The new Wendy's is unique in that it is the first high efficiency all-electric high technology restaurant. Restaurants are among the most intense users of energy of all types of commercial buildings. They have a significant need for hot water and ice, as well as space heating and cooling. With...
Early reaction to the takeover of Wendy's International by the particularly active activist investor Norman Peltz, announced Thursday, is coming in. The Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal blog is reporting that Peltz's Triarc, which owns 9.8 percent of Wendy's, was pushed into closing the deal by a...
Wendy's Executives Lay Out Plan to Fuel TurnaroundPositive TurnaroundThe current management team for Wendy’s has been working hard on their turnaround for only 9 months and they are already showing great results. After 16 straight months of same store growth, appreciation in stock price, higher profits and positive earnings growth...
Wendy's, the United States' third-largest hamburger chain, announced that it was considering selling the company to boost its strategic value. The company also reduced its earnings forecast for 2007 due to lower-than-expected same-store sales and higher commodity costs. The sale would help the chain compete against aggressive marketing...
The SEC has opened an investigation to determine whether Barclays broke insider-trading rules. The probe, which isn't public, has been underway for three years. Barclays is in talks to settle with the SEC. Earlier this week Barclays made a bid to acquire the Dutch bank ABN Amro.Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and...
The Wendy's Brand is at a crossroads. The recent death of Dave Thomas, the 69-year old founder and affable pitchman, is forcing the chain of more than 6000 restaurants in the US and around the world to re-evaluate its Brand identity. Read the full Case Study ...
IT'S often said that people in constituencies such as Glasgow East would vote for a monkey provided it was wearing a red rosette. I would not dream of comparing Labour's capable candidate Margaret Curran to a sub-human primate, but I suspect even she would agree that her party have made...
How has a couple with no horticultural experience created a garden that even Anna Pavord covets? With some spiky agaves and one heck of a vision. Photographs by Sam Holden Well - it wasn't what I was expecting, as I finally crawled up through the suburbs of...
The drought in Australia's main food bowl, the Murray-Darling Basin, has worsened, with record low inflows into the river system in June and an even gloomier situation predicted for the coming months. Neil Plummer, acting head of the National Climate Centre, described rainfall during the southern hemisphere...
Sales positive at company-operated and franchise restaurants DUBLIN, Ohio, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wendy's International, Inc. today announced preliminary average same-store sales for the second quarter of 2008, which ended on Sunday, June 29. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080104/CLF020LOGO ) Average same-store sales at...
NEW YORK, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ShindigZ has been the leading supplier in the prom and party industry for more than 80 years, specializing in party supplies from balloons and streamers to theme decorating kits, personalized favors, vinyl banners and more. In addition to these great party products, ShindigZ...
digiMedical Solutions, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: DGMS) announced today that the Company has signed a contract with Dr.Daniel Kaplan of Naples, Florida to implement the Company's proprietary.Net-based digital prescription handling software, digiRX and digiReauth,and to supply call center services to support the reauthorization ofprescriptions. Dr. Kaplan received his Doctorate of Osteopathy from...
Tobacco companies could no longer imply government approval when they advertise cigarettes as "light" or "low-tar" under a proposal announced Tuesday. The Federal Trade Commission wants to bar manufacturers from using a test known as the "FTC method" to say a cigarette is low in tar or nicotine....
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-8 July 2008-BT becomes founding sponsor of Web Science Research InitiativeC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com BT, a provider of communications solutions and services, became on Monday (7 July) a founding sponsor of the Web Science Research Initiative, an international body established to promote the science and development of...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD BT, a provider of communications solutions and services, became on Monday (7 July) a founding sponsor of the Web Science Research Initiative, an international body established to promote the science and development of the World Wide Web. The Web Science...
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Mystery, intrigue, romance, and mathematics add up to an irresistible read for kids ages 10 and up in Wendy Lichtman's second 'Do the Math' book, 'The Writing on the Wall' Greenwillow. It's the same winning formula that led The Horn Book Guide to...
BEFORE getting your hands dir ty, scrape your nails over a bar of soap - when you wash them later, the soap can easily be removed. - Wendy Foster, Birmingham...
As part of a nationwide push to smooth the transition and get more students into college, the U.S. Department of Education has announced 24 grants totaling more than $41 million. The grants fall under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs GEAR UP and aim...
This latest round of diplomatic dancing with North Korea should finally put to rest the hoariest of political cliches -- that a willingness to talk with an enemy is appeasement. Last week, the Bush administration took North Korea off the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism and...
