GLG News by Commercial Printing Experts

This unbleached softwood mill was originally purchased about five years ago to supply UBK for Lee & Mann's several linerboard mills in China. Last year capital money was spent to upgrade it to a fully bleached NBSK mill.  Since the demand in China is still there, does this mean that Lee &...

Credit managers are extremely nervous right now about many things outside of their control.  One thing they can control is limiting their risk.  Making the decision to cut off, or fatally limit, the credit of a long standing and large customer like Circuit City may be a hard decision to make,...

I don't believe that HSBC's decision to eliminate about .3% of its workforce should surprise anyone, nor does it indicate some sort of underlying micro-level weakness at the firm.  Financial firms across the globe have to carefully analyze their most expensive assets - people, in light of the current...

Study after study has proven that shoppers who browse, search and research online first and then buy in-store, spend more and return less.   The fact that 75% of multi-channel consumers prefer to move from clicks to bricks when shopping, while 7% reverse the direction is VERY good news for retailers,...

1. Zenith Optimedia, Universal McCann, WPP, BMO Capital Markets, Oppenheimer, Lehman Brothers and eMarket all have announced downward revision of overall Ad spend for 2008           2. Nielsen Monitor-Plus: first-half U.S. ad spend declined 1.4 percent,...

In addition to loosing hundreds of millions of dollars and significant market share, letting things get so bad for so long has resulted in CC loosing control - now it's largely up to others if CC will survive.  1. Vendors - at this point vendors are on top – without vendor support there...

Rumors had been swirling over the last few weeks that WAMU was shopping for a buyer, however, the OTS (the Office of Thrift Supervision) couldn't allow WAMU to continue its operations under constraints of deposit outflows exceeding $16 billion in the last week or so and JP Morgan Chase becomes the benefactor...

The recently proposed bailout was an inevitable solution to a ever-growing problem. The $800B will be the most costly endevour by the U.S. government since The New Deal proposal from the Great Depression. The key to the issue at-hand is two fold: first, the stabilization of the real estate prices....

This merger effectively produces a major consolidation in the Brazilian BEKP market pulp industry which has long been talked about as being beneficial.  Having so much capacity in the hands of one super-producer certainly would seem to lessen chances of rogue discounting during a down cycle. VCP...

The marketplace for credit default swaps is being affected in part by rumors and irrational conduct, in also in part by a very coordinated effort to capitalized upon the effect of short positions on the perception of a firm's repayment ability.