March 30, 2005: Saks has been considering the separation of its upscale Saks Fifth Avenue stores from its moderate department store division, retail investment bankers have said. Saks’ stock jumped on Tuesday after retail industry publication Women’s Wear Daily reported that the company is looking for buyers for its 235-unit department store group, with Belk Inc. as a primary candidate.
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Linda wrote:
Lisa Ming, of URA, continually calls my phone number late at night after I have gone to bed about a debt my daughter has with Household. Lisa is rude and will call sometimes 2-3 times an evening. She has the cell number for my daughter but says she will continue to call me every day until my daughter pays her bill. She has told me that I need to “teach my daughter to pay her bills”. Well, my daughter went thru a divorce and got stuck with the bills and Household agreed to put her on a payment plan but promptly renigged on the agreement (not in writing).
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill., March 29 /PRNewswire/ — HSBC – North America announced today the appointment of Lee Whatcott as chief financial officer of HSBC Auto Finance, effective immediately. Whatcott will lead the financial accounting and management efforts for the business, which provides auto financing through thousands of active auto dealer relationships and direct-to- consumer channels. He will work out of HSBC Auto Finance’s headquarters in San Diego.
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For those who want to see the attention Household International and HSBC predatory lending is getting simply go to this page. Watchdog organization Household – HSBC Watch started geographical mapping of visitors, which poses no privacy or security issues for visitors. “Mapping gives federal regulators a visual picture of how wide spread the damage is” said the watchdog group.
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29 March 2005 – HSBC could face a wave of damaging strikes across its UK branches and call centres beginning on 27 May after negotiations over a pay dispute failed.
Senior representatives of Amicus, Britain’s biggest private-sector union, from across HSBC have held a council of war to plan a series of one-day strikes, with the first one to fall on the day of HSBC’s annual shareholder meeting on 27 May. Michael Geoghegan, the head of HSBC’s UK arm has a problem. “Employees visit consumer watchdog website Household – HSBC Watch and read about bonuses and pay increases in the United States while the cleaning crew in London does not have a living wage” said the watchdog group.
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