DENVER – The third annual Denver Restaurant Week is scheduled for Feb. 24 to March 2, the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau announced Monday.
Presented by Beringer Vineyards, the event will require participating restaurants to offer multicourse meals for $52.80 for two. In 2006, 120 metro-area restaurants participated, serving more than 54,000 meals.
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DENVER
Metro State to create Center for Innovation
Metropolitan State College of Denver will create the country’s first Center for Innovation housed at a baccalaureate institution, Metro State president Stephen Jordan announced Monday. To date, all entrepreneurial centers are located at universities, which have graduate schools. Metro State will become the first solely undergraduate institution to have its own dedicated center.
DENVER
St. Mary energy firm
announces next CEO
Denver-based oil and gas producer St. Mary Land & Exploration Co. said Monday that Tony Best will on Feb. 26 succeed the retiring Mark Hellerstein as chief executive. Hellerstein will serve as nonexecutive chairman of the company. Best was hired this year as president and chief operating officer.
The firm also announced that Javan “Jay” Ottoson will succeed Best as chief operating officer.
CHICAGO
United’s Nov. flights not quite as full in ’06
United Airlines planes were 79.7 percent full on average in November, down slightly from 79.9 percent a year earlier.
For the year through November, planes averaged 82.3 percent full, up from 81.6 percent in the year-ago period.
SEATTLE
Amazon buys presses
for on-demand books
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, has bought digital printing presses from Hewlett-Packard Co. to help handle its print-on-demand book business.
Indigo color printers, set up in Amazon.com warehouses, will be used to produce copies of print-on-demand titles and out-of-print books, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard said Monday in a statement. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
WASHINGTON
Manufacturers urge hard line with China
Upset over a soaring trade deficit with China, U.S. manufacturers pressed the Bush administration Monday to take a hard line with the Chinese on currency and other trade issues.
Executives from such manufacturing giants as Caterpillar Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. met Monday with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other top administration officials who are traveling to Beijing next week for the start of a new series of high-level discussions between the countries.
DETROIT
Ford climate-control unit sold to Valeo
Ford Motor Co. said Monday it has agreed to sell its climate- control business to Valeo SA, a French automotive-supply company.
The deal, contingent on reaching an agreement with the United Auto Workers, includes the entire climate-control business, which is based at a plant in Plymouth Township, about 15 miles west of Detroit. Financial terms were not disclosed.
NEW YORK
Comcast optimistic on
4th-quarter earnings
Comcast Corp. said Monday it expects to post solid fourth-quarter earnings as its bundle of video, Internet and phone service becomes increasingly popular.
“If you liked what you saw in the third quarter, you’ll like what you’ll see in the fourth quarter,” said Comcast co-chief financial officer John Alchin at Credit Suisse’s conference in New York.
SAN FRANCISCO
Wells Fargo out to aid
mortgage borrowers
Wells Fargo & Co. is launching a new program to help mortgage borrowers with poor credit records improve their plight – and help the bank shake off years of accusations that depict it as a predatory lender.
The initiative, dubbed “Steps to Success,” promises to provide free credit records, personal credit scores and more financial advice to customers who can’t qualify for the best rates on home loans.
CINCINNATI
E.W. Scripps predicts
10% growth in 2007
E.W. Scripps Co. forecast 2007 revenue growth of 10 percent to 13 percent at its cable channels, including Home & Garden Television and the Food Network.
The newspaper unit, which includes the Rocky Mountain News and Cincinnati Enquirer, will show “modest revenue growth” next year, Scripps said, with the percentage gain in “low single digits.”
