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Thomas brought name recognition and start-up money, but in February the really big money was added to the lineup. Investment bank Goldman Sachs announced that it would put an undisclosed amount into Dale and Thomas to back the company's plans to roll out up to 400 additional stores over the next three years...
Five years ago, two big-city businessmen visited Dale Humphrey, mayor of a small town called Popcorn, Ind. (pop. about 50). They had just the kernel of an idea for a business--gourmet popcorn--and visited the town on a whim. Humphrey charmed them with stories about his neighbors, passionate farmers who lived and breathed to harvest corn. Inspired, the two entrepreneurs started selling online and opened up a small shop in Manhattan, getting most of their product from the good people of Popcorn...
...little company grossed just $1 million that first year, but its founders, Warren Struhl and Richard Demb, had big dreams. Their first shop attracted the attention of Isiah Thomas, head coach of the New York Knicks. Renamed Dale and Thomas Popcorn, after the mayor and the Indiana University hoops legend, the company expects to score $50 million in sales this year and has ambitions "to do to popcorn what Starbucks did to coffee," Thomas says...
...that, Dale and Thomas is trying to re-create the magic that the coach felt in 2003, when he walked into Struhl and Demb's shop (then called Popcorn, Indiana). He was on his way to Madison Square Garden and stopped in for a snack. His first bite took him back to his childhood in Chicago. "I remember thinking, I have to be a part of this," Thomas says. "All of my fond memories come from everyone sitting around, telling stories and sharing a bowl of popcorn...
...intensify the housing correction and to restrain economic growth more generally,” and lowered the rate in an attempt to “forestall some of the adverse effects” of the recent “disruptions in financial markets,” Morris University Professor Dale W. Jorgenson said he felt that the cut was a predictable and sensible move. “The economy has been limping along, most of which has been the housing crisis,” he said. “The Fed didn’t cut before because they were...