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Sunday, April 05
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Stocks of local interest
Friday’s close, plus last week’s close, 52-week high, 52-week low and price-to-earnings ratio
AGL Resources (AGL): $27.35, (parent of Atlanta Gas Light) last $26.89, high $36.50, low $24.02, p/e 9.64
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AHBIF): $29.00, parent of Metal Container Corp.; last...
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Walking the Red Carpet Tour
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Andy Davis (second from right), an attorney with Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson and Davis, hosted and represented Rome on the 2008 Red Carpet Tour, which celebrates its golden anniversary this week. (Contributed photo)
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The concept is simple enough. Use the lure of the Masters golf tournament to bring top executives from around the world to Georgia, then charm them out of their economic developing minds.
This week, the Red Carpet Tour celebrates its golden anniversary. The tradition began in 1959 under the leadership of John Dent, then president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Harold Clotfelter, then president of Hardy Realty, was also instrumental in the tour’s...
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Still time to register for Berry conference
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Rajeev Dhawan will be the keynote speaker for Berry College’s 2009 Business Outlook Conference.
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The global, national and state economy will be the focus of Berry College’s 2009 Business Outlook Conference. This year’s event will be April 22 in Ford Dining Hall.
The keynote speaker will be Rajeev Dhawan, associate professor of managerial sciences and director of the Economic Forecasting Center in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Conference registration is $30 per person; corporate tables for as many as eight people may be reserved for $200. Guests must register by April 13 to guarantee lunch. Lunch will be...
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Farmer co-op issues refunds
Member-borrowers of AgGeorgia Farm Credit, a farmer-owned cooperative, will receive patronage refund checks this month for 2008, according to President William H. Newberry Jr.
The patronage refund for borrowers of AgGeorgia Farm Credit will total nearly $17.1 million. Thirty percent, or $5.1...
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Ritz Camera closing 18 stores in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) -- According to a filing it its bankruptcy case, Ritz Camera will close 18 photo shops in Georgia.
Nationwide, the retail inventory to be liquidated is valued at more than $50 million, according to a press release from a joint venture group in charge of going-out-of-business...
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