Filed under: Management , Competitive strategy , Financial Crisis For the past twenty years we’ve seen a globalization of production and distribution. The present financial crisis is causing companies to rethink one component, that of distribution of component parts.

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Will shortening supply chains benefit American businesses?

Filed under: United Parcel’B’ (UPS) , Stocks to Buy United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS ) has not performed as expected over the past four months - the stock has meandered - but I’m nevertheless Reiterating my Buy rating for the company, first recommended on April 7, 2009 at a price of $51.28. Here’s why: Although institutional investor purchases of UPS appear to have been delayed, on concern the U.S. economic recovery won’t arrive on time in Q3, share repurchase should support the stock.

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UPS has lagged, but stick with it

Filed under: Deals Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS ) announced today that it will acquire Barnes & Noble College Booksellers — an operator of book stores on college campuses — for $596 million. The hitch? Barnes & Noble College Booksellers is owned by Leonard Riggio, the chairman of Barnes Noble.

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Barnes & Noble announces one heck of a related-party transaction

Filed under: Options NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDSQ- NDAQ ) today introduced Top of PHLX Options (TOPO), a low latency options data feed that provides direct access to data from NASDAQ OMX PHLX(SM) (PHLX(R)). TOPO offers recipients the same information PHLX provides to the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) for inclusion in the consolidated market feed, without extra transmission and processing latencies

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Options Update: Nasdaq introduces options data feed that provides direct access

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Filed under: Starbucks (SBUX) , Coca-Cola (KO) , Marketing and advertising , AT and T (T) , Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) , Sears Holdings (SHLD) , Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) , Expedia Inc (EXPE) , NIKE, Inc’B’ (NKE) Facebook is making the biggest ad splash since Google, according to an article in the Financial Times . More than four-fifths of the largest advertisers in the United States have turned to the social networking platform to promote their wares — after several years of fearing these types of communities.

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Major brands buying up Facebook ads

Filed under: Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , Film Viacom (NYSE: VIA ) and Hasbro (NYSE: HAS ) are living it up this summer. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is doing fantastic business.

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Viacom’s ‘G.I. Joe’ victorious at box office — what about Hasbro?