Sears Canada shows successful side of retailing
Change is coming fast and furious at Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s headquarters. It has to. With same-store sales continuing to decline, time--as we've said before--is not on the troubled retailer's...
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He’s one grand topic in the halls of Sears
What's Eddie Lampert got up his sleeve? If you listen to chatter around the hallways at Hoffman Estates-based Sears, Roebuck and Co., he's more than just betting big on a...
Paper’s boss gets a surprise with breakfast
Newspaper managers don't like surprises when they open up their newspaper. They especially don't like it when an angry managing editor slips his resignation into a column and blames the...
WMVP duo asked to `take a breather’
WMVP-AM 1000 afternoon personality Dan McNeil wasn't the only one off the air Thursday. Turns out his recent on-air sparring partner, Jay Mariotti, the Sun-Times columnist who does a mid-morning...
McNeil gets day in penalty box
WMVP-AM 1000 co-afternoon personality Dan McNeil will be off the air on Thursday in the wake of an ongoing on-air feud with Sun-Times columnist and station mid-morning personality Jay Mariotti...
25 years later, disco debacle recalled fondly
So much is forgotten over the span of 25 years that it's easy to revise history. There's been a lot of revisionist history when it comes to recalling that fateful...
Coors wants to throw punch in beer brawl
Poor Coors Brewing Co. It's feeling left out these days. Believe it or not, Coors is thinking about joining the current catfight between Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Miller Brewing Co. Apparently...
Media giants discuss ad deal for New York
Newspaper competitors rarely jump into bed together. Unless they want to fight off common foes, that is. Two of the nation's biggest newspaper companies--Tribune Co. and Gannett Co.--are involved in...
McDonald’s finds missing ingredient
Fred Turner did not need to look at financial statements to know McDonald's was in trouble. He could taste it. The man who worked alongside founder Ray Kroc to turn...
Redstones’ Midway strategy thus far known only to them
Shari Redstone, daughter of media magnate Sumner Redstone, was never a gamer--until a few weeks ago. She bought her own Play Station 2 (since her kids don't want her to...