| Learning to get the trucks back on track
FOR all the talk about the importance of visionary qualities to effective business leadership, successful entrepreneurs will tell you that attention to detail can also pay big dividends. While their success was based on their ability to spot an opportunity, the likes of Sir Tom Hunter would have got nowhere without proving they could deliver what people wanted without running out of cash. This may sound obvious but many have only found out the hard way. .
Joyce Meyer Ministries is a target of GOP senator
Senate Finance Committee has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the financial dealings of six TV evangelists, including Joyce Meyer, the popular preacher who has built a $124-million-a-year empire headquartered in Fenton.
On Monday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Meyer to provide his staff with documents detailing the finances of the Joyce Meyer Ministries, including the religious group's compensation to Meyer, her husband and other family members, as well as an accounting of their housing allowances, gifts and credit card statements for the last several years.
Many of the requests track information about the ministry revealed by the Post-Dispatch in a 2003 series.
In his five-page letter, Grassley also asked Meyer for: .
Everett fishing book has publisher
The folks working to document and honor the once mighty fishing fleet in Everett are making good progress.
Kay Zuanich stopped by last week to tell me that the Fishermen's Tribute Committee has signed a contract with Arcadia Publishing to produce a book on the topic.
The book will mostly contain historical photos -- about 240 of them -- contributed by fishing families. Actually, people dug deeply into their scrapbooks and twice that many were contributed.
"What we don't use will be scanned and archived," Zuanich said, noting that information of the history of Everett's fleet had been scarce in local museums and libraries. Both the book and the extra photos will be an important contribution to document what was once a major industry here.
Zuanich said she wanted to publicly thank all the contributors and to let people know that the group is not seeking any more photos.
Business Briefing
Singapore orders 12 more fighter jets from Boeing The Boeing Co. won an order from Singapore for 12 more fighter jets to replace older aircraft in the country's fleet. Of the total, Singapore is exercising the options it took for eight F-15SGs while placing the order in 2005, the island-city's defense ministry said Monday in an e-mailed statement. Boeing will deliver the planes starting 2010, it said. Soaring jet fuel prices prompt Alaska Airlines fare increase Alaska Airlines is raising ticket prices, saying it needs the extra money to make up for skyrocketing jet fuel prices. One-way fares on routes along the West Coast, within most of Alaska and between southeast Alaska and the lower 48 states are going up $5. The increase, which took effect Monday, is $10 on longer routes in the United States and to Canada and Mexico.
Trollers want disaster declared
CHARLESTON — Disaster checks for 2006 are barely in the bank and local salmon trollers already are asking that the 2007 season also be declared a failure."It turned out costing the fleet more money to have a season with no fish than no season with fish," commercial fisherman Rick Goche said Thursday.Fishermen were shocked when the season opened in April. Many were expecting their lines would be vibrating with fish after not being able to fish in 2006.But were they ever in for a shock.Catches were sporadic.The fish were relatively small.The catches, even smaller."Nobody could believe there were no fish," Goche said.The situation was so unbelievable that fishermen didn’t give up. It’s not uncommon to find only few fish in April, but later in the summer and fall, nothing changed.They set to sea again and again, only to be disappointed."Everybody who went early on in the season were losing money," Goche said, "with very few exceptions."Goche lives in Coquille and fishes the Peso II out of Charleston.
Chris Davis Buys Texas Instruments Inc., Commerce Bancorp Inc., H&R Block Inc., Sells General Growth Properties Inc, ...
Chris Davis leads the portfolio management team of Davis Funds's large cap value and financial stock portfolios. His firm has more than $100 billion under management. These are his buys and sells during the third quarter. Chris Davis buys Discover Financial Services, Lincare Holdings Inc., ArchstoneSmith Trust, The Shaw Group Inc., The Walt Disney Company Disney, WABCO HOLDINGS, UNITED RENTLS TR I 6.50PR, Coach Inc., Global Logistics Acquisition Corp., Ryanair Holdings plc, sells IAC/InterActiveCorp, UStoreIt Trust, First Data Corp., Apollo Group Inc., Equity Residential, EQ RES PFD 8.60 D, Florida East Coast Industries, Gramercy Capital Corp., Mohawk Industries Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Pfizer Inc, Windstream Corp., Vodafone Group plc, UDR Inc., 21st Century Insurance Group, Torchmark Corp.
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