GLG News by Direct Marketing Experts

a) existing federal, state amd municpal compliance check and balances exist b) move Rating Agency solutions to subprime mortgage losses in the large secondary market traunces into the origination systems & procedures

With ever rising commodity costs food companies that have hedged their key commodity purchases with forward buying have done quite well over the last year.Several key manufacturers have announced that they have hedged their raw materials by forward buying 60-70% of their 2008 needs.Lost in the...

1) Full Disclosure - Mark Mariotti ran a nonstandard auto operation (California admitted MGA with Ohio company underwriting)  in Southern California during the 1970's &  '80s with a direct-marketing model and a non-internet online (yes back then) reservation style quoting system....

Kraft and Sara Lee executives recently spoke at analyst conference concerning their recent improvements to drive sales growth and improve operating margins.Both suggested the progress is real and sustainable.   Kraft highlighted new products and headcount reduction as keys to their progress.New...

1) Amerprise has been aggressive ever since its Personal Advisor and Banking separation from Amercan Express 2) MasterCard appears to be the predominate card network

The announcement by the State of Pennsylvania is reflective of at least two issues: the failed market for auction priced student loans, and the deteriorating balance sheets of some of the lenders. Although there is a reference to the reduced Federal subsidies, this change has been in the market...

ABC is taking away exclusive first run rights from its Affiliates... This programming is being handed over to the local cable company and effectively bypassing local broadcasters.   Who needs Affiliates when the local cable company will do..?

Management is out of touch with market(s)... Management is old school and has bad attitude... Things can be turned around...

Private equity returns must revert to their traditional levels. The availability of leveraged loans for private equity will be reasonable for transactions under $ 1 billion in size.

It was only a matter of time before Google took the next step in bullying the market place...  I call it the Microsoft syndrome and if lawmakers and law enforcers ignore it the same things that Microsoft tried to get away with so to will Google ..