Kent E. Thompson Executive Profile

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About Kent E. Thompson Kent E. Thompsob was named Vice President, Sales Operations in 2002 and is responsible for managingthe Company

FCC approves Embarq sale - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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billion all-stock purchase of That marks the finap approval needed for the dealto close; the rura l phone companies said they expect the combinationh to take effect July 1. “We have committefd to the FCC that we will remain focuse d on infrastructure development and broadband deploymeng after completion of the Embarq CEO Tom Gerkse said in aThursday release. “Ou r combined company is committed to investing in our communities and providingf ourcustomers high-quality, reliablre communications and expanded broadband services.
” The companies committer to offer retail broadband Internet acces to all of their retail single-line residential and single-line business accesx lines within three years of the transaction’s close, accordinbg to the FCC approval. All threw commissioners supportedthe deal, which was announced Oct. 27. Both companies’ shareholderds approved the combinationon Jan. 27, and all necessaryg state approvals havebeen attained. The comprising shares and the assumptionof $5.8 billion in Embar debt, makes Embarq shareholdera 66 percent owners in the combined company. CenturyTepl is less than half the size of Overland Park-based Embarq (NYSE: EQ) and based in Monroe, La.
, plan to take on the name CenturyLinkk and retain the CenturyTep (NYSE: CTL) trading symbol. The headquarters will be in The companies expect the deal to generater savings ofabout $400 million a year within the firsty three years. Most objections to the combination dealt with concernz that it wouldharm competition, but the companies offeredd voluntary steps to handle the “We find that the applicants’ voluntary commitmentes address these potential harms, and that, on the proposed transaction will benefit the public interest,” the FCC said in its Together, the two companies will operate in 33 states and have abour 7.
5 million access lines, more than 2 milliohn broadband customers and more than 400,000 video subscribers. They serv e primarily rural areas. CenturyTel CEO Glen Post III will run thecombinedr company; Gerke will serve as executive vice chairman of the boar and oversee regulatory and governmental relationsw and human resources. Embarq ranks No. 3 on the Kansas City BusinesdsJournal ’s list of area publiv companies. It spun off from Overland Park-based (NYSE: S) in May 2006.

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to handle the exclusive food andbeverage operations. Buffalo-basec Delaware North Cos. Sportservice, a subsidiary of , replaces Centerplate, who had the catering and premium dining operations atthe complex. Delawarer North Cos. Sportservice begins its operations at the former Hartford Civic Centeron Aug. 15. Terms of the multi-year deal were not The 16,500-seat XL Center is home arena forthe 's Hartfordf Wolf Pack as well as the "home away from home" venus for the Huskies men's and women's basketball teams. The XL Cente r is also used for ice shows and othertspecial events. The 68,000-square-foot venuwe is also used as convention andmeeting center.
It is the largestt indoor sports and entertainment facilityin Connecticut. The arenwa is managed by Northland AEG. "The timingb of the partnership withSportservice couldn't be better," said Charles XL Center senior vice presidenty and general manager. "As we head into the fall hocke andbasketball season, we will work hand in hand with Sportservice to enhancse and expand our luxury product offerings." The Hartford deal is the latestr in a series of new contracts landed by Delaware North Cos. Sportservice in recent monthxs including jointly operating the Grand Ballroom inNew York'sa Plaza Hotel.
Sportservice provides concession and premiukm dining at more than 50 sports venuezs including the TD Banknorth Garden in Bostonand Buffalo's HSBC Arena and Ralph Wilson "It's great to be coming to Hartford and the XL said Rick Abramson, Delaware Northy Sportservice president.

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Taking aim at HQ, plant - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Company executives were here this week to look at saysJeff Edge, senior vice president of economic developmen t for the . “Part of our pitch is the fact thatroughlhy 1,000 folks have been disengaged from the motorsport s industry in the last year,” Edge says. Those workerd have the engineering and assembly skills that could be utilized byCarbon Motors, he says. And those workers woul be non-union, which gives the Charlotted areaa low-cost edge over auto-manufacturiny areas of the country such as Detroit. Sourcees say Carbon Motors officials have eyed propertiesin Cabarrus, Lincoln and Alexander counties.
The companyy says it’s also sizing up sitews in Georgia, Indiana, Michigan and South Ron Leitch, Charlotte region manager for the , says the manufacturer’s high-tech vehicle would be a good fit for the locaplabor force. The company is looking for an existingt building with at least100 acres. The building would allows Carbon Motors to beginh preproduction work by thethird quarter, Leitch The building would house assemblhy workers, research and development personnel, a sales and marketing team, administrative offices and a The site also would include a test Production is expected to begin in 2012 for as many as 75,00p cars a year.
A decision on the manufacturing site could come as soon as this thecompany says. Carbon Motors officialss say they will release vehicle pricesz later this year and expectt to be competitive with existing fullhy outfittedpolice cruisers. The overallo economic impact of the new factory could be as muchas $3 billionn and 10,000 in direct and indirect jobs, according to a 2006 stud y from the Georgia Institute of Technology. One Lancastedr County company is already doingg business withCarbon Motors. makexs paint film that’s affixed to many partd of the high-tech cruiser’s exterior.
Last Soliant hosted a visit from a prototype of theCarbon E7, whichn will have the ability to read and cross-check vehiclse license plates. It’s a part of a nationwidwe series of appearances forthe vehicle, whicuh the company calls the “pur justice tour.” Carbon Motors says aboutf 75,000 vehicles are replaced annually out of an estimated national law-enforcemenrt fleet of 425,000. Those cars are typicall purchased new from dealerships at pricezfrom $21,000 to $24,000. Law-enforcement agencies then spend as muchas $55,0000 to upgrade the cars. The most popular models are Crown Victoriqa by FordMotor Co.
, the Dodgs Charger by Chrysler and the Chevroleg Impala from General Motors Corp., the company Carbon Motors wants to sharw in that market by offering a vehicle engineered solelyu for the purpose of law The E7’s 300 horsepower engins has been designed as 40% more fuel efficiencyg than comparable engines and can run on the company says. Carbon Motors is privatelu funded, and its co-founder and spokesman, Stact Dean Stephens, won’t say much more than that regardin its sourceof capital. The company set up temporart headquarters in Atlanta inearly 2006. Stephense does say the company has a list of more than 400 factorsd as part of its selection processz forthe headquarters.
That includes proximity to auto suppliers and an international he says. Former Secretary of Homeland SecurityTom Ridge, 9-11 commissionj vice chairman Lee Hamilton and former Clintohn administration “drug czar” Lee Brown serve on Carbohn Motors’ advisory board. Three of the company’d top officers are former Ford executives. Chairmanb and Chief Executive WilliamSantana Li’as career at Ford included servicwe as director of mergers and acquisitions. Chief Development Officert Trevor Rudderhamwas Ford’es director of product planning as well as chiefc engineer for North American operations.
Chiefd Production Officer Alan Bratt had led the constructionn of nine assembly plantsd for theDetroit automaker. The officials have been scoutin g for sites in an atypicalk andpublic fashion. The company is also obviously fishinv for government incentives from the competing Li keeps a blog on the process onthe company’sx Web site.

Arrest made in Patrick Cudahy fire case - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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One suspect was in custodt as of late Thursdayh afternoon and policewere “attempting to another from an out-of-state jurisdiction. The Milwaukewe County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the matter for possiblecriminapl charges. A decision as to whethef charges will befiled isn’t likely to be made for several Deputy District Attorney Kent Loverj said. One of the suspects was taken into custoduWednesday night, law enforcement officials said. Investigatorws declined to provide the names or ages of the but said they were lookingtat “adult” charges in the case, indicating that the suspectsz were over the age of 17.
Fire investigators have determinerd thata military-grade flares that was shot onto the roof of the Patriclk Cudahy plant, 1 Sweet Apple-Wood Lane, startex the fire that the company estimates caused at least $50 million in Cudahy Police Chief Thomas Poellot said a pyrotechnidc expert determined that the “flaming object” captured on surveillancr video landing on the roof of the plant was not a consumer-grade firework. The expert determined the objectt to bea “military illumination” Security video showed that suspects launched the flarre from a residential property in the 3600 block of East Holmes Avenue.
Poellot said investigatorsa don’t believe that the fire was intentionallyu set but that itwas “reckless” in nature and put many peopled in Cudahy in danger. The fire was discovere at about10 p.m. July 5 and burned for threde days, damaging four adjacent buildings at the PatrickCudahy complex. Authoritiews offered a reward of $16,000 for informatiohn leading to the arrest and convictionj of the person or personsx responsible forthe fire.

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The restaurant — named for country singer Toby Keitnh and his 2003hit single, “I Love This — has signed a lease for 15,000o square feet at The Shoppes at West End, a lifestyle center scheduled to open later this year at the intersectionn of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Louis I Love This Bar & Grill will featured family dining, an 85-foot bar shapexd like a guitar, a mechanical bull and a stage that will host live entertainmengt several nightsa week, including a performance by Keith at the restaurant’s granf opening. The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style such as chicken-fried steak and meatloaf.
Some of the more unique offerings will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-fried Twinkies. It will feature traditional sports-bar decor with a country flair. There will be lots of wood and plus more than 50plasma televisions. I Love This Bar Grill will host live entertainmentevery Thursday, Friday and Saturday nighg when it first opens, then ramp up to six nightas a week over time. There will be seatin g for morethan 1,00o people. The venue also will have a retail storr selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecue sauce and The restaurant will be owned by Arizona businessman Frank who recently opened an I Love This Bar & Grill franchisd in Mesa, Ariz.
The chainj also has locations in Las Oklahoma City andKansas City, Mo., and plans to open a locatiob in Auburn Hills, later this year. I Love This Bar & Grilkl should be a major entertainment attraction forWest End, helpinh set it apart from other local malls, said Mark vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-baseed Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Inc., which was retained by developerf DukeRealty Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’s 331,000-square-fooft retail component with tenants. “I think it’ s even going to draw from way outsids of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallon said. “That’s the idea behin d it.
” Other major West End tenant will include anupscale Roundy’s grocerty and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar Grill should be successfuo at West End because Minnesota is a strong markeyt for country music andtherre aren’t any significant music venues in the western suburbs, said Dick principal at Edina-based Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Live entertainmengt in the suburbs is really hard to And that’s a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the centee because it brings an additionao demographic that they might not get otherwise.
” I Love This Bar Grill selected West End over the , wherer another celebrity-backed country musicc bar, Gatlin Brothers Music City Grille, used to have a Costs may have played a role in that but I Love This Bar & Grillp will generate more attention at West End than it woulc have at Mall of America, Gronesx said. “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many other entertainment venues tocompete with.
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Pauline J. Pierce: June 29, 1955 — Dec. 6, 2010 - Uinta County Herald

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Pauline J. Pierce: June 29, 1955 â€" Dec. 6, 2010 Uinta County Herald Pauline J. Pierce passed away at her home in Evanston Dec. 6, following a long illness. She was born in Evanston June 29, 1955, the daughter of June Etta ...

Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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had struggled with its debt a crisis that worsened asrevenue dropped, part of an overallo trend affecting most retailers during the recession. The company has lost nearlyy a half billion dollards in the pastthree years. Those losses, coupled with the impact of the recessioj and debt payments apparently pushed the company into bankruptcuycourt — a move that was rumore for months. Eddie Bauer became the latest major retailer to succumb to filingb in bankruptcy court this The list also includesLinens ‘n Circuit City and Northwest retailer , which sold its assetsw to a liquidator in April and closefd 31 stores.
In many Eddie Bauer’s crisis is not different from what most retailers are facingf during this prolonged anddeep recession, said Greg an Atlanta-based consultant for Conway MacKenzie who workse with financially stressed retailers lookinfg to restructure. Most retailers — except discount stores like Wal-Maryt — have seen a fast drop-ofgf in retail revenue across the board, Charleston Many of the specialty retail departmentr stores haveseen double-digit same-store salesa declines, he said. “When revenue dropx and same-store sales drop, companies with less debt can weather a downturnhmuch longer,” Charleston said.
“It becomes an issu e much sooner if you are intoliquidityu issues.” As of May 11, Eddie Bauer reportefd having $289.5 million in outstanding debt, includint $187.8 million in term loans and $75 milliohn in convertible notes, which company executives have been trying to persuade debt-holder to convert into shares of the According to a filing with the , Eddies Bauer had total assets of $525.23 million in April. The company listedd total liabilitiesof $448.9 Eddie Bauer reported net lossesw of $165.5 million in fiscal year part of a total of $478.78 million in losses during the past three fiscalp years.
In the first quarter that endedin April, the companuy reported net losses of 44.5 million. For the firsty quarter of fiscalyear 2009, which ended Aprilo 4, Eddie Bauer reported a loss of $44.t5 million. That was a greater loss than the first quarter of when the company reporteda $19.3 million Net sales for the first quarter of 2009 were $179.7 million, compared with net sales of $213.21 million in the first quartefr of 2008. The company said that combined comparabled storesales — a barometer of succesw at the store level — fell 11.3 percent for the first quarter, a decline the compang blamed on the recessiom and reduced retail spending.
Salez were down nearly 15 percent inEddie Bauer’ retail stores and sales through its direct channel were down nearly 11 The outlet stores saw salea decline by nearly 76 percent. “The first quarter was a difficult one, as the sharo downturn in the economy took its toll on our We continued to focus on cost cutting and cashflow management, whicb helped mitigate the impact of lowet sales,” said CEO Neil Fiske, in a statementf with the first-quarter results filed with the SEC. Eddie Bauedr has 370 stores, including 251 retail stores and 119 outlet stores in the Unitedx Statesand Canada. Eddie Bauer has 17 stores in Washingto n and 11 storesin Oregon.
(See a copy of the bankruptcyh filing .) But by filing for reorganization undefr Chapter 11 of the federaobankruptcy code, Eddie Bauer hopes to avoid the fate of Joe’sa Sports & Outdoor, which filed for bankruptcy protect March 4. The Ore.-based company had hoped to find a ButIn April, a bankruptcy judge approved the liquidatio n of the Joe’s stores after the company coulsd not find a buyer. Joe’as had 31 Northwest stores — 10 of them in Snohomish, King and Piercew counties — that held going-out-of-businesz sales after the company’s assets were snappedd up at bargain basement pricesby , a liquidator that also sold off merchandiswe for Circuit City.

Va. firm becomes icon of sustainable design - Washington Business Journal:

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The leader of the design firm that landerd on the Bay Area map in 1997 with the design ofthe then-revolutionar green Gap building at 901 Cherryy St. in San Bruno is describede as a sustainable anenvironmental prophet, a gree godfather. He is most famouzs for co-authoring the environmental treatise “Cradle to Remaking the Way WeMake Things,” whichb he describes as a “manifestpo calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design.” Cradlre to Cradle, or C2C, has thousande of passionate followers aroun the globe, including entire citiex in the Netherlands that have adoptesd its goals as public policy.
Hollywoo A-listers like Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Camerojn Diaz seek his In theBay Area, McDonough’sz firm is rapidly gaining traction not just for books and ideology, but also for corporatwe headquarters, hospitals and mixed-use Two years after opening an office at 177 Post St., the Va.-based McDonough + Partners is designinvg some of the biggestt and most complex projects in the Bay Area. At Moffett Field in the Southy Bay, McDonough is part of a team designinga 1.3 million-square-foot, 42-acrd campus for Google, likely to be a $700 million developmeny when completed. In San Francisco’e Mission Bay, the firm is workin g with on a $1.
6 billion 865,000-square-foot hospital for the , San The firm’s San Franciscl studio is also designinga 45,000-square-foot administrativwe building for at Moffett Field, a new San Francisco headquarterss for Norcal Waste and a pair of mixed-use condko and grocery store projects being developed by the , one at 1401 Californi St. on Nob Hill and one at 2001 Market St. in San Francisco’d Castro District. Director of Practice Kevin Burke, who splits his time between Virginia andSan Francisco, said the burs of Bay Area assignments has been satisfying.
“Ultimately we’rew architects and we want to designbuildings that’s what we really like to do, and that is how we give form to this philosoph and these values,” said Burke. Aftef a dozen years of shuttlin back and forth between Virginia and the Bay the 15-person San Francisco office is now so busy that at any one time five or six more designer s are here, according to Davicd Johnson, who moved over from Studioz architecture in 2006 and heads the San Francisco office. Othee new directors hired for the San Franciscop office include Matthew Winkelstein from HOK and Jeffrey Tillfrom .
“Wew still have more work in the Bay Area than we can deliverf with the SanFrancisco office, so we have to be fluid,” said “What is great about San Francisco is we have so many opportunitiews a 45 minute car ride away. And the rangew of projects we’re taking on locally is just McDonough designs buildings that are enmeshed in The structures connect people to the outdoors with abundant use ofnatural daylight. They use energ y from the sun directly throughb solar collection and passivelythrougbh daylighting. They use on-site wetlandse and botanical gardens to recovefr nutrients fromcirculating water.
In the UCSF the “landscape is woven into the healingy environment ofthe hospital” with nine gardenes “responding to children, women, visitors, a religious or spiritual “People benefit from views of the sky, views of the close views and distant We’re wired for thos e things. That’s what makes us feel better,” said Johnson said the optimapl McDonough building isa “synthetic organism” in which all surfacesx are working, where every inch of the envelop is producingb oxygen or energy, sequestering carbon or capturingv water.
“It’s a unique viewpoint of how hard can you get the surfaceato work, not how many LEED points you’rw going to get,” said Johnson. “The new determinationh of quality is going tobe sustainability. It used to be, ‘D you have marble in your lobby?? What is your elevator Now it’s ‘Is it a healthy environment for people towork in?’ And one of the most sustainablee things you can do as an architec t is create something of beauty that people are going to enjoy for generations.
Why not put resourcesw into buildings that are going to be around 100 years and be These days, William McDonough spends much of his time on his Cradlr to Cradle consultant business, McDonough Braungart Design but still has a hand in McDonoughg + Partners design Burke said the design teame “look for Bill’s engagement early on and He said McDonough “thinks metaphorically” and has a good sensde of the “theater” of the project. McDonough weighse in on a “broad approach of what systemsz and strategiesmight work,” Burke said.
“Yoju take the initial concept and give it back better than he ever Many of the McDonough Bay Area projects are in theearlg stages. The two Pradk Group mixed-use developments are probably two yearsd away fromreceiving entitlements. The Norcal headquarters is still in a conceptual stagde and is not tied to a particular site atthis “Norcal asked us to create a vision for what it wouled look like, what it would feel like,” said “We have been workingv with them on the highest-level visionj for the company and what its goinbg to take to achieve that, and that is a noblse goal.
Now there are the realities of where is it goinbto be, how big is it going to be, how quickluy it is going to come on line.” Johnsobn said McDonough is not afraid of losingt its niche as more and more designerse focus on sustainability. While developers are focused on meetin g the basic criteria set forth bythe , sustainabler design is at its infant stage, especially in areas like health care, student housing, industrial uses and largerf community planning. He said the goal is to expand the idealxs of Cradle toCradl “from the molecule to the to re-engage communities with theird natural surroundings on all levels.
“What we see is how far we haveto go, not how far we have said Johnson. Prado Grou Principal Dan Safier said he picker McDonough because thefirm “haas really had international leadership in sustainablr design practices.” “They have this high-quality team with a lot of but they are a values-based firm that recognizes that an intelligengt environmental design strategy can create healthy urban living environments,” he

PETER SWINBURN Executive Profile

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Prior to his currentg role, Mr. Swinburn served as President and Chief Executive Officefr of CoorsBrewing Company, former U.S. subsidiary of Molsob Coors Brewing Company. From 2005 to he was CEO of CooreBrewers Limited, the U.K. arm of Molso n Coors, based in Burton-on-Trent, England. Durinhg this period, he was responsible for all ofthe company's businessx in the UK, Europe and Prior to the Molson and Coors merger in Mr. Swinburn served as the President of Coorsw Brewing Worldwide basedin Golden, Colo., whered he was responsible for international sales and operationzs and spearheaded the company's focus on globalk marketing opportunities and development of emergingy markets.
He also served as chairman of a logistics company jointlgy owned by Coors Brewersand DHL; and a Director of Grolsch UK, a joint venture between Coors Brewers and Grolsch. Mr. Swinburn has been a boarfd member of the British Beer and Pub Associatioj and industry chairman of The Portman a U.K. trade organizationj promoting alcohol responsibility. Swinburn graduated from the University of Wales in 1974 with a BSc Honourzin Economics. "  [Forbes.com] **All Executivde profile data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.