- Lure of Wall Street not always enough to keep firms hooked
When Jeff Smulyan made a $567 million bid for Emmis Communications Corp. last year in hopes of taking it private, he was in good company. A growing number of firms nationwide are fleeing the harsh glare of public ownership for the less restrictive and less scrutinized world of private equity....
- Private Equity Firm Buys OnCure Med
Newport Beach-based radiation treatment provider OnCure Medical Corp. was acquired last week by San Francisco private equity firm GenStar Capital LLC.
- Golf company CFO eyes private
infusion.
Tom Severson, a former public company CFO, has a bird's eye view of the private equity market. He's now the CFO of the newly constituted Nicklaus Companies LLC, the enterprise run by famed golfer Jack Nicklaus, which this summer received a $145 million investment from real estate mogul Howard ......
- Florida-based Coastal Technologies appoints two new members of its board of directors
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Coastal Technologies Group Inc., a leader in call detail processing, back-office accounting process and support for the telecommunications industry, has appointed former Rep. Billy Tauzin, D-Chackbay, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, and Dr. Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation ......
- Robb & Stucky gets high marks
Fort Myers, Fla.— Retailer Robb & Stucky has received high marks from Florida Trend Magazine, which rated the company 78th out of the top 200 privately held companies in Florida. The Fort Myers, Fla.-based home furnishings chain has stores in Boca Raton, Fort Myers, Naples, Sarasota, Clearwater and Altamonte Springs, ......
- ODVA, TIA to develop joint industrial Ethernet specifications
Boca Raton, FL; Arlington, VA—The Open DeviceNet Vendor Association (ODVA) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have formed a cooperation and cross licensing agreement for building common industrial Ethernet specifications. ODVA and TIA will share information about standards that both groups are currently developing for Ethernet's physical layer. "Ethernet has ......
- Furniture stores to watch
Estimated sales of furniture, bedding and accessories 2003 ($ millions) 2002 ($ millions) Percent change Green Front Furniture , Farmville, Va. $57.6 $57.8 -0.3% Privately owned, midpriced to high-end stores in Farmville and Sterling, Va., in the Washington area, and in Raleigh, N.C. The Raleigh store operates as Green Front ......