BRIEFCASE MERCURY SELLS OFF REFUELING CENTERS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Mercury Air Group annunced Tuesday that it has sold its 19 refueling centers to Allied Capital Corp. for $76.3 million. Los Angeles-based Mercury had run the centers, known as fixed base operations, as the cornerstone of its operations for several decades. Locally, the portfolio includes sites at Bob Hope Airport Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR, FAA LID: BUR) is a regional and national airport located in Burbank, California, United States. It was formerly known as United Airport (1930-1934); Union Air Terminal (1934-1940); in Burbank, Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX and Ontario International Airport. Mercury said the sale, aimed at erasing $41.3 million in debt and interest, will allow it to concentrate on fuel services and cargo transport. Its stock, traded on the American Exchange, closed up 28 cents at $6.47 on Tuesday. IHOP IHOP International House Of Pancakes (restaurant chain) iHOP Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins IHOP International House of Prayer IHOP International H2O Project IHOP International House of Pain franchises are selling like ... GLENDALE - IHOP Corp. announced another round of multistore development deals with three franchisees Tuesday that should add 14 new pancake restaurants in the next five years. Robert Kusenberger Jr., a convenience store chain operator and Subway franchisee, will open three spots in Texas; Fred Jones This article is about the basketball player. For other people with the same name, see Fred Jones (disambiguation). Frederick (Fred) Terrell Jones (born March 11 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard position for , a real estate and auto dealer investor, will open three in Milwaukee, Wis.; Don Milbrath, a former IHOP construction and design executive who now runs a restaurant management consultant company, will open eight stores in Colorado. The chain currently operates 1,164 restaurants. Kinko's leaving Ventura, Oxnard VENTURA - The 430 corporate employees of Kinko's Inc. in Ventura County are losing their jobs or being transferred to the new Dallas headquarters. The surprise consolidation announcement this week firmly transplants the company to Texas. About 330 finance and technology workers in Ventura and Oxnard will be laid off between June and May 31, 2005, the company said. Those remaining will be offered transfers to Kinko's headquarters in Dallas, where the company moved in 2002. Ventura has been the corporate home of Kinko's since 1988. The company was acquired in February for $2.4 billion by the FedEx Corp. Turner, Dish spar over rate increase ATLANTA - Subscribers to Dish Network See DBS. might have to say goodbye, at least temporarily, to CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. and the Cartoon Network. Dish Network's parent, EchoStar Communications, is in a dispute with Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. over rate increases - the latest sign of increasing confrontations between television's programmers and providers. EchoStar, which serves nearly 10 percent of U.S. television households, says it could drop Turner programming over the dispute. EchoStar recently dropped Viacom networks, including MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. and Nickelodeon, for two days. |
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