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Building risks in Poland - Financial Times

06/11/12

The builder of Warsaw’s national stadium famously filed for bankruptcy the same week that the Euro Championships began. As Attard Montalto observes: Construction companies have been struggling to make profits from their Euro 2012 and other ...

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Egoli Tossell Pulled Out of Insolvency - Hollywood Reporter

06/11/12

On Friday, Egoli Tossell’s creditors voted, nearly unanimously, to back a restructuring plan that will allow the Berlin-based company to emerge from the German version of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Egoli Tossell filed for insolvency protection in January ...

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Denver's mid-size Latino grocers feel squeeze from bigger chains - Denver Post

06/11/12

One of its competitors, Azteca Ranch Market, filed for bankruptcy last August, and another, Avanza Supermarkets, has been sold in the past year. Today, stores such as King Soopers are carrying products aimed at the customers who a few years ago ...

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Canadian tech town feels BlackBerry's decline - CBS News

06/11/12

Tad Homer-Dixon, chairman of the Center for International Governance and Innovation, a Waterloo-based think tank, likens Waterloo to Rochester, New York, where the blow of Kodak's bankruptcy filing is cushioned by the network of startups the ...

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How did we pick the Chron 200? - San Francisco Gate

06/10/12

Excluded were companies that shifted their headquarters out of the region, were in bankruptcy, were no longer publicly traded or had been acquired. FinancialContent culled revenue and net income figures from the companies' most recent filings with the ...

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The trouble with bankruptcy lawyers - Rutland Herald

06/10/12

In recent years, legal fees in Chapter 11 reorganization cases have soared as deals have grown bigger and more complex. Even in the economic downturn, bankruptcy lawyers have been shielded from the market and client pressures that have forced ...

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Archdiocese suspends Waukesha priest after sex abuse allegation - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

06/10/12

Father John Schreiter was scheduled to retire June 24 from his position as a pastor at St. John Neumann Parish in Waukesha until the allegations surfaced last week as part of the archdiocese's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, spokeswoman Jule Wolf ...

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Kodak's Sale of Patents Faces Hurdles - Wall Street Journal

06/10/12

Eastman Kodak Co.'s effort to draw interest in the sale of its digital patent portfolio is flagging, people familiar with the matter said, complicating the 132-year-old photography pioneer's chances of emerging from bankruptcy court. The people ...

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Octomom's home auction postponed - United Press International

06/10/12

Register reported. The reason for the postponement was unclear, but a previous postponement in May was due to Suleman's father, part owner of the house, filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in federal court. The four-bedroom, three ...

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More troubles for former Gas City owner - Chicago Sun-Times

06/10/12

Financial problems are mounting for former gas station magnate William J. McEnery. Creditors want a federal judge to convert his ongoing bankruptcy case to a liquidation, with his remaining assets being sold off to satisfy creditors, and the bank that ...

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