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...years later, the merger has gone down as one of the worst in global corporate history. The bank has stumbled from one humiliation to another, including ATM network failures, executive turf wars, lingering bad loans, eroding asset values and a stock price that has fallen 85% since its September 2000 listing. Last week came the bleakest news yet: on Jan. 21, Mizuho Holdings president and CEO Terunobu Maeda announced that the bank expects to lose $16.53 billion for the fiscal year ending in March. That would be the largest loss in Japanese corporate history, and is nine times worse than...
...loosely packed around the blades of "grass," providing a softer cushion than real dirt. The new surfaces are growing fast in the U.S., where demand on municipal fields is almost unceasing. American football teams are also enthusiastic. Four NFL stadiums - in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle - use synthetic turf, and several others, including Giants Stadium, outside New York City and home to two NFL teams, are considering it. Almost 200 synthetic fields will be laid in the U.S. this year, compared with fewer than 50 in 1999. And more than 20 U.S. companies are selling the new surface, under brand...
More than 20 U.S. companies are competing for synthetic-turf contracts, in contrast to only a few three years ago. They are seeking to build new fields abroad, while foreign firms, such as Australia's Balsam Pacific and Germany's Tarkett Sommer, are coming...
...recreational fields. With more girls as well as boys playing sports year-round starting as early as age 4, and with little convenient land where new fields can be built, cities and schools must get more use from the fields they have, and they get it from artificial turf...
...brothers for cash to set up a small production plant in Baltimore. That fall, Dave Campo, then equipment manager for the Atlanta Falcons, admired Georgia Tech's shirts and ordered 100--with long sleeves to protect his players' arms against burns from artificial turf. These were dubbed Turf Gear. Later, Plank got a call from his high school teammate Ryan Wood, then an assistant football coach at Arizona State University. The team needed thick undershirts for an away game against Washington State University. Plank found heavy wicking fabric and created Cold Gear...