BUSINESS NOTES BANK EXECUTIVE TO HEAD TWO UNITS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services United California Bank officials named Robert Dalrymple senior vice president and manager of its Community Banking Division's Small Business Unit on Wednesday. Dalrymple manages the operations of UCB's Small Business Unit and its Small Business Administration Department. He comes to UCB UCB - University of California at Berkeley from Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , where he managed that company's Pasadena Business Loan Center. UCB's Community and Retail Bank services all small-business customers with annual sales up to $5 million. Hughes, retailer to be Net partners EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and - A newly acquired subsidiary of Hughes Electronics said Wednesday that it will sell Internet access See how to access the Internet. through Circuit City stores in its first big-box partnership. Sign-up information for DirecTV Broadband Inc.'s high-speed service See broadband. will appear in kiosks in 435 Circuit City stores by the end of October, officials at both companies said. Analysts said the deal could give the broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. what its sister satellite TV company already has: a nationally known brand name. Customers will be able to punch in their phone numbers at the kiosks to see whether they live in an area served by DirecTV Broadband. Circuit City will get a ``bounty'' from DirecTV Broadband for every new customer drawn through the stores. Specific financial details were not disclosed. Kmart to promote everyday savings TROY, Mich. - Kmart Corp. is launching an advertising campaign to support its BlueLight Always promotion, which offers customers lowered everyday prices, the retailer announced Wednesday. The advertising campaign is designed to lure customers who don't want to stock up on items during special sales and alert them to everyday lowered pricing, said spokesman David Karraker. Karraker said as of Wednesday, the Troy, Mich.-based company had lowered prices on 30,000 items in its more than 2,100 stores as part of BlueLight Always. The ad campaign includes television commercials, a redesigned weekly advertising circular and in-store counter. Firestone settles fatal-roll lawsuit NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. has settled, for an undisclosed amount, the next lawsuit scheduled for trial over a tire separation on a Ford Explorer
The Ford Explorer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990. that rolled over, a spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday. Sources said only that the settlement was for several million dollars in the case, which involved the death of Margarita Gonzalez and injury of her son, Alfredo, during a crash last year near Kerrville, Texas Kerrville is a city in Kerr County, Texas, United States. The population was 20,425 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kerr CountyGR6. . Trial was set for Sept. 10 in Brownsville, Texas Brownsville is the county seat of Cameron County, Texas, United States, the southernmost city in Texas. As of 2005, U.S. Census estimates put Brownsville at a population of 167,493. . Paula Wyatt, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, and the plaintiffs themselves could not be reached for comment. Skip Rutherford, who was hired to handle media requests, would not confirm that a settlement had been made. He said the family would have a statement today. |
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