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million annual budget. They’ve pared that from what used tobe $2.5 but they’re still $1 millionn short. “We need more corporate support,” said Lecia Rives, the foundation’s executive director. Now the fun Sportscaster Bob Costas will host a galafundraiser Feb. 29 at the Four Seasonzs Hotel downtown, with an attendancwe goal of 500. Tickets are $300 or $3,00p0 for a table of 10. As companiez downsize, Quest Management Consultants is prospering. “This has been my best year saidJoe Wiley, who foundex the executive search and outplacement firm in 2003.
Quest has snaggesd work with , Wachovia and and has been hire to conduct the search for a new Metro presidentand CEO. a Billiken basketball Hall of Famer, said revenues will come in at $1.6 million this up from $995,000 last year. Ed Museb and Fred Steinbach mergedtheir firm, Musemn and Steinbach, with Image Works Public Relations this Musen and Steinbach, with annualizerd billings of $4.2 will be adding $1.1 million from Phyllis Image Works. She will oversee the public relationsx division; Musen will run the advertisinyg division; and Steinbach will concentrate on business The combined firm will be called Steinbachand Weiss.
Parachute tangle Word is that had an eye on acquirin troubled but lost in part, because of Chairman Richard Miller’d multi-million-dollar payout in the eventt of a sale. Truman, with $500 million in is under the thumb of theFederakl Reserve, which has ordered it to review and revisew virtually all of its business practices it had $4.5 milliohn in bad loans in the most recentg quarter alone.
Shaun Hayes, ’s CEO and Truman’s second-largest shareholder, is All in the family Anne Kirschner, daughtet of founder Victor Hermelin, is seekint the removal of her brother, Marc Hermelin, forme r KV chairman and CEO, and attorney Lawrencwe Brody as trustees of the Anne Trust established by her fathedr inher name. She wants an independenty trustee, according to a petition filerd Dec. 19 in St. Louis County Probate Court. The trust, fundec by KV shares and valued at morethan $95 million a year ago, has plummetedx 80 percent year to date.
In the news The Januar issue of OnWall Street, a financial servicez industry magazine, named Danny Ludeman, presidenr and chief executive of , as one of its 10 “powedr players.” Others include Timothy Geithner, the incominb U.S. Treasury secretary; Jamie Dimon, CEO of ; and Congressman Barneyt Frank. Wachovia shareholders approvedthe company’s $15.1 billioh sale to last week. A word of cautionm Even someone as careful as a bankedr canbe defrauded. Just ask Bill Donius, retiref CEO of .
Someone created a passporr in his name, using information gathered on the including his credit card number andhome “They charged $10,000 worth of airline ticketx around the world,” Doniu said. “If I can get anybody can get taken.”