According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mark Wattles, chairman and chief executive officer of Ultimate Electronics, increased his ownership in Tweeter by 1.7 percent to 11.4 percent, following press time for the Consumer According to a filing with the...
The bidding war for Hollywood Entertainment seemed poised to continue last week, despite an announcement by Dothan, Ala.-based Movie Gallery of a definitive agreement to acquire its larger rival for $850 million. Investors pushed shares of Ho The...
TUALATIN, ORE.--HOLLYWOOD Entertainment wants to be the Burger King of the video retail business. Mark Wattles, who serves as Hollywood's chairman, president and CEO, told about 100 shareholders at meeting here last week that there is room ...
Hollywood Entertainment chairman and CEO Mark Wattles told Wall Street analysts last week he expects to roll out five-day rentals on all product in about 90% of Hollywood Video stores by Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, "we're no longer guarantee Hollywood Entertainment...
Shareholders of Hollywood Entertainment, parent company to the Hollywood Video retail chain, are getting restless with the company's stalled lever-aged buyout. Dolphin Limited Partnership LP, which owns 1.4 million shares of Hollywood, last w Shareholders of Hollywood Entertainment,...
The localized and sometimes cutthroat rental-price wars between Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video may be coming to an end soon, predicts Hollywood CEO Mark Wattles. Wattles told analysts recently that his company has been "experime The...
"Registrants have contacted the chief executive officers of each of the entities to express Registrants' views in this matter and will continue to seek to facilitate a combination of Issuer and Hollywood." With that bland bit of reg ...
A close reading of selected Southern African poems about elephants provides a window onto interdisciplinary readings of southern African ecocritical issues generally, involving three interlocking aspects: local ecological realities, especially managerial conservation ethics; the animal-human interface as it emerges in anthropomorphic expression; ...
Animality is at the core of much of Rachel Rosenthal's performance art and painting. Looking to the work of Rosenthal (as well as Plato, Shakespeare, Rauschenberg, and others), this essay is an attempt to understand the intricate relationships among the artist, the animal,...
Pheasant factfile Phasianus colchicus AKA: Common pheasant A large, long-tailed gamebird. Males have rich chestnut, golden-brown and black markings on body and tail, with a dark green head and red face wattling. Females are mottled and paler brown and black. They are usually seen in the open countryside...
Byline: Ken McGregor Sep 18, 2006 (Food Week - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Many people who love food also buy the dips that make it more tasty. There are a number of food companies in Australia which make dips. The large retailers,...
Unbuttoned[All this buttoning and unbuttoning ...18th century suicide note] The footprints are not obvious. Walking bush tracks rich with leaf mulch I come across a lookout stopped at many times. The view of sandstone cliffs divided half way...
Three Supreme Court justices and 17 district court of appeal judges have filed for merit retention in the fall statewide judicial elections. In addition, there are 17 contested circuit judge races around the state, while 134 circuit judgeships were decided without...
Byline: Michael Rudnick NEW YORK-Mark Wattles, Ultimate Electronics' chairman and chief executive officer, may be eyeing competitor Tweeter Home Entertainment Group as a potential acquisition target, as was made evident by a request for the company to drop its hostile takeover guard. ...
WHEN MARK WATTLES, FOUNDER and former CEO of Hollywood Entertainment Corp., decided to buy the assets of bankrupt Ultimate Electronics Inc. in April, there was no shortage of investment bankers willing to assist with the deal. In fact, his prior connections at the parent of the Hollywood Video chain made...
Retailers led the HFN Index decline for the Aug. 18 to 25 period, falling 2.31 percent. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group weighed down the index, as it sunk 8.28 percent to $4.21 following its board's objections to significant stock purchases by Mark Wattles, Ultimate Electronics' chairman and...
Ultimate Electronics, Tweeter may merge Mark Wattles, the entrepreneur who bought bankrupt retailer Ultimate Electronics Inc., Thornton, Colo., may have another takeover target in mind-Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc., Canton, Mass., Reuters reports. In a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,...
Byline: Michael Rudnick NEW YORK-Mark Wattles, Ultimate Electronics' chairman and chief executive officer, recently tripled his stake in rival retailer Tweeter Home Entertainment Group. Wattles rescued the ailing Ultimate by purchasing half of its locations in April. Are his sights set on ...
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mark Wattles, chairman and chief executive officer of Ultimate Electronics, increased his ownership in Tweeter by 1.7 percent to 11.4 percent, following press time for the Consumer Electronics section (see story, page 84). Attached to the...
Articles 2005-08-22
<< Previous
page 1 of 1
Next >>
Premier Vendor Content
Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
With AT&T Tech Support 360, you'll have certified, U.S. based technicians on call 24/7 to help keep your computers, connections, software and peripherals up to speed for just 82¢ a day.
