"Enactment of this ordinance will result in discrimination complaints filed against business owners who are simply trying to run their business consistent with their faith," Vitale said.
"The second quarter was more difficult than expected due to weaker traffic and continued softness in the female business, consistent with what others have reported," Chief Executive Mike Jeffries said in a statement.
For GS Capital Partners 2000, the acquisition of Berry Plastics fits neatly into its portfolio of industrial businesses with consistent cash flows.
They look for companies that are dominant in their businesses, with consistent growth in long-term cash flow in established industries.
The online home-based businesses were consistent with the definition of these types of business provided earlier and included: online retailing, web design, digital marketing services, IT consultancy and business services.
But it also is building a robust enterprise-focus business, and continues to roll out a variety of tools to woo those businesses with consistent updates to products like its document tool Paper.
In the late 1990s, even as other money managers rushed to buy up companies with nothing but losses on their books, the co-managers of the Dreyfus Appreciation Fund dgagx sought out businesses with consistent profits and margins.
Tim Brooks, Managing Director of Guardian News and Media, said: "As Guardian News and Media manages a period of fundamental change and reorganisation, it is vital to our continued success that the various lines of our business receive consistent and unwavering attention.
"The transfer of Mr. Rodman's interest in that business was consistent with his prior estate planning," he said, adding, "The value of the diamonds is contested and is one of the issues to be resolved by the Court".
Although it is a private company and does not publish figures, the industry acknowledges that it is currently one of the most successful firms in the business, with consistent double-digit growth in both profits and revenue.
