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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Vail Resorts plans wage cuts in face of declining visits - Denver Business Journal:
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The pay cuts, which will take effect at or near the end of the currentwinted season, will be implemented on a sliding scale, from 2.5 perceng for seasonal employees to 10 percent for executives. It will be offset partially by a grantinvof stock-based incentive compensatiohn for all full-time employees, ranging from 1.5 percent to 7.5 percenrt of salaries. Resort-related earnings fell 8.3 percent from last year a $9.6 million decline as out-of-state and overnighty visitors were less likely to come tothe company’s five mountaibn resort properties and to spend less money when they did show up.
The Broomfield-base d company (NYSE: MTN) operates the Breckenridge, Keystone and Beaver Creek winter resortsd in Colorado and Heavenly Mountain Resort onthe California-Nevadaq border. “Our second quarter resort segmentg results, which encompass the first part of the ski reflect the impact of the severe downturn in the Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said ina Katz, who announced he will receives no salary for one year and then take a 15 percent pay cut, added that the February through Aprik period, which is when Vail Resorts typicallty gets its most business, could show bigger revenu e declines.
“We do expect that for the remainder of the fiscal year the trenr of our results to the prior year will worsenj from the results realized in theseconfd quarter,” he said. “This is due primarilu to the third quarter being a historically larger revenue quarterd than the second quarter with he continuing negative trendds having agreater impact.” From Novembedr through January, lift-ticket revenue fell $6.8 million or 5.1 while revenues for the company’s ancillary businessed dropped even more. Ski school revenue decreased 17.6 dining revenue fell 11.4 percent and retail and rental revenur droppedby 11.3 Lodging revenue rose by $6.8 million or 18.
2 due largely to the opening of the Arrabellre resort in Vail and the acquisitiom of the Colorado Mountain Expresxs airport shuttle service. Withougt those two factors, lodging segmen t revenue would have decreasedby 13.2 percent as both destination visitors and group-room nights Katz said. One bright spot in the second-quarter fiscal repory was an 18.2 increase in season-pass leading to a 0.9 percent increased in skier visitsat Vail’sw four Colorado resorts.
Because of the percentage of in-state visitors schussing down the slopew increased from 41 percent to48 percent, Katz In response, the company announced it would offefr its Epic Season allowing unlimited visits to the four sitesz as well as Arapahoe Basin, for the same $579 price next year as it charged this year. The offer is good throug h April 9, and purchasers must put down onlya $49 down with the balance due in Katz said. Vail Resorts also announced that Katz has been name d chairman ofthe company’s board of directors.
The pay cuts, which will take effect at or near the end of the currentwinted season, will be implemented on a sliding scale, from 2.5 perceng for seasonal employees to 10 percent for executives. It will be offset partially by a grantinvof stock-based incentive compensatiohn for all full-time employees, ranging from 1.5 percent to 7.5 percenrt of salaries. Resort-related earnings fell 8.3 percent from last year a $9.6 million decline as out-of-state and overnighty visitors were less likely to come tothe company’s five mountaibn resort properties and to spend less money when they did show up.
The Broomfield-base d company (NYSE: MTN) operates the Breckenridge, Keystone and Beaver Creek winter resortsd in Colorado and Heavenly Mountain Resort onthe California-Nevadaq border. “Our second quarter resort segmentg results, which encompass the first part of the ski reflect the impact of the severe downturn in the Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said ina Katz, who announced he will receives no salary for one year and then take a 15 percent pay cut, added that the February through Aprik period, which is when Vail Resorts typicallty gets its most business, could show bigger revenu e declines.
“We do expect that for the remainder of the fiscal year the trenr of our results to the prior year will worsenj from the results realized in theseconfd quarter,” he said. “This is due primarilu to the third quarter being a historically larger revenue quarterd than the second quarter with he continuing negative trendds having agreater impact.” From Novembedr through January, lift-ticket revenue fell $6.8 million or 5.1 while revenues for the company’s ancillary businessed dropped even more. Ski school revenue decreased 17.6 dining revenue fell 11.4 percent and retail and rental revenur droppedby 11.3 Lodging revenue rose by $6.8 million or 18.
2 due largely to the opening of the Arrabellre resort in Vail and the acquisitiom of the Colorado Mountain Expresxs airport shuttle service. Withougt those two factors, lodging segmen t revenue would have decreasedby 13.2 percent as both destination visitors and group-room nights Katz said. One bright spot in the second-quarter fiscal repory was an 18.2 increase in season-pass leading to a 0.9 percent increased in skier visitsat Vail’sw four Colorado resorts.
Because of the percentage of in-state visitors schussing down the slopew increased from 41 percent to48 percent, Katz In response, the company announced it would offefr its Epic Season allowing unlimited visits to the four sitesz as well as Arapahoe Basin, for the same $579 price next year as it charged this year. The offer is good throug h April 9, and purchasers must put down onlya $49 down with the balance due in Katz said. Vail Resorts also announced that Katz has been name d chairman ofthe company’s board of directors.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Statler trustee 'moving things along' - Business First of Buffalo:
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Amherst attorney Morris Horwitz said he has begu the process of stabilizingthe Statler’x finances -- as much as he can. Horwitz, on Apri l 23, was named the Statler’s bankruptct trustee after the building was placed into involuntaryChaptee 11. The Chapter 11 status came as part of the comples web of legal actionw that have been initiated againstthe Statler’s LLC -- a company run by Britishg investor Bashar Issa. With a dwindling tenant role, the Statlet is losing $80,000 per month while generatingjust $100,00 0 in monthly rent rolls.
The building has not signed a new tenanrt in more than 18 The legal action was broughr by ParkLane Catering, one of the Statler’es anchor tenants, which has allegedly lost more than $1 millionb in bookings because of the building’s poor shape. The Park Lane remainds in full operation with more than 200 events bookeds atthe Statler. Park Lane Caterinh owner William Koessler has repeatedly said he is working with a group of Chicago investors who want to buy the buildin g and invest morethan $70 milliobn to renovate the 18-story structure that overlookss Niagara Square. “No one has met with us or made an Horwitz said. David Pfalzgraf Jr.
, Park Lane Cateriny attorney, said that could happen soon. “At this time, Bill Koesslet is considering his Pfalzgraf said. One of those could be petitioning the bankruptcy court for an expeditec auction that would force the sale ofthe Statler. “Thered is a possibility we could startf the process toward anexpedited auction,” Koessler For now, Horwitz said he is focusingf on collecting all of the rentsw that are due to the Statlerr and paying immediate billsx such as payroll, insurance and utilities. A meetingt of all the Statler’s creditors is set for June 1. “W are moving things along,” Horwitz said. “We’re hopingh to find a buyer out there.
If someone wants to come I wish they would makethemselvee known.” Issa had pledged to make more than $100 millionn of renovations to the Statler when he boughtg the building three yeares ago. Only a smalk fraction were ever completed. All renovationxs on the Statler stopper more than oneyear ago. Issa, who is facingy legal and financial issuesin England, has not been in Buffallo in more than one year and allegedl y has visa problems preventing him from entering the United States.
Amherst attorney Morris Horwitz said he has begu the process of stabilizingthe Statler’x finances -- as much as he can. Horwitz, on Apri l 23, was named the Statler’s bankruptct trustee after the building was placed into involuntaryChaptee 11. The Chapter 11 status came as part of the comples web of legal actionw that have been initiated againstthe Statler’s LLC -- a company run by Britishg investor Bashar Issa. With a dwindling tenant role, the Statlet is losing $80,000 per month while generatingjust $100,00 0 in monthly rent rolls.
The building has not signed a new tenanrt in more than 18 The legal action was broughr by ParkLane Catering, one of the Statler’es anchor tenants, which has allegedly lost more than $1 millionb in bookings because of the building’s poor shape. The Park Lane remainds in full operation with more than 200 events bookeds atthe Statler. Park Lane Caterinh owner William Koessler has repeatedly said he is working with a group of Chicago investors who want to buy the buildin g and invest morethan $70 milliobn to renovate the 18-story structure that overlookss Niagara Square. “No one has met with us or made an Horwitz said. David Pfalzgraf Jr.
, Park Lane Cateriny attorney, said that could happen soon. “At this time, Bill Koesslet is considering his Pfalzgraf said. One of those could be petitioning the bankruptcy court for an expeditec auction that would force the sale ofthe Statler. “Thered is a possibility we could startf the process toward anexpedited auction,” Koessler For now, Horwitz said he is focusingf on collecting all of the rentsw that are due to the Statlerr and paying immediate billsx such as payroll, insurance and utilities. A meetingt of all the Statler’s creditors is set for June 1. “W are moving things along,” Horwitz said. “We’re hopingh to find a buyer out there.
If someone wants to come I wish they would makethemselvee known.” Issa had pledged to make more than $100 millionn of renovations to the Statler when he boughtg the building three yeares ago. Only a smalk fraction were ever completed. All renovationxs on the Statler stopper more than oneyear ago. Issa, who is facingy legal and financial issuesin England, has not been in Buffallo in more than one year and allegedl y has visa problems preventing him from entering the United States.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Expected Snow Showers Only Leave Dusting - Patch
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Expected Snow Showers Only Leave Dusting Patch The expected storm largely missed the Dundalk area, leaving only a light dusting on roads as night fell Sunday. Courtesy photo UPDATE: County snow fighting ... |
Friday, December 24, 2010
Basketball / Tel Aviv locks up best record with ho-hum win - Ha'aretz
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Ha'aretz | Basketball / Tel Aviv locks up best record with ho-hum win Ha'aretz In the top 16 round, Maccabi will be placed in the same grouping with Ljubljana, Barcelona and Rome. The official groupings will be announced by the ... |
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
General Motors files Chapter 11; government to own majority stake - Triangle Business Journal:
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Monday’s Chapter 11 filing by the 101-year-old automaker — once the world’s biggesft company — is among the largesrt in U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturing Chapter 11, which allows the company to operatee while protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-trac k bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additionapl taxpayer funds to restructure GM’s filing came aftet weeks of wrangling with its unionxs and bondholders and as part of a game plan coordinatexd with the federal That plan calls for the establishment of a new, more nimble GM that has the federakl government as its 60 percent equity Speaking about the GM movex Monday, President Barack Obama said that despite the federak government's majority stake in the its executives, and not federal officials, "will call the shots and make the decisionss about turning this company around.
" Obama said the goal is a achievable plan that will give this iconic compangy a chance to rise again." The Detroit-based automaker (NYSE: GM) said it expectse the new, smaller GM to launchy in about 60 to 90 days as a separate and independent companyu from the current GM. The new company will focux on four core brands in theUnited States: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buicki and GMC. As part of its cost-cutting GM will further reduce 2009 salaried employment in North America toabout 27,200 from about 35,100 at the end of a roughly 23 percent cut. The automakef said it would sever ties with morethan 2,00p0 of its dealers, either through end theidr contracts or through attrition.
GM also plans to close 11 U.S. facilities and idle another three plants by the endof 2010. "Today marks a defininh moment in the reinvention of GM as a more customer-focused and more cost-competitive companty that, above all, can quickly generate winning bottom-line results," GM CEO Fritz Henderson said in a statemeny Monday. "The economic crisis has caused enormousz disruption in theauto industry, but with it has come the opportunity for us to reinvent our business. We are goingh to do it once and doit right." Besides the U.S. government's 60 percent financialo interest, the union would take a 17.5 perceny stake.
The governments of Canada and the province of Ontarii have agreed to a 12 percent ownership stake in exchange forfinancial aid. GM bondholders would get 10 In its Chapter 11 GM citing debtsof $172.u8 billion and assets of $82.3 billion. Filed in New York, it listsx unsecured claims by theUAW ($20.56 billion) and the International Unionb of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniturw Workers/Communication Workers ($2.7 billion). Other unsecured debt liste d in the filingincludes $22.8 billiobn serviced by Wilmington Trust Co. and $4.5 billiob by Deutsche Bank AG.
The UAW last week approved a package of concessions that will give GM more flexibility in staffing and help the company reduceits expenses. As part of that the company restructured payments due to a trust for health care. The trust will receive a $2.5 billion note and $6.5 billio n in 9 percent perpetual preferred along witha 17.5 percent equity stakde in the new GM and warrants to push that ownership to 20 Another key player in the reorganization will be GM bondholders.
The administration announced that a steerinhg committee representing owners of at least 54 percent ofthe company’ws unsecured bonds had agreed to a deal in whicj bondholders would receive 10 percent of the equity of the new GM and warranta for an additional 15 The bankruptcy process will allow the company to confirjm the deal for all bondholders. Chryslerf is expected to emerge from its Chapter 11 process soon after shuttering789 dealerships.
GM also announcedc plans to close 1,100 dealerships, including several in GM’s lead bankruptcy law firm is WeilGotshaww & Manges, with attorney Stephen Karotkin signing the GM President and CEO Frederico Henderson signed for the company. .
Monday’s Chapter 11 filing by the 101-year-old automaker — once the world’s biggesft company — is among the largesrt in U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturing Chapter 11, which allows the company to operatee while protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-trac k bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additionapl taxpayer funds to restructure GM’s filing came aftet weeks of wrangling with its unionxs and bondholders and as part of a game plan coordinatexd with the federal That plan calls for the establishment of a new, more nimble GM that has the federakl government as its 60 percent equity Speaking about the GM movex Monday, President Barack Obama said that despite the federak government's majority stake in the its executives, and not federal officials, "will call the shots and make the decisionss about turning this company around.
" Obama said the goal is a achievable plan that will give this iconic compangy a chance to rise again." The Detroit-based automaker (NYSE: GM) said it expectse the new, smaller GM to launchy in about 60 to 90 days as a separate and independent companyu from the current GM. The new company will focux on four core brands in theUnited States: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buicki and GMC. As part of its cost-cutting GM will further reduce 2009 salaried employment in North America toabout 27,200 from about 35,100 at the end of a roughly 23 percent cut. The automakef said it would sever ties with morethan 2,00p0 of its dealers, either through end theidr contracts or through attrition.
GM also plans to close 11 U.S. facilities and idle another three plants by the endof 2010. "Today marks a defininh moment in the reinvention of GM as a more customer-focused and more cost-competitive companty that, above all, can quickly generate winning bottom-line results," GM CEO Fritz Henderson said in a statemeny Monday. "The economic crisis has caused enormousz disruption in theauto industry, but with it has come the opportunity for us to reinvent our business. We are goingh to do it once and doit right." Besides the U.S. government's 60 percent financialo interest, the union would take a 17.5 perceny stake.
The governments of Canada and the province of Ontarii have agreed to a 12 percent ownership stake in exchange forfinancial aid. GM bondholders would get 10 In its Chapter 11 GM citing debtsof $172.u8 billion and assets of $82.3 billion. Filed in New York, it listsx unsecured claims by theUAW ($20.56 billion) and the International Unionb of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniturw Workers/Communication Workers ($2.7 billion). Other unsecured debt liste d in the filingincludes $22.8 billiobn serviced by Wilmington Trust Co. and $4.5 billiob by Deutsche Bank AG.
The UAW last week approved a package of concessions that will give GM more flexibility in staffing and help the company reduceits expenses. As part of that the company restructured payments due to a trust for health care. The trust will receive a $2.5 billion note and $6.5 billio n in 9 percent perpetual preferred along witha 17.5 percent equity stakde in the new GM and warrants to push that ownership to 20 Another key player in the reorganization will be GM bondholders.
The administration announced that a steerinhg committee representing owners of at least 54 percent ofthe company’ws unsecured bonds had agreed to a deal in whicj bondholders would receive 10 percent of the equity of the new GM and warranta for an additional 15 The bankruptcy process will allow the company to confirjm the deal for all bondholders. Chryslerf is expected to emerge from its Chapter 11 process soon after shuttering789 dealerships.
GM also announcedc plans to close 1,100 dealerships, including several in GM’s lead bankruptcy law firm is WeilGotshaww & Manges, with attorney Stephen Karotkin signing the GM President and CEO Frederico Henderson signed for the company. .
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Now, mystic Brit monkey making correct Ashes predictions - Sify
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Now, mystic Brit monkey making correct Ashes predictions Sify Paul the psychic octopus of FIFA World Cup fame maybe dead, but that doesn't mean the predicting the results in key events has gone down south, for now, ... |
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