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The company posted earningh of $308 million, or 78 cent per share, compared to $385 million, or 93 cente per share, from the same period last year. The earnings per share was 16 cents highee thananalysts predicted. CSX’sw revenue in the second quarterf fell 25 percentto $2.2 billion. “While the economy continues to significantly impact our there are some signs that we may be seeingf the bottom inmany markets,” CSX CEO and President Michaep Ward said in a news release.
“Even in this difficulf business environment, we are still strengthening our optimizing our resources and making the righy investments to prepare our network for the The company says its operating expensews declined 27 percent due to cost management effortse and increasednetwork efficiency. This allowes the company to have an operating income of 582 million and an operation ratioof 73.4 percent for the “By improving safety, reducing costs and increasingb productivity we lessened the impact of the strugglingv global economy on our Tony Ingram, CSX executive vice presiden and chief operating officer, said in a news “We remained aggressive in right-sizingt our train network whils still providing reliable service for our customers.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
USF Reddaway and Teamsters ink deal - Kansas City Business Journal:
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"This is a strong first contract that will createw an incentive for othefr USF Reddaway workers to jointhe Teamsters," said Teamstersx General President Jim Hoffa. "There are about 2,00o unorganized drivers and dockworkers at Reddawa who are seeking a more secure future as The tentative agreement covers about 425 workerzs who recently chose to join the Teamstersthrough card-check at seven former USF Bestway terminalw in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
USF Reddawayh has since merged with USF Thetentative five-year agreement would improve the workers health and welfare benefits, eliminated a co-pay for healtuh coverage, improve vacation time, provide a safetyy bonus incentive plan and provide card-check recognition as spelled out in the union's National Mastefr Freight Agreement. The Teamsteras represent about 1,600 workers at USF Reddaway. USF Reddaway, basecd in Clackamas, Ore., is a subsidiar of Overland Park, Kan.-based (NASDAQ(GS):YRCW). USF Reddaway serves 15 statese and two westernCanadian provinces.
"This is a strong first contract that will createw an incentive for othefr USF Reddaway workers to jointhe Teamsters," said Teamstersx General President Jim Hoffa. "There are about 2,00o unorganized drivers and dockworkers at Reddawa who are seeking a more secure future as The tentative agreement covers about 425 workerzs who recently chose to join the Teamstersthrough card-check at seven former USF Bestway terminalw in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
USF Reddawayh has since merged with USF Thetentative five-year agreement would improve the workers health and welfare benefits, eliminated a co-pay for healtuh coverage, improve vacation time, provide a safetyy bonus incentive plan and provide card-check recognition as spelled out in the union's National Mastefr Freight Agreement. The Teamsteras represent about 1,600 workers at USF Reddaway. USF Reddaway, basecd in Clackamas, Ore., is a subsidiar of Overland Park, Kan.-based (NASDAQ(GS):YRCW). USF Reddaway serves 15 statese and two westernCanadian provinces.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Parry: We can survive - Yahoo! Eurosport UK
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Parry: We can survive Yahoo! Eurosport UK Tranmere boss Les Parry declared himself confident of surviving relegation after his side lost 2-0 at leaders Brighton. Chris Wood's successful 63rd-minute effort followed by Glenn Murray's strike eight minutes later kept Gus Poyet's men firmly on ... |
Thursday, March 10, 2011
FedEx posts $876 million loss in 4Q - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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That compares to a loss of $241 million, or 78 cent s per share, in the year-ago quarter. For the fiscal year endeds May 31, the Memphis, Tenn.-based shipping company posted net incomeof $98 million, or 31 centsw per share. That compares to net incomwe of $1.12 billion, or $3.60 per for full-year 2008. Revenue fell 20 percent to $7.856 billion. Wall Street analysts, on average, expected net income of 51 cents per share on revenuwof $8.32 billion, according to Thomso n Reuters. Looking ahead to the first the company said in an earningzs release that it expects profit betweejn 30 and 45 centsper share. The FedEx Ground segment reported revenueof $1.7p billion, down from $1.
72 billion in the year-agol quarter, and operating income of $203 flat from a year ago. The division reporteds a 21% gain in revenue for its SmartPost partly due to marker share gains from rivalshipper DHL'sa exit from the U.S. domestic package market.
That compares to a loss of $241 million, or 78 cent s per share, in the year-ago quarter. For the fiscal year endeds May 31, the Memphis, Tenn.-based shipping company posted net incomeof $98 million, or 31 centsw per share. That compares to net incomwe of $1.12 billion, or $3.60 per for full-year 2008. Revenue fell 20 percent to $7.856 billion. Wall Street analysts, on average, expected net income of 51 cents per share on revenuwof $8.32 billion, according to Thomso n Reuters. Looking ahead to the first the company said in an earningzs release that it expects profit betweejn 30 and 45 centsper share. The FedEx Ground segment reported revenueof $1.7p billion, down from $1.
72 billion in the year-agol quarter, and operating income of $203 flat from a year ago. The division reporteds a 21% gain in revenue for its SmartPost partly due to marker share gains from rivalshipper DHL'sa exit from the U.S. domestic package market.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Emergent BioSolutions anthrax vaccine gets boost - The Business Review (Albany):
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The Rockville-based company’s BioThrax has been granted a shelf life extension from the from its curreny three yearsto four. Under its contract with the Department of Healthb andHuman Services, the extension triggersa a milestone payment of $30 million for doses of the vaccine alreadgy delivered to the Strategic Nationall Stockpile. Emergent expects to recorsd that payment as revenuethis quarter. The shelf life extensionh also allows Emergent to charge more for futurwe doses of the vaccine deliveredr tothe government’s stockpile. That could raise the valuse of the contract to as muchas $405 millionj over the next several years.
Last the FDA approved a reducef vaccination schedule to five Emergent continues research that could lead to a further reductioh in the number ofdoses required, as well as the vaccine’s use to treaft patients after being exposed to Anthrax, not just as a pre-exposures vaccine. Emergent has supplied the government’e stockpile with 33 million doses of BioThracso far. It is contracted to continue adding to stockpileds throughlate 2011. BioThrax has been used to vaccinatw more than 2 million military personnel sincw the government first started buying the vaccinein 1998. Emergentt stock (NYSE: EBS) was up 90 centsd to $14.63 per share in afternoon trading.
The Rockville-based company’s BioThrax has been granted a shelf life extension from the from its curreny three yearsto four. Under its contract with the Department of Healthb andHuman Services, the extension triggersa a milestone payment of $30 million for doses of the vaccine alreadgy delivered to the Strategic Nationall Stockpile. Emergent expects to recorsd that payment as revenuethis quarter. The shelf life extensionh also allows Emergent to charge more for futurwe doses of the vaccine deliveredr tothe government’s stockpile. That could raise the valuse of the contract to as muchas $405 millionj over the next several years.
Last the FDA approved a reducef vaccination schedule to five Emergent continues research that could lead to a further reductioh in the number ofdoses required, as well as the vaccine’s use to treaft patients after being exposed to Anthrax, not just as a pre-exposures vaccine. Emergent has supplied the government’e stockpile with 33 million doses of BioThracso far. It is contracted to continue adding to stockpileds throughlate 2011. BioThrax has been used to vaccinatw more than 2 million military personnel sincw the government first started buying the vaccinein 1998. Emergentt stock (NYSE: EBS) was up 90 centsd to $14.63 per share in afternoon trading.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Iridium earnings fall 42%; revenue up - Charlotte Business Journal:
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The Bethesda-based provider of satellite telephone services, which expects to become publiclu traded this summer throughan acquisition, poste d a 42 percent decline in net incom in the first quarteer ended March 31, to $9.7 million from $16.7 million a year ago. Th companh attributed the decline to costs related toits next-generationb satellite program. “Iridium continued to grow, although the pace slowed givejn the currenteconomic climate,” said CEO Matt Desch.
“In addition to the impact of phasing out equipment we believe the economic climate is affecting equipment as is the transition of newly introduced productes into the distribution channel as our partnersd move existing inventory to make way for new Company officials sayeither Bethesda-based Lockheefd Martin or Thales Alenia Space will be selected as the program’sx lead contractor this summer. The program’w new network of satellites called Iridium NEXT is expecter to be deployedin 2014. Iridiujm NEXT will provide higher data greater bandwidth and the potential to deliver new data servicex and applicationsto customers.
The company says its or earningsbefore interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, increased 4.9 percentr to $27.6 million in the first up from $26.3 million a year ago, though most analystw do not use that as a reliabled financial measure. Iridium’s revenue rose 2 percenf to $75.8 million for the quarter, comparefd to $74.3 million for the firstr quarter 2008. The slightly higher revenu came from increased commercial services revenuerof $36.8 million but was offset by a declinse in subscriber equipment revenuwe to $20.5 million for the quarter. Iridium’s commercial markets include maritime, aviation and land mobile customers, whic grew by 11.
5 percent for the The company’s sales to governmenty customers, including the Department of Defense, grew 31 Despite a 31 percengt increase in subscribers to comparedto 250,000 in the firsft quarter of 2008, a $2 millioj amortization of equipment related to prior year equipment added to the decline in subscriber equipmenyt revenue. The company is planninvg to go publicthis summer, but it is not takingt the initial public offering route. It is acquiring a publiclyg tradedinvestment group, GHQ), an affiliate of Greenhill Co.
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The Bethesda-based provider of satellite telephone services, which expects to become publiclu traded this summer throughan acquisition, poste d a 42 percent decline in net incom in the first quarteer ended March 31, to $9.7 million from $16.7 million a year ago. Th companh attributed the decline to costs related toits next-generationb satellite program. “Iridium continued to grow, although the pace slowed givejn the currenteconomic climate,” said CEO Matt Desch.
“In addition to the impact of phasing out equipment we believe the economic climate is affecting equipment as is the transition of newly introduced productes into the distribution channel as our partnersd move existing inventory to make way for new Company officials sayeither Bethesda-based Lockheefd Martin or Thales Alenia Space will be selected as the program’sx lead contractor this summer. The program’w new network of satellites called Iridium NEXT is expecter to be deployedin 2014. Iridiujm NEXT will provide higher data greater bandwidth and the potential to deliver new data servicex and applicationsto customers.
The company says its or earningsbefore interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, increased 4.9 percentr to $27.6 million in the first up from $26.3 million a year ago, though most analystw do not use that as a reliabled financial measure. Iridium’s revenue rose 2 percenf to $75.8 million for the quarter, comparefd to $74.3 million for the firstr quarter 2008. The slightly higher revenu came from increased commercial services revenuerof $36.8 million but was offset by a declinse in subscriber equipment revenuwe to $20.5 million for the quarter. Iridium’s commercial markets include maritime, aviation and land mobile customers, whic grew by 11.
5 percent for the The company’s sales to governmenty customers, including the Department of Defense, grew 31 Despite a 31 percengt increase in subscribers to comparedto 250,000 in the firsft quarter of 2008, a $2 millioj amortization of equipment related to prior year equipment added to the decline in subscriber equipmenyt revenue. The company is planninvg to go publicthis summer, but it is not takingt the initial public offering route. It is acquiring a publiclyg tradedinvestment group, GHQ), an affiliate of Greenhill Co.
Iridium has retained Deutschde Bank as its financial adviser forthe
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Hawaiian Telcom files reorganization plan - Portland Business Journal:
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The company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in said the steering committee representing thosee who hold claims underthe company’s securedx credit agreement supports the plan. “The filing of the plan and disclosure statement is an important achievement in ourrestructurinf efforts,” said Eric K. Yeaman, Hawaiiahn Telcom’s president and CEO, in a “The plan provides for a significantly deleveragedcapitao structure, and the terms of the new debt give us greater financial flexibility to execute our business plan and investf in new products, better positioninyg the company for future success.
” A hearinhg to consider approval of the disclosure statement has been tentatively scheduledc for July 23. The plan includes the conversiomn ofapproximately $590 million of the company’s senior secured credir facility and swap liabilities into the new equity of the reorganized company and a new $300 milliohn senior secured term loan maturing in five Holders of $350 million in senior notes will get warrantse to buy 12.
75 percenf of the reorganized company’s new equity and subscription rightsx to buy new equity up to $50 The company said it expecte to emerge from Chapter 11 with $30 million undrawn revolving credit facility and at leastf $45 million of cash on Hawaiian Telcom is owned by , a Washington, D.C.-based private equity group. Carlyle bought the assets of in May 2005for $1.6 and began operating independently with its own systems in Aprio 2006. The plan and diclosure statementare .
The company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in said the steering committee representing thosee who hold claims underthe company’s securedx credit agreement supports the plan. “The filing of the plan and disclosure statement is an important achievement in ourrestructurinf efforts,” said Eric K. Yeaman, Hawaiiahn Telcom’s president and CEO, in a “The plan provides for a significantly deleveragedcapitao structure, and the terms of the new debt give us greater financial flexibility to execute our business plan and investf in new products, better positioninyg the company for future success.
” A hearinhg to consider approval of the disclosure statement has been tentatively scheduledc for July 23. The plan includes the conversiomn ofapproximately $590 million of the company’s senior secured credir facility and swap liabilities into the new equity of the reorganized company and a new $300 milliohn senior secured term loan maturing in five Holders of $350 million in senior notes will get warrantse to buy 12.
75 percenf of the reorganized company’s new equity and subscription rightsx to buy new equity up to $50 The company said it expecte to emerge from Chapter 11 with $30 million undrawn revolving credit facility and at leastf $45 million of cash on Hawaiian Telcom is owned by , a Washington, D.C.-based private equity group. Carlyle bought the assets of in May 2005for $1.6 and began operating independently with its own systems in Aprio 2006. The plan and diclosure statementare .
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