Business Services Industry

Martha Stewart's Legal Woes to Hurt Company's Profits for Quarter, Full Year.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By James T. Madore, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 12--Martha Stewart's legal problems will continue to harm her company into 2004, though she's no longer at the helm, executives and stock analysts said yesterday.

Officials at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. predicted losses for the current ...uarter and the full year as some advertisers and consumers avoid its flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine, TV show and merchandise sold at Kmart stores. For 2003, the company forecast losses of between $7 million and $9 million on sales of about $250 million; it would be the first yearly loss since the company went public in 1999.

Still, executives said they intended to move ahead with plans next month...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement
Click Here