Atlanta Business Chronicle articles from June 1990

Atlanta Business Chronicle archives from June 1990

Babbitt & Reiman reels in Us magazine. (Babbitt and Reiman Advertising) (Ad Lips)
June 25, 1990... Babbit & Reiman reels in Us magazine Babbit & Reiman just scored another national hit, winning the $1 million Us magazine account. Us magazine had severed its relationship with Fallon McElligott and brought the account into review. "They...

John R. LaMalva. (named president of Facility Program Management Inc.)
June 25, 1990... John R. LaMallva * John R. LaMalva was appointed president of the Facility Program Management Inc.

American Bi-Wekly Services Inc. (elects Clifford E. Wagner, Jon Lee Anderson to board of directors)
June 25, 1990... Clifford E. Wagner and Jon Lee Anderson * Clifford E. Wagner and Jon Lee Anderson were elected to the board of directors of American Bi-Weekly Services Inc.

Herman Miller Inc. (names Richard H. Ruch president)
June 25, 1990... Frances Myrick Schultz * Frances Myrick Schultz was recently named senior editor of Southern Homes magazine.

Life of Georgia. (elects Roy F. Martin, Rodger C. Painting to board of directors)
June 25, 1990... Larry Tyus Larry Tyus was promoted to assistant vice president for Equifax Inc.'s credit information services company's operating support unit-collections; and David T. Lee was promoted to assistant vice president and executive assistant to...

Southland Life Insurance Co. (names James C. Brooks, Jr. to board of directors)
June 25, 1990... Mary Pat Crouch * Mary Pat Crouch was named senior vice president of Calder P. Sinclair & Co.

Hyatt Regency Atlanta. (names Andre van Hall as manager)
June 25, 1990... Karla G. Harvill * Karla G. Harvill was promoted to corporate communications administrator for Gold Kist Inc. and Sam Hunter was named project manager, midrange computer systems.

Jacksonville chain brings Atlanta into Loop. (Loop restaurant chain, Jacksonville, Florida) (The Retail Report)
June 25, 1990... Jacksonville chain brings Atlanta into Loop Metro Atlanta restaurant consumers are about to be taken for a Loop. Jacksonville, Fla.-based Loop restaurant chain is making plans to open some units in the local area, says Mike Schneider,...

Contel Corp. to sell division. (Contel Corp. Contel Office Communications Div.)
June 25, 1990... Contel Corp. to sell division Contel Corp., the nation's third-largest independent telephone company, announced it will sell its Contel Office Communications division. Donald Weber, Contel president and CEO, says the division no longer...

Equifax to acquire Telecredit Inc.
June 25, 1990... Equifax to acquire Telecredit Inc. Equifax Inc. reached an agreement in principal to acquire Los Angeles-based Telecredit Inc., a provider of check guarantee and credit card authorization and processing services. The transaction will be...

Donnelley strikes back. (R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. sues Farley Inc. for printing services)
June 25, 1990... Donnelley strikes back R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., a printing company, filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Farley Inc. for printing services in connection with the firm's 1989 takeover attempt of West Point-Pepperell Inc. Donnelley's...

Georgia Power requests short-term debt issue.
June 25, 1990... Georgia Power requests short-term debt issue Georgia Power filed a request with the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to issue up to $1 billion in short-term debt for working capital purposes and construction programs. A...

Colorocs expands share offering.
June 25, 1990... Colorocs expands share offering Colorocs Corp., an Atlanta-based office copier company, will expand its latest share offering to 1.45 million from 1.1 million. The company says the rights offering was oversubscribed by about 30 percent and...

Fishing for business. (Fisher Business Systems Inc. exercises $1.3 million in warrants)
June 25, 1990... Fishing for business Fisher Business Systems Inc. of Atlanta, which specializes in point-of-sale and restaurant management computer packages, has raised about $1.37 million in new capital from the exercise of warrants that expired June 10.

Bank South to buy 142 ATMs. (automatic transaction machines)
June 25, 1990... Bank South to buy 142 ATMs Bank South Corp. will buy 142 automatic teller machines from GTE. It plans to assume control of 139 ATMs currently installed at Winn Dixie, Big Star, A&P and Cub Foods supermarkets, Pace Warehouses, Hartsfield...

Health Images Inc. completes offering.
June 25, 1990... Health Images Inc. completes offering Health Images Inc. completed its public offering of $5,750,000 of senior extendible notes. The net offering proceeds received by the company will be used to finance the expansion of the company's...

Former BNL-Atlanta employee goes public. (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Atanta branch, von Wedel, Paul) (Financial Page)
June 25, 1990... Former BNL-Atlanta employee goes public Since we began covering the scandal involving the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro last year, no quote has been attributed to a named source. Talking to reporters for background is...

Bear Stearns deal. (Bear, Stearns & Co. issues bonds for Georgia-Pacific Corp. takeover of Great Northern Nekoosa Corp.) (Financial Page)
June 25, 1990... BEAR STEARNS DEAL. Earlier this month, Georgia-Pacific Corp. announced it would underwrite $1 billion of its receivables with the proceeds going toward the complex financing used to acquire Great Northern Nekoosa Corp. In the background,...

North Ga. lures foreigners: Japanese reportedly shopping for thousands of acres in state. (Georgia, United States. Department of Agriculture report)
June 25, 1990... North Ga. lures foreigners At a time when foreign interest in Georgia agricultural land seems to be waning, a Japanese-led concern is reported to be shopping for several thousand acres of timber land in North Georgia. According to one...

Samna's stock price soaring on firm's Windows of opportunity. (Word for Windows, computer software technology) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Samna's stock price soaring on firm's Windows of opportunity Stock price movements often reflect more what investors believe a company will do in the future rather than what it has accomplished in the past. Samna Corp., the best...

Vinings fattens reserves. (Vinings Bank and Trust) (The Insider)
June 25, 1990... Vinings fattens reserves Vinings Bank & Trust's board has voted to increase the community bank's loan loss reserves by $750,000 to $1.85 million, or 2.9 percent of its total loans. The increase will probably cause Vinings to lose money in...

California screaming. (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers lobbying to prevent transfer of Lockheed Corp. employees from Southern California to Marietta, Georgia) (The Insider)
June 25, 1990... California screaming Not willing to concede several hundred jobs without a fight, Machinists union representatives fly to Washington, D.C., this week in lastditch hopes of derailing major Lockheed Corp. transfers from Southern California to...

Taylor & Mathis' proposed downtown tower uncertain; builders woo First Atlanta. (Atlanta)
June 25, 1990... Taylor & Mathis' proposed downtown tower uncertain; builders woo First Atlanta Real estate observers are wondering if Taylor & Mathis is still in the downtown tower race. Now that the extension Taylor & Mathis had obtained for its...

Harry Norman: firm's 60th year just a beginning. (Harry Norman Realtors) (Residential Real Estate) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Harry Norman: Firm's 60th year just a beginning Six decades after coming onto the local real estate scene, Harry Norman Realtors' stake in the Atlanta market seems to be driven in deeper than ever. In an industry where endurance often...

Optimism runs high about Mitsubishi TV tube plant. (Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America Inc.'s consideration of Georgia as site for television tube plant) (On Manufacturing)
June 25, 1990... Optimism runs high about Mitsubishi TV tube plant The heady thought of a new factory with 1,000 jobs has a funny way of prompting premature orders for ticker tape. That caveat noted, optimism is running high about Georgia's chances as...

Also at Mitsubishi. (Mitsubishi Plastics Industries Ltd. investigates Georgia for new plant site) (On Manufacturing)
June 25, 1990... ALSO AT MITSUBISHI. Economic development leaders continue to await word from another in the Mitsubishi group of companies that has sniffed around metro Atlanta. Mitsubishi Plastics Industries Ltd. representatives toured properties in...

Name change. (Rockwell International Corp Missile Systems Div. changes name to Rockwell Industries Corp Tactical Systems Div.) (On Manufacturing)
June 25, 1990... NAME CHANGE. NAME CHANGE. Rockwell International adopted a new name out in Duluth in a strategy to pursue a wider variety of work in this tougher environment for defense contractors. The former Rockwell Missile Systems Division, which...

Gassed up. (Exxon Corp. Exxon Company USA's environmental policy) (On Manufacturing)
June 25, 1990... GASSED UP GASSED UP. Exxon Co. USA may never lose its environmental black eye from the Valdez oil tanker incident, but it is the latest American corporation to jump on the bandwagon of ecological consciousness. Exxon has started selling...

Phone home. (United Telecommunications Inc. hires Cushman Realty Corp. to locate new Atlanta properties for US Sprint) (The Insider)
June 25, 1990... Phone Home Despite the fact that their Atlanta demonstration center has yet to celebrate its second anniversary, US Sprint is already on the lookout for new land. United Telecommunications Inc., which owns the long-distance carrier, has...

Great Southern to First Atlanta. (Great Southern Federal Savings and Loan sold to First Atlanta) (The Insider)
June 25, 1990... Great Southern to First Atlanta First Atlanta is the winning bidder for all the deposits and some of the assets of Great Southern Federal Savings & Loan. As reported, First Atlanta's parent company, First Wachovia Corp., was believed to...

Karen I. Duckett . (acquires Duckett Marchant Inc., changes name to Duckett and Associates Inc.)
June 25, 1990... Karen I. Duckett Karen I. Duckett purchased complete ownership of Duckett Marchant Inc. The firm's name was changed to Duckett and Associates Inc.

Charter employee gets boot after interview. (Charter Brook Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, Charles Prince, Atlanta Business Chronicle, newspaper, interview)
June 25, 1990... Charter employee gets boot after interview Charles Prince, a counselor at Charter Brook Hospital, has been fired after speaking to Atlanta Business Chronicle about employee morale problems there. Prince was fired June 15 because, he says...

Chronicle writer wins National Clarion award. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, newspaper, Adam Feuerstein, Women In Communications Inc.'s Clarion Award contest)
June 25, 1990... Chronicle writer wins national Clarion Award Atlanta Business Chronicle writer Adam Feuerstein has won a first place award from the national chapter of Women in Communications Inc. for a story in Counterpart, a section of the Chronicle...

Making money is a fight: Vietnam vet creates celebrity fund-raisers. (Dunn and Associates' Andrew Crittenden Thomas) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Making money is a fight It's a long way from the rain-filled muddy trenches of Vietnam to organizing fund-raisers with Hollywood star Kim Basinger of Athens, Ga., but one local entrepreneur, A.C. Thomas, has managed to bridge that distance....

Commerce Club home will not be Castle. (Castle building, Atlanta, Georgia)
June 25, 1990... Commerce Club home will not be Castle The Commerce Club has scrapped plans to add a second location in Midtown's historic "Castle" because neither the club nor the Castle's owners wanted to foot the bill for $1 million in cost overruns. ...

Customers on Horizon? Reynolds smoking them out. (Reynolds Tobacco International Inc.'s test marketing of Horizon cigarettes, Atlanta)
June 25, 1990... Customers on Horizon? Reynolds smoking them out Some Atlanta smokers can claim the best-smelling smoke in the country. That's because the Reynolds Tobacco Co. has been test-marketing Horizon cigarettes exclusively in Atlanta since May 7....

MSA merger with D&B eliminates 125 jobs here. (Management Science America Inc., Dun & Bradstreet Software Services Inc., Atlanta)
June 25, 1990... MSA merger with D&B eliminates 125 jobs here Dun & Bradstreet Software, which merged last March with Management Science America Inc., has fired 125 employees in Atlanta. The reduction occurred gradually over the past several months as...

Brookstone developers: next challenge can wait. (Brookstone housing project, Atlanta, Willoughby & Sewell Development Co.) (Residential Real Estate) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Brookstone developers: Next challenge can wait Residential community developers Jim Willoughby and Joe Sewell hope to make their swan song in the business a loud one. Still holding enough land to build more than 1,300 additional homes...

Conservatism, stability pay off at Amsoft. (American Software Inc.) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Conservatism, stability pay off at Amsoft The consolidation under way in the mainframe software industry, illustrated by the merger earlier this year of Management Science America Inc. with Dun & Bradstreet Software, has created a lot of...

Ashford made Chapter 11 work. (Ashford International) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Ashford made Chapter 11 work Ashford International beat the odds recently: it survived Chapter 11. A small Atlanta company that exports computer products around the world, Ashford was forced to seek protection from creditors under...

Leven take temporary job at Triad Messages: company places health messages in restrooms. (Michael A. Leven, Triad Essential Messages Inc.) (company profile)
June 25, 1990... Leven take temporary job at Triad Messages Michael A. Leven, who resigned as president and chief operating officer of Days Inns of America last month, has joined Triad Essential Messages Inc. as a principal and board member. The...

First Financial Management Corp. (acquires NAtionwide Credit)
June 25, 1990... First Financial Management Corp. First Financial Management Corp. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Nationwide Credit of Atlanta. The agreement called for a purchase price of approximately $65 million consisting of...

Bluegrass lands book distributor. (Bluegrass building, Atlanta, Professional Book Distributors Inc.)
June 18, 1990... Bluegrass lands book distributor Professional Book Distributors Inc., one of the Southeast's largest book distributors, has leased more than half the space in Bluegrass's first speculative building before it even broke ground. John W....

Builder A.R. Weeks recording a strong year. (A.R. Weeks & Associates, Jarco Machine Products Inc., Hussmann Corp. contracts)
June 18, 1990... Builder A.R. Weeks recording a strong year A.R. Weeks & Associates, Gwinnett County's largest industrial builder, has just inked two build-to-suit deals, bringing the company's year-to-date leasing transactions to more than 600,000 square...

Immigration attorney migrates to new firm. (Myron M. Kramer, Brent & Kramer) (Foreign Exchange)
June 18, 1990... Immigration attorney migrates to new firm Two local immigration lawyers are creating a new firm that will specialize in helping international companies with immigration needs. Myron N. Kramer, formerly a partner with Hurt, Richardson,...

King & Spalding eyes Germany. (merges with Kageneck and Witthuhn) (Foreign Exchange)
June 18, 1990... KING & SPALDING EYES GERMANY. KING & SPALDING EYES GERMANY. King & Spalding Atlanta's bluest-stocking law firm, has merged with Kageneck and Witthuhn, a New York City law firm specializing in advising German and U.S. clients in cross-border...

Italian search. (GKR International opens Italian executive search office) (Foreign Exchange)
June 18, 1990... ITALIAN SEARCH. ITALIAN SEARCH. GKR International, an international executive search firm with U.S. offices in Atlanta and Dallas, has opened an office in Milan, Italy. Heading the Milan office is Dr. Georgio Rebua, whose 7-year-old...

ZEP in U.K. (Zep Manufacturing Co. looks for mergers in the United Kingdom) (Foreign Exchange)
June 18, 1990... ZEP IN U.K. ZEP IN U.K. Atlanta-based Zep Manufacturing Co., an exporter of industrial chemicals, is looking into possible acquisitions in the United Kingdom. International Manager Calvin Schapira says no decisions have been made, but the...

Moving 6,000 lbs. to U.S.S.R.? Nyet, comrade. (Wansley Moving & Storage) (company profile)
June 18, 1990... Moving 6,000 lbs. to U.S.S.R.? Nyet, comrade In many businesses, an executive is expected to relocate every couple of years, including possibly some foreign duty. Of course, that almost never meant to the Eastern Block countries; but thanks...

Basinger fuels Braselton boom: major theme park deal in negotiation. (actress Kim Basinger's Basinger/Braselton Partnership L.P., Braselton, Georgia)
June 18, 1990... Basinger fuels Braselton boom While actress Kim Basinger captures all the attention in Braselton, developers are quietly buying large chunks of land for residential and commercial development in Jackson County. And north Georgia real estate...

PTL bidder's Atlanta ties: Chandler Peterson adviser to California evangelist. (financial planner J. Chandler Peterson, Morris Cerullo World Evangelism)
June 18, 1990... PTL bidder's Atlanta ties San Diego evangelist Morris Cerullo, who recently bid $52 million for what remains of Jim Bakker's PTL empire, has close ties to controversial Atlanta financial planner J. Chandler Peterson. Peterson sits on a...

Fingered by Fickling?: fired Charter exec says 'I did nothing wrong.' (William A. Fickling, Jr., Charter Medical Corp., James D. Daher) (company profile)
June 18, 1990... Fingered by Fickling? Fired Charter exec says `I did nothing wrong' Former Charter Medical Corp. executive James D. Daher believes he is being made a scapegoat. "Somebody did a number on me," complains Daher. Daher is the...

Gregory to leave ATC post. (Dale M. Gregory, president, Advanced Telecommunications Corp.)
June 18, 1990... Gregory to leave ATC post Dale M. Gregory, president and COO of Atlanta-based Advanced Telecommunications Corp., is leaving the company, effective July 1, to pursue other interests, according to the company. Chairman Stephen E. Raville...

Barnett Bank of Fayette County. (names C. Michael Collins president, CEO) (People in the News)
June 18, 1990... Allan B. Fried Allan B. Fried was promoted to assistant vice president, escrow supervisor.

Citizens Bank and Trust of West Georgia. (names Alice Huffard Richards to board of directors) (People in the News)
June 18, 1990... Ann L. Rossetti Ann L. Rossetti was named director, publications for the Arthritis Foundation, National Office.

Northern Telecom seeks 500,000 sq. ft. industrial facility. (Georgia)
June 18, 1990... Northern Telecom seeks 500,000 sq. ft. industrial facility Nashville, Tenn.-based Northern Telecom Inc. has put its feelers out for a 500,000-square-foot build-to-suit industrial facility. While the space requirement may be two to three...

The National slides into Atlanta. (The National, daily sports newspaper)
June 18, 1990... The National slides into Atlanta The National, a new daily sports newspaper, will begin an Atlanta edition in mid-January, according to Van McKenzie, managing editor. The November start-up date has been pushed back until after the...

Samna, Oracle reach licensing agreement.
June 18, 1990... Samna, Oracle reach licensing agreement Atlanta-based Samna Corp., a manufacturer of graphic word processing products, and Oracle Corp., a database management software and service company, have reached an agreement which licenses Oracles to...

Scientific-Atlanta goes British. (cable television equipment contracts)
June 18, 1990... Scientific-Atlanta goes British Atlanta-based Scientific-Atlanta Inc. received orders from three United Kingdom franchises to supply cable television systems to 270,000 homes. The units will be equipped with the company's pay-per-view module.

GTE, BellSouth enter into research venture. (very-high-speed telecommunications system)
June 18, 1990... GTE, BellSouth enter into research venture GTE Corp. and Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp. will build an experimental very-high-speed telecommunications system between Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., that will be used for research on advanced...

United Dominion Realty buys Atlanta apartments. (United Dominion Realty Trust, Colony of Stone Mountain apartment building, Atlanta)
June 18, 1990... United Dominion Realty buys Atlanta apartments United Dominion Realty Trust, a Richmond, Va.-based real estate investment trust, purchased Colony of Stone Mountain, a 404-unit apartment property for $8.6 million including the assumption of a...

Lifetime Corp. acquires local infusion therapy firm. (Markka Healthcare Inc.)
June 18, 1990... Lifetime Corp. acquires local infusion therapy firm Boston-based Lifetime Corp. has acquired Atlanta-based Markka Healthcare Inc., a provider of infusion and respiratory services with five offices and 132 employees in the Southeast. Purchase...

Video Display Corp. (Earnings)
June 18, 1990... Video Display Corp. Video Display Corp. reported a net loss of $1.2 million, 30 cents a share on revenues of $13.2 million, for the fourth quarter ended Feb. 28. That compares to net income of $636,000, 16 cents a share on revenues of $10.6...

Home Federal Savings Bank of Georgia. (Earnings)
June 18, 1990... Home Federal Savings Bank of Georgia Home Federal Savings Bank of Georgia reported net income of $191,577, 11 cents a share, for the first quarter ended March 31. That compares to net income of $270,680, 15 cents a share, for the same period...

Small banks offering big interest rates. (Atlanta, Georgia)
June 18, 1990... Small banks offering big interest rates Small banks, struggling to build their deposit base in the shadows of bigger institutions, are offering customers interest rates competitive with some Treasury bills and stocks. Bankers say that...

Three big Atlanta banks believed to have bid for Great Southern Federal. (First National Bank of Atlanta, Barnett Banks Inc, Citizens & Southern Corp., Great Southern Federal Savings and Loan)
June 18, 1990... Three big Atlanta banks believed to have bid for Great Southern Federal First National Bank of Atlanta, Barnett Banks Inc., and Citizens & Southern Corp. are believed to be among the many bidders for Great Southern Federal Savings & Loan...

Mercer close to selling acreage near DeKalb campus. (Mercer University, DeKalb, Georgia)
June 18, 1990... Mercer close to selling acreage near DeKalb campus Mercer University has sold its downtown pharmacy school building for $2.8 million and may be close to selling land adjacent to its DeKalb campus for about $25 million to $30 million. ...

First Financial Management Corp. (acquires Electro Data Corp.) (Mergers & Acquisitions)
June 18, 1990... First Financial Management Corp. First Financial Management Corp. announced the acquisition of Electro Data Corp. of Denver. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Bank South Corp. (acquires Lex Jolley & Co.) (Mergers & Acquisitions)
June 18, 1990... Bank South Corp. Bank South Corp. announced that a letter of intent was signed to acquire the name, business and operations of Lex Jolley & Co. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Media focuses spotlight on First American. (First American Bankshares) (Financial Page)
June 18, 1990... Media focuses spotlight on First American First American Bankshares, the Washington, D.C.-based bank holding company that bought National Bank of Georgia in 1987, made the front pages of the Washington Post business section earlier this month...

Bearish broker. (Harvey Sax) (Financial Page)
June 18, 1990... BEARISH BROKER BEARISH BROKER. Atlanta broker Harvey Sax says he didn't enter the Financial News Network/USA Today National Investment Challenge with the intention of winning the contest, he was only interested in proving that watching...

NASD kicks out GA. firm. (National Association of Securities Dealers, Georgia, W.D. Fard Securities) (Financial Page)
June 18, 1990... NASD KICKS OUT GA. FIRM The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), which monitors over-the-counter markets, has expelled W.D. Fard Securities of Atlanta after the firm failed to pay fines and costs associated with violations....

Airport growing pains: Fulton adding 343 acres, plans longer runway. (Atlanta)
June 11, 1990... Airport growing pains Fulton adding 343 acres, plans longer runway A new infusion of public funding has placed Fulton County Airport on the brink of nearly doubling in size over the next few years. And as the airport's capacity increases, so...

L.A. refugees sing a happy tune. (entertainers move to Atlanta)
June 11, 1990... L.A. refugees sing a happy tune Atlanta is getting an economic boost from several well-known entertainers fleeing the glitz of Hollywood for a more laid-back lifestyle. In the last six months, at least four singers, songwriters and...

All in the family at LeCraw and Co. (Julian LeCraw & Co.) (company profile)
June 11, 1990... All in the family at LeCraw & Co. Changes are afoot at Julian LeCraw & Co., namely the "controlled retirement" of Julian LeCraw Sr., who is turning the company's operations over to his son and son-in-law. Leadership of the 35-year-old...

The sudden departure of Vinings Bank president has industry buzzing. (Vinings Bank & Trust, W. Michael Balsley)
June 11, 1990... The sudden departure of Vinings Bank president has industry buzzing Vinings Bank & Trust, one of the more successful start-up banks in Atlanta, has been rocked by the departure of W. Michael Balsley, its president, CEO, and an organizer of...

Cash and Carry. (Cooper Carry & Associates layoffs)
June 11, 1990... Cash & Carry Cooper Carry & Associates, a local architectural firm already in throes of a management reshuffling, last week announced more layoffs. About a dozen employees, including some associates and other senior personnel, were let go,...

NEC dropping television production will cost 120 Atlanta workers their jobs. (NEC Home Electronics USA Inc.)
June 11, 1990... NEC dropping television production will cost 120 Atlanta workers their jobs NEC Home Electronics USA Inc. will cut loose 120 employees from its diversified McDonough plant primarily because its parent company is getting out of the television...

Juicy fruits from this loom: Aimee Lacey makes carpets for the stars. (Lacey-Champion Carpets) (company profile)
June 11, 1990... Juicy fruits from this loom Lacey-Champion Carpets may not be a household word, but the company's products are found in the homes of some very familiar names. Lacey-Champion Carpets' custom designed rugs can be seen in the White House...

Bank start-up team breaks up. (Ware Hodgson & Co.)
June 11, 1990... Bank start-up team breaks up Bank consulting group Ware Hodgson & Co., whose founders helped organize a number of Atlanta's de novo community banks, has broken up. Hall Ware, who started the firm after being a partner at King &...

Cargill, Cole Henderson are joining forces.
June 11, 1990... Cargill, Cole Henderson are joining forces Two Atlanta ad agencies recognized as among the city's most creative, Cole Henderson Drake and Cargill and Associates, are combining and restructuring. Although the new agency will assume the...

Keene Reese merging with English firm. (Keene Reese & Associates; Lambert, Smith Hampton)
June 11, 1990... Keene Reese merging with English firm Atlanta-based Keene Reese & Associates has joined forces with Lambert, Smith Hampton to add an office-leasing dimension to the British company. London-based Lambert, Smith Hampton made its entre into...

Coca-Cola Enterprises to buy bottler, sell others. (Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Arkansas) (The Week in Business)
June 11, 1990... Coca-Cola Enterprises to buy bottler, sell others Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. has reached an agreement in principle to buy the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Arkansas for $250 million and sell its interests in two Ohio bottling operations to...

Dundee Mills buys new mill. (The Week in Business)
June 11, 1990... Dundee Mills buys new mill Griffin-based Dundee Mills Inc. bought the Hartwell Mills plant in Hartwell. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed but Dundee will spend $20 million to reorganize the plant to produce towels and build a...