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Show BUSINESS Local kt : NEWS & NOTES Dow Jones| PAGE 6 D) DailySHerald FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2006 BUSINESS EDITOR Grace Leong - 344-2910 - gleong@heraldextra.com S&P 500 Gold Silver Final Final Final Per ounce Per ounce 11,150.70 65.00 Nasdaq 2,340.82 +3.04 1,300.25 2.64 $586.70 +137 $11.618 +0.545 Yen Euro 117.29 $1.2161 $1.7461 —$1.7348 Canadian Mexican peso 1.1601 10.9301 1.1725 10.9653 Pound 117.74 $1.2025 ’ Education Delta pilots protest at Atlanta airport BYU's law and business schools make Top 50 in nation — Brigham Young University’s business and lawschools made the top 50 best graduate schoolslist in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report Both the J. Reuben Clark Law School, and the Marriott School of Managementranked 34th in the list, according to U.S. News's , April issue of America’s Best Graduate Schools. The Marriott School's graduate accounting program also ranked ninth in the list. “Our accounting faculty has done terrific job building an innovative and practical curriculum,” said Ned C. Hill, | Pilots march to protest efforts of contract rejection Dean of the Marriott School. “Asa result, our accounting students ATLANTA — Almost 275 Delta Air LinesInc. pilots marched through the world’s busiest airport Thursday to vent their anger over the company’s effort to throwouttheir contractso it can up to $325 million in long-term pay and benefit cuts. projessionals conducted in fall 2005. People On the Move Orem techfirm promotes executive — Omniture, an Orem providerof software that helps companies measure customer traffic on their Web sites, promoted MarkDillon to vice president of channel sales. Dillon, who was formerlyseniordirector of channelsales,will report to Christopher Harrington, vice presidentofsales. Dillon will spearhead Omniture's global channelstrategy and strengthenthe company’s relationships with key partners such as marketing agencies and OEMresellers, while driving revenue growth through channel sales, The pilots for the nation’s third-argest carrier have stepped up picketing at airports around the country and other demonstrations of unity despite a warning to turn downthe noise issued by the arbitration panel considering the company’s | could be disastrous to Atlanta-based Delta andits 5,930 pilots. The pilots havesaid they will strikeif their contract is voided. Harry R. Weber re in high demand.” U.S. News ranks graduate programs in the areas of business, education, engineering, law and medicine. These rankings are based on experts’ opinions about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a schoo!’s faculty, research indstudents. Indicator and opinion data comefrom surveys of more than 1,200 programs and nearly9,600 academics and other done,saying if the panelis left to decide it contract rejection request. Thepanel chairman, Richard Bloch, told bothsidesafter hearings in Washington ended March23 to get a consensual deal “You can consider today’s actions an exercise and you can stand by for the real thing,” Lee Moak, chairman ofthe pilot union's executive committee, said as he led the line of 273 uniformed pilots who quietly filed through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. _ While the union has beenvocal, the company -has madethe decision to say very little. Company spokesman Bruce Hickssaid, “We won't commenton the status of nego- tiations in any way.” joak said union and management officials have met twice since the end of the arbitration hearings, but he would not characterize the meetings as negotiation sessions because eachsides’positions remained unchanged. JOHN AMIS/Associated Press Delta pilots walk past a baggage check areaoutside Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta on Thursday. Dillon brings Omniture 16 yearsofsales andsales leadership experience in analytics, e-commerce and business-to-business industries. BYU-Idaho president namedto SLC insurance company’s board — Beneficial Financial Group named Kim B.Clark, president of Brigham Young University-Idaho as a memberofits board ofdirectors. Heis also on the boardofdirectors of Black & Decker and JetBlue Airways. Clark has served as BYU-Idaho’s presidentsince last August, and has been a memberofthe faculty of Harvard University since 1978. as well as Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from1995 throughlast year. Foundedin 1905, Beneficial offerslife insurance, annuities, and several products andservices throughits alliances, including long- termcareanddisabilityinsurance,securities, financial planning, andasset management. IKEA to break ground on Utah store — Swedish furnitureretailer IKEAsaid it will break ground Tuesday on a 310,000-square-foot store in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper. Companyofficials expect to open thestore in spring 2007.It is expected to employ between 300 and 350 people. The Utahstoreis oneof seven IKEA is currently planning in the United States, add- ing to the 26 »lready open. Theotherstores will be in California, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, Oregon and Texas. There are 225 IKEA storesin 33 countries worldwide. Theclosest IKEA stores to Utah are in Los Angeles and Phoenix suburbs, about 700 miles from Salt. LakeCity. The Draper store will feature nearly 10,000 furnitureitems, three model homes, 50 room settings, a supervisedchildren’s play area and a restaurant. German medical company expanding Ogdenplant SALTLAKE CITY —- The world’slargestproviderofdialysis products andservices is expandingits facility in Ogden, whichis expected to create 270 new jobs. Fresenius Medical Careis expected to invest about $80 million expandingits plant. whichis scheduled for completion by July 2007. Strike at Delphi would provedifficult for GM CHICAGO — General Motors Corp. depends so heavily on Delphi Corp.tosupply parts forits vehicles thatits best contingency plan fora strike at Delphi is to notlet it happen. If that fails, analysts say, the next bestplan is to settle as quickly as possible. Delphi sold nearly $14 billion in parts to GMlast year, from fuel injectors to engine control modules,anti-lock brake systems and stereosfor the 4.5 million vehicles GM built in North America. TOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST Yesterday's performanceof selected publicly traded companies SYM COMPANY ALCOA INC ABS ALBERTSONSINC ABX BARRICK GOLD CP AEP AMERELECTRICPOWCO AIG AMERINTLGROUPINC AMD ADVMICRODEVICES AMGN Amgen in BAC BK OF AMERICACP Bu «BALLCP BLS BELLSOUTH CP BN BANTA CORP (CITIGROUP INC CBAG CRESTED CORP CMCSK Comcast Corporation VK CHEVRON CORP DIS WALT DISNEY-DISNEY.C DNEX Dionex Corporation ERICY LMEncsson Telephone €TR —ENTERGY CP FC FRANKUN COVEY. CO GDW GOLDENWESTFINCP GE GENELECTRIC CO HCA HCAINC. HRB -HRBLOCKINC HSIC Henry Schein, Inc. 1M INTLBUSINESSMACH INTC Intel Corporation JBLU JetBlue AirwaysCorporation JCP PENNEYJCCOHOLDIN JWN NORDSTROM INC KRON Kronos incorporated LEE LEE ENTERPRISES (FB LONGVIEWFIRECO WW LUCENTTECHINC LUV SQUTHWESTAIRLINES MCK MCKESSON CORP MER MLCOCMNSTK MITY MITY Enterprises Inc. Merit Medical ystems, Inc. LAST CHANGE | SYM 3072 +001 2566 004 2762 +092 3427 033 6607 0.11 3359 0.70 7262 +060 4561 036 4413-002 3460 031 5198 +003 4728 035 306 004 26420.00 5851 0.12 2787 +001 59.47 +045 «39.10 +090 6919 089 766 +007 67.01. 1.13 3465 4072 4583 +003 2207 015 4782 +040 8320 +007 19.70 -0.12 10.47 -0.24 61.20 -0.17 3966 0.10 3660 +066 33.35 024 2557 0.13 309 +0.05 17.81 0.16 5231 +001 7825 0.15 1906 011 13.16 0.00 COMPANY LASTCHANGE MSFT MicrosoftCorporation -«-2723 +021 | MU MICRONTECHNOLOGY 1482-007 MYGN Myad Genetics Inc 2605 +021 NATRE Nature's Sunshine Products 1238 +085 NETM.NetManagg,Inc. 6.00 +014 NOVL Novell Inc. 770 +002 NUS NUSKINENTINC 1745 027 | NWN NORTHWESTNATGAS 3514 +014 | PCG PGRECP 3939 023 PFE PFIZERINC 2520 004 |-Q QWESTCOMMINTLINC 683-006 | ROPRF ROYALDUTCHPETSWS 65745 0.00 | SCOX SCO Group, Inc (The) 429 +007 | SHLD Sears Holdings Corporation 13097 -1.40 | Si SMITHINTLING 3941 +033 | SKYW SkyWest inc. 2790 079 | SNTO SentoCorporation 7.784 +0.004 SPI SCOTTISH PWRADS 4089 +028 STA STPAULTRAVELERSCO 42.18 +022 STR QUESTARCP 7050 025 SWET Swift Transportation Co, Inc. 21.44 -0.07 SY —SYBASEINC 1B 003 T ATATING. VM, 024 TGT TARGETCP 5275 055 UNITED DOMINRLTYTR 2837-056 UNH UNITEDHEALTH GROUPINC 5625 +031 USB USBANCORP 3060 019 USEG US. Energy Corp. 708 +4011 USNA USANAHeatth Sciencesinc. 41.12 +008 UTMD Utah Medical Products, inc. 31.40 0.41 VZ VERZONCOMMUN 3449053 WEN WENDYSINTLINC 6178 049 WFC WELLSFARGOBCONEW 6413-007 WMT WALMARTSTORES 416 039 WNI SCHIFFNUTRITINTL 598 +090 X UNITEDSTATESSTEEL ©6201. +121 XEL XCELENERGY INC 1811-018 ZON @210 1.08 JAMIE CIESLA/Proctor and Gamble Greg Allgood, director of the Children’s Safe Drinking Waterproject for Procter and Gamble, smiles as a child drinks a glass of water on Nov.15, 2005 in Kenscoff, Haiti. P&G developed the Pur sachets with 'the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Companies see benefits in long-term charity efforts _ DanSewell THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, CINCINNATI — Greg Allgood’sjobat Procter & Gamble Co. has taken him to remote, disease-plagued villages in Kenya, into someof the Western Hemisphere'’s poorest slums in Haiti, across rebel-ridden territory in Uganda andtotsunami-devastated Sri Lanka and earthquake-ravaged Pakistan. While most le w! work for the Cincinnati-based companysell consumer products suchas Crest toothpaste and Pampersdiapers, Allgood is the director of the Children's Safe-Drinking Water Project. The charitable program aims to curb the nearly 2 million child deaths attributed annually to polluted water with a watercleansing product called Pur that the company donates or sells at cost. Like other major U.S. companies withinternational in_terests, P&G sees long-range business benefits in charitable projects in developing countries, what somecall “strategic philanthropy.” “We're not a for-loss company,” Allgood said. But there is strong backing among P&G's _leadersfor the charitable project. “This is something we should do.” Companies that workto improve health andeducation efits to employee morale and_. recruiting. And they can lay the groundworkin future markets. “We're going into someof these countries where P&G has no presence,” Allgood _said. “And maybe it’s 50 years from now whenwe havebusiness in Haiti, but someday, we'll want to. What better waytolearn the distribution infrastructures and govern- , mentrelationships than coming in with a product that’s saving lives?” US. corporate donations overseas have beenincreasing _in recent years, highlighted by overseas also can improve the more than $566 million in their images in foreign countries and among consumers at home. They can reap ben- contributions to tsunami relief, according to the Business Civic Leadership Center for the U.S, Chamber of Commerce. The'center hasn't compiled statistics on ongoing charita- ble projects but says they are on theincrease, too. A sampling: Starbucks Corp. provides support to coffee- and tea-growing comMunities around the world and works to improve education in rural China and Guatemala. Johnson & Johnson Co. programs includeeye health in Asia, diabetes treatmentin Mexico andfighting pediatric AIDS in China, Russia and other countries. General Electric Co. programs include support for rural teacher training in China and education for slum children in India. In most cases, the corporations partner with nonprofit agencies. Small businesseslose millions in federal contracts _ Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tracting agency. The report says the agency The audit comes amidincreased scrutiny of federal WASHINGTON — Small businesses lose out on hundreds ofmillions of dollars in Energy seach year becausethe government often gives nobid work tolarge firms on , io audit Areport by the Government AC ity Office, obtai Thursday,looks at small busiing practices at the failed to meet small business contracting goals of 5.5 percent _or lower in four of the last five years due to lack of controls, poor planning and questionable assumptions smaller firms couldn't effectively handle the jobs. The Energy Department “is clearly constrained by the 's traditional reliance on limitedgroup of large firms i contracting,particularly in the Hurricane Katrina response and rebuilding effort. Earli this month, the GAO found the jovernment wasted millions of dollars on 13 major Katrina conti — most of which were awarded based on limited bids — that went to largefirms with extensive government ties. administration gives all the breaks in annual awards for resear« safety and national security are shaft,” said Sen. John Kerry, D- concerns,” according Mass., the top Democrat on the department, whose $22.8 billion ‘weapons maintenance and environmental makeit the largest civiliancon- projects in whichpublic to the 39-page report, scheduled to next th. and gives small businesses the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, when asked about the : “Weneed to break down big contracts so small businesses can get a piece of the federal pie,” he said. “This is evidence of a systematic failure by the Bush administration to look out for ‘small businesses, let alone level A return a phone for seeking com- ee me A ling to report, Geythas reared ee - work mostly in dwindling, non- Core areas such as Services and construction, ré than eee eee where most of the dollars lie, |