Some of you may have noticed that posting to AEMM News lately has been sporadic at best. Save for the flurry of posts I entered today, there hasn't been much activity here over the last few weeks. It will likely remain like this throughout the summer. In the meantime, as you enjoy your time teaching a summer AEMM class or resting up in preparation for AEMM Fall 2007, please know that I am available to assist you with any library or other research needs you might have. Please feel free to contact me anytime (my contact info is linked in the sidebar to the right).
Happy Summer!
Monday, May 21, 2007
Local retail chain profile: Uncle Dan's
This article is a great example of how digging through local papers can help you turn up a wealth of information on a private company (or, if you don't hit the jackpot with a profile on the exact company you're researching, on a similar company)
From today's Chicago Tribune:
Brent Weiss makes a habit of strolling through shopping malls for ideas of what not to do with his Uncle Dan's outdoor specialty stores.
Chain stores with an identical look from one location to the next are a turn-off, he said. So are sales clerks who spend more time chatting with one another than striking up conversations with customers. Then there are crazy store policies that discourage sales, like a senior discount that cannot be used if the shopper is accompanied by a non-senior who helps choose what to buy.
"Why don't they just say, 'Don't come in and spend money,'" said Weiss, co-owner with his father, Alvin Weiss, of Uncle Dan's, a 35-year-old Chicago-area retailer with more than $7 million in annual revenue.
Read the whole article HERE
From today's Chicago Tribune:
Brent Weiss makes a habit of strolling through shopping malls for ideas of what not to do with his Uncle Dan's outdoor specialty stores.
Chain stores with an identical look from one location to the next are a turn-off, he said. So are sales clerks who spend more time chatting with one another than striking up conversations with customers. Then there are crazy store policies that discourage sales, like a senior discount that cannot be used if the shopper is accompanied by a non-senior who helps choose what to buy.
"Why don't they just say, 'Don't come in and spend money,'" said Weiss, co-owner with his father, Alvin Weiss, of Uncle Dan's, a 35-year-old Chicago-area retailer with more than $7 million in annual revenue.
Read the whole article HERE
Hollywood's Detective to the Stars is under investigation
From today's NYTimes...They all went to Mr. Pellicano when their situations seemed too complex, or the stakes too high, to leave anything to chance: executives and actors, studio bosses and their jilted spouses, the hottest and the has-been. In nearly 20 years in Los Angeles, he had made himself into the rightful owner of that breathless title, "Detective to the Stars," the one man who would, and seemingly could, do anything to clean up any mess.
So when federal agents raided Mr. Pellicano's office in November 2002, his case became a local obsession: who would be fingered next, people wondered anxiously, as investigators gathered evidence and listened to Mr. Pellicano's wiretap tapes.
Read the whole article HERE
Try to figure out the web of connections and accusations with the NYT graphic HERE
So when federal agents raided Mr. Pellicano's office in November 2002, his case became a local obsession: who would be fingered next, people wondered anxiously, as investigators gathered evidence and listened to Mr. Pellicano's wiretap tapes.
Read the whole article HERE
Try to figure out the web of connections and accusations with the NYT graphic HERE
EMI going private?
Even after becoming the first major label to drop the digital rights to their song catalog in favor of a higher per song price, EMI hasn't kept the financial wolves at bay and has announced it is considering a buy-out offer from the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners.
Read the Wired blog article about it HERE.
Read about EMI's foray into a brave, new non-DRM world HERE (from Wired Magazine)
Read the Wired blog article about it HERE.
Read about EMI's foray into a brave, new non-DRM world HERE (from Wired Magazine)
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