter end. Was there any part...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-05
- Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
- Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't broken the love affair between business execs and their favorite free-market philosopher. Rand’s Philosophy Rand’s Objectivist philosophy — which calls for facts over feelings, reason over mysticism, individual over state, and selfishness before altruism — wouldn’t...
- Articles 2009-02-24
- Five Star Quality Care, Inc. F4Q08 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Kevin Ellich with RBC Capital Markets. Kevin Ellich - RBC Capital Markets I would like to discuss the Five Star Solutions that Bruce talked about. Can you talk about the arrangements and costs associated with providing...
- Earnings calls 2009-03-01
- Whole Foods Stores Turning Trends on Lower Pricing
- Whole Foods sales continued to slide in the latest quarter, but consumers are not as determined to cut back on their shopping at the natural -- and gourmet -- food purveyor, which has been lowering prices to encourage customers to think of it as more cost competitive with other retailers....
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Whole Foods Reaches Out to Competitors, Slams FTC
- WASHINGTON ? Whole Foods officials on Tuesday said the Federal Trade Commission?s request to decouple the Wild Oats stores it acquired in 2007 while legal battles over the merger continue as an ?extreme and premature? measure it would vigorously fight. The retailer in the meantime confirmed that it had subpoenaed...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Five Star Quality Care Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions. We’ll take our first question from Frank Morgan at Jefferies & Co. Frank Morgan – Jefferies & Co. Good morning. I was hoping you could tell me a little bit about on the nursing homes, was...
- Earnings calls 2008-03-03
- FTC Is Nuts To Block Whole Foods-Wild Oats Merger
- It makes no sense -- how could the FTC file suit to block the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger? The combined organization wouldn't reach even one-third the size of Safeway, Inc. -- and that's just one among dozens of giant grocery companies. Not to mention Wal-Mart! So where's the disconnect? The...
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Web 2.0 as a Sales Tool...Not!
- A great truism of writing about business and technology is that whenever you try to inject sanity into the discussion of some over-hyped techno-fad, somebody is virtually guaranteed to respond with computer industry conventional wisdom. Earlier this week, I posted a criticism of Web 2.0. (It's HERE.) ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
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