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SR Telecom seeks court protection from creditors, 35 jobs eliminated
MONTREAL - SR Telecom Inc. (TSX:SRX), reduced to a penny-stock company, obtained court protection from creditors Monday as it cut 35 more jobs ahead of its planned sale. After years of troubled finances, the Montreal-based broadband wireless products company said it expects to continue to operate without interruption while under bankruptcy-court supervision. "The filing provides a framework in which we can optimize and leverage our assets for all stakeholders," spokeswoman Anna di Giorgio said in an interview. "The goal there is to not shut down the company. It's to try to hang on to what is good and what is strong, to hold onto those assets and turn it around." Monday's action is the second time this year the company has slashed jobs.
TRW Announces Steering Wheel Joint Venture in India with Sun
NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TRW Aftermarket Asia- Pacific Private Limited, a subsidiary of TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (Nachrichten), and Sun Vacuum Formers Private Limited ("Sun"), today announced their intention to form a joint venture company to manufacture steering wheel systems in India. Finalization of the agreement is pending approval by the Indian government. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010824/TRWLOGO ) The proposed name of the joint venture is TRW Sun Steering Wheels Private Limited. Sun is a leading supplier of steering wheels in India and currently supplies Maruti-Suzuki, Tata Motors, General Motors and Ford Motor Company operations in India, and is a Tier 2 supplier to Honda and Toyota. "This new venture offers the partners a great opportunity to grow with the expanding automotive market in India," said Phil Cunningham, vice president of Business Development for TRW Automotive.
winning strategy: Chinese multinationals, finance, outsourcing, trade, technology, travel
Why is China's economy and trade booming? What is really inside Chinese society, banking, management, outsourcing, education, politics, individual life? How to do investing, travel, trade inside China? Talk to provocative thinker George Zhibin Gu. timely and provocative book: China�s Global Reach Borderless Business, National Competition, Politics, and Globalization (book excerpts) by George Zhibin Gu Afterword China, United States and Global Development by Andre Gunder Frank Chapter 6. All International Business Players are important Today China is the biggest new frontier for international companies. In many ways, the Chinese market has more an international flavor than many other markets around the globe. Many unique characteristics have evolved along the way. For now, China has already become one biggest theater for international businessmen to display their cultures and traditions as well as ambitions.
Breeden to replace Ernst as chairman
H&R Block Inc. said Tuesday that Mark Ernst had resigned as chairman, president and chief executive of the tax preparation and accounting services company. He is being replaced as chairman by former Securities and Exchange Commission boss Richard Breeden, who led a dissident shareholder group that won three seats on the company's board. Former Aetna Inc. executive Alan Bennett was named interim CEO while H&R Block looks for a permanent replacement to take the CEO role. H&R Block shares closed Tuesday at $19.32, up 25 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange. Breeden has criticized the company's diversification into mortgage lending, investment advising and banking, saying it had robbed momentum from the company's core tax preparation and accounting services business.
H&R Block boss resigns as chairman, CEO
Mark Ernst has resigned as chairman, president and chief executive of H&R Block Inc., the tax preparation and accounting services company that is reeling from its foray into the collapsing subprime mortgage business. The company said Tuesday that Ernst's replacement as chairman is Richard Breeden, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who led a dissident shareholder group that won three seats on the H&R Block board. A retired Aetna Inc. chief financial officer, Alan Bennett, was named interim CEO while H&R Block looks for a permanent replacement. Breeden has criticized the company's diversification into mortgage lending, investment advising and banking, saying it had robbed momentum from its core tax preparation and accounting services business.
SR Telecom seeks court protection from creditors, 35 jobs eliminated
MONTREAL - SR Telecom Inc. (TSX:SRX), reduced to a penny-stock company, obtained court protection from creditors Monday as it cut 35 more jobs ahead of its planned sale. After years of troubled finances, the Montreal-based broadband wireless products company said it expects to continue to operate without interruption while under bankruptcy-court supervision. "The filing provides a framework in which we can optimize and leverage our assets for all stakeholders," spokeswoman Anna di Giorgio said in an interview. "The goal there is to not shut down the company. It's to try to hang on to what is good and what is strong, to hold onto those assets and turn it around." Monday's action is the second time this year the company has slashed jobs.
Transcript of a Teleconference Call on the staff reports and related documents for Turkey's 2007 Article IV ...
MS. GAVIRIA: Good day, everyone. I'm Angela Gaviria with the External Relations Department of the IMF. I'm happy to welcome you to this conference call on the staff reports for Turkey's 2007 Article IV Consultation and Sixth Review Under the Stand-by Arrangement. These documents were published on Friday afternoon, and I hope you have had a chance to look at them. Here with me is Lorenzo Giorgianni, Division Chief in the European Department and Mission Chief for Turkey. He will be reading brief remarks and then he'll be happy to take your questions. Let me remind you that this conference call is embargoed until 11:00 a.m. Washington time. Lorenzo, please. MR. GIORGIANNI: Thank you. As Angela just said, last Friday, we issued a set of documents including the staff report for the Sixth Review Under the Stand-by Arrangement and the staff report for the 2007 Article IV Consultation.
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