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Likewise, the IPO market is firming. Insurance company Anthem went public a few weeks ago and has soared 37%. Weight Watchers went public in mid-November, and the stock is up 32%. Magma Design, a tech IPO, has soared 45%. "We haven't seen a string like that in a long time," says Linda Killian, analyst at Renaissance Capital. Sensing a buoyant market a few months out, billionaire investor Laurence Tisch at Loews Corp. just filed to sell shares of his Lorillard Tobacco in an IPO. He too is reading the tea leaves--and seeing good things...
...also made a few successful investments, including Veritas, now one of the world's largest software firms, SeeBeyond, which had a succesful IPO last year in the U.S., and LightStream and Globeset, which were sold to larger companies for a total of $151 million...
Ortega, 65, began producing clothes in the family kitchen in 1963; today, thanks to the May IPO of his textile company Inditex, he is Spain's wealthiest man. Inditex owns clothing chains in 34 countries, including the U.S. Zara, the best known, sells affordable copies of high-fashion originals soon after they hit the catwalk. Zara will increase its U.S. presence later this year by opening two stores in Miami, its first outlets outside New York City...
...then Franzen’s grasp of the Lamberts’ inner and superficial lives is fabulous. He gives us striking and pitch-perfect accounts of the crises and triumphs and weird lines of internal reasoning exhibited by his characters, who are involved in episodes such as a biotech IPO, a fraudulent investment scheme in a Baltic nation, an affair with both the boss and the boss’s spouse, a rather hopeful yet disastrous cruise in search of fall foliage, and a slow descent into mental illness. These details are both incidental and fundamental to the story...
...late '90s, Peterman's expansion plans got out of control. His catalogs bulged with more than 100 pages--up from an initial seven a decade earlier. He added 10 J. Peterman stores in 1998. His five-year business plan called for 70 by 2002, the buildup topped with an IPO. "I took my eye off the brand focus and put it on rapid retail expansion," he recalls. "That was my mistake...