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Clothing retailer Talbots is considering a buyout offer from private equity firm Sycamore Partners for $211 million. Sycamore, which is already Talbot's largest shareholder with a 9.4 percent stake, is offering $3.05 per share for the company. That's a 9 percent premium from the stock's closing price on Friday. The retailer based in Hingham, Mass., had rejected a $3 per share takeover offer from Sycamore last December, saying it undervalued the company. Talbots closed three of its five Oregon shops in the past year. Its lone Portland area store is located at Bridgeport Village in Tigard. Read more at OregonLive.com.
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From Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute: OTRADI today announced its plans to open and operate a 13,000 square-foot multi-tenant bioscience complex in the Willamette Wharf building at 4640 SW Macadam Avenue. Slated to be complete in spring 2013, the OTRADI Bioscience Incubator (OBI) will house up to six companies.
MEDIAmerica, publisher of Oregon Business and Oregon Home magazines, announces a new retail website: HalfOffOregon.com. The website offers lodging, dining, recreation and many other items at half off their regular cost.
As you probably know by now, The Vernon Company is a national leader in the promotional products industry with annual sales of over $60 million. We are a family owned business, led by the fourth generation of the Vernon family.
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