With much of the hotel industry misfiring like Mark Sanchez under the Monday night lights, the Westin Copley Place’s relative financial strength is worth noting. The hotel was highlighted in a recent Moody’s Investors Service report on a $1.9 billion portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) arranged by a Bear Stearns affiliate in 2005. As […]
Harvard University’s mysterious ruling body will face term limits for the first time and double in size following a lengthy study launched in the wake of a devastating 27 percent endowment drop and billions in investment losses last year. In a letter to the Harvard community, President Drew Faust said the Harvard Corp. will be […]
Atlantic Wharf, with its stunning 31-story glass tower on Congress Street opposite the Federal Reserve building, is nearing completion – and a sneak peek inside reveals that it’s been worth the wait. The $500 million office and residential complex offers 550,000 square feet of waterfront space. Floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the mixed-use project offer sweeping views […]
Jim May, standing at the left, has spent nearly 30 years building a company around the sweet leaves of the stevia plant grown in Paraguay. Now, with the U.S. market open, he’s looking to Europe. Image: Courtesy of SweetLeaf Jim May’s business, Wisdom Natural Brands, started international, with the odds against it and some of […]
Unified Foodservice Purchasing Co-op LLC, the exclusive purchasing agent for Yum! Brands Inc., has signed a distribution deal that makes Temple, Texas-based McLane Foodservice Inc. the exclusive provider of products to Yum’s A&W, KFC, Long John Silver’s, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Louisville-based Yum (NYSE: YUM) is […]
Related News Restaurant giant Yum! Brands Inc. reaffirmed its 2010 profit forecast Friday and said its expects 2011 earnings per share to grow by at least 10 percent more. In a news release issued in advance of its annual investor update meeting, the company stood by its target of 14 percent EPS growth in 2010, […]
Google’s rumored $6 billion acquisition of Chicago online discount service Groupon would send shockwaves through the high-tech and bargain Web site industries, experts say. That price tag is extraordinary for a company founded in 2008, said Michael Greeley, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. The top 15 tech companies – including Google, Cisco, Microsoft and […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Commercial real estate vacancy rates have already peaked or will soon top out, though rents are likely to continue to fall, a realtors group said on Monday. The National Association of Realtors said it expects the vacancy rate for office space to rise a tick to 16.7 percent this quarter and gradually […]
The local outlook on the beat-up commercial real estate sector may have improved slightly, according to a new survey devised by the University of St. Thomas. The index, based on a poll of 50 commercial real estate leaders in the area, registered 54.1, up slightly from 53.5 last spring when the index was first released. […]
Starbucks Corp. isn’t saying whether Peet’s Coffee & Tea is a potential acquisition target, but there’s no doubt the Seattle-based coffee giant is interested in “buying large and small companies” to grow its consumer products business. As Reuters reported, CEO Howard Schultz said exactly that at an investor conference Wednesday in New York. And there’s […]
