http://www.richmondbizsense.com Richmond's Homepage For Business News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:46:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2011/07/21/battle-over-wilton-shares-gets-heated/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2011/07/21/battle-over-wilton-shares-gets-heated/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:34:56 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=30950 A federal bankruptcy judge rejected an agreement that would have paved the way for Hank Wilton to sell his shares and bow out of the Wilton Companies]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2011/07/21/battle-over-wilton-shares-gets-heated/feed/ 3 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/21/short-pump-based-sk-announces-plans-to-liquidate-stores/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/21/short-pump-based-sk-announces-plans-to-liquidate-stores/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 11:00:22 +0000 Aaron Kremer http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=7715 Just like Circuit City before it, at the end of its corporate life no other company was interested in buying S&K Famous Menswear and trying to turn it around. The company was founded in 1967 by two brothers who found a niche selling quality men’s clothes at a good price, but that niche evaporated as fewer men bought suits and the lower-end marketplace became more cutthroat. Plus, a brief Q&A with former CEO Joseph Oliver. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/21/short-pump-based-sk-announces-plans-to-liquidate-stores/feed/ 0 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/13/hurry-up-and-wait-how-much-will-landamerica%e2%80%99s-1031-customers-recover/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/13/hurry-up-and-wait-how-much-will-landamerica%e2%80%99s-1031-customers-recover/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 11:09:21 +0000 Aaron Kremer http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=7473 The saga keeps getting worse for 450 former LandAmerica customers who last fall tried to complete a simple real estate deal and now can’t get funds they thought would be safely held for a few months by the formerly Richmond-based Fortune 1,000 company. With every passing month, legal expenses are gobbling up millions of a ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/13/hurry-up-and-wait-how-much-will-landamerica%e2%80%99s-1031-customers-recover/feed/ 2