Under the restructuring plan, all trade vendors, suppliers, employees and senior secured lenders will be paid in full, and the company will cut its debt to about $450 million, from $1 billion.
For-profit investment candidates include firms that employ troubled youth and fair trade vendors, which are commodity producers that profess to pay good wages in the developing world (for example, to cattle ranchers and coffee growers).
In Guangzhou, for example, described as the center of China's shark fin trade, vendors have been quoted as saying that sales have dropped by as much as 80percentt in the past year.
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Gone are the trade show vendors handing out free hot dogs.
Where fishermen, oyster harvesters and fortune tellers once plied their trade, souvenir vendors and snack bars have taken root.
"You've got to sit and read through hundreds of books to make good selections," said Connie Attanasio, a trade-book vendor who specializes in collections for English-language learners.
Tourists snapped pictures of the rising 1 World Trade Center, vendors hawked American flags, and one sold pictures of the Statue of Liberty holding up a bloody Bin Laden head.
Digital Marketing company Spartan Media is using its PR power to generate good will awareness for others including trade organizations, vendors and even the company's clients.
