May 1, 2014 5:35 PM EY announces Textura Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Patrick J. Allin is an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 Award finalist in the Midwest! 0 0 1 121 693 Proactive Management 5 1 813 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table…

Jo Francis, the Contributing Editor at PrintWeek (UK) who has been following and reporting on developments with Service Point UK, emailed me this morning to let me know that a Press Release was received by her; that Press Release announces that Service Point UK has been acquired by the Paragon Group. Here’s a link to…

Simply my opinion, but I think it’s kind of ballsy to pay yourself a ton of money when your company is losing money hand over fist. I’m speaking about Chairman & CEO Patrick Allin of Textura (NYSE: TXTR) Check out the document I’ve posted at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81al4kFAU9JdGptbVIzSHkwTUU/edit?usp=sharing Disregarding the option award compensation, Mr. Allin…

For those of you who’ve been following the goings-on at and with Service Point Solutions since SPS first began to lose steam, I’ve compiled a brief recap.  But, before I get into the recap, I’ve got a few comments I’d like to make: Wow, Rafael, the former CEO of SPS got out when the getting-out…

…..in the UK, not in the US But, this is the same company that acquired the assets of Service Point USA. Link to article in PrintWeek: http://www.printweek.com/print-week/news/1143727/color-company-moves-distribution-bags-major-contract 0 0 1 60 345 Proactive Management 2 1 404 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;…

Here’s the beginning of an article, authored by Lyle Denniston on April 22, 2014, in which Mr. Denniston expressed his opinions about the Supreme Court’s very recent decision on an Affirmative Action case: “Casting aside a three-decade-old constitutional theory that allowed racial minorities to protect public policies that favor equality, the Supreme Court ruled on…

Blog Publisher’s Comments: The e-mail you see below was received, this morning, from a source in the UK. “Administration” in the UK is pretty much the same thing, if not exactly the same thing, as “Chapter 11 Bankruptcy” in the US.  The UK term “pre-pack sale” is pretty much the same as the term “prepackaged…

UPDATE:  As of this afternoon (May 1st), I’ve not received even a single guess.  And that’s in spite of the fact that this post has had 258 page-views since it was first posted.  As a further hint, the company’s (see contest question below) market-cap, as of this minute is in between $32.0 and $33.0 BIL.  If you…

The following paragraph comes from an in-depth article (about the subject reported below) that appeared in Larry Hunt’s Wide-Format News, April 2014 edition.  (You need to be a subscriber to that newsletter to read the full article.) 0 0 1 172 985 Proactive Management 8 2 1155 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA…

I received this e-mail from a friend yesterday afternoon:  “I caught this on Bloomberg today – you may have seen the article or discussion already. I hope all is well with you.” And, here’s the article, up on Forbes.com, by Gene Marks: Will 3D Printing Be Staples’ Field of Dreams? “If you build it, they will come.”…