Charlie Lazor, a founder of the iconic Blu Dot furniture company, recently left to start his own concern selling FlatPak houses.
Today, Dr. Praeger's Sensible Foods, based in Elmwood Park, N.J., is a multimillion-dollar concern, selling its wares throughout the United States — retail outlets include Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Zabar's — as well as in Canada, South America and Israel.
Mike Silverstein, a founder of Nina Footwear, a women's shoe company that grew from a SoHo loft to an international concern selling around 10 million pairs of shoes a year, died on March 12 in Manhattan.
Prosecutors said a Sterling Foster vice president and 20 others in a Melville, N.Y., "boiler room" misled investors about six microcap stocks, including Advanced Voice Technologies Inc., a New York concern selling voice-mail systems to schools and other small companies.
The company went public in 1972 and became a multibillion-dollar concern selling hardware and plumbing, electric and other building material supplies at more than 100 stores in the Midwest and eastern United States.
Gunter Herz And Family Net worth: $3.7 billion Claim to fame: Herz, 57, runs coffee and cigarette maker Tchibo Holding AG, now also one of Germany's ten largest textile concerns, selling consumer items through its Tchibo coffee shops.
Today, Bronfman concerns sells 114 brands in 119 coun tries.
Shares of the biotechnology concern sell for 8 times trailing revenues and 29 times trailing earnings.
The Hebei Province concern sold 487,000 vehicles in 2011, up 22% and surging past China's overall vehicle industry, which saw a gain of 3%.
Tupac Shakur's "2Pac: Resurrection," which was released Nov. 11, sold 430,000 to claim second place, while G Unit's "Beg for Mercy," which was also rush-released last Friday because of piracy concerns, sold 377,000 copies to finish third.
If management is worried about selling tickets — a reasonable concern — sell the rebuilding process to fans as an emotional investment in the kids who will be the next generation of leaders here.
