DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and COLUMBUS, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE-- Feb. 14, 1997--ServiceMaster (NYSE:SVM) and Barefoot Inc. (NASDAQ:BARE) today announced that the Average ServiceMaster Share Price pertaining to the pending tender offer for Barefoot Inc. stock is $25.40833. For Barefoot stockholders who elect to receive ServiceMaster shares in exchange for their Barefoot...
THE BELEAGUERED founders of Pilgrim Baxter, one of the centers of the market timing maelstrom, have agreed to take their medicine and cough up a massive fine. Harold Baxter and Gary Pilgrim are each paying the SEC $80 million to settle charges they...
WASHINGTON AFP ? The founders of investment firm Pilgrim Baxter and the PBHG mutual funds were charged with securities fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Gary Pilgrim and Harry Baxter had been ousted last week after the company admitted that Gary...
Pilgrim Insurance, a unit of The Plymouth Rock Group of Cos., has been accepted by the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration to participate in the Write-Your-Own Flood Program. The program enables Pilgrim to issue flood protection policies, adjust claims and manage payments and is backed by the federal government. Pilgrim...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 21--Barely a year after leaving Fidelity Investments to revamp a smaller mutual fund firm that has since fallen on hard times, Paul Hondros, president of Pilgrim Baxter & Associates, is halfway out the door once again. ...
By Tami Luhby, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 14--The already hard-hit mutual fund industry endured two new blows yesterday as more top executives resigned and one of the nation's highest-profile fund families reached a partial settlement with regulators...
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Barefoot Cellars started the year off in style....Hawaiian style, that is! This fast track brand has been known for its irreverent take on the wine business over the years along with its commitment to quality, consistency and most of all, fun. This year's Zinfandel Advocates and...
BOSTON -- Pilgrim Insurance, a unit of The Plymouth Rock Group of Companies, today announced receipt of an initial rating of A-/ Excellent from A.M. Best, one of the insurance industry's premier independent rating services. Pilgrim, a leading business process outsourcer for Massachusetts auto insurance, has received the positive rating...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of B++ Good to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. HPHC, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England, Inc. and HPHC Insurance Company Inc (Wellesley, MA). The outlook for the rating is stable.
New role for Pilgrim Baxter Old Mutual will use Pilgrim Baxter as the focus of its retail mutual fund business once its bid for UAM is complete, said James Poole, head of investor relations at Old Mutual. The Pilgrim Baxter brand would...
Dean Foods bought Pilgrim Farms, Plymouth, Ind., in 1990 to capitalize on its relish operations. And capitalize it has, in two very different ways. Dean has capitalized turned to advantage on Pilgrim Farms' position as a leader in foodservice and industrial relish production and marketing, and it has capitalized funded...
WAYNE, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--October 18, 1999-- Pilgrim Baxter & Associates today announced that Michael S. Sutton, formerly of Loomis, Sayles & Co., has joined Pilgrim Baxter as a portfolio manager and member of its large-cap growth team. "Michael Sutton is a seasoned professional, and we're delighted that he's joined...
In a Cincinnati market where national accounts are plentiful but local agencies get few of them, Barefoot Advertising is quietly kicking up its heels with a series of national agency-of-record assignments and a growing portfolio of Procter & Gamb In a Cincinnati market where national accounts...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has assigned issuer credit ratings ICR of "bbb" and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ Good of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. HPHC, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England, Inc. and HPHC Insurance Company, Inc. (all of Wellesley, MA). The outlook for...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 28, 1996--Thomas & Betts Corporation (NYSE:TNB) announced today that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire the Pilgrim group of companies in an exchange of stock. Closing is anticipated by the end of June following completion of due diligence.Pilgrim, based near Toronto, Canada, manufactures cable tray...
Mar. 23--Boston University became one of the first employers to break ranks with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care yesterday, when the college's president announced he is dropping the HMO as an insurer for faculty and staff. With Harvard Pilgrim demanding a 14 percent rate increase...
TAMPA, Fla. -- Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Compliance and Quality Management ECQM software solutions, today announced that Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a leading electronics contract manufacturer, has selected Pilgrim Software's SmartTrain([TM]) solution to manage its internal training system requirements.
Byline: Pirkko Juntunen Pilgrim Baxter & Associates, owned by Old Mutual, the South African financial services firm, saw assets drop by more than 20% during the fourth quarter of last year.They fell from $7.4bn ([euro]5.9bn) at the end of September to $5.9bn at the...
By Todd Mason, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 21--Gary L. Pilgrim and Harold J. Baxter bought summer homes in Nantucket in 1997. Pilgrim, a legendary money manager, spent weekends at the beach catching up with family...
Byline: Mike Foster and Yasmine Chinwala Old Mutual has reassured investors about its financial strength following its decision to place shares worth pound sterling36m ([euro]52.5m) to meet earn-out commitments to asset management executives Harold Baxter and Gary Pilgrim.Baxter and Pilgrim are co-heads of...