The owner of 134 Wendy's restaurants wants to make a bid for the nation's No. 3 hamburger chain with two private-equity firms. David Karam, president of Cedar Enterprises Inc., said Wednesday that he and his partners have been invited by Wendy's...

But now city leaders are worrying that all the high living is destroying the exclusive small-town allure of their former hippie hangout and mining outpost. Aspen's more modest-living, year-round residents have looked on in dismay as a flood of...

LI Biz Blog has excerpts of an interview with Cedar Shopping Centers CEO Leo S. Ullman. ...

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Movie Gallery Inc., the nation's No. 2 video rental chain, said Tuesday it would close about 520 stores to save money and cut costs. The move comes as the Dothan-based company struggles to pay debt. The company said it was closing underperforming...

Roger Staubach, who stepped back from running his eponymous Staubach Co. this summer, has moved on to his next act: Stumping for Republican presidential aspirant John McCain. We interviewed Staubach in July.

The shoe retailer Finish Line, responding to a lawsuit brought by Genesco, said yesterday that Genesco had breached their merger deal by not providing certain information or access to its executives that Finish Line requested. Finish Line said it...

I've never heard of this company, Peebles. It sounds like they open small-scale--like less than 20,000 square feet--department stores in small markets. It's a strategy designed to keep them out of competition with Wal-Mart. ...

People are confessing in unlikely places. On a recent Saturday morning in Colorado Springs, seven people lined up outside an office next to a Burlington Coat Factory at the Citadel mall. At the appointed hour, Father Matthew Gross, 72, strode up...

Responding to a student doing research on carts and kiosks, the Specialty Retail Expert gives a brief but extremely useful thumbnail sketch of the industry. ...