The Chinese have nearly cornered the wire coat-hanger market in the United States.
So what? you say.
You’ll know “what” when your dry-cleaning bill soars a whopping 2 percent.
Cheap Chinese coat-hangers have swamped the U.S. market over the last five years and now only one U.S. coat-hanger maker remains, says Dry Cleaning and Laundry Institute CEO Bill [...]
The lyrics to a Mary Chapin Carpenter hit say “Baby you could be a hero in your own hometown.”
It would be a fitting song for Pearse Lyons to be singing these days.
Lyons was born in Ireland and the story of his life, including the founding of Alltech in Nicholasville, now fills a whole page of [...]
A full-page AT&T advertisement in Thursday’s Courier-Journal may have perplexed some University of Louisville basketball fans.
The telecommunications company promoted one of its BlackBerry service offerings below a large statement reading “Congratulations on your trip through The Big Dance. Go Cardinals!” (The company is the official wireless provider of the Cards.)
One problem, though. The background of [...]
Mayor Jim Newberry wants us to be more like friendly, helpful London cab drivers and less like surly New York cabbies when foreign visitors begin arriving for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010.
“I’m still trying to get over … my first impression of New York” from a cab ride more than 20 years [...]
Mayor Jim Newberry wants us to be more like friendly, helpful London cab drivers and less like surly New York cabbies when foreign visitors begin arriving for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010.
“I’m still trying to get over … my first impression of New York” from a cab ride more than 20 years [...]
Donald E. Graham admits with a smile that he is chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Co. because his family owns the business.
His grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought the Post in 1933 and his mother, Katharine Meyer Graham, ran it until her death in 2001.
Speaking Tuesday at the University of Kentucky, Donald Graham said he [...]
Donald E. Graham admits with a smile that he is chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Co. because his family owns the business.
His grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought the Post in 1933 and his mother, Katharine Meyer Graham, ran it until her death in 2001.
Speaking Tuesday at the University of Kentucky, Donald Graham said he [...]
Time is running out if you need a hotel room in Lexington during the week of Sept. 15, Keeneland warned Friday in an “alert” to horse buyers.
Rooms are going fast because there are two big events that week: The Ryder Cup golf tournament in Louisville and the second week of the 2008 Keeneland September Yearling [...]
The first Bastiat in Business Award is going to Lexington entrepreneur Kathy Gornik, president of Thiel Audio Products Co.
Never heard of Thiel? That’s no surprise since (a) the company doesn’t make a lot of noise locally and (b) the speakers for your home sound system were sold in pairs.
Thiel speakers are sold individually and cost [...]
If you live in Fayette County, the Lexington-Bluegrass Association of Realtors says the odds are 6 or 7 in 10 that you are jump-up-and-down happy about the job Mayor Jim Newberry and the Urban County Council are doing.
The Realtors, who have tracked local public opinion since 2002, say they have never seen approval percentages as [...]
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