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BUSINESS NEWS.(A)
Pier 1 Imports cuts 1st-qtr views
The home furnishings retailer sees earnings of 12 to 16 cents a share in itsfirst quarter vs. views of 18 cents. The firm says April same-store sales wereflat to slightly negative. Same-store sales growth for the first quarter ending June 2 will be flat to up 2%. Customers are buying lower-priced and saleitems, pushing the average sale lower than expected. Pier 1 sees full-year earnings of $1 to $1.05 a share vs. views of $1.07. Its shares tumbled 3.41, or23.5%, to 11.10.
King Pharma 1st-qtr net up 86%
The drugmaker netted 26 cents a share vs. 14 cents a year ago. That topped views by a cent. It was the third straight quarter of accelerating growth. KingPharmaceuticals credited sales of the heart drug Altace. Altace, co-marketed with American Home Products, more than doubled its sales to $56.4 million. Total sales rose 34% to $181.3 million. King also raised full-year profit estimates to $1.18 to $1.21 a ...
- Strike's No Joke to Comedy.(Comedy Central Inc. faces a stike from the writers...
- Magazine article from: Multichannel News Moss, Linda October 29, 2007 700+ words
...strike this week. A strike by the Writers Guild of America likely would - at least...their compensation from about four cents to eight cents per DVD. Having...Colbert] are both members of the Writers Guild,' Winship said. 'They both write...
- How WGA garnered sympathy with winning strike script: producers are faulted for...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Russell, Joel December 3, 2007 700+ words
...publicist interviewed agreed that the Writers Guild of America has beaten the Alliance...masses." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Writers Guild went on strike Nov. 5 over residual...head of her namesake agency. "If the Writers Guild got a hold of the NBC.com rate card...
- WEST COAST UPDATE.(threatened Writers Guild of America strike is the primary...
- Magazine article from: Take One VERMEE, JACK May 1, 2001 700+ words
...whether or not there will be a Writers Guild of America strike. The livelihood...that the year 2000 saw a 32 per cent increase in BC-based production, mainly due to a 49 per cent increase in foreign location...could be as much as a 60 per cent drop in production with up to...
- Other talks bump WGA.(Writers Guild of America)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McNary, Dave July 23, 2007 700+ words
...Television Producers and the Writers Guild of America, which got off...years. It also contained a 75 cents-per-hour increase in the...and pension plan hikes of 25 cents per hour in the first year, 15 cents in the second and 10 cents...
- Gulf between WGA, AMPTP widening.(Writers Guild of America)(Alliance of Motion...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McNary, Dave November 16, 2007 700+ words
...the proposed increase translates to 2.1 cents per download and the 200% increase as 2.5 cents. "The AMPTP, as the saying goes, uses...money themselves. "Simply put, what the Writers Guild is asking for has no precedent," the AMPTP...
- STRIKE!(Writers Guild of America's threatened strike: satire)
- Magazine article from: Esquire May 1, 2001 700+ words
...nonstop reality shows Earthquakes. Mud slides. And now the Writers Guild Strike. For months, L. A. has been obsessed with this...get to work. What do you pinkos want next? Two and a half cents a word, take it or leave it. You don't like it, I'll...
- Writers strike takes a $300 million hostage.(Writers Strike Fallout)(Writers...
- Magazine article from: Advertising Age Steinberg, Brian Brodesser-Akner, Claude January 14, 2008 700+ words
...their red-soled Louboutins. The continuing action by the Writers Guild of America helped scotch the always-bawdy Golden Globes...town media on hotels. Not everything is hard dollars and cents. A red-carpet turn by a famous celebrity in a particularly...
- H'Wood hopes for deal fade: resolution not likely.(if Writers Guild of America...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McNary, Dave November 2, 2007 700+ words
...which homevid residuals were paid on the basis of 20% of wholesale revenues--which equates to scribes receiving about 4 cents for each disc sold. The WGA wants to double that rate, asserting it agreed to a discounted deal two decades ago to help the...
- Golden revives its guild; the mass merchandise giant activates the venerable...
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly Richheimer, Judy July 26, 1993 700+ words
...company's launch of Artists & Writers Guild Books this fall. "Artists & Writers Guild started at Western in the 1930s as a...years, Golden will renew Artists and Writers Guild Books. They will publish--not package...
- Harlem Writers Guild & iUniverse.com Partner to Create New Publishing Venture;...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 29, 2000 700+ words
...BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 Harlem Writers Guild announced a partnership with leading...create a new book imprint, The Harlem Writers Guild Press. This imprint will allow Guild...school children. Books from the Harlem Writers Guild Press will be available for order through...
