Earlier today, Bloomberg News cited two unnamed sources who said that doomed electronics retailer RadioShack was in talks with Sprint to sell about half of its 4,300 retail locations to the mobile phone company and close the rest. After sending the company a letter warning that it could be delisted, the New York Stock Exchange has now started the process to kick the company off the exchange.
The company’s stock reached its all-time high of $34.14 per share in 2007, and at the end of today was trading at 24 cents per share. Have pity on the Radio Shack employees who were encouraged to invest their retirement accounts in company stock, some of whom have filed lawsuits against the company for even allowing employees to invest their savings in Radio Shack stock.
The earlier letter required RadioShack to submit a business plan to the exchange explaining how it planned to turn things around and bring the total value of the company back above $50 million. Today’s news made it clear that the company has no plans to submit a business plan to the exchange, so trading of RadioShack shares has been suspended and the stock will no longer be listed.
NYSE says started process to delist RadioShack [Reuters]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
It’s fine if a company wants to mock the people who refuse to buy its products in an ad, including an ad aired during the Super Bowl. That was the point of a Budweiser commercial mocking the entire culture of beer snobbery…while Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, owns brands that either are or imitate craft beer brands and trends, brewing some of them in the same facilities that make Budweiser.
