BRIEFCASE CHEROKEE BRANDS EARNINGS STRONGER.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services VAN NUYS - Cherokee Inc. on Wednesday reported improved fiscal fourth-quarter and year-end earnings thanks to stronger sales. The Van Nuys-based apparel licensor and global brand management company reported earning $2.7 million, or 32 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , in the fourth quarter, up from $2.6 million, 30 cents, in the year-ago period. Revenues totaled $7.6 million, up 7.6 percent from $7.1 million. For the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31, Cherokee posted a profit of $14.2 million, or $1.68 per share, up from $13 million or $1.54 per share, in the previous fiscal year. Revenues rose 9.6 percent to $36.3 million from $33.1 million last year. Cherokee brands include Cherokee, Sideout, Carole Little, Saint Tropez- West and All That Jazz. Business school gets dean at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Management scholar Yash Gupta was named dean of the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business The Marshall School of Business (also known as USC Marshall School of Business) is the business school at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. , USC officials confirmed Wednesday. Gupta's appointment is effective July 1, said Lloyd Armstrong Robert Lloyd George Armstrong (born 22 May 1914 in County Armagh; died 9 April 1959 in County Down) was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. Jr., provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. For the past five years, Gupta has been dean of the University of Washington Business School, where he is credited with revamping the undergraduate and graduate curricula and boosting fund-raising by 400 percent. He will succeed Randolph W. Westerfield, who has led the USC Marshall School of Business for 11 years and is returning to teaching and scholarship. Orders rise a bit for durable goods durable goods Goods, such as appliances and automobiles, that have a useful life over a number of periods. Firms that produce durable goods are often subject to wide fluctuations in sales and profits. Also called consumer durables. WASHINGTON - America's factories saw orders bounce back a bit in February, a sign that manufacturing is continuing to emerge from a three- year slump. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that orders placed with factories increased by a modest 0.3 percent last month, compared with a drop of 0.9 percent in January. Although February's rebound wasn't as strong as the 1.5 percent increase economists were forecasting, analysts said it was still encouraging that factory orders recovered some ground last month. Demand for durable goods - costly manufactured products, including automobiles, household appliances and computers - rose by 2.5 percent in February. That was an improvement from the 2.6 percent decline registered in January and marked the biggest increase since October. Google will offer e-mails for free MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Online search engine leader Google Inc. announced plans Wednesday for a free e-mail See Internet e-mail service. service providing 250 to 500 times more storage space than market leaders Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp., delivering the latest challenge in an intensifying fight for Web supremacy. Google's service, called ``Gmail,'' will offer 1 gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of e-mail. Gmail users will be able to receive up to 10 megabytes in a single e-mail - more than the free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. See also: Free of Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail allow to be stored in an entire mailbox. There's a catch to the new service. Hoping to turn a profit from Gmail, privately held Google has programmed its computers to dissect dissect /dis·sect/ (di-sekt´) (di-sekt´) 1. to cut apart, or separate. 2. to expose structures of a cadaver for anatomical study. dis·sect v. the topics being discussed in the e-mails and then deliver text-based ads related to the subjects. Google co-founder Larry Page For the music producer/manager, see . Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. said Gmail shouldn't raise serious privacy concerns because Google plans to closely guard the content of the e-mail messages. Ads are unlikely to accompany most e-mails, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Page. |
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