Charles Storch

The nation`s electrical equipment companies have more than a rooting interest in whether one of their own, Square D Co. of Palatine, is acquired by French rival Groupe Schneider. Part...

Ticketmaster Corp.`s proposed purchase of its faltering rival, Ticketron, is an event that has entertainment and sports promoters standing in a long line waiting for meaningful information. Some Chicago-area promoters...

A unit of Centel Corp. on Tuesday became the first telephone company in the state to seek approval for a controversial new service known as Caller ID, beating Illinois Bell...

Buying and selling corporations is no longer the freewheeling, outlandish game of ''Let`s Make a Deal'' that it was during most of the 1980s. Now, with takeover financing elusive, the...

United Airlines` pilots took a step back from confrontation with the carrier Friday, saying they would try to work out an interim agreement allowing continued flights of United`s newest jumbo...

A New York investor group has painted a target on troubled DeSoto Inc., saying Thursday it plans to offer $50 a share, or about $174 million, for the 85.4 percent...

Robert E. Martin, a noncontract employee of United Airlines, has so little taste for a proposed leveraged buyout of the carrier that he has vowed to stay on a liquid-only...

Some people at Alliance Capital Management L.P., a large institutional investor, were kicking themselves last summer and taking some ribbing from outsiders over UAL Corp. Alliance, a unit of Equitable...

An investor group led by Chicago options trader Joseph Ritchie failed to win support for its buyout proposal of Eastern Airlines before a court-imposed deadline expired Monday, but the group...

Most of the current top management at Carson Pirie Scott & Co. will leave the retailer once the change in ownership to P.A. Bergner & Co. is completed this month,...