Stock market and investment news with a local focus
QVC Group Inc., owner of cable television shopping channels QVC and HSN, said it has completed its financial restructuring and emerged from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process it had begun in April. Additionally, President and CEO David Rawlinson has stepped down, to be replaced by Mike George, who fills in as interim CEO and chairman of the company’s board of directors.
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“I never wanted to be an entrepreneur,” says Rick Saunders, 66. “It was not part of my life's ambition to be a bank CEO. I was perfectly fine being a banker to the community.”
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Colony Bankcorp Inc. will acquire 100% of Florence-based First Reliance Bancshares Inc. stock in a stock-and-cash transaction worth about $163 million.
Finance
First Reliance Bancshares Inc. stock has been upgraded from trading on the OTCID Basic Market to OTCQX Best Market.