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The criminalization-of-business lottery
The owners of Long Term Capital Management may have been the earliest winners in the most recent era of what Larry Ribstein has coined the criminalization-of-business lottery. On the other hand, Jamie Olis may have been the earliest big...
Ghosts of Enron
Ken Lay was prosecuted to death for promoting Enron even though he had a reasonable basis for believing that what he was saying about his company was true. Fast forward a couple of years. Yesterday, the W$J reported (NYTimes...
Checking up on Krispy Kreme
The folks over at WallStrip update us on the mercurial Krispy Kreme....
It's Black Rhino by a nose!
Although I find the NBA All-Star game and related activities excrutiatingly boring, I must admit that the challenge race (see video below) between former NBA great Charles Barkley and 67 year old, veteran NBA referee Dick Bavetta was pretty darn...
Krispy Kreme's new strategy
The mercurial rise and fall of Krispy Kreme used to be a common topic on this blog, so I took notice of an interesting observation about the company that the NY Times' business columnist Floyd Norris recently made on his...
Checking in on Krispy Kreme
I haven't checked in on beleaguered doughnut franchisor Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. in awhile, so I noticed the company's regulatory filing a week or so ago in which the North Carolina-based company announced that it is "highly unlikely" that it...
Protectors of the Krispy Kreme Brand
The travails of Krispy Kreme over the past couple of years have been a common subject of posts here, so it is worth noting that some Southern California-based Krispy Kreme franchisees have started a blog about the company and its...
More on criminalizing risk taking
Vic Fleischer over at the Conglemerate blog continues his campaign to increase the business of the white collar criminal defense bar with a couple of posts (here and here) in which he suggests that "financial engineering" of the type that...
The effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Krispy Kreme
This post from earlier this week addressed the wide-ranging negative effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that was supposed to curb and correct the corporate fraud that supposedly prompted the bursting of the stock market bubble earlier in the decade. Meanwhile,...
Checking in on Krispy Kreme
It's been awhile since we have checked in on the travails of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (earlier posts here), so it seems appropriate to pass along this CFO.com article that does a good job of summarizing the mistakes that the...
Feds start investigating Krispy Kreme
A couple of weeks ago it was the sale of the corporate jet. This week it's a federal criminal investigation as formerly high-flying retail doughnut franchisor Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. moved a step closer to what appears to be an...
Enron bankruptcy CEO takes over at Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. took a big step closer to chapter 11 today as it announced that its chairman and chief executive, Scott A. Livengood, retired and that turnaround expert and current Enron CEO, Stephen F. Cooper, was named CEO...
Krispy Kreme moves closer to the brink
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. continued its slide toward chapter 11 as the company announced today that it plans to restate its results for fiscal 2004, that its failure to file financial reports will put it in default on its credit...
Krispy Kreme = Boston Market
This Floyd Norris' NY Times column does a nice job of explaining the developing debacle of Krispy Kreme, the share price of which peaked at $49.74 in the summer of 2003, but which has fallen as low as $9.35 recently....
Krispy Kreme looking like Dunked Doughnuts
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. announced that its auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, refused to complete a review of the company's financial statements for the latest quarter until an outside law firm hired by the company's board is finished performing, ahem -- "certain...
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