Heads and tales: Sellers’ market
By Wade Kwon
You’re somebody sellable: For sale: One department store chain with 40 outlets in nine states. Gently used by Saks. Founded in 1887 in Birmingham. Make an offer.
• Saks Mulls Possible Sale of Parisian Chain [Associated Press]
Must-sell TV: For sale: One network-owned TV station in Top 50 market. Fresh personnel, consistently No. 3 in news. Slightly wear and tear from long-standing NBC affiliation.
• Network puts NBC13 up for sale [Birmingham Business Journal]
New car smell: For sale: 2007 Alabama-made SUVs. Well-known brands. One’s high-end full-size vehicle, other’s compact affordable model. Must make way, eventually, for 2008 cars.
• Alabama-made SUVs on display at Detroit auto show [Associated Press]
Out is in: For sale: Natural beauty of mountains, forests, rivers, beaches, more. Some coastal “aging” from recent hurricanes. Campers, hunters welcome.
• New Alabama tourism campaign set to kick off [Associated Press]
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- Sixth graders sell most fruit baskets to unsympathetic relatives
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